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ICYMI: In her first column, Sabina Maurer, CC ’20, speaks about her experience with religion and the importance of having faith in the unknown.
I was both deeply touched and confused when one of my best friends pulled me aside after rowing practice to ask if I was alright. “What?” I was in a great mood. My coach and I had exchanged a couple of classic Jesus jokes—in which my Lord and Savior makes the lightweight varsity 8+ and wins Ca...
ICYMI: The inaugural class for Columbia's new dual degree program with Tel Aviv University will start in the fall of 2020.
The School of General Studies will now offer a dual degree program with Tel Aviv University in Israel, the University announced in an email on Thursday afternoon. The program’s inaugural class of students will enter the program in fall 2020. Participants in the program will spend the first two yea...
ICYMI: In this Letter to the Editor, Thu Phuong To, GS ’21, argues that the supportiveness of Sciences Po can only be accurately evaluated with respect to its broader educational context.
Once I left Sciences Po, gone were the days of mandatory class attendance. Yet the days of aimless ruminations born out of a need to reaffirm one’s identity in the halls of yet a new institution were near. As a fellow dual B.A. student, I empathize with the Blythe Edwards’ tenacious bemoaning of...
ICYMI: In this op-ed, Lana Awadallah, SEAS ’21, reflects on her parents’ unorthodox prioritization of independence over marriage and the need to normalize dating in Arab culture.
If anyone’s curious as to why I’m giddy with excitement, inquire no more: It’s cuffing szn! In case anyone’s forgotten how single they are, these next few months will serve as a humbling reminder. I’d never heard about this so-called “cuffing szn” before coming to school in the United ...
ICYMI: With a growing student body and a stagnant classroom inventory, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been increasingly compelled to look elsewhere for classroom spaces—including buildings more than a mile from Morningside Campus. Without a clear solution, the growing pressure has many to question whether Columbia must eventually abandon its historically centralized campus for one that sprawls across Morningside Heights and, more and more, into West Harlem.
With a growing student body and a stagnant classroom inventory, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been increasingly compelled to look elsewhere for classroom spaces.
ICYMI: Interdisciplinary work, in all its many forms, is everywhere at Columbia. But it’s pushing up against the established “natural” structure of the university: a siloed department system.
On the second floor of Chandler, a building tucked within Havemeyer, Pamela Smith shows me a bucket of sand from Toulouse, France. She is showing me how her classes make molds for portrait metal the way a 16th-century French manuscript had described it. The sand is coarse, with larger nuggets the co...
We are excited to announce that the columnist application for the spring 2020 semester is finally up!
Columns give you the ability to write pieces every other week about a topic of your choosing and provide a wonderful platform for your voice to be heard by the larger Columbia community. We are looking for active, engaged, committed and opinionated writers.
Previous columns can be found here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/#Columns
Applications are due by Sunday, February 2nd by 11:59 PM.
For questions, email [email protected]
PLEASE READ: Columnists will write a new piece approximately once every two weeks. They work primarily with the deputy columns editors (Haya Ghandour, SEAS ’22, and Lily Nathanson, BC ’22) and associate editors, and they also collaborate with the editorial page editor (Tamarah Wallace, CC ’22)...
ICYMI: In this op-ed, author Alexander A. Alvalade Ximenes, GS ’21, discusses how Columbia impacts the surrounding community through discriminatory and inequitable property expansion.
Recent reports extolling Columbia for seeing Manhattanville residents as “partners and collaborators” misportray Columbia’s plan to metastasize into 133rd Street as a consensual expansion. They embellish the truth and tokenize the recruitment of Manhattanville entrepreneurs to execute the plan...
ICYMI: It’s been 100 years since the Core Curriculum was introduced and 30 years since the first student group came together to protest Butler Library and Columbia’s elevation of white men. The examination and reconfiguration of our institutional values are long overdue.
Thirty years ago, Laura Hotchkiss Brown, GS ’89, worked with other Columbia students to make a banner by hand that had the names of seven female writers which they hung from the top of Butler Library. Five years later, another group of students hung a similar banner. Next week, a third iteration o...
ICYMI: Amnesty International groups at New York University and Columbia had to cancel their event on Chinese government digital surveillance and human rights violations at Columbia due to counter-protesters posing a safety threat.
Updated 8:24 p.m. Amid planned counter-protests by Chinese students, an anti-Chinese Communist Party event at Columbia was canceled one day before the event was scheduled to occur due to operational conflicts. In response to the event’s cancellation, a number of scholars and students across social...
ICYMI: What do Columbia students actually do to practice self-care? From playing with puppies to meditating, see what these students have to say.
