Content Warning: This article contains discussions of sexual assault and Title IX. Judge George Daniels of the Southern District Court of New York dismissed Amelia Roskin-Frazee’s (CC’19) lawsuit against Columbia University on the 20th of February, arguing that Roskin-Frazee failed to demonstrate that Columbia acted in an unreasonable manner after receiving knowledge of her multiple sexual assaults. Last year, Amelia Roskin-Frazee sued Columbia University for “deliberate indi

Postcard by Jen Allen

The letters below are a rejected Spec Letter to the Editor, and The Spectator’s reply, found on the computer of one of our own. Dear Ufon, My name is Oliver I am an associate editor in the opinion section. I’d first like to thank you for writing this piece. Additionally, as a member of Spectator, I will begin by admitting that this is an issue in which impartiality is difficult. That being said, I feel I have done my best to remain impartial in my editing. That being said, ag

In which our hero solicits meaning. Recently Verily had felt drawn to Brooklyn, perhaps due to the stultifying stagnance of Morningside Heights, or to the recent emergence in him of an acute apathy towards the social mores and academic trivialities of college. One crisp evening, as he strolled in Riverside Park with a devoted friend, they came across a well-known philosophy professor walking his dog, a small, ridiculous looking mongrel of ambiguous heritage. The dog seemed le

Affirmative Yes. People who don’t believe in love are just unwilling to give it a shot. Love doesn’t come easy; it catches you by surprise. If you look too hard, then you’ll miss it. It’s a strange thing, a powerful, and elusive emotion that only finds its way into your life when you look in the most unexpected places. So many things can go wrong, but, when love goes right, there’s nothing better. You’re doing double takes around every corner because you’d do anything to see

Recently, popular Facebook page Columbia Crushes has stopped posting the pleas of the lonely and thirsty. The page has not been updated since the end of January after Columbia Crushes released their ill-fated app, MiniBoard, which looks suspiciously like Yik-Yak. To mourn the death of creepy posts to tag your friends in, the editors of The Blue and White have decided to publish the crushes that did not make the cut. “You play baseball on the lawns but you’re clearly not the b

Recently I remarked to a friend how it felt to visit Carman 10 after almost two years since I moved out. Looking out the window by the elevators, onto College Walk below, felt like an entirely different scene, even though nothing about the view was especially changed. Same view, different perspective. I can’t believe I’m a junior, I said to him. Caroline, don’t be dumb, that’s how time works, he said. And don’t think because you read one Cormac McCarthy book one time you don’

By Mary Elizabeth Dawson Earlier today, the Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC) released an open letter declaring their intention to hold a strike authorization vote. This decision comes after the GWC’s three-and-a-half year unionization process and subsequent struggle to gain recognition from the Columbia administration. After being certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in December 2017, the GWC Bargaining Committee contacted President Bollinger and Provost C