Well, there’s still time for you to concoct a ridiculous special interest housing application! They’re due at noon on Friday. If you can generate a reason you need to live together as legitimate as the one that “Urban Economic Perspectives” must have come up with (in their words, “to engage the community in dynamic dialogue”), […]

An anonymous tipster forwarded Bwog an invitation to the PBK initiation ceremony (and reception!) on February 4th in Low. Hypothetically, if you have a 3.4 and you’re forwarded an invitation, that does mean you’re welcome to attend, yes? Complete list of this year’s inductees after the jump.                

Courtesy of Facebook, Bwog happened upon the following exceptional message from CQA, which we feel requires no introduction: Hey folks! So in case you haven’t heard the news, Britney Spears has been hospitalized again for the second time this month for a mental health evaluation (it is also the second time this month the Reserve […]

And so the plot thickens. It seems our maiden brownstone had not two but four suitors: Delta Sig, AXO, Lambda Phi Epsilon, and Fiji.  Each of the four had applied to occupy the space, a process which included explaining what they intend to do with the house, how their occupation within said house would improve […]

It’s raining. You’re not going outside. Good thing we’ve got a bunch of videos shot on the campus in sunlight. 1. You never thought you’d see a homemade Radiohead video shot in John Jay. Well, OK, maybe you did:

Columbia is more than just “Upper West Side Soweto.” Chromeo’s performance at Bowery Ballroom Monday night showed off the cheekier side of Ivy League music. Despite the recent flurry of hype surrounding Vampire Weekend, they are not the only Columbia-related band selling out Bowery Ballroom. Chromeo anyone? A French grad student and T.A. by day, […]

Editorial board dissatisfied with performance of escorts All engineers experiment in College [by transferring to it] Some sort of joke about the word “busts” This guy wrote songs for Shortbus, a movie that features Ed Koch at an underground sex club

* = free! Thursday * Cheeky Bastard Presents: The Teenagers and 66Sick at Hiro – Russian accent-faking London band on their first trip to New York, open bar, merrymaking, etc. Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel, 363 W. 16th St, 10:30 pm. Free with RSVP: http://newyork.going.com/teenagerssluttt. Friday Composer Portrait: George Crumb performed by So Percussion […]

Come summer, 113th street residents are going to have a new neighbor: Delta Sigma Phi. The fraternity was recently awarded an open brownstone, a step up from their current EC digs where space was reportedly tight. “Ultimately, we believed our chapter needed a centralized place to meet if our activities were to remain unhindered, and […]

Turns out we’re not the only Manhattan university looking to expand.  According to Washington Square News, NYU has proposed adding 6 million square feet to its campus, and is looking outside the Village for about half of that space.  The current candidate neighborhoods are Midtown, Northwestern Brooklyn, and, most intriguingly, Governor’s Island, the perpetually-redesigned, super-historical […]

In which Courtney Douds communes with the poet of misspent suburban youth. I predict this to be the least ironic post ever written for Bwog. This past Tuesday, I attended the first of two concerts given by the band Marilyn Manson and their infamous frontman of the same name at the Hammerstein Ballroom. And though […]

Change the country or change from Mister to Madam President? Pray that these curriculum-changers won’t need a hunger strike Barnard’s hole in the ground now has stuff in it! But Alexander Hamilton’s house is about to become a hole in the ground A concerned citizen attacks Spec’s “faux-journalistic exactitude“.  What would he call Bwog?   […]

In which Bwog lecture hopper Phil Crone reports back from the Heyman Center’s discussion on climate change  Altschul Auditorium was host last night to a panel discussion featuring PrezBo, Joseph Stiglitz, and various experts on the ever more apocalyptic science of climate change. What exactly PrezBo, a freedom of speech scholar-cum-university president, was doing heading […]

Starting at a few minutes before six, students began to file in. There were name cards to fill out, a buffet to be devoured. Barnard had pulled out all the stops for tonight’s Town Hall: note the pristine white table clothes.     According to Kate McNamara VP of Communications for the SGA, tonight’s Town Hall […]

In which Bwog theater correspondent Michael Snyder ruminates on Broadway’s take on familial destruction: In our post-post-modern world of narrative tricks and linguistic games, it is easy to forget that a meticulously constructed, intelligently written, and vigorously performed family drama can still pack a powerful emotional and intellectual punch.  If you need proof, look no […]