Just over 45 minutes ago, voting ended for the 2008 CCSC Elections. Ballots were cast, the gauntlet was thrown. While the CC listserv won't receive an email announcing the winners til much later tonight, candidates are expected to receive a phone call around 9 PM with the results.

Bwog is going to embed itself with Experience Columbia and Connect Columbia, livebwogging all tension, awkwardness, and bravado of this very special night. Krebs and company will be gathered in Krebs' room in Watt, while Team Damooei is going to be holding a summit at the West End. Check back on this post for updates from both camps and around 9 PM for an announcement with the results. But no matter what happens tonight, I think we can all agree that the real winner is democracy.

Nostalgic for the suites you never even had a chance of getting anyway? Reminisce with the morning's liveBwog.

1:42 PM:

Housing has returned from lunch and suite selection has picked back up. The white board (as is far too often the case) remains the same, save for a penciled in noticed that there are 11 one bedrooms remaining on the D line in Watt.

Bwog slipped behind the screens and noticed that the most desirable line in Woodbridge, the coveted H line, is gone on all floors except the first. (Which makes sense, given Riverside's less-than-stellar track-record for late-night crime.) On the 7th floor, I, J, and C were taken, as rising seniors quickly snatched up the top floor and its views.

Now Playing: Silen—nevermind. The iPod has returned with "At Last," by Etta James.

1:50 PM:

The last 4-person EC suite has been taken.

1:57 PM:

A friendly suite-selector just tipped Bwog off to what she's calling a "little known secret." Apparently, living on the first floor of Woodbridge is a good thing. "My boyfriend lived there, and the ceilings are like 25 ft. and the rooms look huge." Bwog is making no claims to the veracity of any of this.

Now Playing: Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean"

We LiveBwogging this shit*

6:00 PM - it has not yet started.

6:07 PM - this is still the case. I will say when it is not.

6:10 PM - First words: "is this working? yeah." One history professor is taking over for another in introducing the event. He says it was an easy decision.

6:13 PM - He is talking about how to tell the story of the West. Could this perhaps be a lecture about Contemporary Civilization? From what I've heard, that's not the deal with these coursewide lectures.

6:20 PM - Lecture is shaping up pretty well, in every sense except attendance. The right side ("North wing") is mostly empty, and the left and center are about 2/3 full.

6:25 PM - Professor Michael Stanislawski (who introduced Mehta) has perhaps the most serious face of anyone I've ever seen. A few minutes ago, he had his left hand on his chin and periodically touched his nose. Now he had forgone the support of his hands entirely, but his face remains the same.