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Office hours: they’re the best! For the latest in our ongoing series of professor interviews, Sam Schube spoke with old Bwog favorite Bruce Robbins. While you might know him from that one essay you skimmed for University Writing (that’d be “The Sweatshop Sublime”), Robbins is a man of many interests—chief among them plumbing and the […]
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Lots o’ free food coming atcha tonight. At 8pm in the Dodge Room at Earl Hall, Fatima Tsiouris (from the Mailman School of Public Health) will speak on “the burden of HIV/AIDS on women and children: transmission and treatment.” Thai food and snacks will be in abundance. Facebook event here. From there, dash over to […]
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The setting: Butler’s Catalog Room. The players: two freshman girls reading To The Lighthouse. A few alcoves over, a table is loudly laughing. Girl #1: That girl’s been laughing for hours. Girl #2: She’s probably reading To The Lighthouse. Ba-dum ching! Photo via Wikipedia
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Add these names to the list of famous and accomplished people to attend commencement on May 18th. Not that you aren’t all famous and accomplished, senior-people. The Medal of Excellence goes to really excellent Columbia alums under 45: Dana Schutz, School of the Arts ’02 Ron Gonen, Business ’04 Other honorary degrees of various flavors […]
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It’s an Every Other Wednesday, and that means another QuickTix—Bwog’s biweekly glance at what’s selling on and off campus. Thanks as always to the Arts Initiative for the statistics, and a tip: just about all of these–and more!–can be found on our Bucket List. Tickets sold for on-campus events this past week: 2313 And a […]
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“…no existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.” -Simone de Beauvoir, 1948 This appears to be a trend!
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CEO, Shmee-E-O

SIPA students are unhappy, and not just because they have to smoke their cigarettes in that weird little buried courtyard. No, it’s something bigger: they’re unhappy with the school’s choice of graduate and trustee Vikram Pandit, the embattled CEO of Citigroup, as graduation speaker. While it may be harsh to call Pandit “One of the […]
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City doormen cut a deal with the city to avoid a strike. If you still shudder at the thought, though, here’s this handy door-opening guide. (NYT) Culinary wizard (and GS graduate) Jacques Pepin will speak at this year’s GS class day—bon appétit, or something. (Spec) British airports reopen, but the volcano whose name you can’t […]
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Wednesday, April 21 8-9:30 PM 424 Kent Saving Mothers will be hosting a movie screening of A Walk to Beautiful, a 2009 Emmy Award-winning documentary about the lives of five Ethiopian women affected by obstetric fistula, a severe medical condition caused by failed childbirth. The condition, which causes women to leak urine and become incontinent, often […]
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But what is Mel’s Burger Bar? It’s not even on teh Googles! Bwog hopes they have burgers like this. We’ll keep you posted on when Mel will officially open when we get word. Thanks to Mariela Quintana for the bovine-tip.
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With only a month of school left, this is a sad time for many seniors, who look around them and can’t help but feel waves of nostalgia issuing from all corners of this revered, and remarkably architecturally homogeneous campus. Soon-to-be graduate David Roche sent us this gem, and we were so touched that we thought […]
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Today In Paradise

Is it just Bwog or is everything really pink? Photos by AB, CCS and HEH
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