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Bwog’s Costume Contest: The First Responders

By Bwog Staff on Nov 01, 2009 23 Comments

Submissions to Bwog’s Costume Contest are rolling in. Before we pick a winner, check out our favorite entries so far, and rate them yourself in the comments. Patrick Londen as the Hamburglar.

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Bwoglines: Those Silly Politicians (and the Marathon)

By Bwog Staff on Nov 01, 2009 0 Comments

While you’re sleeping off Halloween, 40,000 brave humans are running the New York City Marathon. Here’s what you’re missing, minus the shin splints. (New York Times) From the Fake Street Cred Department: this chic East Village hotel has commissioned a graffiti mural, because that’s what street art is all about. (NYPost) Al Sharpton’s ex-wife and […]

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C’mon, You Know That Costume’s Good

By Bwog Staff on Oct 31, 2009 12 Comments

With Halloween being on a Saturday, it’s as if everyone got a do-over with their costumes tonight. So there’s no excuse: send us your best costumes to bwog@columbia.edu by midnight tomorrow, and hope for yet another piece of candy. Oh, and apparently Daylight Saving Time ends tonight? Not cool. Not cool at all. Never mind, […]

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Fourth-Quarter Collapse Dooms Football

By Bwog Staff on Oct 31, 2009 0 Comments

When running back Leon Ivery ran in the two-point conversion to give Columbia a 22-10 lead over Yale with only 8:32 to go, Norries Wilson’s team had to be confident about returning to .500 in the Ivy League. But Yale scored less than three minutes later, and then again with under a minute to play, […]

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Netflix: What, You Were Expecting Some Other Holiday?

By Bwog Staff on Oct 31, 2009 2 Comments

It’s Halloween (cue spooky organ music riff du-da-duuuuuuu dudadalududu), so we all know what that means. Bwog’s Cinematic Summaries Bureau Chief Mark Hay is obligated by law (specifically, the infamous Carpathian Dracula Convention of 1935) to conjure up a spo-o-o-oky Halloween Netflix list, with three spine-shivering tales of the supernatural. Bwa-ha-ha-ha! The Orphanage (2007) The […]

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Getting Away For Election Day (Weekend)

By Bwog Staff on Oct 31, 2009 6 Comments

Your Election Day weekend will probably be stuck in Halloween mode until tonight, but how to fill the next three days? Bwog Weekend Warrior Sarah Camiscoli has five ways you can make a day (or three) of your travels. Also, a subway service advisory: through Monday, the downtown 1 is skipping 137th – 103rd Street […]

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QuickFed: Better Late than Never?

By Bwog Staff on Oct 31, 2009 3 Comments

After an absence of almost two months, The Fed has finally published its first issue of the new semester, complete with an entirely new print look. Old people want fake IDs, and students are only too happy to provide. The Core is now for porn! Barnard stereotypes: the swine flu version. We could’ve sworn we’ve […]

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Bwoglines: Forgetting Something?

By Bwog Staff on Oct 31, 2009 3 Comments

When writing a whole column about ROTC at Ivy League schools, do not mention Columbia’s survey last fall. (Times) Despondent over lack of dates? Manhattan’s 50% single! (Post) Did you know leaving confidential House ethics reports on easily accessible file-sharing networks might lead to someone finding it? (Washington Post) NASA is exposing squirrel monkeys (pictured) […]

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Our Men Run Faster Than Other Men

By Bwog Staff on Oct 30, 2009 10 Comments

For the first time in thirty five years (and only the second third time ever), men’s cross country reigns supreme in the Ivy League. The team won today’s Heptagonal Championships by only one point over Princeton, in the closest finish since 1982. Brendan Martin (5th), Kyle Merber (8th), Terrence Prial (12th), Justin Heck (15th), and […]

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AskBwog: Who is Z.Y. Fu?

By Bwog Staff on Oct 30, 2009 32 Comments

In our latest AskBwog, Peter Krawczyk searched high and low (and mostly on Google) to see what can be found about the Engineering School’s namesake. In 1997, the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science received a gift of $26 million from a Chinese businessman known only as Z.Y. Fu. The School was allowed to […]

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Dress to Impress in Our Costume Contest

By Bwog Staff on Oct 30, 2009 8 Comments

Tonight and tomorrow night, many of you will be affixing costumes or cardboard or facepaint to yourselves, sacrificing sartorial control to the great Gods of Halloween. So, Bwog’s announcing our third annual Halloween Costume Contest, in which you are invited to send us photographs of your chilling and charming outfit this evening. Favorites from last […]

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Guide to the Weekend 2: This Time, It’s Halloween

By Bwog Staff on Oct 30, 2009 1 Comments

Just in time for the procrastinators amongst us, here’s the Halloween-focused half of our Guide to the Weekend. Friday Last minute shopping: Costumes: Abracadabra Superstore 19 West 21st St, hours: 11am – 9 pm Spirit Halloween Superstore 2320 Broadway at 84th st, hours 11am – 9pm Candy in bulk: Economy Candy 108 Rivington St Friday […]

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Bwog Asked: How Do You Feel About Bacchanal?

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a surprising amount of people didn't know what bacchanal was
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CCSC: Light But Significant

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ActHop: Lubeen

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Housing Coverage, Day Four

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Housing 2013: prepare yo'self
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more blog characters!
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The 2013 Housing Lottery: Your Best Mistake Ever!

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The Storage Story

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CUMB and Columbia Style honor CU Admirers

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Columbia’s 2013 Honorary Doctorates Announced

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Follow Your Dreams: Making People Laugh Edition

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you don't truly experience the core until you get/give a handjob while watching the movie adaptation

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