It wouldn’t be a Columbia semester without a tiny yet massively confusing administration change. In an email sent out just yesterday by Kathryn B. Yatrakis, Dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia College students found out that as of the Spring 2014 semester, the “UW” grade will no longer exist and the “W” will be introduced. Apparently […]
Barnard students have been puzzled for about a week by the presence of a large, ugly white tent right inside the gates. What is Barnard hiding? A fissure leading straight to the center of the earth? An uprising of mole people? Bwog snuck a photo through a crack between the tarps… They’re putting a sweet […]
Last Wednesday afternoon, Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen gave the third lecture in his four-part series, entitled The Union, May it Be Preserved. Watch or read it for yourself here. Privacy Pundit Maud Rozee was in attendance. Moglen continued his tradition of opening with a song with The Ballad of John Henry. Then he addressed […]
A friend accidentally received a New York DL for ”Maxwell Kaplan” from the guards at EC instead of his own ID. If you’re Max from Mt. Sinai or know him, please let me know! ajt2143@columbia.edu
Last week, we were contacted by a Princeton 2012 alum about Hillflint, a “collegiate sweater line” he started for the Ivy League. We checked out the website, made jokes about the pictures of what’s supposed to be the Ivy experience, scoffed at the pretentiousness in the assumption that people will know your school based solely […]
Wow, speaking of Catching Fire: the new Hunger Games movie is out on the 22nd. So that’s something. (NY Daily News) (Time) “Selfie” is officially a word now. “Twerk” and “binge-watch,” too. Expect your hometown’s local radio stations to talk about this a lot this morning. (BBC) Your degree? What? It’s costing you hundreds of […]
Public Safety just sent out a crime alert for a robbery which occurred today at 5:50 pm, on Riverside Drive at 112th. A Columbia undergrad was robbed of his iPhone at knife point. Check out the alert for more details and remember, nowhere is safe…
Welcome back. As we sit under the fluorescent lighting of the library, we’re looking back on our weekend with bewilderment and fondness, and hopefully you are too. Here’s a glance at what Columbia got up to over the past few days—and our feature of the night, the 1020 raid of Fall 2013. Things seen and […]
And here we are at our PE Madness Semifinals (right?). Weird took on Masturbatory as Back to Summer Camp fought Catharsis. Who came out on top? That’s what it looks like when Pilates and Fencing collide. No thanks to you guys, Bwog argued these two contentious debates out, trying to figure out which would be […]
As we’ve been doing lately, here’s a weekly roundup on what’s been going on around campus on the athletics side. Sports connoisseur Max Rettig reports on the fit half of Columbia below. Foil Plans Columbia sophomore Jackie Dubrovich won a gold medal in women’s foil at the Bratislava Junior World Cup this past Saturday. In […]
Tis true. As one anonymous tipster so eloquently put it: CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN CULPA IS DOWN […]
As if there weren’t enough waiting and wishing in life, SSOL now has features that let you do both. For classes that is. Julia Goodman chronicles her attempt to use the new Wish list and sort-of-new waitlist features. Okay, log into SSOL. Shit, what did I just change my password to? Oh, got it. Click […]
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