Scale of one to ten, how much did you hate the HIMYM finale? (Vulture) Palestine’s finna get shit done. (NY Times) They are literally selling air. You can drop out now; you have nothing left to learn from this world. (Salon) Wait, this is actually hilarious: reverends have brackets, too, except for saints instead of […]

Hundreds of posts appeared today on Columbia’s Facebook page an unofficial Facebook page for Columbia University unaffiliated with the university declaring support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the Washington Post reports. The furor is apparently a backlash against a Wall Street Journal story that ran this morning, quoting Columbia prof Hamid Dabashi: “This whole […]

Over the last few weeks, your correspondent has received a total of seven automatic reminders to fill out course evaluations (i.e. spam) and three personal emails from professors requesting that their evaluations be completed. And they are pretty important—filling out course evaluations lets professors know what works and what doesn’t in their classes. Unfortunately, course […]

More suspicious packages. (Gothamist) Another Staten Island Ferry crash. (City Room) Emma Watson likes Brown. (Vanity Fair) Oh, and don’t respond to that phishing email everyone’s getting from the “COLUMBIA Webmail Maintenance Unit”.

At around noon today, an e-mail was sent out to Columbia undergrads informing them that they had not been chosen to attend Prezbo’s Fireside Chat. Regardless of having submitted their names to the lottery, those who received the notice were politely informed that they would not be able to attend. Bwog can only conclude that […]

Besides all of your wonderful tips, the bwgossip alias gets plenty of spam. Bwog staffer David Iscoe decided to respond to a few, as various permutations of himself. Inexplicably, he didn’t hear back. R obt Herman <ilnggob@caseyfamilyservices.org>  Date Sep 11, 2007 8:04 PM chiropractors mailing list For the week ending Sep 14, you will receive […]

Since Bwog has been designated as the unofficial Zvi-mail chronicler, here’s another gem from our outgoing buddy at SEAS. Hi All In the first day of teaching evaluations we already have over 22%. Since we have about 10 days to do it, I expect to have participation be well over 200%. So please do it […]

The Bwog is pissed at whoever this loser is trying to get naked pictures of Columbia girls over AIM. Mostly because the Bwog really does have a naked picture photo assignment due, and now nobody believes us. We know you do, though. Just send those pictures on in to bwgossip@columbia.edu and we’ll make sure they […]

From a senior class e-mail: SENIOR FUND First, for those of you who have graciously given to the Senior Fund thanks so much for your help. Your donation is helping Columbia to keep its high levels of academic rigor, maintain our diverse club interests and eradicate financial aid! [italics added] Um? Bwog just paid somebody […]

An anonymous tipster reports an equally anonymous Columbia student who is using Facebook profiles to find girls’ screen names. Once he finds an appropriate screen name, the aforementioned student logs on under a false screen name—OneSweeetgurlie—and pretends to be a dear friend from home, all in an attempt to get a picture. Transcript of an […]

For those not fortunate enough to be on the SEAS mailing list, Dean Zvi “Spam Robot” Galil sent this to the entire engineering school late last night: Hi All, I thought you would like to know that early wednesday morning, shortly after 1AM the time and date at that very second will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06 […]

Bwog was idling around, and then it received this email from the Columbia Musical Theater Society: CMTS Presents Andrew Lippa’s THE WILD PARTY Roone Arledge Auditorium March 23 – 11 pm March 24 – 8 pm March 25 – 7 & 11pm $5 CUID / $8 GA For ticket reservations, please email cu.wildparty@gmail.com Please be […]

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 […]

From the CU Snacks midterm mass email: Take a study break and relax with a pint of your favorite Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. A pint of Cherry Garcia contains only 22 grams of Saturated Fat. (That’s 110% of your Recommended Daily Allowance.) At least you get 4% of your Vitamin A. CU Snacks to […]

March is almost here and the theses have begun their looming. Blythe Sheldon forwarded us the following email from an anonymous anthopology student. While the fetishization of childhood books is never a great idea, they’ve still got a clever idea. in other news, i’m naming my thesis. so that my away messages will sound better: […]