Columbia won (gasp!) the men’s water polo championship, beating West Point 6 to 5. The team goes to nationals in Miami, Ohio in two weeks. Now if only Bwog could remember where it put its school spirit…

In 20 minutes, ESC is having a midterm study break on Van Am Quad—free texas rotisserie!

From now until 5, every RA in Hartley and Wallach is giving out candy at their doors to trick or treaters.  Thanks Halloween for giving us another reason to visit the LLC besides getting that key replaced!

Dean of SEAS, Zvi Galil—who captured the hearts of every engineer with his idiosyncratic personal e-mails and his Australian-Israeli accent—may be leaving us for his native Israel as the new president of Tel Aviv University.   A senior source at the university says he is the leading candidate for the presidency, according to Israeli daily, Haaretz. On November […]

An anonymous Bwog tipster reports this “fuck-you” fest and near fist-fight at everyone’s favorite cardboard-as-pizza joint… Just letting you guys know that a friend and I had the opportunity to witness a small pre-Halloween brawl at Pinnacle tonight at approximately 2 am. It started when we noticed many expletives coming from the lower level of […]

Although Bwog managed to squeeze into tonight’s midnight performance, there’s only two shows left of bobrauschenbergamerica, the lastest production from King’s Crown. The play, by Charles Mee, comprises a series of vignettes exploring the life and work of modern sculptor and painter Robert Rauschenberg, and the idea of modern American identity. The audience joins the […]

Recapitulation of this weekend’s football endeavor by CML Saturday began in New Haven with frigid wind and driving rain, and ended for the Lions with an even greater dreariness.  For me, visiting the city from which I was rejected last April evoked mixed feelings: it was certainly consoling to be able to juxtapose a wasteland […]

Welcome once again to Cooking With Bwog, bringing you the cooking tips you need to eat well using dorm kitchens, a lack of utensils, and a tight budget. This week, Bwog’s culinary team brings you tips for using your microwave.  Microwaves are so informal in the cooking world that they often aren’t mentioned in cook […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez recommends a melodrama with honesty. Like many Iranian movies, Bahman Ghobadi’s beautiful and passionate A Time for Drunken Horses focuses its poignant narrative on children, a device some critics consider excessively manipulative, but which Ghobadi handles with honesty and an admirable restraint. The film follows a family of orphaned Kurdish […]

In a world where college bands seem to be perpetuating the same ol’ indie trend, Beilis serves as a refreshing reminder that not all college bands want to be The Walkmen 2.0.  The band, fronted by Matt Beilis SEAS ’07, is composed of guitarist Pete Couto C ’07, drummer Matt DeWit NJIT ’07, and bassist […]

“Gandhi, Newton, and Enlightenment”: University Lecture delivered by Professor Akeel Bilgrami in Low Memorial Library Rotunda, October 25th.   Akeel Bilgrami is Columbia’s secret big deal. He’s not a Foner, Sachs, Khalidi, or even a Massad, but… Bilgrami… that sounds familiar right? If it doesn’t, Alan Brinkley’s introduction to Bilgrami’s University Lecture (“Gandhi, Newton, and […]

Hear ye, hear ye.  The second of five installments of Bwog correspondent Addison Anderson’s travels to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York has arrived.  In this segment: Doc Ewing, explosions in New Jersey, a trap door in Schermerhorn, space constraints, seafaring, more explosions, general disarray, a very famous kitchen, and bees!       Doc […]

Last night the University officially marked the beginning of all-around mensch Václav Havel’s residence at Columbia with a swanky party at the Stone Rose Lounge in Columbus Circle. Among the trustees, donors, and administrators circulated two Bwog correspondents, who had cadged passes at a CU Arts pizza party. In a decidedly unsober phone call, they […]

In 702 Hamilton from 1-1:30 PM there will be a slideshow biography of Václav Havel’s life with free Papa John’s pizza and Nalgenes. You can also buy Havel’s biography if you so choose. More info on this at www.havel.columbia.edu …hurry, you know how that Hamilton elevator gets.

If you find yourself in need of a pick-me-up in the (other) holiday season…the one that celebrates small children talking to strangers, cotton cobwebs, and fear in general… check out these heartening personals!  Email bwgossip@columbia.edu; if you’re chosen we’ll give the two of you $5 to spend at your first meeting.  Maybe you can dress […]