Here are some more activities to keep Mom and Dad busy because Bwog loves you and your parents and because Bwog has secret tour guide aspirations....

Wallach Art Gallery

Columbia has its own mini-museum in Schermerhorn! Who knew? The Wallach Gallery's classy digs will undoubtedly impress your parents. Maybe you'll even impress them with your Art Hum skills. Except the gallery is currently exhibiting Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, which doesn't fall into the masterpieces of Western Art category. But it's free and that's always a crowd pleaser.

Inwood Park

If you're going to the Baker Field for the football game, be sure to pass through Inwood Park on your way back. Located just beyond the stadium, Inwood Park is a lovely copse-filled plot of land on the very tip of Manhattan island. The northern edge of the park offers views of both the Hudson and Harlem Rivers and makes a great place for a picnic. For additional fun, try to spot the Columbia boathouse and the big 'C' rock.

Whether you plan on going to the Big Game or not, Bwog recommends taking advantage of the pre-homecoming breakfast taking place in the EC 2nd floor lounge this morning at 11:00.

It's free! School spirit not required.

Bwog presents a special Homecoming edition of its Friday sports roundup.

Football: The football team will play its Homecoming game, and Ivy League opener, against Princeton tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. Free shuttle buses to the game will be provided to fans starting at 11 a.m at the 116th and Broadway gates. For those of you who can't attend, the game will be broadcast on 970 AM and WKCR. Bwog will also bring you live coverage starting tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Last week, the team lost to Towson University on a last second touchdown, 31-24. Despite holding Towson quarterback Sean Schaefer to 193 yards in the air, the team's rushing defence again was weak, giving up 134 yards on the ground. For Columbia, the big stars were quarterback Shane Kelly (19-32 for 281 yards and 2 touchdowns) and cornerback Kalasi Huggins, whose 4.5 tackles led him to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Week. Interestingly, Columbia has had 12 of the last 22 Ivy League Rookies of the Week, and the last two Rookies of the Year.

Against Princeton, the rushing attack and defense will have to start working again: against Towson, running backs Jordan Davis and Ray Rangel only rushed for 29 yards together. On the defensive side of the ball, Princeton's Jordan Culbreath is a dangerous runner who could put up big numbers if the Lions don't clamp down.

After an exciting week of Decolonization, celebrity sightings and little children, only CCSC could return the student body to normalcy. No resolutions (or revolutions) tonight, but, for the first time ever, CTV taped the weekly updates.

The meeting opened with CCSC's beverage-related homecoming escapades. Once the meeting was called to order and the cameras began rolling, the council presidents were suddenly much peppier and more dapper. George Krebs, in particular, was extremely excited about the possibility of bringing the Big Apple Circus to Columbia. Unfortunately, the sophomore class trip to Montreal was cancelled. The seniors will still be taking a trip down to the Brooklyn Brewery.

When the cameras left, however, the council returned to their casual, informal state where they discussed the campus's most pressing issues including the recent bias incidents, the annual tree lighting and whether to switch all eggs used on campus to cage-free. While CCSC did not come to a consensus on how to express solidarity against the recent hate crimes, Sue Yang has planned an elaborate holiday celebration that could include candy canes with personalized notes, Michelle Diamond dressed up as Santa Claus (pictured at her Macy's gig from last year), caroling and jingle bells.

The most controversial discussion, however, whether they should to increase the dining budget by 0.4% (financed by an increase in upperclassmen meal plans by $8-10 per year) in order to make more humane meals. The meeting adjourned when freshman rep Sean Udell pointed out that none of the members were chicken farmers and they would get representatives of more informed groups to better understand the issue.

- JJV

Because it's homecoming! Bwog commentary and photos to follow later on in the day.

If you somehow missed the spectacle of giant inflatables and mobs of people waiting for free food on Low Plaza this afternoon, CCSC Columbia student councils and organizations (edited) celebrated the day prior to homecoming with a carnival that made one a little nostalgic with memories of elementary school PTA festivities -- minus, perhaps, children crying from being kicked in a game of tug-of-war, and with the addition of phallic ring toss (courtesy of none other than CUMB, of course). Sadly, Bwog was in class for most of the time, and was a little disappointed to miss out on the raffle drawings and so-called "beverage pong." Anyway, here's what we got a glimpse of, after the jump.

With Fair Alma's ritual disembowelment of the hapless Penn Quakers a mere five days away, the Columbia College senior class decided to celebrate homecoming week with a little pugilism of its own. With Decolonization day going at full thrust less than 20 yards in front of them, the CC seniors lined up for some BBQ--with a little whipped cream and raw hatred on the side.

To passerby, it probably didn't seem like a spectacular orgy of violence was in store: CC '08 representatives handed out a facebook of pie victims, complete with short bios (our favorite: "Calvin Sun, Vice President of the Senior Class etc...is incredibly terrified of messing up his hair today.") while 08ers politely queued for chicken wings and baked beans. But no amount of meticulous organization could quell the participants' bloodlust: Head Dem Josh Lipsky speculated that GOP counterpart Chris Kulawik was afraid of getting hurt. "I'm here and he's not," said Lipsky. "You do the math." (he wasn't the only one calling out the CUGOP's high-profile leader: one speaker on Low urged people to organize against David Horowitz before decrying the "hypocrisy of Chris Kulawik").

Meanwhile, Spec boss John Davisson was disapointed at the Blue and White's no-shows--"I don't see Taylor Walsh here" he said after suggesting that Bwoggers were "cowards" for skipping out on the event.

Up on Low Plaza, a speaker compared Columbia's expansion plans to Columbus's conquest of the New World. "You are just as guilty as Christopher Columbus" he exclaimed, although by then the seniors were more concerned with creaming each other than discussing the finer points of Fair Alma's expansion policy. While Low crackled with moral guilt, College Walk had turned into a cream-charred battleground--soon a belligerent small child had joined the hysterical, close-quarter melee; one senior laughed as he slipped on a piece of tarp, and a pie-covered CCSC prez Michelle Diamond remembered during one break in the action that she had class at 2.

It wasn't long before the the worlds of pie-thrower and decolonizer collided: said one speaker, "Take your pie, sit your asses down and listen to what we have to say." The attempted killjoy had no perceivable effect on the pie-throwers, although at least one CCSCer looked conflicted. But for the most part, the combatants were absorbed with the essential task of digging chunks of whipped cream out of their hair.

-ARR

Lydia DePillis and Christopher Morris-Lent report on today's Homecoming game. Special thanks to Charles Clavey for his photos.

It is generally true that suburban high schools are much better at football than their urban counterparts. If we extrapolate this axiom and apply it to this afternoon's contest between Princeton and Columbia, then the unhappy outcome should come as no surprise.

Throughout the first half, a succession of three-and-outs characterized Columbia's moribund offense, and though the defense stalwartly stifled Princeton time and time again, Princeton was eventually able to poke the football past the line and into the end-zone. Columbia's offense responded by once again failing to gain a first down, and the defense surrendered another quick touchdown to put the score at 14-0.

Continued after the jump!