As seen on McBain 3: Photo by Grant D’Avino

The Core, it has been said, is good for cocktail party chatter and not much else. You’ll be able to schmooze with people about Woolfe and iambic pentameter, yadda yadda. This post supplements the rather specific knowledge Columbia bestows on you (hey, no snark alert: we kind of love the Core) with some genuinely useless […]

Bwog is a champion of the people. We save cats from trees, we give you free food, we defend the lowliest, saddest, most seemingly indefensible parts of our fair campus. We’ve tackled Wien, Famiglias, and the Freshman Fifteen. Just when you thought we couldn’t get any crazier, we tricked you and got crazier! Today, as […]

At around 2 AM, McBain was evacuated due to a fire that appears to have started in the room directly above Milano (or in Deluxe?  Bwog is getting conflicting reports) on the second floor. started when the rain shorted out the Deluxe sign, setting fire to the canopy above it (updated 2:40 a.m.). A McBain […]

A 100% anonymous, gets-stuff-in-discreet-brown-packaging tipster informed us about this little series on erectile dysfunction found on a McBain bulletin board. No word on why the RA chose such a topic, but, hey, the more you know…

For those of you staying in East Campus or McBain over break, Columbia University Facilities will be using the time to fix your residence. In McBain, elevator repairs will mean that both elevators will be out on Monday, December 29th. In EC, the story’s slightly less chipper, and quite a bit longer. Facilites “has identified […]

If you recall, a while ago Bwog tried it’s hand at Craigslist’s Missed Connections for Columbia students.  While the primary object of longing was Hawkmadinejad, the rest of the student body was not impressed.  However, a tipster showed us that Craigslist had a few Columbia-related connections, just waiting to be brought together.  Bwog, in a […]

Eyewitnesses have informed Bwog that there’s currently a Waterfall Situation on McBain 5. Apparently, a pipe has burst in the building and the water is streaming through the ceiling. But at least there is Community Building! Look at these smiling students in their Columbia apparel! Truly a moment for the University brochure.  

Oh hooray, it’s time for a Homemade Ice Cream Sandwich Study Break, courtesy of Students For Substance Free Space. It’s happening now until 8 PM in the first floor suite of McBain. There will also be free t-shirts, in case you stain the one you were wearing with a delicious homemade ice cream sandwich.

Bwogger Sara Vogel points us in the direction of the Housing website, where there is a list of all summer dorm renovations. “We cannot guarantee projects or timing,” it warns. Anyway, we are excited! Three lucky apartments in Woodbridge (right) are getting an environmentally-conscious makeover, complete with Energy Star appliances and lighting and Forest Stewardship […]

Can’t you just drink beforehand, THEN sit on Low Steps? It’s the same basic result. Anticipating getting “shafted” by McBain… …Yet despair not! A SIPA Conference on Africa – can’t think of a joke to put here And, from the annals of history, the Michigan Daily presents: Chill Bollinger. “I sat on Lee Bollinger’s bed […]

Nothing like the election holiday to get us talking about Jesus. In McBain, Josh shares this tip: Two security guards are talking at the swipe-in desk when I walk in. Guard 1: Yeah, that’s true. Guard 2: (In a very matter-of-fact tone). You can’t trust a man with a knife in one hand, a smile […]

In an email sent this evening, LLC director Scott Helfrich warns the student body to be on the lookout for a shady character who has been terrorizing a certain floor of McBain as of late. Helfrich included two photos and an account of the man’s actions as described by Public Safety, which reads as follows: […]

In which Bwog correspondant Taylor Walsh lets you in on the drama that is the class of ’08’s respresentative body. The story of the ’08 class council is one of the more bizarre in recent CCSC lore, so last night’s debate promised to be an interesting one. And despite a slow start, it did not […]