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Asbestos: Bad for People

By Bwog Staff on Feb 02, 2011 9 Comments

This strange crate-box-plywood container sat on the Mudd 8 with an onerous warning affixed: DANGER ASBESTOS. Just, like, hold your breath or something while you walk by. Isn’t asbestos bad for you? And didn’t scientists figure that out? Let’s just hope they’re talking about asbestos removal. Once this thing is out of the hallway we […]

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Overheard: Ongoing Confusion Over The Diana Center’s Name

By Bwog Staff on Feb 02, 2011 8 Comments

Two men entering the Diana: Man 1: Is this named after Princess Diana? Man 2: I hope so. Image via Wikimedia

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That’s Why Snowmen Shouldn’t Smoke, Folks

By Bwog Staff on Feb 02, 2011 0 Comments

Alas, fellow Columbians, our wintry fun is fading before your eyes. Here in front of Dodge, see the physical manifestations of innocent fun disappear. It’s a literary symbol, or something. Photo by AB

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PSA: Hide Yo Hotpots, Hide Yo Tobacco Water Pipes

By Bwog Staff on Feb 02, 2011 5 Comments

FYI Columbia: the promise of wireless rooms may come to fruition–but not without a caveat. Today from 10am to 2pm, CUIT will stop by EC, Harmony, Shapiro and 47 Claremont to review the buildings for potential wireless installations over the summer. An email from CUIT includes this cryptic message: “Also please be aware that there […]

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Bwoglines: O Tempora, O Mores Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 02, 2011 3 Comments

According to Columbia News’ Weather-Related Update–O, that we could aspire to such truly topical titles–there will be class tomorrow, but some a lot of gates will be closed, and we should be careful because there will be “a light coating of ice.” Police are on the hunt for two campus criminals: the wall- scaling spiderman […]

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Forget Hersheys, We’re Talking Single Origin

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2011 9 Comments

How does place of origin affect chocolate? Is chocolate from Madagascar better than Ecuadorian chocolate? Are you a dark chocolate person? Can you stomach a 100% bar? Even if discourses on chocolate aren’t your thing, eating it has to be. Make your way down to Lerner East Lounge between 9 and 10 pm tonight for […]

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NoCo Joe Reviewed: On Earthy Brews, Chalky Cheddar and Sanitized Seating

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2011 32 Comments

For some coffee is merely caffeine fuel, for others it’s an art form. Critic Jason Bell, of last year’s famed food feud, investigates… As two employees fiddle with an iPad, unsuccessfully attempting to ring up an order, a third grinds coffee beans in slow motion, chatting with her friends. At Columbia’s outpost of Joe, getting […]

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Barnard’s New Digs: Strong & Beautiful 2.0

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2011 52 Comments

Following recent redesigns of the Columbia website and Cubmail’s homepage, Barnard got its own online makeover today. The revamped Barnard site features flashier effects, but you’ll probably be too distracted by the collage and Fidelity-esque blue stripe in the background to notice all the techie magic. In the past two years, we’ve seen major web […]

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Free Food and Festivities at the SEAS Carnaval

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2011 3 Comments

Dean Peña-Mora & the Class Councils of 2013 and 2014 invite you to Carnaval, “a festive event” promising Caribbean food, music and dancing! Expect free food from Korilla BBQ & Empanada Mama, and appearances by Tropical Beats Steel Drum Band and Sabor Dance Troupe. Register here for a rollicking good time. 6-8 pm in Roone. Be […]

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Columbia Students Safely Return from Egypt

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2011 4 Comments

Ellen Morris, Academic Director of the semester abroad program, confirmed the Columbia students studying at NYU’s Amheida archeology program were safely evacuated from Egypt yesterday evening. After stopping in Dubai, they are due back in New York City today. “For the rest of the semester,” Morris writes, the CU & BC students will be studying abroad […]

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LectureHop: The Politics of Politics

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2011 2 Comments

Last night Peter Sterne learned pretty much anything you would want to know and probably a lot of stuff you wouldn’t about how to have a career in politics. Last night, Matt McMillan, CC ’03 and internet consultant for Democratic political campaigns, showed a group of about 40 undergraduates in Hamilton 602 what it really takes […]

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Columbia Employee Stabbed Last Week

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2011 1 Comments

Akeem Ajimotokan, a thirty-three year old lawyer who had been working in Columbia’s office of procurement, was found by the police last Wednesday morning, “tied up and unconscious in the trunk of his car” (NYT) after attempting to sell it on the Internet. He had been stabbed and brutally beaten. (WSJ) The car was found […]

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AskBwog: Chairs And Their Wheels

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a chair affair
askbwog
ch-ch-changes
does this rolling chair make me look like french royalty?
let it rock let it roll

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PSA: Double-Sided Printing

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bwog has already used half of its semester quota on accident--damn you all to hell
columbia hates the environment
cuit
double trouble
how does this make sense
print quota
WHY CUIT WHYYYY

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Call For Opening Remarks

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bwog
extra bonus points if you play this video in your lecture class
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
my anaconda don't want none unless you got puns hun
opening remarks

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Bwoglines: Little Towns, Big Scandal Edition

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a scandal in bohemia
bwoglines
just small-town things
where's waldo (florida)?

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Green Sale Happening Now

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green sale
in the arms of an angelll fly awayyy from hereee
or just adopt a puppy it's the same thing
please call the number on your screen to donate to the SPCA
reduce reuse recycle

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Campus Activists Create “Disorientation Guide”

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Disorientation
disorientation guide
New student disorientation program
no red tape
student activism
SWS
wait but we aren't even allowed to say the word "administration"

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We Want You To Be A Staff Writer!

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also come to our meeting
apply
investigative reporting...we do that!
pretty sure barack obama also had a short stint as a staff writer
snacks for DAYS
you're all getting a promotion from "contributor"

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Lit Hum: The First Lecture

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"the iliad is like gangsta rap"
is nsop over yet?
let's go freshmen
lit hum
lit hum gives us the nuts but does not crack them
nsop
nsop 2014
the iliad
the iliad was a homer...un. get it?
there are plenty of chances to show off in first semester lit hum especially if you know ancient greek

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