It’s 11:30 a.m., you say? But we could have sworn it was only 8:15 when we pressed the snooze button… Bwogline: New York may allow non-citizens to vote in certain local elections; it would make New York the first major city in the country to do so. Finals tip: Carrying around your books for weeks in your […]

A source close to Professor Ellsberg has informed us that the majority of students suspected of cheating in the so-called “Barnard Cheating Scandal” are actually men and women from Columbia College.  Of the 123 students, only around a fifth of the students have been specifically marked out as having cheated–and Ellsberg has a list of […]

Tonight’s Senior Wisdom: Rega Jha, writer, editor, and all-around enthusiast of being well-adjusted. Name, Hometown, School: Rega Jha. Chennai (India) and Muscat (Oman). Columbia College (and BC wannabe). Claim to fame? Writer, editor, all-round cheerleader of Columbia’s undergraduate writing/publishing community. Notorious for shamelessly over-sharing feelings on the Internet. The R.A. who gave you the benefit […]

Looking for a two-minute study break WHILE nursing your inner Game of Thrones nerd? Check out this frankly excellent cover by Columbia’s cello quintet String Theory, which is almost as great as Game of Thrones, cat version. You can play this theme to keep you going when your HBOGo stops to buffer as you stream […]

In light of yesterday’s news that sophomore Chad Washington was charged with a hate crime and the allegations that more people were involved in the incident, many were intrigued by the CU Football team’s impressively unprotected Twitter accounts. An hour ago, WKCR Sports tweeted a link to an Imgur album with a good number of […]

Our second library room review concerns itself with not so much a room as an institution, a concept, a structure: those blocks under some Butler desks; or, a godsend to the vertically challenged population.  As a person significantly beneath the national height average, finding a space to study during finals is both easier and more […]

We all have that one friend, that girl who keeps texting her boyfriend, tweeting her boyfriend, screen shotting posts by her boyfriend, and generally just scaring the crap out of her boyfriend. Now, there’s Overly Attached Computer. Remember that time you needed to bring a resume to that interview for that internship with that company […]

You are cordially invited by the Academic Awards Committee of Columbia College to join in consuming some “pomp and circumstance worthy” hors d’oeuvres and honoring some professors. Tonight at 6 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Low, Boris Gasparov will receive the 38th annual Lionel Trilling Award for his book “Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de […]

Today’s first Senior Wisdom: Mason Silber, the  force behind the original Penthouse Club and the first senior to make a Milano’s shoutout in his wisdom (how did it possibly take this long??). Name, Hometown, School: Mason Silber, Elkins Park PA, CC Claim to fame? Threw the original Penthouse Club on McBain 8 with my roommate […]

Cake craver Raphaëlle Debenedetti sat down Natasha Noman, GS’13, of the team “Peace of Cake,” which is representing Columbia against approximately 70 other universities in a case challenge called “Thought For Food.”  Other group members include Nick Chiosie, GS’14, Clava Brodsky, CC’13, Rob Grabow, SIPA’11, and Barbara Magid, SIPA/School of Public Health’12.  Vote for them […]

Reading “week” continues. Bwog’s got studying to do, too, but we’re still in bed. Bwogline: Three women missing for ten years escaped and have been reunited with their families. Finals Tip: Set your desktop background to a picture of Lil Bub—let her watch over you as you study, and you’ll be happy in no time. Procrastinate: The classic […]

Chad Washington, CC ’15 and football defensive lineman, has been charged with a hate crime.  According to NBC, he allegedly threatened, followed, and physically harassed an Asian student on Saturday night. A Public Safety office witnessed what happened, but ignored it because “he thought it was a group horsing around.” Washington “faces a felony charge of aggravated […]