After Barnard’s Convocation, the OLs and RAs of BC led the 11s in a sing-a-long tribute to the musical stylings of Rihanna: “When the sun shines we’ll shine together We will love Barnard forever Columbia will always be our friend Our partnership will go on till the end 2011 is better than ever All the […]

In hopes of catching you before you make that final trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond (or before you trash the packaging and receipts), Bwog asks upperclassmen which items were the most useless? The most underused? That Dust-Buster you’re going to use during downtime? The ironing board that totally fits between your bed and your […]

It seems that the Department of Student Affairs in conjunction with NSOP is holding UNDER1Roof sessions throughout the week. The purpose of these sessions is to: “[Start] the important process of translating [The Community Principles Initiative] into action.” Oh? “This session will provide the framework on how intergroup understanding and community building are achieved through […]

After the umpteenth hour of lawn manicuring and tent set-up, 2:30 today saw the culmination of parent-related move-in events, Convocation. There were flags, smiles, “Pomp and Circumstance”-lite music piped-in over the loudspeaker, and quasi-poignant speeches from admins all around. Flubs: Colombo called assembled matriculants “students and daughters,” Quigley was interrupted by a crash from the […]

Bwog’s resident concert expert Justin Goncalves answers all your questions about the best venues, where to go when you’ve had it up to here with indie rock, and that elusive Brooklynite Todd P. Do you like music? I like music. Do you know what the best thing about living in New York while someone else […]

Because Bwog knows you’re not really going to Tom’s with your OL group. (You know you don’t have to, right?) Here, several upperclassmen recall what they did on their first night of college. My best friend from high school arrived at NYU the day before and he had already made friends with Haley Joel Osment. […]

The songs that play on a loop during move-in always seem to set the tone for the rest of the semester. So far, we’ve heard this sequence: “Caught Up” – Usher, which transitioned to “Rehab”- Amy Winehouse, which was abruptly and awkwardly stopped during the “class…shot glass” line and changed to something by Frank Sinatra. […]

Free Culture at Columbia–the group that showed you how to hide from CUIT–is now handing out another 250 of its high-price-defying flash drives loaded with public domain versions of all the Lit Hum and CC texts.  You’re not going to miss this this one, 2011–thousands of dollars saved and a movement joined (although it’s up […]

Bwog was a little disturbed, upon walking up the 5th floor ramp to the Student Government Office (only to discover that NSOP has been granted the exclusive use of the space, forcing The Blue and White‘s layout operation to move downramp) to be confronted with several blown up portraits of student leaders from the class […]

Ready or not, 2011 arrives on campus THIS MONDAY. An anonymous photobwogger chronicles the fits and starts of Columbia before the Deluge.  COOP and CUE take off Thursday morning, and were recently spotted doing COOP and CUE things on the lawns, which involve shouting “ROAR!” in an ephemeral expression of spirit.

Tips are slower these days, but a critical mass has long since accumulated. Items of interest: NSOP has a theme! Not as graphically snazzy, but least they’re not hyperventilating like last year. Silly kids. Don’t they know that winners play basketball? This happened a while ago, but good news doesn’t get old. Cute!  71 indictments […]

For those of you who missed the dance at the Intrepid Museum because you weren’t OLs or freshman during last year’s NSOP event, and for those of you who need to walk down the memory lane of that night one last time, you should hurry up and go, because the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space […]

Huge stacks of Papa John’s pizza, soda, and candy right now on the 5th floor of Lerner! Nobody’s there, so come get it now!

NSOP Orientation Leaders received an e-mail this morning from a distressed committtee member regarding those colored shirts from Wednesday’s first-year battle. “I have a bit of bad news.  CUArts’ biggest donor was walking out of Low Wednesday night, after meeting with Mr. Jeff Sachs himself, and saw all the new students standing around Low plaza […]

Your decision on whether or not to stick around for the Concert on the Steps tomorrow  just got a little easier–our sources say that  the event will be headlined by The Hold Steady, a Brooklyn-based band whose members hail from Minnesota. And rock the geek chic. Openers will be leaked as information becomes available.