In CCSC’s weekly email to the Columbia College student body: ______________________________ ___________________ 1. FREE FOOD tonight 2. Dean’s Day Closing Reception 3. Run for Student Council 4. How do you feel about Coke? 5. CC/Lit Hum Graduate Student (Preceptor) Teaching Award 6. Columbia College Days is coming. . . 7. Housing Satisfaction Survey 8. Party […]

Bwog is proud to bring the third installment of “Lecture Hopping,” in which correspondents go to speeches, lectures, and public displays of erudition so you don’t have to. ID: The Politics of Intelligent Design February 27 Roone Arledge Cinema, Lerner Hall Few titles herald a more dismal evening than “The Politics of Intelligent Design,” a […]

Bwog reports! Someone decides! The Spec reported earlier today that Adam Goldberg, E’06, founder of Ye Olde Campus Network and former Engineering Student Council President, quit his position as ESC Director of Technology last night at an ominously named “constitutional review session which was closed to the press.” It was unclear why Goldberg resigned. Until […]

At 17 Lingxi Kong was named one of the Top 10 inventors in Wu Han province. By 20 he was in jail as a Chinese political prisoner. This week Lingxi talked with B&W staffer Brendan Ballou about classical history, the world’s fastest bicycle, and how President Bollinger won his freedom. You run a website, Pax […]

In a move that went entirely unnoticed this week except by the Splog and college freshmen, the Facebook let high schoolers and college students be friends. Lydia DePillis weighs in. In the beginning, there were two worlds. And then they were one, and the Lord rested. I hope. This whole high school kids on facebook […]

We all just got sold out to the man. As “‘required by U.S. law (Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141, 193, and 221),'” Columbia Housing and Dining has turned over the names and addresses of two dormfulls of students to the Census Bureau. Expect the men in black to come a’callin’ tomorrow. Fun fact: […]

Rumor has it that two CC sophomores, both gay, are getting married — or maybe, got married this past week (not quite sure which). The reason? Columbia offers better financial aid and free summer housing to married students. Looks like Facebook needs a new relationship category: marriage of convenience. — Donna Loffredo

While prettying herself up for her launch party this evening (AT MONA on Amsterdam b/t 108 & 109), the Bwog has been pondering her place in history, especially as it related to the rise and fall of Fascism, which, it turns out, Columbia is not so far removed from. Casa Totalitarina By Jacob Jacobsonian One […]

Etched into a John Jay dining tray: IRAQ WAR PROTESTORS ARE TRAYTORS – Marc Tracy

Residential Programs Associate Director Hikaru Kozuma during RA interviews: Guys, Doritoes are like orange crack, they are so addictive. Innocent RA: How do you know about crack? Ah, Columbia. Grooming the next generation of Washington D.C. mayors. – Nishant Dixit

Bwog has just received a tip from a reader that all prospective salad-eaters at Uris Dining Hall now must fill out a form to complete their order. Help us figure out what’s going on before it’s too late by sending your tips — pictures are appreciated! — to bwgossip@columbia.edu.

Last week, city health inspections revealed that Barnard and the Law School have no hygiene, fulfilling the dreams of cheap shot artists everywhere. But they weren’t the worst the neighborhood has seen; that honor went to campusfood.com staple Giovanni’s last November, which was awarded a whopping 58 points for mice, roaches, mold and insects. Closed […]

From Bored at Butler: So looking at a hot celebrity is emotional cheating? My gf and I love eachother, and the only emotions I feel when I look at an attractive girl are physical ones. The reason it’s not a problem is because we know that our relationship is so strong in every aspect, there […]

Bwog is proud to bring you gossip from abroad – because everything is funnier when it’s not American. While doing his time in the ‘Nam, your loyal correspondent noticed the following exchange gracing the guestbook in the museum at the former US marine base of Khe Sanh: Intruders are doomed to be kicked out, no […]

From an e-mail by Tim de Swardt, CC’ 08, president of the newly formed Scholars Governing Board, regarding the “non-official” reasons to apply for membership: NON-OFFICIAL REASONS: Let’s be honest, it’ll look good on your resume. Also, life is about who you know, not what you know. and if you join the SGB, I guarantee […]