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Bucket List: de Blasio and Perry

By Bwog Staff on Nov 24, 2013 2 Comments

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. Aka, you’re paying for tuition and might as well get the most out of it, right? This is a short week because of Thanksgiving break, but the pickings are good across all disciplines. Recommended: “NYC Summit on Children: Keynote With Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio” […]

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Bwoglines: Give and Take Edition

By Bwog Staff on Nov 24, 2013 1 Comments

Give: Apparently Mr. White isn’t the only one using Ricen to kill people off. (ABC News) Take: Poor Miley Cyrus’ house was burglarized after her birthday. (MTV) Give: Black Friday is not the best time to find deals on presents to give to all your loved ones this fine holiday season. (LA Times) Take: Iran […]

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On Wellness, Semantics, Transparency, and Other Buzzwords

By Bwog Staff on Nov 23, 2013 49 Comments

Bwog Editor Alexandra Svokos is tired of hearing the word “wellness.” This past Sunday, the Student Wellness Project hosted their second Wellness Summit from 1-4 pm in the Diana. I left this summit far more stressed than I had been before I walked in. I was agitated following the discussions, having been pounded with a […]

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Dance Marathon Going Strong 5 Hours In

By Bwog Staff on Nov 23, 2013 3 Comments

Five and a half hours into the CUDM for pediatric AIDS prevention and things seem to be going swimmingly. Bwog popped in and spotted a number of things: lots of falafel and Havana empañadas, Venom and Onyx performing, and, most importantly, Danza Kuduro blaring through the speakers. But things were looking kind of sparse so maybe […]

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In Defense Of: 209

By Bwog Staff on Nov 23, 2013 1 Comments

In our somewhat-regular feature In Defense Of, we bring much-needed support to the most maligned Columbia (or life) institutions. This week, sometimes studier Alexandra Avvocato puts her books aside to defend that most notorious of reading rooms: Butler 209. As a freshman, I avoided Butler 209 like the plague. According to established wisdom, it was […]

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That Which Shall Not Be Named is Really Asking to Be Named

By Bwog Staff on Nov 23, 2013 11 Comments

So everyone and their mother has seen the front page of the New York Times. Our very own f-word team has lost its way to infamy and now Bwog has to do some tricky grammatical gymnastics to report on it.* Sigh. *Just to be clear, this is not a post about That Which Shall Not Be […]

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Free Food for Thought

By Bwog Staff on Nov 23, 2013 2 Comments

The Columbia Neuroscience Society will be having a research symposium today from 1:00 to 3:00 in the Satow Room, and there will be food (of the free variety). If you’re looking to find some potential research opportunities (not just in the Neuroscience Department) or looking for brain food lunch, stop by! Things got really out […]

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The Longest Greatest Most Philanthropic Dance Party of the Year

By Bwog Staff on Nov 23, 2013 0 Comments

That’s right kids, it’s the 13th annual Columbia University Dance Marathon. The marathon will be held in the Diana Event Oval and dancing will start at 1:00. Tickets are $10 and include a free T-shirt, foodstuffs, and lots of opportunities to win prizes. Fundraising efforts will go towards pediatric AIDS prevention. Check out the Facebook […]

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Bwoglines: Celebrity Edition

By Bwog Staff on Nov 23, 2013 0 Comments

Here’s a review of Catching Fire that will have no effect on whether or not you actually see the movie. (CNN) Lady Gaga did another weird thing but this one you probably shouldn’t open at work. (Digital Spy) Sorry that the word ‘selfie’ is still being used. (Daily Beast) And your weekly Rob Ford. (Daily Beast) […]

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Phonoscenes: The Music Your Parents Like, But Better

By Bwog Staff on Nov 22, 2013 16 Comments

Columbia University is home to an immense number of beautiful, intelligent, and talented people. Now we introduce you to yet another group of aforementioned individuals: Phonoscenes. The group that you may never have heard of, but probably should have, Phonoscenes competed at last year’s Battle of the Bands and Lowlapalooza. They are self-described as “a group of five early twenty somethings […]

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Vissi d’Opera On Demand

By Bwog Staff on Nov 22, 2013 6 Comments

This past week, the libraries rolled out an exciting new resource: Columbia students now have free access to Met Opera On Demand, which features video and audio recordings of operas live from the Met. We combed through the catalog to find what you should be watching. Also note that today WKCR is honoring Benjamin Britten’s […]

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CU Players Presents Genet’s The Maids

By Bwog Staff on Nov 22, 2013 2 Comments

CU Players, Columbia’s theater group that fades in and out of existence, put on a production Jean Genet’s disturbing French drama, The Maids. Intrigued by the intersection of sadism and masochism, Shelley Farmer reviewed the play for Bwog. The 1947 drama centers on two maids, Claire and Solange, who engage in ritualistic, sadomasochistic “games” while their employer, […]

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Please Flush The Damn Toilets

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clean up after yourselves!!!!!
i hate mcbain
it's really not that hard to flush a fucking toilet
literally whenever i walk into a restroom in mcbain i have to brace myself for whatever gross thing i'm about to see
one of these days i will be rich and have my own CLEAN restroom in my ues penthouse
ya but freshmen bathrooms r fucking disgusting the amount of times ive seen used tampons shit and hair

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The Food Bank Sets Eye Towards Future With Columbia Ribbon Cutting Today

Ross Chapman 0

cut that mother F ribbon
food bank
food bank at columbia
guys food insecurity is real as fuck
snip and dip
snip and don't double dip
snip snip snip
why the school makes us waste money on their big ass shitty meal plans when there r students who cant even afford a meal beats me!
why? well ...... do u think columbia actually cares about us lol

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Foods You Can (And Can’t) Eat On The Subway

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catch us riding the 2 uptown eating cheerios every friday morning for the rest of the semester
food bwogging?
power ranking without an actual ranking
this is one of those things that should be self explainable but people keep fucking it up
would give our lives for a fresh nussbaum cranberry muffin

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What The Columbia Venmo Requests You Wake Up To Actually Mean

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Actually have gotten some of these
getzler had drugz all over his venmo :(
Have sent a "Rent." one before
rip in peace michael getzler
venmo
what is this 2015? who puts "drugz" in their memo line?
what's a LAVO?
who venmos with a smiley face?

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Krugman Will Lecture On Whether Equality Has A Future In America

Megan Ka Wei Chew 0

does equality have a future in america
does it ????
i dont think so
isnt kruger a food
or is it kuger
paul krugman
well find out by heading on down to ol krugger's lecture

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GSSC Gets In The Mood To Party

Alex Tang 0

going up on a thursday
gssc
not so much drama this week
some friendly interschool competition
summer might be over but there's time for one more rooftop party
why dont you catch me outside and see how steady these fists really are

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Bwoglines: Good News Edition

Megan Ka Wei Chew 0

bwoglines
guys finding good news was fucking hard
i don't understand why americans play bad music
i want to eat a pie
my tummy's a grumblin
ppl are talented af
tried to get standby tix for call me by your name last night and stood for 3 hours
why don't u just play ur top 50 like ????

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Tuesday Playlist: Songs That Wouldn’t Fly in Ferris

Ana Rael 0

"good" music
biatch better have dining dollars
bwog helps you procrastinate
bwog is dancing in the moonlight
crying outside ferris is your thing don't lie
Dance mob in ferris?
dj bwog
high school musical teaches life lessons

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