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Professor Interviews: David O’Connell

By Bwog Staff on Feb 27, 2012 16 Comments

TAs are people professors educators, too. Sophomore Scrutineers Clava Brodsky and Raph Debenedetti sat down with gold-nuggeted PoliSci grad student David O’Connell to find out, well, why. If there’s a professor (grad students and TAs included) that you’re dying for us to ask nosey questions to, send us an email at tips@bwog.com. Bwog: Can you tell […]

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Harmonies and Hootenannies in Greenborough

By Bwog Staff on Feb 27, 2012 6 Comments

Musical performances were abound Saturday night; DIY Denizen Diana Clarke stepped up to cover a very unique one: the Greenborough’s Make-Your-Own-Instrument Open Mic. A combination of chaos and acoustic bliss ensued. The announcement promised “make-your-own-instrument,” but by the time I got to the second floor of Greenborough on Saturday night, it was all keyboards and […]

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Byron’s New Gospel Quintet Jams At Miller

By Bwog Staff on Feb 27, 2012 1 Comments

On January 25th, Don Byron’s New Gospel Quintet shared their heartfelt gospel jazz and fur hats with Morningside Heights. Seeker of the Funk Kem Walker reports from Miller Theater. Southern gospel is not the standard Morningside Heights musical fare—but that didn’t stop Don Byron’s New Gospel Quintet from jamming at Miller Theatre on Saturday night. Byron, with […]

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Starcraft Steals The Show

By Bwog Staff on Feb 27, 2012 14 Comments

Despite a rocky start to the season, the Columbia Starcraft team has made something of a comeback, finishing the regular collegiate season with a win against Tufts this past Sunday. The club has several dozen members overall, but sends only a team of the five frontrunners to compete in the Collegiate StarLeague—a league name which […]

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Bwoglines: Potentially Offensive Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 27, 2012 0 Comments

While some people were enjoying the Oscars, others thought that MC Billy Crystal’s jokes were “as obvious as a crying baby in Church.” (Reuters, The Hollywood Reporter) A Southwest Airlines pilot learned the hard way not to announce that there was a “mom on board.” (The Daily Mail) Educators face the dilemma of how to teach students […]

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Ahmadinejad NOT Invited to Campus, Bwog Confirms

By Bwog Staff on Feb 27, 2012 100 Comments

Contrary to the Columbia Daily Spectator’s top headline, “College Republicans plan to invite Ahmadinejad,” the Iranian president has not been invited to speak at Columbia by CUCR. Spec quotes from a supposed letter of invitation from CUCR to the Iranian dictator as a source. Bwog too received this “leak” on February 14th, and confirmed its […]

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Is Bo$$ $tatu$ the Future of Hip-Hop?

By Bwog Staff on Feb 26, 2012 116 Comments

You may have heard about Bo$$ $tatu$, self-styled “rap collective” of some thirteen 2015ers; they performed live for the first time at ADP’s coffehaus last weekend. $tylized $obriquet $upporter Conor Skelding made his way into a recording session. Last Thursday night, at a quarter til’ eleven, I found myself walking the fluorescent halls of Furnald, on […]

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Bwog Sports Sunday: We Are the Champions

By Bwog Staff on Feb 26, 2012 0 Comments

As the winter season comes to a close, a number of Lions have found themselves singing along to the 1977 Queen hit. Just today, the Women’s Track & Field team won the 2012 Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championship for the first time in school history, after coming in second for the last two years. In […]

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Lost: Cat Ring

By Bwog Staff on Feb 26, 2012 0 Comments

I lost a really valuable ring passed down to me by my great-grandma. It’s a gold cat ring with a gold outer band and a black face. I wore it in Plimpton and in Mel’s. If someone finds it PLEASE return it! It’s a really really meaningful item. My e-mail is rjk2137@barnard.edu and my number […]

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Bucket List: Population and Economic Growth, Rolling Stone, and Social Media in Korea

By Bwog Staff on Feb 26, 2012 3 Comments

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. Recommended: “The Population Bomb–Defused or Still Ticking?” Tuesday, February 28th, 4:00 […]

