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Boringside Heights: Double, Double Bore and Trouble Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 8 Comments

With Halloween quickly approaching, a few small changes have been made both on and off campus to prepare for maximum spookage.

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Ashy Plume Erupts over Barnard

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 23 Comments

Bwog received multiple tips this morning about an ashy disturbance looming over Barnard and Columbia’s campus. Public Safety stated that they haven’t heard anything about ash raining down around 116th, but Housing suggested that it might just be from the newly lit heating unit in that building. All we do know is that black ash […]

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Food Sold at 100% Loss

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 1 Comments

Want to learn about what makes affordable credit possible? Then don’t go to the “POWER STEALS! Teach-in” from 1-3pm in the IRC (552 W 114). The “Freedom School” is hosting the event as a way to raise awareness about the evil doings of Goldman Sachs. There will be free Ethiopian from Massawa. The Yelp reviews […]

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Overheard: In a Foreign Land

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 4 Comments

A flustered, out of breath, and out of place student runs into Carleton (Engineering cafeteria) and runs up to a group of engineering students: CC: WHERE IS THE TA ROOM? SEAS: …could you be a little more specific? CC: I’m sorry, I’m a history major! Charming southern gentleman via History Dept.

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Bwoglines: Thinkin’ Hard Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2011 0 Comments

Think traffic in New York is bad? We ain’t got nothing on Caracas, Venezuela. Driving there has become so treacherous that the mayor has hired a cadre of mime traffic cops in order to subdue unruly drivers. (ABC News) Think Occupy Wall Street protests are a sign of bad times? It turns out that they […]

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Out with the Planking, In with the Coning

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 16 Comments

As inexplicable social games continue to develop, Columbia has witnessed the emergence of coning. Recently, an east campus statue was duncecapped by an unknown prankster. Could he/she be making a statement about society’s blind faith in the protection of our security system, or is this simply inebriated revelry? The world may never know. Coning […]

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Professors are People Too

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 1 Comments

We often forget (but Bwog often likes to remind us) that the most valuable resources at Columbia are our professors. For many, professors seem distant and de-humanized; just that guy or gal standing at the front of the class pontificating about some strange subject for an hour and fifteen minutes. At the same time, we […]

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Roundup: Crime

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 5 Comments

There is no need to fear. DNA Info’s Crime and Safety report for Morningside Heights has produced mainly positive results. In summation, Morningside Heights is the 38th safest neighborhood in Manhattan the city, and the 7th safest in Manhattan There has been a 76% drop in crime since 1993 There was a 3% rise in major […]

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Quantum Mechanical Street Art: Schrodinger’s Cat

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 20 Comments

If you seal a cat in a metal box with a decaying radioactive substance and a jar of cyanide, isn’t the cat both alive and dead until you open the box and look? The paradox that this week’s Frontiers of Science lecture presented caused an artistic freshperson to go Banksy on some quantum mechanics.

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The Life of a Genius, in Pictures

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 6 Comments

Yesterday, Jim Ottaviani, author of the recently released graphic novel “Feynman“, stopped by Butler as part of his book tour. He discussed Richard Feynman— his book about a sardonic Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a knack for bongos, and the appeal of graphic novels. Bwog Daily Editor and Feynman Fan Brian Wagner was in attendance. To […]

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Adrenaline Aficionados Gather for The Broadway Bomb

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 2 Comments

Update: And they’re off! Send your pictures to tips@bwog.com The Broadway Bomb, the annual illegal longboard race down the legendary avenue, kicks off today at noon. Skaters meet at 116th and Riverside, charge up the hill, careen around the corner, and barrel down Broadway. For more details, check out our coverage of last year’s race […]

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Birdwatching in Wien

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 7 Comments

Yesterday afternoon, a small green bird infiltrated the 11th floor of Wien and try to update his/her Twitter status on an unsuspecting upperclassmen’s Macbook Pro. This is only the latest in a series of animal incursions into our purportedly urban habitat. You may recall last year’s bats in Hartley and squirrels in Claremont. Maybe they are trying to […]

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A Dad Walks Into Diana…

Courtney Couillard 9

barnard dads
bernard college
constant fear your daughter will become a lesbian
dad jokes galore
do they sell that in the bookstore?
DSpar
fuck the patriarchy
get thee to a nunnery
i'm not like the other dads i'm a cool dad
prospective students weekend
s/o if you've seen the blue man group
this is satire guys
we stan for barnard dads

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GSSC Debates Removing A Computer Lab From Lerner

Joe Milholland 0

Bracing for F@CU
gssc
Katherine Celentano
lerner
Peter Nason

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AskBwog: Prospective Romance Edition

Bwog Staff 4

askbwog
consent
days on campus
hooking up with freshmen
hooking up with prospies
hot prospies
momma bwog
one bwogger hooked up with their days on campus host
our days on campus host took us to 1020
we back

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Commuter Swipe Access For Residence Halls Re-Instated

Bwog Staff 5

commuters
dean cristen kromm
residence halls
swipe access

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Freshpeople Housing Reviews 2015: John Jay

Bwog Staff 2

addressing our most loyal readership
holy crap people love living in John Jay
housing reviews 2015
plus you know famous people lived here but then they lived everywhere at Columbia
welcome prospies 2015

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Bwoglines: There Is Hope Edition

Bwog Staff 0

"tidal"
fuck u tidal
full house
olsen twins
resilience
spend more time on low beach
there is hope
vaccinate your kids
waka flocka flame
waka flocka flame performed at brown's spring weekend
we promise

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From Court To Classroom, Troy Murphy Is A Star

Max Rettig 0

a foot and a half taller than the guy who interviewed him
a legend among mortals
all the more reason to meet GSers
celebrities in GS
from court to classroom
he played for mark cuban
shooting hoops and studying sociology
troy murphy
well aware of the grind

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So You Want To Be A Core Professor

Lili Brown 7

academia
cc
interviewz on interviewz on interviewz
lili met nathan schumer randomly on the street and asked him all these questions... they were strangers but now they're friends!
new hire
not hard CORE unless you live hard CORE
teaching at ur undergrad institution is pretty swaggy
that ferguson question seems like a real stumper

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