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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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Birdwatching in Wien

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 7 Comments

Yesterday afternoon, a small green bird infiltrated the 11th floor of Wien and try to update his/her Twitter status on an unsuspecting upperclassmen’s Macbook Pro. This is only the latest in a series of animal incursions into our purportedly urban habitat. You may recall last year’s bats in Hartley and squirrels in Claremont. Maybe they are trying to […]

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Free Food: Picture Perfect Pizza Party and Philosophical Partakings with Pazzaglini

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 2 Comments

A picture is worth a thousand slices of pizza, so head on over to Low Steps from 12 to 2 pm for free pizza and a free concert from the CU Photo Society. Also, if you’re more into mixing up some philosophy and neuroscience, Professor Peter Pazzaglini of the Columbia Neuroscience Society will host a lecture […]

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Bwoglines: Breaking the Mold Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 1 Comments

Columbia will implement a new system to review professors for tenure. It will be more effective but less specialized than the existing one. (Spec) The Trustees of Columbia University have proposed funding a renovation of the Columbia University Medical Center subway stop. It’s about time. That elevator is the worst! (2nd. Avenue Sagas) The Nobel […]

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200 Columbia Faculty Members Support Occupy Wall Street

By Bwog Staff on Oct 07, 2011 84 Comments

Update (11:00 pm, Oct. 10): The petition has been officially released. The online petition now has over 300 signatures. Update (11:16 am, Oct. 8): The petition now lists 292 signatures, which can be read here. As expected, the largest departmental representations are from FAS humanities, Sociology, History and Anthropology, but the list also includes professors […]

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Bucket List: Finals Edition

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#blacklivesmatter
#Studying While Black
bucketlist
Finals Edition
free food
more ebola stuff
more humanities stuff
more space travel stuff

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Bwoglines: Things Not Seen Until Now Edition

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bwoglines
planetary exploration
pluto back in action
Tyra Banks acting weird on t.v. and getting paid for it
We'd emergency land a plane too if we knew we we're flying to Philly
where's the harry / draco fanfic?

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Faculty Concerned About Plans For New Barnard Library

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14 floors was it?
barnard skybrary
barnard wollman library in adele lehman hall
just as long as the twitter account doesn't go anywhere
skybrary 2015

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The Fictional Inventories Of Columbia Facilities

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columbia facilities
cu weirdos
fictional narratives of columbia facilities
fifty shades of foul
inventory
maybe it was a creative writing exercise
redwall rats
shit gets cray
sideways stories from CU facilities
the plot thickens
what happened here

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AskBwog: Finding The Best Help

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askbwog
bwog loves you
cps and furman are still really great options
extend a hand
finals time
mental health
self-care
stay well columbia
we've all been there

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Party Testimonial: From The Desk Of Sylvia Plath

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ambiguous liquids
party testimonial
pretending to be sylvia plath
sylvia plath
the sin the sin!!!
why weren't we at this party
you'll find me rollicking

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Bwoglines: Two-Tiered Edition

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Barack Obama casting call
bwog seeks a mistress
bwoglines
nepotism galore
organize and unite
outrange upon outrage
proletarian grad students
short tags
the cats are women

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An Open Letter To The Students Of Columbia

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an open letter

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