To send in your photo contest entries to bwog@columbia.edu. Just letting you know.  

We spend an inordinate amount of time cruising Facebook albums. We know that there are a few talented photographers out there. And we sure as hell know how much you procrastinate (Bwog wouldn’t exist otherwise). Those realizations have combined to produce BWOG’S FIRST PHOTO CONTEST. Maybe it’ll become a weekly thing.  So, here’s the deal: […]

So, it took awhile, but unless you’ve been pent up inside during the last week and a half, spring is finally here! Finally, a time to break out of the boots and slide on those flip-flops, and hopefully some motivation to do your problem set outside in the sun, as opposed to drooling in your […]

66 degrees. Yeah, baby.

Continuing today’s snow sculpture-related coverage, and apropos to tonight’s J-School lecture on regime change, one of the once proudly (or panoptically!) upstanding snowmen on South Lawn appears to have capitulated, inspiring Bwog to cite Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and post this apt juxtaposition:   Meanwhile, this find on Hamilton Lawn indicates it may not have been quite the bloodless coup: […]

If you stayed uptown today, you missed the 2nd annual New York City Pillow Fight –organized by the public art group newmindspace, it attracted over three hundred pillow-wielding New Yorkers to Union Square at 2:00 to wail on complete strangers.  Many in the crowd wore colorful and attention-drawing outfits, including a banana suit and several […]

A political statement? A new age design? An inefficient way to store things on a square surface, with walls high enough that they don’t fall off? Stephen Thomas provides an investigative report of the strange object shown at right. So I was doing my normal engineer-y thing today, I noticed that there was a trashcan […]

“Money for Jobs and Education, Stop the War and Occupation!” “Cut the funding, stop the war! What the hell is Congress for?” Anti-war impatience reigned on Low Plaza this afternoon as a hundred-odd students, professors, union workers, and community members listened to a slew of speeches organized by the Columbia Coalition Against the War while […]

A sharp-eyed tipster noticed that the rouguishly grizzled visage of erstwhile Artist-in- Residence Vaclav Havel has a near double: that of billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian, a revolutionary in his own right. Meanwhile, our man Sunil appears to have put his foot in his mouth regarding footballer David Beckham’s move to the Los Angeles Galaxy. Bwog […]

Photos and commentary by Bwog Photographer Sumaiya Ahmed. This Autumn sort of passes at times without my notice. But one day, my CC class decides to savor global warming outside and I remember my camera. On my way to Arabic class in Kent, I want to take pictures, but I wonder maybe my camera shouldn’t […]

Photos and commentary by Bwog Photographer Sumaiya Ahmed.   I have been to the Borough Hall section of Brooklyn a few times. The Arabic quarters there are facinating. I never tire of Sahadi – it is sort of a legendary grocery – or the baklava from Damascus bakery. Is it the oldest Arabic bakery in […]

Resident photobwogger Sumaiya Ahmed snapped some photos of the mega construction efforts tearing up campus and disrupting summer pick-up soccer games. Thousands (or 1332 CC and SEAS) eager first-years arrive with parents and tuition dollars in just a week! Will Columbia Facilities make it in time? More photos after the jump…

Found in Pupin 222. Thanks to Bwog photographer Sumaiya Ahmed.

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…

It’s been a rough week in Butler Library. Many of you, despite the librarians’ poster campaign, have been living at your desks, hemmed in by stacks of books and empty Red Bull cans, sustained only by sesame mix and bad pastries from Blue Java. The garbage cans mount up to the ceiling, and your sweat […]