Today, Finn Vigeland, CC’14, has his crossword puzzle published in the New York Times. He uses a pen, never a pencil, to do puzzles. “If you can’t do it in pen,” he told Bwog, “don’t do the puzzle.” Bwog chatted with Finn about the art of the crossword and how he finally got published. Every […]
Alternating Wednesdays is when Bwog shares all the good things to be had at the TIC. Here goes. Tickets sold for on-campus events this past week: 1050 Around Morningside: Walkabout Yeolha: October 20th-23rd, Wednesday-Friday 8p, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Riverside Theater, FREE w/CUID. Tickets. The Physicists!: October 21st & 23rd, Thursday 8pm, Saturday 3pm & […]
Several weeks ago Dylan Lonergan CC ’13, Legislative Assistant of the Senate Student Affairs Committee, compliled this ROTC Briefing as well as these ROTC Supplemental Materials. They explain what ROTC is, its history with the school, and several ROTC systems at other institutions. Produced on behalf of the SSAC, they are being distributed to student […]
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor of our own CU Orchestra, debuted yesterday as conductor of the LA Philharmonic, for the concert “Green Umbrella: Bang on a Can.” A federal judge in California overturned DADT, and has ordered military recruiters to start accepting gay recruits. (NYT) The J-School is making a news outlet website for NYC. (NY Convergence) […]
From time to time, when Bwog doesn’t have a lot of homework, we’ll run a review of free things. Tonight is that night again. Here’s our report from CCSC 2012’s Mugs + Hugs. Waiting anxiously for friends in the Schapiro lobby, Bwog heard a frantic student getting off the elevator bark into his phone, “you’re […]
An event being held to mark the recent release of “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by history professor and avid collector of newspaper clippings Eric Foner is happening right now. Attendees are packed into Davis Auditorium to hear some of America’s most prominent historians (Ira Berlin, David Brion Davis, and Robin Blackburn, […]
Members of the Class of 2012 can head over to the West Ramp Lounge between 10 and 11 tonight to pick up free swag from their class council: class mugs sporting the CC ’12 logo in Columbia blue. There will be Hershey’s Hugs, too! Don’t forget your CUID. Hillel will be hosting an “I Scream […]
Raph Debenedetti reports! Project Sunshine, a community service program that helps out children in St. Luke’s with activities and visits, has been recognized at Stage 1 by the SGA. Catch up on your Stage 1/Stage 2 lingo here. SGA discussed the three different options to find the best way to get the student body’s vote […]
For those freshpeople too busy with their hedonistic pursuits to finish AlcoholEdu, today is the deadline! A friendly reminder to the Class of 2014 from your friends at Bwog: be sure to complete part 2 of AlcoholEdu or something may or may not happen to you.
Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC Meeting. The last ESC meeting opened with a question and answer session with advising Deans Rinere and Plaa. The deans began by explaining how the SEAS department liaisons operate: incoming SEAS freshmen are assigned an advisor based on their expected major. If a student’s major changes, then their […]
Last week, engineers took one small step toward the rest of their lives at the Engineering Consortium Career Fair. This week, the SEAS class of 2013 takes another bold step into the future and declares majors. Bwog spoke with one SEAS student who said that his emotional state as the time to declare his major […]
With Harry and the Potters on campus last weekend, and Halloween just around the corner, all manner of witchcraft and wizardry has cropped up around campus. This time it takes the form of multimedia pun.
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