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Missing Student

    Columbia Security is reporting that EC-resident Richard Ng has been missing since Sunday. Security is interviewing students in EC today but anyone with information on Richard’s whereabouts is encouraged to contact Campus Security: (212) 854-5555 or 99 on a ROLM phone. Full flyer after the jump.

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This is the third post in the senior wisdom series. Read the rest here. Megan Greenwell, BC ’06. Claim to fame: Spectator Editor-in-Chief. Post-grad plans: Metro Reporter for the Washington Post. Preferred swim test stroke? I call it “the BarnSEAS”: it mostly consists of pointing and laughing at Columbia College kids while we all sip […]

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QuickCurrent

The Midwest? Isn’t that somewhere around Lincoln Center? Saving the earth, one co-opted capitalist at a time. Larry David—not funny enough to be Jewish. SEEJies triumph, wish they could have barricaded Low. Naked partiers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but the ability to pass each other normally on the sidewalk ever […]

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We knew the School of the Arts kids are talented. We’d pin the SIPA kids for some serious clowning around if they were drunk enough. But who would ever… ever… suspect the semester’s best student production would come out of the Business School. But when B-School Dean Hubbard gets passed over as Fed Chair by […]

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Overseas Bwog correspondent Nick Frisch found this gem of a translation in People’s Square, Shanghai, China. Quoth the adventurer: “Want to make a lot of money in China? Forget econ; just major in English.”

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This is the second post in the senior wisdom series. Read the rest here. Ben Smith, CC ’06 Claim to fame: Star of 110th Varsity Show, Composer/Lyricist for V 111. Post-grad plans: first-grade teacher in London. Preferred swim test stroke? Naked-back-stroke. What are three things you learned at Columbia? 1. If I don’t look at […]

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For those of you who get caught plagiarizing on your finals or otherwise, here are some essays you can write about why plagiarism is bad. The one Bwog used: Plagiarism (missing works cited) By Bwog Plagiarism is a distinguished sounding word. One would almost think that it sounds like some lofty philosophical ideal named for […]

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Butler Dance Party

You. Shakin’ your thang. Three minutes. Butler group study room #407. Party time: 12:02 AM TONIGHT Do it.

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Whack!

This year’s second crop of freshmen should be finishing up their Frontiers of Science exam right about now, which Bwog learned was administered on 18 single-sided pages per test taker (not including Blue Books). Those familiar with Frontiers will bear with us for a little back of the envelope calculation: There are approximately 1,000 students […]

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Prestige-obsessed Columbians should be pleased to hear that 3 2 3 of the 5 most influential “idea-makers” in New York (as ranked by New York Magazine) work at Columbia! Everyone else should at least get some morbid thrill to know that on said magazine’s list of the 5 most influential New Yorkers in education, our […]

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A frequent contributor wrote in to say: The Harvard-spawned fascists who control facebook.com apparently have begun purging the site of one of its best features: funny profiles. It seems they decided that Aaron Burr didn’t do his job properly the first time (did you expect any better from a Princeton alum?) and deleted Alexander Hamilton’s […]

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Senior Wisdom: Rob

Very soon, members of the class of 2006 will fade into the world of i banking and consulting… but before they do, they need to impart their boundless wisdom to the masses. So, the Bwog has surveyed the stars of the senior class to get their thoughts on life, truth, and oral sex. This is […]

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The Final Days

It’s been a rough week in Butler Library. Many of you, despite the librarians’ poster campaign, have been living at your desks, hemmed in by stacks of books and empty Red Bull cans, sustained only by sesame mix and bad pastries from Blue Java. The garbage cans mount up to the ceiling, and your sweat […]

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Web Statistics 101

The Bwog is savvy. The Bwog is so savvy it can read your mind. Not really. But the Bwog can see what Google searches you use to get to the site. In the name of “Not Thinking About Finals or Graduation,” the Bwog gives you the list of Best.Searches.Ever. Can you find a theme? how […]

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Scene: a bar on the Upper East Side. A curly-haired man in his mid-20s approaches a Barnard senior and asks if she’s heard of David Blaine. “David and I, we’re kind of friends,” the man says. He then reveals that he’s a magician, and offers to show her a trick. “Sure,” she says, at which […]

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