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.

The biggest day in the literary year has arrived: The announcing of 2008's Pulitzer Winners. The Washington Post earned 6 awards this year, while hometown rag The New York Times earned just 2. Bob Dylan also earned a "Special Citation" for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."

Full list of winners—including Junot Diaz, August: Osage County, and Robert Hass—available here.

(Also, nearly every current member of the Pulitzer Prize Board is pictured above. However, PrezBo remains conspicuously absent. Maybe he was taking the picture?)

Bwog just got shut out of the Journalism School auditorium where they're formally handing out the medals, but the Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced its winners, each recieving a cool $10 grand.