Dear readers, Time for round two! In response to feedback, we’ve melded the new site and the old, bringing back the three-column format as well as the classic Blue and White color scheme (speaking of which, the magazine’s site has been spiffed up too). New features like your best comments and the “about us” blurb […]

Dear readers,   OK. We hear you. This new site was an experiment, and it’s going to keep evolving. Meanwhile, here’s our logic: we designed for ease of use and a more streamlined look, making sure that important information and navigational tools were all up high and easy to find. Shifting all the permanent features […]

Columbia’s myriad of research institutes helped Bwog to realize that not only will studying PE or blebs in college prove fruitful some day, but that every research, however small, can be funded if need be. Even if you have to ask reactionary drug war people for the money. A few favorite centers: Center for the […]

Not only does Bwog read your papers and listen behind your back, we can also see how you find us! Below some of the best searches that resulted in someone clicking on the Bwog… Why does urine glow? Olsen twins vending machine: good places to get food if your a nyu student. Punjabi verb conjugations, […]

Dear readers, After eight months with the same front page, we’ve decided that it’s time for Bwog to update its look (check out a screenshot of our redesign here). The new interface will launch later this weekend, and you’ll notice some changes–we’ve kept all your favorite features, but tweaked the site a bit to make […]

Most Columbia students remember gym class as a pre-pubescent nightmare characterized by itchy uniforms, bloody noses, changing in public, and balls flying into their groins. Steve Silverman says it doesn’t have to be that way. Silverman runs the physical education program at Teacher’s College (making him a gym teacher who teaches gym teachers how to […]

Dear readers: In response to user feedback, Bwog has recently added an official Comment Policy as a permanent feature of the site. Comment thread discussions are part of what makes Bwog valuable and entertaining, and we want to make sure the chatter remains civil. We’d love to know your thoughts–feel free to weigh in 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 […]

Really. Last time Bwog posted gossip, a tipster’s professor singled him out in class; he was very flustered.  A stressed-out student declared, “This year I will either die or become a Campus Character.” Professor Eric Foner, commenting on how the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s U.S. citizenship test accepts two answers to the question of what […]

Today, Bwog returns to its habit of reprising the week’s best content, in case you missed it, or just needed to be reminded. Settling in: dorm personas, the room you wish you had Ch-ch-ch-changes: welcoming the (temporarily blinded) Eye, giving the B-School the business (but not our business), fighting the good fight (and winning!) Culled […]

It has concluded! Your formal introduction to Columbia, we mean. In the last week, we’ve tried to help you, entertain you, promote the good and distract you from the bad of NSOP.  A few highlights: Life on the floor – the psychology of Resident Advisors, your new best friends Life on the circuit – bar […]

Well, we were around all summer, but many of our tipsters were vacationing in exotic places while we jealously fumed at our office cubicles, idly surfing Gawker. Today marks the launch of Orientation Bwog – a surge of special Bwog coverage, compressed into ten days of “advice” you won’t hear from NSOP, CULPA, your OL, […]

Dear Readers, You may have noticed that posts have become less frequent and more remote of late. With only a few staff at and around Columbia, news and gossip is harder to come by. For the remaining months of the summer, Bwog will be in hibernation, rousing itself when it finds something too juicy to […]

Bwog has been engaging in some self reflection of late. It’s been an amazing semester, with some highlights you definitely saw, and others you may have missed. Huge shout outs to all our sharp-eyed tipsters, and the delinquents who don’t have anything better to do than contribute to absurdly long comment strings. You make us […]

This is the ninth post in the senior wisdom series. Read the rest here. Bethany Milton, C ’06 Claim to Fame: Bwog Co-Editor. Post-grad plans: European Politics and Society Program Assistant, Danish International Study Program, Copenhagen, Denmark. (It’s the secret English-language study abroad program everyone loves.) Preferred swim test stroke? The “Oh-let-me-just-make-sure-my-bikini- top-is-going-to-stay-on-before-I-jump- in-OH-MY-GOD-I- JUST-UNHOOKED-MY-BIKINI- […]