During his senior year of high school, Dustin Martin (CC ’11) was out for a run when he had the idea to start creating t-shirts with a new logo he had designed. Unlike most of us, who probably would have just gotten back from the run and gone to band practice or whatever we were […]
Grant D’Avino sought to learn more about political image-making from Joshua King, former Director of Production for Presidential Events during the Clinton administration. Self-proclaimed political dinosaur Joshua King gave attendees of Wednesday night’s lecture a glimpse into the murky waters of modern political image-making. He endeavored to help deconstruct the images of politicians seen in […]
Julia Stiles, CC’05, wins an alumni award, poses with PrezBo. (Spec) Columbia paleontologists discover a 240-million-year old dinosaur fossil. (USA Today) Student activism is BACK at Berkeley. (HuffPo) In retrospect, we shouldn’t be surprised to hear that LOLcats was somehow turned into a profitable company, but who would have thought the guy that runs it […]
The streets are clear, but midterms are upon us. What is one to do? Get out of the Butt, and check out what Bwog’s friends at INY have in store, of course! (Check them out at insidenewyork.com for more fun and frivolity.) Take a dive with Alice before she hits the big screen Check out Sidebar’s cheap […]
On Wednesday afternoon, Jonathan Metzl MD, PhD, an associate professor of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, delivered the inaugural speech for the Institute for the Research on Women and Gender’s Embodiments of Science Lecture Series. The series hopes to explore new socially informed approaches to embodiment in the psychiatric and psychoanalytic […]
There seem to be some big changes afoot in Mudd. It’s a tale with which we are all too familiar: vending machine change insanity! Click to enlarge for the full scoop. Yes, you heard us: scoop.
ESC President Whitney Green reported that the faculty have submitted an independent study day proposal to the University Senate to eliminate the election day break and convert those days to study days. Their proposal also calls for holding finals on weekends. Senator Rajat Roy commented that when student proposals come up against faculty proposals in […]
Bwog is a champion of the people. We save cats from trees, we give you free food, we defend the lowliest, saddest, most seemingly indefensible parts of our fair campus. We’ve tackled Wien, Famiglias, and the Freshman Fifteen. Just when you thought we couldn’t get any crazier, we tricked you and got crazier! Today, as […]
Quick – get your Tamagotchi African villager avatar – lest you be trapped by your own limited, soon-to-be-obsolete pen-and-paper way of learning. Watch out for them drugs, kids! You might end up accidentally cheating by outsourcing your work to yourself. An awkwardly short list of nothing particularly awkward or noteworthy. Riot grrl#~~!!* Oh! The shame!
Barnard College Radio WBAR has posted the lineup for their annual outdoor BBQ and concert! On Sunday April 25th from noon to 10pm on the Lehman Lawn, you can look forward to hearing: Cold Cave Blues Control Liturgy Burning Star Core Jana Hunter Twin Stumps U.S. Girls Thing About Life (They’re playing early, so get […]
Urban canines visiting Chelsea are mistaken for cross-dressing prostitutes. (NY Mag) Trader Joe’s not so secretly joins the influx of grocery stores on the UWS. (Westside Independent) Obama could make Columbia Professor Michael Woodford the new Donald Kohn. (Reuters) Reagan’s face threatens Ulysses S. Grant’s. (LA Times) Repression can lead to all kinds of problems. […]
Tune in to WKCR 89.9 FM NY on March Wednesday 10th as we dedicate a full day of programming to the celebration of Bix Beiderbecke’s birthday. Cornetist, pianist, and composer Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke, born March 10th of 1903 in Davenport, Iowa, was one of the great musical innovators to emerge in the 1920s. One of […]
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