ESC elects president.  No one will have to brush their teeth in Mudd anymore. CCSC campaigns kick off today.  Everyone is promising the same thing.  What ever happened to off-campus flex? Ticket with a funny name, welcome to the big show.  Get slapped with a rules violation. A New face for Bank Street College. Bloomberg, […]

An anonymous tipster points Bwog in the direction of the website of CC ’09 class council hopefuls Colin Drummond, Jason Patinkin, and Colin Felsman. The somewhat confusingly named “LE: MON Party” (Leadership Evolved: My Oh Nine) created the site to announce that they are running a paperless campaign in hopes of minimizing their “ecological footprint.” […]

Gothamist is reporting that CCSC has just voted 25-12 in favor of banning Juicy Campus. The New York Post picked up the story too, and naturally sat down to speak with Matt Sanchez about the issue. “‘It’s like taking graffiti from a bathroom wall and showing it to the world,’ he said.” And CCSC—despite the […]

Bwog heard rumors from CCSC higher-ups that President Michelle Diamond has spoken to Dean Colombo about the feasibility of banning Juicy Campus from Columbia’s servers. He informed her that it’s both expensive and impossible to do—though Zach van Schouwen could have told her that weeks ago. Also, Columbia’s lawyers have advised against it—though, of course, […]

Licensed music and university lectures!  CC and GS… CCSC and overblown controversy. University Writing essay and travel photography! Columbia and losing…again….

Experience Columbia will experience a 10% decline in the number of available posters because of the now infamous letter of Adil Ahmed.  The Elections Board ruled in their favor.  Full letter after the jump. The Official Bwog Poster Count: Alidad Damooei: 1000 George Krebs: 900 -JJV

Tonight in the SGO, candidates had to file for positions on the Council.  The only big surprise seems to be that Colin Drummond, once thought to be vying for the Exec Board, has decided to challenge Mark Johnson for 2009 Council.  In what seems to be one of the least contested campaign seasons in recent […]

Because of this email, it looks like Alidad Damooei has filed a complaint against the Krebs camp for illegal campaigning before Spring Break.  No comments from anyone right now, we’ll see soon what the Judicial Board does.  If Krebs and Ahmed are found guilty, this first violation would most likely result in 10% reduction in […]

Despite an official-ish interview with the Spectator on Saturday night, once-rumored CCSC contender Colin Drummond has decided not to traverse the depths of student council candidacy, according to Drummond camp officials.

A tipster forwarded Bwog editors an email sent at 2:48 AM last night by George Krebs’ prospective VP of Policy Adil Ahmed. Apparently, Ahmed had sent an email to various student leaders describing his plan for CCSC: “When a bold vision is combined with concrete plans, I know that we can put aside any doubts […]

In light of CCSC’s recent crusade against juicycampus.com, Bwog wanted to know if it were really possible to ban a website from the campus server. Apparently, it’s not. Resident computer expert and Bwog Web Master Zach van Schouwen explains why in the following bullet-pointed list: It’s expensive. They don’t have an existing filter in place, […]

BREAKING: Alidad’s CCSC ticket announced, despite his vow to not go to Bwog first (See Quick Spec Below) Late last night in Lerner, amidst relatively minimal ballyhoo, Alidad Damooei unveiled the running mates soon to be on his ticket for the upcoming CCSC elections: VP Policy – Donna Desilus (CC ’09) VP Communications – Veronica […]

Tonight seems to be the night, gentle reader, when Alidad Damooei will join George Krebs as CCSC Exec-board candidates.  It is rumored he will be filming a campaign video to introduce himself and his ticket.  He will not, however, be able to release this video until after spring break when the official campaign season begins […]

Another certain gossipy website was the focus of last night’s CCSC meeting. Satow Room bureau chief Martha Turewicz reports.  From the first few minutes of last night’s CCSC meeting, there some early indications of the intensity to come. Proceedings started a few minutes past 8, and while the next hour was lost to constitutional review, […]

The completion of the George Krebs CCSC ticket is… complete. Laura Doan, CC ’09, has joined the team as VP of Funding. Doan joins a ticket featuring Krebs, Adil Ahmed, Robyn Burgess, and Ian Solsky. Candidate declaration forms are due on March 6th, and the Alidad Damooei camp remains conspicuously silent.