Cozy up with Bwoglines as you relish Columbia’s building heaters on this chilly Saturday morning. 

Happening in the World: Protests in Bolivia continue on, but police are now joining in. President Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, has been suspected of fixing last month’s election to his advantage. He denies these allegations, but the protests persist amid political tension. (BBC)

Happening in the US: Sandra the orangutan is now legally defined as having “personhood” which grants her certain human rights, like better living conditions. She was previously kept in an Argentinian zoo, but since Judge Elena Liberatori decided that Sandra is a non-human person in 2015, the sweet orangutan has been transferred to her new home: the Center for Great Apes in central Florida. (NBC)

Happening in New York: Nearly 5000 New Yorkers went without heat during the recent cold spell, and the NYCHA website blamed “a broken water main in a boiler room for the disruption.” The outage occurred at the Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx, but heating issues have also been reported by the NYCHA in the Farragut Houses and Stuyvesant Gardens in Brooklyn and the Rangel Houses in Manhattan. (am NY)

Happening on Campus: If you’re down for a journey outside of Morningside Heights, show you Columbia pride at Baker Athletic Complex and watch the Ivy League Rugby Semifinal: Columbia vs. Brown. See you tonight, November 9th, at the Kraft Football Field at 7:30 pm! (Facebook)

Weekly Song Recommendation: When you’re feeling badass and powerful AF, but you are simultaneously feeling serene and at peace, you need to be listening to Sylvan Esso’s “Die Young.”

orangutan via Wikimedia Commons