Find a fresh issue of The Blue and White around campus.  In this Blue Note, Michael Adame investigates the World Cup’s impact on campus life. When the United States exited the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament in the first round of the knockout stage, Columbia University economics professor and U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati […]

The September issue of The Blue and White can be found all around campus. You might not know the following figure—but you should. In Campus Characters, The Blue and White introduces you to a handful of Columbians who are up to interesting and extraordinary things and whose stories beg to be shared. If you’d like […]

The new issue of The Blue and White appears on campus this weekend.  Today, Hannah Lepow reviews the latest book by History Professor Eric Foner. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. October 4, 2010 / $29.95 Eric Foner, distinguished Civil War and Reconstruction historian, Dewitt […]

We stopped making out and she pulled the Chewbacca action figure out of my pants, putting it closer to her good eye.

While we wait for the latest issue of The Blue and White to come back from the printer, we’ll be posting most of the articles on Bwog.  Today, Liz Naiden visits New York’s forgotten beach town. The beach is not quite “beautiful.” The calming tide and unending shore of Rockaway may appeal to the cramped […]

[M]uch as with the escort or narcotics services advertised in stealth on the site, anonymous postings have just re-popularized ancient trades to a new market...we're no more devious now—just more efficient.

"As a student... I think you should be damned disheartened to see how much the university doesn't take into account the opinions of others."

The Orientation issue of The Blue and White will arrive on campus this week.  We’ll be posting the entire magazine on Bwog over the next two weeks.  Stay tuned! As hordes of students slouch toward campus reluctant to see the start of a new semester, The Blue & White salutes five of them who refused […]

From our Mapril issue of The Blue & White, Maddy Kloss charts a map of where to find Morningside Heights’ best-known fictional characters. Click to enlarge in a popup window.

A semester’s worth of overheards from the latest issue of The Blue & White! Prof. Paul Olsen, beginning his section of the Life Systems course: “Get out your clickers. It’s my first time, so be gentle. That didn’t exactly come out how I wanted.” ** Overheard in the Westside checkout line: Boy: “I feel like […]

"Chashama works to help reinvigorate areas that used to be art hubs for the average people, for the community."

These Professor Gchat statuses are fake, but The Blue and White wishes they were real. Peter Awn: worshipping the albino marsupial that lives in the basement of Low Library Jenny Davidson: a sabbatical combining the acoustical elegance of the aphorism with the force and utility of the load-bearing, tractional sentence of a more or less […]

Hannah Lepow reports on the world’s oldest Oral History library. Perched high up in the rafters of Butler Library, the Columbia Oral History Research Office is a resource known to few undergraduates but a Mecca for professional historians and writers. Along one wall runs a shelf of books by authors ranging from Robert Caro to […]

Michael Adame takes a ride in the Dental Van of  Upper Manhattan. When confronted earlier this year with new accusations of steroid use, Yankees powerhouse Alex Rodriguez kept his mouth shut—an ironic move for a man whose concern for open mouths all over New York led him to donate $250,000 last July to Columbia’s Community […]