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Overseen: Homeless Prefrosh Riot

By Bwog Staff on Jul 14, 2011 73 Comments

In an apparent effort to jade our incoming 2015 prefrosh before, rather than after, NSOP, Housing has already let down our youngsters. Last year, 14ers got their assignments on July 2nd. This year, Housing only finally released a few today—and then stopped. Predictably, a shitstorm ensued on the 2015 Facebook page. One student posted, “Housing […]

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Onwards and Upwards with CUArts

By Bwog Staff on Jul 12, 2011 7 Comments

It was announced today that Melissa Smey, Director of Miller Theatre, will be taking over leadership of Columbia’s Arts Initiative. In his university-wide e-mail, PrezBo praised Smey’s work in revamping Miller’s agenda — remember Sonic Youth? — which we chronicled in our profile of her in the November issue of The Blue & White. Bollinger, […]

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Own A Piece of History

By Bwog Staff on Jul 10, 2011 16 Comments

In 1951, Columbia teamed up with Harvey Comics to produce an anti-drug comic book called “Trapped.” And now it’s on eBay. You have just 2 hours and 36 minutes left to bid on what the seller promises is a “fine condition copy of this scarce early anti-drug effort with light cover wear!”

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1020 on the Big Screen

By Bwog Staff on Jul 07, 2011 21 Comments

1020 groupies rejoice! That booth where you had one too many tinis is now famous. The latest prep school misfits movie, The Art of Getting By, stars Emma Roberts (the one from Aquamarine—which maybe made you tear up that one time) and the Wes Anderson look-alike from the trippy version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Isn’t […]

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#ShouldHaveAskedObama

By Bwog Staff on Jul 06, 2011 33 Comments

We were going to launch a campaign to round up all you summer readers and bring this urgent question to the President’s attention. Then the heat got the better of us or something, but it’s the thought that counts right?

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BunsenBwog: Summer of Science

By Bwog Staff on Jun 30, 2011 18 Comments

Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean science isn’t happening at Columbia! Scientists at Columbia are growing heart and bone tissue. An NPR reporter went to the lab, interviewed researchers, and made a really cool and informative video about it that includes footage of heart tissue beating like a real heart. Perhaps most amazing is the […]

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John Coatsworth To Be Interim Provost

By Bwog Staff on Jun 29, 2011 9 Comments

President Bollinger just sent out an email announcing that John Henry Coatsworth, current Dean of SIPA and owner of the name to end all names, will assume the duties of University Provost starting July 1. With the recent loss of Claude Steele to Stanford, Coatsworth will serve as Interim Provost until PrezBo and “a small […]

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Gay Marriage Is Legal In New York!

By Bwog Staff on Jun 29, 2011 30 Comments

A milestone for civil rights: gay marriage is now legal in New York! You can now claim to attend school in a “progressive” state. Last Friday night around 10 pm, news started leaking out: two Republican state Senators had just announced they would support the gay marriage bill in the NY State Senate. A few […]

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Overheard: Now Is The Summer Of Our Discontent, Discomfort

By Bwog Staff on Jun 28, 2011 8 Comments

Two Joe employees examine the existential questions surrounding seafood-dish viscosity, in front of the new vending machines: ”I’m just uncomfortable with calling ceviche a soup.” Image of a seafood dish that can’t be comfortably referred to as a soup via Wikimedia.

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Carlos J. Alonso Steps Up As Dean of GSAS

By Bwog Staff on Jun 22, 2011 16 Comments

More boring-but-sorta-important administration news: PrezBo just sent word that Carlos J. Alonso, interim dean of GSAS since last September, will take on that position full time. Full email from ‘Bo below. Also, apparently, “Arts and Sciences always have been, and remain, central to our academic calling of pursuing answers.” So there’s that. Dear Fellow Members […]

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Operation Ivy League Hearing: Prosecution Wants Felony Plea, Defense Wants Diversion

By Bwog Staff on Jun 21, 2011 79 Comments

Today the five students arrested in Operation Ivy League had yet another court appearance, during which each was offered plea agreements by the prosecution, which all declined. Peter Sterne reports from the courtroom. The hearing began a few minutes past the scheduled start time, when the defendants and their attorneys walked to the front of […]

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Columbia Five Offered Plea Bargain, Declined It

By Bwog Staff on Jun 21, 2011 10 Comments

According to Bloomberg, the ADA offered each of the students arrested in the December drug bust plea bargains, and each of the students turned them down. David rejected an offer of one year in prison, the other four rejected offers for five years probation. The defense attorneys sought to divert their cases to treatment, rather […]

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ClubHop: Generation Citizen

Lili Brown 1

civics is for everyone!
clubhop
CU fixin' the system...but fuck the system
GC sounds like an acronym for a school of columbia
generation citizen
how many classrooms are these CU kids in a day
lupe fiasco in the classroom
student-teachers

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But Bingo

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butler
coffee is life rn
does all this happen in butler the answer is probs yes
electric tea kettles are necessary the butcafe is expensive af
maybe its time to go to avery
midterms brings out the crazy
shoes can be really confining
tears in butler
the butler masturbator is just plain weird plz stop
there comes a time when weirdness in butler stops surprising us
these tags are getting longer and longer is bwog an appropriate form of procrastination its productive right?
we hate people who eat chips in butler but tbh we've all been there
we heard the law library is v nice but v exclusive

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Night Market Brings Happiness In The Dark Times Of Midterms

Bwog Staff 1

actual cool things columbia does
but was josh radnor there because we hear he loves noodles
csc
hello darkness my old friend
it’s nice to see people at Columbia having fun”
let's be real we all eat a little too much but sushi
night market
this is definitely better than anything the dining halls had to offer
wait columbia does cool shit besides bacchanal?

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Bwoglines: The World Is Possibly Ending Edition

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actually the japan nuclear power plant thing is really fing terrifying we hope that gets fixed asap
all these bad things are happening because midterms are killing literally everyone
do you think earth was as sad as bwog when it realized blue java closes early on saturdays?
ebola will end us all
its just one disaster after another in the world these days
japan
kris jenner really isn't a real disaster but who doesn't like a little reality tv loling to relax
lol that we have czars in america putin is probably really secretly sad he didn't get picked for the job
planet earth is falling apart
strides for gay marriage woo go america

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Use Your Computer For Actual Educational Purposes With MOOCs

Courtney Couillard 4

"the civil war was CRAZY"
ccnmtl
civil war and stuff
if these people can do all this work in butler then you can finish your essay
moocs are the new tech trend right after yik yak
rockstars all up in this place
what a time to be alive
wouldn't it be nice if all our classes were online?

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Overseen: Jurassic (Riverside) Park

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"Lord of light come to us in the our darkness. We offer you these false gods. Take them and cast your light upon us for the night is dark and full of terrors."
a psa kind of
Hodor the pterodactyl - lord of light
investigative journalism
land before time references
public safety
THE NIGHT IS DARK AND FULL OF TERRORS

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They’re Watching (Out for You): Increasing Security And Surveillance At Columbia University (Part 2)

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"No University policy represents a contract"
"The Cloud"
Alma runs this show
cuit
public safety
the man
the Patriot Act/National Security Entry-Exit Registration System

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Real Talk With Columbia Sloth

Bwog Staff 4

columbia sloth
free the moz sticks
god bless the fact we have this sloth
real talk with sloth
slothy intentions
there's a little bit of sloth in us all
when is prezbo going to let us change our mascot from a lion to a sloth?
who is sloth though??

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