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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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Running Into People From Home During Break

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always think of what drake would want
bwog gives advice
bwog gives good advice yeah??
bwog looks forward to turkey
food: good
human interaction: bad
kind of?
mrs crabapple sounds like a thanksgiving dessert so don't be scared of her

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Turkey Day At Tom’s

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gravy
if you have FLEX
imagine a Tom's milkshake for Thanksgiving
monks
seinfeld
Seinfeld was actually filmed in a studio in L.A. they just used Tom's facade
thanksgiving at a diner
the person writing this psa has never seen an episode of seinfeld
tom's
turkey
turkey day

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Bwoglines: We’re Ready To Get Outta The City Edition

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bwoglines
movin it like bernie
ready set DUMP THAT HIGH SCHOOL BF/GF/SO
tell me you watched eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and did not sob
thank u homeless man for saving us all tbh
trump = dump
we want turkey/tofurkey!

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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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