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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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USenate: Ideas, Imagination, And The Smoking Policy

Joe Milholland 2

burned out on smoking policy
Faculty: they're just like us (Because they also have to take a quality of life survey)
If any policy were to rear its head it would definitely be the Smoking Policy because smoke sometimes looks like dragons
prezbo
smoking policy
Ugh tenure
usenate

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Quiz: How Will You Beat The Spring Semester Slump?

Courtney Couillard 0

#BuyPillowTalkOniTunes
just tryna find that cuffing buddy in time for vday next weekend
maybe just don't spend all of your life in butler for once
praying 4 no more snow
quiz
spring semester is the WORST
we wonder who will be gracing us with their presence at bacchanal

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This Week in the Arts: Jazz Hands

Gowan Moïse 0

a full-day symposium about jazz? sounds lit
Bwog has been overcome by the spirit of jazz
can you tell Bwog loves jazz?
make sure to RSVP!
Mid-Day music was lit last week so come thru
this week in the arts

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Bwoglines: Thank God That Happened Edition

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bwoglines
bwoglines are back and better than ever
did you miss us
Grey's Anatomy but with food
jk bwoglines never went anywhere
thank god that happened edition
this could've been insertion edition round 2 tbh
thriving

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Creating the Urban Canvas: Land Art On A Brooklyn Street Corner

Raji Ganapathy 0

actually the name land art seems pretty self-explanatory
Alfred Evans
almost as good as shia's performance art
artistes
brooklyn
chai forever
conversation hearts
d.u.m.b.o
grad students
knox hall
Laura Barnett
middle eastern studies + land art
nancy holt
oral history program
performance art
Robert Smithson
union theological seminary
why is knox hall so goddamn far away
why was this event held in knox hall lol
wtf is land art

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Basketball’s Most Important Game In Twenty Years

Ross Chapman 0

basketball
college kids with TVs be like
Columbia
Dino BBQ
Dodge Fitness Center
Fox Sports lmao
glee club!
high school musical irl?
Lou Gehrig Lounge
national broadcast
NCAA
sports
the 1960's were LIT
the beats and the basketball team
tourney
whiffenpoofs
who has Columbia cable though
yale

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Bwog Asked: Today Is Bwog’s 10th Birthday! What Do You Think Of Bwog Now?

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birthday college
birthdays
ButCafé
bwog is best journalism on campus if we're being real
i love college
lmao these responses are harsh
no Kanye's the one with the crown
read Bwog
really @ the spec comment?
senior wisdoms and more
we're still funny

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Unconventional Ways To Stay Warm

Lila Etter 0

43 degrees today woooo
an ode to the vents at columbia
bundle the fuck up y'all
good luck fam we're rooting for you
it's fucking cold
JUST DO IT
lifehack: just turn into a snowman
thanks Punxsutawney Phil
winter

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