Mountains and mountains await you

Need a little plain old sustenance before your erotic cake adventure tonight? CQA is gathering in the Lerner Party Space at 7:30 pm with what is apparently $800 worth of sushi. That’s a lot of sushi. Sushi and chocolate and cake in unknown forms and shapes: a sexy and classy combination. Don’t miss the opportunity to socialize while awkwardly chewing rolls that are way too big for one bite and make your cheek puff out like a fat squirrel. All we want to know is if they will be artfully arranged into the shape of spring flowers.

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we took a sneak peek...literally

For those of you who consider chocolate on par with sex, tonight is the night to test out your theory once and for all. The Columbia Culinary Society is hosting a kinky showdown combined chocolate tasting and erotic cake competition tonight at 9:30 in the Satow room. 10 different types of chocolate will be featured, and only God knows how many types of positions body types cakes. Providing mood music to your sexy night out: Columbia’s weirdly appropriately titled band, Ace of Cake. Head over for a night of sweet sin sweet treats. Bwog can only speculate about the realization of our dream of a real live penis cake for Miley Cyrus to eat inappropriately.

 Overly realistic interpretation via Wikimedia Commons

Pretty much what the SGO looks like

You know you’re not getting any work done on Super Bowl Sunday, so come see us and eat some pre-game snacks. Whether you want to write, want to share ideas, want to learn more about Bwog, or would just like to bask in the radiant atmosphere of the Student Government Offices we would love to have you. Join us at 3:30 pm in the Lerner SGO for brilliant ideas, penis jokes witty banter and, as always, free food.

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We've come a long way.

Last week, we informed you of the beginning of DevFest, the “week-long application development experience” that has something to do with computers. Since the combination of get-rich-quick potential and Westside cookies was too much for Bwog to resist, technocrat chronicler Michael Menna was dispatched behind the Silicon Curtain of the Computer Science Department to report back. DevFest ends today, and be sure to check out the Demofest from 12 pm – 3 pm this afternoon in Davis Auditorium.

I was in Mudd looking for my assigned ADI-hosted event (that is, “Application Development Initiative”), wandering an unfamiliar sector of campus. A prospective film and economics major, my objective was not unlike the mission of a secret agent: dare to infiltrate an organization none of my kind had ever seen.

My informants had directed me to a checkpoint—the CS Lounge—where someone with swipe access would let me into the “24-Hour Hackathon.” Apparently, what sounded like an axe murderers’ gathering to me was the finale of a series of computer programming workshops ADI members called Dev Week, or Development Week.

When I found myself before the two monolithic silver doors garnished with “Computer Science” in block letters, my inside man Justin Hines opened the door and led me down a corridor to a dimly lit room where the only noise was an incessant clacking of fingers on keyboards. The glowing apple logos of 20, nay 30 Mac laptops sent me into panic mode. Who were these people? What were they planning? Why were there Cheetos in the corner?

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A can't miss combo.

So tomorrow, our women’s basketball team is facing off against Harvard. In case you were planning on trying to squeeze onto those crowded bleachers for some Division I action, you can eat pizza beforehand for no money. After all, nothing goes with not playing sports like vegging out.

Here’s the deal: Deans Shollenberger and Martinez have set up this pizza party thing at 5:30 before the game. The location is TBD, because—and here’s the kicker—only 50 people can go, and it’s first come, first serve. According to CCSC President Aki Terasaki, “There will be foam fingers, pompoms, and plenty of food.” According to the Google Doc where you sign up, the “best part” is that “Dean Shollenberger and Dean Martinez will be there to make sure you’re having a great time!” (emphasis theirs)

Community—we’ve got it!

Object May Appear Closer Than It Is

Make your way over to Earl Hall between 6-8 PM to snag some delicious free food, vegetarian options and desserts included. There’ll be some live music in the lobby in the spirit of Community Impact’s big spring semester volunteer recruitment event. Community Impact is partnering with the University Chaplain for a joint Open House to teach you about how to get involved with service groups and, of course, to feed you.

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Your date tonight

In the spirit of Restaurant Week, go for some multi-course class in your free food endeavors tonight. Stop by the Davis Auditorium at 7:15 pm, where IEEE will be hosting Microsoft to snag some T-shirts and food (and, you know, learn things). And if you’re still hungry after that, join Peace by P.E.A.C.E at 8 pm in Diana LL104 with free ice cream sundaes. The only price is your eternal love.

