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Bwoglines: Columbia Misses You Edition

By Bwog Staff on Jan 09, 2014 8 Comments

Things have been happening in the wide world while Columbia students are still hibernating on break. Here are some Columbia-related things you might have missed. Columbia is trying to beat Chicago to erect a Barack Obama library. However, plans for a Prezbo library are pure speculation. (Chicago Business) The Dean of Advising for Columbia College […]

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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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Stop Saying That Men’s Basketball Is Just Unlucky

Abby Rubel 1

columbia sports
hopefully the ivy season will be better?
i cry every time they lose in the final minutes
men's basketball
mike smith is doing so well tho
seriously miss conor voss

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Astrophysics Majors Have More Fun: Bwog Peoplehops The Voices Of StarBites

Betsy Ladyzhets 7

'if your phone goes off you're fired' - sounds like butler
'let's learn all the things' - us during finals
bwog science
glad they didn't actually burn down pupin
listening to this podcast counts as studying for frosci
peoplehop
science communication

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Open Meeting Announcement

Isabel Sepúlveda 0

if you've ever even thought about joining bwog you should come
it can be your holiday gift to us
open meeting announcement
think of it as a study break but better
this is your last chance this semester everyone

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Bwog In Bed: Petition For A Columbia Kitten Edition

Isabel Sepúlveda 0

bwog in bed
the cloud atlas finale will be the best seven minutes of your life
the great facebook cull of 2017
trust us you know it needs to happen
we want to believe
with columbia's endowment we could get a cat to live in every dorm room probably

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Multiple Shootings Near Campus Last Night; No Public Safety Alert

Youngweon Lee 18

public safety

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Studying For Finals, With Reservations

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brendan and tony have this great ongoing relationship
celsius is a horrible unit for casual temperature use
cloud strife forever
fuck the metric system
gamma phi > most greek organizations > sig nu
geeds everywhere in butler
insert joke about sig nu here
please tim give me an A on my final
sadbois and sadgirls unite
seriously if you talk in a study room in butler during finals you are a trash person
the emperor's new study room
we didn't know noco is open 24 hours during finals

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A Status Report On The Stargazing & Lecture Series

Victoria Arancio 0

A status report: morale is low but I will pass all my finals
degrasse tyson is my spirit animal
I thought I wanted to be an astronomy major before coming here lol
I want a different world without trump
my working understanding in my astro class is the plot of interstellar
science is cool!
the vegans scared me into eating sweetgreen

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20 Things To Do Before You Leave Columbia

Roberta Rhyse 0

bwog loves free stuff
can I stay forever
dat first koronets
Enjoy the time you have here
high school musical should be forever
I got a thousand likes on buy sell and now i'm famous
icon
John Jay quote
make friends and be wholesome
sad to be leaving
seriously though leave campus and explore the city
this post is an epitome of columbia life

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