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LectureHop: What Does a Jew Want

By Bwog Staff on Oct 14, 2011 11 Comments

On Wednesday night, professor and Hollywood producer James Schamus (of Brokeback Mountain) moderated a discussion with Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni, journalism professor Alisa Solomon and Slovenian philosopher/muckraker/hand gesticulation champion Slavoj Žižek, that nominally took on Israeli and Palestine conflicts and the nature of binationalism in Jewish culture, as part of the Heyman Center’s Theory-Art-Action series. Bwog’s own Michael Blair reports. […]

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In Which One Philosopher Spake to the Other

By Bwog Staff on Oct 14, 2011 6 Comments

A student’s moment of sublime realization outside Butler: “Yeah man, I don’t know what to do anymore. Maybe we should just start hitting up freshmen?” Platonic ideals via Wikimedia Commons

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Cooking with Bwog: Basics of an Ice Cream Sundae

By Bwog Staff on Oct 14, 2011 11 Comments

Before running off to get your pumpkin spice latte, consider a chilled treat. This week we want you to put on your summer specs and dial up that radiator for a last toast to summer. In our latest Cooking with Bwog your not-quite-vanilla chef Matt Powell whips together a sensational delight. This week, we will […]

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Professor Makes Organic Chemistry a Breeze

By Bwog Staff on Oct 14, 2011 9 Comments

Technology can be a love or hate relationship. Fortunately, at least some professors are not afraid to embrace the newfangled world of technology that exists outside Columbia’s oak-paneled classrooms. Watch as organic chemistry professor Luis Campos shares a few moments from his lecture…in 20x.

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Take An Online Class With No Homework For No Credit

By Bwog Staff on Oct 14, 2011 8 Comments

Eric Foner’s “Civil War and Reconstruction” and Kenneth Jackson’s “History of the City of New York” are some of the most well-known classes at Columbia, and every year, it seems half of Columbia tries to register for them. But there may be a better way. While stumbling around Columbia’s web site, Bwog discovered a cache […]

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Bwoglines: Returns and Allowances Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 14, 2011 2 Comments

Columbia’s investments returned at a rate of 24 percent over the last year, edging out Harvard and Yale for the best-performing endowment among the Ivies. If only some of that gain could fix Bacchanal’s financial woes. (Bloomberg/Spec) Forty years later a Barnard alum was reunited with her missing 14-karot gold watch after losing it in […]

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Free Food, Folk

By Bwog Staff on Oct 13, 2011 3 Comments

There is currently a veritable feast of free treats in the Wien lounge for the Postcrypt Coffeehouse Folktober Fest Open Mic going on tonight from 7pm to 10 pm. Among the snacks are apple pie, pumpkin pie, and 4local’s banana cupcakes with nutella frosting. Grand old time via wikimedia.

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Drinking with Bwog: The Columbian Pride

By Bwog Staff on Oct 13, 2011 5 Comments

So you’re tired of toying around with the Bocce Ball and after “exorcizing” the Green Demon on the porcelain confessional last friday you’re not too eager to for a second taste. Pride of the The Columbia Bartending Agency Elliott Grieco mixes up something topical for this installment of Drinking with Bwog. For homecoming week, we wanted to show […]

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Autumn Arrives

By Bwog Staff on Oct 13, 2011 4 Comments

Marcus Levine CC ’15 tipped this photo of a facilities worker raking the new zen gardens. Despite summer’s brief return last week, fall is back.

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BunsenBwog: Yesteryear’s Science of Tomorrow Today!

By Bwog Staff on Oct 13, 2011 7 Comments

When they’re not headbanging or falling for our anecdote baiting, Columbia faculty enjoy getting dirty in the lab. Bwog takes a moment to look back on this week in science. Headlines were compiled by test-tube enthusiast Zach Kagan. CSI is real—Columbia’s nanoscience brainboxes have created a device that can sequence DNA at the speed of a primetime crime drama. By dragging […]

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Select Your Swag

By Bwog Staff on Oct 13, 2011 6 Comments

Alice! Health Promotion launched a poll yesterday evening in which students can write in and vote on new items. When the votes are in, Alice! will turn your clicking into free swag and give out the most popular choices. Current options range from the popular “Umbrella” to the mystifying “Sleep Mist.” Make sure to click View […]

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Deantini: It’s Official

By Bwog Staff on Oct 13, 2011 28 Comments

A month ago, the Dean announced on Bwog that the winner of our nicknaming contest would win lunch with him, and a place at an unveiling ceremony bearing his new epithet. Yesterday, Columbia’s most powerful brand mogul, Ivan Duschatzky, SEAS ’13, joined Dean Valentini for Milano (chicken parm for Ivan, grilled chicken for the Dean). Bwog […]

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June The Obscure

Bwog Staff 6

increasing your pretension will prepare you well for sophomore year
is there a support group for Infinite Jest?
reality TV experiments
smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy
we're all stuck in New Jersey
when cats are decoration
yelp reviews for piercing places sounds like an episode of Portlandia

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Columbia Divests From Private Prison Industry

Bwog Staff 4

"We are the TRUSTEEEEEEES"
columbia prison divest
CU is the first to do something???
private prison industry
surprise!

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Barnard To Admit Trans Women

Bwog Staff 14

admissions policy
barnard
trans issues
trans women

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What Happens In May…

Bwog Staff 4

columbia baseball butts
did the mattress get a diploma too?
just a little update post
mattress girl
May Update
not another senior visual arts thesis!
RIP our favorite chipotle ever
summer break
the Parent Trap: GS Student edition
what do you think the branded trustees will decide?

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PrezBo Expresses Support For Prison Divestment, Speaks On Fossil Fuel Divestment

Eric Cohn 9

divestment
fossil fuel divestment
prezbo
prison divestment

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Bwog Out

Bwog Staff 6

"seared coq au vin"
Back to New Hampshire
beautiful meals
bwog out
c ya later
come back next year
good luck y'all
last supper

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The Year In Review

Taylor Grasdalen 7

2014
2015
breaking bacchanal
bwog year in review
carry that weight
no red tape
remember ebola?
so much happened
the peter bailinson diet will never die it is not a fad
year in review

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Quiz: Which @bwog Tweet Are You?

Ross Chapman 0

better quiz than finals
Bwog not BWOG
capitalization questions
keep trying until you get the dildo one
social media interaction
squirrels = important
we can distill your existence down to 140 characters

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