Who gave the College Libertarians chalk?!

UPDATE 12:24 PM: Bwog daily editor David Iscoe spotted the chalky Libertarian and/or ironist last night. Says David: "I saw him drawing another one ("Ron Paul cured my apathy") on the sidewalk near (I think) Kim's, the guy was a somewhat short, hairy character with sideburns and a beard, a real Bolshevik-looking type. At least, pretty sure it's the same guy, I didn't see [him drawing] the one on the gates."

An email from Dean Colombo to Carman residents reveals that some homophobic graffiti was applied to the pillar outside the freshman dorm on February 11th, and was removed about a week later. Colombo's email, reproduced below the jump, asserts that the slow response time in dealing with such incidents will be looked into in the future and improved. In the meantime, the administration has met with student council representatives and LGBTQ community leaders, and will be hosting events meant to address the issue. An investigation has also been launched with Public Safety.

Bwog continues to look into the incident and is awaiting further details from Dean Colombo. One pressing question: the pillar is visible and accessible to anyone walking through that part of campus, so why have (apart from the aforementioned student leaders) only Carman residents been involved thus far?

-CJS

SEEJ has been papering the campus with their cheeky fliers advertising a graffiti/stenciling/street art event they're throwing in Lerner tonight, and with Shepard Fairey's Obey showing up on John Jay trays and artists like Banksy getting gala gallery events, this is Columbia's version of getting hip to the times.

Overheard: Regarding the fliers, one of which states FREE HEROIN as an attention-getter, one student exclaimed, "Heroin?! That's a bit much. Should have said cocaine, that would have lured us in."

After the jump, the flier. (Will this get SEEJ's funding cut, eh?)

Bwog has been a little obsessed with trays lately. So obsessed we've started traying around with scissors. It is the only artwork we've done all year, and it's only cool if you know about the OBEY Giant and F. Shepard Fairey's phenomenological campaign of aimless propaganda, now a brilliantly whorish exercise in mass merch production.

Actually it's kinda cool even if you don't know about that.

One fine Tuesday morning, your Bwoggers tried to beat Reading Week boredom with a fortray into John Jay cafeteria. They went to take a surtray of the tray puns they had found etched into trays there. After a few short inquiries, they gained early entrance into the cafeteria—John Jay's director was equally curious as to what these blue and white etchings would reveal...

What the Bwoggers found confirmed their suspicions: this is an old tradition, and nobody has any idea who started it.


The earliest tray that can be dated was etched on 3 September 2001: "Mothafuckas act like they forgot about Tray." Perhaps the history of etchings goes further back, then. Many trays were still in the scullery at the time of surveillance; the record is incomplete, and the truth uncertain. We leave it to you, readers, to seek that truth.

Apparently some etudiants have a little too much spring fever to study in the library. But will chalk on the van am quad = success on next week's orgo test? Bwog sure hopes so.

This morning, an anonymous tipster weighed in on the origins of the "cHiNA?" graffiti that can be spotted in every other campus elevator:

I thought you should know I have a theory that could possible solve the "CHINA?" elevator riddle. That is, what started it before the ignorant copy cats took over.

It's dorky and obvious and asks the question on every poli-sci international relations major nerd's mind.

Is China rising?

Get it!? Get it!? China + ? + on an elevator going up and down all the time!

Though the mystery remains unsolved until the founder of the "cHiNA?" movement is identified, the Bwog thinks this might be the start of what will hopefully be a fruitful investigation.

Graffiti from the 600 113th St. dormitory's basement bathroom after the jump. Bwog found it to be quite instructive.

DO NOT OPEN THIS POST ON A PUBLIC COMPUTER

In which Bwog staffer Mark Krotov familiarizes us with the places where you can find him when he's supposed to be in class.

The first time I came upon the Lehman cubicles, I felt like one of those schoolboys who discovered the Lascaux caves. Although hardly prehistoric in the traditional sense, the Lehman cubicles are relics of another era. They sit on the bottom of floor of Lehman Library, a building equal parts anachronism and mystery. I imagine students sitting there in the 1960s, studying Soviet maps and reading Pravda, eagerly plowing through documents that would bring them a little closer to these mysterious 'International Affairs.' But today, Lehman, which sits below the International Affairs Building, behind evening swipe access, and away from the undergraduate studying mecca of Lerner-Butler, is like an infinite private study space. And nothing in Lehman is more private than the cubicles.

Bwog is proud to bring you gossip from abroad - because everything is funnier when it's not American.

While doing his time in the 'Nam, your loyal correspondent noticed the following exchange gracing the guestbook in the museum at the former US marine base of Khe Sanh:

Intruders are doomed to be kicked out, no matter in North Korea, Vietnam, or Iraq. -Wang Y, China

What about Tibet? -[Illegible], UK

- Nick Frisch