Bwog staffer Brendan Ballou sat down with Columbia junior Jamie, a writer for the Fed, the former singer for the F-Holes, and current Suicide Girl to discuss knitting, pornography, and why the Blue and White is too pretentious. Don’t I know you from somewhere? Well, I’m naked on the Internet. I feel that it’s something […]

Don’t get us wrong. The Bwog is all for modernity, progress, and the decline of awkward social customs. Sometimes, though, we do miss a bit of stifling courtship. Right now, Columbia’s dating scene has about as much life in it as the Bollinger marital bed… but the Bwog has a plan. Every Wednesday we’re giving […]

These excerpts were culled from documents left on Columbia’s lab computers. We encourage our readers to submit their own digitalia finds to us, via e-mail, at bwgossip@columbia.edu. After working on global AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) in a developing country this past summer, I am convinced that I am interested in a consulting career.   In […]

From an e-mail by Tim de Swardt, CC’ 08, president of the newly formed Scholars Governing Board, regarding the “non-official” reasons to apply for membership: NON-OFFICIAL REASONS: Let’s be honest, it’ll look good on your resume. Also, life is about who you know, not what you know. and if you join the SGB, I guarantee […]

Turns out cell phones, email, aim, blogs, google video and facebook weren’t enough to keep us from the books at Butler. Thank God some clever SEAS students (we can only assume) came up with BoredAtButler.com, where we can all leave our anonymous 50¢ worth. Check it out quick; the site’s only been popular around 12 […]

From Bored at Butler: I believe that pretty much all the guys at columbia are secretly gay and just don’t know it yet. Metrosexuals are halfway there. 01/30/2006 @ 11:33:44 PM Somewhere on campus, Chris Kulawik readies a rebuttal. – Mark Krotov

Overheard while entering Labyrinth bookstore: “If worse comes to worst, I’ll just go to law school.” The speaker was definitely an underclassman.

Heard outside a nightclub in Time Square: Jewish female A: What do you call a Jewish dilemma? Jewish female B: What? Jewish female A: Free pork. PAUSE Non-Jewish female (in a confused tone): Oh, I thought you were going to say the Holocaust. That’s a dilemma, right?. Right? – Lauren Zimmerman

When one industrious Bwog staffer googled our name, his search revealed: a. a blog about puppies b. Bloody Wall of Gore c. Bible is not the WOG (word of God) d. The Elmer Fudd “dialectizer” (see: ‘why this site is not racist’) When that same staffer felt compelled to search “BWOG porn” he found, on […]

What’s the theme of this year’s GS Spring Formal? “50 Years in One Night…1900-1950.” Spectacular. As if the phrase “50 Years in One Night” weren’t funny enough in connection with my fellow GSmates, they manage to pick, of all the possible 50 year spans of time, the one most likely to inspire stories that begin, […]

On a sign posted by the NYPD in Koronet: iPods and Cell Phones- Crime Prevention Tips: If you choose to wear your iPod, cell phone, or PDA clipped to your belt for all the world to see as some kind of 21st century status symbol, remember that may not be the best safety practice. The […]

Bwog staffer Juliya Butareva reviews Alexander Valdman’s show of contemporary painting at the InterArts gallery. Alexander Valdman’s wife tells a story about how, while waiting to meet a friend on a street corner in Manhattan, she and her husband were suddenly accosted by a cop. As she politely answered the policeman’s questions, Valdman suppressed a […]