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    Guy: I think I’m going to write my essay on the prompt that doesn’t have to do with imperialism. I feel like that’s all people talk about at Columbia. Girl: Yeah, that and girls. Guy: They’re kinda the same thing. Thanks tipster Anna Corke!

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It’s the village bicycle, every campus pub’s had a go! Might be worth clicking on! This is funny! Columbia Football Team Worse Than You Thought Everybody Loves Body Hair

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Outside Hamilton, at about 8:59 PM last night: Guy 1:  “Ayn Rand, you really need sex, but not with me!” Guy 2:  “Help!  Help!  I’m being raped by Ayn Rand!” What’s terrible is that the hero of The Fountainhead actually does rape his love interest. Bwog shudders. Thanks to Bwog tipster Jason Patinkin for overhearing. […]

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Come on, get with it.  The world is changing right before your very tired, over-studying eyes. Isn’t it time for a core class in digital cartography? Dear God: It’s me, politically active student. Why God, have no famous politicians come to my school? What am I going to tell all my friends? What have I […]

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More stuff you shouldn’t have saved on a public computer.   Questions for On the Waterfront 1. The film answers the question of location with the first shot. The film opens with a shot of the waterfront; the viewer can see ships and boats parked in a harbor in the background. The shot conveys to […]

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Overheard in Ferris Booth: Guy 1: “Was he up?” Guy 2: “No, I don’t think so.” Guy 1: “If you’re going to fuck a chicken on stage, get hard.” Thanks to tipster Lars Dabney and his sharp ears. 

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If you’re like Bwog (and John Jay dining hall) you don’t like waste. So we introduce to you a new Tuesday feature: Bwog Giveth, and Bwog Taketh Away, to share the wealth you don’t want anymore, or to help you reclaim what’s yours so you don’t have to buy a new one, just to find […]

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Bizarrely dressed administrators — including one in a chicken suit — are handing out sweets in the lobby of Hamilton RIGHT NOW. It doesn’t happen that often, kids. 

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A frantic ALL CAPS subject line from CUArts, just in! Go see a FREE discussion with the Turkish Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk (who’s sorta kinda associated with Columbia, maybe). Quick, there are only 50 tickets left! CUArts warns us they’re opening up admissions to the general public as we speak. Hurry! OH NO! […]

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Hillary Clinton Has a Blog Adviser. Squirrel Sets Fire to Dartmouth… …and in unrelated rodent news…Don’t Go Barefoot Anywhere Anymore Eminent Domain Still on the Table. Suburbia Still Not for Judy Zuhusky. Meanwhile, is there an opinion section today? And God said, let there be opinion: “Who the fuck takes cabs?”

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Vowing to “protect the world at large from horrible sex advice” and claiming that Spec sex columnist Miriam Datskovsky “is a violation of all of our human rights,” anonymous tipster “Captain Subtext” has informed Bwog of the Fire Miriam Datskovsky blog. The site primarily contains frighteningly thorough critiques of many of Miriam’s columns and of those who […]

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Now that midterm season is fully underway, Bwog hopes that the eager young flock comprising the Class of 2010 has managed to masterfully memorize the Medea and can hopefully hum the whole Histories of Herodotus. What, you freshmen were expecting some kind of QuiCore? We couldn’t just strip away SparkNotes’ raison d’être- or deprive you […]

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Bwog could not help but notice architecture students toiling in the spartan studios of Buell Hall in the early morning hours last week on something very much like this vaguely geodesic sculpture, which has now managed to find its way to the puny lawn in front of Avery. Is it someone’s desperate attempt to stand […]

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In the wake of last night’s CTV News scoop on this story, Barnard officials emailed students this afternoon with an update on the stabbing of Oscar Sevilla, the superintendant of the college’s antipodean Cathedral Gardens dorm. Sevilla, it turns out, faked his police report, claiming the incident took place on 110th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam […]

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In which Bwog presents the shocking underface of our school’s rigidly PC façade- misogyny! AIDS jokes! Brangelina? The Horror, just in time for Halloween, below: Proof that the Ivy League is home to our country’s best and brightest- overheard in the hallway of Wien 10: (laughter and yelling) Girl: “But I don’t have AIDS!” Guy: […]

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