The Eye attempts to answer a stock CU question: why doesn’t Columbia have any good traditions? (The Eye) Columbia Housing makes big plans to join the modern age and make all dorms wireless by fall 2012. (Spec) With the looming nation-wide ban on Four Loko, people are “sacrificing” themselves for the greater good and testing the drink […]
Update, 8:57: The police tape is gone and Broadway has been reopened for traffic. Update, 8:15: With the commotion gone, there appears to be blood on the street about 3-5 yards ahead of the bike, which is still there. Policemen have confirmed to Bwog that there were no CU students involved. Police also confirm the […]
Heads up for some events tonight with free food: From 7:30-9:30pm in 203 Diana Center there will be a screening of My Architect: A Son’s Journey. This film by Nathaniel Kahn is about his travels visiting the architectural works of his father. It won an Academy Award! And there will be free food. From 9-10pm […]
Bwog has hopped and camped in libraries, but we’ve never actually explored their contents. The Columbia libraries are a treasure trove of exciting history, so with the help of our lovely librarian friends, we’re going to highlight some hidden jewels. For our first installment of BiblioBwog, Carolyn Ruvkun talked to Jennifer Lee, Performing Arts Curator […]
In case you weren’t worried enough about seeing/not seeing your family over Thanksgiving—or perish the thought, even about looming finals—here’s something else. Tomorrow, November 18th, is the deadline both for CC students to switch a class to P/D/F and for SEAS students to drop a class. There are various and sundry rules and people you […]
Not all beauty on campus is the kind that makes you nostalgic while you’re still here. Some of it falls more into the stunning-glass-building-reflection class. Go enjoy the weather while it’s nice! Photo by CCS
The November issue of The Blue & White will be arriving on campus soon. In the mean time, we’ll be trickling out the issue on Bwog. You might not know the following figure—but you should. In Campus Characters, The Blue & White introduces you to a handful of Columbians who are up to interesting and […]
Out of every fourteen days, one Wednesday is chosen–today is that hallowed day when Bwog divulges news of the TIC. Tickets sold for on-campus events this past week: 3200 On-Campus: Dumpling Fest: November 18th, 7:30pm, Lerner Party Space, $6. Tickets. Toy Story 3: November 18th, 9:30pm, Roone Arledge Cinema, $3. Tickets. KCST’s Macbeth: November 18th-20th,8pm, […]
The dean of CBS wrote an op-ed about taxes. (NYT) Read this disheartening story about buying papers and paper-factory-people in today’s ivory towers. (The Chronicle) NYC’s health commissioner dislikes Camel’s new cigarettes, the ones marketed directly towards hipsters. (NY Daily News) Now NYPD can scan your iris to make sure you’re really you. O brave new […]
Bwog couldn’t help but notice how nice it looked strolling through College Walk today, with our peripherals filled with a constant, hopeful tint of yellow that lifted our spirits from pre-Thanksgiving woes. Maybe this was why Hawkma was out!
gorgeous hair and well-chosen lighting might absolve you from this one
Hi New York Times--saw you linked to us so thought we'd do you the same favor because we really like the work you've been doing even if you aren't as irreverent as us
political parties aside we can agree that elephants would beat donkeys in the wild
republicans not re-pubic-ans
sacred constitutions
traditional american values like the reverence of apple pie and the enfranchisement of white property-owning men
George Rupp, as president, sought to stop political correctness, stop departments and schools forming silos. He expanded interdisciplinarism, and making
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