The Bwog’s foreign correspondent Nick Frisch reports: This past Christmas in Siem Reap, Cambodia, your loyal correspondent was disgusted to learn that the sinister and destructive web of Columbia money has extended its jungle undergrowth-like tendrils far beyond dismal dorms into the very apex of Khmer civilization. The culprits? Miriam and Ira D. Wallach, whose […]

Beloved econ professor Sunil Gulati has always seemed to have a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to his Nobel Prize-winning/poverty eradicating/just plain publishing colleagues. At least now he can cheer himself knowing he’s the only one in the department elected president of the U.S. Soccer Federation. Here’s to better luck this time […]

Bwog staffer Kabir Singh reviews the Asia Society’s Rockefeller exhibit. In 1919 Lucy Aldrich wrote to her sister Abby Aldrich Rockefeller from Japan: “I’m not sure I shan’t become a Buddhist…the whole thing appeals so much more to my temperamental—or is it emotional—love of color. The gold and lacquer, the beat of the drums and […]

Spring Break is here and the Bwog is hightailing it to warmer climes. You might notice posts are fewer and farther between this next week. We’d tell you it’s because our motel room doesn’t have internet but, honestly, we’ll probably just be getting too drunk with our blog friends to make much sense. If the […]

The Bwog thinks it might be time for Morningside Heights to send the NYC Mayor’s Office for Film and Television a nice big fruit basket. All day today Warner Brothers is filming a TV pilot for ABC, sexily called “The Traveler”, on Riverside Dr. between 110th and 114th (and with the mess extending on 113th […]

Looks like trouble might be a brewin’ regarding the selection of John McCain as class day speaker this year. What better way to conclude one’s Columbia career than with a nice little protest? Critics of McCain have started a Facebook group called, appropriately enough, Committee to Keep John McCain From Ruining Columbia College Class Day […]

It seemed like something was going to happen in the hubbub filling Roone Arledge Auditorium a few hours ago, just before Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, started his speech. Two hours in, Finkelstein is still going, after saying at least 15 times that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]

The Bwog got a mysterious email earlier today claiming that Alma had been attacked with red paint. By the time we made it over to Low, all the Bwog could see was this guy cleaning up: While the red fingers socialists as the culprit, we think it’s more likely architecture students sick of Columbia’s dull […]

The Bwog never knew that bedbug infestations were treated so seriously. One student’s description, though, “It was horrible,” Bettelheim said. “They would bite me and then I would get huge rashes. It looked like a miniature tumor. I still have scars on my stomach.” makes us think the John Jay kids should get a container […]

It’s just been announced that U.S. Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) will speak at Columbia College Class of 2006’s Class Day in May. His daughter is a junior in the College. Bwog applauds seniors Nicholas Cain and Ciel Hunter on securing such a strong speaker. McCain’s no Obama, but he’s also no New England Patriots owner […]

Wouldn’t these midterms be bearable if the weather were at least half-way pleasant? Maybe. And where is the weather pleasant? South America. And what South American nation does Columbia have a kinship with? Colombia. That’s why we should move there. And that’s exactly what Anand Venkatesan pondered in this December 2002 Blue and White article: […]

If the Columbia Political Review is good for nothing else, the March issue has a rather valuable coupon on the back cover good for a cup of coffee and a bagel from Morton Williams, midterms week (March 6-10) only. First person to tell us if that includes cream cheese gets… well, a coupon good for […]

These excerpts were culled from documents left on Columbia and Barnard lab computers. We encourage our readers to submit their own digitalia finds to us, via e-mail, at bwgossip@columbia.edu. I thought about cloud formations, wild edibles, and how I could teach the girls to pitch tents and chop wood—all of which I thought would matter, […]

Once upon a time, Columbians dared to dream. Musicals in Butler Library. Silent dance parties on South Field. Pornography clubs at Acivities Day. Those dreamers constituted Prangstgrüp. And it pains Bwog to learn that few Columbians today are aware of the sauciest avant garde prankster group to ever mock Columbia. True, most of Prangstgrüp’s members […]

Boredatbutler.com has a nifty new feature that lists the top 100 words used on the site. As expected, raunchy words dominate the list – Bwog is especially fond of the delicious liaison between the latest top 5 words “sex” (1), “butler” (2), “people” (3), “fuck” (4) and “need” (5) – but there are some notable […]