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Being Unafraid: Bwog Reviews A Conversation On Art and Equity

By Mary Welsh on Feb 01, 2018 0 Comments

We sent staff writer Mary Walsh to cover a conversation between artists Toyin Ojih Odutola, Barnard’s Lida A. Orzeck ’68 Artist-in-Residence, and Mary Sibande, Johannesburg and Venice Biennale artist. Moderated by Kellie Jones, a Columbia Professor of Art History and MacArthur Fellow, these accomplished women discussed the political role artists play in society. Toyin Ojih Odutola […]

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#TBT To When Columbia Basketball Won The Ivy League

By Abby Rubel on Feb 01, 2018 0 Comments

In case you missed the men’s basketball twitter’s excessive updates, Columbia Athletics will be honoring the 50th anniversary of the 1967-68 team at the game against Dartmouth on Friday. This team, one of the best in Columbia history, finished first in the Ivy League and made to the Sweet Sixteen. Sports Editor Abby Rubel reminds […]

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Science Wisdom: Finding Research On Campus Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 01, 2018 1 Comments

In our new weekly column, Science Wisdom, we’ll be bringing you some tips and tricks on navigating STEM at Columbia. To kick this off, we tackle one of the biggest questions: how do you get started in research and find a lab to work with? Briley Lewis, senior astrophysics major and former president of the […]

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Bwoglines: Fast Food Musical Edition

By Isabel Sepúlveda on Feb 01, 2018 1 Comments

Happening in the World: Chile has created a national park network that will add 10 million acres of land including, in part, land donated by a US couple, in what President Michelle Bachelet called an “unprecedented preservation effort.” This will create 5 parks and expand three others, part of an ongoing trend of natural protection by the […]

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GSSC Works Out

By Alex Tang on Jan 31, 2018 0 Comments

As per usual, Bwog brings you a summary of last night’s General Studies Student Council (GSSC) meeting. Highlights include an upcoming fitness challenge and important initiative updates. General Studies Student Council kept the second meeting of the semester short and sweet (about 30 minutes). As a reminder, GSSC meetings happen each week on Tuesday evening, and […]

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Bwog Asked: Are You Happy With Your Schedule?

By Bwog Staff on Jan 31, 2018 0 Comments

Last Friday marked the last day you could add a class without the instructor’s permission, AKA the last day of the Change of Program Period. While there are still course selection-adjacent deadlines coming up (February 20 is the last day to drop a class for CC, GS, and Barnard students; March 22 is the same […]

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The Definitive Statistical Analysis Of Columbia Buy/Sell Memes

By Zack Abrams on Jan 31, 2018 5 Comments

Deputy Editor and frequent FiveThirtyEight reader Zack Abrams has created a site so HTML-heavy that he had to throw the whole Bwog away and host it somewhere else. Go here for the full experience or scroll down for an overview of the site. Note: use Google Chrome to see the preview, but the site itself works on any […]

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Other Things To Buy Instead Of A Canada Goose

By Bwog Staff on Jan 31, 2018 1 Comments

Winter season is in full swing, and that means the Canada Geese are alive, well, and thriving around campus. Closer examination finds that each of these coats comes down to approximately $900 per econ student. Damn! We here at Bwog, with your best interests in mind, implore you to forsake this god-forsaken coat and instead spend that $900 on these following things: 300 […]

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Bwoglines: State of Our Union

By Zack Abrams on Jan 31, 2018 0 Comments

Happening in the World: Cape Town is about to run out of water. ‘Zero-day,’ the day the taps turn off, is April 16th after drought and overuse have drained the city of its water supply, and citizens have little hope of a way out. (NPR) Happening in the US: Trump gave his State of the Union address and managed […]

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Qubits Wanted, Dead And Alive: Error Correction In Quantum Computing

By Betsy Ladyzhets on Jan 30, 2018 1 Comments

Bwog Science was active yesterday – while new writer Riya covered a film about autism, EIC Betsy Ladyzhets went to a visiting Yale professor’s talk on quantum computing. She has little knowledge of both quantum physics and computing, but was still inspired by Prof. Steven Girvin’s self-described miraculous solution to the problem of quantum computing error. […]

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Disability And Humanity In “Swim Team”

By Riya Mirchandaney on Jan 30, 2018 0 Comments

The Heyman Center for the Humanities is hosting “Explorations in the Medical Humanities,” a series of talks, films, and events that strive to bridge medicine and the humanities. Yesterday, Bwog sent writer Riya Mirchandaney to “Swim Team,” a film about an award-winning swim team consisting of boys on the autism spectrum. Here’s her review of […]

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Columbia Declines To Bargain With Graduate Student Union

By Jenny Zhu on Jan 30, 2018 0 Comments

Early this afternoon, Columbia University shared news of its decision refusing to engage in bargaining with Columbia graduate student unions. In a response to UAW’s request to bargain, Columbia announced that it would instead take the issue of the status of graduate students to a federal appellate court, maintaining that the graduate student-faculty relationship differed from that of employer-employee. […]

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Why Typos Should Make You Smile

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christa
confusion adds dimension to life didn't ya know
human brains are smart enough to process jumbled letters
we need "helf"

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The Dining Halls As Typos Of The Word “Columbia”

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#I checked at all of the typos in the intro autocorrect to columbia
#strong independent barnard student who do need some pizza and smoothies
#that feeling when you spell something wrong so many times that it autocorrects to the wrong spelling when you get it right

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Bwoglines: Brewed Chaos Edition

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Shortforms

Literature Humanities Redesigned As Frat Parties

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are you going to Ithaca tonight? I can get you a facebook invite
Job but everyone just goes in LinkedIn and applies for actual jobs

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CAVA Yelp Reviews, Kinda

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be a friend call cava
cava is kinda fun kinda groovy so get with it
i know someone who cava'd her ex and stands by it- necessary intervention.
smallsnow hot takes

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The Athena Film Festival Begins Tomorrow!

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bwog loves to snuggle up to a good movie
bwog movie reccomendations
female directors
movie things

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What Jacket Should You Wear Today?

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and i oop
I'll just go naked
iced almond milk latte
Oh to be Archie Andrews from Riverdale and never have to go to class

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GSSC: President Joshua Lefkow Edition

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gssc please acknowledge me ily
i am the one and only gssc stan and im ok with it
it was literally 25 minutes long and i was like Oh
the senior class president did add me on facebook tho i feel cool

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