CCSC got it on (in a record 29 minutes!). Brian Wagner watched.

• Apparently, many of the food trucks around campus are here without permits. In order to rob you of drunk munchies options combat this problem, the NY Parks and Recreation Department is creating a committee to review food truck applications and permit only certain trucks to occupy a limited number of spaces around campus. They want a student representative it sit in on the committee. The student rep will help with decision-making and spread awareness about which trucks are here with NY’s graces and which are selling you that chicken and rice illegally.
• The Council met with members of the Inter-Greek Council and the Greek Judicial Board regarding the decision announced last week that AEPi, Pike, and PsiU are to lose their brownstones. A representative from IFC will join CCSC in order to give Greek Life greater representation, a decision which everyone was excited about.
• The newly formed Co-Sponsorship Committee met “very successfully” last week, and decided to give out some money. As required by the constitution, the Committee presented a summary of different group’s requests and its decision, and the Council voted and approved the Committee’s decision. Read more…

Satow Room Bureau Chief Martha Turewicz reports on last night’s CCSC meeting, which included grim new details about the War on Food.

In the words of jovial President George Krebs, “Welcome to another delightfully wonderful evening.” Krebs continued to dispense with the pleasantries throughout, lending a lightheartedness to proceedings that were markedly more officious than those of last year.  Virtually gone are the days of idle chitter-chatter: the opening updates have been cut to a “strict two minutes” (Krebs again), with any and all questions relegated to a later time slot. 

Class reps rattled off updates in a similarly clipped manner. Another new feature of the meeting: a tear-and-submit evaluation of its efficiency at the bottom of the schedule- was meant to take, in the words, once more, of Krebs, “no more than 90 seconds” of everyone’s time. 

That being said, the meeting ran about 10 minutes overtime, despite what one of the reps told me prior to its beginning, when he speculated that it would finish 20 minutes early. 

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Bwog just heard word that this July, Governor Paterson signed legislation making smoking illegal in all New York college dormitories — this includes EC! 

A pair of RAs also noted that at least for Columbia, the mere possession of tobacco products is forbidden. 

In other crackdown news, one Bwog staffer was removed by security this morning for eating some delightful breakfast treats in a Lerner computer lounge. The no-eating policy in the computer lounges is nothing new, but now it seems it’s actually being enforced, which is just awful.