Somebody call Nancy Reagan. NBC’s Brian Williams is talking about Adderall. Interviewed (and ready to scare you straight!) is our very Stephan Vincenzo/Perez (N.B. Stephan told the B&W years ago that “Vincenzo” is “as an homage to Al Capone’s brother.” But that probably doesn’t go well with his redemption narrative, so he’s back to “Perez.”)

For the uninitiated, he was the the Pike brother arrested in Operation Ivy League. For context: read his Campus Character. Remember his sick Carman party. From the horse’s mouth: “we r throwin da sickest party to get the year started rite…. Carman the sexyest dorm house ever…. we’re goin show these other dorms who runs shit…”

From the pretty awful network news story:

His decision to take Adderall ended up changing his life. That night Perez says he powered through his work and was capable of reading for eight hours nonstop—absorbing all of the information. Before long, he said he asked his friend how he could get his own Adderall prescription.

Contemporary context: the drug bust that involved Vincenzo is what got the three brownstones on 114th vacated, and why they’re up for grabs now.

Extra treat, after the jump.

The April issue of the Blue and White is out and about! If you haven’t yet cracked open its new, glossy cover, here’s another preview of what’s inside: a profile of campus character Stephan Vincenzo.

Stephan Vincenzo 

Stephan Vincenzo, né Jose Stephan Perez, CC ’12, learned about Carman Hall in the sixth grade. Touring Columbia with his great uncle, he glimpsed his future: “It’s not the prettiest dorm, but if you want good times, live in Carman,” his sibyllic uncle told him. Later, while tending to his great uncle on his deathbed, Vincenzo swore to him that he would someday attend Columbia. Carman has been on his mind ever since.

      Vincenzo takes dorm living seriously, as evidenced by the name of his party production company: 11^th Floor Entertainment. Before he had even moved in, he became notorious for coordinating an orientation week party at a club downtown, for which 1,400 guests confirmed their attendance on Facebook— perhaps lured by his promise of “Open bar!!! srry no alcohol.” For such a bold move, Vincenzo achieved instant fame. His imposing social presence has already spawned caricatures in The Fed and is the inspiration for the character “Vincent Stephanzo” in this year’s Varsity Show. (more…)

The Elections Board has released  the full list of candidate for CCSC, and the competitive races are few and far between. In fact, only three races are contested this year – 2010 and 2012 class councils, and academic affairs representative. The races for Executive Board, 2011 class council, University Senate, and student services and pre-professional representatives all have just enough candidates to fill the positions.

The race for 2012, though, could provide some entertainment, with five different sets of candidates for president and vice-president. Oh, and one student representative candidate? A Mr. Jose “Stephan” Perez. Perhaps the celebratory swig will become “Pregame LOL!” Full list below, with contested races first.

UPDATE: Cliff Massey’s ticket now includes a third candidate for representative, Lena Fan. According to Massey, “there was an issue with Lena’s registration form” that has since been resolved.

2010 Class Council

Clear Party:  Cliff Massey (president), Evelyn Phan (VP), Asher Grodman, Ruqayyah Abdul-Karim, Lena Fan

The Party: AJ Pascua (president), Valerie Sapozhnikova (VP), Joey Goldberg, Shirley Chen, Maximo Cubilette (more…)

Last night, Bwog enjoyed the literary and cuisinary culture of the Latino-Caribbean  with the volunteers and novice poets of Voices UnBroken.

Bwog arrived to the Voices UnBroken Poetry Slam a little late last night, but there were still plenty of maduros to be eaten and plenty of amateur poets to be heard. The reading drew a relatively small group of socially inclined and literary minded students to pay tribute to the work of the Voices Unbroken volunteers, whose mission is to bring creative writing workshops to prisons, residential treatment facilities, and various other transitional settings in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx.  Despite its small size, the event lasted a solid three hours and filled the auditorium on the fifth floor of Lerner with  the smells of what could be called pan Latino-Caribbean cuisine and the sounds of what it is to be young and of color in New York.  

Although the poetry of isolation and ethnography can often air on pedestrian side of things, last night the poets expressed a remarkable sense of honesty and cogency. The student poets embraced the open-mic and unabashedly read, rapped and sung work that ranged from highly crafted mediations to recent observations to spur of the moment improvisations.   

It seemed all too auspicious that moments after Bwog arrived that one Stephan Vincenzo, infamously of CC ’12, stepped up to the mic to read his lengthy Bildungsroman styled poem, “Where I am and Where I would be.” And indeed his poetry is as epic as his persona.  

