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Z.Y. Fu Passes Away

By Bwog Staff on Aug 26, 2011 3 Comments

Z.Y. Fu, the Chinese businessman and philanthropist who donated generously to Columbia University over the past 20 years, passed away yesterday. In 1990, Mr. Fu began his philanthropy by endowing a chair of applied mathematics at the Engineering school, where his brother-in-law taught as a professor. Three years later, he endowed a scholarship fund for […]

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A Look into the Policy and Planning Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

By Bwog Staff on Aug 25, 2011 3 Comments

Moody-Adams’ reasons for resigning probably surrounded decisions made by the Policy and Planning Committee (PPC) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Executive Vice President Nicholas Dirks focused his reaction to the dean’s condemnation of FAS on defending the PPC and stressing that whatever Moody-Adams found objectionable has not been set in stone. We’re […]

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Summer Reading: Is Your Degree Worth It?

By Bwog Staff on Aug 25, 2011 26 Comments

Whether thoughts of the coming year bring joy or fear, recent months’ debate over the value of higher education should give you good reason to have second thoughts. Bwog daily editor Matt Schantz reviews the literature. Richard Heffner, host of PBS’s Open Mind, began an interview with former Dean Moody-Adams with a provocative quote form MiMoo […]

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Oh, The Places You Come From And The Things You Do Here

By Bwog Staff on Aug 25, 2011 11 Comments

This morning, all of the COÖP students left for untamed nature outside the city. NSOP doesn’t start until Monday. But it’s not all bad news! Today is the move-in day for ISOP, the International Students (Pre-) Orientation Program. ISOP started last year as a pilot program meant to give international students a few extra days […]

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Raining on NSOP’s Parade: Convocation Canceled and COÖP Curtailed

By Bwog Staff on Aug 25, 2011 18 Comments

In case you weren’t aware, there’s a pretty big rainstorm that’s going to hit the northeast this weekend, just in time for NSOP. Bwog has been mystified by the Weather Channel the past few days (Seriously! 24 hours devoted just to weather! What is this madness) and really, the coming Hurricane Irene is no joke. […]

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The Very Hungry ATM

By Bwog Staff on Aug 25, 2011 6 Comments

Like a fuzzy caterpillar wrapping itself into a cocoon, Lerner’s Citibank outpost asked us to pardon its appearance for a few weeks this summer while it was busy becoming a butterfly. Our shiny new friend has finally emerged from behind those temporary walls and fluttered its wings for the first time. The butterfly/bank, featuring updated […]

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Columbia Drug Ring Has Cable TV Premiere

By Bwog Staff on Aug 25, 2011 7 Comments

With a plot ripped from the headlines, Monday’s episode of Weeds brought the hunky Hunter Parrish up to our Morningside Heights campus to confront the leader of a fictionalized Columbia drug ring. Though, the stock footage of campus appears to be outdated. Does anyone remember when exactly we had recycling bins like that?

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Worse Than A Hangover

By Bwog Staff on Aug 25, 2011 10 Comments

To the lad that fellow ale-sipper-cum-tipster Amanda Gutterman spotted last night: That splitting pain in your head is actually from 1020’s massive front window that you plowed into.

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The Moody-Adams Retrospective

By Bwog Staff on Aug 24, 2011 14 Comments

Michele Moody-Adams may have only been dean for a scant two years, but she has undoubtedly made her mark in Columbia history. Bwog’s Peter Sterne takes us through the short time she spent as Dean of Columbia College. When Michele Moody-Adams was first named as Columbia College’s new dean in February 2009, The New York […]

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Meet QuickTix

By Bwog Staff on Aug 24, 2011 1 Comments

So you spent all summer preoccupied with supplying your dorm room with the essentials and choosing a side in the Great Printer Debate and now have no clue what to do in the city for cheap. Worry not, freshperson, that’s what Bwog is here for. Meet the Ticket and Information Center, aka The TIC, one […]

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Making Your Cell a Home: Roomhop Highlights

By Bwog Staff on Aug 24, 2011 9 Comments

In our RoomHop feature, Bwog indulges its dream to host an HGTV show. We hope these pics from past rooms inspire intrepid designers. You can totally get more original than that Audrey Hepburn poster. Observe! Click the links to read the full RoomHops. Will Hughes, CC’13, John Jay: Patrick Han and Shao-Wen Ang, Watt

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COÖP Is Here!

By Bwog Staff on Aug 24, 2011 9 Comments

The newest freshpersons have arrived on campus! Look at them luxuriating in the shade of this Convocation tent and probably preparing to sing Roar, Lion, Roar and eat only hummus for four days. They head out to the woods tomorrow to make the best friends anyone on has ever had in the history of the […]

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Barnard Announces Ambassador Samantha Power As 2015 Commencement Speaker

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barnard
barnard 123rd commencement
commencement announcement
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Teach-In: Fight For $15 Tonight

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activism
ambivalence is overrated
events around campus
fight for 15
free pizza
get involved
psa
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Violentology: Studying Colombia At Columbia With Stephen Ferry

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"violentology" interesting
adding -ology to everything
bwogology
Colombia not Columbia
feels like something out of the human rights section of uwriting
human rights
lecturehop
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Bwoglines: Bodies Edition

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bwoglines
canadian music that's not drake
help i'm alive
metric
micropenis
tampon commercials
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wine drunk

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Fire At 600 West 116th

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barnard
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Hold On, We’re Going Home

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boston
bwog has a lot of feelings sometimes
bwog in boston
drake lyrics
if we see one comment about bwog not being your livejournal we swear to god...
is it spring break yet?
just hold on we're going home
megabus is the bane of our new england lives
never outgrow that angst about home and college

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BunsenBwog: Kids These Days

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all the newtonians in the room plz stand up
bunsen burners and magnetic technology and brain synapses: oh my!
BunsenBwog
BunsenBwog returns?
bunsenbwog: the real Frontiers of Science
bwog is still grieving the loss of breaking bad
for the luv of science
heisenberg
public health
science swag
walter white
yeah science bitch!
yeeet
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A New Re:vision On Campus

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nominate your friends or yourself we won't judge
podcasts are the way of the future tbh
re:vision
serial took our podcast v card
shamelessly plugging our lovely b&w counterparts
soundcloud isn't just for music
this is a columbia creative writing major's wet dream
your fav is problematic feat. lena dunham

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