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Better Living Through Gmail: 2011 Update

By Bwog Staff on Sep 01, 2011 13 Comments

2012 Update: Columbia has finally made it easy! Just go the forwarding page and put in your gmail address. Freshpeople (and regularpeople just a little behind the times), pay attention! Being a Columbia student means dealing with email. Craploads of it. If you haven’t switched from Cubmail to Gmail yet, something is terribly wrong. In […]
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Morningside Almanac: Week of 9/01

By Bwog Staff on Sep 01, 2011 1 Comments

Bwog is a big fan of the farmer’s market, and over the years we’ve gotten to know them pretty well. The market sets up in the early morning on the east side of Broadway from 114th to 116th streets on Thursdays and Sundays, and usually wraps up by around 5 pm. There’s a fantastic array […]
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Waking Up With Bwog #3

By Bwog Staff on Sep 01, 2011 6 Comments

Top of the morning to you freshpeople! So much to see, so much to learn! The wise John Jay once said: “Hold fast to the spirit of youth, let the years to come do what they may” The wise Wayne Campbell once said: “I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned […]
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Of Course They Need Glowsticks!

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 19 Comments

Over on Low Plaza, and for the last half hour or so, a crowd has gathered, sending out rainbow rays and good-time tunes into the night. Weighed down with glow-rings, the masses cover the steps and jam to “Chicken Fried,” the “Cupid Shuffle,” and “Jai-Ho” remixes. The event is CUgLow. A tight core of dedicated […]
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Representative Democracy, We Got That: 2011 Edition

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 4 Comments

Bright young things: in the next few weeks you will be introduced to a dizzying array of organizations, acronyms, slang, and food trucks. Bwog knows it can be difficult to keep track, so to ease your bureaucracy-induced agitation is Bwog’s CCSC correspondent Brian Wagner, here to untangle the web that is Columbia’s undergraduate student government. […]
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Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 10 Comments

Twenty-fifteen, we know you think you know a lot. That is why campus is filled with conversation like this: [Group of COOP freshpeople walking up Broadway] Freshgirl: “I am like in love with Banksy.” Freshboy: “Yeah he’s like a big deal.” But there’s so much left to learn. Bwog rounded up some of the things […]
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Dear Bwog: Design Drama Edition

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 3 Comments

Survey your Carman double. Don’t let the stark cinder block and linoleum faze you—soon you too can cover your walls with cool kitsch. But in case you are daunted by all that space, or any other first-time conundrums, Bwog will answer your questions. We’re here to help, so ask away via tips@bwog.com. Dear Bwog, What’s the best way […]
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Everything You Need to Know About Operation Ivy League

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 22 Comments

Yesterday, Harrison David began serving his prison sentence at Rikers. The other defendants in the case have yet another hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on September 23rd. It looks like the long saga of Operation Ivy League may be drawing to a close. Upperclassmen may be relieved it’s finally over, but members of the Class […]
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The First Lit-Hum Lecture 2011

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 6 Comments

Alison Herman, CC’15, was dutifully in attendance yesterday afternoon. She keeps it short and sweet below. N.B. Christia Mercer is a Bright Eyes fan. At 2:30 sharp on Tuesday, over a thousand Columbia College freshpeople and one intrepid reporter packed themselves into Roone Arledge Auditorium for their first-ever college lecture. With the help of a […]
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What Is… Lioness on the Cheese Grater?

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 1 Comments

Bwog stopped by the Health Services fair for a round of “Sex Jeopardy.” Stock up on dental dams, Lifestyles, frisbees and cookies by the Zen Garden.
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Waking Up With Bwog #2

By Bwog Staff on Aug 31, 2011 3 Comments

It’s another beautiful day. Be fruitful and multiply your knowledge with Bwog. First, a warm cup ‘o senior wisdom, courtesy of Ian Kwok, CC’11: Columbia is a university where it’s really up to you to make what you want of it. So have some fun with it! Sure, grades are important, but in the end, […]
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Gifts From Housing: The Reno Rundown

By Bwog Staff on Aug 30, 2011 22 Comments

The Columbia Housing Gods have upgraded your digs. Much thanks to the lovely Joyce Jackson for sharing this definitive list of renovations. Here’s what you can expect Carman: Freshies are in for a treat: a glistening new fitness room. Couch muffins can enjoy True Blood marathons on the flat screen televisions just installed in all floor […]
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Bwoglines: Shutdown Edition

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Bucket List: Dance Criticism, Phlogiston and Natural Capital

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Housing Reviews 2015: Furnald

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Bwog Meeting Tonight

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A Call For Best Bacchanal Story

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  • who knew that Raury was only 18???
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Bwoglines: Death And Loss Edition

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Bwoglines: You’re Standing In Line Edition

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An Unpretentious Night With The Daedalus Quartet

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