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Bwoglines: Big Deals and Buffoonery Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 11, 2010 1 Comments

Way back in 1492, Columbus landed in the New World. Fun fact: Columbus never actually set foot in North America. He only got as close as the Bahamas (History.com). And remember the Downie Diatribe? Politicians hurl Italian-American slurs and “bring the buffoonery of Jersey Shore” to the Governors race. Perhaps the fist pump is the […]

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BwogWeather Episode 4: Sports Rule

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 21 Comments

This week, the weather goes underwater and then plays squash racquetball. Special thanks to our football team for winning three games in a row, Shira Laucharoen for lending us the camera, John Nordin for the underwater camera, Jackie Smith for filming, and Tiffany Lee aka Vis à Vis. Check out her non-BwogWeather music here. Onward, Weather-Friends!

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Cookies On Campus: 6,000 New Best Friends

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 14 Comments

Peter Sterne sat down with the anonymous foundress of Cookies on Campus. Cookies on Campus delivers chocolate chip cookies to your door not-for-free! Why did you decide to start a cookie-delivery business? I’m a senior in the College majoring in PoliSci who really likes to bake. I even considered dropping out of Columbia two years […]

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Bwog Meeting (at 7 PM!), Courtesy of Ol’ Blue Eyes

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 0 Comments

Start spreading the news There’s a meeting today You should want to be a part of it New York, New York The Bwogger in you It is longing to stray Right through the heart of it New York, New York You want to walk up to the SGO On Lerner 5 And find you’re the […]

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Things We Found in Butler

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 13 Comments

A semester goes, and a semester comes, but the odd behavior of Butlerites during exams remains forever. Name the tag quote! Photos by David Hu, Eliza Shapiro and Alexandra Angelo

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It’s A 10/10/10 Wedding!

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 6 Comments

Columbia is for people who are in love! Bride and groom just kissed outside the Chapel as a bunch of 14-year-olds on skateboards whizzed passed. This is the center of the world!

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Overheard: Model UN Gets Real

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 3 Comments

Girl walking down Broadway: “Yeah, I don’t know, I think I left my bag somewhere in the crisis room.” Image via Wikimedia Commons

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The Morningside Almanac: Weekend Update

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 6 Comments

What to expect when you venture out to the Greenmarket today: Heron Hill Winery has been practicing sustainable viniculture for over thirty years and is making a guest appearance at today’s market. Orange and purple cauliflowers from Samascott Orchards are here. Wager’s Cider Mill has new grape varieties. Hudson Valley Duck has fresh duck sausage. […]

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Bwoglines: Infrastructure Edition

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 1 Comments

First Google wanted you to ride a futuristic monorail; now they want your car to drive itself. (BBC) Amtrak has been sending stones hurtling down from the Hell Gate Bridge and onto the road below. (Gawker) A Columbia research team found that America has its health care system to blame for low life expectancy relative […]

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A PSA for You Crazy Kids

By Bwog Staff on Oct 10, 2010 17 Comments

We’ve gotten word that the guards at East Campus aren’t letting people in, at least as of 12:03am tonight. Stumble across Revson at your own risk! Let us know in the comments of your experiences or of any updates.

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Professor Interviews: Just Camels With Richard Bulliet

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2010 7 Comments

In our latest installment of professor interviews, Adam Kuerbitz talked camels–just camels!–with history professor Richard Bulliet, who you’ve definitely heard of and may have taken History of the Modern Middle East with. Read on to find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about camel historiography (you know, good for cocktail parties). Also, Richard Bulliet […]

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Classes By Any Other Name

By Bwog Staff on Oct 09, 2010 39 Comments

Columbia already has too many damn acronyms, nicknames, and portmanteaus, but people just love coming up with more. This time, we’ve compiled a little list of classes out there that have been commonly referred to not by their actual course names, but by some other metonym. We like these, and it would do humanity a […]

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CU Players Outplay Themselves with Mother Courage and Her Children

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a modern adaptation
bringing bertolt to the 21st century
CU Players
i will take falafel from my halal cart and not war boots please and thank you
mother courage and her children
we all want peace except mother courage
what is it good for? absolutely nothing

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Housing B(r)eaks Down

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a major beakdown
fuckin timmy that beak hog
get your beak together for housing
housing beaks down
housing is confusing enough without typos adding to the confusion
it's like in Hercules when the Fates pass around the eye
it's my turn to use the beak
masterpieces for the ages
my favorite beaks are group beaks
works of art

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LectureHop: Retranslating Literary Classics

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dostoevsky was supposed to be funny? we may have missed that...
glory days of lit hum
lecturehop
lit hum never leaves you
lost in translation
making translation sexy
okay now go do your reading
retranslating literary classics
s/o to all those vitamins

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Housing Reviews 2014: Hogan

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Brogan
close to international can't possibly go wrong there
ho ho hogan
hogan
housing reviews 2014
only one elevator so you're going to get really fit on those stairs
seniors only
the housing we aspire to
they just like so love it

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Bwoglines: Pushing Back Time Edition

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a millisecond makes all the difference
amelia earhart part 2
bwog definitely makes better choices when we just take a millisecond
oversleeping is wonderful but potentially embarrassing
set those clocks back people
that's why the ocean is terrifying
we just want to eat the shot glass

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Housing Reviews 2014: Wien

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all I do is Wien
Hey I can see PrezBo's house from here!
housing reviews 2014
loose definitions of half-bath
seriously though that sink will be a godsend
there's a nice unaccessible rooftop patio on floor 10 also you can go into PrezBo's backyard but the alarm goes of...
we love wieners
wien

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“Feminism Is” on BuzzFeed

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columbia dems
cool classmates doing cool things
feminism
google doodle
happy international women's day
in the news? is buzzfeed news?
we made it to buzzfeed for something nice
women in media

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Operatic Voices: The Columbia Bach Society Takes on Dido

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bwog has mixed feelings about dido's life choices
bwog loves opera
classical latin literature performed as an opera in a chapel must be cool
Columbia Bach Society
dido and aeneas wow bwog actually read that part of virgil
will there be any phantoms present?
you don't have to dress all fancy to go to this opera but you can if you want

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