If you’re like us, you’ve spent hours of valuable registration appointment time agonizing over whether to take a class with a visiting associate professor or an adjunct assistant. What do these titles actually mean? Bwog’s expert on esoteric distinctions, Jon Edelman, breaks it down. According to the faculty handbook, there are twenty-three possible titles for […]
Hello, friends! Hope you’ve had a lovely first week of the semester, and that none of your classes have discussion sections. The first Bwog meeting of the year will be tonight at 7 PM in the student meeting room on the main floor of the Diana, at Barnard. We’ll meet for about an hour, and […]
Residents of the Block (dorms on 113th and 114th) are invited to the year’s first BlockTalk, and it’s happening this afternoon! Free treats will be served up by Columbia’s very own NOM^3. The nomming goes down in the Broadway lobby at 2. Go forth and eat! Update: Free ice cream is available in Lerner until 3 […]
The Brooklyn Book Festival is taking place today until 6 p.m. at Brooklyn Borough Hall. All events-panels, forums, booths- are free to attend! Famous people, like Venus Williams and Sarah Silverman, will be there, along with Columbia’s own Professor Gary Shteyngart and Librarian Karen Green. Get your intellect on! Photo via Wikimedia Commons
The drones are coming! (NYPost) The hipsters are coming? (Gizmodo) Lady Gaga has arrived – in the classroom (HuffPo) Money buys less happiness in New York (WSJ)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt returns to Morningside Heights for the filming of Premium Rush! 114th Street has become Columbia Pictures’ storage closet, while Nussbaum offers prime views of JGL himself. If you’re lucky, you may even get to see stunt cars drive backwards on Broadway! Top-left photo by Annie Liu. Top-right photo by Robyn Gordon. Remaining photos […]
Columbia has created a University-wide student group website that allows students to browse, join groups, and participate in discussions. Student group leaders can post notes, events, and send messages to their fellow members. Among the most useful tools on the site is the events calendar, which can be filtered using many different criteria (e.g. filter […]
As you surf the interweb while nurturing your first Friday Night Hangover of the semester, Bwog’s Saturday Morning Cartoons offers you a giggle that hopefully will not bounce your belly too hard. Cartoon by Abigail Santner
Bwog’s heart is with those that were affected by the 9/11 attacks on this solemn ninth anniversary of the tragedy. While Columbia’s American flag flies at half-mast today, there are no events or memorials planned to take place on campus.
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