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We don't actually know if the food will be pizza. But it seems the safest bet

Want some actual discussion with your free food this time around? Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Students for Human Rights will host a discussion entitled “Traumatized: The War on Drugs, Child Abuse, and the Teen Treatment Industry” in the Lerner Party Space on Tuesday, January 31st at 7:30 pm (note: the free food happens at 7:15 pm, so move quickly). Abuse survivors will speak about their past experiences and their current work and goals.

Some of the questions to be asked, as described in the Facebook event:

What does effective and humane treatment look like? What challenges does institutionalization present? How can we ensure that treatment helps more than it hurts?

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Don't smoke your pizza.

The CU Students for Sensible Drug Policy invite you to a round-table discussion on the ‘Opium Trade in Afghanistan: Human Rights, Security and Public Health.’ Colonel Louis H. Jordan Jr., NYU’s Jake Sherman and journalist John Duncan will discuss how Afghanistan’s lucrative drug trade jeopardizes social and political stability. Free samples are probably out of the question, but the opiate of the hungry Columbian masses (pizza) will be served at 6:30 pm in 1501, International Affairs Building. The event follows at 7:00 pm.

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Plenty of food/journalistic endeavors to go around.

Nothing (and we mean nothing) would make us happier than to have YOU in attendance at the second Bwog meeting of the year. So come! 7 pm in the Lerner SGO. Whether you want to write something, want us to write something, want to learn more about Bwog, or just want to spend some quality time among friends in our beloved student center, you’re more than welcome.

And need we even mention the presence of free food? Because it’ll be there too.

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This could be you.

DevFest, a “week long application development experience” sponsored by the Application Development Initiative, kicks off today in Davis Auditorium at 1:00 pm. According to a tipster, there will be a bounty of snacks including Chinese food and WestSide sandwiches—ample fuel for the 24-hour hackathon which begins today as well. DevFest runs all week, and features workshops from companies such as Foursquare and bit.ly, culminating in a “Demofest” next weekend where participants pitch their projects to an audience of startups and VCs. Our tech experts confirm that not only will there be “a shitton” of food, but it’s also a really cool event.

IT Specialist Via Flikr Creative Commons

He could probably go for some free pizza too

Hopefully, all of us politically minded, globally conscious students are aware of the 2012 State of the Union Address tonight. Rather than live-streaming it alone in your room, why not watch with some of the most politically conscious members on campus? The CU Dems, CU College Republicans, CPU, and the Roosevelt Institute invite you to a State of the Union watching party, plying you with free pizza at 9 pm in the Lerner Piano Lounge. Just think of all the off-screen entertainment that combination will produce. Oh, and the free food.

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Quests will be assigned.

Don’t make the mistake of being anywhere at 7 pm except the SGO in Lerner, as the pleasure of your company is requested at Bwog 2012′s first meeting! Bring yourself, your ideas, an appetite for snacks, and/or your (un)productive snark.

Estranged veterans, fresh newcomers, and complete strangers are all absolutely welcome and encouraged to come.

There will be free food; the drinking of our Kool-Aid is, however, optional.

Bwog editors of the round table via Wikimedia

From 8 till 10 pm tonight, CCSC will be hosting a town hall gripe-fest in Lerner’s Satow Room. The Facebook hype page for What’s Wrong, Columbia? asks you to hold your student government accountable for your happiness as a human (or something like that), and we advise that you take advantage of this opportunity to do so. While enjoying free food, obviously: Bwog has been promised pizza. So bring your problems and suggestions, and let’s get everything out on the table.

Cranach's "Cupid Complaining to Venus"—You are Cupid, CCSC is Venus

Already-lodged complaints include:

• “Why are there more benches at the gym than bench bars??”
• “Schapiro, why do you have no hot water? and why are your showerheads biased against people taller than 5’8″?”
• “Why is all the food at Ferris put away by 7:20 when they close at 8?”

Ahh, life’s eternal questions!

German Renaissance masterwork via Wikimedia

What looks like half of a Famiglia’s pizza has been displayed for distribution on Broadway. Sanitation might be of some concern, but, hell, you’re probably a little bit drunk and it’s free. Limited time only; while supplies last.

It's almost late enough for a cold pizza breakfast anyway.