Shit's getting real.

At 1 am this morning, hundreds of police officers raided the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park. Tune in here for a live stream of the events. And despite efforts to suppress media access to the park, Bwog and B&W alum Avi Zenilman was there. IvyGate blogger Wilfred Chan, CC ’13, met up with a few Columbians there as well. Bwog wonders what this will mean for this week’s Occupy Columbia events. (NYT, Reuters, National Memo)

We may spend our days attempting British accents, but it looks like the linguistic imitation goes both ways…sorta. A recent survey from the Economist has shown that speech-wise, “Americanisation” is catching in Great Britain. …we takin’ ova.

Former opponents of Charlie Rangel Vincent Morgan and Adam Clayton Powell IV have teamed up to defend Harlem residents against Columbia’s oft-criticized Manhattanville expansion. The West Harlem Local Development Corporation, the group responsible for allocating Columbia funds for public works, is their main target. (DNA Info)

.xxx domains are totally a thing, and universities are trying to get in on the ground floor. It appears the columbia.xxx domain is still up for grabs, but while Bwog would love a new site to house our Roaree Erotica, we imagine that Columbia might want to snap it up before we do. PrezBo, are you reading this? (TPM)

In an interview with Bob Costas on Rock Center, former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky admits that he “shouldn’t have showered with those kids.” (MSNBC)

Requisite old-school black and white via Wikimedia Commons

See day five, 9 AM

A self-procalimed “sorority princess” finds unorthodox benefits to her Sonicare. In Daily Intel’s latest installment of their Sex Diary series, “the sorority girl with breast implants,” who hails from our very own Morningside Heights, shares her salacious stories. We (along with numerous tipsters) have deduced from the quips about Health Services’ unavailability and monogamy as a “social construct” that this Carrie Bradshaw-wannabe is an authentic Columbian. Bwog has indulged our erotic appetite in the past, but this titillating tale features African E, a “non-Ivy transgression,” and masturbating while fantasizing about a completed thesis. Moral: never share toothbrushes, and cap it before you tap it.

Here’s a teaser to get you started:

3 PM: Office hours with my favorite professor. Turn around as I’m taking my coat off to give him a full look at my ass in favorite jeggings.

You might not want to read this at work…

Good vibrations via Wikimedia

Back to school fashion

A hodgepodge of headlines graced Bwog’s virtual news desk this week.

Sexless and the City: Web Warps Libidos of Coked-up Careerists. What a lede! Money quote: “Sex is antithetical to the way they socialize, disruptive to the larger plan, a gateway to chaos in a digitally ordered world.” Basically all of us twenty-somethings are sexless narcissistic fools. Tis a shame. (Observer)

But sex survives! The internet now has a Red Light District porn domain under the suffix .xxx. Say you wanted to go to DragonballZ.com and accidentally left out the “Z.” In the days of yore, you’d get porn. No longer. (Reuters)

We’re trendy! Legitimately good restaurants— Cascabel, Ditch Planes, Xi’an Famous Foods galore! —have been eyeing our humble hood. (GrubStreet)

Still, some remain fond of the Morningside’s low-tech originals. Those internet enslaved writers, just trying to disconnect and be productive, flock to our local haunt. Self-control is obsolete. (WSJ)

Police nabbed the stealthy and nimble “Spidey thief” who scaled our hallowed walls. (DNAinfo)

Also all the rage: Montaigne. He’s “having a moment.” (NYTimes Book Review)

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