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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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Where Are You Spending The Summer?

By Bwog Staff on Aug 04, 2014 7 Comments

Before summer ends and we’re all back in Snoringside Heights for another semester, Bwog wants to highlight your Houses and Homes! Send a picture of your sweet summer getaway/tiny apartment in the city/suburban mansion to tips@bwog.com, as well as the following information: Where you are What it smells like What it sounds like What it […]

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Protest On 113th

By Bwog Staff on Jul 30, 2014 28 Comments

Here’s a slightly blurry explanation of that enormous blowup insect reading “Shame on You” on 113th street, and it’s all because of McBain:

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Ann Coulter Performs Adequately As Campus Activists Stay Home

Zack Abrams 4

ann coulter
cucr
debate
politics
the goat

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Sana Amanat Supercharges The Comics World

Bwog Staff 0

comics
marvel
this sounds so cool
women
women doing cool stuff
women making their own media
women telling their own stories

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Housing Reviews 2018: Sulz Tower

Idris O'Neill 2

bwog does housing reviews
godspeed to the groups of 3 and 4 trying for sulz tower
like barnard's ec only not at all like ec
living the high life
Sulz tower
this will only really apply to 100-something of you

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Democratic Illiberalism And Illiberal Democracy: Putting China’s Xi Jinping In Context

Isabel Sepúlveda 0

authoritarianism is the new black and it sucks
bring back democracy 2kforever
didn't realize how dense this talk was until i wrote this
every name in my notes is mispelled
so interesting but we should all be a little terrified

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Admissions Decisions Are Finally Free

Zoe Sottile 5

admissions
but honestly i know a girl who got arrested and still wasn't rescinded from brown
but that's fine
choose wisely young ones
don't do anything to get yourself rescinded
i hateeeeeeee the college process
regular decision
so maybe just do whatever you want
this elite institution is biased and built on exclusion

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Housing Reviews 2018: Watt

Jenny Zhu 2

bwop tart
fun times in watt
housing 2018
Housing reviews
still proud of the byline that i came up with
watt's up with watt
wiggity watt

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Housing Reviews 2018: 616

Victoria Arancio 1

gotta love shake shack
hopefully im studying abroad bc i need a vacation
house hunters is still my shit
housing 2018
i hate linoleum
if i live in a double again next year I might just scream
location location location

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ESC Updates Impeachment Process

Zoe Sottile 2

boat cruise
engineers
esc
esc constitution
et cetera
i always think about transferring to seas but then i remember that my high school literally didn't let me take calculus because my grades were so bad
impeachment drama continues
is it worth transferring to seas to go on the boat cruise
kind of?
nah
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