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Overseen: Homeless Prefrosh Riot

By Bwog Staff on Jul 14, 2011 73 Comments

In an apparent effort to jade our incoming 2015 prefrosh before, rather than after, NSOP, Housing has already let down our youngsters. Last year, 14ers got their assignments on July 2nd. This year, Housing only finally released a few today—and then stopped. Predictably, a shitstorm ensued on the 2015 Facebook page. One student posted, “Housing […]

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Onwards and Upwards with CUArts

By Bwog Staff on Jul 12, 2011 7 Comments

It was announced today that Melissa Smey, Director of Miller Theatre, will be taking over leadership of Columbia’s Arts Initiative. In his university-wide e-mail, PrezBo praised Smey’s work in revamping Miller’s agenda — remember Sonic Youth? — which we chronicled in our profile of her in the November issue of The Blue & White. Bollinger, […]

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Own A Piece of History

By Bwog Staff on Jul 10, 2011 16 Comments

In 1951, Columbia teamed up with Harvey Comics to produce an anti-drug comic book called “Trapped.” And now it’s on eBay. You have just 2 hours and 36 minutes left to bid on what the seller promises is a “fine condition copy of this scarce early anti-drug effort with light cover wear!”

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1020 on the Big Screen

By Bwog Staff on Jul 07, 2011 21 Comments

1020 groupies rejoice! That booth where you had one too many tinis is now famous. The latest prep school misfits movie, The Art of Getting By, stars Emma Roberts (the one from Aquamarine—which maybe made you tear up that one time) and the Wes Anderson look-alike from the trippy version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Isn’t […]

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#ShouldHaveAskedObama

By Bwog Staff on Jul 06, 2011 33 Comments

We were going to launch a campaign to round up all you summer readers and bring this urgent question to the President’s attention. Then the heat got the better of us or something, but it’s the thought that counts right?

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BunsenBwog: Summer of Science

By Bwog Staff on Jun 30, 2011 18 Comments

Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean science isn’t happening at Columbia! Scientists at Columbia are growing heart and bone tissue. An NPR reporter went to the lab, interviewed researchers, and made a really cool and informative video about it that includes footage of heart tissue beating like a real heart. Perhaps most amazing is the […]

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John Coatsworth To Be Interim Provost

By Bwog Staff on Jun 29, 2011 9 Comments

President Bollinger just sent out an email announcing that John Henry Coatsworth, current Dean of SIPA and owner of the name to end all names, will assume the duties of University Provost starting July 1. With the recent loss of Claude Steele to Stanford, Coatsworth will serve as Interim Provost until PrezBo and “a small […]

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Gay Marriage Is Legal In New York!

By Bwog Staff on Jun 29, 2011 30 Comments

A milestone for civil rights: gay marriage is now legal in New York! You can now claim to attend school in a “progressive” state. Last Friday night around 10 pm, news started leaking out: two Republican state Senators had just announced they would support the gay marriage bill in the NY State Senate. A few […]

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Overheard: Now Is The Summer Of Our Discontent, Discomfort

By Bwog Staff on Jun 28, 2011 8 Comments

Two Joe employees examine the existential questions surrounding seafood-dish viscosity, in front of the new vending machines: ”I’m just uncomfortable with calling ceviche a soup.” Image of a seafood dish that can’t be comfortably referred to as a soup via Wikimedia.

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Carlos J. Alonso Steps Up As Dean of GSAS

By Bwog Staff on Jun 22, 2011 16 Comments

More boring-but-sorta-important administration news: PrezBo just sent word that Carlos J. Alonso, interim dean of GSAS since last September, will take on that position full time. Full email from ‘Bo below. Also, apparently, “Arts and Sciences always have been, and remain, central to our academic calling of pursuing answers.” So there’s that. Dear Fellow Members […]

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Operation Ivy League Hearing: Prosecution Wants Felony Plea, Defense Wants Diversion

By Bwog Staff on Jun 21, 2011 79 Comments

Today the five students arrested in Operation Ivy League had yet another court appearance, during which each was offered plea agreements by the prosecution, which all declined. Peter Sterne reports from the courtroom. The hearing began a few minutes past the scheduled start time, when the defendants and their attorneys walked to the front of […]

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Columbia Five Offered Plea Bargain, Declined It

By Bwog Staff on Jun 21, 2011 10 Comments

According to Bloomberg, the ADA offered each of the students arrested in the December drug bust plea bargains, and each of the students turned them down. David rejected an offer of one year in prison, the other four rejected offers for five years probation. The defense attorneys sought to divert their cases to treatment, rather […]

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Bwoglines: Stoned Edition

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balance ur life
bwog and bong only differ in one letter tho
bwog does not endorse the usage of illegal drugs!!!
bwog wishes it went to sxsw
im a stoner im a stoner im a stoner
just kidding-- momma bwog is about that straight edge lifestyle
more like spring broke
no joke this rolling stone story is a total disaster
PBWOD
peanut butter wolf or die
spring sprang sprung
stonehenge thoo

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Housing Reviews 2015: Schapiro

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gingham on lock
Housing reviews
housing reviews 2015
live here!
reaching new heights with the schapiro sky lounge
right across from hillel
schapiro schapiro

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Field Notes: Spring Break Edition

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bad bird
but it's still cold out
field notes
gambling addiction
muffins are kids not birds
notes from the field
reaching new lows with delta airlines
sixteen handles as in the froyo
sprang brake
spring break 2k16 in vegas
supporting local businesses multiple starbucks purchases
those new hampshire dads
when clubbing and amusement parks collide

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Bacchantae And Brown Bear Necessities Perform On Low Steps

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a cappella
brown's open curriculum
but have they read OVID ???
it's never too cold for a cappella singers
jakey <3
low steps
music
music to make columbia less depressing
other ivies
suspenders
ughhh wicked games makes us cry
we kind of fucking hate a cappella but we had fun

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Bucket List: We’re Back!

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"the ancient quarrel"
bucket list
foner's back back back back again
godzilla is coming back
government and change go together like peas in a pod
mark levine not adam levine—but they're both jewish!
multilingual monotheism
philosophy and literature have been going at it for centuries
president underwood would be proud
what is the future of the Brazilian Amazon?

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Housing Lottery Numbers Released

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all we want is a single and a kitchen
bwog is hoping for ruggles
bwog is scared 4 u
housing 2015
jk it's so much more than that
panic
today's the day
waking up to housing
we've never taken res life to be considerate

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Bwoglines: Don’t Mess With Texas Edition

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but i hear austin is cool
bwoglines
dirty south
for once we're not talking about new york
hook em
pipeline engineering
sxsw
xyz for president 2016

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Barnard Professor Catharine Nepomnyashchy Has Passed Away

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condolences

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