Free food always makes things better! Be sure to go to the Lerner Ramps from 3 to 5pm for free ice cream from ΛΦΕ. They promise “FREE MONSTER” as well, and we’re hoping they mean the energy drink. Also on the Ramps til 4pm today are Students For Education Reform, promising free food too… double […]

Columbia College sophomores, think of the hours you’ve spent teasing out subtitles of Nietzsche’s will to power and Freud’s Oedipal complex. Now think about fried chicken. Yeah, we don’t really get the connection either, but, in a daring thematic maneuver, your class reps will be offering free KFC fried chicken, buiscuits and Mac ‘n’ Cheese, CC study guides, and […]

What’s that? “There’s no better way to spend a stressful pre-exam-week Sunday than with a block party,” you say? You’re in luck. Chicano Caucus and Grupo Quisqueyano will be holding a Latino Block Party on Lehman Lawn from 2 to 7 pm. There will be free food and performances all day–featuring Mariachi performers, Ballet Folklorico […]

Remember the dude who told us some cool stuff about dreams last year? Well, the illustrious Dr. Mark Solms hath returned! Scurry over to Satow Room at noon to nosh on free bagels and drinks while Dr. Solms presents a case of Korsakoff’s syndrome, also known as confabulatory amnesia. Bwog doesn’t really know what either of these […]

Snoop Dogg has said, “When I’m not longer rappin’, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.” But CCSC isn’t willing to wait that long. Instead, they’re out on Vam Am Quad right now until 8 pm, handing out free ice cream, funnel cake, and the last of the […]

ESC invites the mathematically-inclined folk to enjoy some free food from 11:30 am til’ 2 pm today in Lerner Piano Lounge (no word on whether or not it’s strictly SEAS-only). The event, a celebration of SEAS-pride, boasts Mel’s Burgers, cupcakes, T-Shirts, and water bottles. And probably also a handful of R.I.P. Gateway jokes.     […]

McAC will be serving up free sno cones on Lehman Walk from 4-6 pm! If it rains, the event will be moved to the Diana. That’s kind of funny, because if it rains then there is no point to sno cones! Fruit punch via Wikimedia Commons

Tonight at 7:30 pm the Columbia University Film Festival will hold a free outdoor screening on the steps of Low. For all you hungry cinephiles, there will be free popcorn, too. The screening will include picks from years past, and you know that’s cool because, “Every single year, some of the short films featured in […]

The opening reception for Search Settings is today from 3-4 pm in the Leroy Neiman Gallery on the ground level of Dodge Hall. Come by for free wine and cookies, not to mention some fine undergraduate artwork. Greenish blob via Wikimedia Commons  

Over the weekend we donned our masks in New Orleans and got folked up in Nashville. Sadly, it’s time to get back to work. The Great American Roadtrip will come to its final stop tonight in Washington DC (the Wien Lounge, mysteriously fitting). Stop by the College Days closing ceremony from 5 to 6 pm to […]

The taste of free food, the sight of student artwork, the sounds of music from iPod speakers, the smell of Lerner, and a touch of class. CU Exposure is giving away free food on the second floor of Lerner now until 1 pm. Artwork by Columbia students is on display. Go appreciate your fellow students […]

Suspend some disbelief, escape from work and continue on the great American Road Trip with College Days today before scrounging back to the library. Head over to Nashville (Revson Plaza by EC) for a BBQ folk fest with a live performance by Sam Reider and the Lost Boys, tasty BBQ buffet and t-shirts between 2 and 4 […]

Le Bal Masquerade de College Days is tonight, and though Bwog’s inner francophile cringes at the butchered French of its title, it actually sounds like a pretty good time. Hosted by CCSC in Roone Arledge Auditorium from 9 pm to 1 am (Woo, partying past midnight—we really are in college!), this bal masqué marks the […]

Most people like to eat. Most people do not like to spend money, hence our free food tips. A great lover of free food has been revealed to us and now reports regularly on the quality, quantity, and pizazz of free food events around campus. Read on as The Scrounger goes green at the Ecopalooza. […]

Sometimes, the email (with a few friendly edits) pretty much says it all: Folksters young and old, fat and slim, tall and short, hobos and tramps, musically inclined and tone deaf alike!!!!!!! FOLK FEST IS TODAY from 4-9 pm!!! Come to Wien Courtyard to hear TEN freakin’ mind-blowing performances by some of our very most […]