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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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Library Room Reviews: Milstein 303

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"yellow zone"
babies playing on the ramps
cubicles
finals
library rooms reviews
Milstein 303
self-referential
terrifying hovercraft cleaning machines

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Bwog in Bed: Kicking it Off

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bwog in bed
bwog would be the lance armstrong of the tour de franzia
dare you to beat bwog's home sheep home score
knowledge potions
odin gave his eye for knowledge you could try that too
when children become self aware

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Senior Wisdom: Eli Grober

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jumanji
life-saving
senior wisdom
senior wisdom 2013
shoutout to walker percy greatest man living or dead
your mom

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PSA: Bloodthirsty Monsters

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Coming This Fall—Squirrel Eats Pizza in 3D
fuckers
little fucker rodents take over campus
mozzerodent's revenge?
never trust anything with a twitchy tail
returning to our journalistic roots
someone tell the varsity show
squirrels
these were technically all sent to tips
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Energy Challenge Results Announced

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everybody wins!
go green columbia
hartley is not hufflepuff see

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Senior Wisdom: Yanyi

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a face of the redesign
lattimore for the win
puns: the most noble and time honored form of humor
senior wisdom
senior wisdom 2013

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ABC Election Results Announced

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abc
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representation
student government

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Bwog Asked: Coping With Finals

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bitches going skipping
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finals
lots of liquid coping

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