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Bwoglines: Strange Times We Live In

By Bwog Staff on Oct 26, 2009 1 Comments

Thought you had a bad weekend? Not as bad as this cabbie who drove all the way to Long Island, only to be pepper sprayed by his passenger instead of paid. (NYP) Strangeness occurred downtown as street-level billboards were painted over by artists in an attempt to question their legality, only to be repainted with […]

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Magazine Preview: The Smoking Ban

By Bwog Staff on Oct 25, 2009 38 Comments

Next week the student councils will be sending a survey out to the student body, to gather opinion on the proposed campus smoking ban. To provide a little background, tonight we present senior editor Adam Kuerbitz’s feature on the ban, from the new issue of the Blue and White. The cigarette break has changed drastically […]

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Scary Free Food is Still Free Food

By Bwog Staff on Oct 25, 2009 1 Comments

Anyone looking for seasonal frights, an a capella singalong, free food, and puns galore usually has to trek to three or four campus events to complete that checklist. Tonight, though, look no further–Nonsequitur is throwing their NonSPOOKuitur (pun number one) Fall Study Break Concert in HalloWIEN Lounge (pun number two) tonight at 8:00pm. Uptown Vocal […]

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Sports Roundup: Can’t We Play All Our Games in Nice Weather?

By Bwog Staff on Oct 25, 2009 5 Comments

As reported, Columbia football had a rough outing in the rain at Dartmouth, falling 28-6. Columbia’s teams struggled through Saturday, but the crew and men’s soccer teams took advantage of Sunday’s summer-redux weather to uphold our sporting name.

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Tales of the Bar: Roti Roll

By Bwog Staff on Oct 25, 2009 11 Comments

Living in the city that never sleeps is no good without late night establishments. In this series, we’ll be trolling the wide variety of hangouts (both alcoholic and not) where Columbia students make their worst decisions, looking to capture what makes Columbia nightlife so different. In the first installment, Blue and White Senior Editor Eliza […]

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Midterm Maladies

By Bwog Staff on Oct 25, 2009 15 Comments

The whole nation is talking about swine flu, but that great pestilence known as midterms has once again been inflicting its ills upon Columbia. There are many strains of this disease, each with its own unique symptoms and varying degrees of severity. In an attempt to encourage responsible self-diagnosis, treatment. and an almost certain hypochondria […]

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Bwoglines: Oh No, Not the Vespa! Anything but the Vespa!

By Bwog Staff on Oct 25, 2009 2 Comments

Think you had a nice day? Well, this Nassau Community College Student was busy WINNING A MILLION DOLLARS. (ABC7) Guilt, self-loathing, and red tape at the Eden that is the Park Slope Food Coop. (New York Times) The owner of the oldest Ray’s Original/Famous/Original Famous is making her mobster family an offer they might not […]

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The Netflix Files: Film-Noir Fest

By Bwog Staff on Oct 24, 2009 10 Comments

It’s another dark, grimy day in New York City, but Cinephile Extraordinaire Mark Hay thinks it’s a good night for a few sympathetically noir films. Laura (1944) Alright, so Laura isn’t exactly the pinnacle of noir. Rather than taking place on the grimy streets of New York, Otto Preminger limits the film to lavish penthouses. […]

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Football Steamrollered by Dartmouth Running Game

By Bwog Staff on Oct 24, 2009 9 Comments

And it all looked so promising two weeks ago: rather than rebounding from its Homecoming loss to Penn, the football team’s season spiraled further out of control this afternoon, with a 28-6 loss at Dartmouth. Quarterback Millicent Olawale was a poor 12 of 32 for 89 yards, including two interceptions, though he and On the […]

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It’s A Humanitarian Saturday

By Bwog Staff on Oct 24, 2009 0 Comments

Right now on Low Plaza, Green Umbrella is holding “350 – Day of International Climate Action at Columbia University,” with appearances and tabling by many other campus student groups. More importantly, though, there’s free food! The organizers tell Bwog food will be in evidence until the event ends at 6. In other humanitarian news, Kappa […]

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Lecture Hop: An Evening in Honor of Dan Talbot

By Bwog Staff on Oct 24, 2009 1 Comments

With legendary cineaste Dan Talbot contributing New Yorker Films’s paper archives to Columbia, Butler Library hosted a panel on Talbot and film culture. Bwog Silver Screen Correspondent Kate Hughes reports: In honor of New Yorker Films’s written archive coming to Columbia, where it will now be housed, a group of cinephiles gathered in Butler 523 […]

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Saturday Sports Preview: Setting the Big Green on Fire

By Bwog Staff on Oct 24, 2009 1 Comments

Football: After a turnover-filled Homecoming loss to Penn, football is on the road this week, at winless Dartmouth. Last year, the Big Green provided Columbia its first win of the season, with the Light Blue offense generating 374 yards of offense. Kickoff is at 1:30, with audio on Columbia athletics website and WKCR. Soccer: Two […]

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Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee Announced as Barnard’s Commencement Speaker

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Barnard Commencement 2013
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Overheard: Men of Many Talents

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a man's ability to flick and drop is the FIRST thing a woman looks for
always ask before biting someone's bra off
bros will be bros
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Bwoglines: Downer Edition

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bwog would read a comic book about the fukushima fifty
columbia keeps its hate incidents at manageable levels
just like shooting womp rats in beggar's canyon back home
not bwog's fault that all the news today is sad or scary
things that are the next tobacco
why can't cities have huge populations of cat-sized cats?

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Crash on Broadway

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Wikiphilia

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seriously you can do this all night
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Found: Eyeglasses

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Lost and Found

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CCSC: Careers and Lounges

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Bwog Asked: What the Housing?

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