This season has not been kind to Columbia football, to say the least. And, for those of you who didn’t tune into today’s game, the Lions suffered a 41-62 loss at the hands of the Cornell’s Big Red, which is actually a bear. (No more random than Dartmouth’s mascot, so we’ll cut the Ithacans some […]

Taking a Saturday evening off of the Butler grind? We doubt it. And unsurprisingly, neither are the Butler-ites—the elusive species of passersby, tablemates, and denizens you’ve come to love/hate. With our newest Butler-themed feature, we bring you meticulously researched anthropological profiles of these shifty creatures from the guy who smells like weed to the girl […]

“Where is it I’ve read that someone condemned to death says or think, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he’d only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain […]

Ever wonder the critical reasoning process of certain Barnard students? Fret no more! Bwog’s resident cartoonist Julia Stern can take you on her comic tour of  a stream of consciousness fueled by gender equality, sex seminars, and Margaret Mead. In Julia’s “Grin and Bear It” cartoon series— based on the MyLifeIsBarnard Twitter feed, watch how […]

Launch: Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, in conjunction with the automobile company Audi, has kicked off a new project entitled “Experiments in Motion.” The project will consist of a series of experiments to identify new paradigms of motion, mobility, and design. Don’t be surprised if you spot PrezBo gunning down College Walk in a fresh Audi for […]

Live, from Roone Arledge Auditorium, it’s the creative team for the 118th Annual Varsity Show! The producers of V117 have just announced the students responsible for creating this year’s edition of the VShow, and their credentials seem pretty impressive. Director: Alex Hare, CC ’13 – Director of XMAS! 5 and the upcoming CMTS Musical Revue, […]

We all have a type. And no, we don’t mean the one you’ll spend most of Heights happy hour trying to stake out—we mean the Butler kind. Join an aggravated Alexandra Svokos as she reports live, from the line at Butler’s Security desk.  She knows it’s in there, somewhere. In her right hand is an […]

Sure it’s a commodity. I mean, walk by any Midtown street corner, and you’re bound to find vendors pushing the stuff by the bagful. That didn’t stop one Carmanite from getting all sentimental.         “Cashmere is proof that your parents love you and want you to be happy”   Furry sweaters via Wikimedia Commons

Keep your eyes open for the October issue of The Blue & White, which, after a delay from the printers, has finally arrived to campus! In the meantime, Bwog will honor our heritage/amorous affair with our mother magazine by posting highlights of the upcoming issue online. Among the treats to look forward to: Knickerbocker Motorsports: a surprisingly gripping history, an examination of Columbia’s updated sexual […]

In the past, we’ve covered the spectrum of cooking all the way from the cooking essentials to Morningside’s exquisite dishes. Last week we showed you that it’s even possible to make prosciutto in the humblest of kitchens. For our second challenge, our dorm-trotting chef Matt Powell visited the kitchen of Daily Editor Alex Jones. Matt […]

With glimpses of the holiday season around us, we must wonder whether it’s really too early. After all, temperatures are finally dipping, the lights are going up on college walk, and your dorm radiator is belching out all kinds of fluids. And since it’s the weekend, you can finally walk down to the new Crumbs […]

While calls for public course evaluations have been swirling around since at least January, members of the University Senate’s Student Affairs Committee are looking to finalize a resolution to present to the floor, according to Spec. A subcommittee will release a report assessing the current systems already in place at Columbia and other schools. Among the […]