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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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Free Food: Picture Perfect Pizza Party and Philosophical Partakings with Pazzaglini

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 2 Comments

A picture is worth a thousand slices of pizza, so head on over to Low Steps from 12 to 2 pm for free pizza and a free concert from the CU Photo Society. Also, if you’re more into mixing up some philosophy and neuroscience, Professor Peter Pazzaglini of the Columbia Neuroscience Society will host a lecture […]

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Bwoglines: Breaking the Mold Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 08, 2011 1 Comments

Columbia will implement a new system to review professors for tenure. It will be more effective but less specialized than the existing one. (Spec) The Trustees of Columbia University have proposed funding a renovation of the Columbia University Medical Center subway stop. It’s about time. That elevator is the worst! (2nd. Avenue Sagas) The Nobel […]

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200 Columbia Faculty Members Support Occupy Wall Street

By Bwog Staff on Oct 07, 2011 84 Comments

Update (11:00 pm, Oct. 10): The petition has been officially released. The online petition now has over 300 signatures. Update (11:16 am, Oct. 8): The petition now lists 292 signatures, which can be read here. As expected, the largest departmental representations are from FAS humanities, Sociology, History and Anthropology, but the list also includes professors […]

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Cooking with Bwog: Back To Basics—Sweets

By Bwog Staff on Oct 07, 2011 3 Comments

Craving something sweet? In this week’s edition of Cooking with Bwog, our saccharine chef Matt Powell reveals how to make basic and not-so-basic treats like cookies, meringues, and chocolate ganache! The Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie Makes 1 1/2 dozen 5-inch cookies The best chocolate chip cookies in the city are made by Jacques Torres. This is […]

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Better Than Astronaut Ice Cream

By Bwog Staff on Oct 07, 2011 2 Comments

Butler library is hosting a conversation with Jim Ottaviani, graphic novelist and author of a recent biography of physicist Richard Feynman. The event begins at 4:30 PM in Butler 523. We’re told there will be chips, assorted cookies, baked meringues and cupcakes to munch on while you try to wrap your head around quantum mechanics. […]

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Fiddlin’ Around: Catching Up With The Morningsiders

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alexander pines
bwog still knows all of the lyrics to empress by heart
bwog turned up for morningsiders and not macklemore
cody gibson
david su
from the issue
magnus ferguson
morningsiders
rad music to listen to
reid jenkins
the blue and white

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Written, Directed, And Produced By A Student, PILL Is A Home Run

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Amelia Arnold
ass out
Barnard bears killin it
cake cake cake
dicks in socks
hypochondria
medical tape and medical MJ
OD'ed on XANAX
Pill
ripping tabacco is defs not healthy for you
Stoner Josh has a huge tat on his back that says dude
thai market chicken pad thai
thats a weed pipe...not a crack pipe
wild for the night fuck being polite
Wizard Weed

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Bwoglines: Shutdown Edition

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big news
bwog already lives in the hamilton elevator might as well stick a fridge in there
bwog gets winded on the hamilton stairs
bwoglines
freddie gray
grime is mainstream now that kanye showcased it on the brit awards
how many flights of stairs in hamilton equals a treat yo self?
pastrami with a side of GAS LEAK am i right
REAL music
rip carnegie deli
rip everest
shutdown

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Senior Wisdom: Abby Abrams

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abby abrams
abby now that you're done with spec you can write a ranty op ed for us
barnard babe
bonding spec and bwog one senior wisdom at a time
bwog senior wisdoms
did you even go to columbia if you didn't write a spec op-ed?
go to office hours apparently
mlibc ALWAYS
ooo we're gunna need some ice for that burn
remember that time when spec went digital?
senior wisdoms
senior wisdoms 2015
what if abby is secretly on bwog staff now

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Field Notes: Mets Vs. Yankees Edition

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barnard babe
binge weird loners
bwog baseball
drinking is perfectly legal on the metro north
field notes
here-come-the-yankees
let's-go-mets
notes from the field
shoutout to sadie dupuis
the long island sound
tribeca film festival wow bwog is so artsy
what ocean?

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Show Up To Write Up At Wikithon Tonight!

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hey you may even become important enough to get your own wikicu page
how else did we cope with senioritis
john jay lounge still reminds us of housing
maggie <3
still crying about housing
thon on!
we were all that prospie
wikiCU
wikithon!!!

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A Call For Actual Wisdoms

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actual wisdoms
bwog
can we get out of our evaluations by instead nominating professors for an actual wisdom
honor thy professors
lotta talk about columbia professors recently
sometimes we talk about professors behind their backs but really we love them
they've lived long enough to prefer cheese over oral sex
those end of semester kind of feels
timely with the fact that evaluations are now available!
wise beyond the classroom

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PeopleHop: Eye Master

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aesthetically pleasing
away message: I Am Out Eyebombing. TTYL!
basically columbia's batman
eye master here to save the day
eyeboming you know?
googly eyes
hey bwog where have peoplehops been
look for googly eyes projected by a spotlight
peoplehop
smiling as big as those googly eyes

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