Sorry Carman kids! The biggest party you didn’t need an invite for was shut down just as it got rolling, at about 12:30 AM. According to witnesses at the scene, KDR (a.k.a. the basketball frat) had packed its house and sent revelers spilling onto 114th st., prompting campus security to call the NYPD. In addition, […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez recommends a película and gives justification for enjoying Almodóvar. It’s always good to start the year with a film both iconic and obvious, and Almodovar’s 1998 All About My Mother is both a classic of the college-dorm-poster variety and obligatory watching for anyone remotely interested in European cinema of […]

This weekend, one court-yard in the center of Central Park has been converted into a refugee camp. The exhibition, presented by the French foreign aid organization Doctors Without Borders, is an effort to show Americans what living in a refugee camp is really like. I took the subway down to 72nd and walked east into […]

Several times a year, Broadway turns into an Upper West Side-style bazaar, hawking everthing from fur coats to cheap socks. Today, Bwog bypassed the material goods, turning instead to late summer nirvana: the food.  Street fair culinary options tend to tread the extremes of nutrition: smoothies and falafel nestle in between cholesterol dispensaries, exemplified by […]

Today begins the first installment of Cooking With Bwog, dedicated to providing quality, cheap, healthy, and easy recipes to make your meal-plan-free life as tasty as possible. If you have any amazing cooking secrets you’d like to share or questions for the Bwog Culinary Team, please email bwgossip@columbia.edu. This week’s feature is  corn tortillas. Cooking […]

Today, 12:30 is “Baker Blast” and opening day for Columbia’s football team. Community building, right? Oops. Thanks to a joint effort by the Student Development and Activities (SDA), the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), and Activities Board at Columbia (ABC), all student leaders — under threat of freezing their clubs’ accounts– will be busy  undergoing […]

Overheard in JJ’s, 2 AM Friday morning, as two students were leaving: Girl:  So are we going back to yours tonight? Guy:  Well my parents are coming in on Saturday Girl:  But tomorrow is Friday Guy:  Yeah…yeah it is Bon Weekend!

Homesick? Not homesick, but have lots of dirty laundry? From NJ? NJ Transit will be offering free train, bus, and light-rail fare for the week from Sept 18 to Sept 24. All you need is your ID and a printable coupon. Check it out here. The way to go, indeed.

John Heffernan (see comment #12), G’76 checks in from the real world with a question for Bwog and the Columbia masses: Has anyone missed the pretty blue flag on top of Barnard? Where could she have gone? It so nice to have her around. Anyone care to speculate?

Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Vaclav Havel: Which one of these things is not like the other? New football coach offers idealistic promises that won’t pan out; will be followed by a return to normalcy Professors must find a new forum for controversial, condescendingly-expressed opinions For those of you who aren’t fine with a […]

Bwog tipster Christopher Morris-Lent sent in the first–but certainly not the last–gem of the year from Sunil Gulati’s Principles class: Gulati, speaking about inferior goods to a [presumably female] student:  But would it hurt you to have a hot dog?  If I gave you a hot dog right now, wouldn’t it bring you some pleasure? […]

Bwog doesn’t have the cash to “pimp your room,” and we certainly don’t want to raid it and then date you. So we bring you the semi-weekly Thursday feature, the “Cribs-esque” Room Hopping… continuing with Bwog’s new afroed acquaintance… Ed Trefts, C’08, has few items in his tight Shapiro single. The room is an excercise […]

Welcome back to our semi-weekly feature, in which Bwog contributor Mark Krotov takes you to the lesser known gems on our fair campus, forever ruining them for those who didn’t need the hint.  In last year’s debate over Flash access to Columbia dorms for Barnard students, opponents somewhat arrogantly hypothesized that a free-flowing student body […]

“Suck” count: 5x, “Sex” count: 4x, “Rut” count: 28x A rip-off of UPenn’s 34th Street magazine’s “Shout-outs” feature For the record: Yes, I was in Magnolia. Let me move on! If an administrator came to sit with Bwog at brunch, we’d scoff, and carry our tray elsewhere Giving Zoolander more credit than he deserves

Fully nine parties–count ’em, nine–have entered the cosmically inconsequential but strangely fascinating race for Columbia College’s 2010 class council. That’s down from ten last year, but certainly more competition than the class will see in its next three elections. They are: Party of Five, TOGA, Blue Barracudas, Nonstop, The, Stella, Columbia Undergraduates, Supporting Progress, Alma […]