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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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Stalinist Terror And Today’s Russia: Book Signing With Masha Gessen And Misha Friedman

Olga Ivleva 0

it is 4 am and i'm reading about stalinist russia hbu
russia
stalin
the last time russia was even mentioned in the mass media it was about the american presidential elections
this is not an advert

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Housing Reviews 2018: Carlton Arms

Youngweon Lee 0

carlton arms
do u like walking? live in carlton arms
housing 2018
housing reviews 2018
that taco place is right next door which is nice if you like tacos

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Subway Statuses Around MoHi This Weekend

Youngweon Lee 0

mta service changes
mta status
we pay $2.75 for this

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Bwoglines: Black Friday Edition

Idris O'Neill 0

bad bwitches only
its me looking at the black power fist and having flashbacks to nonblack women coopting it
that being said its 101 years of my island being colonized by the us tomorrow
this is totally coincidentally my second black themed bwoglines i promise its not on purpose

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GSSC Has A Fun Guest And Also Food

Zoe Sottile 0

administration
also dean rosen-metsch thought i was a gs student and introduced herself to me and seems very lovely even if she didn't have a lot of definite answer
dean rosen-metsch
general studies
gssc
i feel like there is seas apparel
it is weird that there is no gs apparel
it really gets you down
the administration man
the food smelled sooooo good but i had already eaten

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Housing Reviews 2018: Hewitt

Riva Weinstein 0

get a block of singles with your friends and the social problem is solved
housing 2018
housing reviews 2018
if you want to know why i was chanting eggnog eggnog eggnog at 1 am
look up the phrase how bad can a good girl get

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In Defense Of The Civil Rights Of Laboratory Yeast Cells

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bwog science
e. coli is a whole different story
have some respect
kingsley and fitzgerald forever
op-ed of the century
protect yeast rights
the gentle yeast cell shall suffer no more

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Housing Reviews 2018: Broadway

Ross Chapman 0

honestly the location of broadway seems ideal to me
housing reviews 2018
i can't imagine living in a 165 sq ft double though
never been inside wien and at this point i never want to
people actually use the lounges here i'm shocked

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