From Astrology.com: Horoscopes for February 21, 2006. Larry Summers (Born: November 30, 1954, Saggitarius) Daily Extended: If any sign is famous for always being game to try something new, it’s you. But right about now, the universe is just about insisting that you try something, believe it or not, when it comes to finances. If […]

After years of tumult, Larry Summers, president of Harvard will step down at the end of the semester. Remember, Bollinger was #2 for the Harvard job a few years ago. Certainly more on this story soon.

A Barnard tour guide reassuring a parent: “Well, actually, many students get accepted by Columbia and rejected from Barnard.”

Will Snider reports: Part of an email (“South Field Soundbites”) from Amanda Atkinson, Assistant Director for First Year Housing: In this issue you will find information about: First Year Series Events Discussion: Abortion in the Caribbean

Word has it that it costs the university 15 cents in used energy every time you press the handicapped button to open the doors into John Jay or Butler. Tuition for a full year is about $40,000, which equals 266,666 door openings. If you figure that it takes the door 5 seconds to open and […]

Jessica Cohen reports: Wondering what time Tom’s Restaurant closes on Thursday evenings, I searched for the famed diner on Wikipedia, and I found these interesting few sentences: “Tom’s Restaurant…would later become a site for pop-culture pilgrimage due to the use of its exterior for the diner in the popular television sitcom Seinfeld where Jerry and […]

First, it was New York and Vanity Fair. Now, the very eminent and very British Financial Times analyzes the blogging zeitgeist. The FT dares ask of bloggers the ultimate question of any Englishman: WWOD–What Would Orwell Do? For our own part, we’ve always insisted that all blogs are equal, but Bwog is more equal than […]

Last week, B&W staffer Brendan Ballou sat down with Dan Okin, commissioner of CUAssassins, to talk about deceit, cunning, and how assassinating targets can make you a better person. Also, Tao Tan’s early years. Should we be teaching people to assassinate? I mean, life isn’t always about what you see in front of you. So […]

We can’t make this stuff up. A number of SIPA groups are collaborating to present “the very first public tasting in the US of Kyrgyzstan’s favorite drink.” Today. 6-9 p.m. 6th floor Student Lounge, IAB. Be there. “Kyrgyz favorite drink kymyz is made from horse milk which is poured into a special leather bag – […]

–Jeffrey Sachs and Gawker partied hard with Bwoggers. Grandpa Munster couldn’t make it. Well, even without his help, we may get some action, and from a sweet-smelling gentile, no less! -Do you remember that huge fockin’ blizzard? We forgot until we saw a giant phallus in the snow. Seriously. God knows how this traumatized impressionable, […]

Bwog staffer Julia Butareva reviews the Marian Goodman Gallery‘s exhibit featuring William Kentridge’s preparatory drawings for his production of the opera The Magic Flute. In Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Sarastro, priest of Osiris and Isis and champion of the Enlightenment, triumphs over the mysterious and irrational Queen of the Night. Sarastro is first presented as […]

Current Columbia homepage headlines: Music Is a Major Key to Reviving the Musical City Learning to Think Strategically Is Harder Than It Looks This just in: Falling Brings You Closer to Ground. Also, a quote from the music article: “The suicide rate in New Orleans appears to be rising long after the floodwaters receded, according […]

• Columbia basketball actually won a game. Make that two. Important ones. • We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take such measly financial aid anymore! • Amibigously named departments like University Systems, Enterprise Systems, Technology Infrastructure, and Client Services control our lives, e-mail. Which might be a good thing. • “Fuck-buddy communication […]

Now, we all know that lackadaisical first-years are prone to getting locked out of their rooms. Or sexiled (Yes, sex does occur at Columbia. We estimate at least five instances of sexual intercourse since September—-all coming Saturday night after Columbia’s last second victory over Princeton in basketball). But Bwog just learned of a different kind […]

Seen on a Student Government Office computer during the weekly Fed meeting: The Wikipedia entry for “Slash Fiction.“ What is Slash Fiction? Slash fiction is a type of fan fiction in which one or more media characters are involved in a homosexual relationship as a primary plot element. These gay pairings are often described in […]