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Too Bad We’re Not Allowed to Have Candles

By Bwog Staff on Jul 17, 2012 2 Comments

Some say a friend’s worth may be measured by whether or not he or she remembers your birthday. Oops! The Internet just reminded us that Columbia King’s College turns 258 today. Gothamist commemorated the day with neat old photos and some stories from the days Columbia spent romping around between Morningside Heights and Madison Avenue. […]
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If These Tees Could Talk

By Bwog Staff on Jul 17, 2012 18 Comments

Bwog’s Westside Bureau Chief, Diana Clarke, imagines a dialogue between herself and her new Westside tee. A recent trip downtown took me to the Westside on Fourteenth Street, where I were startled into new appreciation for the market by seeing it out of context (as it happens, you can only get 3 am grapes at […]
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GS Student Could Be Regis For A Day

By Bwog Staff on Jul 16, 2012 6 Comments

GS student/surfer/model/philanthropist Will Tant will compete with four other finalists beginning today to guest host an episode of “Live With Kelly Ripa.” Each day this week, one of the contestants will be eliminated until only the winner remains. If Will scores the host spot, he’ll get to appear alongside guest Will Ferrell on July 24, which happens […]
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Goldean Takes The Gold

By Bwog Staff on Jul 15, 2012 17 Comments

We asked, and you answered—with a 90s reference, of course. With 46% of the total votes, Goldean is the official new nickname for interim Dean Goldfarb, to be used henceforth in all Bwog posts and relevant legalese*. No word yet on whether Goldean will embrace his new name, but we’re like 90% sure this makes PrezBo Ash […]
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Columbia Gets a Chief Digital Officer

By Bwog Staff on Jul 13, 2012 15 Comments

On Wednesday, Sree Sreenivasan, formerly the J-school’s Dean of Student Affairs, became Columbia’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer. The tech blog AllThingsD (run by two of Sree’s former students J-school alums) reported the news shortly after it was announced in emails from Prezbo and Provost Coatsworth. But just what does a Chief Digital Officer do? Sree […]
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Royal Pains on Campus

By Bwog Staff on Jul 13, 2012 6 Comments

Fans of middling summer television will be whelmed to see episodes of Royal Pains being filmed right outside of Carman Hall. The show, which typically does not film in New York City, follows a concierge medicine business in the Hamptons (episodes air on USA, on Wednesdays at 9 pm; can we have our money now?). Overheard off […]
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Columbia Football Photobombs White Tupac

By Bwog Staff on Jul 13, 2012 39 Comments

From Getty, on the Daily Mail, of all places
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First Taste of that Dark, Columbian Roast

By Bwog Staff on Jul 13, 2012 28 Comments

Anonymous email sent in last night which recounts a critical moment in the Columbian life-cycle: At approximately 5pm EST, a shot was fired. “Housing?!” posted one eager student in the Columbia – Class of 2016 Facebook grouper, sending over 1,000 students into a rush to get to LionMail first. No doubt, this would create traffic; […]
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Proof That the Sun Revolves Around Manhattan

By Bwog Staff on Jul 11, 2012 8 Comments

In a combination of astronomy and municipal history, the “Manhattanhenge” phenomena, “discovered” by Columbia’s own Neil DeGrasse Tyson, occurs today and tomorrow (July 11 and 12) at sunset. For more information about the science involved, Scientific American’s blog has some interesting background (and a tool to determine”-henge” moments in other cities), and Wikipedia has a nifty […]
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Sherry on the Rocks

By Bwog Staff on Jul 10, 2012 29 Comments

As debate continues over whether or not Sheherezade “Sherry” Jaafari,  former press aide to Bashar al-Assad, should have been granted admission to SIPA, some of our own weigh in. David Fine, CC ’13, interviewed Columbia professors, students, and alumni in a piece published on Tablet. Interviewees include Elazar Barkan, the director of Columbia’s Institute for the […]
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Moving Your Stuff, “Transparently”

By Bwog Staff on Jul 09, 2012 15 Comments

In an e-mail sent out earlier this afternoon, CUIT’s LionMail team informs you that they have their grubby hands on your data and they’re doing some fancy new-fangled shuffling—but don’t worry, they’ll be gentle: Dear Undergraduate Student, We hope you are excited about your upcoming move to LionMail @ Columbia. On July 31 you will be start to […]
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Body Found at 116th in Riverside Park

By Bwog Staff on Jul 08, 2012 37 Comments

A dead body was found hanging from a tree in Riverside Park this evening, between 115th and 116th. An NYPD officer on the scene told Bwog that the body belongs to a man in his thirties who is unaffiliated with Columbia. A person passing through the park noticed the body and alerted the police around 7:45 […]
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Columbia Class Of 2020 Shares Its College Essays

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Bwoglines: Drama Edition

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Barnard Class of 2020 Harassing Malia Obama

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Subsidized Senior Ball Tickets For Qualifying Students

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Housing Reviews 2016: Financial Aid Office

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Housing Coverage 2016, Day 3

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Introducing The Columbia Class Of 2020: Just Plain Weird

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Tamasha Rising Tomorrow Night!

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