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Bwog is gardening this summer
As we say a heartfelt farewell to the days of June, Bwog would like to take a moment to reminisce about the weird, the wild, and the wonderful events of this past month.
In case you have not left the Netflix cave you created for yourself in May, here’s what you may have missed:
- Columbia’s Board of Trustees announced that the school will divest from the private prison industry and will ban future investments in private prisons.
- Barnard became the most recent women’s college to admit trans women after the Board of Trustees approved a new admission policy.
- Vikas Arun (SEAS ’17) was on So You Think You Can Dance on Monday night as one of the top 36 stage dancers. (Facebook)
- Three Columbia Lions were picked in the MLB draft, the most players ever selected from CU in a single year. (Spectator)
- Song of Solomon will be one of the new additions to the 2015-2016 LitHum syllabus, marking the first time a living author will appear in the LitHum curriculum. Toni Morrison will also be the only author of color on the syllabus. (Columbia)
- A Columbia alum released an app called SayWhat that brands itself as a video version of Urban Dictionary. Maybe you can finally explain to your mom what “on fleek” means.
In addition to this smorgasbord of June news, we also bring you news of your fellow Columbians’ summer endeavors. From the brilliant to the banal, we present to you…June Field Notes!
- Learned how to do a dance from a sorority girl that incorporates the DG hand thing at a wedding.
- I’ve been trying out new lunch places in Philadelphia within walking distance of my internship location.
- Experimenting with reality TV in more ways than one.
- Inebriatedly got a tattoo of a square/rectangle/parallelogram at the esteemed institution “whatever tattoos.”
- Stuck in New Jersey. Send help.
- Performed Uptown Funk with a jazz band and yelled “Smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy” in a crowded club.
- Sitting in a rented house trying to ignore the framed cat picture that’s staring at me.
- Started working out everyday because I have no summer job. It’s kicking my ass.
- Reading a bunch of classics this summer to get more intelligent / pretentious for my sophomore year at Columbia University in the City of New York.
- Reading Infinite Jest. I think it should be required reading for every English speaker but I also kind of need a support group for Infinite Jest readers now.
- I have been reading through a lot of yelp reviews for piercing places lately and it’s got me scared like nothing else
BONUS: Bwog’s Summer Pastry Picks. Because why not.
- Almond cookie at By the Way on 90th and Broadway
- Homemade crème brûlée
- Cannoli from Termini Bros in Philly
- Cinnamon bun from the Cupboard Cafe in Maine
- Drinkable pastry: “Imperial Biscotti Break,” an imperial stout by Evil Twin Brewing
- This thing from this place
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@"Toni Morrison will also be the only author of color on the syllabus." This is a misleading characterization of much of the ancient literature in the Lit Hum syllabus. St. Augustine was North African, Homer was likely from Western Turkey. Implicitly casting the collective authorship as “white” caters more to racist 19/20th century European and American fantasies of exceptionalism than it does to critiques of the institution of a literary cannon in the first place. As the great Richard Sacks teaches, Lit Hum is as much about how to deal with the legacies of these texts in the present as it is to situate them in their proper historical and cultural contexts.
@Anonymous Typo: His name is Vikas Arun not Vikus
@www.stend1.com Cool! Write more information, please!
@alum wait so the metamorphoses was removed from the syllabus?
@Rachel Deal Yes, but Ovid’s Heroides was added. Here’s the updated syllabus: https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/sites/core/files/pages/2015-16%20LIT%20HUM%20SYLLABUS_1.pdf