The results are in! Missourian George Olive is running two for two--following up the Marshall--while Political Science Students Association president and Careless Cook Jason Bello brought home the second Rhodes for Columbia, ending a four-year drought. Other finalists included CCSC President Michelle Diamond, Burmactivist Geoff Aung, and the B&W's own Paul Barndt (who will always be a winner in our eyes).

And now for the craven competition part: Columbia beat out Yale, Penn, and Dartmouth, which got one Scholar each; tied with Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Georgia, and fell second only to Stanford's three winners (although two shared the award).

Hugs and kisses all around.

The College Republicans are up to provocative hijinks, and the media is in an uproar. Another controversy for Alma Mater to be swept under the proverbial rug of genial administrative smiles and cautiously-worded PrezBo emails? Alas, the honor of this scandal belongs to no sons of Knickerbocker, but has been conferred upon intrepid students at none other than that NYU of the North, Boston University- and no elaborate Nobel Prize victory ceremonies are on the way to take the heat off there.

To the chase! In the effort to follow in the footsteps of such legendary GOP Jr. events as Affirmative Action Bake Sales and Global Warming Beach Days, BU's conservative crusaders have devised a scholarship for caucasians. Well, not just caucasians, but applicants need be at least 1/4th white. In addition, the BUCR's scholarship app asks for a 250-word essay "describing your ethnicity," and another concerning "what it means to be Caucasian-American today." The group denies they are attempting to "give a scholarship to white kids" but, rather, merely start a debate on racial preferences in higher education. Given the scholarship amount is $250, vs. BU's $33k tuition, that much, at least, seems obvious.

Considering all the, uh, magnitudinous support their own party has given them, however, this tactic doesn't seem to have generated precisely the discussion they were looking for. The executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party called the idea "misguided and offensive". His boss in Washington: "highly inappropriate."

Never fear, BU College Republicans. Bwog has all kinds of great ideas for other stunts. And if those don't work, we're sure Columbia's resident pre-Roves have some inspiring schemes up their sleeves as well.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Bwog is sure that College Democrats nationwide get up to all kinds of wild, crazy, and veritably litigable nonsense, and in the interest of being "fair and balanced," we looked for some. But, um, we couldn't find any. Anyone concerned, then, about the political "tilt" of Bwog is advised to send in whatever dirt, muck, or stained dresses they can find on their political opponents, be they Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Trotskyite, Zoroastrian, Amphibian, or what have you, to bwgossip (at) columbia.edu.

EDITOR'S NOTE II: Oh, yeah, and this happened recently too. Bwog is glad CU Security isn't armed with tasers...but was always kinda nervous about those truncheons swinging from CU Security's utility belts...

-CJS