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BREAKING: NY Court of Appeals Upholds Eminent Domain

By Bwog Staff on Jun 24, 2010 58 Comments

The New York Times reports that the NY Court of Appeals has just released its unanimous ruling to uphold eminent domain for Columbia, clearing Columbia’s way to the 17-acre, $6.3 billion project. The court based its ruling on the Empire State Development Corporation’s proof of blight in the neighborhood. Read more about the Court of […]

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Rachel Swett, C’11, Passes Away in New Zealand

By Bwog Staff on Jun 23, 2010 29 Comments

Tragic news for the entire Columbia community today: Rachel Swett, a rising senior in CC, died after a skiing accident in New Zealand, where she was studying abroad this semester. Dean Shollenberger has just sent out the official notification of Rachel’s death. In his email, he noted Rachel’s commitment to her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, […]

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An Email You Should Actually Read: Aetna and Continuum Part Ways

By Bwog Staff on Jun 22, 2010 24 Comments

There have been lots of health care changes in the past few months. Yesterday, they got even more local. If you are on the Columbia health care plan, like almost all of you are, you are covered by Aetna Student Health. Aetna is the company that makes sure you don’t have to pay a lot of […]

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Lerner Piano Lounge Dwellers: Take It Outside!

By Bwog Staff on Jun 21, 2010 0 Comments

If you are in Morningside Heights right now and have nothing to do, or something okay-not-great to do, go to St. John the Divine to listen to people play the piano. But wait! These aren’t just people, and this isnt just any piano! Professional musicians will be playing music all day at the Cathedral in […]

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F@CU Makes It Rain

By Bwog Staff on Jun 20, 2010 36 Comments

Today is a big day! F@CU has just released their 2010-2011 allocations for your governing boards. Let’s talk big numbers and little percentages, shall we? Activities Board: $393,459 granted, 7.4% increase from last year, 4.4% cut from requested allocation, which was $411,568 Club Sports Governing Board: $206,200 granted, 17% increase from last year’s allocation, $213,800 […]

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Here Is An Email Bwog Got Today

By Bwog Staff on Jun 16, 2010 36 Comments

We’re gonna sit this punchline out. NEW STUDY: BOTOX AFFECTS REAL EMOTIONS Barnard Psychology Professors Lead Study Finding Botox Users Feel Weaker Emotions New York, NY – Botox users are often ridiculed for stiff faces that appear unable to express emotions. Researchers at Barnard College recently found that Botox users may not only be hindered in […]

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FoodStuffs: Good News for Vegetarians; Bad News for New York

By Bwog Staff on Jun 14, 2010 9 Comments

Good news first: Zen Palate, a reasonably priced Asian-fusion-y (contemporary, right?) vegetarian restaurant is opening on 105th and Broadway. Zen Palate is replacing Metisse, a French-Brazilian-something-fusion restaurant. ZP has yam fries as well as weird and enticing kinds of tea. Read the menu here. Construction has just started, but hopefully it’ll be ready come NSOP. […]

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Call for Measure for Measure!

By Bwog Staff on Jun 13, 2010 14 Comments

The Blue and White is looking for poems and short fiction for our upcoming issues. We’re also investigating the possibility of publishing personal essays with some sort of Columbia/New York spin (broad thinking encouraged): help convince us and send some our way at bweditors@columbia.edu.

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Bwoglines: Alumni Do Things Of Merit

By Bwog Staff on Jun 10, 2010 13 Comments

CC’10 Salutatorian and baller fencer Jeff Spear has been named the Academic All-American of the year by ESPN. B&W alum Marc Tracy talks to B-Baller Bruce Robbins about the sacredness (and Jewishness!) of Ulysses. More for Joyce-devotees and regular people: Tablet is hosting a Bloomsday celebration next Wednesday. Six CU alumni and faculty pwned The […]

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Dean Denburg Is Not Your “Friend”

By Bwog Staff on Jun 10, 2010 45 Comments

We know that Double-D always calls the shots when it comes to friendships and girly bonding. This was confirmed yesterday when Dean Denburg rebuffed the friend request of Bwogger and current Barnard student Hannah Goldstein: Hi Hannah – I would be happy to accept your friend invitation but I never “friend” students, just alumnae or […]

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2 BR, Prez Ex-Occ: 142 W 109

By Bwog Staff on Jun 08, 2010 14 Comments

In need of summer housing? Re-thinking that Schapiro walk-through? Rent Obama’s former apartment on 109th between Amsterdam and Columbus. Yessiree: Apartment 3E in 142 West 109th Street is available, and will cost you $1,900 a month, a pretty steep increase from our Commander in Chief’s 1981 rent: $360. Gentrification is a thing! As David Remnick […]

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Breaking: Dean “Double D” Denburg Steps Down As Dean, Assumes New Role

By Bwog Staff on Jun 04, 2010 24 Comments

Dean Denburg, we barely knew ye! “DD” has been Dean of Barnard for seventeen years, but became a part of the Columbia psyche (because she got a nickname) with a sort of tiresome sub-plot in V116. As of July 1st, Dean Denburg will become Vice President of Barnard College Relations to focus on the relationship […]

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Recipe for Disaster: Thanksgiving Edition

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Bwog knows a thing or two
cornflakes aren't just for cereal
hashtags are best read in a southern accent
is AMH Coven airing on Wednesday?
why do we have to label sugars? why cant we see past our differences?

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Bwoglines: Thanksgiving Throwback Edition

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Archer starts in January!
bwoglines
Danger zone
Ferris Booth < JJs Place
he kinda has abs though...
Netflix is where Bwog makes friends
what does << mean?

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A Very Westside Thanksgiving

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if you click the flex link you'll see scare quotes around "natural" in the Whole Foods section
just buy the cheese
nothing makes me miss home more than grocery prices
thanksgiving
westside
wtf oreos pancakes

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PBK Fall Inductees Announced

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intelligence
pbk
people who rock
phi beta kappa
power honor glory
the two percent

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Barnard Print Services Say Goodbye

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barnard print services
but kinko's is the devil
but we need paper to learn!
even worse than print@cu
our hearts go out to the architects and theatre department
paper problems
things that are really not great

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Dean Awn Is A Turkey, And We Love Him

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be you vegan or paleo in your diet
bwog tried reading this email in lecture and had to leave the room
dean awn strikes again
eat heartily and reach out to those individuals in your life about whom you care the most
meleagrisphobia
morning ablutions
mystics of old
the turkey and dean awn are One
the wonderful GS community
we don't know if we can eat our turkey now

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In Defense Of: Staying On Campus for Thanksgiving Break

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bursting the bubble
if your thanksgiving is in westchester are you even escaping at all
In Defense Of
quality time with netflix
staycation is a dumb word but we used it anyway
thanksgiving break

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Free Food: Starbucks, Insomnia, and Chipotle

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columbia love
columbia rotaract
free chipotle > chipotle that cost you $12
free food
lerner party
this is really cute guys please go
write a nice card to your favorite staff member

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