This maintenance van has been parked on College Walk intermittently for the past week. Go refurbish in Cambridge if their moldings are so nice, then.

Apparently the job opportunities Columbia hooks up don’t all involve $145,000, 80-hour work weeks, maybe some blow, and a fancy suit. The Center for Career Education’s temp work listserv has a listing offering a job with $80, 8 hours of work, maybe some dry ice, and, well, possibly still a suit.  It may not be […]

The system’s far more intriguing history is written on its walls, says Bwogger Armin Rosen. Tunnel graffiti is a running history of everyone who found their explorations momentous enough to permanently commemorate…. But there’s nothing boastful or egotistical about the hastily-scrawled notes found on practically every flat and indeed most of the cylindrical surfaces in […]

We don’t do it for the glory, but it is nice to get some recognition once in a while (even if it is from another blog). US News and World Report’s higher education page, The Paper Trail, is running a reader poll of the year’s campus news, and we’re up there for Best Alternative Media […]

Two bemused boys spotted standing outside of Butler, bugged eyes fixed on the burning flyer at right. One was wielding a cigarette. “Hey, it’s better than studying…”   Update 5:32 PM: Also, it seems that one of the glass doors to Carman has been smashed and covered with police tape. Calm down, guys–we’ve got a […]

Eash Cumarasamy discovered this thought-provoking juxtaposition of flyers on one of the pillars of Lerner Hall- “Intercultural Cook-Off” vs. “Obesity Panel: Is America Too Fat?” It reminded Bwog of a similar double-take it did earlier this year, when Toward Reconciliation, the conflict resolution group, posted a “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” flyer atop one asking “Want […]

Bwog tipster Casey Callendrello documents the presence of a broken down Hummer limo on campus today. A rap star, perhaps, calling on PrezBo? Or a 16th birthday party gone horribly wrong? Either way, bad form, chaps. What do you think this is, NYU?

Bwog, which rejects value judgments of all kinds, was nevertheless amused to catch sight of a man selling water for $1 in Union Square. Wearing a Columbia T-shirt. Don’t say Columbia Career Services never gave you anything…

While researching a linguistics paper on Artificial Intelligence, Bwog Correspondent Sara Maria Hasbun came across the websites for the winners of the Loebner Competition, a contest in which judges converse blindly with both humans and computer programs—the prize goes to the machine that bests simulates intelligent conversation. For her paper, Sara decided to try out […]

Self-proclaimed “loyal bwog reader” Xavier Estevez writes in about Freedom Writers, a movie being shot outside Barnard today. Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey has been spotted. Take a stroll around 117th, maybe you’ll bump into the film’s star, Hilary Swank.

Free dorm fridge (not a cube but the bigger one) spotted on the fourth floor landing of Nussbaum. Be a dear and email bwgossip if it gets picked up.

Leo Gertsenshteyn reports: A man in a banana costume just ran screaming through 209 Butler. Luckily, it has promptly returned to being an uneventful night of studying and NSA sex in the stacks. And overheard in Butler Cafe: Girl: Oh guess what! I’m soooo excited! I got my books on Mesopotamia today! Guy: Oh, cool. […]

Finals week, angry grad students, and vaguely racist comments do not a pretty picture make. According to an anonymous tipster, Russell BRickford, a TA for Barnard’s American Civilization Since the Civil War class, objected to a statement written by one student in the course’s final exam yesterday. And so e-mailed the entire class about it. […]

According to a sign in Bwog’s elevator, the going rate for Commencement tickets is $80. Or, at least, some poor fool thinks it’s $80. But before you fork over any cash to your orphaned classmates, you should check out this ticket exchange. Why buy the cow when the milk comes for free?