Spotted at Duane Reade. But can it rival our own?

The closest you can get to spending Flex on beer

The march of scholarships continues. Three Columbia students have received prestigious Goldwater Scholarships, which are awarded yearly to approximately 300 college sophomores and juniors who are seeking a Ph.D in science and/or mathematics. This year’s recepients are Alex Perry CC ’11, Noam Prywes CC ’10, and Arianne Richard CC ’10.

Each university is only allowed to nominate four students, and this is the first time in six years that Columbia has had three of its nominees selected. Perry is pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics, Prywes in chemistry, and Richard in biochemistry. Congratulations to them!

If your learning style is more graphs than paragraphs, Bwog daily editor Jon Hill has created a highly scientific chart of the decline of Ivy endowments.

As you can see, the true cause of our nation’s problems was the pernicious combination of bad Eddie Murphy movies and poorly designed ketchup bottles. Damn you, Heinz.

 

Morningside Heights < pretty much everywhere else

 Lots of candidates for USenate – all of them except for one = Billy Freeland

 Sometimes, grad students > real professors, and PrezBo needs to know about it!

Photographer Leonid Lubianitsky + the Harriman Institute = the meaning of life

Get out your calculators for this doozy: politics = “a cockroach”, “the costume in which fear disguises itself”, an interest in politics = a “neurosis”

As the NROTC results are being discussed and debated, it’s likely that the term margin of error is going to get thrown around. So, what is the margin of error? According to Jon Hill, Bwog’s Nate Silver Correspondent of Mathematical Wizardry, there is none. Here’s why:

Votes counted: 2,971

Undergraduate enrollment (2007 [2008 figure was unavailable]): 7,411

At a 95 percent confidence level:

= [1.96 * ((0.5)/sqrt(2971))] = 1.80 percentage points



With finite population correction:

= sqrt[(7411-2971)/(7411-1)] * 1.80 = 1.39 percentage points

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Bwog photojournalist Anish Bramhandkar sent in this photo, showing that the lovely curved stone bench in front of Mathematics has been replaced by hedges as part of a post-election redecoration project.

Bwog continues its tour of Butler alternatives today with an excursion to the Math and Science Library.

Everyone knows that Avery is the Paul McCartney to Butler’s John Lennon: the second-most-famous one, the arguably better looking (or more aesthetically pleasing) one. Avery is gorgeous, it’s close, it’s quiet, there’s Brownies in the basement, there are scores of attractive Italian people sitting outside smoking clove cigarettes, you get the picture. The Math and Science Library, visible if one squints from a cushy seat in Avery, separated only by Uris and the B-schoolers who hate us, is a far cry from Avery’s glitz and glamor. The Math Lawn and Mathematics itself are both generally acknowledged to be lovely spaces, but, at least at first view, the Library on the 3rd floor of Math doesn’t quite match the building’s external glory.

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Bwog will admit to a slight fascination with the Society of Automotive Engineers. We’ve swooned over their homemade car, we’ve felt their pain as their ABC allocation shrunk, and today, we shared in their elation when tipster Jonathan Battat informed us that SAE placed 67th (the team’s highest ranking to date) at the Formula SAE competition in Michigan. 2008′s FSAE was also the first in which the CU team completed every event. 

Pictures from the event are available here, here, and here. Congrats, engineers! 

Licensed music and university lectures!

 CC and GS…

CCSC and overblown controversy.

University Writing essay and travel photography!

Columbia and losing…again….