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Blue Notes, November 2020
On the inflatable rat, dining alone, student voter turnout, and the politics of Zoom names. By Raquel Turner, Hailey Ryan, Sylvie Epstein...
Raquel Turner, Hailey Ryan, Sylvie Epstein, Eduardo Espinosa


Wait, Just One Question: Happiness – PART 1
The first installment of a graphic series detailing interviews with Columbia’s spiritual advisors on the definition of happiness. By Kat...
Kat Chen

Joon Baek
By Benjamine Mo Ours is a community of change. As our institution contends with the existential threats of disease and dispersal, student...
Benjamine Mo

Uwade Akhere
By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider Uwade Akhere, CC ‘21, launched her singing career at a ’70s themed fifth-grade talent show. She’d grown up in...
Jaden Jarmel-Schneider


Letter From the Editor, November 2020
By Sam Needleman Bereft of cohesion, and hardly expecting any looming events to provide it, our editors chose to bind this issue of The...
Sam Needleman

In Which Our Hero Takes a Gap Semester
Well, this just won’t do, thought Verily as he opened President Bollinger’s infamously verbose, oft-lampooned email announcing the complete
Hailey Ryan

Doodling Dissent
Sergio Peçanha on visual storytelling, journalism in the Trump era, and keeping your head up in the face of absurdity.
Dominy Gallo


The Neurons of Novels
It was a Thursday morning in September and, like any self-respecting undergraduate woefully majoring in English, I opened The New Yorker app
Sophie Poole

Postcard From Morningside, November 2020
#November2020
Kat Chen

The Climate Fight’s New Stronghold
Attentive observers recognize that climate change impacts and is impacted by everything we do—from the food we eat to the energy we consume
Elizabeth Jackson

Commonplace Resilience
The sun consumes the streets, rescuing the asphalt from the burgeoning October chill.
Annelie Hyatt

Was That Good for You (the Sex)?
I always knew I’d lose my virginity in college.
Nicole Kohut and Michael Colton


The Antiquation of Antiquity
While the Core Curriculum may advertise itself as the immovable benchmark of the Columbia experience, it has yielded to widespread pedagogic
Nicole Kohut and Claire Schweitzer

Tradition and Transgression
I face the blank page this evening, not with the usual feeling of joyful, mildly overconfident abandon I have grown so accustomed to
Dominy Gallo


Out of Focus Calendar
I began the day by trying to unvisit it or yesterday or the weeks that came before it.
Judy Xie

To Kill a Marching Band
The stories we tell about The Cleverest Band in the World and the stories it tells about itself.
Cy Gilman

From Chaos, a Community
Campus mutual aid networks are redefining student relations.
Claire Shang

The Crossword, November 2020
By Cy Gilman Print out or draw on this copy of the crossword (answers in bottom right corner) or play it online here . #November2020
The Blue and White Magazine


Inkblots
A collection of short works of poetry.
The Blue and White Magazine


Ali Hassani
“When I was 9, I had two pet ducks that I carried under my arms.”
Lyla Trilling
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