March is almost here and the theses have begun their looming. Blythe Sheldon forwarded us the following email from an anonymous anthopology student. While the fetishization of childhood books is never a great idea, they’ve still got a clever idea. in other news, i’m naming my thesis. so that my away messages will sound better: […]

Bwog reports! Someone decides! The Spec reported earlier today that Adam Goldberg, E’06, founder of Ye Olde Campus Network and former Engineering Student Council President, quit his position as ESC Director of Technology last night at an ominously named “constitutional review session which was closed to the press.” It was unclear why Goldberg resigned. Until […]

At 17 Lingxi Kong was named one of the Top 10 inventors in Wu Han province. By 20 he was in jail as a Chinese political prisoner. This week Lingxi talked with B&W staffer Brendan Ballou about classical history, the world’s fastest bicycle, and how President Bollinger won his freedom. You run a website, Pax […]

Possible Watt arson may be fraternity related…but Bwog thinks LUL stands for Love U Lots. ESC member resigns; conspiracy theories unleashed. Who said Valentine’s was over? Admin sez: Beer + Moz Sticks + First Years = Illegal.

First Brendan Ballou felt bad about breaking a Lerner turnstile. Then he didn’t. I can’t believe it. I really can’t believe it. People are still swiping their cards at the turnstile that does not exist. They stop before going through, bend down and swipe, then walk through, as if they still needed some permission to […]

In a move that went entirely unnoticed this week except by the Splog and college freshmen, the Facebook let high schoolers and college students be friends. Lydia DePillis weighs in. In the beginning, there were two worlds. And then they were one, and the Lord rested. I hope. This whole high school kids on facebook […]

Overheard in an EC elevator: Girl #1: “You have insomnia?” Girl #2: “No, I have wind ensemble.” We prefer to view this exchange not as an example of mishearing, but as one friend inquiring about an ailment, and the other friend expounding on its cure.

Get yourself down to the vending machine in Lerner right by the entrance to the Party Space and you, too, can swipe an iPod shuffle. Only three left, though, so hurry.

When reached for comment, Felix Gillette, CJR Daily reporter and author of the Slate profile of J.J. had the following to say: “I’m concerned that the long hours, endless travel, and lack of a stable home life may finally be catching up with J.J. Jumper. This latest incident looks like nothing less than a cry […]

Quorums kill. In the battle of the back handsprings, it’s Beth Katz 1, Amphibians 0. Bollinger continues to evade, slices white bread. Plus: The rise and fall of Michiko Kakutani…

This isn’t the first time Columbia and J.J. Jumper’s stars have collided. A Columbia Journalism Review reporter did a bittersweet profile of the homeless frog for Slate almost a year ago. It seems like J.J. takes it more than he dishes it out so maybe we aren’t so mad at him for destroying $6,500 of […]

“Kula kula kula van sola sola sola…” –Multilingual EC security guard, K. Davis, communicating in Cantonese with the Wai Lee delivery man, 2/26. — Neeraj Pradhan —

Last Friday, after years haggling over bullet points, the University Senate was finally scheduled to vote on a  new sexual misconduct policy. Unfortunately, nobody showed up. Well, at least the professors didn’t. The Bwog has learned that the resolution could not come up for a vote because more than half of the senators played hooky. […]

CU Snacks is kind of like that spaghetti pot they sell on TV with the drainer built into the lid: it’s a good idea but it solves a problem you never really had. Plus you’re pretty sure only White trash orders it. Don’t believe us? Fresh baked cookies delivered to the West End. Kind of […]

Maya Rudolph – the Barnard first-year, not P.T. Anderson’s baby’s mama – had a very funny list published over at McSweeney’s last month. Further proof that Columbia kids can bring the snark with the best of ’em.