Update: Columbia Lions won its second Empire State Bowl with a 34-17 victory against Cornell! For those still reeling from our 0-69 loss to Harvard football, here is something to perk up your (school) spirits. At today’s home game against Cornell (The Empire State Bowl), our beloved CUMB have been at it again:
The Chinese Students Club (CSC) and CUCSSA are bringing the piano virtuoso Lang Lang to talk and perform at the Roone Arledge auditorium in Lerner this Tuesday (11/13) at 2 PM. Deantini will be making opening remarks. To register for this event, you must learn Chinese, fill out the form, and reply to a confirmation E-mail. […]
Are you tired of buying sushi from Café East at exorbitant prices? Columbia Japan Society’s Sushi Night is tonight (11/10) in the Broadway Room of Lerner. There will be two session, one at 7 pm and another at 8 pm. For $7 and optional formal wear, you can learn how to make your own all-you-can-eat sushi. Dress classily, […]
General David Petraeus has joined the ranks of Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards by having an affair with his biographer. “Having showed extremely poor judgment,” he threw in the towel and resigned from the position of Director of the CIA. (Reuters) Philip Roth, the legendary Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award novelist, decided to quit writing […]
Lydia and Tom, a Columbia University Performing Arts League special project, will be performed tonight at 8:30 pm and 10:30 pm in the Lerner Black Box theatre. Free tickets are available from the TIC. Last night, we sent Bwog musical theatre maven Kyra Bloom to review the student-written production. Musical theatre is a uniquely specific […]
Over Election Day break, the CU Democrats hosted a five-day trip to Cleveland, Ohio. The goal was to help canvass for the Obama campaign during Get Out the Vote (GOTV). Bwog’s recovering reporter, John, reminisces: Having not woken up at 5 A.M. since high school and feeling like someone had recently retrieved a rake that […]
Last night was a good night to be bad at poetry. Columbia’s best bad poets shined up their shoes (*not really), did their hair (*ish), and broke out their tuxes (*in one case, yes) for terrible poetry’s biggest night of the year: the Philolexian Society’s 27th annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Bad Poetry Contest. Bwog’s expert […]
As usual, the snow has caused campus to go a little haywire. But never fear, Bwog is here with the top three issues we’re dealing with at the moment. Watch out for the following: 1) Gate closures: If you’re not checking email, you may have been surprised to find the Chapel, Earl Hall, and CEPSR […]
If you want to be president, remember that politicians are people too, and follow Obama’s example. On the other hand, if you’re looking for a different political position, learn from Chris Christie and try not to snub the candidate you actually campaigned for. (Huff Post) If you want to be a human rights activist, your […]
As intensely dedicated journalists, Bwog has tried hard to avoid bias and hearsay in the months leading up to the election. Finally though, the tough times of campaigning are over, so we can let our hair down and have a drink or two with the knowledge that our incumbent will continue to cumb for four […]
Most Columbia alums dream of a cushy job in trading or a somewhat successful book deal. But four Bio-Medical Engineering graduates are starting their post-college careers not by working in a coffee bar, but by saving a few thousand lives. Actually, more than a few thousand, if Tampostat, the group’s BME senior design project that […]
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