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It has come to Bwog’s attention that the Federalist Paper (aka the Fed), Columbia’s perennial bastion of jokedome, has published its second issue of the year.  Bwog encourages you to have a laugh or two as you try to shake off that midterm angst by reading the new issue entitled First Years and Last Temptations.

Jesus, CC 20 AD, a quiet cool Columbia student that not too many people remember.  Sound familiar?

Slackers host strike to make Core Curriculum easier.  Nothing gets done.

The death of David Foster Wallace, a footnote by no means.

A Fed exclusive interview with Stephan Vincenzo.  Yes, that “Stephan.”

The definitive Obamacain liveblog.  Are you sure you want to read it?  

Hooray, the 2012 Class Council election results for ESC and SGA are here. Meet your new teams:

ESC:

President: Derrick Fu (SuperFu)

Vice-President: Jessica Wu (SuperFu)

Representative: Eric Harms (SuperFu)

Representative: Judy Kim (FuReal)

SGA:

President: Charlie Dinkin

Vice President: Bo Yun Park

Treasurer: Astrika Wilhelm

You might recall that “Stephan” did endorse SuperFu.  And probably would have endorsed Charlie, Bo, and Astrika had we asked for an SGA pick.

There’s been much commotion surrounding the possibility of a “Stephan” endorsement in the CCSC 2012 Class Council elections — three whole comments’ worth and a Facebook group update, to be exact!

Would “Stephan” keep things nonpartisan? Would he suspend the pregaming… lol to go to Washington, and fix the economy? Bwog spoke with “Stephan” who had the following to say:

“Just about every party SEAS and CC alike have asked me to endorse them. After a thorough analysis of all the groups, I have decided to officially endorse New York Connection in regards to the CC election and SuperFu for the SEAS. I firmly believe that these two parties will help take our class to the next level. Thank you for your interest.”

Oh and what’s this? A bonus SEAS endorsement for reasons unknown? Hooray!

Update, 11:15am: Mason Fitch of Vision 2012 would like it to be known that his party was not among those who sought “Stephan’s” endorsement. “Hooray for us,” he adds.

The presidents of 100 universities and colleges (including Duke, Dartmouth and Syracuse) have signed a petition demanding that lawmakers consider lowering the drinking age to 18.

Your PrezBo is not on this list, because he too has seen the invitation for “Stephan’s Party” (right) and he is simply terrified of what would happen if that open bar really did serve alcohol. 

Remember when famous prefrosh/Internet savant “Stephan” invited everyone in school to his Carman dorm on the first night of Orientation for a party? No?

Well it turns out the party’s been relocated — to an undisclosed location! “Why go 2 a small dorm party, or a frat. party, when you can go to the biggest Party in the city?” asks our Stephan, we believe rhetorically.

Nearly 1200 people (four guests are pictured above) have been invited to the fete, which takes place in “N.Y.C.” — that’s “Now Your [sic] Coming.”  

Anyway, we’ll see you all on August 28th, at An Undisclosed Location, for the PARTY so hot it must be capitalized. We’ll meet you by the alcohol-free open bar. “The city is really strict about that, but can you say Pre-Game lol.”

While most of you are probably relieved to have exited Columbia’s campus, free of Butler and Lerner for an entire summer, there’s an entire generation of earnest young people who just can’t wait for August. They were born in 1990, their SATs were probably out of 48,000, and we’re calling them the Terrible 12s. 

Every now and then Bwog likes to take a look at their Facebook activities, and oh what a bevy of activity there’s been! A certain hyper-social member of the the Columbia – Class of 2012 group who calls himself “Stephan” has already volunteered his Carman room for a party the first night of Orientation, giving ResLife nearly three months to prepare for the task of breaking up the party.

Within another group, this one dedicated to the good folk of Carman, “Stephan”, who Bwog can only hope is an English major, again advertises his fete by announcing: “we r throwin da sickest party to get the year started rite…. Carman the sexyest dorm house ever…. we’re goin show these other dorms who runs shit…”

Other burning questions amongst the Terrible 12s on the “2012″ group include marijuana (answer, according to one: “DO IT, DUH.”) and the virtues of their own individuality (“I beat all the varsity girls [but a couple] on the crew team on my erg score [rowing machines, for those who aren't familiar with ergs] my freshman year.”)

Looking forward to meeting you, 12s! See you at Stephan’s party.