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Ask Bwog: Why Don’t SEAS Students Take The Swim Test?

By Bwog Staff on Oct 26, 2009 26 Comments

Welcome back to Ask Bwog, where we try to find the answers to Columbia’s persistent questions. Anyone who has graduated from Columbia in the last 60 years can tell you that to earn a B.A. degree, you must either swim 75 m (three lengths of the pool) or take the beginner’s swimming PE class. The […]

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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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Bwog Asked: Jesus Week

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a different kind of bwog asked
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Columbia Admits 6.89% of Applicants for Class of 2017

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jessica marinaccio realizes your dreams
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Anyone Need a Desk?

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all this could be yours
classy shit
dayum whatta desk
fabulous prizes
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CC, BC Pass/Fail and SEAS Drop Deadline

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D is for Deadline
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drop it like its hot
escape while you can
midterm sadness forever

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Time To Update Your iCal

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appointment times
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The 2013 Housing Lottery: Your Best Mistake Ever!

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Free Food For Your Belly AND Your Mind

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bizarre pictures from Shutterstock
feed yo mind
food for thought
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the inner city as a global space

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Bwoglines: In a Perfect World Edition

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Game of Thrones GET HERE ALREADY
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marriage equality
the knights watch has never looked so good
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BwogSex: The Art of Dating?

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bwogsex usually involves more alcohol and less coffee
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the dido to his aeneas and the penelope to his odysseus

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