Read This: More on the ridiculous USenate confidentiality plans. (Spec) Bring your brooms to the outer boroughs or face more subway delays. (NYT) Columbia plans to redevelop the athletics center. Bwog recommends adding a high-speed rail link. Thirty-seven knockoff goods vendors have been shut down by police on Canal Street. Christmas shopping, be damned. (NYPost/Reuters) […]
Finally, blissfully, it’s that time again. Today is the last day for (approximately) half of your classes, and your professors should have something to say about it. As always, please send the sweet/sad/insane words they send you off with to tips@bwog.net or post in the comments thread.
What’s that, Barnard students? You were excited about the opening of the Vag Diana? Looking forward to all the exciting new dining options, such as “a state-of-the-art dining room and Liz’s Place, an expanded and improved-upon replacement for Java City.” Well, even if you weren’t giddy with anticipation, you’ll have to spend some money there: […]
Club Dimensions, in consort with Club Bangla and the Kraft Family Fund will be showing an animated film at 8:00 PM tonight in the Lerner Cinema. It tells the Indian epic of Ramayana using joke-cracking shadow puppets (snarky shadow puppets?). Plus there will be FREE ROTI ROLL served BEFORE the event. Assume that means there […]
Lerner 502 Interest Meeting for Summer Fellowships with MicroEmpowering sponsored by Columbia Students for International Service MicroEmpowering.org is a not for profit organization that provides products, technology and funds to help low income individuals and social entrepreneurs to improve their lives in a sustainable way! Our aim is to foster a community of givers who […]
On July 3rd, 1776, the inhabitants of the American colonies were British. The next day, they were American. Their writing, however—what we now call “American literature”—did not appear quite so suddenly. English Professor Ezra Tawil tackled the issue last night in a lecture entitled “American Exceptionalism and the Question of Style,” along with Department bigwigs […]
QuickTix returns with top theater picks, fresh from the TIC. Columbia’s top 4 these days are… 4. XMAS 3. Bhangra In the Heights 2. KafkaFest 1. The Secret Garden Bhangra and Garden may be over, but tickets are still available for XMAS and KafkaFest, and they’re FREE. What on earth is KafkaFest, you ask? A […]
When the story broke, Bwog Taste Testers were on the scene within minutes. James Downie, Sam Schube, and Brian Donahoe report that yes, it is true. M2M’s legendary cheap-and-tasty, best-in-the-neighborhood fries have been replaced by impostors. Gone are the perfect little golden-brown packages of tempura-like flavor, and oh how we will miss their texture and […]
Because Bored@Butler – that great giant of anonymous heckling, hookups, and hate – finally got tired of being splattered with your blather. Since yesterday afternoon, visits to the site yield only a message from the site’s creator/moderator, Jonathan Pappas CC ’06, lamenting the “hate speech” and “racist comments” (read: trolls) that have caused him to […]
Protect yourself from the porcine menace! H1N1 shots will be offered on a first come, first served basis in Lerner’s Broadway room (up the ramp from the campus entrance) from 12-4pm. Health Services has 1200 of these bad boys, and they will give you one if you… a) get there before the 1,201st person, b) […]
Get your mayoral ass kicked, then flee to Copenhagen (NY Times) Make a name for your initials (NY Times) Get caught doing hip, green vandalism (NY Post) Become as useless as airport security (Gothamist) Cope with Barnard’s War on Cooking (Spec)
It’s snowing! Frolic! Since we first posted, more photos have come into ye olde tipbox. After the jump, a streetlight at 113th, and the first snowman of the season.
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