A faculty tipster informed a Bwog staffer that the new book for the second semester of Lit Hum is going to be Ovid’s Metamorphoses. (Ovid is not going to be taking the place of anything else, it’s just an addition.)  “They were also thinking about adding Kafka for irony’s sake but ended up not doing […]

 Plato is rooting for you! (and warns you that cheating is dumb)

The 2006-07 school year has contained multitudes. In fact, it may just be the most eventful year Columbia’s had since… well, the year before. Remember Matthew Fox? The Chung-Diamond “scandal”? “Don’t Be a Pussy”? “Epilogue to Our Crime & Punishment: A Petition“? Bwog certainly does, so step into the Wayback machine – you’re about to […]

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 […]

The New York Post, which was trolling around facebook and e-mail aliases for sources yesterday, fingered the assistant Comp Lit professor whom students accused of giving away answers, in characteristically rabid fashion.  Spectator confirmed and has an interesting story to go with it.  The Daily News gave it two inches.   Ivygate thought it was […]

Spec‘s reporting that freshmen will have the option to retake the lit hum exam or to receive a grade based on the rest of their work this semester. Apparently, it was all the professor’s fault… So the choice is obvious for most. But what about all those C students who have already jet off for […]

NOTICE, Tuesday 4:20 PM:  As noted in a previous post, comments with full names will be deleted at the request of the target. UPDATE: Here’s some Spec coverage to tide you over. UPDATE 5:29PM: A new email has been released by the Core Office: We have confirmed that there was a significant misjudgment on the […]

You probably didn’t hear it here first: the freshman class, according to numerous sources, is buzzing with the knowledge that content from the Lit Hum final was leaked to at least one class prior to the exam. Details are shady, but first-years tell of widespread indignation when the exam let out at 3:30 on Friday […]

CTV’s got Core review sessions for Lit Hum (with Mark Cohen) and Frontiers (with Darcy Kelley), with Music Hum to come tomorrow at 6PM on Channel 37! Also having to do with recorded stuff, except things that you actually want to listen to, Spec has a web-only story about the RIAA’s latest shenanigans: they’ve thrown […]

Now that midterm season is fully underway, Bwog hopes that the eager young flock comprising the Class of 2010 has managed to masterfully memorize the Medea and can hopefully hum the whole Histories of Herodotus. What, you freshmen were expecting some kind of QuiCore? We couldn’t just strip away SparkNotes’ raison d’être- or deprive you […]

More stuff you shouldn’t have saved on public computers.   But if God is omnipotent, why does he care? As we see in Exodus 20:5, God declares that he is a “jealous God”. Could this be true? Is this why the Jews received a grand total of 613 commandments—to keep them in check?   Also, […]

As always, Bwog feels compelled to do its part in propagating the scandalous rumor of the week. According to IvyLeak, everyone’s favorite director of racialized films, Spike Lee, is taking a humanities class at Columbia. The grapevine reports he’s in Hamilton from 6:10-8:00 Tuesdays and Thursdays. Bwog assumes he’s taking lit hum, brushing up on […]

Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Vaclav Havel: Which one of these things is not like the other? New football coach offers idealistic promises that won’t pan out; will be followed by a return to normalcy Professors must find a new forum for controversial, condescendingly-expressed opinions For those of you who aren’t fine with a […]

So have you finished those first six books yet? No? Bwog’s resident epic poetess Anna Corke gives you the quick and dirty version. Now don’t say we never gave you anything. Book I: In Which Our Hero Loses His Woman, Cries to Mommy, Rages. Book II: In Which Zeus Lies; Agamemnon Tries to Chicken Out […]

If they haven’t already, Generation ’10 will soon recieve a slick new copy of the Iliad, courtesy of some alumni class from the last fifty years. Unless they decide to buck tradition, its cover will feature a lovely classical painting now hanging in L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Slate, however, has proposed the alternative […]