Grit and Glory
Columbia athletes’ path to the 2024 Paris Olympics By Shreya Khullar Everyone is silent. There is jostling, the brisk squeaking of shoes,...
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Chris Brown
The President Next Door
Shafik’s resignation and the role of the University President. By Chris Brown “If [administrators] are really concerned with discovering...
Sayuri Govender
Finding Ourselves
Seeking portraits of the South Asian diaspora. By Sayuri Govender To me, diaspora has always felt like this: Half your mind is in your...
Phoebe Wagner
Following the Vegetable Trail
The evasiveness of Columbia Dining about its food sources . By Phoebe Wagner Last year, Hewitt’s “Activism Is About the Journey” mural...
George Murphy
Memories of Paradise
Tracing the histories of a cosmopolitan sculpture. By George Murphy When Dr. Jin Xu was hired as an associate professor in the Department...
Chris Brown
When Columbia Thaws
A tribute to the timelessness of Columbia’s lawns under the eye of the 2024 solar eclipse. By Chris Brown Author’s Statement: Ten days...
The Blue and White Magazine
The Gaps in the Record
Who gets to tell their story, and what do they get to say? By Muni Suleiman From griots to gossip and Homer to hearsay, you come from a...
The Blue and White Magazine
Euripides, Revisited
Rethinking Greek tragedy in “Bacchae: The Immersive Experience.” By George Murphy Illustration by Derin Ogutcu It is twilight, and a...
Molly Murch
I Woke up in Studio 306
On improvisation in the ever-eclectic Barnard dance class. By Molly Murch I could have been hypnotized. With a steady drum beat...
Alice Tecotxky
Left in the Dark
Campus is beautiful and we can’t see why. By Alice Tecotzky As November comes to a close and the final stubborn leaves drop off of the...
George Murphy
Parlez-vous Anglais?
Leaps of faith at the Maison Française. By George Murphy Like many Columbia students, I have commitment issues—with languages, that is....
Iris Chen
The Artist’s Playground
Isamu Noguchi’s unrealized vision. By Iris Chen Last summer I read John Berger’s essay “How to Live with Stones” and it led me to what I...
Chris Brown
A Time Before Yesterday
A love letter to Afrofuturism, acknowledgments of the past, and visions of the future. By Chris Brown Some glad morning, When this life...
Amogh Dimiri
Chicken Hunt
Our costumed writer tackles the neighborhood bar scene. Amogh Dimri Amid September’s first-month fervor, my friends and I decided to...
Sam Hosmer
Long-Term Parking
A tribute to a forgotten pocket of campus. By Sam Hosmer Last semester I encountered a sealed, abandoned, turn-of-the-century Otis...
Michael Onwutalu
The Perils of Place
Ed Ruscha’s liminal gas station holds up a mirror to campus. By Michael Onwutalu Exactly a month after I arrived in New York, I found...
Vivien Sweet
Altruism, Butchered
Animal rights activists go to new extremes. By Vivien Sweet Amid posters urging students to audition for sketch comedy groups and...
Anna Patchefsky
Cloudy with a Chance of Haze
An online weatherman puts the personal back in forecasting.
Tara Zia
Through the Looking Glass
Finding escape in Chelsea’s eclectic gallery scene. By Tara Zia “It smells of cheap champagne … and sweat,” remarks a woman, laughing, as...
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