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In today’s (admittedly bad-ass) Spec “University Space” supplement, an article on the lack of student group space pointed out: [T]he Science Fiction Society, for example, keeps its library of 20,000 novels in the Student Government Office on the fifth floor of Lerner. To recap: Ad Hoc, The Columbia Current, The Columbia Political Review, The Columbia […]

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John Klopfer reports: Gulati drew up this diagram for us in class today. Note the big smudges where Florida and Louisiana should be… He told us to stop making fun of his drawing, added Florida, changed his mind, erased it (“Who needs Florida, anyway?”), looked closer, smeared the crap out of the Gulf coast, and […]

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An eagle-eyed Bwog correspondent observes that this condom has been sitting outside St. A’s for three days now. At least when these frat boys are screwing the poor, they use protection…

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Bwog’s eyes on the street report a Law and Order: SVU van on the corner of 115th and Broadway.

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Gluttony abounds at the corner of 104th and Broadway this afternoon as Ben and Jerry’s celebrates its annual Free Cone Day. Always a popular event, last year lines snaked around the block as New Yorkers of all ages waited for over an hour to get a free cone—normal cost: about $3. Bwog’s financial advisors find […]

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Hey, other schools, look! We’re getting something else that you don’t have! I don’t know about you, Opal Mehta, but if I had just been paid half a million dollars for a book that I had plagiarized, I’d use some of that money to hire a PR firm to help me come up with a […]

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In an email sent this evening, LLC director Scott Helfrich warns the student body to be on the lookout for a shady character who has been terrorizing a certain floor of McBain as of late. Helfrich included two photos and an account of the man’s actions as described by Public Safety, which reads as follows: […]

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From the ever-amazing Craigslist casual encounters section: Columbia grad student seeking a girl who likes to get freaky in a LAB! – m4w – 22 “I am a very hot European grad student at Columbia and I always had a desire to mess around in some weird place like a library or a computer lab. […]

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Members of the cast of KCST’s Richard III are currently stage-duking-it-out (with spears!) in front of Low Library in promotion of this weekend’s show (see event listings). Tourists and prospective parents look confused as they reconsider sending their children to an institution that encourages such public displays of violence. Viggo Mortensen looks gratified as he […]

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One singer + one keyboard player + one flutist + one moderately creepy man milling about = Christian music awesomeness. Low Plaza. Right now. Bwog is not sure how long this will last, so act fast.

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An eagle-eyed B&W’er reports that she saw Viggo Mortensen, best known for his role as Master Chief John James ‘Jack’ Urgayle in the smash hit G.I. Jane, talking with his son outside of Hamilton and then heading towards Low. Could Mini-Mortensen be thinking about attending our fair alma?

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Columbia administration confirms it likes student athletes better than you. In attempt to call more attention to underwhelming election season, GSSC candidates stir up drama over nothing. I mean, really important stuff. Mr. Coffin’s joke writes itself. Because reading about other people making out kind of makes up for the fact that you haven’t made […]

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The publishing world has been all abuzz the past few weeks over Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan’s new book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. Even the Blue and White fell under the spell of a peer with a $500,000 book deal and reviewed the book in this month’s print edition. […]

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The war’s been waging for a while, but now it’s serious. Are you for direct elections on the Engineering Student Council? Or against? WHERE DO YOU STAND? Tom Fazzio apparently plays both both sides. “Personally, outside of my role as president, I am an advocate for public elections,” said the Engineers Against Direct Elections member […]

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He is on one of those matchmaking websites, looking at naughty pictures of “women seeking men in New Hampshire.” Unfortunately, Bwog does not know any students currently visiting from Dartmouth.

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