Josh Marshall may be a liberal flack, but his video of Islamofascism week–featuring a flustered university spokesman, a random documentary filmmaker, and a fidgety David Judd–is worth a gander.   

This week’s question for Bwog comes from Daily Editor David Iscoe who wants to know if hitting an electronic device such as a computer is a good way to get it to work? David requests an engineer’s advice. Lucikly, webmaster Zach van Schouwen was on hand to answer David’s question. “The master walks in to […]

This editorial is tagged as “hope” and “Star Wars” The fictional kids that the fictional Albus Dumbledore taught at their completely made up school don’t have to worry that their fictional teacher is going to fake sexually harass them.   “Violence is like selling motherfucking hot flowers.” For a lot of us, this title is an […]

Barack Obama’s Columbia years are again the subject of a lengthy profile in today’s New York Times. Bwog correspondent CML had a revelation about a particular paragraph. “Mr. Obama arrived in New York in August 1981, at age 20, from Occidental College in Los Angeles. According to his memoir, he passed his first night in […]

But that’s being a bit cynical, now isn’t it? Besides, New York Magazine says that Community Food and Juice, which replaced the vacated Nacho’s Kitchen (sorry, freshies), has delicious seven-grain waffles with “locally sourced seasonal ingredients.” Healthy, seasonal, local–just like a waffle should be. (As an aside: We’d love to trust this description–really we would–but […]

President Bollinger, evidently aware of recent ferment among the masses, decided to turn his Freedom of Speech class today into an open airing of grievances. An anonymous Bwog correspondent was taking notes. The whole conversation was not overly serious. No students were really accusatory, and none of the answers were really defensive. He actually didn’t […]

Or so claim some senior bio majors evacuated from the building a few minutes ago.  They say that their professor told them to get out as soon as they smelled smoke coming from one of the upper floors–other students stood around in puzzlement, and few of the evacuated seemed to be enjoying the all-too-brief break […]

And by The Boss we mean Bwog-fave Bruce Robbins, whose ruminations on Columbia’s dearth of academic freedom made it into this week’s edition of The Nation. Esther Kaplan’s penetrating investigation of Fair Alma revealed a brewing crisis in contemporary academia: fringe right-wing groups holding controversial events on campuses. And dear God does the future look bleak. Elsewhere, […]

Rare is the day when Bwog kicks things off by satisfying your doubtless insatiable appetite for Columbia-related experimental art news, but here goes: The recent spate of bias incidents have led John DeSerio, GS, to undertake a marathon social and artistic experiment: for the next week, his “word wall” will be on display on Low […]

Bollinger offers tearful apology for Ahmadinejad introduction; pleads for, receives forgiveness from Dabashi, Bulliet Columbia meets bias incident quota for fourth consecutive week Meaningless generalities mar potentially meaningful event. But hey, at least Ken Burns was here! Murder, temporal edition Murder, metaphorical edition Yawn

A Barnard source just confirmed the troubling lice epidemic currently plaguing the 8th floor of Sulzberger hall in the Barnard Quad. Apparently, one first-year had lice and the little bugs quickly migrated into the heads of several other first-year students. Says Steve Tollman, associate director of Res Life at BC: “Recently, there have been several […]

Intrepid research correspondent Rahul D’Sa waded through a lot of science jargon to find out what Columbia researchers have been up to in their fancy-schmancy laboratories. Did you know that? Now you know! Researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health recently published a study that claims rises in the annual average temperature might cause […]

According to the ever-entertaining 2009 class e-mail, at 9:00 PM, baked goods and hot drinks will be available in Lerner Piano Lounge for your academic sustenance. But this is no ordinary study break: Go Ask Alice! will be there with “post cards, sexually charged refrigerator magnets, squeegee balls and rubbers.” As such, this event has […]

Bwog received notice that there’s been a major car accident on the corner of 114th and Broadway involving a yellow taxi cab and a car full of apparently Columbia students. At the scene: highly emotional cab driver, several kids still stuck in the car, two or three people taping it all, and various medical, fire, and […]

Queer Awareness Month is coming to an end, and they’re feeding you to celebrate. Free Dinosaur BBQ in Lerner Party Space at 6:30, followed by performances by CU Step and Notes and Keys, plus standup comedy! What better way to end the weekend?