Over the summer, an anonymous tipster noticed that the Columbia homepage had added a “Giving” button. Poking around further,  the same source found the University’s gift guide, in which everything has a price. The Arts Initiative is looking for between $225-670,000 for a “unified University Box Office” in Lerner with online ticketing. Finally? Putting on […]

RUN NOW and maybe you can catch the last slice of CCSC-sponsored free Domino’s pizza in front of Alma. (They started distributing at 11 a.m.). UPDATE, 2:00 PM: The food’s gone, but circa six hours from now you can get MORE food at the same location from the College Republicans, who are holding a mixer […]

Spectator‘s still having technical difficulties (hooray for low-maintenance web design) so QuickSpec’s expanding its horizons.  Harvard undergrads face phone, pillow shortages  Yale Prez boycotts boycott of boycott (boycott boycott) Because it wouldn’t be Berkeley without people sitting in trees  Penn’s definition of radical amuses us Princeton: it’s still New Jersey Those lucky poor people! Cornell […]

In front of Labyrinth: TA 1: The other TAs are unbelievable to me, because they all went to Harvard and, like… TA 1 and TA 2 (simultaneously): …remembered everything they learned! Somewhere:  Girl to her friend: “Yeah, Zeus is ALWAYS sluttin’ it up. He’s, like, the worst husband ever.” Friend: “My mom’s a psychiatrist. Family […]

Fruit Paunch, Columbia’s oldest improv comedy group, is having auditions tonight in the Broadway SkyLounge at 8 pm. A few things: Fruit Paunch. Wouldn’t it be fun it it were called Fruit Pun-ch? Meta! And yet, not so! Wouldn’t it also be fun if an equally pun-loving (!) rival comedy troupe formed and called themselves […]

Professor Sarah Phillips, in Politics of the American Environment, trying to prompt commentary on the painting at right, after cautious musings about “closing” and “movement”: “Does pink have a gendered element to it?” [silence]. “This is kind of awkward, but I think we need to see this as a virginal landscape.” Class squirms. Then she […]

The second installment of Bwog correspondent Alex Weinberg’s exploration of the mental attack of 9-11 conspiracy theorists. On September 8th, I went to Ground Zero and met with a number of 9/11 conspiracy theorists. They were generally young, white, educated males who lived far away from New York City. They were all very polite, if […]

Look who else is getting a re-design!             Or rather, excuse me, a website. Not a re-design. Just an initial website. Because they never had one before (this didn’t really count). Because it’s 1999. Oh, no, no. That’s not right either, is it? Hm.

Free TimesSelect is here with the wave of your Columbia/Barnard email address. And although you have to give your CU email to the Times, (and to all your professors and Michelle Diamond and Lee Bollinger and Austin [!] Quigley), that doesn’t mean you have to deal with CubMail, Columbia’s the homage to 2002’s latest technologies. […]

Bwog’s going back to bed. 

According to the University’s Upcoming Events calendar, Columbia isn’t formally organizing any 9/11 memorial services or moments of silence. There is, however, this commemoration at the New York Historical Society, as well as events being held all day today at the park adjacent to Ground Zero.

We’re not sure whether this Butler Lounge vandal has left us a bold political statement or a tasteless joke. What we’re sure of is that a small, mostly-desert country has nothin’ on a delicious falafel pocket…

Bwog presents this Fall’s off-off-off-Broadway line-up. Look for their inevitable posters later this semester. October: Cowboys and Indians (CU Players) – 10/19-20 The Gist: A Will Snider (CC ’09) play about three guys, a campfire, and the American dream. The Gimmick: A student written show that’ll be performed sober. The Real Inspector Hound (Aporia Repertory […]

Former CC ’08 president Isaac Silverman has a new project. After taking a year off to found the never-quite-functional www.campusboxoffice.com (which will be shutting down entirely this week) the now-junior has joined up with four Yalies to launch what he called a “really cool game.” The venture is called GoCrossCampus, a kind of massive Ivy-wide […]

As the anniversary of the physical attack approaches, Bwog correspondent Alex Weinberg reels from the mental attack of 9-11 conspiracy theorists. September 11th is fast approaching, and, like swallows returning to Capistrano, 9/11 conspiracy theorists are emerging from their basements and taking to the streets to let you all know how dumb you really are. […]