Not one, not two, but three

Since the very beginning of his (interim) tenure, Deantini has closed his charming emails to the Columbia College student body with an egregious perversion of our fair fight song’s title. Though the Band may disagree, the title and refrain of our fight song is “Roar, Lion, Roar.” Deantini, however, has continued to sign correspondence with “Roar, Lions, Roar,” leaving Bwog and many of our fair commenters wondering: Where did all the extra lions come from?

The first time this happened, it was understandable. Deantini had just unexpectedly underwent promotion to the position of Dean; these early email-blunders were almost endearing. But as the mistakes continued, we wondered whether Deantini even knew his own school’s fight song. We can now report the truth.

We’ve received confirmation that Deantini does in fact know the proper lyrics of the fight song and was deliberately tweaking them in his email signature—apparently, the “lions” in his signature are meant to refer to all the students, alums, and other members of the Columbia community that receive the correspondence.

And so, we conclude our investigation into DeantiniFightSongGate. Much like Deantini’s own nickname, this incident demonstrates not the ignorance of the College’s dean, but rather an attempt to build community. Delivery of any Pulitzers for our scrutiny of Deantini’s rogue endeavor should be directed to the our office (the Westside aisle with copious cheese samples).

Roar Lions Roar,
Bwog

Prides and plurals via Wikimedia Commons

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. As always, please leave any formatting suggestions in the comments!

Recommended

• “The Labor of Cute: Net Idols, Cute Culture, and the Social Factory in Contemporary Japan” Monday 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, 918 IAB, Gabriella Lukács
• “Café Columbia: Writing about Abraham Lincoln” Monday 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, PicNic Cafe (Broadway between 101st and 102nd Street), Eric Foner, $10 cover (includes one drink)
• “Cooking Demonstration and Lecture by ‘Iron Chef’ Morimoto” Tuesday 6:00 pm, Casa Italiana, Masaharu Morimoto and Jordan Sand
• “Pulitzer Panel” Tuesday 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Journalism, Jeff Gottleib, Ruben Vives, Amy Ellis Nutt, Paige St. John, and Walt Bogdanich
• “I Walked with Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath” Tuesday 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 622 Dodge, Jimmy Heath
• “Secularising Islamists? Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Pakistan” Wednesday 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 1510 IAB, Humeira Iqtidar, Sudipta Kaviraj, and Karen Barkey
• “Ciphers and the end of Maya Number Writing” Thursday 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 930 Schermerhorn, Anna Blume
• “Muslim American Citizenship: A Decade Since 9/11″ Friday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, 1501 IAB, Hishaam Aidi, Arshad Ali, Sahar Aziz, Kathleen Foley, Zareena Grewal, Sally Howell, Amaney Jamal, Ousmane Kane, Arun Kudunani, Charles Kurzman, Suhail Khan, Irfan Nooruddin, Farid Senzai, Alfred Stepan, and Mohammed Younis, registration
• “Film Screening and Stargazing: The City Dark” Friday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Pupin 301

Full List

Congratulate yourself on living in the 46th most desirable neighborhood (out of 50) in NYC. (NY Mag)

The Pulitzer Prize winners are announed

Our profs make second most $$$ (NYT)

The Knicks win penultimate game of the season

Photo via Jake Hall’s flickr

Entrenched in finals, begging for mercy.  Outside the reading rooms, the real world keeps working.

Sex

Starting with the good stuff:  CollegeOTR may have been correct in saying Columbians are “oversexed“:  A Columbia sex ed professor (oh yes, we have those) is worried about the rise of what a popular television show termed “What What in the Butt” among teens.  Yikes.  But another Columbia professor has shown that using protection is actually sexy.  Alice! is pleased, since hookups are totally replacing dates.

Conflict

The best way to communicate with extremists is to do it in their own language.  And hope that they read what you give them.  Unfortunately, some of them will still hate PrezBo.

The Internet

Columbians in charge of the Pulitzer in journalism have decided that the Internet is real.  And an exciting proposition: the music industry is considering blanket licensing for universities, and Columbia witnessed the presentation.

Thirteen Alert!

Two of the winners of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology have applied early decision to Columbia, but Bwog can’t ascertain whether they got in.  One has a perfect GPA, a perfect SAT score, and seven AP classes under her belt.  Under the gaze of Alma Mater, however, everyone slides down the totem pole a little bit.

The Mystery of Pain. 

Asked to legitimize the illegitimate, GSSC Elections Commission resigns.

Barnard Voting: The eBear Necessities.

Congestion plan coughed up. 

Bob Dylan meet Joe Pulitzer.

How safe are we really?

In other Columbia-related news:  the NYTimes captures the different views on the boy arrested in the recent death of a grad student.

The biggest day in the literary year has arrived: The announcing of 2008′s Pulitzer Winners. The Washington Post earned 6 awards this year, while hometown rag The New York Times earned just 2. Bob Dylan also earned a “Special Citation” for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”

Full list of winners—including Junot Diaz, August: Osage County, and Robert Hass—available here.  

(Also, nearly every current member of the Pulitzer Prize Board is pictured above. However, PrezBo remains conspicuously absent. Maybe he was taking the picture?)

Bwog just got shut out of the Journalism School auditorium where they’re formally handing out the medals, but the Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced its winners, each recieving a cool $10 grand.