Yesterday, PrezBo dusted off the ol’ blue and white robes and headed north for the inauguration of JTS’s new chancellor. Bwogger Armin Rosen dressed less ridiculously for the occasion. During his inaugural address as the newly-minted seventh chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, former Stanford professor Arnold Eisen recalled how, as a staffer for the […]

So you thought the Facebook apps were bad. Now Facebook has this nifty little feature where non-members and search engines can access your Facebook too! In technical terms, your public search listing is indexed by external search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.). Now alongside your high school cross-country race times, curious minds can also see […]

Eminent domain? More like open domain.  “Why’d you pick Columbia? It was actually very easy because I didn’t get into any of my other upper echelon schools.” Shoes! Vogue! Fashion! Parties! Did you know it’s fashion week? One sentence Lit Hum summaries are overdone. Vamp Vamp

Wien’s undergone some changes other than landscaping. The single bathrooms on each floor have historically been used by both genders, but this year, complaints prompted the Housing gods to make them all either for women or men. When picking into housing, those with bad enough numbers to be stuck in Wien did know which floors […]

Girl 1: But I do want to go. Girl 2: You don’t have to put out, I swear. just go – Corner of 114th and Broadway  Overheard by Jessica Cohen Girl: So my dad is a law professor here, so my house is on Riverside. It’s really convenient. – CC Class Girl: No, daddy, come […]

“Delta Delta Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?” No more kickbacks here Stop Columbia! Unless I get a good business deal out of it. But will there be swipe access? Chipotle vs. Taqueria- showdown of the century Fashion! Fashion! Fashion!

Here’s an addition to the list of fun prophylactics that currently includes bar scanners, NSOP party shut-downs, stricter RA rules, and chastising frats (more on that later)– Bwog hears the Lion’s Head pub underwent a police raid and fake ID roundup late last night. Will it never end?    

To the left, to the left, The Blue and White September issue in the box to the left (and on newsstands tomorrow!). They blinded us with science Tutors are the new nannies So people actually use Lion Laundry? D.C. Interns have come a long way since Monica Lewinsky 1020 — a family joint  

It’s time to vote for the best Lolcolumbia entry.  Choose carefully, for the winner will live on in meowchat history (and win $20). Lol-erskates!

While most Columbians know the Heyman Center as the ugly concrete slab abutting East Campus, it may soon be known for something else: really sexy speaking engagements. The Heyman schedule includes controversial Holocaust historian Peter Novick, “Israel Lobby” author John Mearshimer (both on 10/30), Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn (10/9 and 10/10), and Freakonomist Sudhir Vankatesh […]

Or so we can assume from this ominous and somewhat vague  sign. More mysterious than which plague-carriers the “other vermin” part of this sign could refer to is who the hell (other than Bwog) still uses the word “vermin.” “Varmints” is the preferred nomenclature these days.    

The print magazine is rushing here from New Jersey–until it arrives, here’s another teaser from B&W Culture Editor Paul Barndt. Art by Shaina Rubin. The French Evolution: Race, Politics, and the 2005 Riots, works by Alexis Peskine Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn Directions: Take the downtown 2/3 to Atlantic Avenue […]

…kind of. In what could be a cynically necessary (or unprecedentedly desperate) attempt to motivate Columbia’s legions of indifferent secular Jews, Aish is offering to shell out $250 to anyone willing to take their online course in general Judaism. While Bwog can’t help but question Aish’s methodology (even more in-your-face than a year and a half ago) its […]

Columbia’s paranoiacs probably got chills when they received a flyer asking them if they live within 300 miles of campus and were willing to accommodate students in “the event of an emergency.” And if you’re not a paranoiac and are honestly  curious as to what kind of emergency could be catastrophic enough to both shut […]

But have those Columbia officials ever actually been to Cleveland? Barnard doesn’t need rankings, needs rankings Lit Hum leaker takes responsibility for incident, doesn’t take responsibility for incident Loosely related concepts and ideas considered, discussed at length A call for accountability We still miss Blue Angel