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Actual Wisdom: Edward Mendelson

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 50 Comments

And now for something a wee bit different. In today’s Actual Wisdom, English professor Edward Mendelson teaches us a lesson about breaking the rules. And about the perils of questionnaires. It’s all below, in his personally requested format. It’s kinda like when you take major liberties with an unappealing essay prompt and end up writing […]

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Tired of Studying? Take a Break and Join Bwog!

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 2 Comments

Bwog literally runs on the human spirit. If you have lots of human spirit that you’d like to earmark for Bwog’s consumption, you should be a Daily Editor. Dailies get to ask people probing questions, get into events for free, have their words on the Internet, and consume lots of Westside cookies at meetings!* If […]

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From the Issue: Columbia Occupied

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 6 Comments

Be on the lookout for the December issue of The Blue & White, which will be arriving on campus this week. In the meantime, Bwog will honor our heritage/amorous affair with our mother magazine by posting features from the upcoming issue. Such treats include a breakdown of Barnard’s budget woes, a look at Columbia’s proposal for […]

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College Student Reported Missing Has Been Found

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 20 Comments

Update, 5:11: Director of Communications, Kat Cutler, told us that the student has been found and is now with his family. Another university official also confirmed he is at home and well. According to Spec, a Columbia College senior has been reported missing after last being seen December 14th at the Milburn, New Jersey train […]

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BwogSleuthing in Hamilton

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 10 Comments

Yesterday night, a tipster sent in this photo. We’ve seen Hamiltonian notes before, but the openness of the denizens behind door number 401 to babes made us curious.

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An Early Christmas Present

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 9 Comments

From us to you: a Limited Edition Louise McCune Original poster of all of our Butler Archetype friends. We’ve left a stack on the shelves in the back of Butler Café, and a few around 209. If you don’t nab one today, don’t worry, we’ll be sprinkling them around the library over the coming week.

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Chronicles of Existentialism: How Much is It Worth To You

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 5 Comments

Overseen in Carman, hanging in the balance: “Bodies are not the same as Coca-Cola cans.” –Arthur Caplan

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Bwoglines: There’s a World Outside Finals Edition

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 10 Comments

Last Thursday, Army General Ray Odierno appeared on the Colbert Report to announce the end of the War in Iraq, and over the weekend, the last U.S. troops rolled across the border from Iraq to Kuwait. Most troops will be home for Christmas, but some 4,000 will remain in Kuwait as a quick reaction force. […]

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Dark Was the Night (Of The Soul)

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2011 37 Comments

Call us old-fashioned*, but Bwog likes sticking to traditions. That’s why we dared enter the dark abyss of terror and neurosis that is Butler without so much as a Virgil-figure to protect us (or at the very least warn us to avert our gaze from one of those 209-couples who seem to feed on creepy eye […]

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At Least We Made the Final Four

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2011 34 Comments

According to the Wall Street Journal, Mayor Bloomberg plans to announce that Cornell’s won the competition for an applied-science campus in NYC. They beat out the rest of the “shortlist,” which was down to Carnegie-Mellon, NYU, Cornell, and us, after Stanford dropped out on Friday. Not all hope is lost; even if Bloomberg awards Roosevelt Island to […]

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Butler Bingo: Archetypes Edition

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2011 10 Comments

It’s finals week and you know what that means. We’ve lampooned the inanity of Butler before, but this year we’ve adapted Butler Bingo around those closest (literally) to you: Butler Archetypes. Here’s how to play: sit in Butler. Look at the game board. Scroll over each square to read its description. Look around you. When […]

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Primal Scream For Noobs

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2011 16 Comments

If you’ve been cooped up in Butler for the past week like we have, you’ve probably forgotten how to use your voice/form words/engage with others. That’s okay. For your sake, and for that of the 2015ers, we’ll repost our comprehensive guide to Columbia’s loudest and most transient school tradition. Finals got you down? Then […]

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Divestment Proposal Rejected, CDCJ Responds

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ACSRI
cdcj
divestment
fossil fuels
here we go again
the world will end soon
we're all gonna die
where is the hope?
where is the love

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How To Do Friendsgiving At CU

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bad puns
butter
Craisins are bae
culinarians
dining hall desserts
dorm kitchens though
food and friends
food puns
Friendsgiving vs Thanksgiving
mashed potatoes
microwaves
milk
sugar and spice and everything nice
tupperware forever
you just got culinary school-ed

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Race, Title IX, And Academic Freedom Discussed At USenate Plenary

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academic freedom
affirmative action
Brown v. Board
divestment
failure to divest
fossil fuels
Not Looking at Course Evaluations
prezbo
profs involved in student life
provost
racism
segregation and racism
so sad
Speeches by PrezBo
Title IX
usenate
why can't we divest

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Bwoglines: Broken Edition

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Apple store
bad news
commercial space edition
life in the universe
Mali
nasa
please keep America open to refugees!
sad news
stars and atoms
stars galaxies cosmology
terrorist attacks
the least we can do
this is why u should buy Droid phone
tryna take an astronomy class next semester
wheeeeee

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Season In Review: How Do The Lions Stack Up Now?

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"the wins at some point will follow" we're all prayin
al bagnoli
bwog tries to understand sports
Columbia Football
columbia football has 1 Ivy title EVER. bagnoli has 9 in 20 years
columbia lions
COME THRU FOR SCHOOL PRIDE
REP THAT PANTONE 290

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Ambassador Barzun Talks Diplomacy And Digitization

Finn Klauber 0

are u trying 2 tell us that there is MORE to the UK than just doctor who?? sounds fake but ok
Events
has technology come too far
imagine us pointing to a table full of iphones and belting A WHOLE NEW WOOOOORLD
matthew sounds like a cool dad
started from the top then we got teared down by the british press
world leaders forum

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Quiz: What Are You Actually Going To Do Over Thanksgiving Break

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all the most used thanksgiving tags are about breaking up with your long distance partner and that's just.... so beautiful
it's beginning to look a lot like thanksgiving
quiz
quizzes are always there for you even when noone else is
quizzes are friends
the REAL spirit of thanksgiving
you know you'd rather do this than study for your human rights paper due monday

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Philolexian Society Presents: 30th Annual Joyce Kilmer (Memorial) Bad Poetry Contest

Betsy Ladyzhets 3

"i cannot be milked" is a beautiful line of literature
at this point you might be thinking "bwog is WAY too invested in hamilton" but we swear it just keeps popping up it's not us it's columbia
hamilton wrote.... THE OTHER 21
if you got the room where it happens reference we love you very much
only god can make a tree??? okay well can god MOVE a tree
philolexian society
shout out to maggie the magnolia
what's up with all these advertisements damn it is nowhere safe from america's corporate monster

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