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An anonymous first-year tipster reports that the snack attacker is at it again; a cracked-out packet was found on a bench by Low at around 3:20 PM yesterday. Straight from the source:

cracker"Alright, so I read that there was some weirdo leaving nazi crackers on campus. Well, I dunno if this was a copycat or whatever, but there was definitely a plastic container with some kind of bread in it that said "black magic" on it that had some ass backwards nazi symbols . . . I find it disturbing that I'm paying so much money for Columbia so that some weirdo can scare the shit out of me with anti-semitic food containers."

Bwog does too, nameless freshie. Who will bring this rapscallion to justice?

See also: Crackers

September 7, 2006 @ 9:23 PM | Comments 5 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Another Snack Attack: More Crackers Involved in Hate Incident
You guessed it! The infamous hate-crime cracker packets showed up again on campus this week—and this time we have photographic proof. Bwog correspondent/cryptographer/gumshoe investigator Addison Anderson, who spied the pictured item of hatred on a bench on the path between Lerner and Low, wrote up the following account. Read the full report, which includes an in-depth analysis of the perpetrator's twisted message, after the jump:

Cracker 1

If you were hungry for a handful of hearty melba toast topped with a heaping helping of magical fascism on Thursday, then you missed some free food left in the middle of a stone bench on the west side of South Lawn.

Yes, the hate-snacker, made infamous by Bwog's reports of April 11th and 13th, has struck again. On the afternoon of July 6th, this reporter found six pieces of melba toast, a slice of pepperoni, and a small section of a chocolate donut in a hate-packet similar to those previously discovered. The whole thing was bound up with rubber bands between a paper plate and a clear plastic container top—an odd surface for an even odder scrawl, which is here reproduced:

HOLES IN FOOD
BLACK MAGIC
[drawing of BIG SWASTIKA]
(Read more...)
See also: Crackers, Crime, Investigative Journalism

July 8, 2006 @ 6:53 PM | Comments 9 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Crackergate II?
Barnard student Hannah Baker reports our crumbly hate crimes just keep coming:

I discovered possibly another incarnation of the nazi cracker prankster sitting on a police barrier outside of the subway [near Barnard]. It was a tupperware container containing what seemed to be melba toast and had written in sharpie on the top a swastika, and what I remember as HOLES FOOD BLACK MAGIC.

Bwog wasn't able to snap a photo this time around, so in the interest of calling out fascism in all its forms, please send pictures or accounts to bwgossip@columbia.edu.

Photo is of melba toast.
See also: Crackers, Crime

June 23, 2006 @ 7:39 PM | Comments 3 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Exhibit B
Armchair investigators, there's no reason you shouldn't have all the evidence Public Safety does. Have at it!
See also: Crackers

April 13, 2006 @ 4:27 PM | Comments 10 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Snack Attack
Oh how quickly Columbia's wheels of justice turn. A little less than 48 hours ago, I posted on the Bwog a pictures of a bizarre little homemade cracker packet I found.

Then came the increasingly frantic emails from the Class Deans and Public Security to the Blue & White's editor-in-chief, Avi. By last night, the emails got back to me. We were told by the Administration that "the photographer [that's me!] will be in contact with Public Safety by first thing tomorrow morning." Will do.

Or will try to do. I called Ken Finnegan, Public Safety's Director of Investigations and Technology, like he asked. Answering machine. Then I stopped by. Not in. Then I called again. Made some bread pudding. Called again.

Then I got an email from Dean Colombo claiming I have alleged a bias incident. Patted myself on back for fighting the good fight. Checked on bread pudding.

Anyway, Ken, if you're reading this, CALL ME.

Update: Eyewitness account filed with the proper authorities. Best of luck, Ken, with the investigation. I know you'll leave no crumb unturned.

-Bethany Milton, Bwog Co-Editor

Email from Dean Colombo after the jump.
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See also: Colombo, Crackers

April 13, 2006 @ 3:41 PM | Comments 33 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Someone's Crackin' Up
crackers

These homemade cracker packets are all over the path between Lerner and Low. Explain.
See also: Crackers, Photobwogging

April 11, 2006 @ 6:40 PM | Comments 91 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

See also: Crackers, Crime, Investigative Journalism

December 31, 1969 @ 7:00 PM | Comments 0 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

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