Too late for your CCSC candidacy. Leon Levy takes up Jerome L. Greene’s philanthropy challenge. Columbia tours led by liars. Jake Olson’s columns are like the Kid Rock/Scott Stapp sex tape; you can’t look away no matter how awful it gets.

Carly Hoogendyk, Carman RA, reports: Everyone’s favorite security guard and vocalist is now soliciting his newest musical offering to Columbia freshmen just looking to swipe into Carman. Michael Lane has come out with a second album of him doing what he does best: singing over karaoke tracks. Lane opens with Santana’s “Smooth” and ends, creepily […]

Lydia DePillis speaks for all of us in Sunil Gulati’s Global Economy class when she reports an inability to concentrate on Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell’s guest lecture today because of his eerie resemblance to Donald Trump. Mundell’s photo doesn’t quite do the parallel full justice; it’s pre-awful auburn hair dye job.

Simeon Kimmel reports: At an anti-war event sponsored by the Working Families Party yesteday, folks discussed different strategies for pulling out of Iraq. A particularly innovative approach was suggested by an older woman, complete with tied bonnet and cane: “We won’t end this war until we’re all vegetarians,” she hooted. “The corpses are piling up […]

Cindy Horowitz, didn’t anyone ever tell you you can’t keep pets in dorms? Still, the Bwog is a big fan of baby animals so we’ll direct our readers to your Craigslist ad. Someone needs to adopt the hamlettes. Full text of ad after the jump.

Last night, in honor–or perhaps dishonor–of the third anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq, five respected pundits, representing a (mildly) broad swath of the political spectrum, came to Miller Theater to discuss what we did, where we are now, and what we ought to do. Our correspondent David Plotz Lecture Hops it. Three […]

Two maybe 8-year-old kids near Washington Square: “I have more cell phones than you!” “I have more cell phones than your mom!”

Free food and free harp music on the Lerner Ramps.

Dan Okin elected ESC president. This whole story would be more interesting if it were the Jerome L. Greene Scientology Center Jake Olson tells you about his trip to Vegas so breathlessly he doesn’t even need paragraphs. Now everyone say together, “We won’t pie John McCain for being nice enough to speak at our graduation.”

After an internal election, Dan Okin has been selected as the new ESC president. Accordingly, at this very moment, he’s getting sloshed with outgoing president Tom Fazzio at The Heights. Salud!

Tao Tan speculates on why Columbia might not be as special as it thinks: It’s amazing that the Greene Foundation would pony up $200M. Last year’s IRS 990 reflected $80M in assets (pdf): If I had to guess, my guess would be that this is the Greene Foundation’s close-to-last hurrah. There’s been a philanthropic philosophy […]

Don’t forget that the SEAS throwdown (a.k.a. E-Board Elections) is 9:15 pm tonight in Lerner’s Satow Room. It’s a poorly kept secret that the SEAS E-Board is a fascist institution. Therefore, the Bwog encourages vocal cries for democracy. Maybe a boycott. Definitely some signs. Oh, CSSN, why did you go defunct right when we needed […]

If you haven’t been hanging around freshman dorms lately, you’ve missed out on the many pleas for ’09 pairs to fill out EC exclusion suites. Bwog wonders how these living situations work out–can you figure out via e-mail whether someone has an incurable habit that drives you nuts? Are juniors so isolated that they really […]

According to an email from Lee C.– and we trust him on these things– Dawn Greene just gave Columbia “the largest gift ever received by any U.S. university for the development of a single facility.” The single facility being the Jerome L. Greene Science Center dedicated to poking at the brain and stuff. For those […]

Apparently, much went down on campus during break. Disconnected from e-mail while we tanned with Grandma Bwoggette down in Florida, we only just came upon this missive from Chris Beam: It’s 10:55 p.m. There are, as I speak, four guys from Psi U performing an a capella rendition of “It’s Hard Out Here for a […]