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Barnard Gets Meta

By Bwog Staff on Jan 17, 2010 0 Comments

The Barnard website is getting a makeover, but it seems like it’s going to take a while. On Thursday, Barnard students received an email from Scott DiPerna, Director of Electronic Communications (?!), announcing the plan for an overhaul of Barnard.edu and introducing a Barnard Website blog that will keep whoever’s actually interested up-to-date about the […]

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University Update on the Crisis in Haiti

By Bwog Staff on Jan 15, 2010 30 Comments

Today, the University issued an update on the situation in Haiti, confirming that six SIPA students and one SIPA faculty member are on their way back to New York after being safely transferred to the Dominican Republic yesterday from Haiti. Two CIESIN (the Center for International Earth Science Information Network) faculty made it back to […]

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Let’s Get Ready Applications Due

By Bwog Staff on Jan 14, 2010 0 Comments

Do you have 3 hours to commit one night per week this semester? Put your time to good use by coaching high school students this spring! Let’s Get Ready is a program designed to help under-served students achieve their college dreams. Coaches work in Harlem at the Frederick Douglass Academy, and tutor a group of […]

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PrezBo: Ready for His Close-up

By Bwog Staff on Jan 14, 2010 6 Comments

What does our fearless leader do when he’s not, um, doing whatever he does everyday? He watches Dean Quigley buy soup and he appears on public television. Last night, Bwog stayed up past our bedtime to catch PrezBo on Charlie Rose. Bollinger and the nearly equally dapper Mr. Rose spent most of El Presidente’s half […]

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Michael Sinnott, GS ’10, Passes Away

By Bwog Staff on Jan 13, 2010 25 Comments

We were just informed that Michael Sinnott, an Environmental Biology major, passed away over the weekend due to natural causes. Memorial and funeral services have been planned and donations are being accepted in lieu of flowers. Our thoughts are with Michael’s family during this time.

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This Band Vampire Weekend Went to Columbia

By Bwog Staff on Jan 12, 2010 46 Comments

The world’s best known former Ruggles inhabitants, Vampire Weekend, released their new album Contra yesterday. The album has received positive reviews so far, including a shockingly high 8.6 from notoriously picky Pitchfork Media. The band was recently interviewed for a Wall Street Journal music blog, Speakeasy. The band talked about books and wore cardigans. VW […]

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CU Vets in the Gray Lady

By Bwog Staff on Jan 09, 2010 34 Comments

An article from today’s New York Times outlines the large (and growing) presence of veterans enrolled at Columbia. The article claims that good old Alma has, “more than any other Ivy League institution…thrown out a welcome mat for returning servicemen and women.” There are currently 210 veterans at CU (88 are in General Studies); GS […]

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Bwoglines: While You Were (Are) Away

By Bwog Staff on Jan 07, 2010 16 Comments

Right when we all skip town, Morningside goes crazy! Pinnacle shuttered; our delusions of security shattered, etc. Chase Bank on 109th and Broadway was robbed. (Westside Independent) More Manhattanville commentary, this time alluding to Albany. (WSJ) Bored at Butler is back. Recent posts include “entourage is good” and simply and mysteriously, “koronet.” It’s really cold […]

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Cavalier Couture Launch Party and CatarACT Benefit

By Bwog Staff on Jan 05, 2010 0 Comments

Bourbon Street Bar at 346 West 46th Street Kick off the semester at our “Bourbon Street” style CAVALIER COUTURE launch party/BeNEfIt for Cataract International! Gothamist Magazine describes Bourbon Street as… “…a lavishly appointed homage to New Orleans’s French Quarter opened in the theater district… the two-story restaurant evokes the Big Easy with gas lamps, wrought […]

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That Wasn’t Really Pasta on the Pizza

By Bwog Staff on Jan 03, 2010 112 Comments

Matt Kalish, SEAS ’12, sends in this photo of a shuttered Pinnacle Deli: The phones happily rang when we tried to call Pinnacle but no one answered. The Department of Health is closed on Sunday and the most recent inspection is not online yet, so use your imagination! Because, as you know, Pinnacle was always […]

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Semester in Review: The Semester That Wasn’t

By Bwog Staff on Dec 31, 2009 16 Comments

It’s New Year’s Eve! But before you go popping the champagne corks, strap in for an announcement and a look back at the last semester of the Aughties/Naughties/Zeroes. First, starting tomorrow, former daily editor and current magazine senior editor Eliza Shapiro, CC ’12, will be taking over as Bwog editor; joining her as deputy will […]

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A Winter’s Thanks

By Bwog Staff on Dec 27, 2009 16 Comments

Dear readers, With the end of the exam period and the holiday season, Bwog is officially moving into winter break mode. Stick around, though: we’ll be updating the blog, of course, and announcing next year’s editorial staff in a few days. More importantly, we want to thank our readers for another successful semester. Students often […]

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The Broadway Bomb Returns (no mom, not a real bomb)

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broadway bomb
illegal actions
omg but so loud so hungover
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Bwoglines: Tragic Deaths and Nobel Prizes Edition

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one day the news will all be happy we promise
we know you don't care about alice munro but the creative writing department really really does

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Late Night Musings

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Africana Studies now Department at Barnard

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Lecture Hop: Syria from the Ground Up.

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Pastry Poetry in Butler: Orange Cranberry Muffin

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can't put a price on sass
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Bwog’s Guide to Not Being Gross and Getting Everyone Sick

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bwog is still worried about swine flu
crying over midterms
everyone is disgusting
honestly will be buried by work if I get sick right now
mama bwog
never go full hermit
popping vitamin C like it's my job
snot and other gross stuff
stop yo sneazin

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When Professors Skip

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profs do the darndest things
reasons to love columbia
the core
what would plato say

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