Satow Room Bureau Chief Martha Turewicz reports on last night's CCSC meeting, which included grim new details about the War on Food.

In the words of jovial President George Krebs, "Welcome to another delightfully wonderful evening." Krebs continued to dispense with the pleasantries throughout, lending a lightheartedness to proceedings that were markedly more officious than those of last year. Virtually gone are the days of idle chitter-chatter: the opening updates have been cut to a "strict two minutes" (Krebs again), with any and all questions relegated to a later time slot.

Class reps rattled off updates in a similarly clipped manner. Another new feature of the meeting: a tear-and-submit evaluation of its efficiency at the bottom of the schedule- was meant to take, in the words, once more, of Krebs, "no more than 90 seconds" of everyone's time.

That being said, the meeting ran about 10 minutes overtime, despite what one of the reps told me prior to its beginning, when he speculated that it would finish 20 minutes early.

Bwog just heard word that this July, Governor Paterson signed legislation making smoking illegal in all New York college dormitories -- this includes EC!

A pair of RAs also noted that at least for Columbia, the mere possession of tobacco products is forbidden.

In other crackdown news, one Bwog staffer was removed by security this morning for eating some delightful breakfast treats in a Lerner computer lounge. The no-eating policy in the computer lounges is nothing new, but now it seems it's actually being enforced, which is just awful.