Down: Our favorite Phil says we’ve got more winter.  Because it’s been so harsh so far.  Cute hats, guys. (USA Today) Up: Columbia is picking local construction firms run by minorities and women for the Manhattanville campus project. (DNAinfo) Down: Ajay Kumar Mangal, CC’10 Teach for America member and former John Jay RA, was arrested for […]

SEAS puts New York in check, when it comes to how green it is. (NYT) The mystery over the Westside cheese labels, and all the existential crises it’s inspired, is solved. (Gothamist) We already figured out how to not be that guy. Now people are learning how to avoid it on Twitter. (The Atlantic) The Economist finally figures […]

You could have gone to Fordham and been one of these students (plus a baby). (NYT) Your overheard comment on the train yesterday could have been made public to the world in general. (Overheard in NY) Your innocent desire to party could have been tragically misinterpreted by American customs. (Gawker) Columbia could have cared about its USNWR ranking this […]

Educational Reform: Changing with the times is not exactly Ivy League style, but the former president of Harvard says it should be. (NYT) ‘Celluloid Barriers’: Barnard’s Athena Film Festival is burning them. (Guardian) Football: In a land far far away, football is taking over university culture. (NYT) Transferring: Based on stellar retention rates, we have “happiest” […]

CANNED BEER: check out this history of the official container of real college’s official drink. (The Daily) VINTAGE CHAMPAGNE AND SKYLINE VIEWS: Bwog knows it’s never too early to start thinking about Valentine’s Day plans (or to start repressing these same thoughts), so why not a private dinner and rooftop pool swim at the Peninsula […]

It’s another scandalous day in the Ivy League. Patrick Witt, the Yale quarterback who was lauded as a sports hero after he opted to play in the Harvard-Yale game rather than sit for his Rhodes Scholarship interview, has been accused of sexual assault. Turns out the Rhodes committee found out about the (unofficial) accusation and suspended […]

In case you want to keep track of all the crazy-entrepreneurial things Columbians are doing, The Next Web reports that Neu Venture Capital has rolled out a new Visualizer which shows the connections between Columbia’s affiliated start up companies. (The Next Web) As many major countries prepare to return to the polls this year, Russian […]

The Columbia Republicans are considering bringing Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist back to campus to promote free speech. We can’t help but wonder if they learned nothing from last time he was here.  Well, it has been a while since we had a nationally-covered protest in this city… (Spec) Oh wait except for that whole Occupy Wall […]

Last night the POTUS took some time out of his day of slaying pirates to give the SOTU. Quick on the rebuttal were Republican candidates Rick Santorum and Gov. Buddy Roemer, who jumped on the live-tweeting bandwagon. (Reuters, Twitter) Getting into his own debates was Columbia’s own adjunct professor Ian Bremmer, who challenged Harvard’s Associate […]

Remember when puppies came to Columbia? So does Bwog. Some of Columbia’s more unorthodox study break tactics—including the biannual Primal Scream and therapy dogs bringing furry comfort—were chronicled in a spot on various schools’ stress relief methods. (NYT) In more somber news, be careful with the late-night antics when there’s a 13-minute wait at the […]

A couple of people in butt pads threw around a ball last night and it was kind of a BD. As the Giants go into the Superbowl to face the Patriots in almost identical circumstances as the 2007 season, ESPN is calling it déjà blue. Is that similar to browning-out? (ESPN) Football wasn’t the only show that McBainers […]

South Carolina: In their ongoing quest to find a candidate suitable to challenge Barack Obama (did you know he’s a Columbia alum?!?) for the presidency, Republican primary voters turned yesterday to former house speaker Newt Gingrich, who received 40% of the vote to Mitt Romney’s 28%. The race for the White House hasn’t been this […]

Break free of the dining halls this week and hit up some of New York’s top restaurants for Winter 2012’s restaurant week. Lunch for $24.07 and dinner for $35.00 lasts until February 10th, so take the plunge at the swankiest places the city has to offer in your swankiest business-casual attire. (nycgo) And to make sure […]

Why did the number of applicants to Columbia dwindle to a mere 32,000? Perhaps the kids realized  it’s “impossible” to get in so they’ve all stopped applying, or more likely, it’s because Harvard and Princeton brought back early action. (Business Week) Mayor Bloomberg already takes Spanish lessons, but this year he wants to try a new language: […]

Bwog saw you crying in the Lerner bathroom yesterday/subsequently eating your feelings at Cafe East—don’t worry, we promise we won’t blackout on you again any time soon. CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, thinks we shouldn’t, either. (Slate) If our overuse of the whole “blackout” pun wasn’t enough for you, check out the funniest tweets to […]