Bucket List represents the intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for the week are below, followed by a full calendar of events. If you notice any events that have been left off the list, or […]

We’re back with Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly curated list of interesting STEM-related talks, symposiums, and events happening on campus. For science and non-science majors alike, our list will bring you events that will satisfy your scientific curiosity for everything from astronomy to zoology, and everything in between. For anyone, related-majors and non-majors alike: Failing Upward: […]

It’s Oscars Day! To celebrate, senior staffer and film addict Jake “Jake-Luc Godard” Tibbetts has decided to calculate which living space on campus corresponds to each film nominated for the top award of the night.

Bwog recently discovered the first (and, we think, better) draft of one of T. S. Eliot’s most enduring works. 

Warning: Today’s Bwoglines cover a case of sexual assault.  Happening in the world: Saudi Arabia recently announced that Princess Rima bint Bandar al-Saud will be its next ambassador to the United States. This is the first time a woman has held the position. (BBC) Happening in the US: R. Kelly’s bond has been set at $1 million following […]

New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined on campus. On Campus: Tomorrow at 6 in Schapiro Lounge, join the CU […]

Internal Editor Zoe Sottile and Events Editor Isabel Sepúlveda popped and locked their way over to the Varsity Show’s annual West End Preview. After 30 minutes of songs and the occasional laugh, they were left sufficiently bamboozled but…cautiously optimistic about this year’s show.

A new Dunkin’ Donuts location will be opening on the corner of 120th and Amsterdam, where Panini D’Parma was. It will be interesting to see how this his new arrival on the caffeination scene might change up where students get their coffee. Columbia had been dominated by Starbucks (in the Diana Center, 115th & B’way, and […]

Professor David Eisenbach CC ‘94, TC ‘95 , GSAS ‘06 is running in the February 26th special election for the post of New York City Public Advocate. This is Eisenbach’s second bid for the seat, after a previous defeat in 2017. 

Daily Editor Henry Golub writes in his free time to impress women. Just kidding . . . ha aha. Anyway, in this article, he argues that we replace the tarp on the grass with material that’ll last.

Inspired by the recent show Russian Doll, in which the universe conspires to kill the main character over and over again (even once in Le Monde), Managing Editor Zack Abrams enlisted the rest of Bwog’s staff to dream up the myriad of ways our beloved institution could slay us if it wished. 

If you read our weekly Field Notes as religiously as we do, you know that Bwog staffers get up to some wacky stuff on the weekends. Now, Arts Editor and aspiring cartoonist Riva Weinstein brings you a real, fresh-picked selection of Bwoggers’ most representative moments from this Fall or Spring semester. Elle:  One night I got […]

Happening in the World: The Hayabusa2 Spacecraft (previously known as the hopping space boy in this bwogline!) has successfully retrieved a sample from the asteroid Ryugu. In order to collect a sample, Hayabusa2 fired a .2 ounce bullet tantalum “bullet” into the asteroid, kicking up dust. It then used its “sampling horn” to funnel the […]

On Thursday, the Columbia School of Social Work invited Columbia sociologists Jennifer Lee and Van Tran to speak about Asian Americans and the affirmative action debate. Professor Lee describes their work as grounded in “sizzling research.”  Wait, you mean real research? Blasphemy!