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Café Science solves Global Warming. Barnard plans new major. Pre-meds: crazier than engineers? Bob Dylan musical: worse than that Beach Boys thing EDITORIAL: Hey Everybody! I’m Liberal!

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Bwog isn’t one to make fun of typos — we thing we dont have the rite — (just search “Carmen,” as in, the way we’ve chosen to spell our most beloved first-year dorm, to the left). But these guys should be held to a higher standard. This typographical oopsie-daisy appears on the FAQ website of […]

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It’s registration week again, and for all the liberal arts majors looking for yet another substance-less “interesting”-sounding class to clear that 12-point “full time student” hurdle, or a weighed down science major seeking an escape, Bwog has done the favor of combing through the mammoth Directory of Classes- er, well, we only really cared about […]

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Choices, choices…

Eash Cumarasamy discovered this thought-provoking juxtaposition of flyers on one of the pillars of Lerner Hall- “Intercultural Cook-Off” vs. “Obesity Panel: Is America Too Fat?” It reminded Bwog of a similar double-take it did earlier this year, when Toward Reconciliation, the conflict resolution group, posted a “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” flyer atop one asking “Want […]

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Pushing the limits of human endurance, intrepid Bwog correspondents Emily Cheesman and Juli Weiner have embarked on a three day Tasti D. diet. The rules: liquids only (water, juice, coffee) besides Tasti, at least two Tasti “meals” per day, and all food must be consumed in the Tasti Lounge. Their first report follows. 12:42 pm: […]

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Will Sing for Money

The march of overachievers continues today as Bwog salutes Frances Jeffrey-Coker C’10. The frolicsome freshman apparently decided that CCE’s Wall Street connections didn’t go quite far enough, and has decided to enter “the ultimate internship contest”, offered by the promoters of Will Smith’s upcoming film, The Pursuit of Happyness [sic] for, among other things, a coveted Morgan […]

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Prince Prestige kisses Alma Mater, wakes her up from five-year sleep High schoolers reach for stars, and, uh, here Václav Havel “changes world,” fails to impress “jaded” sophomores “Molly said I was accepted to fill the need for a public school, non-LA, non-San Francisco lesbian. And I took it to heart, because I got a B- […]

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Week in Review

A relatively calm week in Morningside, as midterms faded from memory and New York no-contest elections provided little to get Bwog’s knickers in a knot. Even so, news happened! Here are the highlights. – CNN will bring you election polls, but Bwog will bring you election food, election fights, and how to do your civic […]

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CCSC Prez Seth Flaxman writes in to let us know there will be free edibles at the Columbia v. Duke basketball game viewing party tonight in the Lerner auditorium at 8 pm. There will also be free t-shirts and maybe some school spirit on hand. And if you have 2 IDs, there will be alcohol, […]

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On September 11 of this year, former Clinton administration official Nilda Mesa assumed a sizeable responsibility: the post of Environmental Stewardship Director, charged with making Columbia’s footprint a little bit smaller. Bwog caught up with Nilda in her airy fourth floor office, across a bowl of organic fruit. Bwog: You’ve been here two months. How’s […]

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Wha??

Eagle-eyed Bwog Editor Jessica Cohen noticed this interesting sign in Milano.  Nothing like “freshly killed turkey” to stir the appetite!  Thanks to Sumaiya Ahmed for the photo!

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Recapitulation of this weekend’s football success by CML: Thousands of fans from both Columbia and Cornell converged upon Baker Field today, each to witness firsthand the contest that would determine the best Ivy League football team in New York  – and whether Columbia, after two years, would finally notch a conference win.  The sun shone […]

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Introducing BwogSex

Welcome to the first installment of BwogSex, a weekly column to answer all the questions you’re afraid to ask in polite conversation. Got issues? Post them as a comment on this anonymous thread, and we’ll pose them to the Bwog Sex Committee. Kinkier the better! Q: “Help!  Almost every night my male neighbor insists on […]

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In their last time formally together until graduation 2009, sophomores were treated yesterday to a lecture by Grandfather Havel, who has done and written many wonderful things, and composes beautiful sentences…but may not have been the best choice for a CC lecturer. “I don’t like my English. I am not sure if it is understandable. […]

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And, now after endless coquetry, we give you what you’ve been so patiently waiting for: the last installment of Addison Anderson’s exploration of the Lamont-Doherty Observatory. In this final edition: expansion, Land’s End Catalog, Bollinger, Sachs, undergraduate interest, more explosions, Frontiers of Science, Tibetan villagers, a suspicious Pakistani customs official, poignancy, and no, they don’t […]

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