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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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Bwoglines: The Public Good Edition

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a belated/early happy birthday to all of you
but we get people have to make money
but we honestly don't have the $$$
bwoggish election coverage
bwoglines
what are ads?
what circle of hell do you belong in if you pirate?
wish everything were in the public domain tbh

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Unconventional Gifts For Your Valentine’s Day Sweetheart

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gotta love "oregano"
how do people still not have fakes lol
if somebody got us Smash4 we would automatically be their valentine
theme of this post: love conquers all shitty ideas
time to play "where's that random building on Barnard campus"
Unconventional gifts for valentines day
valentine's day
we would totally get some free books from altschul if we knew where that was
yarn condoms

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The Hookup: Sulzberger Practice Rooms

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"XL twin acrobatics"
abuse of practice rooms is bad but sex is good so
barnard is like jj's for columbians except without food
hookup series
it's all about the Stacks...at UTS
more like XL twin art projects boom roasted
okay but where is sulzberger

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When Your Fireside Chat Dreams Go Up In Flames

Nadra Rahman 2

fireside chat
he probably gave her ticket to a double legacy child of donors
prezbo will find any way to screw over members of his colleges
remember Obamanard? Yeah we do
that's why we only join meritocratic institutions
the institutions like Bwog or Beta

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SGA Discusses Elections And Election Accessories

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"applications are still open on a rolling basis" wow barnard's government is legit
sga
tbt to when barnard had a mission
the CEB obviously doesn't work given cheating during elections
the fact that CEB didn't have barnard students is so typical of columbia lol
why didn't CEB kick out pantone292 for cheating

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Quiz: Which (Bad) Columbia Publication Are You?

Ross Chapman 4

bwog being self-deprecating
not all of the answers are spec we promise (just ... a couple of the answers)
quiz
this was originally pitched as "which questionable spec practice are you" but there were too many to narrow down into just one quiz

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Bwoglines: Innocent Beginnings Edition

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bwoglines
i can't do tags today fam it's 6 am

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Field Notes: Superb Owl Edition

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bwog is a problematic meme
bwog is full of people living successful lives and expertly navigating social situations
field notes
is the superb owl joke dead yet? i guess we'll find out once we post this
like if the puppy bowl > the super bowl
Super Bowl

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