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Some Returning Barnardians May Be Out $11k

By Bwog Staff on Aug 10, 2012 40 Comments

Barnard has a severe housing shortage. On Wednesday, residents learned that Plimpton rooms which in the spring were singles will this fall be doubles. Today, a student forwarded us an email from Barnard Res Life explaining that Barnard students returning from leave, and possibly transfers as well, may not get on-campus housing at all—may be […]

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It’s Fun to Stay at…

By Bwog Staff on Aug 10, 2012 40 Comments

The Y (which is very much not the YMCA). Plimpton residents, you could have it worse. Barnard really, really, lacks space. A tipster forwarded us this “email [that] students received who are returning from time off, and (possibly) all transfers also.” The email opens ominously: Thank you for applying for on-campus housing and for your […]

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College Blog Starts Magazine

By Bwog Staff on Aug 10, 2012 2 Comments

Personally, we think it’s better when college magazines start blogs. But you know those NYU kids. From the Observer: NYU Young Media War Rages On: The young folk of NYU Local—the pirate NYU news publication/blog, as opposed to the officially-mandated NYU publication, Washington Square News—is going to wage further war on its rival by putting […]

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Unlucky Barnard Students No Longer Single

By Bwog Staff on Aug 08, 2012 80 Comments

The following email was forwarded to Bwog: From: Residential Life & Housing <housing@barnard.edu> Date: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:58 AM Subject: Important email re: your Plimpton room assignment Dear [redacted] We are writing to you today because you are a resident of ##A# Plimpton (a corner room) with difficult news to share so close […]

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The Downtown Express

By Bwog Staff on Aug 08, 2012 10 Comments

Two, twenty-something co-workers—a plain, yet handsome, white man, and an Asian woman with good enough English—unexpectedly meet as they board at 96th street. They talk. On the train, as is the case with most train cars at 7:45 am, silent contemplation of the impending work day, one’s success in life, or unmet hopes and dreams […]

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The Limits Of The Literary

By Bwog Staff on Aug 07, 2012 16 Comments

Matthew Parker has a story and he knows how to tell it. He first tried pot at age 13 when he was living in Bridgeport, CT; soon after, he began to help his mom deal out of their house. He spent the next 27 years in and out of jail, using harder and harder drugs—eventually, […]

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The Chance At A Dorm That’s Like Watt, But Generally Better

By Bwog Staff on Aug 04, 2012 14 Comments

Update, 8/8: Now juniors can get in on the deal for a (very) limited time! Interested juniors should email the Housing team at housing@columbia.edu by THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH at 12 NOON. If you would like to be considered with a roommate BOTH roommates must email Housing confirming their willingness to transfer to UAH and state […]

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BREAKING: Building Fire at 110th

By Bwog Staff on Aug 03, 2012 6 Comments

Passersby of 110th and Amsterdam are reporting a visible building fire, only a few properties away from Harmony. According to Bwog’s reporter at the scene, firemen are using a ladder and axes to rescue people from the building. Four firetrucks, two ambulances, and multiple police cars have arrived at the scene to handle the situation, […]

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Deus Ex Columbia

By Bwog Staff on Jul 31, 2012 13 Comments

What happens when you’ve graduated from the Columbia theater scene and can no longer book space in Lerner to put on plays? For Brian LaPerche (CC ’12), Cody Holiday Haefner (CC ’12), and Alison Goldberg (BC ’12), the next logical step is the NYC Fringe Festival. Bwog sat down with the playwright (Brian), director (Cody), and […]

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What To Expect When You’re Expecting LionMail

By Bwog Staff on Jul 30, 2012 23 Comments

The froshpeople seem to have gotten the hang of things already, but you old fogies who still use CubMail directly are in for a rude awakening. Over the last few weeks, CUIT has been shuffling your shit in preparation for the move to Columbia’s new Google-powered platform, LionMail, on July 31st. That’s tomorrow. To avoid adding one […]

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NYC Gives Columbia $15M For New Data Science Campus

By Bwog Staff on Jul 30, 2012 32 Comments

Remember that contest for a new applied sciences campus that we lost? Well, we got a consolation prize! According to a press release from City Hall, the city will give Columbia $15 million towards the construction of the new Institute of Data Sciences & Engineering. Of course, it’s not really a new campus; Columbia’s just […]

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Are You There, Olympics? It’s Me, Columbia.

By Bwog Staff on Jul 28, 2012 27 Comments

While we’ve come to realize that Columbians may not be the most athletically inclined people, no one can deny that the Olympics are something that the whole world can come together for (mainly because they’re on TV). This year, at least 10 former and current Columbia students and coaches will be competing. Check out who’ll be […]

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In Defense Of The Butler Brusher

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butler
Butler is still a better dining hall than John Jay
butler is still a better dorm than Furnald
butler toothbrusher
I wish my roommate would live in butler and do his stuff there
ido
In Defense Of
okay but there are some people who literally live in butler
we're all the butler toothbrusher at our cores
we've spent a lot of time in butler and only saw this once

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Columbia Announces 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Inductees

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class of 2016
columbia college
congrats fam
hi sft
pbk
pbk 2016
phi beta kappa
phi beta kappa 2016

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Freshpeople Housing Reviews 2016: John Jay

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freshpeople
freshpeople housing review
housing review
Housing Reviews 2016
is diana hewitt's greasy older sister
jj's place
john jaby daddy
john janks for the memories
john jay
john jays greasy little brother
john jiggity
john jk we love john jay
john joke
john just kidding
john just kiss me
john yay
lmao
probably not

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Letters From The Inside

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bwog the new fyodor
cdcj
Goldberg
I am a sick man
I am a wicked man
letters from the inside vs letters from the underground
low library
novels
prezbo
protests
sleep
sleeper cells
sleeping
sleeping in Low
vibrators

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SGA Gets Updates On Divestment Task Force

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global warming lol
kudos to barnard for being so responsive to student input
lookin at u prezbo
nsop drama
penultimate
still pretty excited abt jj's
why can't barnard and columbia just be friends

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ESC Discusses Itself (Mostly)

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engineering students are terrible with crafty rhetoric
esc
ESC > other councils
I wish I could do math
SEASon to be jolly
this extended meeting really really sucked
we can't expect them to be rhetors though so no big deal
why was it so hot in Lerner 505???????

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Bwoglines: Don’t Pass Over This Edition

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Acela Primaries
bwoglines
emma sulkowicz
Obama knows free trade is good
paul nungesser
people arguing against TPP and TTIP smh
primaries erry day
Saudi Arabia looking progressive until you realize they fund militant Islam all around the world
Stay tuned to watch Bernie get beat again
Stay tuned to watch Bernie-bros cry again

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Field Notes: Passed Over Edition

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field notes
if you want cheap beer with absolutely no carding go to brighton beach apparently
should bwog have done a 'went high to seder' post? (maybe next year)
what's more important than lemonade? literally nothing
when will we pass on & out of this terrible columbia void
wish we could pass over finals

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