Tipster and video game enthusiast Nick Camp directs Bwog’s attention to the new Grand Theft Auto IV, specifically the Varsity Heights neighborhood of Liberty City. Buildings eerily similar to Low, Butler, and Hamilton are located just off Ivy Drive—there’s even a College Walk.  Bwog daily editor Paul Barndt pointed out that this homage to Alma […]

Bwog has just been alerted to some curious news.  It seems that the bastion of journalistic integrity that is the New York Sun ran a very informative piece about CU by a certain Columbia Alum and Republican District Leader Christopher Lanzillotti. According to this article, it was almost precisely two score years ago when a […]

In non-housing-selection related news, this week’s New Yorker has a piece by Jane Kramer (it’s not online, but you can read an excerpt here — and an interesting critique of the piece here) about Barnard anthropology professor Nadia Abu El-Haj. In truth, it’s something of a misrepresentation to say that the piece is about El-Haj, […]

The AP is reporting that a suspect, a 13-year-old boy, has been arrested regarding the death of Columbia grad student Minghui Yu. He is reportedly being charged with second-degree manslaughter, but his name has not been released. UPDATE (1:15 PM): According to The Daily News and Gothamist, the police now suspect that the boys who […]

WABC TV and multiple student tipsters inform us that a grad student [not GS as previously reported] fleeing muggers at 122nd Street and Broadway was hit by a car and taken to St. Luke’s with “severe head trauma.” More on this as we get more information. UPDATE (1:33 AM): Gothamist post reveals that the student […]

Several readers have tipped Bwog off that the cover story for this week’s New York Times Magazine discusses transgender students, and centers specifically around Rey, a transgender student who enrolled at Barnard last year. The article takes a look at the treatment of transgender students at different universities–for instance, Wesleyan uses gender-neutral pronouns like “ze” […]

Columbia students who stayed tuned after American Idol tonight were rewarded by this Fox 5 news teaser: “The cheating scandal at Columbia – the teacher at the center of the storm, and the tough choice students are being forced to make.” The Fox News affiliate ran a brief story, with both the usual (stock footage […]

Reflecting the noble efforts of its students, redefining the known world in experimental breakthroughs and subversive anthropology theses alike, Bwog has recently come upon a couple examples of Columbia’s own willingness to fight the dominant paradigm. Follow our earth-shattering eye to… The World of Pop Culture: According to Metro (New York’s #1 newspaper…in contributing to […]

Former student, University Professor, and provost Fritz Stern, 80, has just published a memoir called Five Germanys I Have Known, covered today in the Times Book Review. It’s a good review, and when we find the time we plan on reading (or at least skimming) the book. But we think everyone should take a look […]

In a school that boasts the country’s most prolific overachievers and urges cutthroat competition, it is easy to become jaded. Thank goodness small town papers exist to pat us on the back for a job well done. The Putnam County News and Recorder has recognized one of its proud residents, Terence Zaleski CC’07 for making […]

Prestige-obsessed Columbians should be pleased to hear that 3 2 3 of the 5 most influential “idea-makers” in New York (as ranked by New York Magazine) work at Columbia! Everyone else should at least get some morbid thrill to know that on said magazine’s list of the 5 most influential New Yorkers in education, our […]