The love affair comes to an end...

This is actually a big deal

Money!

In Soviet Russia, Russia's Future dissects YOU!

Bwog is signing off for awhile to stuff our faces with sweetmeats and to relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood-style. But before we do, we asked several campus figures to tell us what they want for Chrismakwanzikkah or the other non-denominational winter holiday they celebrate. We got a few responses, starting with Sumaiya Ahmed's interview with...

Antonio, a security guard at McBain who says he wants a silver watch, a tuxedo, and the other half of his orange.

"You know what I mean don't you?"

"Umm, you mean your wife?"

"Yes," he says. "Well, a girlfriend, my ex-wife...."

Tao Tan: "Either the repeal of the capital gains tax, or the Battlestar Pegasus (with 4 squadrons of Mark VII Vipers)."

Professor Carl Hart: "Hmmm, let's see...For Christmas, I'd like justice for those with limited resources. I hope this answers the question."

Tim, the bearded violin player outside Lerner says, "I would like that the world be more like the people in New York, how they have been to me, taking care of each other. It is astounding. It is not like that everywhere, you know."

He is from Wisconsin, though he says the people there are nice too.

"I have hope for us," he says. "I think we'll figure it out. You young folks, you're pretty bright. Pretty and bright! Though of course, I don't wanna make any big generalizations."

Something's up in California--at USC, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Trojan was sacked by the school's Vice President of Student Affairs after being re-elected to the position by his staff. It's gotten some people upset, garnered a bit of national press, and attracted the attention of the venerable Harvard Crimson, which got 18 college papers to sign and run an editorial condemning the interference (never before has the USC administration denied a staff pick for editor).

Notoriously absent? The Columbia Daily Spectator (well, and Dartmouth, but they've stopped publishing). Bwog asked Spec Opinion Editor Miriam Datskovsky about the reasoning behind her choice. Here is her reply:

Thanks for writing. The Harvard Crimson did approach us, but after carefully looking over a draft of the editorial, we decided that we did not feel comfortable signing it. Of course, the Spectator editorial board is not happy about the actions of the USC administration either. But as journalists, we don't think it is responsible to sign our name to an opinion written in the words of someone else and based solely on the reporting of others. The Spectator editorial board has worked especially hard to do, and be responsible for, its own reporting this semester.

Best
Miriam

Nice to be financially independent, isn't it?

Clarification, 10:30 PM: The Spectator editorial board made the decision to not run the editorial.

Women must overcome shortness, queen bees, and Barbie in their epic quest for tenure

Freshman fornication facilitated? Lactation station rouses male curiosity, Carman pride

Sex columnist informs us being frightened of subway rats not necessarily gay, quotes...other sex columnist, who discusses (why not?) class implications of kinkiness

GS student: I'm not part of a Star Trek villain-race! I'm just "the scruffy Julie over here on the Aloha Deck"!

Masonary decapitation...it's art!

Media Watch BONUS: NY Times metro section editorial kinda gently blasts M'ville expansion for potential post-gentrification property price hikes...and for using "archaic" word "Manhattanville"

Bwog must interrupt its holiday programming for this important announcement.

The New York Daily News, that staid bastion of equanimity, has declared that Columbia is out of control, and they're not talking politics: this time, it's all that wild crazy sex. The 1,200-word feature story (which ran online with the dubiously related picture at right) cites example after example to prove that Columbians have finally gotten too randy for their own good. Among them:

Exhibit A: An undercover Daily News reporter witnesses a lecture in Hamilton in which a man named "Dov" flogged a female student volunteer with various objects.

Exhibit B: Miriam Datskovsky weighs in. "Everything is so much easier and so much quicker," she told the paper. "You go to dinner and then have sex."

Exhibit C: "Smut TV," in which CTV airs "hard-core porn" involving "a naked couple engaged in sex." Financed by the school. Broadcast into dozens of rooms and lounges. Really.

Bwog must concede, Columbia has fallen to the purveyors of vice...now if only a little more of it would come our way.

Vowing to "protect the world at large from horrible sex advice" and claiming that Spec sex columnist Miriam Datskovsky "is a violation of all of our human rights," anonymous tipster "Captain Subtext" has informed Bwog of the Fire Miriam Datskovsky blog. The site primarily contains frighteningly thorough critiques of many of Miriam's columns and of those who have praised her work, and further correspondence with its mysterious proprietors reveals that they next plan to target Ms. Datskovsky's vanity website. If you want to know just how far these guys are willing to go to refute every word of Miriam's columns, look no further than this nitpicky comment, which is just the tip of the iceberg:

Miriam: "There will forever exist those expectations that the logical side of our brains insist are false, but our desires hope to be true"
Fire Miriam Blog: "Desires can't hope, Miriam."

Miriam has declined to comment on the site.

The creators have attempted to preempt the inevitable criticisms with a FAQ at the bottom of the page, in which they reveal that they resent the "gender bias" in the selection of sex columnists, "pretty much" all adore the Red Sox, and plan to start a "Fire Miriam Facebook Group". Is all really fair, Bwog asks, in lust and war?

Tel Aviv taps Zvi...

...After mysterious disappearance of CB...

...While Republicans shed party loyalty

Take Back the Night hands out "pens, highlighters, chapstick, lollipops" at 1020, patrons confused

Play includes "chicken farming", "a fringed belt assembled from a shredded copy of the Columbia Daily Spectator", "a Bible-quoting triple-murderer turned pizza boy", "freedom"

Spec serials continue their march toward the inevitable Pulitzer: "You must bless the round before you pound"

Miriam explores, vicariously, the world of the "spank-ee," who offers up "ass and self"