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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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Bwog Endorses TCPFABT

Taylor Grasdalen 14

always take your cues from the administration
mandatory siestas
official endorsement
taking student council seriously
tcpfabt
they are all named dan
we still heart peter bailinson <3

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CCSC Considers A Public Safety Funding Proposal

Joe Milholland 6

ccsc
CPS
elections tomorrow!
highly inappropriate survey questions

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Bwoglines: Tourism Edition

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better find some friends to go to egypt with
bwog vacay
bwoglines
jk jersey still sucks
new fence 2016!
too legit to quit in egypt
tourists in ny stick to times square
white house trying to be friendly to tourists but not really
winter bone keeps us clear of the ozarks

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Looking Back From The Past With Les Délices

Henry Litwhiler 0

at least their name isn't in all caps
bwog does music reviews now
les delices the obscure
miller theatre
one of these is not like the others
so thomas-louis bougie
wow what a subtle dig at the yuppies

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Bwog Meeting Tonight!

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"I love my big"
big/little reveal
bwog meeting tonight
honestly this daily is shameless
Low-key hoping Yaniv is my big
meeting announcement
the sorority obsession continues
we've stopped caring

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An Interview With NCAA Epee Winner Jake Hoyle

Ross Chapman 3

Bwog gets sporty
Bwog is incestuous with the fencers
fencing is the hottest sport tbh
super smash bros: fencing edition
we are the champions my friends
We won Ivies so naturally we're great

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Bucket List: Arts, Morality And Political Professors

Max Rettig 0

bucket list
foreign exchange program aka eurotrip
is Columbia a moral university?
solving world problems with software
teachers in the sixties
they might have been hippies
US vs USSR: The Miracle on Canvas

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Housing Reviews 2015: Ruggles Hall

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bring a fan
check the floor plans!!!
crazy shit in the basement of Ruggles
Housing reviews
housing reviews 2015
nobody ask tats about ruggles
ruggles
ruggles 2015
still really popular

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