Local Columbia news that’s ripe for the reading...

* Congrats to J.J. Adler (School of the Arts M.F.A.)! On Saturday she won the silver medal in the Documentary Film Category of the Student Academy Awards for her film Unattached.

* Crazy sex could be hazardous to your health according to this Columbia chick. 

* The Bwog has a round-up of entering and exiting professors.

* The Columbia journalism student who was raped, disfigured, burned and nearly blinded faced her alleged attacker yesterday with breathtaking bravery.

* Why Men Die First, a new book from clinical medicine professor Marianne Legato, explains why guys are twice as likely as women to be dead by 65.