Today's Top Stories:
Procrastinate better: the best of your professors' Facebook pages
The results from SGB's Town Hall are in!
ROTC Surveys: 2003 and Today

In which Bwog newcomer Anish Bramhandkar keeps you up to date on the latest news in the strange and quirky happenings of the lives of Columbia's finest. Beware, in some cases connections to our fair alma mater may be otherwise dubious or somewhat circumspect.

UPDATE: Columbia Economics professors hijack today's New York Times Op-Ed page to wax about the bailout and their expectations for tonight's Presidential debate.

CU Researcher Quantifies SEAS Sex Appeal

That Peter Bretter even dated Sarah Marshall to begin with is a mystery CU Business School assistant professor (and MIT graduate) Leonard Lee has solved, according to the Calgary Herald.

According to Professor Lee's research, men are just as "superficial" as women, but women let their perception of their own appearance limit their dating pool. Men, on the other hand, will date just about anyone. The figure of men being 2.5 times more likely to accept date requests just about summarizes the situation in the Carleton Lounge, Bwog figures.


The first three Bwog readers to email cuarts@columbia.edu by the end of the day can score a pair of free tickets to tonight's Shout Out Out Out Out concert at the Tank (They're from Canada!). Show starts at 8 down in Tribeca. Read the full description at CUArts.com.

My image No word yet on why Ferguson hated freedom

PrezBo's letter after the jump


Overheard in the Carman computer lab:

"No, I mean, there's more pollution and sometimes it smells like maple syrup, but it's pretty much the same."

-Ashley Nin
See also: Canada, Carman, Overheard

It's academia's equivalent to The 50 Most Beautiful People. And it's put out by that most discerning of polemicists, David Horowitz. With all the appropriate pageantry, he presents us withThe 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Danger is sexy! And guess what? Columbia is the sexiest! Nine of the Dr. Dangers teach at Columbia. Eric Foner, Todd Gitlin, Rashid Khalidi, and Joseph Massad are among the elite bunch. Sorry ladies, most of them are already taken.

"I was flattered to be included, despite the inaccuracies and false innuendos, although I didn't and don't feel I have earned the right (either as a professor or a clear and present danger) to be on such a list," a Columbia journalism professor who is the editor of the Nation and chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, Victor Navasky, told the NY Sun in an e-mail message.

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