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Car Crash at 116th and Broadway

By Bwog Staff on Feb 05, 2011 10 Comments

Earlier this morning, a Tom Cat Bakery truck and taxi cab collided on 116th St and Broadway. The taxi’s passengers have been taken to the hospital, but bystanders report that the situation doesn’t look too grim. Unplowed snow appears to be the culprit in this incident. The crash-induced traffic has cleared, but bulldozers have now […]

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Bwoglines: Law and Order Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 05, 2011 1 Comments

Floridita (you know, that Cuban restaurant that was relocated due to Manhattanville expansion) is suing Columbia University for moving it to a building contaminated with asbestos. This isn’t the first of Columbia’s asbestos-related issues. (Village Voice) Starbucks’ new 31-ounce Trenta cup can hold an entire bottle of wine. Oh, the possibilities! (Eater) A Connecticut pot […]

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Did You Mean: how do you turn a guy on

By Bwog Staff on Feb 04, 2011 30 Comments

Now there’s something unexpected from Columbia’s new home page. Bwog cartoonist extraordinaire Jody Zellman pointed out to us that if you are choosey enough with your words, you can get some very interesting results from the home page’s search box that now has an autocomplete feature. People have been having fun with Google‘s autocomplete for years, but […]

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#gettingtoknow

By Bwog Staff on Feb 04, 2011 6 Comments

Bwog’s kinda fascinated by the 140-character nuggets of wisdom dispensed from PrezBo’s twitter. We even tried tweeting him once… it was awkward. Anywho, PrezBo’s not the only Twitter-ing Columbian. You can finally stalk these professors in a socially acceptable way by “following” them. Twitters ahoy! P.S. Follow us too! Shamus Khan (Sociology) Recent tweets: “I […]

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Cooking with Bwog: 3 Ways to Say “I Love You”

By Bwog Staff on Feb 04, 2011 4 Comments

Need a special something for that special someone on a special budget? Let Bwog’s chocolatier extraordinaire Matt Powell show you how to make sweets for your sweetheart! We’re approaching that dreaded time of the year. It’s the most stressful time for a boyfriend— treating him/her to something special and out-of-the-ordinary, and of course finding the […]

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Tales from Farmville: Roaming Acres Ostrich Farm

By Bwog Staff on Feb 04, 2011 6 Comments

As of now, Roaming Acres Ostrich Farm has no ostrich eggs—the two on display are hollow with holes drilled at the top. Few people but Lou, who has been in the ostrich business for 12 years, have any reason to know this, but we are not in ostrich season right now. As Bwog learned from […]

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Egypt Update

By Bwog Staff on Feb 04, 2011 3 Comments

Bwog just received the following email from Robert Hornsby, Director of Media Relations at Columbia. We’re glad everyone made it out safely! A number of University offices worked diligently in collaboration to assist members of the Columbia community with travel arrangements from Egypt, and we are happy to report that to the best of our […]

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New York is Urban Once Again!

By Bwog Staff on Feb 04, 2011 8 Comments

Urban New York returns! After its unfortunate cancellation last semester, the Student Affairs sponsored program is back to “spice up Columbia students’ social lives with the sights and sounds of the Big Apple.” Urban New York offers the opportunity to win tickets to see all those “cultural city events” you decided you would get to […]

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Bwoglines: Anger in the Street Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 04, 2011 2 Comments

Bloomberg loves that The New Yorker thinks only Bloomberg can love Bloomberg, but New Yorkers love Bloomberg, too. (Cityroom) Realizing how greatly the were outnumbered, Wal-Mart bailed on a City Council hearing regarding their own plans to open a store in East New York. (Gothamist, NYT) Since the New York City schools chancellor attends school-closing hearings, […]

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LibraryHop: NoCo Science & Engineering Library

By Bwog Staff on Feb 03, 2011 28 Comments

Bwog likes to hop all sorts of things, from Equestrian club saddles to lingering denizens of Butler café, but especially libraries. Today, Anish Bramhandkar takes you the NoCo Science and Engineering Library. Yes, NoCo’s been open for a while, but we’re still captivated. It’s just so fancy. You’d think the starkness of the Mudd engineering […]

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Join the CPS for a Free Film Festival

By Bwog Staff on Feb 03, 2011 1 Comments

Today through Sunday, the newly launched Center for Palestine Studies is hosting a “Dreams of a Nation: A Palestinian Film Festival” event. All of the films are screened for free at either Barnard or Columbia! You just have to register online. See the schedule, and register for spots here.

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Where Art Thou?

By Bwog Staff on Feb 03, 2011 4 Comments

Bwog’s new Thursday feature, Where Art Thou?, is here to keep you posted on what’s going on in the A&E department in Morningside Heights and beyond. If you’d like your Happy Birthday Dancing Hampster Circus listed, email us as events@bwog.com. Composer Portrait of Julia Wolfe, tonight at 8 p.m. at Miller Theatre. $25. Jake Snider, Friday […]

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Plant A Tree, Save A PrezBo

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#ourgreen
b of the e
back of the envelope calculations
Bwog does math
CO2 emissions = fart euphemism?
frontiers in action
happy earth day!
suddenly "have a global day" seems a lot less sincere...
we hope his hair products don't include don't contain HFCs!!

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Bwoglines: A Morning Squirrel Edition

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avoid the game of thrones spoilers don't click the link now you can't say we didn't tell you!
bwoglines
GAME OF THRONES
helicopter parents are gonna have a field day with these baby academies we can't even
mademoiselle squirrel
the best way to start your day: a squirrelverseen!

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Finals Are Really Getting Real

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adderall is your beeswax
come on everyone did the reading in the first week of freshman year right?
it's an epic poem not a book
odysseus had struggles too
Odyssey
struggling to remember lit hum references but we swear we did the reading!
that bow must have been a sexual reference

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Field Notes: Strike That Edition

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do people even celebrate easter?
easter was interesting this year
field notes
how many ways can you talk about it without saying what it is
is that green eggs and ham?
notes from the field
stripper poles: hold fast to the spirit of thy youth
what is that green stuff?
why does the easter bunny have red eyes?

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India Business Conference 2014: Successes, Shortcomings and Limitless Potential

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90 percent of every dollar is lost to corruption
all of these enormous companies are the reason why indians are poor
capitalismo
columbia business school
five I's
india is very young
indian business
make money off the third world!
more taxes for india!
neoliberalism
not sure what to think about this conference
perception of food
we should fix taxes yes

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Barnard SGA Election Results Are In!

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apply for the new positions!
elections
equity and inclusion is more powerful than diversity sounds good
sga
things will continue to happen and they will need legislation that's why SGA is here
to preserve things

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It’s Teatime

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bwog was part of "a social experiment"
senior nostalgia
step out of your comfort zone!
tea with tanay
teaching tea with tanay dude

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Congrats To The CC Val And Sal!

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columbia college
congratulations are in order
graduation is nigh
portents of graduation
salutatorian
valedictorian
we were all valedictorians but now there is only one

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