Spice up your life! Creative writing majors aren’t useless! Entry-level positions at publishing companies are great! New York Film Festival = Fashion week = Ahmadinejad forum Columbia students doth protest too much. Who cares about his policies? Ahmadinejad is like sooooo cute!

Lucky Barnard girls have it all- apple-picking and shopping! Life is so unfair sometimes. On Friday October 5th, for only $5, Barnard girls will be shipped off to upstate New York to pick apples for an hour and a half, then go shopping at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets Funny, the bus leaves at 9 am […]

Bwog doesn’t seem to remember these guys being in the 117th St. median a couple of days ago. We’re hardly experts on statuary, so we’ll throw this one to the readers–weird new Barnard sculptures: thumbs up or thumbs down?

In front of Butler Kid 1: (looking at chalk) What is… Kid 2: There was a vigil tonight. Kid 1: Oh, but it’s done… Was there food- Kid 2: No, they had a vigil. Kid 1: But like, isn’t Burma a type of food…? Kid 2: No, they Kid 1: Because I was really hoping […]

Late last night, a couple former Columbia household names–Reggie Gossett CC ’06 and Illyana Mendez-Penate–found themselves on the way to prison after a party for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a transgender rights advocacy group. The SRLP press release says members of the SRLP were trying to stop police officers from violently detaining a black […]

Moral of this article: check all cabinets for hidden alcohol.  This is why you shouldn’t poke people in real life.  Betcha didn’t know The Blue and White was broke! Mom! The kids in my Lit Hum class are pretentious ass-holes! God these first-years are whiny.   

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer announced his recommendations today for what should happen to that patch of land up north: basically Columbia’s plan, but with a little bit of Community Board 9‘s plan mashed in, plus a goody bag of benefits that so und nice in a bullet pointed list. Bwog’s favorites: $20 million for […]

Hard as it is to believe, not everybody on earth was captivated by Ahmadinejadmania–Buddhist monks in Burma, for instance, spent this past week protesting their country’s oppressive military junta. Sympathizers should head to Butler Plaza, where a group of 50 or so students are now holding vigil in support of the “Saffron Revolution.” And if […]

Yes, presidents who weren’t “petty and cruel dictators” also participated in the World Leaders Forum. Correspondent Pierce Stanley checks up on two former U.S.S.R states now headed by Columbia alumni. The World Leaders Forum (aka PrezBo’s giving of the finger to authoritarian regimes) carried on this morning with the goal of taking on a new […]

If you couldn’t score tickets to the month-long run of King Lear at BAM, fear not. Bwog newbie Max Friedman shares his thoughts and provides some tips for anyone wanting to make that last ditch effort to see Ian McKellen’s performance (and, if you’re lucky, his wang). It is hard to imagine a better setting […]

Free NYC Subway condoms at the Lerner Lobby desk– in case your RA hasn’t been diligent about keeping them coming (oh… that was terrible). Courtesy of CQA.

Christine Simpson writes in: Just to let you know, about 15 minutes ago my class in pupin 1332 was told to leave because of a gas leak.  I know that at least one other class above the 10th floor was told to evacuate. Just nobody light a match…  

“hungry not only for Iranian freedom, but also for turkey subs.”  Spec is hungry for Tajbakhsh’s freedom: would they like a turkey sub? This harsh dance critic may be a Columbia alum, but I still prefer Soulja Boy’s more concise critical style: “man that shit was ugly” When using latin produces the words “cum-pastry shop,”  […]

In the middle of so many heads of state on campus, it is easy to look over an apparently modest conversation that included a composer, arts professor, Pulitzer prize winning poet and law professor discussing the role that jazz and improvisation play in everyday life. Justin Vlasits reports. During the Columbia Harlem Festival of Global […]

For those who were wondering how Iranians felt about the whole PrezBo introduction… “Fars News Agency      September 25, 2007 Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions TEHRAN – Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger’s insulting words against […]