Continuing our East Campus Archetype series, staffer Finn Klauber brings you a peek at one of the most dreaded figures that hangs around EC: the party-seeking first-year. It’s a nice night out. Friday has been a tough day for you, between several sprints to turn in late problem sets and sending out a few job […]

Staffer Caroline brings you updates from this week’s action-packed SGA meeting featuring President Spar and Divest Barnard (conflict perhaps? Drama? Read on). It is always a good SGA meeting when D-Spar and her posse come to give updates from the administrative side. It’s an even better SGA meeting when a student group shows up to protest, especially […]

Some of the best minds of the University came together for the weekly ESC meeting to discuss toilet paper. Okay, they discussed more than just that… staff writer Rachel will give you the info. Last night’s ESC meeting was concise and mainly consisted of announcements, with council members speaking on topics such as group adjudication, toilet […]

It’s here. Your academic advisor’s least favorite day of the year: the Drop Deadline. Today’s the hard deadline to drop a class, so start composing those frantic emails to your dean that will inevitably be met with a kind but firm reply of “No, sorry, you can’t drop all your classes except Strength Training and […]

Apparently no one in New York knows who Chris Pratt is, and if New York doesn’t know you exist, do you really exist at all? Poor guy. (CBS) Bwog favorite Paul Ryan may or may not run for Speaker of the House of Representatives. If he doesn’t, anarchy may ensue, with a dozen or so […]

Remember our College Walk archetypes? This time, Bwog tackles East Campus—a dream within a nightmare within a dream, the buildings that dominate your daytime musings and inform your party-seeking behavior/senior entitlement complex. In this edition, an unrepentant Sarah Dahl delves into the mind of the imminently mockable EC smoker.  There’s no better place to light up a […]

From a week of incessant testing (“midterms”), indecisive weather, and widespread incredulity over the first Columbia football victory in three years (!!!), emerge love, sex, disappointment, and Butler (always in the backdrop)—just don’t go as far as the dead bird we found, gone too soon from the NYC skyline. Congrats to all first-years for surviving their […]

For the first time in forever, you’re actually excited about Homecoming! You’re less so about by-laws, but Bwogger Joe Milholland, unmoved, gives you the CCSC recap you need, not the one you deserve. At the Sunday night Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) meeting, VP of Campus Life Kelly Echavarria announced that this week’s Homecoming activities […]

The University has approved major revisions to the Rules of University Conduct for the first time since 1989. The changes are meant to focus on student journalism in Columbia, as well as freedom of expression for every member of the community (the rights to demonstrate, rally, and petition are protected).  The biggest revisions make the court process […]

Columbia University’s Native American Council will be celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day today, in lieu of Columbus Day, and with good reason—so take this opportunity to cast off second-grade history (replete with offensive pageants and revisionist history) and stop moaning about having class today. They will be on College Walk all day to promote several activities: there […]

Staten Island is known for its infamously large landfill (a fitting symbol for the distinctively #trash borough), the unbelievably cramped Staten Island Ferry (creeps galore!), and the Jersey Shore cast members who hail from this distant island—but other stuff happens here, like half-marathons! Congrats to the winners. (SI Live) You know you’re actually dying to figure […]

We received a tip that an RA in John Jay was CAVA’d by their students this past week. They have since been fired. Another source tells us that the RA was found lying unconscious in a bathroom stall. The source had to crawl under the door to help said person out of the stall because the stall […]

A Bwog staff writer and committed concertgoer delivers a slice of the sounds of the other John Adams of modern composition. John Luther Adams, a standout in the world of American composition and the recipient of Columbia’s William Schuman Award for 2015, closed out a three-concert series of performances this past Saturday at the Miller Theatre. “Extraordinary Listening: […]

Bucket List represents the immense academic privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. Our recommendations are below, and the full list of events can be found below the jump. As always, if we’ve made a mistake or left anything noteworthy off the list, please let us know in the comments. Recommended Trans-Pacific Partnership: What Does It […]

(Sung to the tune of… well, you’ll figure it out.) You used to come to Bwog on Sunday’s. Late night when you need our snacks. Come to Bwog on Sunday’s. Late night when you need our jokes. And we know that come 7pm, you’ll slide into our DMs. You’ll show up in Lerner 505, what a time […]