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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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Housingmaster: Waitlist Woes

By Bwog Staff on Jul 05, 2012 8 Comments

Update, 7/25: Some people, mostly juniors, have gotten off the waitlist. If you’re one of the lucky ones (or one of the unlucky ones who still have no idea where you’ll be living in 2 months) let us know in the comments. Don’t panic! All through the summer, we’ll continue to answer your housing questions. […]

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Name That Dean (The Sequel)

By Bwog Staff on Jul 04, 2012 72 Comments

Update, 7/8: The nominations are in and here are the finalists. Vote for your favorite! It’s that time of year again, when a dean resigns, and the next in line needs a nickname. Today, that is Interim SEAS Dean Donald Goldfarb. We tried to come up with some ourselves: Old McDonald’s Farb The Farber of […]

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Because Science Is Never Conclusive!

By Bwog Staff on Jul 04, 2012 7 Comments

While we in America celebrate the signing of some yellowed document, physicists around the globe are engaging in a less nationalistic, but equally historic celebration: the elusive Higgs Boson, the “missing piece” in our current understanding of the subatomic world, has been confirmed to five standard deviations of significance. This discovery was made using the […]

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Overheard: Actions Speak Louder Than Pep Talks

By Bwog Staff on Jul 04, 2012 6 Comments

Filed under things that make your $162 summer gym membership worth it: Person at the gym: “I’M PERFECT! I’M A COLUMBIA STUDENT! *Punches something* Opportunity to use a sports term that we had to Google via Wikimedia Commons

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BREAKING: Dean Peña-Mora Resigns

By Bwog Staff on Jul 03, 2012 79 Comments

Minutes ago, PrezBo and Coatsworth sent out the following email to the SEAS community, announcing Dean Peña-Mora’s sudden resignation. Could it have something to do with the faculty’s letters of no confidence last year (and this year)? Last fall, the Times reported that 80% of tenured faculty supported his replacement in a strongly worded letter. […]

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Summer Update, Part II

By Bwog Staff on Jul 03, 2012 10 Comments

As you take refuge from the sweltering midsummer heat (or cold, if you’re super abroad) amidst frozen margaritas with friends or popsicles on a couch you haven’t left in three days, the world somehow manages to continue turning. Keep reading to find out in which direction. Remember when J.P. Morgan lost more than $2 […]

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Unrequited Reading

By Bwog Staff on Jul 02, 2012 9 Comments

Though lost to history, we are working to bring you whatever we can from the May issue of The Blue & White. Here, Allie Curry explains how we are able to read things not written in English, even though we won’t pay for the convenience. The headline of a 2003 New York Times piece on […]

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“Roll on the Floor Laughing your ass off ???”

By Bwog Staff on Jun 30, 2012 20 Comments

History repeats itself, 2016. Prefrosh Facebook one another. Sometimes, they plan parties. This year, they’ve been inspired by Mean Girls, the 2004 teen comedy starring cute Lindsay Lohan. Those are pretty good quotes, to be fair, and these prefrosh clearly love the idea of Columbia. If only we could buy some of their enthusiasm on the street and […]

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SGA Endorses New TA Hiring Policy, Orgo Night, And Ombudsperson

Raji Ganapathy 0

barnard TA hiring policy
cumb wins
finally the people that protest CUMB can shut up
good job SGA
no real surprises here
ombudsperson on the way
remember to vote kids
senate updates
the band always wins
we guess elections pushed SGA to do something

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Barnard Students To Officially Receive JJ’s Access Next Year

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barnard
barnard meal plan
barnard students 4 jj's justice
diana
imagine how packed jj's will be on thursday nights now!!!!!
Jamba Juice!
jj's place
JJs

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Prospie Personalities: Already Found A Dealer

Gabrielle Kloppers 0

LEGALIZE COCAINE
lift the federal prohibition of marijuana
prospie archetypes
prospie personalities
seriously there are worse things that you could do than weed
some of us were definitely not like this
some of us were maybe like this
this is what happens when 20% of the school is from california

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New ESC, Who Dis?

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definitive ranking of council work: CCSC>ESC>GSSC>Spec>SGA
esc
esc does stuff
even when ESC doesn't do much they still do more than SGA
sorry sga
updates on updates
we only speak the truth

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Surf Through Primaries And Protesting On Butler’s Turf Today

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4/19
bring a vape pen
I need this food right now
I would leave Low for free ice cream ngl
surf and turf
surf n turf
this picture is making me so hungry
will the CDCJ people in Low get any food?

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Bwoglines: Beginnings And Ends Edition

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"Bernie-bros and Hillenials"
always love citing Reuters
Can't believe we actually used the term Hillenial
do people really still use Yahoo?
Houthis are playing a dangerous game here
we won't lie—Yahoo answers has had answers to every physics and math problem we've ever looked up
Yahoo lol

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Field Notes: Trash Edition

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after a long dry period hamilton reappears in field notes
as lin would say: 'the trash of the thing'
cat called by man as opposed to cat called by alien?
field notes
like if you too have a crush on trash
or as pulitzer prize-winning lin-manuel miranda would say: 'the trash of the thing'
we'll be playing drunk taboo at the next dwb

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CCSC Discusses The CDCJ Sit-in

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ccsc
CDCJ Protest 2016
like if you checked out the video (we did)
no 4/20 baked by melissa update this week?
the mystery of the sandwich ambassador continues
we're curious to find out ben's connection to the mickey mouse fan club
weekend at bollinger's
would the marijuana resolution have been more successful if ccsc met on wednesdays?

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