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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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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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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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Talking To Champions: An Interview With George Thanopoulos And Nick Maguire

Max Rettig 0

george thanopoulos
going for 4
home runs and strikeouts
ivy league champs 3x in a row
meet the Lions
nasty breaking pitches
nick maguire
pickoffs
the road to Omaha
yeah lions!

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Where Is Maggie’s Next Adventure?

Maddie Stearn 0

barnard bearoness
But does Maggie really want to go to the suburbs?
But seriously WHERE IS MAGGIE GOING????
celebrity crushes
God Maggie you're so sheltered
Smizing
why did ANTM have to pick 'you want to be on top' as its slogan

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Bwog In Bed: The Final Edition

Bwog Staff 0

broken windows
butler's open yay
bwoggers dropping left and right
columbia kids make music
don't break our heart(s)
it's not too late to procrastinate

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