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“An Unsettling Silence In Solidarity”

By Bwog Staff on Sep 21, 2011 7 Comments

Earlier today, a few dozen students and a handful of reporters gathered in front of EC to rally for Iranian human rights. The event’s organizers, Jake Snider, David Fine, Eric Shapiro, CC’13, and Sam Schube, CC’12, originally intended to protest the CIRCA-Ahmadinejad dinner. But yesterday, CIRCA president, Rhonda Shafei, confirmed that CIRCA would no longer […]

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Where Art Thou?

By Bwog Staff on Sep 21, 2011 0 Comments

Foliage galore, pumpkin-flavored lattés, and the start of the Columbia theatre season! What is this you speak of? Friends, Friday marks the end of a joyous summer. Our nights on the steps and days on the lawns are numbered. However, we take comfort in knowing that there will be many theatre-related free food and fun opportunities […]

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Another Year, Another Genius

By Bwog Staff on Sep 21, 2011 8 Comments

Yesterday, while you were skipping class and sleeping in, the MacArthur Foundation announced this year’s 22 Genius Grant recipients, and Columbia graduate Alisa Weilerstein is one of them. A member of the Class of 2004, Weilerstein started playing the cello when she was four years old and debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra at just 13. The Foundation […]

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Overseen: Freshmen Discover Internet Memes

By Bwog Staff on Sep 21, 2011 7 Comments

One of the John Jay elevators is down for maintenance, making those already painfully long and awkward elevator rides that much longer and more crowded. It appears that resident freshpeople are getting a little angsty about the whole situation. Just a little. Tipped by Sophie Qian and Alex N

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Saffron Shrimp and Global Core: A Faculty Panel Discussion on Interconnectedness

By Bwog Staff on Sep 21, 2011 3 Comments

In honor of the newly appointed Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Wei Shang, a reception and faculty panel discussion was held Monday night in the lovely Casa Italiana. Global canapés expert Olivia Mann stopped by for the shrimp and cultural discourse. The night kicked off with Professor Shang asking several faculty members to present […]

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Bwoglines: Groundbreaking Revelations Edition

By Bwog Staff on Sep 21, 2011 0 Comments

What do ping pong balls, alcoholic beverages, and condoms have in common? I’m sure a first year Carmanite can tell you—and now Duane Reade is using strategic (read: subliminal) marketing to save everyone a bit of time. [West Side Rag] Apologies to all lovers of anarchy, protests on Wall Street, and V for Vendetta; according to a law from 1845, […]

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Chronicles of Existentialism: Ivy League Irony

By Bwog Staff on Sep 20, 2011 2 Comments

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. -Carl Jung

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Meet Your Dean, IRL

By Bwog Staff on Sep 20, 2011 0 Comments

Hey you! We know procrastinating on Bwog is fun and all, but some things are more important. Like, you know, meeting your dean (chatting with him via Bwog comments, while awesome, isn’t quite the same). Scurry over to Havemeyer 309 at 8 pm, and check out a moderated Q&A with the newly-monikered Deantini. Audience members will […]

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CCSC: Small Steps Edition

By Bwog Staff on Sep 20, 2011 7 Comments

CCSC met for the second time of the year. Sarah Ngu and Maren Killackey break down all the action. Big Hits If sometime in recent weeks you were frantically emailing your professor for the required readings because they weren’t on Courseworks, you shouldn’t have needed to (you spammer, you!). In 2009, the University Senate passed […]

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SEAS It, and Never Let It Go

By Bwog Staff on Sep 20, 2011 10 Comments

Over the summer, Bwog shed a silent tear when the acronym for Columbia Engineering was changed from “SEAS to “CE.” All hope seemed lost when the powers that be drilled the inferior acronym into our youngest minds. But the tides turn for the better! A tipster forwarded us the following email this morning from Margaret […]

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Overseen: Lots of Frenching At Westside

By Bwog Staff on Sep 20, 2011 4 Comments

Okay, so that headline was a little misleading. But the following slew of saucy signage—some of which is in what appears to be in a sort of French… creole?—was spotted at our very own Westside Market:

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DADT Officially Comes to an End

By Bwog Staff on Sep 20, 2011 14 Comments

Because of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010, gay and lesbian service members may now serve openly in the US armed forces. The repeal officially went into effect at 12:01 am this morning. The legislation will allow the plans for a Columbia NROTC program, which PrezBo laid down last semester, to finally proceed. Bwog extends its […]

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ESC, CCSC, SGA, GSSC, And The Columbia Blue Key Society Present: The 2014 Annual Tree Lighting and Yule Log Ceremonies!

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Bwog does holiday cheer
enthusiasm and good feeling over historical legacy: Columbia's place in the ivies
exclamation points convey enthusiasm!
so much cider
tree lighting ceremony

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Bwoglines: All You Need To Know About Immigration Right Now Edition

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bwoglines
bwogside chats
never stopped giggling at ‘Boehner’
that time of year: when our government decides to stop functioning
xenophobia worldwide

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Protesters And Police Take Morningside Heights

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lights like you've never seen
morningside heights
nypd
protests
this is our campus

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Columbia Does Comfort, And Then Bwog Tells You About It

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all advice thoroughly tested. Today.
bwog does good
celebrating our culture: witty dickery
columbia traditions: falsely proving authenticity
columbia traditions: sobbing
please do not actually follow any of this advice
we're in this together; and we are all dicks

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Travelling The Northern Trail

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fake it til you make it
leave a better version in the comments!
marauder's map of columbia
not quite the tunnels
secret tunnel secret tunnel
spelunking
the things we do to stay out of the rain
you will be late to class though this is way longer

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Overseen: Take This Course In Clamaticization

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and it's worth 6 points
clam engineering
course selection
drinking with bwog
overseen
playing with sharks
we're rly curious as to who made this

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Live At Lerner: Neighbours

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a much better study break than all those student council-sponsored study breaks
come thru
live at lerner
neighbours
neighbours with a u ?
probably not gonna listen to your music if it's not on spotify

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Bwoglines: Human Rights Edition

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bwoglines
ferguson
high school musical quote?
human rights
just like your themed uwriting section
the world is a sucky place lol
things that are more important than finals
twitter assholes

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