Speaker of the House John Boehner, fearing the political effects of a another government shutdown, has proposed a ‘largely symbolic’ vote on legislation that would dismantle President Obama’s Executive Order on immigration, in order to more easily pass this years budget. (New York Times) This Congressional failure to embrace the legislation has been estimated to cost the government $37 […]

Protest of the Eric Garner case decision released tonight, focused on Amsterdam and 113th, was met with rapid police action. There have been swarms of news helicopters, emergency vehicles, and cop cars in the area. We began to receive tips just before 11 PM tonight, and will continue to update with photos and video from […]

It is easy, when facing finals, to feel as though you are all alone. Now, more than ever though, we must not forget what is perhaps our greatest resource: the collective wisdom of the Columbia student body. As a reminder of the quality of this wisdom, tonight, we at Bwog feature an apparently anonymous act of […]

You can’t spell “Ooze Marauder” without Maud Rozee. And you probably wouldn’t want to. The day is cold and disgustingly wet. Your umbrella is MIA. You have to walk from Pupin to Schermerhorn before your next class but at this point you would rather just crawl into the closest electrical closet and nap until spring. We’ve all been there a […]

Have you been interested in trying out a course in Clam Engineering for a while? We spotted this course listing on a bulletin board in Wallach. The course, taught by Professors Autumn Plumbo and Blake Cecil and held in the Mollusk Center, offers an “interdisciplinary exploration of subcultural linguistic and narrative formation as mediated by the […]

Take some time out of this dreary/dismal/depressing/(should we keep going?) day, and head on over to the Lerner Piano Lounge for the last Live at Lerner Sounds event of the semester! As always, the show is from noon to 1, and you can check out the Facebook event here. The band this week is Neighbors, […]

Scary stuff: Check out this article about forced medical leave from colleges due to struggles with mental health. (New Yorker) It has now gotten a lot easier to report abusive tweets from assholes, though it was great watching this woman contact the moms of her online harassers. (Jezebel) It could also become a lot easier to […]

CUMB is releasing its Fall 2014 Orgo Night posters soon! According to one Bwogger/CUMB member, a “big flyering effort is scheduled for tonight.” Catch a sneak preview below, and be sure to get to Butler 209 for Orgo Night next Thursday!

Taylor Grasdalen goes on a walk and thinks about some things. It is six in the morning. Morningside Heights is sleeping, but there are to see massive and stretched bags of trash on the streets, taxi drivers falling asleep at their wheels, winter citrus rolling from its display at Westside Market. It’s very beautiful at […]

One tree, bare in anticipation of the winter to come, stands lit on College Walk…   Is it a beacon? Or is it just a sad tease? We might never know. 

While most of Columbia and Barnard’s students slugged back into the academic grind after indulging over the Thanksgiving holiday, the members of SGA got back to their hard-working ways without a hitch. Last night, they brought in yet another administrative guest and resident SGA expert Joe Milholland got the beat.  The admin guest at the […]

The requisite post-Thanksgiving hangover took a toll on more than peoples’ bodies—the stock market experienced a wide-reaching drop on Monday, partly due to a 6.4% decline in in-store sales from last year. AAPL lost 3.2% and is now trading at the 0h-so-affordable price of $115.07, giving dads everywhere all the more reason to buy themselves […]

Thanksgiving: when you get a break in your college social life and return to the land of curfews, excessive amounts of texts from Mom about your whereabouts, and getting smashed with high school pals because that’s the only way you guys can seem to communicate anymore. Yet us Columbians on another Monday are able to […]

Like a bad 80s movie, Bwog is here to add some spice to another Manic Monday. We know you wish the weekly meeting were still on Sunday, but nothing should stop you from showing up tonight at 8 PM in the SGO on the fifth floor of Lerner. Bring your leg warmers and copy of your favorite Molly Ringwald/Winona Ryder movie, […]

Bucket List represents the intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. After a long break, you must be yearnin’ for some learnin’. 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 list, or a correction, please leave them in the […]