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What WAS that last night?  Now you know.    Incidentally, Bwog loves videos. If you have original footage of Columbia life, send it on in.

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Quasi-frat ADP had their semi-exclusive Hot Jazz party cancelled last  year, so this year they’ve taken their operation where the long arm of the law can’t reach them: the high seas! Well, technically, the Hudson River is still under U.S. jurisdiction, but the booze cruise is outside of Public Safety’s range. Their boat is apparently […]

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QuickSpec

What the editorial board is thankful for: the chance to make a wise-ass prayer Sprayregen swaps out Greedy humanitarians require more money Rage against the machine not being more machine-like (and wasn’t it “sing”? maybe I remembered wrong) This article isn’t about JDate? Plus, from the archives: We hope she makes it another year…

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The day the strike ended, a motley group of students put together a list of questions for the strike team to answer. Avi Alpert, CC ’06, and Bryan Mercer, CC ’07, have now done so, posted below unedited by Bwog. Alpert, responding to questions posed earlier by Nina Bell, emphasizes that while he was not […]

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If you’ve got a question about Manhattanville, and you’re looking for an answer that won’t make Columbia look great, talk to Andrew Lyubarsky. The CC junior led the talks with Executive Vice President Maxine Griffith over six “points of compromise” on expansion that, in a Spec op-ed, he characterized as “completely unproductive.” Bwog sat down […]

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As campus is slowly emptying out for Thanksgiving, Penn Station and JFK are filling up. Bwog has asked some experienced travelers for advice on having a safe, cheap and relatively painless journey home. Bon voyage! How to decide upon the lesser of the three evils: train, bus or car? “I’m going to Western Massachusetts, and […]

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My life in La Serena

We brought you dispatches from Mongolia and Bolivia — now it’s back to South America, where a Bwog friend in Chile has some unvarnished tales of her time abroad.  I’m sitting in the bar I go to every Friday, sipping extremely cheap wine and chatting with a friend and some new acquaintances. The bar is […]

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Bwog wanted to know why winter break is an absurdly long (some might even argue unnecessarily long) 31 days this year. Bwog Webmaster and calendar analyst extraordinaire Zach van Schouwen points out several factors that contribute to augmentation of 2007’s Winter Break—which is a seven day increase from last year’s reasonably-sized 24 day break.   […]

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Technologically-advanced changes are afoot for CUID holders and their card-swiping security guards. A new scanning system, (in which instead of a swipe, the security guard “hovers” the ID over a card-reading machine) is already in place in many of the libraries, and heading to Butler imminently. John Jay residents also may have noticed the phasing-out […]

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About a Boycott

In which Bwog correspondent Alex Weinberg survives to tell the tale. A few weeks ago, I found a small postcard on 114th Street. It read “No Dew, Nor Rain / No Pain, No Gain: A Three Year Boycott of Harlem,” and it explained that the Honorable James David Manning PhD, head of ATLAH World Missionary […]

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In this headline, the word “better” has three t’s Food smuggling trade presumably unaffected Backstreet’s back (?)… alright.  NY Department of Education goes down a letter grade  Yale at “Tolerance Rally” stage, while noose fad just hitting midwest  Plus: Here’s what the Brits are hearing about Manhattanville  Coming up today on Bwog: Ask Bwog Holiday […]

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Homer Does Dresden

A review of yesterday’s performance of Book I of the Iliad. Because Bwogger Kurt Kanazawa apparently didn’t get enough Homer in Lit Hum. Yesterday in Low Library, The Aquila Theater Company, which was invited to Columbia by the Center for Core Curriculum and the CU Arts Initiative, presented a staged reading of the first book […]

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We know this because they have alerted Bwog of their “free organic Thanksgiving dinner,” and to the fact that they’re a “special interest community that actually does something besides give itself sweet housing.” Like feed you! So “stop by EC townhouse H604 at 8 pm for turkey, stuffing, potatoes, pie and all the other excellent Thanksgiving fare!” And do […]

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QuickFedjster

Because they’re sooooo similar, not in terms of theme and content mind you, but because we so love them both. Hugs all around. Firstly, Jester (with a cool new website!): “Constant, murderous raping” (page 8) Children: they’re not that special! (page 9) The most useful thing Jester has ever published (page 14) National stereotyping, with […]

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Or so fear the Columbians behind StudentsPrepAmerica, a new website aimed at preparing you for a plague of Seventh Seal-like proportions. Yet death won’t be privy to long, philosophical chess games on the beach this time around: according to the folks over at StudentsPrep (CC seniors Justin Kamen, Alex Diacou and Chris Baratta, for the […]

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