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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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Arts Bucket List: Your Newest Distraction

Maddie Stearn 1

art at an ivy
ArtsBucket
books
butler gets artsy
is this real?
read our XMAS! review on Monday
rembrandt
studying is important but so is loving yourself
wait we have rembrandt paintings on campus?
weekend culture
what better way to love yourself than through art
what is XMAS!

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Bwoglines: High Stakes Edition

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capitalism literally rules the world
from whence doest this idiom come
fuck Donald Trump
fun figures of speech
high stakes
hope for high-heel lovers
raising prices of drugs is messed up
Shakespeare or nah
stakes are high
this guy went to baruch college
we should also welcome refugees into our country
where does this idiom come from
worrying about the future

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Draw A Circle, That’s Your Story: Mat Johnson Talks Structure

Betsy Ladyzhets 1

lecturehop
mr asshole critic at the times sounds like somebody we want to fight
sadly bwog did not get a photo of the sad beanie man (he was erased too quickly) but he lives on in our hearts
that astronaut image is weirdly reminiscent of series 6 doctor who are we right @ nerds readin this
we can honestly just made anything nerdy

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Data From Quality Of Live Survey Presented At USenate

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"just above neutral" is..... tragically funny
"just above neutral" oh my god
bwog tries to understand statistics even after literally failing the class
this is crazy town
who's gonna tell the new class of 2020 that they're coming to a school where they can be sort of nearly happy

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Bippity Boppity Ballet: CUBE’s Cinderella

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ballet
dance
if bwog were a ballerina we would just twirl everywhere to show off our skills
running around nyc? TWIRL
swiping into JJ's? TWIRL
walking to class? TWIRL
we now understand why we sucked at all our dance classes

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Bwoglines: Netflix And Chill Edition

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bwog is the name throwin shade on EC is the game
bwoglines
did somebody say FEMALE MARVEL VILLAIN
michael buble is a literal angel put on this earth to protect us and make us happy
poll: does michael buble take buble baths or bubble baths
we get nerdy very often

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Scenes Of Death And Money: Bwog Reviews Bingo

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(mostly bwog loves shakespeare's dick jokes tbh)
bwog loves shakespeare though so that's okay
theaterhop
there's been a lot of shakespeare this semester

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Sororities Fall Apart

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breaking
gamma phi beta
shit gets serious
sororities

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