Make this for your friends!

Thursdays and Sundays between 114th and 116th on Broadway the Greenmarket gives you reasons to leave your dorm. Every Thursday, Bwog tells you what those reasons are. Check out this week’s highlights:

• Giants? Patriots? We all know the Super Bowl is REALLY about the food (and maybe the commercials…). Stop by the market info table on Thursday and Sunday for a free Super Bowl recipe packet and get some ideas for a delicious and unique spread
• That lovely scent wafting into your room? Yeah, it’s not from your freshly-cleaned floor bathroom. Lavender By The Bay is back on Sundays! Pick up a bouquet to keep your room smelling heavenly
• On Thursday February 9th show your favorite farmer some pre-Valentine’s-Day love by stopping at Market Information to take a photo with a farmer or your loved one (or both!)

Feel free to use credit, debit, and EBT

Creation of the best soccer mom ever via Westword Magazine

Look at this guy

Down: Our favorite Phil says we’ve got more winter. Because it’s been so harsh so far. Cute hats, guys. (USA Today)

Up: Columbia is picking local construction firms run by minorities and women for the Manhattanville campus project. (DNAinfo)

Down: Ajay Kumar Mangal, CC’10 Teach for America member and former John Jay RA, was arrested for an improper relationship with a 16-year-old student. (Columbia College Today, Houston Chronicle)

Up: Timothy Donnelly, teacher at the School of the Arts, received this year’s $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. (Washington Post)

Up?: Facebook filed for a $5 billion IPO. Bwog isn’t entirely sure what this means, but it’s a BFD. (CNN Money)

Large rodent via Wikimedia Commons.

Get cultured.

Your goal for the semester was to really get out there and explore more of New York City. Well, now those readings have kicked in and you’ve got a little less time to spare. That doesn’t mean you can’t take a look at our second installment of Where Art Thou, a listing of enthralling arts events that will take you on and around campus, and are sure to entertain. If you would like to see your cultural event here, please let us know about it at events@bwog.com.

Thursday

Ethnographic Exhibitionism, 6 pm in 930 Schermerhorn.
A talk with Alys George of NYU, focusing on performance culture, body history, and dance: The Body as Spectacle and Science in Vienna 1900. Free.

Bach and the Romantics, 8 pm in Miller Theatre.
Best known for her inspired recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Brooklyn-based pianist Simone Dinnerstein offers selections from her forthcoming CD in this first solo recital at Miller, again breathing fresh air into the music of Bach. Tickets $7 from the TIC, more details.

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Update, 9:30 pm: That’s not actually the theme, Dan was joking after all…

According to Bacchanal president Dan Weinstein‘s Twitter, this year’s theme will be Barkanal. When asked if he was kidding, he returned, “Not at all.”

Let’s not let our hopes get too high… Ugh.

Illustration by Maddy Kloss

You’ve already read everything on Bwog and you still have an entire problem set to finish. Don’t worry, we’ve got an article from The Columbia Political Review to get your mind off those Finite State Machines, or whatever. Here’s another addition to BwogSalon, our feature where we showcase fine works from other recent campus writings. If you’d like your publication to be considered for this feature, tell us!

Name of Publication: Columbia Political Review

Edition: December 2011, Volume XI, No. 2 (Read the full issue.)

Description: The Columbia Political Review is the magazine of the Columbia Political Union, a multi-partisan, undergraduate student organization seeking to enhance involvement in the political process and to foster political discourse.

Selected Article: A little bit about Matt Getz’s article on the Chilean youth movement and an excerpt:
In the past seven months, a well-coordinated student protest movement has rocked Chile to its core. Sometimes whimsical, other times violent, these protests—the most sustained mobilization since the advent of democracy—have captured the hearts and minds of most Chilean citizens…

The movement, often called the Chilean Winter, has found an ideological home among the indignados: its attempt to recast national issues in the light of development and equality has won it many global allies. In Latin America, education protests have popped up in Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina. The UK, Italy, France, and Spain have also seen student mobilization.

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Object May Appear Closer Than It Is

Make your way over to Earl Hall between 6-8 PM to snag some delicious free food, vegetarian options and desserts included. There’ll be some live music in the lobby in the spirit of Community Impact’s big spring semester volunteer recruitment event. Community Impact is partnering with the University Chaplain for a joint Open House to teach you about how to get involved with service groups and, of course, to feed you.

Temptation via Wikimedia Commons

This February 1st feels an awful lot like springtime and we ain’t protesting (for once). We hope you got to enjoy this weather today – only Punxsutawney Phil knows if it will last.

