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I manage my team of people and watch lots of my peers manage their teams. If the 4 of you worked for me, I'd manage you right out the door.
Seriously.
Perhaps things are different in the academic world and the nonprofit world, but I've always found in the corporate world that those who engage in petty bullshit like this generally aren't very good employees otherwise. I have friends that have worked in places where this level of bullshit is tolerated, and I like to call those places "buffooneries" because that's where the buffoons hang out.
The answer to this isn't to stoop to their level. If you really and truely want to solve this problem, you'll take it to management or HR. If you start acting out in a similar fashion, then you're no better than they are. If you came to me with this problem, I'd deal with it only because it threatens to become a huge distraction from the task at hand.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
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