Columbia—in what the administration says are efforts to “ensure redundancy across our communications channels” (swear to God)—has launched the Text Message Enrollment program, in which the University will be sending out important messages to students who register their mobile numbers with SSOL.   The email introducing the Text Message Enrollment program cites “the portability and […]

AskBwog: Special Double Useful Question Edition The first of this week’s questions comes from Bwogger Maryam Parhizkar who wants to know where she can convert her loose change into dolla dolla bills, yall. The Bank of America on 107th and Broadway  has change-converter machines that are free for anyone to use, regardless of whether they […]

Bwog was out getting afternoon coffee when the Starbucks Barista pointed towards Broadway. “I originally thought it was a gay pride parade. But I think it’s an Asian pride parade.” Actually, despite the rainbow flag and several Asian participants, it was neither. A group of about 15 students (and one monk) gathered in front of […]

The “food” at HamDel and Pinnacle? Kind of not that good for you!  Maury audience? Filled with trashy failures! Lectures during midterms week? Tend to be a little empty! Administration plans on doing something, subsequently does it. Prestigious “Chicks Dig the Long Ball” Award conjures up presumably unintended visuals Coming up later today on Bwog: […]

Brandon Wolfeld, Bwog’s newest Arts correspondent, provides an optimistic roundup of his Saturday CMJ experience. (Photos by Armin Rosen.) What brings six bands from as far away as Kansas to a seemingly abandoned lot in Brooklyn? The answer: the College Music Journal’s CMJ festival, an annual 5-day orgy of everything indie. The venue, the Yard […]

This just in from a friend of Bwog: “I lost my necklace presumably on the steps between Hamilton and College Walk, as that is where I totally and embarrassingly fell flat on my face while attempting to learn the date of Michelangelo’s Bacchus and walk at the same time. It is a jade circle on […]

Well we’re giving them some anyway in light of the dapper gentleman they’ve chosen as their poster child (maybe Andy Samberg helped pick out the picture?). Oh, and their catchphrase is kinda clever in an inadvertently self-negating kind of way… Also featured on CUCR posters for Friday’s Horowitz visitation: a man hanging from a rope and […]

Pinkberry, the hotly anticipated SoCal fro-yo chain, has finally opened its doors in Morningside Heights!  The interior is sleek and colorful, the chairs are plastic and transparent, and the shelves stocked with decorative Japanese kitsch. The ceiling is painted sky-blue and during Bwog’s all-too-brief pit-stop at Pinkberry, the music rotated from Moby to Musak.  And […]

Not content with battling it out in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, the Ivies are throwing it down by way of that most gentlemanly of pastimes: war! Or rather, inter-campus computerized simulations of games that simulate war! Kind of! Our buddies at GoCrossCampus have organized an Ivy League championship. While Columbia hasn’t won a […]

Last week, Bwog made passing mention that the Students for Environmental and Economic Justice were selling t-shirts on college walk. By way of a follow up, we’d like to say just how much we love their screen-printed, second-hand tees–they’re clever and environmentally/economically conscious! But what really piqued Bwog’s interest was the cause said t-shirts are […]

Just when you thought that this year’s oratorical cavalcade couldn’t possibly get any weirder, Friendly Fire has invited world-renowned pornographer free speech activist Larry Flynt to speak here on Thursday at 5 PM in the Lerner Party Space (the email says to get there early). No announcement yet on whether there’ll be an afterparty at the Hustler […]

Bwog resistant to flood of Horowitz-related journalism; decides to link to video game review instead of the 90234890234 Islamo-Fascism-related stories in today’s Spec Chris Kulawik’s invective seeps through computer screen, convinces us to break commitment from previous link A little late there, ESC? A little not very good at football, Columbia football team? Shit, man […]

 Did CCSC fowl up my great eggspectations or did they rise above the coup?    Be it resolved: no more inhumane eggs in John Jay.  While the council tabled discussion on other socially conscious dining issues, the campaign for cage-free fowl in Columbia took a major step forward now that the official representative body of […]

Ah, Eid ul Fitr, when, after 30 days of no food or water while the sun shines, the practicing Muslims of the world are allowed to indulge in feasting and revelry ’til their belt-buckles burst with delicious joy. And Sunday night in Roone Arledge was a joyous night indeed as the Muslim Students Association feted several hundred guests of every […]

In which Bwog conspiracy theory debunker Alex Weinberg takes on something that’s been bugging us for a while. What’s up with those teeth? For the past few weeks, there have been odd dental-themed art installations seen outside of Nacho’s and on the scaffolding across from Carman on 114th Street. The remains of a former installation […]