Tonight, the CQA, Columbia's Queer Alliance, celebrates LGBT rights and fights for everyone's right to party with the First Friday Dance. On Saturday.

Nothing sets the atmosphere for a dance party better than torrential rain, right? How lucky we are to celebrate the First Friday Dance of the semester on this diluvial Saturday! If you're not a fan of going out in hurricane weather and are considering taking a rain check on "the hottest dance on the Upper Westside," according to the CQA, live va Queer Prom last spring to see all the Kate Perry pumped fun you'll be missing.

More love in the club after the jump.

Welcome to the Columbia Olympics. Through this series, Bwog hopes to prepare you for at least some of the events that you will participate in at Columbia. Unlike the real Olympics, no one's too young, too old, too juiced, or too angry to participate. Since everything must be judged, though, we have included gold medal outcomes at the end of each post.

Bwog believes in timely advice. For Sunday mornings, timely advice means tips on how to lessen a hangover. Hangovers (aka "nature's way of telling you you possibly did something dumb last night") are annoying regardless, but the length and strength of the hangover can make a big difference in how productive and enjoyable your day will be. Here's some ideas from the Bwog and Blue & White staff. Use the comments to add your own advice.

Also, as a magazine and blog of mostly humanities majors, Bwog takes no responsibility for the scientific veracity of these "cures."

• Winning the hangover battle is all about preemption.
• The night before, eat a heavy meal if you're planning on drinking a lot. It will slow withdrawal, settle your stomach, and leave you fed.
• Even a snack afterwards can help if you drink more than you thought.
  
  
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In recent months, Bwog readers have risen from limerick-fearing philistines to haiku-handy aesthetes...and just in time for Poetry Month! And after all, rainy April is the perfect time for indoor sports like contemplation and reflection.

For a gentle night on the town, consider this listing of poetry events. For the heavy-hearted and heavy-handed who can't bear to click the link, a few highlights, after this link:

There were feathers in the air as far as four blocks from Union Square yesterday, a delicate indicator of the third annual all-city pillow battle royale. There was more floating down nearer to the action, and piles of the stuff around the feet of the combatants. Blinking constantly to keep safe from the pointy end of the feathers, a mass of children, parents and whimsical hipsters slapped their bedding back and forth for hours in a messy act of gentle social disturbance.

This morning's Prezbo-sponsored fun run began just fifteen minutes ago.

Report from the sidelines is that Prezbo was roughly three minutes behind at the halfway mark and looked tired. The CU Track team was standing around directing and cheering everyone else on, but there was not so much running coming from them.

And the organizers ran out of small T-shirts. A sad day for us non-elephants.

Pictures (scantily clad swim team boys!) after the jump.