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Beautiful panorama shot by Andrew Goldin

Meanwhile, you may have gotten a kind, personalized email from Columbia Housing. In case you skipped this one, we give you a brief abstract:

Hotter than usual in winter. Can’t turn off heat or turn on AC. It will be hotter than usual inside, not just outside. Deal with it. Why did we send this email?

Open your windows, kiddos.

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Do your part!

Last night at 6 PM, Concerned Global Citizen Alison Herman made her way over to Room 501 in the IAB to listen to the SIPA sponsored UN Studies Panel, “The Security Council and its Human Rights Agenda: Children and Armed Conflict; New Tools to Fight Impunity.” 

Tuesday night’s panel began on a somber note with a screening of “Ana’s Playground,” a 2009 short film by Eric D. Howell. Howell shows a group of children playing soccer amid the shrapnel and burnt-out cars of what is clearly a war zone. When the children’s ball is kicked over a fence, the girl sent to retrieve it is immediately targeted by a sniper—revealed in the movie’s final moments to be a boy no more than twelve years old. In the film’s jarring conclusion, the sniper is in turn shot by the soccer players, who then receive a piece of candy from a stone-faced UN worker who does nothing to address the horrifying violence that surrounds him.

Whether or not such harsh criticism of the UN is warranted proved to be the central debate of Tuesday’s panel, moderated by Elisabeth Lindenmayer, director of SIPA’s United Nations Studies Program. Members of the panel hailed from virtually every area of international affairs: Ralf Schorrer currently serves as a political advisor to the German Ambassador to the UN; Jo Becker, who teaches at SIPA, works as Advocacy Director for the Children’s Rights Division of the NGO Human Rights Watch; Radhika Coomaraswamy serves as the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict at the UN; and Grace Alkallo, a former child soldier herself, is the founder of United Africans for Women and Children’s Rights.

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Think of all the cookies you could make!

Every two weeks, Bwog’s good friends at CUARTS tell you all the best deals you can grab with your CUID. What are you waiting for?

Best-sellers last week:

• Death of a Salesman
• StickFly
• BSO Presents The Count Down
• 2 Dollarama
• CUCSSA Lunar New Year’s Gala

Campus events on sale now:

• Columbia Queer Alliance presents First Friday: Gay it Loud, Gay it Proud: Feb 3rd at 11:00 pm, Lerner Hall Party Space, first 50 tickets free, $3 after that
• Asian American Alliance presents cultureSHOCK: Evolution: Feb 4th at 7:00 pm, Roone Alredge, $10
• Athena Film Festival: February 10th to 12th, $30 for all-access passes, $7 for individual movies. See here for more details.
• Barnard College Department of Theatre presents The Egg Layers: March 1st and 2nd at 8:00 pm, March 3rd at 2:00 pm and 8:00pm in the Diana Black Box, $5

Off-campus events on sale now:

• Carmina Burana Choral Project, February 5th at 3:00 pm, Carnegie Hall, $14.50
• Stick Fly, February 28th at 7:00 pm, Cort Theater, $36
• NY Philharmonic: Pictures at an Exhibition, February 28th at 9:00 pm, Avery Fisher Hall, $28.50

Yeah, that’s right. Superhuman Happiness.

If you’re interested in a bit of what NPR calls “the whimsy of Talking Heads’ ‘Once in a Lifetime’” with a bit of “Phish-like laid-back vocal attitude and the joyful funk of James Brown” come over to the Lerner Piano Lounge from 12-1 PM for some sweet jams from the group Superhuman Happiness and a free lunch of Indian food.

On the menu:

- Naan Bread
- Tomato Rice
- Chicken Tikka Masala
- Spicy Squash & Eggplant Lentil Stew
- Chickpea Salad
- Mango Lassi
- Arnold Palmers

The Same Thing We Do Every Night

SEAS puts New York in check, when it comes to how green it is. (NYT)

The mystery over the Westside cheese labels, and all the existential crises it’s inspired, is solved. (Gothamist)

We already figured out how to not be that guy. Now people are learning how to avoid it on Twitter. (The Atlantic)

The Economist finally figures out how Columbians got so fly with our cray cray abbrevs.(The Economist)

Totes Casual via StyleSouffle

Due to a fire alarm, River has been evacuated. Overheard from one of the tens of residents milling around aimlessly outside, “My room smelled like a scone…is that a bad thing?”