Spotted in the Butler 4th Floor Reading Room:  

One Bwogger weighs in on Columbia’s possible downtown expansion… Is Columbia aware that it has the opportunity to purchase a piece of (cinematic) history in the 99th Street Metro Theater?

Residential Programs Associate Director Hikaru Kozuma during RA interviews: Guys, Doritoes are like orange crack, they are so addictive. Innocent RA: How do you know about crack? Ah, Columbia. Grooming the next generation of Washington D.C. mayors. – Nishant Dixit

Working in a Butler computer lab, Bwog’s computer was ambushed by an announcement THAT EMERGED FROM WITHIN THE COMPUTER proclaiming “this PC will run an update at 3:00 AM” Those campaigns for free wireless are starting remind Bwog of that genius give-guns-to-Osama-Bin-Laden-to-fight-the-Soviets idea. Find other instances of cyber-dominance (har har) here; documentary evidence of the […]

    In the East Sky lounge of the Broadway dormitory a keen observer will find exposed wires protected by the pen-written text, “Tampering will knock out AC/Heat.” Violations will result in electrocution and a slap on the wrist.

A poster of the Graduate Students Employee Union in Mudd claims “According to the Living Wage Project at Penn State University, the minimum living wage for a single person’s very basic budget in New York City is $21,272.” A visit to the poster’s cited Living Wage Calculator reveals the living wage estimate for a single […]

– After placing an order on Campusfood, a voice started talking and thanking me. The speaker was female, and sounded terrifyingly like Skynet. Combine that with killer-omniscient washing machines, and giving life to an online entity named “the Bwog” seems a little reckless. – Why don’t vending machines — EXCEPT for the soda machine next […]

Oh, snap! Gothamist hates on Barnard’s new student center. We don’t think it’s that ugly– do you?

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. This reading was a little daunting. My familiarity with mathematics separated me quite completely from the subject matter, due in part to my own repulsion to […]

•All you have to know about Nexus, the new Barnard student center, is that it is the anti-McIntosh. •Columbia might nab now-defunct Metro Theater at 99th and Broadway. •New wave of undergraduate magazines appearing (and B&W giggles over name appearing in print). •Eric Foner greatest thing since sliced bread and penicillin.

The February issue of the Blue & White is out and about and in a dorm near you. In a special section on “Race at Columbia”, Josie Swindler discusses the lack of minority staffers on campus publications, David Plotz tries to get some answers about affirmative action, and Hector Chavez reassures you that you’re not […]

A man in the field reports that while he was making a mess of trying to put together a John Jay ‘fajita’ with Dining Services’ rather weak tortillas, a fellow behind him remarked to a friend, “You know, more people really ought to smoke weed. Then they’d know how to wrap these things properly.”

A girl spent the majority of today’s Introduction To Photography class ignoring the lecture, choosing instead to peruse Facebook photo albums on her laptop. Next period: Introduction to Irony.

Bwog has just received a tip from a reader that all prospective salad-eaters at Uris Dining Hall now must fill out a form to complete their order. Help us figure out what’s going on before it’s too late by sending your tips — pictures are appreciated! — to bwgossip@columbia.edu.

An empty puff piece on South Asian studies at Columbia (“Of Columbia’s many ties with South Asia, India is probably the strongest”) ends with a dazzling flourish of geopolitical hubris: “the buzz about Columbia’s newly revitalized South Asia program will soon be spreading all over the Subcontinent.” Just like militant Islam! Um, the world is […]