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Midterm Maladies

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mike Bloomberg has broken his own campaign spending record, already blowing through $85.2 million with 11 days still to go. (AP) When you’re Hugh Hefner, you’re “old enough to be the great-grandfather of some of his girlfriends.” Oh, and old enough to receive front-webpage articles that describe your cultural contributions as “almost quaint.” (NYT) The […]
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Just after 9, CAVA’s ambulance was involved in an accident at 116th and Broadway.  Emergency personnel are still on the scene dealing with victims in the other vehicle; at least one of its three four passengers has been taken to the hospital in a neck brace. Observers at the scene and email tipsters tell Bwog […]
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Forty-eight straight hours in Butler is an unusual path to martyrdom. It’s autumn in Morningside Heights, and we’re evidently more hungry than genuinely wistful. Yoga has always been a scene, but now it’s official. DJ Earworm talks business; he’s actually quite articulate. Midwesterners are quaint.
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If you smell the sweet smell of community wafting off Low Plaza this evening, don’t be alarmed: it’s only Night Market, the Chinese Student Club’s annual outdoor mega-mixer. Always one of the most popular fall events on campus, Night Market unites many of Columbia’s finest ethnic-food-toting, prop-slinging, limb-flailing clubs for a night of performances and […]
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Bwog’s latest Defense project is of an architectural persuasion: Revson Plaza and its sculptures. Claire Sabel bravely takes on the task. For some, Revson Plaza, the elevated walkway over Amsterdam connecting SIPA, EC, and the Law School to the rest of the campus does not sit comfortably among the rest of the Morningside architecture. There […]
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