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Why Your Grades Take So Long To Show Up

By Bwog Staff on Jan 06, 2014 33 Comments

Bwog is still waiting on a few grades, and judging by the comments, you are too. But it might not be entirely your professor’s fault: according to an email sent out to 1007 students by Prof. John Kender, Columbia’s grading system is more than 30 years old. Columbia processes grades by using a system that […]

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Semester In Review: The Tamed Shrew

By Bwog Staff on Jan 05, 2014 3 Comments

A new year, a new perspective. Today we take a moment to look back on the first half of the year and think on what’s to come. If last fall was about exploring how we talk, this past semester was about putting our learned lessons to use. With no massive scandal or campus-wide debate abyss, […]

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Columbia’s Greek Rank Site Explodes

By Bwog Staff on Jan 04, 2014 30 Comments

Registration for spring Panhellenic formal recruitment ended on Wednesday at midnight, and now PNMs (Potential New Members) will wait until early February to start the stressful four-day process. For the next month, they’ll search for the one sorority of the five that fits them best. In the interim, current sisters will try to represent their […]

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Pipe Bursts in Broadway

By Bwog Staff on Jan 04, 2014 25 Comments

A resident on the second floor of Broadway left a window open—yes, for all of break—which reportedly caused a pipe to burst, which caused a big spill. Public Safety confirmed that they are in there, trying to clean things up. The pipe burst an hour ago, btw. We hope your room won’t be flooded if […]

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Wall of Shame: The Tardy Professor Edition

By Bwog Staff on Jan 03, 2014 73 Comments

And so 2014 follows in the footsteps of her ancestors: our teachers still have not posted our grades on SSOL. Despite the fact that final grades were due on January 2nd, some teachers feel they are above the law and have not done so. Well you know what Bwog says? Those teachers deserve an F a big […]

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Barnard’s Karen Blank Has Died

By Bwog Staff on Jan 02, 2014 4 Comments

According to an email from DSpar: Karen Blank, Dean of Studies at Barnard since 1993, has died. She was at Columbia since 1984, when she served as Columbia’s associate dean of student affairs. Blank had been on medical leave since January 2012. She was set to retire at the end of this past semester. Spar’s […]

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Common App “Challenges” Necessitate RD Deadline Extension

By Bwog Staff on Jan 02, 2014 4 Comments

Oh my! Because the Common App is terrible, Columbia has extended the RD deadline, just like they had to for the ED deadline. The deadline is now 11:59 pm on January 6 (literally the last minute of the Christmas season). In addition to extending the deadline, a post on the Admissions site says, harried applicants can […]

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Bwog Gets Resolved

By Bwog Staff on Dec 31, 2013 11 Comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We asked our staff to take a minute to put down their drinks, detach the strangers from their faces, and get serious about 2014. Behold, our New Year’s Resolutions that we’re definitely going to keep for more than two weeks! Definitely! Being a Real Person I’ll get more sleep… well at least […]

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Senior Wisdom: Savannah Fletcher

By Bwog Staff on Dec 30, 2013 10 Comments

Sooo we messed up—in going through emails, Bwog found a Senior Wisdom we’d forgotten to post along with the rest. Huge apologies to Savannah for the delay on this, but trust us, this is a gem of a Senior Wisdom and well worth the wait. Name, Hometown, School: Savannah Fletcher; I hail from an island north […]

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PrezBo Opposes ASA’s Academic Boycott of Israel

By Bwog Staff on Dec 29, 2013 38 Comments

Hillel received a statement from PrezBo two days ago stating his opposition to the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions. PrezBo joins the Presidents of Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, Cornell, and NYU in opposing the boycott. The boycott was announced by the ASA on December 4th on account of what its resolution calls “the Israeli occupation […]

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GUYS, @CUSpecOpEds Used Their Logo, and the Spec is ON IT

By Bwog Staff on Dec 27, 2013 9 Comments

Even though we’re barely into winter break, Columbia stuff has happened on the World Wide Web. So. About a week ago, it looked like Spectator‘s opinion page was handed the same Twitter treatment as we did earlier this month. (If you haven’t yet explored @BwogTheater, you should.) Spec got @CUSpecOpEds, which cut across political lines to […]

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Cardomat’s Old Spot Goes To…

By Bwog Staff on Dec 24, 2013 19 Comments

Dig Inn Seasonal Market is ready to call Morningside Heights its (seventh) home. A tipster sent us the photo below, satiating our curiosity about what would move into Cardomat’s old spot, vacant for about a year. The chain describes itself as a healthy fast food option, and with most salads around $8 and sandwiches around […]

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Bwoglines: Don’t Dope Edition

Megan Ka Wei Chew 0

bwoglines
ofc the other two justices are rbg and sonia sotomayor
sensual bruno vibes
some light news: my spotify year in my review said that i am 53 years old
sometimes u can't pretend that bad shit isn't always happening
sorry there's no light news today

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Men’s Basketball Drops Another Close Game

Abby Rubel 0

at least we don't have to go to school in Connecticut
men's basketball
Mike Smith never ceases to amaze me
still not sure how to pronounce "Quinnipiac"
that was a frustrating game to watch
there were some great dunks too

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ESC Finishes Off The Semester With Fire And (A Failed) Impeachment

Finn Klauber 8

Duane Reade rips us off every time and we just take it
life is now lit from 4pm on college walk
not your typical tree lighting ceremony
Plan B in a vending machine would be great
so many tourists on college walk
taxes are concepts for adults
trees are lit
Wellness vending machines sound amaze

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SGA Tries To Make An Appointment

Dassi Karp 0

brooks basement
but where was evie
bye shoshana
can we talk about how weird the weather is
constitution
low snap count today
public safety tries?
seven speeches is a lot of speeches
sga
so much suspense what will we do
soon
thank you danni for your support
the speeches weren't bad there's just not a lot of room for excitement
vermin
wbar rejected me freshmen year i'm not bitter
would this happen at ccsc? probably

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Office Hour Archetypes: The Clueless One

Abby Rubel 0

"cause when you try hard that's when you die hard"
ask questions to appear smart
mom advice
nobody goes to office hours until there is a paper due
professor stereotypes
professors are people too
why are office hours so awkward
why can't we be friends

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Bwoglines: The Go Ginsburg Edition

Roberta Rhyse 0

a day without politics lol
basically politics is like scandal
can you believe whats going on
columbia has so much dollar
Cookies are part of a balanced meal
I am a poet
I didn't know it
roy moore really?!

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Field Notes: Lit Trees Edition

Thomas Saenz 0

bwog wilds out yet again
drink safely friends
field notes
hi mom and dad I'm not dying
I was definitely the quincenera one
never watched lost never gonna it's too much
nothing good comes out of 1020
that's so funny that they got carded and denied at the theater instead of a bar

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Roundup: Filling The Spaces (And Our Stomachs) In Morningside Heights

Betsy Ladyzhets 1

as a first year all I've known is the shake shack and I'm... fine with that
food
gentrification at its finest
lots of happenings in mohi
new in mohi
panda express
pret a manger
pret a manger is flying to close to the sun
shake shack
we're still waiting for what's going in spirit halloween

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