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Oh Grant Me A Garden

By Bwog Staff on Dec 16, 2009 16 Comments

The Grant Houses Community Garden Project is exactly what it sounds like. Columbia students want to help public housing residents just north of us build a garden for communal use that could become a sustainable and nutritious food source as well as a source of community pride. Liz Naiden reports on the saga of this […]

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The Shredding Truck

By Bwog Staff on Dec 16, 2009 2 Comments

Is on college walk! Get your most personal papers destroyed for eternity today until 4pm or tomorrow between 8am and 4pm. It’s free!

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For Your Self-Reflective Procrastination

By Bwog Staff on Dec 16, 2009 7 Comments

In 15 days the decade will end (and no, we do NOT subscribe to the absurd theory that it actually ends in 2010). The idea can be rather shocking for those of us who passed our teen years entirely within the age they call “the noughties.” To get some perspective, Bwog takes stock of what […]

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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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For Your Procrastinatory Pleasure

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bwog helps you procrastinate
quality of life
results
richard sun
surveys
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Bwog In Bed: Oversleeping

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but it's raining outside doesn't that mean sleepp
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finals
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we guess that person's having a better reading week than we are

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Most “Barnard” Cheaters Are Actually Columbia Students

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barnard cheating scandal
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cheaters never prosper (except in Monopoly)
cheating
good timing for that Karma App
have fun with that commenters
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when you assume...

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Senior Wisdom: Rega Jha

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being a reasonable human being is so overrated
mature individuals?
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senior wisdom 2013
were bwog's senior wisdoms ever dispensed by wise
when the only thing that changes after graduating is which side of low your classes are

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String Theory Plays GoT Theme

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dem cellos
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not quite as awesome as the cat but still up there
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Some Football Players’ Bigoted Tweets

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chad washington
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PR disasters
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some people are shitty
the dangers of social media
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Library Room Reviews: Butler Blocks

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awkward bodies
green coconut
library room reviews
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Overly Attached Girlfriend, Meet Overly Attached Computer

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bwog's passport picture is super embarrassing and we're stuck with it till 2018 omg
move to trash
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safety first
sometimes bwog is your mom

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