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Women’s Track and Field Wins the League

By Bwog Staff on Feb 26, 2012 16 Comments

Columbia won its first Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championship in school history today. We have no idea how T&F works, but they earned 124 points. On a side note, keep a look out for full BwogSports coverage later tonight. Congrats! team via Columbia Athletics

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Kevin Lee and the Citizen Musicians

By Bwog Staff on Feb 26, 2012 5 Comments

A cool new band name? Nope, something even bigger! Taking democracy into the concert hall, Kevin Lee, CC ’14, has set out to redefine the very notion of the “student orchestra” by tapping the depths of Columbia (and New York) musical talent to start one of his own. Bwog’s literal harmony hunter Alexandra Svokos sat […]

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Bwoglines: Truth Laid Bare Edition

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Bahamas
boycott Chick-fil-A
buy your chicken at KFC
celebs sans makeup FTW
go Demi!
Helen Mirren
hill is bae
hillary clinton
hillary has no secrets (except on her non-government email)
JJ's sells chicken wings
Joaquin let us down
love yourself
nudes
rock that bod
role models
snl
vanity fair
what secrets does hillary have?

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Trill Mah Finds Her Rhythm

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art kids are 2 cool 4 school
columbia gets artsy
i wish my ma was trill
i wish my mixtape was fire like this
is the future really odd though?
lit
music
my ma's just a regular ma
not your mother's hip hop
rap
still dont know how to pronounce wbar
the future is now
trill mah
wbar

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Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine, Visits Columbia University

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bwog got a fancy reserved seat
dreamboat petro
go columbia go
i want a recording of petro's giggle tbh
lecturehop
lol he said nobody trusts ukraine
petro poroshenko
petro sounds like petco
thanks obama
this was an interesting event
Ukraine
what a dreamer
world leaders forum
yay ukraine you came through

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A Bottle’s Odyssey: Poetry About That Empty Bottle In Carman

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alcohol
arts
bottles
bwog gets artistic
bwog gets artsy
crying bc feelings
emo pop punk tra$h
emos of columbia
empty
empty like my soul
go back to the new school you punks!!!!
i feel so emo reading this
i want to be that bottle
poetry
wait this isnt an art school why is there poetry

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2Girls1Snack: Too Many (Free) Snacks

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2girls1snack
clubs
cookies
damnit bwog why must you make me hungry
free food
free love
holy crap cravings
i want oreos so bad now
oh my god pizza sounds good too
ok now im hungry
the authors for this post are actually adorable tho

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Bwoglines: The Lowkey Apocalyptic Edition

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bwoglines
chicken little was a really weird movie
chik-fil-a
chik-fil-a should have pranked everyone by telling them they were opening sunday but then wind up being closed
donald trump
dunkin' donuts
haha what a guy
hunger games
hurricane joaquin
i am a meme lover
i dont know anyone who actually eats at dunkin donuts tho
its the end of the world as we know it
jennifer lawrence
joaquin phoenix
love meme
memes are so hot
more like joaq-meme amiright?!?!?!
now we just need in-n-out to come to nyc
send memes instead of dick pics
what a toupee
without dunkin donuts we will have our own hunger games amiright
without dunkin nyc will be just like the west coast
YA FIRED

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The Butler Beer Squatter

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bwog gets allegorical
bwog gets artistic
bwog gets imaginitive
Columbia personas
how much do you think the beer squatter spends on beer each semester
Persona Series
the butler beer squatter is an inspiration to us all
what was once in that take-out container? perhaps there was never any food there at all
you never know who (or what) you might find in butler

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#TBT: The Ten-Dollar Founding Father Without A Father

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#tbt
alexander hamilton
bwog is not throwing away our shot
bwog wants to see the hamilton musical
fun fact: hamilton was bi as hell (if you want confirmation read his correspondence with john laurens)
if you listen to the hamiltunes know that you will have 'my shot' stuck in your head for at least a week
just like our country we're young scrappy and hungry
tbh is there anyone who doesn't want to see the hamilton musical

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