Our senior wisdoms will be running every night — and maybe even more often than that — for the next few weeks, so keep coming back to get your knowledge fix. Tonight: Evan Welber, mustached master. Name, Hometown, School: Evan Welber, Coral Springs, FL, CC Claim to fame? I still haven’t managed to raze memories […]
Bwog sent Literature Lover to check out LitHum’s 75 birthday party. LH@75 (otherwise known as #LitHum75 #technology #coreofmyexistence #giveusyourmoney #we’re hip #hashtags) was an event that simultaneously acknowledged the frailty of a liberal arts education in today’s world while affirming its position as a vital institution at Columbia and the world at large. “Low may […]
Facilities can be a cruel God, but today they have deigned to answer our prayers. Bwog is ecstatic to report that the Earl Hall Gate (117th Street and Broadway) and the Chapel Gate (117th Street and Amsterdam Avenue) will remain open until 10:00 p.m. on weekdays. No longer will students who live above 116th have […]
Have you seen the posters around campus telling you to go see this mysterious “Cymbeline,” and wondered what in the world that means? Have you seen groups of people in the Hartley Courtyard in elaborate hats, speaking what you think is English and wondered where that tour group is from? Put those two phenomena together […]
The Barnard Library always hosts excellent Stressbusters events, and they’re having another one tonight from 7-9. There will be free food (probably tea and cookies), Stressbusters, and librarians. Ginger Maine Coon kitten via Wikimedia
Ladies and gentlemen, the announcement you’ve all been waiting for… Derek Arthur, CC 13 and Steven Lau, CC 15 are the winners of Columbia Housing’s Room Selection Video Contest! Congrats. Their video was chosen from 3 submissions “following a departmental evaluation of each submission’s accuracy, effectiveness in explaining the process, and overall video quality, as […]
The final 8% of the Columbia graduating class who are to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor society, have been announced. Here are the first 2%. Congratulations to all the inductees. Never stop pursuing “friendship, morality, and literature”, never forget your new motto: “love of wisdom, the guide of life.” The Class […]
According to the Morningside Post, sources in the administration have confirmed that Merit Janow, a professor in the practice of international economic law and international affairs since the fall of 1994, will soon become SIPA’s new dean. She will replace interim dean Robert Lieberman, who will be leaving Columbia University on June 30 to assume […]
We know you know that classes end soon. But we wanted to make sure you hadn’t forgotten what that means: closing remarks. Why did the Pharaohs build the pyramids? Why did Dido sing her lament? Why does anyone hold the Guinness World Record for longest fingernails? They all wanted to be remembered. And for that […]
NBA player Jason Collins became the first openly gay male athlete in a major US sport yesterday. (Sports Illustrated) Some terrier owners in NYC are reviving the sport of hunting by having their dogs chase down rats in alleys. Tally-ho! (WSJ) Worried about your messed-up, only-two-hour-naps-as-needed sleep schedule? Don’t be. It’s perfectly natural, according to […]
You’ve been waiting and asking (and asking and asking…) and it’s finally here. Our first Senior Wisdom of the year: Melissa Kravitz, who may or may not have a Barnard ID, doesn’t need CU Admirers to express her feelings, and puts your “commute” from Woodbridge to shame. Name, Hometown, School: Melissa Kravitz. Highland Park, IL […]
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