Fu Foundation Bureau Chief Sean Zimmermann reports from last night's ESC meeting.

At last night ESC meeting, many changes were afoot within the ESC you know and love. Even though CourseWorks is maybe probably on the outs, the Council's Director of Technology Kenny Rivera is developing a CourseWorks application for the iPhone—to better check that your professor didn't post the assigned reading, on the go!

And then there was a bit of odd news concerning GS's logo, which needs to be replaced because it was apparently taken from a community college. You remember Gulliver, yes? ESC did not mention which community college shares GS's logo, but a quick Google Image search reveals that Harford Community College is a possibility.


GS's new (unnamed?) owl mascot is now hanging on the Lerner ramps. If he is, in fact, unnamed, Bwog likes Gulliver. Gulliver the lifelong-learning owl.

See also: Mascots

When reached for comment, Felix Gillette, CJR Daily reporter and author of the Slate profile of J.J. had the following to say:
"I'm concerned that the long hours, endless travel, and lack of a stable home life may finally be catching up with J.J. Jumper. This latest incident looks like nothing less than a cry for help. I think NCAA officials need to step in, pay CTV for the damaged equipment, and get J.J. into counseling. Pronto. Otherwise, this kind of passive aggressive behavior is only going to get worse.

After all, it's a slippery slope from dancing to 'Lil Bow Wow to smashing up court-side cameras to drinking one's life away on the streets.

My thoughts are with J.J."
As are ours. Last of the J.J. posts, we promise.
See also: Ctv, Mascots, Sports

This isn't the first time Columbia and J.J. Jumper's stars have collided. A Columbia Journalism Review reporter did a bittersweet profile of the homeless frog for Slate almost a year ago. It seems like J.J. takes it more than he dishes it out so maybe we aren't so mad at him for destroying $6,500 of CTV equipment.
See also: Cjr, Ctv, Mascots, Sports

Bwog, in a fit of teary-eyed, second-semester senior nostalgia, decided to attend our first ever Columbia sporting event last night, the men's basketball game against Yale. And while we lost in a heartbreaker, JJ Jumper still managed to provide a moment of amusement.

Not to be confused with Roar-ee, Columbia's own lamely named mascot, JJ Jumper is an all-purpose, all-annoying NCAA mascot that appears at different Division I, II and III games. He must've been tired from all the traveling last night, because during a round of backflips, he crashed into the live CTV halftime broadcast.

Well, at least the 2000 people at the game watched it happen.

UPDATE: Thanks to the Splog, we've got footage!



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