We spend an inordinate amount of time cruising Facebook albums. We know that there are a few talented photographers out there. And we sure as hell know how much you procrastinate (Bwog wouldn’t exist otherwise). Those realizations have combined to produce BWOG’S FIRST PHOTO CONTEST. Maybe it’ll become a weekly thing.  So, here’s the deal: […]

Actress to speak at Barnard commencement, nobody goes apeshit Barnard accepts 28% of applicants, nobody goes apeshit  “you don’t need a contested class council election to get a good turnout”  Athletes react to being told they shouldn’t be here (their reaction is that they disagree) Religion: not for show || Jesus eating matzah Staff Editorial: […]

The new bus stop next to the law school LIGHTS UP, revealing a GLOWING PEPSI CAN BOTTLE.

The results of ESC’s virtual election are in, and the winner is…online voting. In contrast to last week’s abysmal turnout at the CCSC polls, over half of SEAS undergrads participated in this year’s contest (well, barely…exactly 50.9% voted). And that’s without the ability to directly choose SEAS’ highest leaders! Of course, the above figure is an average: […]

Want extraneous ephemera? We’ve got extraneous ephemera! Bwog missed it while QuickSpecking, since the classic headline “Penn to Teach at Penn” ran under today’s College Briefs in the print edition only. “Sean Penn?” one student was overheard wondering. Not quite, and if seniors here are upset about Matthew Fox speaking on Class Day, we wonder what they’d think […]

In which Bwog freelancer Armin Rosen stumbles upon the heart of Harlem.   Unlike its vegetative namesake, the Baobab Tree has an inconspicuous presence. The African art workshop, housed in a garage just north of 125th Street on Amsterdam, has been a local fixture since the early 70s, conducting art classes and events for the […]

Classes at elementary school about to get a LOT harder Low Dome of the Rock  Anything vs. Tasti D. = WINNER  Spectator gives Columbia advice on web design?  We’re not smarter, we just have better taste  Plus: You really don’t like us, do you, NYP?

In the last installment of the Friendly Fire series–which earlier brought in the Village Voice’s Nat Hentoff, the New York Post’s Bob McManus, and Columbia’s own Karina Garcia–moderator David Eisenbach talked Monday evening with pundit and failed gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington about speech, the press, and that mysterious attack ad. There are few things more […]

Jesus week starts today, kicking off five days of praise and prostration. This afternoon, Low Steps played host to easels on which passersby could at once declare and apologize for their direst sins. What do Columbia students feel sorry for? “for thinking I’m better than non-Ivy students” “for coveting my friends’ money and looks” “God […]

Bwog salutes Israelites and Yankees today as opening days for tribe and team alike kick off.  For the Jews, it’s the first night of Passover, the celebration of the Israelites’ escape from Pharaonic tyranny.  For the Yankees and their fans, it was opening day, with a 9-5 victory over Tampa Bay; a good first step […]

Bwog correspondent Josh Mathew hopped a lecture on Friday about where you can go to get some learning in the Middle East.  In her introductory remarks, Lisa Anderson, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, introduced the panelists by noting the common misperception of American education in the Middle East: It doesn’t exist. […]

Columbia University has been named the worst school for movie piracy by the MPAA,  and word has it that the advocacy group is considering legal action against college students (per the Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007). You might be advised to delete your pirated file of You, Me, and Dupree before […]

Frontiers of Science lecturer Professor Darcy Kelley, on raising abandoned baby bats: “So I asked my friend how she carried her bats around, and she said she hung them from her bra: it’s warm, it’s wet…” Download the Frontiers podcast if you don’t believe us. Who says this class doesn’t teach first-years useful information?

Can’t you just drink beforehand, THEN sit on Low Steps? It’s the same basic result. Anticipating getting “shafted” by McBain… …Yet despair not! A SIPA Conference on Africa – can’t think of a joke to put here And, from the annals of history, the Michigan Daily presents: Chill Bollinger. “I sat on Lee Bollinger’s bed […]

Every spring at about this time, freshmen walk by Low Steps wondering why a bunch of seniors are sitting there with bottles in paper bags, or why Alma Mat er smells like vomit. Last year, a few of the hipper low-level administrators joined the loiterers in their celebration of public drunkenness, dodging security officers’ halfhearted […]