AJ Pascua of the 2010 council has eye-smarting t-shirts for sale on the Lerner ramps. Their slogan, obscured in this photo: “Our grass is greener.”  

The New York Times‘ City Room has a profile on the famous Dizzy Gillespie Chair and WKCR’s current fundraising efforts. It seems that WKCR is poor–more so than most Columbia organizations, apparently–and if you want the marathon fundraising broadcast to stop, send cash. An unrelated bizarre Columbia tidbit, artist/druggie/photographer/hipster Dash Snow (punk polaroids of youth […]

Islamo-fascist Awareness Week is almost upon us, but it seems that promised guest Sean Hannity won’t be among the celebrants. From a College Republicans listserv e-mail: “Unfortunately, while Sean Hannity has been promoting his appearance at Columbia for weeks now and wants very much to come to our campus, there has been a serious illness […]

Forget football–real fans follow club sports. Bwog freelancer (and water polo team member) Jason Patinkin reports.  Columbia’s big-name varsity teams, despite a little help from their friends, are still bottom-feeders in the world of collegiate athletics.  But for perhaps the highest  talent-to-cash ratio,  check out the in the truly underfunded and actively neglected realm of […]

Even though Bwog has midterms too, it’s still trudging along. No QuickSpec today, but perhaps these Ivy League-related stories will brighten up your stay in Butler.   Look on the bright side, Carman may be infested with Natty Ice cans, but at least there’s no scabies. To be fair, professor housing is really nice.  Nudity- […]

Sick of playing beer pong in McBain every night of the weekend? Lucky for you, Bwog’s got some off-campus alternatives. Control at Film Forum Sam Riley resurrects a young Ian Curtis, former frontman of influential post-punk band Joy Division, in Anton Corbijn’s biopic, Control. Curtis, who hanged himself a month short of his twenty-fourth birthday, […]

Is The Fed calling me fat? If only all men were so considerate and erudite. But who will 2011 make fun of next year?  “Jordan’s finger accidentally slips into Ariel.” Recycling jokes. 

Finally! Joseph Ratzinger, better known as Pope Benedict XVI, made the announcement today: Archbishop John P. Foley, Journalism ’66, will be one of 23 new cardinals in November. According to the International Herald Tribune, Foley had “long been considered a candidate” for the job. At the fresh young age of 72, he’s eligible to vote […]

Though most of us are bogged down with midterms and papers, Bwog writer Hannah Goldfield provides some alternative reading. Ducking your head and barreling through the cloud of cigarette smoke outside Butler might be worth it tonight. Act fast and you can snag a copy of poli-lit-culture journal n+1’s latest pamphlet, distributed, guerrilla-style, throughout the […]

Topic: A Discussion on Academic Freedom Speakers: Professors Eric Foner (History), Todd Gitlin (Journalism), and David Eisenbach (History), Ph.D Student Alex Gourevitch (Political Science), moderated by Ph.D Student Ian Zuckerman (Political Theory)  Drinks of Choice: Poland Spring Water (Foner, Gitlin, Eisenbach), Canada Dry Club Soda (Eisenbach), Jana Artesian Water (Gourevitch) Vitamin Shoppe Iceland Spring Water […]

Robert Kraft’s recent donation to Columbia got the Lions some sort-of-big-time sports coverage. Gregg Easterbrook, who writes the 6,000- word Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for ESPN’s Page 2, wrote a paragraph on Columbia’s fundraising  program.  Easterbrook writes that Columbia may be trying to move into the upper tiers of Ivy athletics by, like Harvard, Yale, […]

They’re pretty darling from the back, at least.

Congratulations to history professor Kenneth Jackson, who added a new grandson to the family. Jackson, respected within the Columbia family as the Jacques Barzun professor of history and social sciences, is also respected in his own family: one (the first one!) of the baby’s two middle names is “Kenneth.” One of Jackson’s classes received the […]

Sometimes, even the most godless among us need to get a little religion. In our first Church Hop, we took you north–this time, Bwog freelancer Alexandra Muhler takes you the other way down Amsterdam. If Sunday mornings came directly after Tuesday afternoons, I’d probably be a faithful churchgoer.  But alas, they follow Saturday nights, so […]

AXO Theta, the Dems, CMTS, and SEEJ all want to feed you! Actually not SEEJ, they just want to sell you T-shirts, and get you to sign their petition asking Columbia to buy wind power (they’ll be there ’til next Wednesday).