Girl 1: But I do want to go. Girl 2: You don’t have to put out, I swear. just go – Corner of 114th and Broadway  Overheard by Jessica Cohen Girl: So my dad is a law professor here, so my house is on Riverside. It’s really convenient. – CC Class Girl: No, daddy, come […]

Overheard on College Walk, late last night:  Guy: Well YOU go to Columbia! Shouldn’t YOU know where all the parties are? Girl: Yeah. But it’s just a shame you’re not here on Orgo Night. Guy: What is it? Wait- doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t want to go. Girl: (angrily) Well its not like you would have […]

Frontiers of Science lecturer Professor Darcy Kelley, on raising abandoned baby bats: “So I asked my friend how she carried her bats around, and she said she hung them from her bra: it’s warm, it’s wet…” Download the Frontiers podcast if you don’t believe us. Who says this class doesn’t teach first-years useful information?

UPDATE 01/03 at 6:00PM: Bwog regrets that it accidentally misquoted Professor Bulliet by confusing Muslim and Jewish regulations concerning pigs. The correction has been made, and we note that, as Prof. Bulliet put it, neither religion includes ritual pig-kissing. Professor, thank you for reading Bwog. We love you. His lectures might include elaborate graphs one […]

Bwog presents a couple of blind items for campaign season. Any guesses? WHICH Class Council member, running for re-election, admitted to a Bwog reporter at a mandatory candidates’ rules meeting that she was intoxicated? She spent the meeting text-messaging and gossipping about the uselessness of the meeting – and she seemed none too pleased with […]

Professor Peter DeMenocal, Frontiers lecture, Monday morning, in response to a student asking why dinosaurs survived in warmer temperatures but humans can’t: “That’s our world, like it or not. We’re not dinosaurs.” Spanish professor in Milbank, Monday afternoon: “Spanish is spoken in 19 countries… i mean, depending on whether there’s a revolution, right?” Thanks to […]

Steven Thomas stopped by today’s anti-Manhattanville rally, at which South Lawn was declared a blighted zone, and passed on this report: A woman declaring herself to be a long-time resident across the street from Columbia stepped up to the microphone, declaring, “What Columbia isn’t telling you is that they are going to build a Level […]

Two Bwoggers sent in this photo of the mysterious (and large) SOS in the South Lawn snow, taken earlier today from the 7th floor of Hamilton. What could have possibly caused someone to create the massive distress signal? Could it have been due to some late-night shipwreck, leaving the castaways no option but to carve […]

Blue and White Managing Editor James Williams submits this Overheard: “My parents think Flex is a New York State tax.” And with a new Democratic Governor, perhaps that “tax” can increase?

A few gems from the Columbia College Student Council meeting Sunday night. “The theme for Safer Sex Week… well, it has to do with hot dogs and tacos.” -Sophomore President George Krebs, announcing a planned Safer Sex Week study break. “We’re making Valentines for old lonely people.” -Junior President Neda Navab, showing compassion for the […]

Everybody is talking about animals now, according to three separate things that three separate people said. IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE THAT THREE OF ANYTHING MAKES A TREND! First, a pair of professors: “Sex with animals…it doesn’t seem like something we might do today. But in a rural world, it does happen!” – Professor Alfred MacAdam, […]

In the very public Cafe 212: Girl A: Can you even get a urinary tract infection from rough sex? Girl B: I think so, if you don’t clean yourself up afterward. And in Tasti D-Lite, dessert-prime time: Girl C:  (said with a certain amount of disgust) She’s going to an Ivy Singles Ball. Girl D: […]

For students, shopping period (though not christened as such) is a time for self-exploration, stress, and belly butterflies.  For professors, it’s a time to show off  remarkable wit and sometimes-sexy whimsicality. Prof. David McKenna in Auteur Studies: Clint Eastwood: “Don’t e-mail me.  I repeat, DON’T E-MAIL ME.  I have the Internet to follow San Antonio […]

Two female first-years were overheard bringing new meaning to “innocent until proven guilty” near the John Jay elevators: Girl 1: “My dad works with one of the Duke lacrosse players who got in trouble.” Girl 2: “Really? Which one?” Girl 1: “The really hot one.”

What would some good security guard gossip be without some good maintenance staff gossip? From Bwogger Chris Szabla… Girl on cell phone:“What should I say to her? What should I do? Did I do the right thing?” CU maintenance guy walking slightly behind her and muttering to himself: “What the hell? Fucking questions, questions, questions, […]