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Bwoglines: Sustaining Losses

By Bwog Staff on Dec 16, 2009 0 Comments

Kids (who don’t live two blocks from class like most of us) could lose the free and discounted Metrocards that get them to school every day. (NY Times) No need to panic over 800,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine lost to a recall. Apparently, it just wasn’t “potent” enough. (ABC News) Empire State Development Corporation (which […]

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Free Food

By Bwog Staff on Dec 15, 2009 11 Comments

Forget your troubles and indulge in the seasonal treats offered around campus. The Kraft Center is staying open until 2 AM on most weeknights from now until the 21st, and features free snacks and an atmosphere significantly cozier than Butler’s. Hillel is also hosting a Hannukah party at the Center from 7 to 9:30 tonight […]

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Radical Democratic Gathering

By Bwog Staff on Dec 15, 2009 0 Comments

at Butler Steps Gathering for speeches and poetry reading. There will be several dozen boxes of pizza waiting for those willing to listen or deliver their work. Contact Email: jld2160@columbia.edu

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So Long, Farewell

By Bwog Staff on Dec 15, 2009 24 Comments

As the semester draws its last rattling breaths, your professors offer their wit and wisdom to sustain you through finals. Bruce Cronin, American Foreign Policy, on cheating: “If you’re Jewish or you’re Catholic, this will eat away at your soul for the rest of your life. So don’t do it!” Sunil Gulati, Principles of Economics, […]

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Are You ROFL Yet?

By Bwog Staff on Dec 15, 2009 5 Comments

Bored @ Butler is on indefinite hiatus, FML is fast becoming a distant memory, and the short-lived MLIA is only funny for about two minutes. With such scant options, Columbia students have decided to take the new frontier of internet procrastination for their own: Jin Ha, CC ’12, started a Facebook group entitled Texts from […]

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A Room of (Nearly) One’s Own

By Bwog Staff on Dec 15, 2009 30 Comments

One student decided to spruce up the Schapiro sky lounge: The floor lamp might’ve been a little much to get past the Butler guard.

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Bwoglines: Nostalgia Edition

By Bwog Staff on Dec 15, 2009 0 Comments

Subway riders have tea parties and pretend its the Great Depression, sans breadlines (HuffPo). Al Gore is to would-be Bloomberg assassin as Holden Caulfield is to Mark David Chapman (Gothamist). Cue the orchestral backdrop — Phil Spector has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among greats like Abba, Jimmy Cliff, the […]

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Public Safety Request

By Bwog Staff on Dec 14, 2009 35 Comments

A Columbia student got in touch with Bwog with a request for help: the student was attacked by a group of young men Sunday afternoon, around 4:15 p.m., at the corner of 114th and Broadway. The student spoke to a fellow student who witnessed the attack afterwards, but, in the post-attack shock, did not get […]

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Flex Downtime Over Break

By Bwog Staff on Dec 14, 2009 5 Comments

After scouring a corrections email Housing sent out tonight, Bwog has discovered that additional information about Flex service was added from the previous email. The new version states that “the Blackboard system, which manages the Flex Account, will be offline from Sunday, December 27 through Tuesday, January 5 for an upgrade.” The upgrade is related […]

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Free Sustainable Food

By Bwog Staff on Dec 14, 2009 0 Comments

Celebrating the publication of Issue III, Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is hosting a release event from 6pm to 8pm in Lerner’s Satow Room. There will be free food from Campo, free food from not-Campo, and probably a discussion on how to best dispose of anything from the event as to make a minimal […]

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QuickFly: Things You’ve Never Thought About

By Bwog Staff on Dec 14, 2009 4 Comments

The Fall 2009 issue of The Gadfly is out in print, and Bwog hits the highlights: Why skeptical science is better than paradigmatic science. (p. 6) God and poetry: twins? (p. 10) Stop, collaborate, and think beautifully. (p. 14) Emotions affect attitudes affect feelings affect actions… (p. 16) Religion through philosophy (p. 24) Neuroenhancers: Why? […]

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Shalom Alone: XMAS! Review

By Bwog Staff on Dec 14, 2009 22 Comments

Taking a break from finals studying, Bwog’s North Pole Bureau Chief Sean Zimmermann reports from the production of “XMAS! 4: Shalom Alone” last night about the story of one little Jewish Santa: As the audience walked in to Roone, the first thing to notice was the loud dance music filling the auditorium. Lady Gaga, who […]

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Overheard: Cream Cheese Woes

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butter soothes the soul
cream cheese will just disappoint you
cream cheese will never love you like bwog will
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paula deen
southern cooking is good for something

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Live at Lerner: Summer Study Break

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bummer it's not summer
free food
free summer
it might as well be summer
lerner piano lounge
live at lerner
munch on lunch
sip on that lemonade

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Bwoglines: To Do Edition

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alienation and alien fish
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dental school
gitmo
hide your kids hide your wife
is the frankenfish from the frankenstorm
quicksomespec
spec special

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Senior Wisdom: Evan Welber

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internationalism
lotsa languages
mustaches
senior wisdom
senior wisdom 2013
the classical pleasures

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LH@75: Literature Humanities in the Digital Age

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endow the Core!
hashtag social media
lithum
septegenarians

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Gates at 117th Now Open Until 10 on Weekdays

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bwog is seriously really excited about this
dreams coming true
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how much does it suck when you have to loop around to the main gates

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Cymbeline…What’s That?

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cymbeline
free theater
if a bunch of crazies started attacking each other on Low steps everyone would just assume it was Cymbeline
jupiter on an eagle
kcst
shakespeare
sounds like a good show

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Free Food and Stressbusting Tonight

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bwog will never stop defending the appearance of Lehman Hall
nothing like relaxing in the barnard library
stressbusters
tea and cookies

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