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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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DSpar Writes About Women’s Guilt

By Bwog Staff on Jun 28, 2012 26 Comments

As Barnard’s 2011 Commencement speaker, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and one of the most powerful women in America, catalogued the industries and positions of power in which women are severely underrepresented. It turns out, that’s most of them. She encouraged Barnard’s graduating seniors to change these troubling statistics, adding the caveat that career decisions […]

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Electroacoustics With Parisian Composer Francesca Verunelli

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bien sur
bwog does art
bwog does music
concert
ekphrasis
europe
français
French
good tunes
listening
miller theater
music
music vs muzak
old stuff and new stuff
oui oui oui
we love French people

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SGA Election Results

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barnard
cupcakes and roses
democracy reppin
election results
remember september when one girl gave out cupcakes to bribe voters
results are in!!
sga
sga elections
there are a lot of positions up here
what does SGA stand for again?
when u run uncontested
ya barnard
yo the JR class VP position is vacant!

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LectureHop: The Rise Of The Literary Annual

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19th Century "Chick Lit" Or Flirting Mechanism?
almanac day like harry potter release day?
almanacs
æsthetic
british
Byron and Coleridge and Shelley oh my!
forget me not
lecturehop
literary annual
original aesthetic
rudolph the red nose reindeer
the "poetess aesthetic

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Prospie Personalities: Hardcore Normcore

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actually shoutout to jessica jones
admitted students weekend
are first impressions even real
are u even a prospie if u ED tho
are we cool yet
can't be too cool tho
days on campus
hardcore normcore
prospie personalities
shoutout to tolstoy
tbh me
that awkward moment
we want our pic in front of low

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Freshpeople Housing Reviews 2016: Wallach

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don't actually have shower sex in Wallach; that's not hygienic
hopefully there won't be anymore fires in the laundry room..... hopefully
the piano in the lounge is also really nice!
Wallach 7 is lit
Wallach: Better Than Hartley!
we've had so many fires that it's Wallach is literally lit

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Bwoglines: Prince Is Dead Edition

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bwoglines
feeling old- or young?
GOP cutting back
Houston is flooding
Lou Reed
Paris climate change agreement
prince is dead
so many musicians dead man
tbt when david bowie died
tbt when michael jackson died
vote bernie

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Prospie Personalities: Facebook Famous

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aunt gus
barnard dad
brunch
Facebook famous
Facebook infamous
fb
kombucha
luis rivera is so tall
prospie personalities
soggy eggs
vampireweekend
yoga

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“The Neoliberal University”: How Corporatization Endangers Education

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lecturehop
lookin @ you
neoliberal is the most uncomfortable categorization
prezbo
stay woke
what does globalization mean though
wonder if koch has ever met prezbo hmmmm

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