Over the past month, I asked people to show me what self-care looks like for them at Columbia. I wanted to find out how the commodified idea of “self-care” actually manifests in lives here, so I asked students what they do to de-stress and how they make time for themselves.
ICYMI: In this op-ed, Kevin Petersen, GS, took some time on Veterans Day to reflect on his inclusion on Columbia’s campus as a veteran.
Earlier this year, a couple of friends and I were hopelessly searching for a table in Ferris. It was the first week of the semester and prime lunch hour, so we eventually had to make do with just a third of a table we negotiated from some young first-years. Having just met on Low Steps about 15 minu...
ICYMI: In this column, Jacob Kaplan, CC ’20, discusses the way his relationship with fellow senior Maddy Harden should serve as an example to the Columbia community on how to be nicer to each other.
I first met Maddy Harden, CC ’20, in 2016 during an NSOP pregame. Probably in Carman. We had a very nice, albeit brief, conversation. Then we didn’t speak again for three years. Between September 2016 and August 2019, my relationship with Maddy was virtually nonexistent. Maybe initially we excha...
ICYMI: At a record-breaking Alexander Hamilton Dinner held in Low Library on Thursday, award recipient George Yancopoulos, CC ’80, GSAS ’86, PS ’87, promised in his acceptance speech to commit $10 million to found a “beginner’s mind initiative institute” at Columbia.
The Alexander Hamilton Medal is awarded to an individual for distinguished service to the College and considered the highest tribute to a member of the college community.
Amid its financial troubles, the bookseller’s Columbus Ave. landlord had allowed the store to stay open. “Suddenly, that is no longer the case,” owner Chris Doeblin wrote in a Facebook post.
Book Culture’s location on Columbus Avenue is temporarily closed after it was “seized today unexpectedly, by our landlord,” according to a post on the bookseller’s page. The other three stores—including the 112th Street and Broadway locations that are frequented by Columbia studen...
ICYMI: Harlem’s Little Senegal area, from Senegalese restaurants to Ivorian markets to Somalian eateries, is located only two blocks from Morningside Park on 116th Street. Spectator’s food writer went to dine and report on the area.
Shop signs written in both English and French, men and women dressed in traditional boubou garments, chefs cooking up fish stew while chatting with customers in Wolof —this reminds one of Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Yet, Little Senegal brings this scene to NYC—just two blocks east of Mornings...
ICYMI: In September, students interviewed said they have been spending more points for less food than in previous semesters, running out of points and swipes more quickly, and, as a result, skipping meals to make their meal plans last.
Less than four weeks into the semester, Barnard students said that they are spending more money and receiving smaller portions than they did in the past at Diana.
ICYMI: Calls for Lederer to step down from her teaching post at the Law School first gained traction in 2013, but students and community members received no response from the University. This time, the protests, driven by a recent Netflix series and two black student groups, led to something different.
Calls for Lederer to resign from her post at the Law School first gained traction in 2013 when a political consultant who was not affiliated with the University or the case became aware of Lederer’s employment.
ICYMI: As departments slowly shift away from a historic aim of preparing students to enter academia, they confront a tension of the near future: whether to continue maintaining the size of cohorts and risk taking on graduate students for jobs that may not exist, or to accept fewer graduate students and risk losing resources for their departments.
As departments slowly shift away from a historic aim of preparing students to enter academia, they confront a tension of the near future.
ICYMI: Record-low Columbia acceptances were met by the Class of 2023 with reactions ranging from “expected” to “a dream come true.” From Stuyvesant to Syracuse City School District, incoming first years share their different paths to Columbia.
For some, an Ivy League future is written on their high school diploma from the start. For others, it means crossing exclusive lines—even within their own zip codes—that enclose elite institutions.
While at Columbia, Charlie Noxon was studying under the department of East Asian languages and cultures, according to the University directory, and also served as an editor for the opinion page at Spectator.
Charlie Noxon, a junior in Columbia College, has died following a ski accident that occurred on New Year’s Eve, according to law enforcement officials and media reports. He was 20 years old. Noxon, who lived in Los Angeles, was pronounced dead following an accident on a trail in Park City, Utah, w...
ICYMI: The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, released in October by both Barnard and Columbia separately, details statistics about crimes and fire detections around the campuses. Notably, there was an increase in reports of sexual assault and drug-related discipline.
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, released by both Barnard and Columbia separately, details statistics about crimes and fire detections around the campuses.
ICYMI: No matter what type of Columbia student you are, Spectrum has a New Year's Resolution for you.
The beginning of the new year marks a fresh start. You might believe that self-improvement should be practiced year-round rather than annually or stand by the idea that the Gregorian calendar is a socially constructed metric of time with an arbitrary influence on goal-setting. Regardless, a little g...
