Our friends at Gawker have taken a liking to one special Barnard gal, and her name is Lizzy Fraser. You might have seen her in your 20th century art class, or, failing that, probably at St. A's. According to the gossip site, she's one of the "Upper Class of 2008," specifically in the "New Edies" phylum.

Says Gawker: "The ghost of Edie Sedgwick reincarnate: model, Columbia undergrad, Warholophile and photographer favoring self-portraits of herself surrounded by a minimum of four mirrors in varying sizes and shapes. See lizfraseronline.com."

Terrible 12s, you haven't even set foot on campus yet and already the whole Internet is abuzz with your goings-on.

In fairness, this latest outburst comes not from a Terrible 12 himself, but from his embarrassing mother, who (according to Craigstlist via Gawker) is looking hire a babysitter for him, for "support" -- "support" apparently meaning picking up his dry cleaning, fetching things for his apartment (Carman double?) and scheduling his doctors appointments (walking to health services?).

Our new classmate will start Columbia in the fall, lives on 84th between Park and Lexington, has five brothers and sisters, and no nanny. All the job requires is "PERFECT English" and "SOME college," meaning that you could be making 60-75k/year babysitting your own classmate.

Gawker is linking to Vanity Fair's just released "All Access Summer Guide," which features the city's best beaches, bars, restaurants, and pools. Second on VF's list of the Best Bars for Drinking Under the Stars? None other than everyone's favorite backup for when 1020 is just too crowded, the Heights. "Columbia students drink their cares away at this second story Morningside Heights bar," the guide truthfully (we guess?) points out.

So be on the lookout for an influx of hip forty-somethings with an inexplicable desire to drink their cares away with a bunch of "twenty-one-year-olds" under the stars.

Over at Gawker, which time and time again has displayed a curious fascination with the Good Ship Spectator, it seems there's been a tiff between Speccie Alexandria Symonds and star of MTV's delightfully realistic The Paper/soon-to-be NYU student Amanda Lorber.

Lorber apparently took issue with Symonds' review of The Paper published nearly two months ago in the Spec, which characterized Lorber as "a fundamentally lonely girl. Sure, she's overbearing and annoying, but it's obvious that it all stems from crippling self-consciousness and a terminally unfulfilled desire to be liked." Retaliated Lorber to Symonds in a most unkind (and what should be noted as formerly private) email:

"I'm not saying I don't have enemies, obviously I do. You seem to be one of them, but as I write now, I'm starting to see where it's coming from. It's a different kind of jealousy. The type spewed from young women who resent teenage girls that get their names out there. You, Ms. Symonds, are obviously a fundamentally bitter woman. You degrade the work ethic and academic values of a 17-year-old in order to cure your self-consciousness and upset at perhaps never being recognized for your work when you're through with "The Specator." In fact, if my staff hadn't been excitedly 'googling' every article written about our (national television) show, I would never had come across your disgusting piece."

Is this finally the NYU-Columbia rivalry we can all get behind? Perchance!

Gawker, whose staff apparently checks all the Columbia news websites every ten minutes for changes, is muscling onto Bwog's turf a little bit this afternoon. Namely, catching Spec with its pants down with the following correction tucked at the bottom of yesterday's caustic anti-Tibet editorial:

CORRECTION: This submission misstates that one Dalai Lama admitted to having sex with hundreds of men and women while knowing that he had AIDS. Additionally, the submission misstates that many monks participated in the dismemberment of female bodies. In fact, there is no factual evidence to substantiate either of these claims. Spectator regrets the error.

Well, yes, that's amazing. Good enough for Gawker to walk its fancy self above 96th Street (and to note that relevance, the current Dalai Lama has held his position for fifty years, which means the number of Dalai Lamas an editor has to look up to verify that claim is approximately one). We won't even mention that Spec tagged the article "ignorance."

Anyway, we applaud Gawker on their nice catch. However, stealing our headline from earlier today? Man. Clearly, somebody should be paying us. We're looking in the general direction of your faux-loft penthouse, Denton.

Bwog is a simple website. We like hawks and free coffee and pictures of babies in snow. But this morning Bwog was thrust into the unflattering spotlight of the New York media thanks to a fact-checking-averse ex-Speccie with a Gawker byline. You can read the post here.

The story has inexplicably gained some momentum, and Bwog was later contacted by Media Bistro regarding our response to Gawker, which you can read here.

We'd chalk it up to a slow news day, but then again Governor Spitzer was just implicated in a prostitution ring, so we're stumped.

Que sera sera.

It's like Columbia Day over on Manhattan's favorite gossip site.

Now we're elitist for complaining? (oh, and Ivygate's got video).

Tasti rival moves in! Bwog misses Soupman.

We've been trying to avoid this one, but since so many of you seem to think it's newsworthy (seriously, stop e-mailing us about it), Matt Sanchez has been up to some other activities besides bashing Columbia on conservative talk shows. Yawn.