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Bat=Batenawi. It’s Official.

By Bwog Staff on Sep 27, 2010 5 Comments

Let it be decreed, our friendly Morningside Heights bat is named Batenawi, after Columbia’s latest controversial WLF guest, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. In the past year, we’ve had sightings of raccoons, coyotes, squirrels and one very special hawk. Columbia is a jungle. Grab your safari hats, kids.

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CCSC: Election Conflicts, Advising Assessment and Meal Plan Polls

By Bwog Staff on Sep 27, 2010 0 Comments

Adam Kuerbitz was there! Last night’s CCSC meeting was a whopper, clocking in at just over an hour and a half. President Learned Foote opened the meeting with a discussion of the recent drama surrounding the council elections, particularly among first-year students. He specifically mentioned Grace Bickers’ recent op-ed piece in Spec about the need […]

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Free Quarters in Hartley! Kind Of

By Bwog Staff on Sep 27, 2010 4 Comments

Something terrible happened yesterday. On the way to do laundry, Bwog stopped at a vending machine, and put in a dollar bill, then pressed the change button. We waited for the clang of our four quarters, but it never came. The machine had eaten Bwog’s (parents’) hard-earned money! After an angry march to Hartley, Bwog went to […]

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Bucket List: Bollywood Weddings, Martian Invasions and Sacred Foxes Edition

By Bwog Staff on Sep 27, 2010 4 Comments

One of the greatest perks of an Ivy League education is having all sorts of guest lecturers and talks hosted right on campus. Yet many of these great talks are not publicized enough. Enter Bucket List, a weekly feature that aggregates these events in a single location that will hopefully make you realize, like Bwog […]

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Bwoglines: Sticky Situations Edition

By Bwog Staff on Sep 27, 2010 3 Comments

Federal Officials want to wiretap teh interntz. Columbia computer science prof, Steven Bellovin calls this “a disaster waiting to happen.” As if Google isn’t invading our privacy enough already…. (NYtimes). Business Week (yep, Business Week is on Bwog) addressed the plight of the Hellevator with cartoons (Business Week). According to New York Magazine’s Gangs of […]

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Avery Printers Broken

By Bwog Staff on Sep 27, 2010 5 Comments

If you need to print out that half-assed response paper, go to Butler or Kent. Photo from Wikimedia Commons

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$50 Million Gift to New Medical and Graduate Education Building

By Bwog Staff on Sep 27, 2010 15 Comments

Mr. Vagelos and his wife, Diana Vagelos, of Barnard Diana Center fame, gave a whopping $50 million to fund a New Medical and Graduate Education Building. This is the largest gift the Med Center has ever received in a fundraising campaign. This isn’t the grad school center we wrote about last week, as it’s specifically […]

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Ivo Josipović Sings Praise of His Croatia

By Bwog Staff on Sep 26, 2010 4 Comments

“Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.” What’s allowed to Jupiter, isn’t allowed to cattle. With this little Latin line, the recently elected Croatian President Ivo Josipović began his first speech before a Columbia audience — an address given the ominous title of “Transitional Justice — Croatian and International Responses to War Crimes.” Bwog’s Roko Rumora, […]

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Columbia Cranagrams

By Bwog Staff on Sep 26, 2010 45 Comments

Unscramble the answers to the following crossword clues to find common Columbia phrases, people, and places. If you want to procrastinate more, read the rest of the September issue of The Blue and White on Bwog. A. Llooks llike a camel: _ _ _ _ _ Most popular salad dressing in the U.S.: _ _ […]

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BwogWeather Episode 2: Dead Bodies and Oil

By Bwog Staff on Sep 26, 2010 19 Comments

This week, it rains. It also might be sunny, but Accuweather has been changing its mind a lot. We can say this, at the very least: don’t expect snow. Bwog thanks Kim Lessing from the bottom of our hearts for her beautiful camera. Zak Dychtwald is a supreme editor and cameraman. Pat Blute is very […]

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Lost: Black Chanel Makeup Bag

By Bwog Staff on Sep 26, 2010 0 Comments

Black Chanel makeup bag. Inside, different eyeliners, blush, concealer, colorful makeup palette. Lost inside the Lerner Cinema.

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Bwog’s Third Meeting of the Year!

By Bwog Staff on Sep 26, 2010 0 Comments

Dear Sir or Madam: Your presence is requested at this evening’s Bwog staff meeting. All are welcome, and whether a newcomer or an old-timer, you ought to make it your business to attend. We will convene in the SGO on the fifth floor of Lerner Hall at 7 PM. Refreshments will be served, free of […]

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A Conversation With BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith

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bright young columbia businesspeople in action
buzzfeed
buzzfeed as media phenomenon
Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs
cute
disruptions in media
entrepreneurs on the rise
fail
geeky
keynote type things
lol
OMG
society of professional journalists
trashy
very exclusive events
win
wtf

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Candidate Mixer for CCSC and ESC Spring Elections

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2014 is upon us
ccsc
columbia elections board
esc
forlorn home alone quote
free food
free pizza omfg
fun hip cool mixers
non-alcoholic beverages
the best kind of pizza is the free kind

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Bwoglines: Earth-Shattering Edition

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bwoglines
go away donald trump
go away dumb glass building
go away shia labeouf
obama speaking about important things
rich old men
sexual assault
the snow will eventually shatter us all or just our souls rather

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Opening Remarks

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BONJOUR!
bwog is your companion and dominatrix
columbia profs being "cool" and "hip"
hip trendy and totally rad
opening remarks
really though is it mere coincidence that musatti and gulati rhyme?

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Gettin’ Paid

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cats love WEP
how to magically transform unpaid labor into legitimate employment
president barack meowbama
the one thing CCE does that isn't for finance people
there are other fish in the seas

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Columbia’s Ever-changing Bureaucracy

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add/drop
bureaucracy
ch-ch-ch-changes
Columbia
dean's list
yay grade deflation

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A Study of Techniques For Removing Snow From Shoes

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boots
freudian slips
fuck the snow sometimes
maybe we should all just carry hair dryers/mops
polar vortex
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Overheard: Frohdian Slip

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contemporary civilization
freud is a homeboy
freudian slips
overheard
virginia woolf loves those three dots
wait till he reads Humé and Can't

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