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High Police Presence Only a Drill

By Bwog Staff on Feb 22, 2011 7 Comments

Bwog received a tip this morning noting unusually high police presence outside of Barnard at 116th and Broadway–inlcuding police dogs and armed officers. Upon visiting the scene, Bwog learned that the city had run an anti-terror drill. Police arrived at the 116th street subway as if responding to a bomb threat. The University is not […]

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Last Day for Everyone but SEAS to Drop a Class

By Bwog Staff on Feb 22, 2011 5 Comments

That’s right, Columbia College, Barnard, and GS, today is your last chance to drop that class you thought looked interesting until you realized there was a three page response due every week. UPDATE: A tipster informs Bwog that EA Sports is giving away a free Snoop concert to the college with the most votes on […]

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Bwoglines: 1984 Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 22, 2011 1 Comments

Columbia law professor Eben Moglen believes the Freedom Box, a small server meant for personal use, can keep the internet out from under the watchful eye of Big Brother. (NYT) Winston Stephen A. Smith thinks Melo can catapult the Knicks back to relevance. Now they just have Jay-Z and the Nets to deal with, and […]

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LectureHop: Arianna Huffington, Joan Didion and the Speccies

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 14 Comments

Print journalism enthusiasts Claire Sabel and Carolyn Ruvkun scored invites to CSAAD, Columbia Spectator’s Annual Awards Dinner, held this year at the Columbia Club in midtown. Speccies schmoozed, Arianna Huffington charmed, and hobnobbing ensued. “Journalism is not a spectator sport,” declared Arianna Huffington. It was an unfortunate choice of words, since the media mogul was […]

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They’re Watching

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 16 Comments

To those who studied in Butler 210 last night— you were being watched! The reason for filming is not nearly as sinister and panopticonny as it seems. A JSchooler was getting some stock footage for a documentary about a sober house built specifically for college students. She’s investigating what drives students to alcoholism, and plans to […]

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Chronicles of Existentialism: Nussbaum & Wu

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 4 Comments

“Myth opens the door to a world that cannot be predicted and controlled, where truth is more amorphous, multifaceted, relative, pluralistic.” – David N. Elkins

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In Defense of Ethernet

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 23 Comments

Bwog is a champion of the people. We save cats from trees, we give you free food, we defend the lowliest, saddest, most seemingly indefensible parts of our fair campus. We’ve tackled Wien, Famiglias, and the Freshman Fifteen. In response to a recent CUIT push for wireless to replace ethernet, Zoe Camp takes on the haters and gives you a […]

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BucketList: Bodies and Embodiment Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 0 Comments

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege and luxury we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus that will hopefully make you realize how lucky we are to be here. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full […]

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Look Alive, The Prospies Have Arrived

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 37 Comments

Flocks of prospective students clutter campus in celebration of Presidents’ Day. It’s rumored that the Undergraduate Recruitment Committee expects “mega tours” this week. Makes you feel sentimental, don’t it?

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CCSC: New Routes to Olde Ends Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 5 Comments

CCSC deliberates. Brian Wagner reports. The council once again discussed a streamlined, multi-council uniform cosponsorship committee after hearing presentations from the treasurers of the three other student councils, which have all passed the measure. The proposed committee would cut a lot of red tape, saving the sanity of councils and applicants alike. CCSC proposed a revised resolution. The Council […]

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Spring is Fickle

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 15 Comments

While you slept a slushpocalypse swept away the spring that almost was:

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Bwoglines: Questionable Judgement Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 21, 2011 11 Comments

An Egyptian couple named their child “Facebook” in honor of the January 25th revolution. Somewhere, a couple with a child named “MySpace” cringes. (TechCrunch) The NYPD rescued two West Point cadets from the face of Storm King Mountain, where they had been stranded for over 8 hours after a failed rappel. Because, you know, if […]

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AskBwog: Spark@CU

Bwog Staff 17

but that blurring was v tasteful
butler sex
dating
investigative journalism lol
isn't this supposed to be an app to be at all effective
it's not phishing!
more things to do instead of homework
not senior scramble but close
so many things are at cu now we're a little sick of it
sparkatcu
subjecting ourselves to viruses FOR YOU
yay not a scam
you should know what phishing is so Google it before asking in the comments (but you'll ask anyway)

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Lost: Sunglasses

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Lost and Found

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Post-Bacchanal Roundup

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annoying ppl
carman is definitely the new schapiro
Columbia
days on campus
I'm a mouse...duh
prospies
sorry that mouse picture is really sad
thank god the prospies are leaving soon
truly a post with no real premise
turn up
we really wanted to make a great mouse detective reference but couldn't figure out how so we're doing it here

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Which Famous Columbia/Barnard Grad Are You?

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bwog is buzzfeed sometimes
bwog knows you love a good quiz
bwog quizzes
damn we hope we got joan rivers or martha stewart
such pride in our alums
this is kind of like studying?

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Pulitzers in Pulitzer

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excuse us where is our pulitzer
famous people on campus
pulitzer prize
pulitzer prize 2014
putting the j school building to work
so much alliteration
some damn good reporting

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Underwater Basket Weaving: Fall 2014

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assimilation and its discontents actually sounds like a good class
bodies r machines
food
food writing
humans r wrong
narrative medicine is a cureall
omg these are hilarious
scary stories like the one of how i wrote this post
warriors are rarely poets
what does a pirate pay for corn? a bucaneer!
wow i wanna take sorcery that would be badass
writing
yum!

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CCSC: What Are Those Student Reps For?

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"empowering" student reps umm they already have pretty big egos
apparently all columbia committees are not transparent
ccsc
CUFSN
drop deadline
quality of life survey
registration gets covered too
sore throat from bacchanal

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Dive Into Registration, Autumn ’14

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class registration
classes
drank
HOLY FUCK
juinors
only the strong survive registration
register
registration...a war of all against all?
resources
swiming pools
takedown of the culpa monopoly
why does culpa always go down when you need it?
yum!

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