The activities fair may be over, but you've still got a while to find your niche in Columbia's extracurricular scene. To help you sift through the alphabet soup, our series of club crib sheets continues with groups that hand out money and groups that may eventually make lots of money.

Governing Boards and Councils (a.k.a. The Man)

Activities Board at Columbia (ABC) - This oversight organization funds publications, cultural groups, competition groups--basically everything SGB doesn't pay for. Every club competes to have its friends on the board of representatives in hopes of upping their allocations.

Engineering Student Council (ESC) - ESC may be elected undemocratically—the executive board, which composes a much larger percentage of the total student body than any of the other councils, selects the president--but they do come up with the most wonderful web applications.

Student Government Association - Barnard College's student council, this year headed by Sarah Besnoff. SGA mostly stays on the west side of Broadway, but frequently cosponsors events with the other undergraduate councils.

General Studies Student Council (GSSC) - Now with a cute owl logo and a website that's at least helpful and up to date, GSSC is one of the more constituency-conscious councils out there. Bwog can only hope current president Brody Berg will be as entertaining as ex-leader Nico Cunningham.

GSSC elections results are in! An auspicious day for democracy indeed. And now, the winners and losers. (Except of course for any category marked "no winner", which indicates that the candidate did not receive at least 25 votes.)


President

Brody Berg 50%
Virdis Bala 22%
Ishmael Osekre 13%
Write-in (other) 15%

VP Policy

Michael Rain 35%
David Minchin 32%
Allen Settle 30%
Write-in (other) 3%

State Assemblyman confirms what everyone already knows, Morningside Heights is old and has lots of pretty buildings.

Iraq activists: Ring my bell, wash my flag.

Columbia's killing cancer. Cool!

Columbia students are hot for Hookah.

Smart Women Securities for Females in Finance.

GSSC election circus continues.

Despite (former!) GSSC President Niko Cunningham's cries of unconstitutionality and some Maps of Injustice™ pointing to a lack of quorum, Dean of Students and Associate Dean of Faculty/GS Mary McGee has ruled that Tuesday's vote to impeach Cunningham is, in fact, legitimate. This makes President Cunningham president no longer. In fact, GSSC VP of Policy Nancy Saunders has already assumed (been sworn into?) the position.

McGee's full email after the jump.

Hot off yesterday's impeachment of an ESC member, Bwog just got off the phone with GSSC President Niko Cunningham, who may or may not have just been impeached.

According to Cunnigham, tonight's proceedings went down something like this: Towards the end of the GSSC meeting, after Dean of General Students Mary McGee had already left, someone on council had suddenly made a motion to impeach Cunningham. This may seem like deja vu from last week's motion to impeach Cunningham, but according to the embattled president, this week's proceedings were unconstitutional and therefore they shouldn't count.

Cunningham explained that as soon as the council began to vote on the impeachment and handed out slips of paper (with which to vote, exercise democracy, enjoy freedom, etc.), he got up and left the room. "I immediately got up and walked out," Cunningham said. "[GSSC] needed 16 members to have quorum and those devils only had 15 when I walked out."

The Mystery of Pain.

Asked to legitimize the illegitimate, GSSC Elections Commission resigns.

Barnard Voting: The eBear Necessities.

Congestion plan coughed up.

Bob Dylan meet Joe Pulitzer.

How safe are we really?

In other Columbia-related news: the NYTimes captures the different views on the boy arrested in the recent death of a grad student.

You can watch coverage of their discussion below, including the results from a GS-wide survey about debt and aid—according to GSSC President Niko Cunningham, an average GSer's debt is three times that of an average CCer. Just another piece of Double Secret Financial Aid News puzzle, which Prezbo is maybe (probably!) solving for us today.

Breaking CCSC/ESC/GSSC/SGA news in the form of new dark horse candidate Chas Carey, CC '08. Carey, running on the "Federalist Party" platform has decided to simultaneously run for presidency in all class councils. According to candidate Carey, his campaign is one of unification: "Class councils have long been powerless against the overwhelming might of Low Library, but if we yoke them together, we can scale the steps and crowthe people with Bollinger's wig," the statement read. You can read the full declaration of candidacy after the jump, including what will no doubt become a legendary campaign speech entitled "The Future Is Now; No, Now; No, Right Then; I Mean, Wait, Fuck"

Fireside chats make PrezBo—ne JanitorBo—nostalgic for the good old days.

GS Student Council, like grumpy old men, bickers about budgets.

Some GS students actually live in Butler, no really. Two chairs, third-floor style.

GS is expensive but worth it. Most of the time, methinks.

Out with the old, in with the new. Even with the new lounge-bar experience, its still just mediocre Italian food.