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Overheard: An Age-Old Adage

By Bwog Staff on Apr 13, 2012 13 Comments

Though it’s embarrassing to admit it any time after NSOP, we all miss Sex and the City from time to time. A lucky tipster got to relive a little bit of it in Ferris yesterday when he unwittingly sat next to two Samanthas: Girl 1: Ew, he’s like 28! Girl 2: No, he’s 26. Girl […]
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Wisdom Outlasts Bacon: GSSC Election Results

By Bwog Staff on Apr 13, 2012 2 Comments

The results from the General Studies Student Council elections have just come in; unlike your breakfast this morning, some balance has been achieved between indulgence and foresight: Student Body President: Jennifer Wisdom 51% Scott Bacon 35% Eugene Dinescu 9% Vice President of Policy: Nikki Morgan 50% Alexandra Leighton 26% Chief Policy Representative Alexandra Leighton, per […]
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Barnard Guts Their PE Requirement

By Bwog Staff on Apr 13, 2012 12 Comments

Citing “financial constraints,” AHinks just notified the Barnard community via email that their physical education requirement has been reduced from two semesters to one. Students can still take two semesters for credit, but why would anybody do something they didn’t have to? From: ahinkson@barnard.edu Date: April 13, 2012 12:10:01 PM EDT Subject: Change in PE […]
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Bwoglines: Failure to Launch Edition

By Bwog Staff on Apr 13, 2012 1 Comments

Well, this is embarassing. A North Korean long-range rocket launched this morning broke up after launch, raising many eyebrows and more than a few guffaws. (CNN) Core references in real life! Well, in a movie at least. (New Yorker) Not so fast, international censorship laws. (AKAScope) NASA might have found life on Mars! In 1976… […]
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Drinking With Bwog: Roadies Edition

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 7 Comments

If there’s one thing we’ve learned at Columbia, it’s how to make the most out of the least—as PrezBo himself once never said, “When life gives you lemons, make a weird gin cocktail in an empty lemonade bottle and bring it to South Lawn.” So in the spirit of efficiency and maximizing resources and cutting off […]
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Spotlight on Sports: The Ultimate Commitment

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 10 Comments

Last week, Bwog sat down with Dan Mullins, Florida native and member of Columbia’s Uptown Local, in the Butler lounge for some unconventional learning. Frisbee clutched faithfully in hand, he shared words of wisdom on one of the most parodied and misunderstood sports in modern culture. Endless mysteries surround Ultimate Frisbee: Is it great enough […]
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Straight Up Free Ice Cream

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Students for Substance Free Space (SFSFS), a special interest housing group, is giving out free ice cream in the McBain lobby right now.  Get there while supplies lasts!  Vanilla or chocolate with chocolate sauce and rainbow sprinkles.  They are also handing out info sheets from Ask Alice about alcohol and substance abuse.
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Town Hall on Open Course Evals

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 16 Comments

Yesterday, the USenate held a two-hour townhall on “Open Course Evaluations” in the Law School. Around 40 people attended, including a fair number of students.  The details of the proposal can be found here: the basic gist is that the primarily quantitative data will be released online, with at least one qualitative question, “Would you recommend […]
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Pro-Life and Pro-Cookies

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Free Westside cookies are to be had tonight, in Hamilton 602, courtesy of Columbia Right to Life. They’re holding a talk entitled, “Pro-Life, Pro-Woman: A Feminist Perspective.” According to Tess Murray, Treasurer, “Anyone who disagrees will have an opportunity to challenge [our guest speaker] at the end! We’re looking forward to a healthy dialogue and want […]
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Use Your Mailbox for More Than Netflix

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Thanks to the good people in the IPA (InterPublications Alliance, not that), you can now subscribe to have your selection of Columbia’s wonderful undergraduate publications delivered right to your Lerner mailbox. Cool, huh? So if you want to make sure you receive every issue of, oh we don’t know, The Blue & White, just fill out this […]
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What’s In the McKinsey Report?

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 3 Comments

Earlier this morning, The Eye published an article about shakeups in the upper echelons of the Columbia administration. The piece contained a couple of new nuggets in this seemingly never-ending story—including a summary of the infamous McKinsey report and changes to financial aid—but it can be difficult to keep track of everything that’s happened since […]
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This Land is Your Land?

By Bwog Staff on Apr 12, 2012 5 Comments

Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, who  wrote a piece for the New York Times Sunday Magazine 10 months ago in which he revealed that he is in fact an undocumented immigrant. He was at SIPA on Tuesday at 6 pm to talk about his own life story and about his latest project, Define American, a […]
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Declare Your Major, Barnard Bears!

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Bwoglines: A New (False?) Hope Edition

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Bwog, Be Nicer!

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Books In Bars: Arts And Crafts Beer Parlor

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Spiritualizing Neurology In The Fin De Siècle

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Start The Weekend With Some Heft

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What Students Actually Want To Buy On Buy/ Sell/ Trade

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How To Not Bore Your Reader: A Seminar By Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

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