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Bwoglines: Science Rules! Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 02, 2011 16 Comments

The Vagelos family is giving University of Pennsylvania a $13 million present to help the school create a new undergraduate program in energy research. As if helping students learn how to build solar powered cars isn’t enough, the program’s acronym is VIPER. Now we’re really jealous. (UPenn) Barnard President D-Spar was inducted into the American Academy […]

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Have a Grate Night

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 3 Comments

After a week of tiresome struggle, all of us at Bwog wish the Columbia community a frolicsome evening. Like this McBain resident did: Sleepwear courtesy of Alexandra Svokos

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A (Dramatic) View From the Bridge

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 36 Comments

The Occupy Wall Street protests continue on without an end in sight, and things heated up today around the Brooklyn Bridge. The protesters marched down the vehicle portion of the bridge, completely stopping traffic in the lanes. The NYPD responded quickly, blockading both sides and making nearly 400700 arrests, out of a total 1500 marchers. Paddy wagons as […]

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Boringside Heights: Maximum Efficiency Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 5 Comments

If you are as impatient as the rest of us when waiting in line for anything, hopefully this week’s edition of Boringside Heights will make things move a bit more quickly.

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Overheard: Pirating the Supernatural

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 5 Comments

False accusations of copyright infringement: “What the hell? I’m blocked from the internet because they’re saying I illegally downloaded a lecture on Jewish Mysticism. I didn’t.” Copyright via Wikimedia Commons, Copyright

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Free Food for Feminists

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 9 Comments

For all those tired out from today’s SlutWalk events, head over for to Stephen Donaldson Lounge in Furnald Basement (yeah, we didn’t know it was called that either) from 4 to 6 pm for dinner and discussion with the Columbia Women’s Organization. They promise free food from Indian Café, as well as free knapsacks, water […]

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RoomHop: Fairy Tale Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 13 Comments

Roomhopping returns with Disney dorm decor. Bwog’s Sam Schipani takes a trip back in time… Beulah Sims-Agbabiaka, CC ’15, is loading a Princess Tiana doll into a care package for her sister while watching Princess and the Frog on her personal TV. “It’s comforting,” Beulah explains. “I watch it about once every two weeks.” Even though […]

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Foreign Correspondent Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 5 Comments

Bwog is occasionally inclined to showcase the artistic talent of the Columbia community. One of our renegade ‘toonists, Jamila Barra, is abroad in Argentina this semester studying Spanish (duh), Latin American philosophy, drawing, and ceramics. In her drawings, she captures telltale figments of everyday life in Mendoza and Chile. When Bwog asked her to articulate […]

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SlutWalk NYC

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 24 Comments

A Toronto policeman’s advice that women could escape rape if they avoided “dressing like sluts” has sparked international protest. In nearly 80 cities around the world, women (and men) are stripping down to fight this prevailing view that victims are “asking for it.” However “slutty” they dress, women never invite their rapists. Today, the SlutWalk […]

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The Alternative Morningside Almanac

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 0 Comments

Just when you thought you had really got the local beer/look ma I read Michael Pollan!-thing down, a new facet of virtuous food consumption is revealed. From 9 – 5 every Saturday, Community Markets curates gathering of farmers and artisinal food producers. Located at the corner of 110th St and Manhattan Avenue (the southeast corner […]

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Bwoglines: Cause and Effect Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 01, 2011 2 Comments

Effect: The Columbia University Medical Center will award three Columbia biologists the prestigious Horwitz Prize. Cause: The scientists were the first researchers to demonstrate the molecular mechanisms behind circadian rhythm, which can be used to cure sleep disorders. (CUMC) Effect: The number of military veterans enrolling in the General Studies school is predicted to decline […]

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SocketHop: The Butler Buzz

By Bwog Staff on Sep 30, 2011 2 Comments

In the latest installment of SocketHop, Minister of Miracles, Marcus the Magn(et)ificent Levine, answers why your headphone-covered ears ring when you walk through the Butler detectors? Don’t let the tranquil, seldom broken silence of the reading rooms fool you—Butler is a very loud place. Not just Butler, but practically everywhere in the modern world is […]

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LectureHop: Gaza, The IDF Code Of Ethics, And The Morality Of War

Max Rettig 23

ethics
gaza
gs
israel
jts
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Bwoglines: Thankful Edition

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"I'm just a bill"
#sunday edition
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getting really thankful
Netflix is going to take over the world
Obama signs another executive order
Obama's Deportation relief plan
sorry for all the HuffPost we're feeling a little uncreative
this monkey is adorable actually though
watching Schoolhouse Rock was the only reason we showed up to AP Gov. senior year tbh
we hope this show is just as good as 30 rock

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Lecturehop: Bill Drayton, CEO of Ashoka

Karen Yuan 2

ashoka
bill drayton
doomsaying
imagine all the people
social entrepreneurship
waitin on the world to change
you may say i'm a dreamer

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Overheard: Preaching to the Choir

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bwog doesn't make rash generalizations
just putting it in terms they understand
like you've never misspelled Dodge as Doge
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From The Issue: The Guide To Living

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book review
from the issue
la-verna j. fountain
reading this shit so you don't have to
self-help books will be the end of us
the blue and white
the mag does book reviews
we can't with this title

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CMTS’s Rousing “The Drowsy Chaperone”

Ross Chapman 6

bring drowsy back
bwog has a stiff upper lip
Bwog reviews theatre
bwog's desire is far from fictional ya feel
drowsy doesn't get used enough nowadays
the theatre the theatre what's happened to the theatre?

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Bwoglines: Hangover Rollercoaster Edition

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"biblical end times"
bwog's ex is currently taking a gap year in madagascar
bwoglines
drinking always makes us emotional
drinking with bwog
women laughing with salad (and wine)
yung dolla sign

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FREE FOOD: SFSFS Open House Tonight

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dangerous substances
free food
pugs not drugs
pumpkin pie
really though will there be pugs
sfsfs
special interest communities
we all scream for ice cream

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