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Did Barnard Break Its Housing Guarantee?

By Bwog Staff on Aug 16, 2012 60 Comments

The Barnard housing crisis just got worse: we now know that Barnard students who went on leave signed contracts guaranteeing housing—only to return and find those guarantees gone. Bwog has obtained evidence indicating that Barnard violated returning students’ housing contracts earlier this year by changing the terms, and revoking their promised guaranteed housing. Our tipster, who […]
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Boringside Heights: Bigger Is Better Edition

By Bwog Staff on Aug 16, 2012 14 Comments

Morningside Heights may have spent all summer heaving great sobs of loneliness, but it isn’t about to greet newcomers and returning students with super puffy eyes. On the contrary, it’s been having quite a bit of work done. Send any minutiae we missed to tips@bwog.com.    
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Returning Barnardians Were Guaranteed Housing in 2009

By Bwog Staff on Aug 15, 2012 16 Comments

Update, 6:16 pm: Dean Hinkson just sent us this statement: The policy was changed last February (2012) due to more and more returning students requesting housing, and overall, more students opting to stay on campus instead of seeking off-campus housing. Even so, we are making every effort to accommodate as many students as we can […]
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Houses And Homes: Italy

By Bwog Staff on Aug 15, 2012 10 Comments

Bwog wants to know what your living space was like for this past summer. Were you back home? Staying in New York? Did you find yourself (abroad?)?  Send us a photo of your view or room before you move out, along with a brief description of where you were to tips@bwog.com. To kick things off… […]
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Eating From The Appletree Inspires Doubt

By Bwog Staff on Aug 15, 2012 6 Comments

More good stuff from r/Columbia; this time, suspicious use of scare quotes at Appletree: “Food” from imgur
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Deantini To Get A Marinaccio Cherry Garnish

By Bwog Staff on Aug 15, 2012 8 Comments

Deantini and Dean Marinaccio at a staff meeting (metaphorically) Update, 8/15 1:30 pm: Deantini has emailed us back to explain why he decided to move Financial Aid and Admissions out of the Division of Student Affairs: I wanted Admissions and Financial Aid reporting directly to me. Whom we admit to the College is the most […]
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Spotted: Crossing Disciplines

By Bwog Staff on Aug 14, 2012 6 Comments

Update, 10:07 pm: Speaking of Reddit, /u/millie1889 registered r/Barnard today. No activity as of yet. r/Columbia found this short poem in a Mudd bathroom.
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Ubiquitous Korean International idol Super Star

By Bwog Staff on Aug 14, 2012 52 Comments

According to tipsters, AJ, one-seventh of the Korean boy band U-KISS, will be officially joining the Columbia student body this fall.  In fact, he “safely arrived at the Columbia University a few days ago” “and was busy to finish some works prior to the beginning of the semester!” We’re not sure which one is AJ (here’s a […]
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Hawkma Rules the Playground

By Bwog Staff on Aug 14, 2012 4 Comments

When we last saw Hawkma, she was homemaking on JJ 10. Today a tipster spotted her surveying Morningside Park. As she soared from perch to perch a father pointed to the skies and shouted, “Look, son, there she goes!”
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AHinks Responds to Barnard Housing Crisis

By Bwog Staff on Aug 13, 2012 14 Comments

Late last week, we learned that Barnard students returning from leave or transferring in will probably have to live off-campus, which could mean the loss of some financial aid and on-campus housing the year after. We reached out to Dean Hinkson to hear the Barnard administration’s side of the story. Upside: Barnard students might not be […]
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ESPN Bit with Usain Bolt Filmed at Baker Field

By Bwog Staff on Aug 13, 2012 10 Comments

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Columbia Class of 3012

By Bwog Staff on Aug 13, 2012 8 Comments

Tipster Ron G. sends us these screenshots from the latest episode of Futurama. The school has everything from iconic gates… …to red-brick, neoclassical buildings and the Van Am tholos … …to cheap tuition. But Columbia(c) is not the first university to be featured on Futurama. A few weeks ago, an episode set in the sewers […]
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Finals Playlist: Regrets Of The Semester

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  • "one word from you and i would jump off of this ledge i'm on"
  • deliver us unto border cafe
  • deliver us unto dunkin donuts
  • deliver us unto life alive
  • jk throwing ourselves into the charles it's cleaner than the hudson
  • re: swim good we could have made a weak joke about the swim test but we didn't
  • regrets of the semester
  • throwing ourselves in the hudson
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Stuff You Can Get For Free At Columbia

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  • CUCR Pizza
  • free food
  • free stuff
  • lube
  • Three-ply toilet paper
  • using your CUID to get free stuff
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Senior Wisdom: Hallie Nell Swanson

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  • Bwog loves our mom/dad/other the Blue and White
  • Maybe her claim to fame should be that she trolled too hard and made England mad
  • raging is very important for the spirit
  • senior wisdom
  • sophomore class page activist
  • swandiggidydog
  • swandoggy
  • swansiblings
  • when Prezbo apologizes for the statue and we wonder if his programming has a bug
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Senior Wisdom: Vivek Ramakrishnan

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  • "Fuck it it's prestigious"
  • Does the triple-ply help if you fall ass-backwards into CCSC?
  • Fun with Columbia's bureaucratic acronyms
  • get this boy to a broadway play!
  • how did ben and viv sneak into CCSC?
  • One half of the famous duo Ben and Viv
  • senior wisdom
  • successful joke CCSC political campaigns
  • Vivek Ramakrishnan
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Bwog In Bed: The Days Of Mud

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  • bookslut
  • Butler beer pong
  • bwog in bed
  • donald j. trump
  • mud mud mud
  • or if you're in SEAS Mudd
  • Shostakovich's string quartets
  • The age of Trump
  • The days of mud
  • The White Stripes
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Field Notes: Save Us From Finals Purgatory Edition

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  • beyonce without question > studying
  • field notes
  • good luck on ur finals columbia ... try not to fuck it up (more than you already have)
  • netflix > studying
  • reading bwog > studying
  • s/o to our favorite mainer JRM
  • taking snipe photos of guys in your reading room > studying
  • tbh almost anything > studying
  • wine > studying
  • wish our only responsibility was napping. we're real good at that.
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Senior Wisdom: Sean Augustine-Obi

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  • 'most internet arguments aren't worth reading' @ our comment threads next time
  • 'things are better now unless you enjoyed paying for laundry' ... or unless you go to barnard
  • 'vegan penis' sounds like the name of a really bad punk rock band
  • senior wisdom
  • we'd also want to hear stories of what he does when he turns 21
  • we'd read that anime review blog
  • where is prezbo indeed
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Actual Wisdom: Dorothy Ko

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  • send us letters co lerner 505 or butler 209
  • teach us chinese pls ... or just step on us that'd be cool too
  • we want to be dorothy ko when we grow up
  • we've never tasted a bowl of fresh silky bean curd steaming hot and quivering in the spoon but now we really want to
  • what a killer fashion sense

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