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Community Impact Van Amson Summer Fellowship Info Session

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2010 0 Comments

Location: Hamilton 404 Become a Van Amson Summer Fellow! The George Van Amson Fellowship is your opportunity to work at a non-profit of your choice, intern at Community Impact, or with a professor in creating a service-learning course during the summer. Van Amson Fellows are given subsidized housing and a stipend of $3,000 for the […]

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Presidential-Gubernatorial Dispute

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2010 7 Comments

Today’s Times has an article on how New York Governor David Paterson (CC ’77) has managed to reach amazingly low poll numbers in part through being perceived as “increasingly remote.” Included as an example of this remoteness is a section telling of how Paterson canceled his scheduled commencement address at Teachers College last Spring two […]

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Jihad at the J-School

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2010 2 Comments

On Wednesday evening, BBC Correspondent Daljit Dhaliwal sat down with Salman Ahmad, guitarist of Pakistan’s biggest rock band Junoon, to discuss his new, provocatively-titled autobiography, Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution for Peace. Liz Jacob, Bwog’s South Asian Entertainment Correspondent, reports. Going into Wednesday’s lecture, your correspondent expected to see the J-School’s […]

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The 116th Annual Varsity Show Preview

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2010 27 Comments

Bwog crowded into the mystical back room of Havana Central to see the preview of The 116th Annual Varsity Show. Upon receiving an invitation to a student production, every administrator must blanch with fear. Given the last two Varsity Shows’ penchant for administrative caricatures, it’s a wonder Deans Shollenberger and Denburg showed up at all. […]

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Bwoglines: Brave New Moral Future Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2010 0 Comments

You can’t live in sin next year. Stay tuned to Bwog for more coverage. Cigarettes will no longer be allowed to be called “light,” but will instead be conveniently color-coded. (NYT) A J-School alum was just named Times National Editor. (NYT) CU Researchers find that pretending to be happy is good for you (Daily News)

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Eyepoke: The Dissatisfied Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2010 5 Comments

If only we could complain about the language requirement too! For some, New York is just too cultured to be entertaining. Solution: head to Jersey for some mindless American fun. Half a day of classes in bad weather is like forced ROTC. Or being in the navy. Face-to-face encounters are obsolete. Everyone’s moved on to cyber voyeurism […]

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Guide to the Weekend: Cheap Tricks

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2010 0 Comments

Here we meet again on a Thursday night just bustling with excuses as to why there’s no use taking our chances south of Cardomat. Thankfully, INY has pulled through again with a mixed bag of cheap tricks around NYC. Take a look at Bwog’s top picks here or check out insidenewyork.com for an epic selection […]

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Barnard Gals: Meryl Streep Is Your Class Day Speaker

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2010 56 Comments

Breaking news from the Diana Event Oval! Meryl Streep has just been announced as Barnard’s Class Day Speaker. Bwog is hoping she’ll deliver the speech in a medley of her most famous characters– a Miranda Priestly drawl, a Julia Child shrill, whoever she played in 2006’s under-the-radar film “The Ant Bully”. Make way for Meryl, […]

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Fire at Barnard Dorm 616

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2010 1 Comments

Bwog has received many tips of a fire (a real one, not like those ones that wake you up at 2 a.m.) in 616, on 116th and Riverside. The building has been evacuated and firefighters are “smashing” windows. Eegad! Tipster Samantha Child reports: “Fire fighters are throwing all of her belongings out the window, including […]

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Law School: As Bad as You’ve Heard

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2010 20 Comments

For those of you struggling with big life-changing career decisions, Bwog’s enlightened Dane Cook gives you the scoop on law school. A panel of Columbia University Law students convened last night to remind everyone pursuing a legal degree that—yes, the rumors are true—law school is hard. The event entitled “A Day in the Life of A […]

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Bwog Interviews: Slow Down with Pandit

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2010 25 Comments

Contessa Gayles woke up very, very early to meditate and hang out with Columbia’s Bhakti Club. After a 7:00 AM mantra meditation session, she sat down to talk with Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, the current—and first ever— Hindu chaplain at Columbia. They spoke about a typical day in the life of a Hare Krishna monk, and […]

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Bwoglines: Lent Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2010 0 Comments

Duane Reade gives itself up. (NYT) You can give your MacBook’s defective hard drive up. (Reg Hardware) Bwog should give the snark up. (Washington Post) Clinton should give the junk food up. (Gothamist) The Upper West Side should give the dirty oil up. (Spec) Photo by the NY Times

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WKCR Sports on Chad Washington and Those Tweets by Some Football Players

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twitter: more journalism that can be done in a dirty tee
when the shitstorm happens it happens without mercy
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Administration Releases Statements On Hate Crime And Athlete Twitters

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For Your Procrastinatory Pleasure

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what is life
what is quality

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Bwog In Bed: Oversleeping

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Most “Barnard” Cheaters Are Actually Columbia Students

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Senior Wisdom: Rega Jha

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being a reasonable human being is so overrated
mature individuals?
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senior wisdom 2013
were bwog's senior wisdoms ever dispensed by wise
when the only thing that changes after graduating is which side of low your classes are

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String Theory Plays GoT Theme

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Some Football Players’ Bigoted Tweets

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hate crimes
mcbain hate crime
PR disasters
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some people are shitty
the dangers of social media
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