While some of us might’ve wished upon a hopeful star for just one more holiday break before reading week, the inevitable end of the fall semester has come. To relieve your finals dread, Columbia University Marching Band has released its first round of Orgo Night flyers! Some revolve around the university’s recent drastic reduction of the band […]

Happening in the World: After a dinner between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires, the two leaders have announced a 90 day ceasefire over the trade dispute that has rattled economic growth. The truce buys time for both countries to decide on a verdict concerning Beijing’s aggressiveness on the U.S.’s […]

Editor’s note: this article contains descriptions of physical hazing. Bwog has received a detailed report about the initiation process of Columbia’s chapter of Lambda Phi Epsilon which details the extreme hazing pledges are forced to endure. According to an anonymous student who pledged the fraternity in the Spring of 2018 and disaffiliated this semester (Fall […]

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

Barnard Res Life installed new washing machines over the summer to make doing laundry more convenient. Staff writer Eva Sher shares what she learned about these new machines during her last Laundry Sunday. Last week, as usual, I set the alarm on my phone to go off after thirty minutes to know when to transfer […]

Changes are apace, dear readers. All of a sudden it’s December and we’re still not quite sure how to navigate this in-between-holiday liminal space. Also… finals? Are those a thing? Celebrate the magic of transformation with us at our open meeting tonight at 9pm in Lerner 510! THE CREATION Before the earth and the sea and […]

Happening in the World: COP24 kicks off in Katowice, Poland today, where 200 countries will resume the climate change conversation left off from the earlier Paris Agreement. The main goal is to complete a working rulebook. Happening in the US: China and the US have called a truce on their trade war at the G20 summit: Trump […]

Bwog Science is piloting Research Spotlight, a new series in which we highlight some of the cool, radical, mind-blowing science research happening at our institution. We hope that you’ll find something that sparks your interest, and which you’ll aim to learn more about. In this week’s inaugural edition of Research Spotlight, we bring to you […]

Here to share what she’s learned in the three months she’s been here, staff writer Elle Ferguson writes about the newfound wisdom she’s gained in her first semester of college.  Name, School, Major, Hometown Elle Ferguson, Barnard, Undeclared but probably American Studies, Princeton, NJ Claim to fame: Rode scooter in Milstein until I was told […]

At Bwog, we do our best to bring you the best events Columbia has to offer each week. But no matter how many fantastic speakers and diverse topics are presented on campus, all academic events share the same fundamental elements. Luckily, we’ve used yet another college staple, the drinking game, to hopefully make the overly-long lecture […]

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: This Thursday through Saturday at 8 PM (plus a […]

Happening in the World: After Ukraine’s President, Petro Poroshenko assumed martial powers following a ‘maritime skirmish in the Kerch Strait’ in which Russian warships fired on Ukrainian navy vessels, he issued an order barring Russian men of military age from entering the country. On Friday, Poroshenko tweeted that this was done in order to prevent […]

Nimesh Patel, a comedian known for being the first Indian-American writer for Saturday Night Live, had his stand-up routine at cultureSHOCK cut short earlier tonight due to uncomfortable jokes. cultureSHOCK, an event hosted by the Asian American Alliance, is a charity performance showcase that aims to provide a space to celebrate Asian American expression. Patel was one […]

Susan Orlean appeared as part of the Book History Colloquium series last night to discuss her latest work, The Library Book, a meditation on the role of libraries in American life focusing on the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles public library. Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992 and is best known […]

Last night, New York Times contributors Darcy Eveleigh and Rachel L. Swarns visited Barnard to discuss their recent book about what was left unseen and undiscovered of black history until the two decided to search through the NYT archives. Bwogger Miyoki Walker was there to catch the whole thing. Surprisingly enough, space, the deep sea, […]