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The Dems Are Trying to Feed You

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 1 Comments

The Activist Council of CU Dems are hosting a discussion with Professor Dorian Warren (CULPA gold nugget recipient) today at 5pm in Kent 628. There will be free food accompanied by discussion of labor issues and unions. Classy proto-hippies via Wikimedia Commons.

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Boringside Heights: Double, Double Bore and Trouble Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 8 Comments

With Halloween quickly approaching, a few small changes have been made both on and off campus to prepare for maximum spookage.

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Ashy Plume Erupts over Barnard

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 23 Comments

Bwog received multiple tips this morning about an ashy disturbance looming over Barnard and Columbia’s campus. Public Safety stated that they haven’t heard anything about ash raining down around 116th, but Housing suggested that it might just be from the newly lit heating unit in that building. All we do know is that black ash […]

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Food Sold at 100% Loss

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 1 Comments

Want to learn about what makes affordable credit possible? Then don’t go to the “POWER STEALS! Teach-in” from 1-3pm in the IRC (552 W 114). The “Freedom School” is hosting the event as a way to raise awareness about the evil doings of Goldman Sachs. There will be free Ethiopian from Massawa. The Yelp reviews […]

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Overheard: In a Foreign Land

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 4 Comments

A flustered, out of breath, and out of place student runs into Carleton (Engineering cafeteria) and runs up to a group of engineering students: CC: WHERE IS THE TA ROOM? SEAS: …could you be a little more specific? CC: I’m sorry, I’m a history major! Charming southern gentleman via History Dept.

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Bwoglines: Thinkin’ Hard Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 0 Comments

Think traffic in New York is bad? We ain’t got nothing on Caracas, Venezuela. Driving there has become so treacherous that the mayor has hired a cadre of mime traffic cops in order to subdue unruly drivers. (ABC News) Think Occupy Wall Street protests are a sign of bad times? It turns out that they […]

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Out with the Planking, In with the Coning

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 16 Comments

As inexplicable social games continue to develop, Columbia has witnessed the emergence of coning. Recently, an east campus statue was duncecapped by an unknown prankster. Could he/she be making a statement about society’s blind faith in the protection of our security system, or is this simply inebriated revelry? The world may never know. Coning […]

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Professors are People Too

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 1 Comments

We often forget (but Bwog often likes to remind us) that the most valuable resources at Columbia are our professors. For many, professors seem distant and de-humanized; just that guy or gal standing at the front of the class pontificating about some strange subject for an hour and fifteen minutes. At the same time, we […]

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Roundup: Crime

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 5 Comments

There is no need to fear. DNA Info’s Crime and Safety report for Morningside Heights has produced mainly positive results. In summation, Morningside Heights is the 38th safest neighborhood in Manhattan the city, and the 7th safest in Manhattan There has been a 76% drop in crime since 1993 There was a 3% rise in major […]

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Quantum Mechanical Street Art: Schrodinger’s Cat

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 20 Comments

If you seal a cat in a metal box with a decaying radioactive substance and a jar of cyanide, isn’t the cat both alive and dead until you open the box and look? The paradox that this week’s Frontiers of Science lecture presented caused an artistic freshperson to go Banksy on some quantum mechanics.

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The Life of a Genius, in Pictures

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 6 Comments

Yesterday, Jim Ottaviani, author of the recently released graphic novel “Feynman“, stopped by Butler as part of his book tour. He discussed Richard Feynman— his book about a sardonic Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a knack for bongos, and the appeal of graphic novels. Bwog Daily Editor and Feynman Fan Brian Wagner was in attendance. To […]

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Adrenaline Aficionados Gather for The Broadway Bomb

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 2 Comments

Update: And they’re off! Send your pictures to tips@bwog.com The Broadway Bomb, the annual illegal longboard race down the legendary avenue, kicks off today at noon. Skaters meet at 116th and Riverside, charge up the hill, careen around the corner, and barrel down Broadway. For more details, check out our coverage of last year’s race […]

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Students Stage Protest At Tree Lighting Ceremony

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not your typical tree lighting ceremony
protests
tree lighting ceremony 2014
we can't breathe

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A Call For Closing Remarks

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a good reason to get your memory going
bye bye classes
call for closing remarks
do good things in the world
if you remember anything from the class remember this
inspiring speeches and awkward last statements
it's a different kind of challenge
make your profs Bwog famous
send them in!

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PSA: Latenite Fall Anthology This Weekend

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arts
culture yourself
LateNite
not late night with jimmy fallon
take a fucking study break
theater

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On Tape: How Sexual Assault Activism Works

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casv
coalition against sexual violence
emma sulkowicz
from the issue
longish reads
no red tape
nrt
preview from the blue and white
Sejal Singh
sexual assault
sexual assault activism
the blue and white
zoe ridiolfi-starr

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ESC, CCSC, SGA, GSSC, And The Columbia Blue Key Society Present: The 2014 Annual Tree Lighting and Yule Log Ceremonies!

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Bwog does holiday cheer
enthusiasm and good feeling over historical legacy: Columbia's place in the ivies
exclamation points convey enthusiasm!
so much cider
tree lighting ceremony

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Bwoglines: All You Need To Know About Immigration Right Now Edition

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bwoglines
bwogside chats
never stopped giggling at ‘Boehner’
that time of year: when our government decides to stop functioning
xenophobia worldwide

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Protesters And Police Take Morningside Heights

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lights like you've never seen
morningside heights
nypd
protests
this is our campus

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Columbia Does Comfort, And Then Bwog Tells You About It

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all advice thoroughly tested. Today.
bwog does good
celebrating our culture: witty dickery
columbia traditions: falsely proving authenticity
columbia traditions: sobbing
please do not actually follow any of this advice
we're in this together; and we are all dicks

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