Know how you haven’t left campus in a month? Think you’ll scream at the thought of eating one more meal in Ferris? Feel like you’re “wasting your potential” by not exploring the city? Never fear, The Blue and White has got you covered with our new column, the Travel Desk. To start things off, Senior Editor and […]

Ever wonder what those Facebook events you keep getting about “Veritas Forum” are? So did The Blue and White. They sent Editor-in-Chief Torsten Odland, CC ’15, to investigate. Pick up a copy of their glorious blue print on campus soon. I first encountered the Veritas Forum at Columbia during my freshman orientation in John Jay. While I was […]

Each issue of The Blue and White has three short pieces that depict some interesting tidbit of campus or New York life, in 300 words or less. This issue, Senior Editor Luca Marzorati, CC ’15, brings you the story of pirate radio in the city, contributor Nia Brown, CC ’17, presents the history of the Croton […]

From the latest issue of The Blue and White (check out their website, it has archives back through 2005!), Senior Editor and Bwog Features Editor Alexander Pines, CC ’16, investigates the history of “fun only” student spaces on campus, from Ferris Booth Hall to our beloved Lerner. Pick up a copy of the issue on […]

Ever honoring our amorous affair with our mother magazine, The Blue and White, we hereby present this month’s ATSL, in which Senior Editor Hallie Nell Swanson, CC ’16, and staff writer Virginia Fu, CC ’17, take on the issue of whether or not Lerner is, in fact, art. Look for the magazine to be on campus […]

Be sure to grab a copy of The Blue and White, on campus now. For this issue’s At Two Swords’ Length (ATSL), Editor-in-Chief Torsten Odland, CC ’15, and Senior Editor Luca Marzorati, CC ’15 may or may not be members of law enforcement.  Affirmative by Torsten Odland  You’re damn right I’m a cop! What makes you […]

Always honoring our mother magazine, The Blue and White, we present another preview from the February 2014 issue, on campus now. Staff Writer Michelle Cheripka, CC ’16, gives us this account of uptalk, or “the linguistic equivalent of passing a joint around.” “This might be stupid and I don’t know where I’m going with this yet, […]

Honoring our amorous affair with our mother magazine, The Blue and White, we hereby present an online-exclusive offering from the latest issue, on campus in beautiful blue print now. Staffer Katherine Whatley, BC ’17, gives us this insider’s take on Third Culture Kids (TCKs). On the first day of the New Student Orientation Program (NSOP), everyone […]

In which we present another preview from the upcoming edition of The Blue and White, coming to campus soon. Jen Sluka, CC ’17, brings us this report on Columbia’s investment into fossil fuels and the student groups working to divest. For other news on divestment, see here. Since Barnard Columbia Divest for Climate Justice (BCD) was […]

In which Bwog proudly presents a preview of the upcoming issue of The Blue and White–on campus next week. Jennifer Egan’s most recent novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a collection of 13 intertwined short stories dealing with time—the titular goon—music, and technology. The book won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, along […]

In light of President Obama’s new initiative to combat sexual assault on college campuses, we present a preview of the new issue of The Blue and White. The mag’s recently retired Managing Editor, Anna Bahr, BC ’14, spent four months reporting on and writing this series about sexual assault at Columbia. **TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL […]

We humbly pay tribute to our ancestral magazine The Blue and White with another excerpt from its December issue—on campus now!  Ross Perlin is an independent writer and linguist stuck in the ever-expanding no man’s land between academia, critical theory, and journalism. His first book, Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave […]

For their final issue of The Blue and White, editor in chief Conor Skelding, CC ’14, and managing editor Anna Bahr, BC ’14, duked it out over Who Knows What They’re Talking About in a favorite reoccurring feature of prose and cons, “At Two Swords’ Length“. You, dear readers, have the pleasure of being their judge […]

We are pleased to present another excerpt from the new issue of the only, the inimitable, monthly undergraduate magazine of this fine university: The Blue and White. In this piece, B&W contributor Luca Marzorati, CC ’15, describes his experience spending night after night at a midtown night court. He witnessed the arraignments of some regular NY criminal […]

In honor of our heritage/amorous affair with our mother magazine, Bwog offers a preview of the December issue of The Blue and White—which will be welcomed by campus next week. In this piece, contributor Channing Prend, CC ’17, takes a look at the post-baccalaureate students that are changing the chemistry of pre-med classes. Note that names have been shortened to […]