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It Glitters!

By Bwog Staff on Aug 06, 2010 30 Comments

Mel’s Burger Bar is coming along quite nicely. And more Morningside dining news: Kuti’s, a new takeout store on 116th between Morningside and Manhattan Avenues, just got a good review from the Times. Bwog sampled the shrimp piri-piri and it is delicious, and just $7 for a plate of shrimp and two sides. Most dishes […]

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Things That Happened On Thursday

By Bwog Staff on Aug 05, 2010 4 Comments

A few things of note happened on campus today. First, a man named Bryan sat in a kiddie pool and splashed around outside Hamilton. Why’d ya do it, Bry? Then, embattled Congressman Charlie Rangel provided the keynote speech at the NYC Economic Development Luncheon in Roone. His speech was entitled “The status of the National […]

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Morningside Heights Is The Nexus Of Technology

By Bwog Staff on Aug 04, 2010 56 Comments

The MTA has no money, but is using its no-money to make these little robot machines called subway indicators all along the 1 line (that’s the “red line” to you, Class of 2014) this summer. Until they actually take away Unlimited Metrocards, we’re not complaining, because this is a fantastic device that allows you to […]

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Morningside Heights Is A Den Of Filth

By Bwog Staff on Aug 03, 2010 67 Comments

The Health Department is, as of this summer, requiring that every restaurant in New York display the letter grades they most recently received for cleanliness. This is a nightmare for everyone; it’s rare that any restaurant will sneak away with no health violations. The grades will be assigned during the next year, when the Health […]

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Keep Ya Panties On: The PINK Challenge

By Bwog Staff on Aug 02, 2010 23 Comments

It’s August, and the countdown has begun. School will, one day not so far from today, start again, and you will need new underwear for the new semester. More bad news: we, Columbia’s undergraduate population, the very fiber of our school, have failed again in taking steps to increase campus pride, foster any sense of conventional collegiate […]

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Ajeet Singh Matharu, History Grad Student, Passes Away In India

By Bwog Staff on Aug 01, 2010 11 Comments

Very sad news today: Ajeet Singh Matharu, a History student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, passed away in a car crash in India on July 26th. Beyond Columbia, Ajeet taught 9th, 11th and 12th grade students at the Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment. He was also a prominent member of […]

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Arrest and Car Crash Last Night On Broadway

By Bwog Staff on Aug 01, 2010 8 Comments

Morningside Heights crime wave! We heard reports that there was a car crash, and then that there was a shooting last night on 113th Street between 3-5 AM. There was a car crash and an arrest, but no shooting. We just got off the phone with Public Safety, who told us there was an “altercation” […]

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What Is the Ivy That Appears Most Often in the NYT’s Wedding Pages?

By Bwog Staff on Jul 30, 2010 31 Comments

IT IS COLUMBIA. Roar, Lion, roar! Today on Daily Intel, we learned that there is a new website that makes the last 3,981 wedding announcements in the Times and made them into a database. Columbia has been mentioned 615 times. Browse and see if your TA married your other TA! Harvard had only 466 and […]

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Ticket Scam Arrest Outside Lerner

By Bwog Staff on Jul 28, 2010 13 Comments

A tipster just wrote that he saw 10 cops handcuff a man outside Lerner and take him away. Apparently there were a lot of cops and Public Safety folk around. Bwog was outside Lerner a few minutes later, but found nothing- no cop cars, no Lerner personnel. We’ll update you as soon as we get […]

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Boringside Heights: What We Talk About When We Talk About Bagels

By Bwog Staff on Jul 27, 2010 21 Comments

Bagels are eight cents more expensive at Nussbaum as of this past weekend. That’s 98 cents a bagel instead of 90 cents. In other news, Marla Maples (who is apparently a real person that used to be married to Donald Trump) was seen at a CC info session on Friday with her teenage daughter, Tiffany […]

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Unlikely Friendships: Kenneth Cole and Columbia Edition

By Bwog Staff on Jul 26, 2010 8 Comments

Kenneth Cole, a fashion designer who has weird, earnest, sometimes squirmy billboards on the West Side Highway, is teaming up with CC and SEAS to launch the Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Program in the fall. Want to know what that is? Kay. Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc., CC, SEAS, Center for Career Education and Student Affairs […]

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Bwoglines: Columbians Do Good Things (Except James Franco)

By Bwog Staff on Jul 26, 2010 21 Comments

A profile of GS student John McClelland II, who was an Army medic in Afghanistan and Iraq, in Warrior Forge. He says that he’s working on his first novel, The War in Glorious Technicolor. Reason 10,343 to be happy you don’t go to NYU: the Times takes a look at college life in the city, […]

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Two Boys: 2001 Was A Weird Time

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a night at the opera
alexandra svokos
bwog can be highbrow sometimes
can we get music hum credit for this?
columbia alums
columbia alums doing cool stuff
nico muhly
opera not oprah
opera not the browser
two boys one opera

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Sustaining Peace Lecturehop

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are you inspired yet
can bwog be one of her six kids
can bwog be six of her six kids
can she just come back every year
lecturehop
Leymah Gbowee
nobel prize winners
peace
queen
seriously look at those quotes

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Housing Photo Contest: Bwog’s Submissions

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housing photo contest
pigsty-chic
true life: I haven't made my bed since parent's weekend Freshman year
wall moldings but not the nice kind

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KCST Presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

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all the world's a stage!
kcst
remember that time we had to read king lear and remember all the characters for the passage IDs
shakespeare
shakespeare anne hathaway's husband
shakespeare the king of slang
shakespeare wears his earring on the left side what does it mean
shall I compare thee to a fall's day
where art thou?

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Bwoglines: Weird Animals Edition

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animals
belligerent squirrels
chicken run
chicken run has a 97% on rotten tomatoes
lions and tigers and bears oh my
reasons columbia didn't make the huffpo squirrel rankings
the tweedys
weird animals
why does it take more than one squirrel to change a lightbulb

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In Defense of: the Barnard Thesis

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In Defense Of
in defense of theses
political science is not a hard science
posterboards
science fairs ruined our self-esteem
we love work

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Event Hop: Barnard Sherry Hour

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barnard
barnard's dean gives out free drinks??!!?
only a single glass for all the students professors and alumni
sherry hour

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All Of The Free Food, All Of The Free Festivities

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also hard cider?
epic mealtime
free drinking
free food
free food times three
free music
let there be pumpkin beer
music or learnings?
what is cornfield gospel pj

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