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Ruby Bridges on Faith, Forgiveness, and Racism

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 9 Comments

On Wednesday night, the Veritas Forum hosted a forum with Ruby Bridges, along with two Columbia interviewers: Professor Michele Moody-Adams and Gabrielle Apollon, CC ’09, SIPA ’10. Ilya Wilson, CC ’12, introduced Bridges after performing an original spoken-word piece dealing with Bridges’ impact on her identity as a young black woman. Bwog’s procrastinating lecturehopper, Peter […]

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Make-Your-Own-Instrument Open Mic at Greenborough

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 5 Comments

Greenborough is putting out a call for “trash bins, pots, pans, PVC-pipes, spoons, rubber bands and homemade didgeridoos” for their second open mic of the year tonight at 8 pm. In addition to the melodious sounds of improvised instruments there will be some homemade food and prizes for the best acts. Musicians and listeners of all […]

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Bunsen Bwog: Devil’s in the Details

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 7 Comments

This week Zach Kagan, Bwog’s resident Research Rubbernecker has compiled tales of mistakes, myth busting, and gut instinct for your enlightenment. Last year physicists at CERN observed that neutrinos seem to travel faster than the speed of light. The team sent the particles from the Swiss facility to an underground laboratory in Italy and found they […]

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Spotlight on Sports: Chess

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 10 Comments

So you own a Columbia University sweatshirt—maybe you’ve even worn it to a football game or two. But what can you really say about Columbia’s lesser-known sporting scene? Cue Spotlight on Sports, in which we do the dirty work for you. Wannabe-Che(ss)xpert Ella Quittner hung out with Columbia’s chess club this past week to find […]

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Housingmaster: Hailing From Overseas

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 1 Comments

Q: I’m entering a suite with a few other guys, one of whom is studying abroad this semester. I know there are some extra steps we have to take, like designating a proxy for housing selection, but are there any other pitfalls that housing won’t tell me about until we fall into them? A: Put simply, no. Students […]

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LectureHop: Financial Justice, Affirmative Action, and Columbia

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 2 Comments

Thursday evening the World Leaders Forum hosted US Attorney General Eric Holder, who defended the Department of Justice’s policies on the financial industry, affirmed affirmative action, and gave attendees the opportunity to compare his impressive mustache to PrezBo’s hair. Government Guru Brit Byrd reports: As PrezBo’s introductory comments waxed even more glistening than his own […]

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Bwoglines: Assessing the Situation Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 1 Comments

This fancy infographic allows Columbians to compare their debt burden with everyone else’s.(Slate) U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is surprised that Americans don’t notice all the justice he’s bringing. (Capital) Tumblr has explored the darker corners of their site and decided that self-harm blogs have to go. (Time) It’s time to assess Oscar hopefuls and […]

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Found: Valuables signed Kathleen and/or Molly

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 0 Comments

Left in the John Jay 5th floor bathroom. Security has your items.

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Overheard: A Good Problem to Have

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 10 Comments

Earlier tonight, a girl to her friend: “I have too much homework to cheat on my boyfriend tonight.” Image via Wikimedia Commons

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Orchesis Embraces Animalistic Tendencies

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 0 Comments

While you may recognize her name from the captions of innumerable Bwog illustrations, Louise McCune expresses her artistic appreciation of a more sensual form in her review of Orchesis’ new show. If you could only get your hands on the program, piece titles like “Bird Girl,” “Feral,” and “Late Anthropocene” should give you a clue […]

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LectureHop: Hilton Als on Nonfiction Dialogues

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 0 Comments

Bwog’s Twin Truth Hunters, Alex Avvocato and Eynon, braved the swarm of soon-to-be-homeless graduate students to bring you an inter-generational campus character. The first impression of Hilton Als is surprisingly snuggly given that he’s a survivor of both the dicey starving artist New York of yesteryear and the cutthroat world of glossy magazines. The current […]

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NYPD Surveillance: PrezBo Responds Again

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 17 Comments

Following AP‘s reveal of NYPD surveillance of Muslim student groups both inside and outside the city extended to Columbia, PrezBo and DSpar responded with disapproval. But was disapproval enough? Columbia’s MSA called for an outright condemnation. Just about half an hour ago, PrezBo sent yet another e-mail that Columbia had no prior knowledge to the event. He stresses that we must feel […]

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Public Safety Sends Crime Alert For EC Sexual Assault

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breaking
crime alert
east campus
sexual assault

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Field Notes: American Apparel Edition

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"favorite meaty Swipes app" what a call out!!
#CuffingSeason
1020
american apparel
drunken snaps
envisioning the McBain vending machine as a currency exchange machine
field notes
finding yourself on the roof of Havemeyer
good friends don't let their friends CAVA themselves needlessly
good morning
headless mannequins/butts as dorm decoration
literal falls
making out in the showers
stop discriminating against duane reade bears
Symposium
the fall is a lot longer than the rise
they probably knew the ID was fake bc of the new scanning software but they're softies on the inside
tinder

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Snapshots Of Carman Unmoored, Yearning

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carman
carman envisioned as the wild west
dark night of the soul
drake would probably live in furnald tbh
elevator drama
letting the entropy of the universe consume us
rogue hearts
rogue toilet paper
thirst
this is supposed to be the social dorm but we still don't know our floormates' names...but that's probably our fault
we took that picture of the tree before halloween so imagine how long it's been waiting to be relevant

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Seniors, Let Us Bask In Your Wisdom

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bwog senior wisdoms 2015
do you remember reading these with excitement and trepidation as a pre-frosh/first year
let the flames of wisdom warm you as the weather cools down
nominate your friends/enemies/frenemies
okay but no one can compete with an actual owl
there is no shame in nominating yourself
vs actual wisdoms
winter wisdoms

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The Real Deal About The Lerner Reveal

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don't let this distract you from the truth
gossip
investigative journalism
Jose Rosa
keys
mailboxgate 2015
psa
throwing away your key is the new dashing a rolex on the ground
trapped in steel and glass and the horrors of artifice: alfred j. lerner hall
will the phasing out affect anyone in any way
you know it's official when

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See You At The Varsity Show Auditions Today (And Tomorrow)!

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bwog has stage fright so we wont be seeing you at the auditions
don't you feel that audition processes build this send of camaraderie as you're all stuck and stressed in the same room or actually maybe the opposite
no experience necessary
psa
school traditions
take a risk
time's a tickin'
v122
vshow rlly loves itself

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Update On Barnard Winter Break Housing

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administration woes
barnard
dspar hears you
update on (lack of) barnard winter break housing
winter break housing

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Alumni Interactions And Bacchanal Survey Results At CCSC!

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Bacchanal survey
Barnard Winter Housing
Blame CCA for Matilda the Goat not becoming our mascot
cafe east
Cafe East > Cafe 212
CCA
ccsc
How Columbia Got Its mascot
Kyra Barry
lots of updates
resignations
sandwich deals--the rllest update in this whole post
ummm we're not that into sports guys taking over our cozy Lerner lounge
Widescreen TVs in Lerner
writing paragraphs in the survey: how could we not

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