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BREAKING: SEAS Class Day Speaker is Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, SEAS ’82

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 26 Comments

Bwog has just learned that the Ursula Burns, SEAS ’82 (MS in mechanical engineering) and the chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, will be the featured speaker at the 2012 engineering school class day. Burns is the first African-American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company, according to an article published by Spec. The same […]

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Bucket List: Education, “Greening the Ghetto,” and Slate Magazine

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 5 Comments

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. Recommended: “University Lecture: Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament […]

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Bwog Sports Sunday: LINning

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 2 Comments

It’s impossible to talk about sports in New York this week without mentioning Knicks point guard sensation, Jeremy Lin. It also turns out it’s impossible to talk about Jeremy Lin without using a LINconcievable number of LINcredibly bad puns. Anyone who has turned on a TV or picked up a New York newspaper in the […]

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The Quiet Rooms of Casa Italiana

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 0 Comments

Here’s yet another instance of some really important cultural things being totally free and right under our noses. The Silent Strength of Liu Xia is an exhibition at the Italian Academy of the work of house-arrested dissident Chinese photographer Liu Xia, wife of Nobel-winning poet Liu Xiaobo. Conor Skelding stepped inside. I’d never been inside Casa Italiana […]

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Housingmaster: Finding a Friend

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 13 Comments

As we mentioned yesterday, we’re open to answering your housing questions. Send us some more either via e-mail (housing@bwog.com) or in the comments! Q: How do you bring up the topic of housing to a potential suitemate? A: Housing angst is real. Who wants to vulnerably put oneself out there only to risk rejection and shame? […]

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Lost: White scarf with colorful bear prints

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 0 Comments

Lost my white scarf printed with lots of bears sometime on Thursday 2/16, possibly in Hamilton 6th floor, Schermerhorn 6th floor, or John Jay dining hall. Important for sentimental reasons. If found, please contact nl2294@columbia.edu, it’s very special to me.

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Bwog Meeting Tonight!

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 1 Comments

“What’s there to do in this one horse town on a mid-February Sunday’s evening?” If someone asks you this question today, you already know the answer: attend the Bwog meeting in Lerner SGO at 7 pm and eat Bwog’s free food! Come to make or take pitches, discuss new ideas, or just loiter. We’re happy […]

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LectureHop: Speak, Memory… Or If You Don’t Feel Like It That’s Chill Too

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 2 Comments

Focus on summoning your absolute best memory. Relive your happiest moment. Do you have it in mind? Good. Now, what if it never actually took place?! Bwog gray matter enthusiast Bijan Samareh joined Dr. S. Matthew Liao for a lecture in the rafters of Schermerhorn to engage in just such speculation. Is the lingering memory […]

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In Defense of… Dumbphones

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 8 Comments

Are you reading this on your iPhone? Well, maybe you shouldn’t be! Bwog is back to defend the seemingly indefensible, and today, resident Luddite Raphaelle Debenedetti makes the case for the dumbphone. Since it’s not New Jersey, it won’t be our most hopeless battle yet. “Are you two texting each other?” asked the curiously blunt waiter at […]

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Bwoglines: Skipping Town Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 0 Comments

Rome: Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York was appointed a Catholic Cardinal this weekend. Red hats abound. (NYT) Montauk: Gawker profiles one of the most creative and implausible con artists in recent memory, the so-called “Montauk Grifter.” Users of OkCupid: you’ve been warned. (Gawker) China: The people who make your iPad can’t afford your iPad. […]

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Worried About Housing? Bwog Can Help

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2012 48 Comments

We’re on your side, Columbians. We give you the news, engage in relevant and intellectual debates, and we always answer your questions, even when they’re kinda awkward. And we know that aside from PrezBo’s hair, not much is more mystifying to the student body than the housing lottery. We have always strived to give you […]

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AskBwog: Morningside Munchies

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2012 2 Comments

Bwog recently received this email from someone who may or may not have been sober, and our interest (and appetite) was piqued. Dear Bwog, I feel like doing something crazy this weekend. Are there any places where, if I manage to eat a crazy amount of food, I get my picture on a wall or […]

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Cultural Superstitions: Chapter 1

Joanna Zhang 3

*thinks really hard about fishes*
but dogs are angelic :(
see u in my dreams fishes
sorry april bdays :/
stay away from people with #4 in their birth dates
student stories
superstitions

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SGA Talked About Winter Housing And FAB

Caroline Montgomery 1

barnard bears want omelettes and biscuits too :(
cold and lonely winter
hewitt needs to up its game
or you could just secretly camp out in your room for all of break wink wink
sga

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Bear With Us

Emma Seely-Katz 0

conspiracy theories
duane reade
get out your UV lamps kids
if DR sends us a bear we'll be their no 1 fans
millie has some explaining to do
raise your hand if you broke up with yr ex before thanksgiving :/
SAD is a real thing
teddy bears
waiting for the comment "what's the point of this article?? we want the old bwog back"
why is it called cuffing season sounds a little too NYPD for our taste...
you could sneak a pet snake into your dorm inside of one of these babies am i right ;)
young jedi the point is that the article has no point we just like teddy bears ok

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Have Some Librarians With That Pizza

Bwog Staff 1

#teamquentin
barnlib
diana center
if u have no friend they'll be ur friends
if you see this tag comment with your favorite book
maybe they still have some of those cute patches left??
pizza
psa
we recommend The Sound and the Fury

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Bwoglines: We Just Don’t Understand Edition

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all the victims in our thoughts
bwoglines
it's hard to write funny or entertaining stuff when everything is broken yknow
texas is not looking great right now
the teeth thing is funny and cool anyway?

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Field Notes: So Unexpected It’s Expected Edition

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"bougie UES moms"
Bwog Decrees
getting locked out of tinder is getting locked out of life
has Hamilton slowly consumed all of our lives
hookah wine and mixer buzz
hot girls we have problems too
laundry spreading is the new manspreading
mixtapes and machinations
Rihanna
sober Koronet's
that moment when you open a dick pic in front of your ER nurse: priceless
the barnard babysitting club is so real
we know our time is valuable
Yes

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Lions Thirst For More Wildcat Blood Tonight

Ross Chapman 0

"These Lions are out for blood" it's getting dramatic in here
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Bwog does sports
caring even after basketball mania
going onto the roof of pupin and howling at the moon: lions hazing/bonding activity
Kyle Castlin
maodo lo
men's basketball
sports
superbloodmoon
this is the photo on his CUID
we suck less this year

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Concerns About ABC Bias Raised By One Representative

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abc
breaking
diversity

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