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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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Get Your Shit Together, Columbia

Bwog Staff 1

bwog writes open letters now?
columbia pls
columbia take care of yourself
lin-manuel miranda would never do this to us (alexander hamilton might though)
seriously columbia what are you doing
this content practically writes itself

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Marginalia – The Iliad and The Odyssey

Ross Chapman 2

an earnest attempt to humanize cu students
butler marginalia
dual? duel? dool???
who in the world actually read all if the iliad and the odyssey?

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Books At Bars: How Does 1020 Rank As A Study Destination?

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be responsible
drinkingwithbwog
god bless 1020
the new butler

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Live At Lerner – “Bird Dog”

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bird dog
food compounds all o dis goodness
it's almost friday. deep breaths
live at lerner
music

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Bwoglines: Existential Crisis Edition

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black holes are literally The Scariest Thing Ever
bwoglines
south dakota needs to go back to not existing unless we are talking about mt rushmore.
space
vegan bwog laughs as we pour tree bark onto yr pasta
what happened to Gabriella :((.

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USenate Sends Updates On Student Space, Course Evaluations

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lenape
this is the OTHER space initiative
tired of lion credit ppl trying to talk to us outside butler bc we're too polite and talk to them every time
usenate
v interesting
we need more deets

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PSA: Vine Is Not Responsible For Your Life

Jennifer Nugent 3

boringside heights is getting a lil spicy
cheap eats
injustice @ cu
reminds us of the time we paid our tip in change at a chinese restaurant and apparently they didn't think we paid enough and followed us onto the street and forced us to pay extra on top of our tip
stick around for bwog's reviews on nearby eateries
the most drama we get around here
vine
vine is not responsible for your life
we love john jay staff but the food...
what else is vine not responsible for

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