You think you're suffering? Well quit your emo whining, already

Triple threat: borough, borough, borough!

Why being an Iranian in America can give you a political headache

Promised Land unpromised to Ethiopian Jews?

Book review: the journey from the far left to the Religious Right

Free speech or not?

Why Havel might be like hearing your favorite love song, or, er, better

You won't find any Maus in this exhibit

Remember reading Animorphs books under the covers until you were almost in high school and loving them? You weren't alone.

Chevron, Columbia, and the power of dissent all in one editorial

On Thursday, Harvard released its 50-year plan for expansion in the Allston neighbourhood (think Manhattanville, except 341 acres instead of 17, Boston instead of New York, and more parking lots than people). It's long, like 72 pages (even Penn kept theirs to 32!), and Bwog didn't read the whole thing, but if we were Harvard alums with lots and lots of money, we'd probably give serious thought to sending it Allston's way.

Why? They've got everything planned out to the last street sign, and want all their buildings to be built to LEEDs Gold standard (Columbia hasn't committed to any LEEDs certifications), and think they can generate 15-20 startup businesses per year. Although it also helps to have about $25 billion on hand to make sure the thing gets finished. But really, we don't know, because all we can find is pro-Harvard propaganda (OK, and the Crimson). They're at a ten-year disadvantage, but maybe the folks up in Low should be taking lessons from their homies in Cambridge anyway.

Also! We knew Barack hated Columbia, but we didn't know he was such a buzzkill as well.

Also! Have you noticed that the Morton Williams receipts still have "Welcome to the Class of 2008" printed at the bottom? I mean, juniors are great, but '10 probably would appreciate the open arms a bit more...

Also! The Current wants YOU!

Finally! The Columbia University Model United Nations Conference and Exposition (a.k.a. CMUNCE, a.k.a. seamonkey) is underway, which means there are hordes of coiffed high schoolers running around. Be nice to them, maybe they'll give you food.

- LBD

'Tis the season for the arrival of the new issue of The Current, Columbia's "Journal of Contemporary Politics, Culture, and Jewish Affairs". The latest edition's cover is graced with a reminder of the brutal fisticuffs to which our fair university descended in the Spring of 1968, not to mention the horrible handlebar mustaches our predecessors donned at the time. But without further adieu, we here summarize and gently mock the contents of a noble publication, part of that great Leviathan, "old media", that nourisheth Bwog with life-giving content.

Presumptions shattered! Chinese and Jews enjoy a relationship beyond positive stereotypes, take-out

Columbia student, inspired by Jesus, swims to Croatia, worries she is overprivileged, returns to Bosnia

Disney and Steve Irwin team up to offer animals the "cool table in the cafeteria of evolution"

Scoreboard at Halftime: Random Hookups at Columbia: 23984798. Dates at Columbia: 38.

Boy Scouts might be bigots...or concerned citizens of humanity...but everyone agrees their uniforms suck