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By Bwog Staff on Aug 20, 2014 18 Comments

With this flurry of news about Bacchanal and Columbia’s new Gender-Based Misconduct Policy, you may have missed some recent updates to our community. Not going to lie, they’re not as exciting. Haakon’s Hall, that weird bar you’ve probably never been to, is becoming a gluten-free, farm-to-table restaurant called Friedman’s Lunch. (Crains New York) But maybe […]

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What To Expect When You’re Expecting (To Begin COÖP)

By Bwog Staff on Aug 19, 2014 6 Comments

COÖP move-in is tomorrow, so get ready to have a fun few days in nature and spend the next four years reminiscing nonstop about it. We asked COÖP Queen Daniela Lopez to share some insight about the program. First thing’s first: what is COÖP? COÖP stands for Columbia Obese Owl Protection Columbia Outdoor Orientation Program and it has three divisions: Hiking, […]

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Free The Lawns!

By Bwog Staff on Aug 19, 2014 9 Comments

This year’s convocation will move from South Lawn to Low Plaza, according to a statement released by CU Facilities’ Dan Held. This means you’ll get to play frisbee on the pristine lawns for an extra six to eight weeks. It’s almost like they listen to us. Here’s the statement: Columbia University Convocation 2014, scheduled for Monday, August […]

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Columbia’s New Gender-Based Misconduct Policy For Students

By Bwog Staff on Aug 15, 2014 64 Comments

President Bollinger has announced Columbia University’s newest Gender-Based Misconduct Policy for Students, which can be found here. We’ll try to break down his email, which mostly mimics what was sent out a few days ago by deans, below: Goals of the policy: “to strengthen confidence in the University’s handling of reports of sexual assault and other […]

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2018, Your NSOP Schedule Is Here

By Bwog Staff on Aug 14, 2014 13 Comments

Drumroll, please. Class of 2018, your newly-announced NSOP theme is “Reaching New Heights Together.” Today, Columbia issued the NSOP schedule for CC and SEAS, and here are Barnard’s and General Studies‘ if you missed them. Highlights: The collective Thursday night outing is the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum, which is on the USS Intrepid, “a decommissioned aircraft carrier on […]

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PrezBo Officially Accepts Term Extension

By Bwog Staff on Aug 14, 2014 11 Comments

As we reported earlier this summer, we’ll have our dear old President Lee Bollinger at least through 2018, according to a statement sent out to all students this morning. The chair of our board of trustees noted that “Columbia is performing at a level and achieving a standing it has not enjoyed in many years,” […]

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Deans Issue Statement On Bacchanal Cancellation

By Bwog Staff on Aug 13, 2014 49 Comments

Amid a storm of student outrage over the cancellation of a fall Bacchanal, the University deans have issued a statement attempting to explain the reasoning behind the decision. Two days ago, a letter was issued by the Bacchanal committee, the student councils, and a few other student organizations that revealed Columbia had canceled what would have […]

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Houses and Homes: Canada

By Bwog Staff on Aug 13, 2014 1 Comments

Continue on our tour of your classmates’ summer houses and homes. And send your own to tips@bwog.com! Today’s location is very summer-appropriate… Where: Sauble Beach, on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada Sight: Sound: Waves crashing and kids shouting. And that swing set on the right is incredibly creaky. Smell: Wet sand, wood smoke, and sunscreen. […]

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Breaking: Baccha-no-more?

By Bwog Staff on Aug 11, 2014 129 Comments

Just as Public Safety gears up for another round of NSLOPPY first-years, Bwog has received word that the spring concert organized by Bacchanal (a student organization run through ABC that is also responsible for Lowlapalooza) is under administrative review. Citing “safety concerns associated with drinking and sexual harrassment,” the four undergraduate deans have officially cancelled a […]

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Houses and Homes: Jordan

By Bwog Staff on Aug 11, 2014 0 Comments

Your fellow students come from near and far (#diversity). They also spend their summers in a wide range of places. We’re highlighting as many of them as we can before we’re all back in Morningside Heights for the fall. So send a pic and a few details about your summer accommodations to tips@bwog.com. Today’s home […]

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Houses And Homes: Ukraine

By Bwog Staff on Aug 11, 2014 2 Comments

Bwog wants to know where you are this summer. So that we can build our community, or maybe just because we’re nosy. Exotic or mundane, impressive or depressing, send a picture and a few details to tips@bwog.com. Our first location, from Jordan L. GS’16… Where: Kyiv, Ukraine, in a building owned by the U.S. Embassy. […]

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Innovative CUIT Introduces New Email Aliases

By Bwog Staff on Aug 08, 2014 22 Comments

CUIT emailed Morningside campus students today with information about our new email aliases. CUIT says that they “heard and understood” the concern that “UNI-based email addresses are impersonal and can seem unprofessional in certain contexts.” For all returning students and incoming freshmen, the aliases will take the form of “<Initials of First and Middle + […]

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Bwoglines: Local Government Representation Matters Edition

Zoe Sottile 0

first an emotional support peacock and now a hamster??
retweet if you still don't have summer plans and you're slowly freaking out
we have a government again...yay?
where's my emotional support velociraptor PREZBO

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What If PrezBo Weren’t A Dinosaur?

Zack Abrams 3

dinosaur
lnb
prezbo
roar XD

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How To Download Your Own Butler Bookshelf With CLIO

Ross Chapman 0

clio
columbia hacks
get your money's worth
if we have to pay 60k a year we should get all free books

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Song Requests For The Lerner Piano Lounge

Isabel Sepúlveda 0

i am pro-playing piano in the lounge promise
i will play the cannon in lerner if someone brings the rest of the orchestra
in high school my friends and i had a choreographed dance to the mii theme song
thanks to my musical friends for teaching me about classical music
they have a lot of opinions and i'm here for it
this piece made me realize i know nothing about classical music

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Fake Reviews of Unofficial Columbia Traditions

Idris O'Neill 0

bad bwitches only
how do i write about butler as a person who has never been
i literally wrote this as a promo for the dodge sauna
ive only actually done a few of these but am fictionalizing accounts for the laughs

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Science 101: Advice For Introductory Lecture Courses

Alex Tang 1

also make sure your calculator is on the correct setting (rad vs deg)
biology is still the best science
bwog science
curves are gross
do. the. assigned. problems.
the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

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Announcement: President Beilock’s Inauguration Events

Isabel Sepúlveda 0

announcements woo
how much does it cost to light up the empire state building
i can tell i'm not a barnard student because i don't know how to spell any of the building names
sian beilock
we don't have to call her new after this do we
when does being new stop

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Bwoglines: Can Governments Actually Agree On Things Edition

Isabel Sepúlveda 0

chelsea market sounds like the name of a tiny coffee shop idk why
i love the bbc because it has no paywall
putin is a swearword in french according to my friend
sometimes i dream the us has a multiparty system
soon you won't have to go far for your google summer internship

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