Last night, the Cuban Program Institute of Latin American Studies kicked off their semester-long lecture series, Cuba and Beyond, with former Belgian and European Union Ambassador to Cuba, Herman Portocarero. He came to discuss his book “Havana Without Makeup: Inside the Soul of the City” as well insights into the inner-workings of an island community […]

I have a few uncommon opinions that I hold very strongly. Like the fact that the day should start at 6:00 AM instead of 12:00 AM (it makes so much more sense to have 12 hours of daylight followed by 12 hours of night). Or that Arial should be outlawed in favor of Helvetica supremacy. […]

Happening Around The World: Over a three-month amnesty period, Australians handed in a total of 51,000 illegal firearms to the government, representing about a fifth of illegal firearms. Gun control activists in the US often point to Australia for their government’s response to a 1996 mass shooting, which included bans on assault weapons and strict background […]

On Thursday, a group of students walked into Columbia Professor Suzanne Goldberg’s undergraduate seminar in Gender Studies carrying signs and reading a list of their grievances aloud. They also handed out a modified version of her syllabus that discusses Title IX requirements, and how Columbia – and Prof. Goldberg herself – violate them. In the video, […]

Ever wondered why your friends’ UNIs are all super cool and yours is lame? Or vice versa? So have we. There’s not much rhyme or reason to the assignment process, it turns out. Senior staffer Sarah Dahl got the scoop from Chris Dowden, Directory of Identity and Access Management for the Columbia Information Security Office. […]

Science of Psych is a rite of passage for all potential psych majors and so are its psych studies that all students are subjected to. Having to to undergo 9 hours of testing, one is never fully in control of what one is subjected to. You hope that you might be participating in one relating to […]

World-renowned Bharatanatyam dancer Mallika Sarabhai and her performance troupe, The Darpana Dance Company, come to Barnard. New Bwogger Ana Rael attends. Last night the Barnard Department of Dance and South Asia Institute of Columbia brought renowned Bharatanatyam performer and activist, Mallika Sarabhai and the Darpana Dance Company to the intimate Glicker-Milstein Theatre for a dance-lecture. […]

Happening Around The World: You know when you have to give a presentation in class, and it feels like something’s caught in your throat, and you just can’t talk right? Theresa May does too – yesterday, she gave a disastrous and oft-interrupted speech on Brexit, a disastrous and oft-interrupted venture. #justtorythings (BBC) Happening In The […]

We got to chill with PrezBo last night while he talked to students and answered questions at the Fireside Chat. Alma Bwogger Rachel Deal was there to tell you what he said and to get a pic with the man of the hour (who, as always, was squinting in the photo). Last night, President Bollinger […]

Warning: this post includes uncensored pictures of actual real-life disgusting communal bathrooms, including unflushed toilets and lots of hair. Do not scroll down or click on the jump if you’re eating or something, or just don’t want to see them. Communal bathrooms are disgusting, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Theoretically, if every […]

Food insecurity is a pressing and prevalent concern here at Columbia and finally (why did it take so long?) we have a food bank! Bwogger, Ross Chapman, gives us an update on the new Food Bank at Columbia, as well as highlighting the university’s past food insecurity-related failures. The Food Bank at Columbia will hold […]

As the semester kicks into full gear and more and more of us begin heading downtown (or uptown) for internships and other positions, it becomes almost inevitable that you’ll be faced with a day when you need to eat on your commute. To help you choose what to grab from your cupboard on that morning when […]

Ever wonder what the weird shit people put in their Venmo description means? Well, you’re in luck! New Bwogger, Megan Wylie, has worked tirelessly to investigate what the emoji really means… what the slang really means… what the fuck it really means… We’ve all been there: You wake up sluggishly on a Saturday morning, scarred […]

Need something to do today from exactly 4-5pm? Interested in the ethical state of this nation? Want to gaze at a bearded man? Nobel prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman will deliver a lecture, “Does Equality Have a Future in America?”, in honour of the 10th anniversary Benrubi Lecture in the History […]

Today is Wednesday, which means that Bwog’s General Studies Student Council (GSSC) Bureau Chief Alex Tang is here with a summary of yesterday’s meeting. If you’re interested in what goes on in General Studies and can’t make it to the weekly GSSC meetings, check back weekly for convenient updates! GSSC held a fairly short meeting […]