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Haven’t gotten paid? Bwog delves into the world of lost work-study checks patiently awaiting their owners. The University is (hopefully) the only employer you’ll have which will tell you to wait four to six weeks before they issue your first paycheck. And, as work-studiers can attest, this is hardly a given. You might get paid […]

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(Spec) Breaking News

We got a tip or two about disturbances at the 110th subway stop, but Spec has the full story about the super-violent (three stabbings, a caning) teen brawl that went down earlier tonight here.

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    New York is a city with lots of people and most of them walk on the street, and everybody needs food, so there are a lot of street carts selling food. Midtown has the award-winning German sausage cart named “Hallo Berlin”, Washington Square has the vegetarian-but-miraculously-still-tasty dosa cart, and East 116th has a great […]

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Over the summer, an anonymous tipster noticed that the Columbia homepage had added a “Giving” button. Poking around further,  the same source found the University’s gift guide, in which everything has a price. The Arts Initiative is looking for between $225-670,000 for a “unified University Box Office” in Lerner with online ticketing. Finally? Putting on […]

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GO GO GO

RUN NOW and maybe you can catch the last slice of CCSC-sponsored free Domino’s pizza in front of Alma. (They started distributing at 11 a.m.). UPDATE, 2:00 PM: The food’s gone, but circa six hours from now you can get MORE food at the same location from the College Republicans, who are holding a mixer […]

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QuickCollege

Spectator‘s still having technical difficulties (hooray for low-maintenance web design) so QuickSpec’s expanding its horizons.  Harvard undergrads face phone, pillow shortages  Yale Prez boycotts boycott of boycott (boycott boycott) Because it wouldn’t be Berkeley without people sitting in trees  Penn’s definition of radical amuses us Princeton: it’s still New Jersey Those lucky poor people! Cornell […]

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In front of Labyrinth: TA 1: The other TAs are unbelievable to me, because they all went to Harvard and, like… TA 1 and TA 2 (simultaneously): …remembered everything they learned! Somewhere:  Girl to her friend: “Yeah, Zeus is ALWAYS sluttin’ it up. He’s, like, the worst husband ever.” Friend: “My mom’s a psychiatrist. Family […]

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Fruit Paunch, Columbia’s oldest improv comedy group, is having auditions tonight in the Broadway SkyLounge at 8 pm. A few things: Fruit Paunch. Wouldn’t it be fun it it were called Fruit Pun-ch? Meta! And yet, not so! Wouldn’t it also be fun if an equally pun-loving (!) rival comedy troupe formed and called themselves […]

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Professor Sarah Phillips, in Politics of the American Environment, trying to prompt commentary on the painting at right, after cautious musings about “closing” and “movement”: “Does pink have a gendered element to it?” [silence]. “This is kind of awkward, but I think we need to see this as a virginal landscape.” Class squirms. Then she […]

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The second installment of Bwog correspondent Alex Weinberg’s exploration of the mental attack of 9-11 conspiracy theorists. On September 8th, I went to Ground Zero and met with a number of 9/11 conspiracy theorists. They were generally young, white, educated males who lived far away from New York City. They were all very polite, if […]

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Well well well

Look who else is getting a re-design!             Or rather, excuse me, a website. Not a re-design. Just an initial website. Because they never had one before (this didn’t really count). Because it’s 1999. Oh, no, no. That’s not right either, is it? Hm.

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Free TimesSelect is here with the wave of your Columbia/Barnard email address. And although you have to give your CU email to the Times, (and to all your professors and Michelle Diamond and Lee Bollinger and Austin [!] Quigley), that doesn’t mean you have to deal with CubMail, Columbia’s the homage to 2002’s latest technologies. […]

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High Maintenance

Bwog’s going back to bed. 

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Six Years Ago

According to the University’s Upcoming Events calendar, Columbia isn’t formally organizing any 9/11 memorial services or moments of silence. There is, however, this commemoration at the New York Historical Society, as well as events being held all day today at the park adjacent to Ground Zero.

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We’re not sure whether this Butler Lounge vandal has left us a bold political statement or a tasteless joke. What we’re sure of is that a small, mostly-desert country has nothin’ on a delicious falafel pocket…

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They prioritize transfer students in their first semesters for housing, but otherwise I don't know any transfers personally who live (read more)
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