Admit it. You’re a little jealous of those elusive few with summer transfer housing who now get to shack up in one of the frat-houses-cum-dormitories on 114th. Check out their new digs, sans sticky floors (we hope)—the former Psi U house, pictured below.

Update: The building formerly known as Pike is available for your visual inspection in the gallery below (first 4 pictures).

Photos courtesy Evelyn Warner

…Mill and Hegel are frat bros,
Oh, and Luther is too.

Spotted in an abandoned study room:

Of course, we'd have stuck with a tried-and-true study guide, but to each his own.

Are everywhere on campus tonight: Butler (including 209), 114th St., and Low Plaza. A bunch of guys clad in suits drawing attention to themselves? Must be that time of year again… Frat recruitment! Bwog hopes you have invested in a good pair of sound-isolating headphones.

Treats are everywhere! (Sike) The boys of Lambda Phi Epsilon are hoping to make your final official study day a good one: they’ll be serving free ice cream and root beer floats from 4-6 today on Ancel Plaza in front of EC. Thanks, fellas!

Update, 4 PM: More from the wacky world of CU free food: people are giving out peanut M&Ms outside Butler. Those with nut allergies, be warned.

Three first year Delta Sig frat boys in an elevator. One is carrying a handful of flyers advertising an event.

“Who has the tape?”
“I don’t have the tape.”
“I thought you had the tape.”
“Do we have to go back up and get the tape?”

They don’t exit the elevator.

Later:

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It’s that time of year again. Fraternities are currently dressing their pledges in suits and making them yell animal noises in Butler 209. It’s embarrassing! But it shows they care!

Imagine our joy when, this morning, an “important update” dropped into our inbox from the Interfraternity Council: Greek membership has exploded from 550 in 2006 to an astonishing 823 today! That’s over 50 percent growth in two years, to just about 10 percent of Barnard, the College and SEAS. There are comfortably over twice as many brothers as sisters, not counting members of the Multicultural Greek Council, which is composed of frats and sororities that carry an ethnic identity.

Curious to see who had cleaned up in fall rush, Bwog asked Interfraternity Council president Matt Heiman for the frat-by-frat membership breakdown, but was informed that the information was “not public.” Heiman said that we “could try contacting the fraternities individually to get this information, but I think it will be difficult.”

Heiman attributed the increase in membership to “strong leadership of fraternity and sorority presidents” as well as a more collective approach in increasing the Greek community’s presence and involvement on campus. His own organization, the IFC, was only formed last year as a parallel to the girls-only Panhellenic Council (plus there’s the overarching InterGreek Council…we know, it’s confusing).

Bwog Editor Juli Weiner spent the night in the land of Brobdingnag. Names and details have been omitted to protect the innocent.

Last night, twenty of the largest people Bwog has ever seen stood assembled in suits outside Butler. Passersby stopped to stare at the group, as it is not often persons of this width or height are seen in one place, outside the context of athletics that is. The boys were instructed to yell that they were pledging the “best frat,” PKA. But they weren’t pledging PKA, this was a Test of Their Commitment.

Next, a similarly large person instructed the group that they then must collectively ask five girls for their phone numbers. It was at that moment that twenty of these man-giants looked upon your Bwog editor, who was the closest girl at the moment. We politely declined, and the group headed toward Lerner, toward the womenfolk.

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Well, they moved quickly this time. As we wrote about before, the announcement of a joint appearance by Obama and McCain on campus next Thursday took student government and group leaders completely by surprise.

Just before midnight, though, the presidents of the student councils, club governing boards, and Panhellenic councils have sent an email to President Lee Bollinger, as well as fellow administrators interim Dean of Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger, Executive Vice President for Student Services Jeffrey Scott, and Housing & Dining Vice President Scott Wright.

The email asks for two accomodations: “a fair share of the tickets made available are apportioned to undergraduates” and “arrangements, similar to those made for the Ahmadinejad visit, should be made for all students, including but not limited to the installation of a large screen on South Lawn.” In other words, “make sure everyone gets an equal chance at tickets, and give us another jumbotron.” The full letter will be printed in Thursday’s Spectator, but you can save yourself from waiting outside a residence hall until noon and just read it below the fold.

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Super Tuesday, almost as good as the Superbowl!  Even better if you watch at 1020.

Super Tuesday, almost as cool as Wolf Blitzer’s beard!

What more can you ask from the frats?  More Nikolai and cheap beer please.

RA’s, Chateau D’If style. 

C’mon, who hangs their milk in a plastic bag outside of their window?

 

A Bwog tipster recently brought to our attention that the Alpha Delta Phi pirate flag has been missing from the 114th Street brownstone for awhile now. What happened? “It was apparently stolen by MIT’s chapter of the frat last week,” so says our tipster (although this has not been confirmed by ADP itself).

If so be the case: fraternal emasculation? Ouch.

As far as we know/have seen, though, the Swedish flag still proudly flies.

We’re not sure what’s more strange about the AAA poster: that they promote their event with a picture of Calvin Sun et al., or that they’re touting Tokyo Pop as “Columbia’s premier nightclub/lounge.” 

Also, Phi Iota Alpha felt the need to promote their rager with a glistening, curvaceous babe.

No party in the Lerner Party space is going to be that hot, guys. 

Summer Columbians who are hungry, broke and puzzling over how best to commemorate the sacrifices of our men and women in unifor
m are apparently welcome at the Beta house tomorrow.

CORRECTION, 11:33 PM EST: Former University Senatorial candidate Dan Free wrote in to let us know that “Um…thats NOT true. I’m hosting it and its for invitees only. CHANGE IT IMMEDIATELY!” And, in a second e-mail: “Also, make sure to CORRECT the error on Bwog. Thanks.” Duly noted. 

And speaking of sacrifices…regular Columbians puzzling over how best to worship the dread lord Cthulhu can seek out the Science Fiction society as soon as school begins next fall. Bwog apologizes for being a month or so late on this, but we’re nevertheless curious as to how the Coed* Naked** Blood*** Wrestling**** went down. Survivors are invited to share their eyewitness accounts of the event–provided they’ve gotten over the trauma.

Dear Sig Ep,

A Global Warming party? How clever. At least the College Republicans were trying to make a statement!

Love,

Bwog

P.S. (We may still come anyway)

Fancy a bit of Greek this weekend?  Then allow Bwog to present Mike and Sarah, representing Delta Sigma Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta in this week’s Personals. If you want either of these two to help you write your own personal Odyssey, email bwgossip@columbia.edu and let us know. If it’s a match, we’ll spring $5 for a date. And remember: if you or anyone you know would like to be a Personal, drop us a line! We’re forever accepting nominations.

Girl for tall, good-looking, well-rounded, nice guy	Guy for an easy way out of his seminar research

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