ICYMI: The School of General Studies’ active recruiting across the nation ensures that many of the military’s most talented prospective students discover and apply to Columbia, but many debate whether current recruitment methods are enough in getting the increasingly growing women veteran population in the loop, too.
While the typical undergraduate can only grasp the Cold War era through textbooks, Rose Gibbs, who graduated from the School of General Studies last spring, has been to the Soviet satellite state of East Germany herself. It was there, almost 40 years ago, that she paid $3 for a full seven-course, so...
ICYMI: In this letter to the editor, Jacob Kaplan, CC '20, exposes the ugly truth: Milk shaming is real, and it’s happening right here at Columbia. Why shame the healthiest drink in the dining hall?
Allow me to take you back to September, 2016. Obama was president, Carman still looked like a prison, and life was good. I—a freshman desperately clinging onto his COÖP friends—was getting dinner at Ferris Booth Commons. I had my meal ready but still needed a drink. The Coke Freestyle machine.....
ICYMI: In this op-ed, Christine Piazza, CC ’23, argues that her experience being home-schooled prepared her better for college life than traditional high school ever could.
I dropped out of school in first grade. Yes, before coming to Columbia, my only memories of being enrolled in a school—repetitive lessons on the alphabet and other kids stamping on my sandcastles—were from pre-K and kindergarten, and ever since then I was proud to call myself a home-schooler. Gr...
ICYMI: In this op-ed, Marco Starger, SEAS ’19, argues that the lack of separate computer science courses for undergraduate and graduate students compromises the academic and pre-professional experiences of both student populations.
Upon arriving at Columbia four years ago, I was immediately overwhelmed by the size of my engineering classes. Coming from high school, where class sizes never surpassed 25 students, it took a while to get used to lecture halls that were often filled with hundreds of students. I was always told that...
Barnard and Columbia faculty and staff have received racist robocall messages from a white supremacist group. The messages, described in the statement as “abhorrent and viciously racist,” arrived in light of the ongoing investigation of the death of Tessa Majors, a Barnard first year.
Barnard and Columbia administrators denounced the messages and said that the calls were placed to landlines at both schools, and no students were believed to have received them.
ICYMI: In this op-ed, Blythe Edwards, GS ’21, discusses the pitfalls of Columbia’s cost when its quality, compared to that of international schools, does not match its exorbitant price tag.
3 a.m. pancake runs at JJ’s Place, state-of-the-art swimming pools and squash courts, acupuncture therapy, anti-gravity yoga classes, discounted tickets for Broadway musicals, and on and on. The opportunities here seem endless. Far from a baptism by fire, college in the U.S. feels like drinking fr...
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Tune in now to the Academic Advising-Student Wellbeing Town Hall, hosted by the Columbia University Mental Health Task Force. The town hall is held in Hamilton 303 and runs until 10 p.m. Submit your questions, comments, and concerns anonymously to this form, which MHTF will be monitoring throughout the event. https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4L2Exb35bE3vCg2YaTrZkM1YBovdVGm5E-RLuSnKziRqaLg/viewform
The Columbia University Marching Band is holding Orgo Night outside of Butler Library starting now. Tune into the livestream here:
The Columbia University Marching Band is holding Orgo Night outside of Butler Library starting now. Tune into the livestream here:
VIEW FROM HERE: A dancer learns to love herself in and out of the margins that bind us.
Tune in now to the town hall event about academic life and mental health, hosted by the Mental Health Task Force. The town hall is held in Hamilton 517 and runs until 10pm.
VIDEO: Relive the key moments from Saturday's homecoming game against Dartmouth and hear from reporters about what the loss means for the Lions going forward.
