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Barnard Guts Their PE Requirement

By Bwog Staff on Apr 13, 2012 12 Comments

Citing “financial constraints,” AHinks just notified the Barnard community via email that their physical education requirement has been reduced from two semesters to one. Students can still take two semesters for credit, but why would anybody do something they didn’t have to? From: ahinkson@barnard.edu Date: April 13, 2012 12:10:01 PM EDT Subject: Change in PE […]

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Bwoglines: Failure to Launch Edition

By Bwog Staff on Apr 13, 2012 1 Comments

Well, this is embarassing. A North Korean long-range rocket launched this morning broke up after launch, raising many eyebrows and more than a few guffaws. (CNN) Core references in real life! Well, in a movie at least. (New Yorker) Not so fast, international censorship laws. (AKAScope) NASA might have found life on Mars! In 1976… […]

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Drinking With Bwog: Roadies Edition

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 7 Comments

If there’s one thing we’ve learned at Columbia, it’s how to make the most out of the least—as PrezBo himself once never said, “When life gives you lemons, make a weird gin cocktail in an empty lemonade bottle and bring it to South Lawn.” So in the spirit of efficiency and maximizing resources and cutting off […]

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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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Quiz: Which (Bad) Columbia Publication Are You?

Ross Chapman 4

bwog being self-deprecating
not all of the answers are spec we promise (just ... a couple of the answers)
quiz
this was originally pitched as "which questionable spec practice are you" but there were too many to narrow down into just one quiz

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Bwoglines: Innocent Beginnings Edition

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bwoglines
i can't do tags today fam it's 6 am

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Field Notes: Superb Owl Edition

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bwog is a problematic meme
bwog is full of people living successful lives and expertly navigating social situations
field notes
is the superb owl joke dead yet? i guess we'll find out once we post this
like if the puppy bowl > the super bowl
Super Bowl

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Islam Awareness Week: Reclaiming Muslim Narratives

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but is anyone from cu apartheid divest going to these
columbia msa
Events
the only thing better than claiming a narrative is reclaiming a narrative
this post is kinda like bucket list ... except that it isn't

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How To Get Out Of Discussing Reading You Didn’t Do

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it's 2016 why doesn't speed-reading technology exist yet
mentioning donald trump is an effective way of getting literally any conversation off track
seminar problems
seriously though how do profs expect us to do 80 pages of reading in two days
we have lives to live and bwog posts to write
yeah we had to sneak in a hamilton reference - it's kind-of instinctual at this point

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Barnard Fossil Fuel Divestment Gains Success

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barnard divest
breaking ish
dspar will prob be in stilettos
fossil fuel divest
reminder post

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CSC Lunar Gala 2016 Promises Fashion, Food, And Fun

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celebrating the new year with food and fashion and student performances - the chinese clearly know how to party
csc lunar gala
the food's not free so it better be really delicious
we just want to know about the mysterious afterparty mentioned in the facebook event
will the moon also make a special guest appearance

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Bwoglines: Fucking Shit Up Edition

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bwog is suddenly very worried about the role of maggie the magnolia in relation to climate change
bwoglines
construction at barnard then at penn station - what's next? construction at lerner?
maggie must be the right type of tree though. how could she be anything else
okay tbh we wouldn't be entirely opposed to construction at lerner
the trees are contributing to global warming? the trees ... betrayed us?
what is a catch? is it a football play? that cute girl you almost talked to in your polysci lecture?

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