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In an email sent to students yesterday, it was announced that Barnard would be raising the GPA cutoff for the Dean’s List from a 3.4 to a 3.6. The change will take place Fall of 2013. This will align standards at Barnard with the 3.6 GPA cutoff for Columbia College, which has been in place since […]
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For another installment of Bwog’s on-again, off-again feature “College Talks,” we chat with students about who they’d want, and more importantly, who they don’t want to play at Bacchanal: Music: “Lihi Moi” by Poiboy
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Early yesterday afternoon, DeShaun Maria Harris, passed away in the care of close family members. Dean Hubbard sent out an email to students (pasted below), which was then forwarded by Dean Terry Martinez. Bwog would like to extend our deepest condolences to the friends and family of DeShaun, and we ask that our readers use […]
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This Thursday, we sent Bwog’s most enthusiastic young feminist, Alexander Pines, to listen to keynote address being given by the legend that is Judith Butler. What he found waiting for him was, well, not Judith Butler. Around 6:00 Thursday evening, I strolled confidently into Jerome Greene Hall with the expectation of settling into a comfy […]
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You may have seen the dashing members of Columbia’s Rugby Football Club walking around campus and wondered: Who are these men? Can I play? Can I watch? What’s a scrum? Why do they always pass the ball backwards? Is it just football without pads? Rugby fan Tamsin Pargiter sat down with president Daniel Martinez, SEAS […]
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Bwog has a strange feeling that we’ve been here before, as if we’ve done this all before… A break through in the fight against HIV/AIDS! (US News and World Report) We’ve caught bin Laden(‘s son-in-law)! (New York Times) North Korea is actually completely insane! (NBC)       A time warp via Shutterstock
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On Wednesday night as part of the Writing Lives Series, Nick Hornby, author of About A Boy and High Fidelity had a conversation with Saskia Hamilton.  Voracious reader Julia Goodman fangirled. I had been looking forward to seeing Nick Hornby since the Heyman Center sent out their calendar of events in January. Being a chronically late […]
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We students aren’t the only Columbians obsessed with Nutella. While the good people at Columbia News are losing their minds over the addictive substance, the Student Affairs twitter caught Ke$ho getting high on his own supply: https://twitter.com/Columbia_SA/status/310048181520060417 No word on whether his Nutella habit is costing the university $5,000 a week.
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Hosted by Columbia University Libraries and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, The Comics at Columbia lecture was hopped by graphic enthusiast Zachary Hendrickson. The panel included Paul Levitz as moderator and former President of DC Comics; Larry Tye, an author and historian; Al Jaffe, the illustrator whose work is most notably on EVERY […]
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Tonight the only people funnier than Bwog will be hosting a free event at ADP at 8pm. The lineup includes Fruit Paunch, Control Top, CollegeHumor’s Adam Conover, and several other performers. It promises to be “the best night of your life.” More details can be found here. Poster by Jessica Fan
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Every year Ecoreps organizes Give and Go Green in the Spring and Green Sales in the Fall (you dump your old stuff; they store it and sell it). This year, as always, Ecoreps gives you the opportunity to apply to one of or both of these events, but also to be part of GREEN NSOP […]
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Beasts: Twenty-four year old Dianne Hanson was killed Wednesday by a 550 pound lion at a private California zoo. (CBS News) Bans: If Microsoft wins its lawsuit in Germany, Google Maps and other Google apps could face a ban come June. (CNet) The European Union proposed this week a  “ban on all forms of pornography […]
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