DOE, d’oh Taxi! Whose house? World’s house. Barnard students: stop treating us like we go to Columbia!

Overheard in Fayerweather: Professor: “How many Americans believe in fairies, pixies, trolls…” [goes on to name several other mythical creatures] Student: “Five.” Wrong answer! At least two: Overheard on Broadway: “You do know that unicorns walk among us…” “Yes, but…”

FREE PIZZA in the GS lounge for the next half hour if you go write a letter to PrezBo supporting more financial aid for GS students. Extra points for those who can find the GS lounge! (Ok, its in 408 (bad tip!) 300/301 Lewisohn, Bwog wants you to get fed)

An anonymous College Republican passed on the club’s new logowear design below.                Bwog is quaking in its boots.  

Addison Anderson writes in…  just walked into EC, and the security guard has a piece of paper taped on the wall above him with something along the lines of: The ‘I’m Just That Bored’ Trivia Question of the Day: What is the full name of the marshmallow man who attacked New York City in the […]

Barnard professor takes complex life, adds people that don’t exist and scenes that never happened in places to which she may or may not have been to make a book that could potentially be construed as semi-autobiographical Having been gypped of one Fed job, Columbia gets a consolation prize New GS fundraising strategy: admit more […]

We like to think Columbia can scoff at such things as superfluous interinstitutional rivalries. Not only are there enough warring factions between 120th and 114th to feed our hunger for conflict for ages, but in truth, we’re too sophisticated and busy for that. But we may be at a crucial junction in Columbia history. The […]

This evening, twelve lucky EC residents— and some prisoners of Wien —were invited to supper with the chipper, quick-witted dean of Columbia College himself, the venerable Austin E. Quigley. Bwog editor Chris Szabla was there and recounts what he learned about the origins of the major system, the progression of globalization, and British playwright Harold […]

Did you hear about that Minutemen thing? College TV – it’s boring! College Radio – it’s unheard of! Hidden Restaurants – they’re hidden! Daniel Okrent – he’s wacky! Video Games – wait what?

‘Tis the season for the arrival of the new issue of The Current, Columbia’s “Journal of Contemporary Politics, Culture, and Jewish Affairs”. The latest edition’s cover is graced with a reminder of the brutal fisticuffs to which our fair university descended in the Spring of 1968, not to mention the horrible handlebar mustaches our predecessors donned […]

Continuing Bwog’s rare tradition of saluting the sons and daughters of Alma Mater, we would like to take the time to recognize the achievements (and stupefying failures) of some of Columbia’s most recent headline-making alumni. We begin with Lee Phil-sang, a Korean journalist who earned his M.A. and Ph.D. here. Lee was just selected to become […]

Item! Karl Rove is a fan of Bwog’s favorite history professor, Eric Foner. According to a 2003 New Yorker profile by Journalism School dean Nick Lemann: “Rove’s favorite book at the time [1984] was Eric Foner’s Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, a history of the early days of the Republican Party, which he read less […]

Brokers, landlords unite in subtle White-Wing conspiracy to keep New York segregated What? Discrimination in the sciences? Damn you Larry Summers! Quick, have lots of girls invade Pupin and blow up gummy bears! Asian-American fest lots of work, draws “everyone” Capitalism helps us be able to bear winter, be Christ-like, and remember the expulsion of […]

Bwog is ready for vacation. And after Thanksgiving, it’s a race to the finish–might as well start buying your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa presents now, because you’re not going to have time in three weeks. Let the season begin! – Learning experiences that will be funny in 20 years – Great men come, go, salvage Columbia’s honor, wish […]

 The Philolexian Society’s 21st Annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest announced their winners! The winning poem goes to “Psalm” by Yonah Lemonik, CC ’08 and the first runner’s up goes to “Leftovers” by Jonah Bloch-Johnson CC ’08 (as “Phillip Hutchinson”) and Phyllis Ma CC ’09. Since Bwog is in the mood for wishing hearty […]