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Bwoglines: Big Deals and Buffoonery Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 11, 2010 1 Comments

Way back in 1492, Columbus landed in the New World. Fun fact: Columbus never actually set foot in North America. He only got as close as the Bahamas (History.com). And remember the Downie Diatribe? Politicians hurl Italian-American slurs and “bring the buffoonery of Jersey Shore” to the Governors race. Perhaps the fist pump is the […]

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BwogWeather Episode 4: Sports Rule

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 21 Comments

This week, the weather goes underwater and then plays squash racquetball. Special thanks to our football team for winning three games in a row, Shira Laucharoen for lending us the camera, John Nordin for the underwater camera, Jackie Smith for filming, and Tiffany Lee aka Vis à Vis. Check out her non-BwogWeather music here. Onward, Weather-Friends!

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Cookies On Campus: 6,000 New Best Friends

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 14 Comments

Peter Sterne sat down with the anonymous foundress of Cookies on Campus. Cookies on Campus delivers chocolate chip cookies to your door not-for-free! Why did you decide to start a cookie-delivery business? I’m a senior in the College majoring in PoliSci who really likes to bake. I even considered dropping out of Columbia two years […]

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Bwog Meeting (at 7 PM!), Courtesy of Ol’ Blue Eyes

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 0 Comments

Start spreading the news There’s a meeting today You should want to be a part of it New York, New York The Bwogger in you It is longing to stray Right through the heart of it New York, New York You want to walk up to the SGO On Lerner 5 And find you’re the […]

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Things We Found in Butler

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 13 Comments

A semester goes, and a semester comes, but the odd behavior of Butlerites during exams remains forever. Name the tag quote! Photos by David Hu, Eliza Shapiro and Alexandra Angelo

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It’s A 10/10/10 Wedding!

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 6 Comments

Columbia is for people who are in love! Bride and groom just kissed outside the Chapel as a bunch of 14-year-olds on skateboards whizzed passed. This is the center of the world!

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Overheard: Model UN Gets Real

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 3 Comments

Girl walking down Broadway: “Yeah, I don’t know, I think I left my bag somewhere in the crisis room.” Image via Wikimedia Commons

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The Morningside Almanac: Weekend Update

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 6 Comments

What to expect when you venture out to the Greenmarket today: Heron Hill Winery has been practicing sustainable viniculture for over thirty years and is making a guest appearance at today’s market. Orange and purple cauliflowers from Samascott Orchards are here. Wager’s Cider Mill has new grape varieties. Hudson Valley Duck has fresh duck sausage. […]

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Bwoglines: Infrastructure Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 1 Comments

First Google wanted you to ride a futuristic monorail; now they want your car to drive itself. (BBC) Amtrak has been sending stones hurtling down from the Hell Gate Bridge and onto the road below. (Gawker) A Columbia research team found that America has its health care system to blame for low life expectancy relative […]

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A PSA for You Crazy Kids

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 17 Comments

We’ve gotten word that the guards at East Campus aren’t letting people in, at least as of 12:03am tonight. Stumble across Revson at your own risk! Let us know in the comments of your experiences or of any updates.

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Professor Interviews: Just Camels With Richard Bulliet

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2010 7 Comments

In our latest installment of professor interviews, Adam Kuerbitz talked camels–just camels!–with history professor Richard Bulliet, who you’ve definitely heard of and may have taken History of the Modern Middle East with. Read on to find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about camel historiography (you know, good for cocktail parties). Also, Richard Bulliet […]

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Classes By Any Other Name

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2010 39 Comments

Columbia already has too many damn acronyms, nicknames, and portmanteaus, but people just love coming up with more. This time, we’ve compiled a little list of classes out there that have been commonly referred to not by their actual course names, but by some other metonym. We like these, and it would do humanity a […]

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DevFest: Free Food and Hacking in Abundance

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application development initiative
bwog's attention span is approximately 20 minutes so we won't make it through the hackathon
can you imagine coding for 24 straight hours?
code your way to free food
devfest
free food
get ready
hackathoning
some hackers are good

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Bwoglines: Skeptical Edition

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bwog's not sure if we can trust a "success"
bwoglines
crazy artistic stunts in the subway
i volunteer as tribute!
not watching football is much more fun than watching it
orlando bloom's still got it
politicians doing their politician thing
we know cool people from new jersey anyway
what is football?

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Bedtime Stories: Fire Alarm

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bedtime stories
Bwog needs no friends
bwog video
can i put shnapps in my cocoa?
lonely friday nights with bwog
on the other hand swiss miss is delicious and pjs are damn cozy
please be bwog's friend
seriously i have marshmallow shnapps
we only cry some of the time

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The Hookup: McBain 9

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bwog just wants to be cosmo
hookup series
in case the roof is just too exposed
mcbain of thrones
more places you can go to not study
roommate avoidance strategies
watch out for echoing stairwells

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SSOL Gets Another Update

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barry kane is our main man
ch-ch-ch-changes ish
computers were very recently gigantic
cuit
modernization (whatever that means)
Office of the Registrar: Service Accuracy Integrity Spaghetti
sleep-lovers rejoice
ssol
ssol will rule the world one day
that's double the sincerity

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ESC Awards Engineering Project Grants

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bwog doesn't understand how engineering works
bwog wants everything on this list
cool things your classmates are doing
engineering
engineering project grants
esc
humanities majors need interview practice too
piano stairs
quadrocopters
the robopocalypse is coming
why does the ferris staircase still exist

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From the Issue: The Answer is Luck, a Conversation with Jennifer Egan

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blue and white
can't book won't book
conversation
February 2014
from the issue
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jennifer egan
the blue and white
The Conversation
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Visit From the Goon Squad

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COÖP To Accept Barnard Students

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coop
damn hippies
forest loving
no such thing as too many women
those administration people and their power to make decisions
what do they even do in coop

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