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Spotlight on Sports: The Ultimate Commitment

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 10 Comments

Last week, Bwog sat down with Dan Mullins, Florida native and member of Columbia’s Uptown Local, in the Butler lounge for some unconventional learning. Frisbee clutched faithfully in hand, he shared words of wisdom on one of the most parodied and misunderstood sports in modern culture. Endless mysteries surround Ultimate Frisbee: Is it great enough […]

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Straight Up Free Ice Cream

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Students for Substance Free Space (SFSFS), a special interest housing group, is giving out free ice cream in the McBain lobby right now. Get there while supplies lasts! Vanilla or chocolate with chocolate sauce and rainbow sprinkles. They are also handing out info sheets from Ask Alice about alcohol and substance abuse.

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Town Hall on Open Course Evals

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 16 Comments

Yesterday, the USenate held a two-hour townhall on “Open Course Evaluations” in the Law School. Around 40 people attended, including a fair number of students. The details of the proposal can be found here: the basic gist is that the primarily quantitative data will be released online, with at least one qualitative question, “Would you recommend […]

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Pro-Life and Pro-Cookies

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Free Westside cookies are to be had tonight, in Hamilton 602, courtesy of Columbia Right to Life. They’re holding a talk entitled, “Pro-Life, Pro-Woman: A Feminist Perspective.” According to Tess Murray, Treasurer, “Anyone who disagrees will have an opportunity to challenge [our guest speaker] at the end! We’re looking forward to a healthy dialogue and want […]

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Use Your Mailbox for More Than Netflix

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Thanks to the good people in the IPA (InterPublications Alliance, not that), you can now subscribe to have your selection of Columbia’s wonderful undergraduate publications delivered right to your Lerner mailbox. Cool, huh? So if you want to make sure you receive every issue of, oh we don’t know, The Blue & White, just fill out this […]

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What’s In the McKinsey Report?

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 3 Comments

Earlier this morning, The Eye published an article about shakeups in the upper echelons of the Columbia administration. The piece contained a couple of new nuggets in this seemingly never-ending story—including a summary of the infamous McKinsey report and changes to financial aid—but it can be difficult to keep track of everything that’s happened since […]

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This Land is Your Land?

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, who wrote a piece for the New York Times Sunday Magazine 10 months ago in which he revealed that he is in fact an undocumented immigrant. He was at SIPA on Tuesday at 6 pm to talk about his own life story and about his latest project, Define American, a […]

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CA Wants to CU Search

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 4 Comments

The CAs have planned CU Search—advertised to be “the most epic photo scavenger hunt of all time,” for all CC and SEAS students. Similar to Assassins—but with less time spent hiding in your target’s closet—you form a team of 3+ people and complete as many clues as possible, recording it all photographically. Plus there are prizes! […]

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Recognition Where It’s Due

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 3 Comments

As always, this year’s graduates will be joined by fascinating and successful individuals on whom the university is conferring honorary degrees. In addition to the honorary degrees, the University Medal of Excellence, awarded annually to an outstanding Columbia graduate under the age of 45 and giving you something to aspire to, will be given to: Tom Kitt, CC’96 And the […]

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Trading Faces

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 4 Comments

As announced last month in a press release, the J-School has been undergoing a little nip/tuck to bear a famous name. While the official reveal is slated for 4/20, we snuck an early peek:

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Eight Columbia Profs Win Guggenheim Fellowships

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 11 Comments

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that eight Columbia academics are recipients of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. Awards are given to those, “who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Acceptance not only signifies extraordinary academic achievement, but also comes with cash. Timothy Donnelly – Associate Professor […]

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Live at Lerner: The Fun Train Hasn’t Stopped Yet

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 2 Comments

Symposium: Columbia Being Happy continues onwards today with another dose of Live at Lerner. Today’s production includes performance by Beast Make Bomb, a Brooklyn-based garage rock band with influence from the likes of the Pixies, the Velvet Underground, and Blink 182. Food for today is a Texan-inspired full meal including: Chicken or veggie quesadillas Nachos with […]

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If You Want To Decrease Your Stress In A Class, Your Day Is Today

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academic calendar
barnard lets you use classes you're taking p/d/f/ for nine ways requirements!!
go barnard! 4 for you barnard!
legitimized slacking off is a good kind of slacking off
thanks columbia for taking away our stress in the little tiny ways
will your professor be disappointed in you for p/d/f-ing their class? probably not. they won't know about it
wish we could take every class p/d/f

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Bwoglines: It’s Gonna Be Okay Edition

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are there any problems that can't be solved by a baby panda tbh
bwog watches a lot of netflix possibly too much
bwoglines
just put a baby panda in the same room as a bunch of world leaders. they'll be compelled to compromise on at least something
like if you remember david tennant in doctor who
what is ben carson's campaign team doing? how do they not know where ct is? (then again does anyone not from ct know where ct is?)

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RIP FroSci?

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Deantini is actually amazing
field trips omg
FroSci needs to go
literally anything is better than FroSci
Rough Guide to the Universe is actually a cool name
so it's like LitHum but with science
the end of science

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Get Educated (And Free Food) During Trans Awareness Week

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free field trips
free films
free food
free ice cream
get educated
look up "delicate shades of pink and blue" if you didn't get our reference
so much FREEDOM
the IRC is actually used for things? who knew
Trans Awareness Week

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BunsenBwog: Cough Cough

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BunsenBwog
drink more gin and tonics if you go to Southeast Asia
ebola is scary
malaria is one of the worst things to suffer through
resistance of anti-malaria drugs is so so bad
stats on stats on stats
thank god we all got our free flu shots right?

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LectureHop: Is Feminism Jewish?

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Bwog prides itself on NOT being Jezebel
every answer is a correct answer in this case
fuck Jezebel seriously
intersectionality is the death of movements
is feminism jewish?
lecturehop
one thing Spec has going for it is that it isn't Jezebel
that's something right?

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GSSC Appoints New VP of Policy

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Barnard Winter Housing
did they get a new projector though?
GS is love GS is life
gssc
Gym renovations
Michael Neier
Student Affairs Committee
these are the questions that must be asked
we're kidding about the elderly comment we love GS
weird pranks
who says the elderly can't have fun?

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Bwoglines: At Home And Abroad Edition

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500 dollar tickets are literally ridiculous
Bwog makes puns
bwoglines
de Blasio does something we can finally stand behind
if only Obama was forceful where it actually mattered...
informing our audience
Obama can be forceful sometimes in foreign policy
wednesdays are political with Bwoglines
who's playing the Summit with those ticket costs? Waka Flocka?

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