Deputy Editorial Page Editor Destiny Julia Spruill talks about making an impact on campus discourse by recruiting and editing op-eds at Spectator. Check out last year’s most notable op-eds here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/yir/2018/Opinion/ Come to our Join Spec Open Houses today and tomorrow to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
News Editor Rahil Kamath and Photo Editor Katherine Gerberich recount Spec’s multimedia coverage for the graduate student workers’ strike last spring. Read about the first day of the strike here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2018/04/25/picket-lines-and-canceled-classes-mark-beginning-of-graduate-student-strike/ See the photo essay here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/photo-essay/2018/04/25/the-first-day-of-the-graduate-student-union-strike/ Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
Engagement Manager Madison Harden reminisces on last year’s Free Food Expo, an event where Spec invites local restaurants to show off samplings of a variety of food, all at no cost to students. Find out more about our Business and Innovations division, which puts on the Free Food Expo every semester, here: http://www.specpublishing.com/about-businessinnovations Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
Deputy Eye Editor Juliana Kim explains how her investigation into Columbia’s relationship with the Harlem community exposed the University’s failure to deliver on its promise of affordable housing to local residents. Read Juju’s story here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/eye/indirect-displacement-manhattanville/ Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
Lyric Bowditch, a Deputy Editor at Spectator’s longform magazine, The Eye, talks about reporting on American Sign Language and its absence from Columbia academics. Hear her talk about the opportunities and impact that came with writing it for Spectator, and read her story here: http://features.columbiaspectator.com/eye/2017/02/21/looking-for-signs-at-cu/ Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
Deputy Sports Editor Leo Goldman discusses the algorithm he designed to make predictions about Ivy League Tournament basketball games last winter. See the results of the Elo algorithm here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/sports/2017/03/02/elo-predicts-ivy-tournament-picture/ Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
Leaders in Spec’s Visual Journalism division, Design Editors Diane Kim and Cheryl Wang explain the various types of graphic and illustration work created by the Design team, and how that all came together to produce their Visualizing 1968 multimedia project. Check out Visualizing 1968 here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/multimedia/visualizing-1968/ Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
Taking a look into the Business & Innovations division of Spec, Product Managers Arsalaan Ansari and Kevin Li talk about two recent cutting-edge products, Vergil Plus and Spectator’s Year in Review, created by our web development team. Make class registration a breeze by downloading the Vergil+ Chrome extension here: https://upgradevergil.com/ And check out our Year in Review here: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/yir/2018/home/ Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
For the second installment of our Join Spec video series for Fall 2018, Deputy News Editor Khadija Hussain speaks about her reporting during the protests against white nationalist speakers at Columbia last Fall. You can her read story here: https://bit.ly/2PaBABS Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
To kick off our Join Spec video series for Fall 2018, Editor-in-Chief Jessica Spitz and Managing Editor Aaron Holmes walk us through their Spec journey. Come to our Join Spec Fall 2018 Open Houses to learn more about how to become a Speccie and make your own impact on the Columbia community.
The Columbia University Marching Band begins their semi-annual Orgo Night performance. Though the band initially intended to hold the event inside room 209, fears of sanctions against individual band members has led the band to perform outside of the entrance to Butler.
LIVE: A group of protestors calling to “decolonize Columbia” has begun a demonstration in Butler.
The University’s long dispute with graduate students over their eligibility to unionize culminated in a strike on Tuesday. Read full coverage of the strike here: https://bit.ly/2qV68h8
Today is the last day of voting for CC and SEAS student council elections. In this installment of Discourse & Debate Live, two Spectator opinion contributors hash out issues underlying elections, from mental health to grad student unionization.
Watch the Columbia Engineering Student Council debates live here.
We’re back live with Columbia Engineering Student Council debates!
CCSC debates are now live. Follow along as we question the candidates on their platforms:
From The Eye: This past fall, Columbia's collection gained seven million more overnight. What kind of change is afoot in the University's library? http://bit.ly/2IhDUVc
VIDEO: After two semesters in exile, the Columbia University Marching Band returned to Butler 209 for its Orgo Night performance Thursday. (video: Yasmine Akki, Senior Staff Photographer)
Orgo Night is currently underway in Butler 209
BREAKING: Reporters on scene confirm a fire has broken out on the third floor of Ruggles, with at least six fire trucks on scene. "You could see red flickering in the back. The rooms in that suite all filled up with smoke so the firefighters came in and busted all these windows and they brought the hose and ladder in," Avik Laha, CC '19, who lives on the third floor in Ruggles, said.
Cernovich protests
Mike Cernovich, speaking to CUCR, is currently taking audience questions
Protesters prepare for Mike Cernovich's talk at Columbia. None of the protestors appear to have CUIDs, otherwise they'd be able to pass the gate.
HOMECOMING VICTORY: Lions win against Penn in overtime, 34-31 http://columbiaspectator.com/sports/2017/10/14/overtime-heroics-lift-football-over-penn-in-homecoming-game-extending-undefeated-streak/
Homecoming 2017: Penn leads Columbia 14-7
Editorial Page Editor, Hannah, talks about Spectator’s 140-year tradition of chronicling Columbia’s history, and the impact Spectator has on students long after they leave college. Come to our Join Spec Open Houses to learn more about cultivating campus discourse in the Opinion section. Read the op-ed from an alumnus, Columbia College Class of 1956, here: bit.ly/2gnrE8n
Anna and Amanda, two generations of Design Editors, explain the impact visual journalism has on everything from print layouts to cover illustrations to beautifully designed websites and products. Come to our Join Spec Open Houses to learn more about becoming a Speccie and changing the way people experience information. See how Design and Photo came together to produce this year’s Orientation Issue: bit.ly/2xLqT02
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