Jeffrey Sachs, perhaps one of Columbia’s most well known faculty member, is at it again. This time, the Director of the Earth Institute, is not seeking to simply advise economically insolvent countries, he wants to help them out of the mess himself. Sachs threw himself into the ring with an op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post […]
Katie Meili, CC’13, has had one of the most impressive seasons in Women’s Swimming & Diving program history, culminating with a record-shattering swim in the 100 yard breaststroke at the 2012 Ivy League Championship. The Texas native captured four other Ivy League titles that weekend and was unanimously named Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet. […]
Not really. The tipster has informed us that it’s since been put out. Public Safety can’t say conclusively what caused the fire, but it’s mostly like the result of a discarded cigarette. C’mon, folks. You know better than that.
Maybe it’s not such a good idea to make the moves on your professor. (Spec) As much as your parents think it’s true, Columbia is not making you the hippie, free lovin’, Socialist that you’re becoming. The only person you can blame is yourself. (NYT) Mercedes invents a car with zero emissions and then figures […]
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In Columbia Athletics, this week marked the beginning of the spring sports season and the end for most winter team competition. The Men’s Basketball team closed the 2011-2012 season with an emphatic win over Dartmouth on Senior Night at Levien Gymnasium after narrowly losing to Ivy League-leading Harvard on Friday in overtime. Men’s Swimming & […]
Remember how Bacchanal is 90s themed this year? The good people at Baccha90s want to put you and your cherished childhoods to work designing the event’s official T-shirt! So if you have an idea, send it their way. The contest ends tomorrow (as in, “Don’t Stop Thinking About…“) (yes, it came out in ’77, but […]
Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. Recommended “Where Oral History and Journalism Meet: Narratives of Social Change” […]
Spring Break approaches, and Bwog wants you to begin it with no regrets. Remember, the memories you make and the free food you eat tonight at 7 pm in Lerner SGO will have to sustain you for the next few weeks! Join us at our weekly meeting to make or take pitches, contribute to the […]
Bwog is no stranger to weird happenings on campus that end up going viral. This one, though, has us stumped. Is this some sort of Baccha90s guerilla marketing campaign? Who is the “ring pop princess” and what does she want from us? Is this her organization’s manifesto? What follows is all of the evidence we’ve managed to […]
The reach of Bwog’s tipsters knows no bounds. By that we mean that one of them occasionally musters the energy to venture below 110th St. for something other than an Absolute Bagel, and supplies us with such linguistic coincidences as this photo. For some future generation of Columbians, perhaps this four letter combination will conjure […]
As Obama drama earns Barnard and Columbia coverage from the “real media” (or at least other blogs), residents of the small town of Barnard Castle (yes, complete with castle) grapple with more pastoral problems, like an unidentified humming sound. (Gothamist, Darlington & Stockton Times) Rush Limbaugh issues an apology to the Georgetown Law student he […]
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