Columbia University very own Crime Blotter details the scoop of what is REALLY happening on campus. This week’s edition features Bwogger Leo Bevilacqua’s truly horrifying discovery.  On May 20th, one resident of Wien 4 opened his door to a truly heinous sight. On either side of his door, two identical pools of vomit lay equidistant. Bemused, […]

Astronomer and Linguist Mihir Kulkarni, a graduate student at Columbia University, spoke in Pupin Hall for the first big event hosted by Columbia Astronomy Outreach this academic year called “Clocks of the Universe.” The night consisted of a lecture, a 3D virtualization, and stargazing, which was unfortunately canceled due to weather. New Bwoggers Michael Beltz […]

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 Wednesday and Friday, head to the Miller Theater […]

Happening in the World: A Kenyan high court lifted the ban on ‘Rafiki’, which focuses on a same-sex relationship between characters Kena and Ziki. The film was banned “due to its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law” as stated by the film board. The film was originally screened […]

On September 20th, Dr. Seth Anziska ‘15 sat down to talk about his recently released book Preventing Palestine: From Camp David to Oslo, about the complex players of contemporary Middle Eastern politics. Deputy Editor Idris O’Neill and Bwog Baby Alicia Benis covered everything you want and don’t want to know. Dr. Seth Anziska began the […]

Around 12:45 am on Monday, September 17th, a resident in 627 W 115th St. (also known as Owl House, or the former ZBT brownstone) turned on the stove in the studio double that she shares with a roommate, Dallas Koelling, CC ’20, for the first time since moving in. According to Facilities, stoves (as well […]

The Center for the Study of Social Difference hosted a panel of professors, scholars, and activists to launch the Working Group on Menstrual Health & Gender Justice this Thursday afternoon in the International Affairs Building and share their experiences and insights on menstrual health research and education. New staffer writer and baby Bwogger Eva Sher […]

Staff Writer Vivian Zhou really loves Marlow Bistro, so she wrote them a love letter. This post was not sponsored by Marlow Bistro.  To Marlow Bistro– This is my open love letter to you. People always tell me that love is the strongest feeling in the world, but I have yet to find a person […]

Who’ll play quarterback this weekend? What’s up with the soccer team? How many Cornell players does it take to change a lightbulb? Sports Editor Abby Rubel only answers one of those questions in this week’s sports preview. Football: The Lions (1-0) will take travel to Georgetown (1-2) on Saturday to take on the Hoyas at […]

Happening in the World: A lagoon located in Aitoliko, Greece is completely covered in massive spider webs. Thousands of Tetragnatha spiders are living underneath these webs and are rapidly reproducing. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that this is the work of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man (CNN). Happening in the US: Yesterday morning, 26-year-old Snochia Mosley killed three […]

Earlier this week, Barnard hosted a talk with Biology Professor Alison Pischedda and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young on unconventional sexual behavior that is, in fact, backed up by biology. A new Bwogger was in attendance to learn about flies, the Olympics, and the Jersey Shore. At Monday night’s event From the […]

We have some personal news: Bwog and the Blue and White Magazine, as of yesterday, September 19th, have agreed to completely separate. We are, as Gwyneth Paltrow might say, consciously uncoupling. The decision was made because the two publications have grown apart enough since the Blue and White birthed Bwog that it made more sense […]

On Monday morning, Columbia Society for Women in Physics (CSWP) hosted Kendall Mahn, a physicist from Michigan State University, for a CSWP Breakfast Chat before her Physics Colloquium: “See the World with Neutrinos: Current and Future Accelerator-Based Neutrino Experiments.”  Dr. Mahn is a high energy particle experimentalist who researches neutrinos—subatomic particles with masses close to […]

The Milstein Center is now open, including all the fancy new centers and spaces like the Movement Center and the Makerspace! The Makerspace comes equipped with all sorts of machines and materials to do…cool things with (go there to find out what)! But something in the center that can be used without training is the button […]

Science 101 is Bwog’s weekly advice column for Columbia and Barnard students studying STEM. In this week’s edition, Bwog Science Editor and junior-year biology/pre-med major Alex Tang brings you advice he wish he knew as a freshman. Class of 2022, welcome to Columbia! You’re currently confused, excited, nervous (and probably way too cool to admit […]