When the story broke, Bwog Taste Testers were on the scene within minutes. James Downie, Sam Schube, and Brian Donahoe report that yes, it is true. M2M’s legendary cheap-and-tasty, best-in-the-neighborhood fries have been replaced by impostors.

Gone are the perfect little golden-brown packages of tempura-like flavor, and oh how we will miss their texture and adequate salt. Downie reports limp, unevenly heated specimen, desperately in need of flavor and form. Donahoe goes as far as to say “pale and flaccid.” Schube: “THEY SUCK”

Photo, shamelessly salted, by JCD. No definitive answer from behind the counter to the question about whether this unappetizing change is permanent.

-Photo via Medicaltourismmag.com

Today is the last day to switch your classes to pass/fail, so if the pre-spring break midterm you just got back was not quite what you expected, switch now or take the letter grade.

Bwog’s chief grading transition expert Julia Mix Barrington alerted us that, for Barnard students, the switch to pass/fall is all done online, so save yourself a trip to the registrar and head to the joy that is eBear.

For the engineers among us who may have spent too much time watching robot death battles and too little time studying, today is the last day to drop a class for SEAS.

-DJB

Barnard housing for the win! 

But still not quite able to let Columbians in.

CTV is going for broke…

While CU Snacks goes up in smoke.

Help us win more! the Spectator cries

Nothing to see here, the Ivy League lies

For those of you with your heads buried in move-in, this weekend was also a time of meeting and greeting for the Twelves, as student groups began the race to lure fresh blood with a number of mini-club fairs in preparation for the big one on the plaza this Friday.

Student Councils and governing boards had a session on Sunday, and guess who didn’t show up? According to a source present at the event, the CCSC table was empty — 11:30 am on a Sunday might have been a bit much to ask.

Bwog is pleased to present the following tidbit from 40 Days:

Student: Well, I’m a 3-2 at Barnard and SEAS, so I’m a Barnard senior but a SEAS junior.

Official: You’re not on the list.

Student: But I’m a senior.

Official: So, come back with a copy of your transcript.

Student: I need a transcript for this?

Official: Or a letter from your advising dean.

Prospective student (gesturing at the assembled students drinking): What’s this?

Tour guide: Um, this is Low Library. You’ll never go in there.

A photo essay by Bwog shutterbug Kate Linthicum will appear later today after the jump.

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As we reported yesterday, HamDel decided to stop accepting Flex Points. The secession came as a surprise to CCSC and to the positively Lincolnian Michael Novielli (of Student Auxiliary and Business Services), who stopped by HamDel today to speak with the owner, Nick.

According to Nick, the long lines of students eager for sandwiches and eager to pay with Flex were alienating his “regular customers.” (Though Bwog would have guessed that most “regular customers” are probably students.) Anyway, the long lines and longer wait time defied some basic tenets of economics and somehow equated in a loss of customers/profit, finally driving Nick to oust Flex from HamDel.

Novielli’s full email after the jump.

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In case you haven’t already been frantically GChatted by friends, you should know your housing lottery number is now available. What isn’t available, despite the Housing site’s promises to the contrary, is everybody else’s. Begin frantically scrambling to figure out how many people will pick EC suites before you… now!

Update: “Daniel”, on the housing board, claims numbers will be up Tuesday. He does not, however, work for housing, so Bwog isn’t holding our breath. It’s almost as if… they didn’t plan for this? Nah.