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Bunsen Bwog: Devil’s in the Details

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 7 Comments

This week Zach Kagan, Bwog’s resident Research Rubbernecker has compiled tales of mistakes, myth busting, and gut instinct for your enlightenment. Last year physicists at CERN observed that neutrinos seem to travel faster than the speed of light. The team sent the particles from the Swiss facility to an underground laboratory in Italy and found they […]

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Spotlight on Sports: Chess

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 10 Comments

So you own a Columbia University sweatshirt—maybe you’ve even worn it to a football game or two. But what can you really say about Columbia’s lesser-known sporting scene? Cue Spotlight on Sports, in which we do the dirty work for you. Wannabe-Che(ss)xpert Ella Quittner hung out with Columbia’s chess club this past week to find […]

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Housingmaster: Hailing From Overseas

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 1 Comments

Q: I’m entering a suite with a few other guys, one of whom is studying abroad this semester. I know there are some extra steps we have to take, like designating a proxy for housing selection, but are there any other pitfalls that housing won’t tell me about until we fall into them? A: Put simply, no. Students […]

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LectureHop: Financial Justice, Affirmative Action, and Columbia

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 2 Comments

Thursday evening the World Leaders Forum hosted US Attorney General Eric Holder, who defended the Department of Justice’s policies on the financial industry, affirmed affirmative action, and gave attendees the opportunity to compare his impressive mustache to PrezBo’s hair. Government Guru Brit Byrd reports: As PrezBo’s introductory comments waxed even more glistening than his own […]

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Bwoglines: Assessing the Situation Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 1 Comments

This fancy infographic allows Columbians to compare their debt burden with everyone else’s.(Slate) U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is surprised that Americans don’t notice all the justice he’s bringing. (Capital) Tumblr has explored the darker corners of their site and decided that self-harm blogs have to go. (Time) It’s time to assess Oscar hopefuls and […]

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Found: Valuables signed Kathleen and/or Molly

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 0 Comments

Left in the John Jay 5th floor bathroom. Security has your items.

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Overheard: A Good Problem to Have

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 10 Comments

Earlier tonight, a girl to her friend: “I have too much homework to cheat on my boyfriend tonight.” Image via Wikimedia Commons

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Orchesis Embraces Animalistic Tendencies

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 0 Comments

While you may recognize her name from the captions of innumerable Bwog illustrations, Louise McCune expresses her artistic appreciation of a more sensual form in her review of Orchesis’ new show. If you could only get your hands on the program, piece titles like “Bird Girl,” “Feral,” and “Late Anthropocene” should give you a clue […]

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LectureHop: Hilton Als on Nonfiction Dialogues

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 0 Comments

Bwog’s Twin Truth Hunters, Alex Avvocato and Eynon, braved the swarm of soon-to-be-homeless graduate students to bring you an inter-generational campus character. The first impression of Hilton Als is surprisingly snuggly given that he’s a survivor of both the dicey starving artist New York of yesteryear and the cutthroat world of glossy magazines. The current […]

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NYPD Surveillance: PrezBo Responds Again

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 17 Comments

Following AP‘s reveal of NYPD surveillance of Muslim student groups both inside and outside the city extended to Columbia, PrezBo and DSpar responded with disapproval. But was disapproval enough? Columbia’s MSA called for an outright condemnation. Just about half an hour ago, PrezBo sent yet another e-mail that Columbia had no prior knowledge to the event. He stresses that we must feel […]

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Learn From Housing History, Be Doomed to Repeat It Anyway

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 5 Comments

Housing Registration is only 5 days away! You’ve been sending us questions and we’ve been answering them, but we all know you can never have too much information about Housing. To that end, you’ll notice we have re-added our handy Housing Links widget over there on the right sidebar of the page. Depending on where […]

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Cooking With Bwog: Freeze Dried Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 3 Comments

Life gives you ramen, Matt Powell gives you a gourmet dinner. When Zach told me that his kitchen consisted mostly of dried goods, I was thinking beans, rice, pasta, quinoa. But what I found was a giant crate of ramen! It was kind of ridiculous. Then, I found out that Zach invited 5 friends for […]

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What The Kids Are Doing: Community Guidelines

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"I drink like all the time I love to turn up"
"thou shalt turn up"
community contract
community guidelines are the big thing right now
first-years are savage
we got accosted in John Jay while checking out all the lounges
we love rules!!!!
what the fuck who has a farm animal in brooks

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Bucket List: Oil, Corruption, Eviction

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bucket list
bwog cares about sports (a little...)
he's got the whole world in his hands
important people on campus this week
their excellency bwog
world leaders forum

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Bwog Meeting Tonight!

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bwog can also rap the entirety of nicki's verse in monster btw
bwog meeting
bwog meeting announcement
he can tell i ain't missing no meetings
meeting announcement
monster? monsta?
my anaconda don't want none unless you're in Bwog hun
nicki minaj
this one is for the boys with the bwoggin system
we found that out this week
we got all our bases covered

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Big Lights, Big City

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and you thought nothing cool happened at 8pm
culture galore
dontcha wanna go build a lantern now
Events
how many times can we make the it's lit joke
it's lit
lanterns galore
literally lit
morningside lights
PAW
tbt to the NSOP glowstick party on low steps...gtz
we've already made it on multiple posts this week

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Bwoglines: The Joke’s On You Edition

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ain't sorry bout it
bwoglines
hint: we love them both that much
how did we do it
how did we manage to mention jstew and colbert in one post
is thanks francis the new 'thanks obama'
perhaps
saw some crazies on the subway this weekend... thanks francis
sux 4 u philly
the joke's on you philly
the word clusterfuck got to make an appearance which always make for a good day
we also love malala because she's just so cool
what can't she do
when did big bang theory references become okay again?

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“Help The World Become A Better Place:” Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Speaks

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Bangladesh
education
feminism
GDP going up
girl power
girls
low-down at Low
PrezBo is so stupid
PrezBo sucks
Prime Minister is cooler title than president
progress
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina rocks
women
world leaders forum

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Barnard First-Year Election Results Are In!

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almost half of the class
Barn
barnard
Barnard first years
democracy
elections
first-years
good turnout
online voting
polling data
sga
voting

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Jack + Eliza At The Knitting Factory

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bwog goes to williamsburg
bwog takes the 1
did GS come to the concert because there were some baby boomers in the house
dw jk we love GS obvs
jack and eliza
nyu and columbia joined thru music
why are they so talented tho like it's almost maddening

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