At the intersection of art, fashion, religion, and politics. By Kate Steiner Art has long served as a tool for translating the human experience. Artists will take the perspectives, feelings, and beliefs of one culture and time and redefine them in the terms of another. Art converses with itself, responding to the ideas of similar works, reframing them, and starting new dialogues. For an art exhibition, curators take art from different genres, locations, time periods, and medi

The feature most immediately striking about Flor de Mayo is its utterly confusing decor. Visiting the restaurant, I walked into what first appeared to be a sports bar—brick walls, baseball posters and mildly inebriated forty-somethings—before looking to my left to find an ornate fish tank and canvases covered with Chinese calligraphy. When I arrived at my table to find a menu featuring Peruvian fare on one side and Chinese on the other, things started to click. Located on 101

Affirmative All is going supremely well for me in college, thank you for asking, except for that my roommate Sarah is a state-of-the-art bitch. We actually hit it off pretty well during NSOP, fiercely bonding over Boba Tea outings and conversations about “BDE” and other hilarious phraseologies we both swear we made up. However, last weekend I caught a horrific glimpse of another side of Sarah. As it turns out, you can’t trust everyone who shares your interest in Boba (I know)

No one loves Barnard more than Mia Ciallella, BC ’19. Or at least, no one uses “Barnard” and “love” more in the same sentence. For Ciallella, her time at Barnard has been all about spreading love and building community, community being the common thread that runs through everything she does on campus. “My time at Barnard has really been marked by me trying to bridge communities … I have my hands in a lot of different things around campus, and that is ideal to me because I wan

By Caroline Hurley I think that there’s something to be said for confusion; that feeling of untethered loss; that state of cognitive limbo. Or, at least I’d like to think so as I write this in the midst of my third, very confusing year in Morningside Heights. Doesn’t confusion have its place in reasoned pursuits? As a necessary step in cognitive development, or as an implicit psychological precondition for inductive reasoning? There’s some undeniable catharsis in the reconcil

The Blue and White presents a non-comprehensive, and almost entirely subjective look at Columbia’s four worst entryways. By Frank Baring and John Tanguay That One Automatic John Jay Door Automatic/manual mixup: 10/10 Push/pull mixup: 5/10 Heaviness: 9/10 Creak: 8/10 Sex appeal: 7/10 (this door will break your heart and not even flinch) “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the e

Joel Davis, the former GS student indicted this summer on four pedophilia-related charges, has plead not guilty to all four counts. The next conference on the case will occur over winter break. The Metropolitan Republican Club of New York invited Gavin McInnes, leader of the white supremacist Proud Boys group, to speak recently, drawing the ire of enough people to warrant protest flyers throughout Hamilton (an admittedly low bar). The event was followed by violence between se

A step-by-step guide to reading tarot this Halloween. Last year, a friend of mine gave me a tarot reading and predicted that my next great love was right around the corner. When that turned out to be wholly—and maybe inevitably—incorrect, I had to take matters into my own hands. I bought my own set of tarot cards, because I figured if anyone had the right to give me bad life advice, it was myself. And that’s how I became a tarot master! Or at least, became good enough to show

What potential changes to Title IX guidance could mean for Columbia. By Ufon Umanah Since US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos’s tenure began, concern has grown over the fate of former President Barack Obama’s Title IX guidance, which set protocols for colleges and universities when investigating and adjudicating cases of sexual misconduct. Secretary Devos had remained mostly silent on the leaked draft of proposed Title IX regulations that have circulated through the media a

After László Krasznahorkai. “I would leave everything here:” stillness, mayhem, silence like a shroud, torn first by the dawn stirring of magpies, I would leave here daybreak, raw and arid, dim and deep, uninhabited, windows bare and cavernous, I would leave here the moon, watched through the mesh until eyelids slip into slumber, the morning, sun dissolving warm on mouth and nose, thawing into the crumpled sheets stained and reeking of the lavender oil spilled in the dresser’

When Ari Boosalis, CC ‘19, arrived at Columbia, he was struck by how much the campus environment differed from that of his Jesuit high school in San Francisco. “[Columbia] is a very high stress environment where you have to be very careful about what you do,” Boosalis says. “You don’t really see people vulnerable. People put themselves on this pedestal that they want to be, and some people succeed in that and some people fail.” An economics and history double major and former

By Ufon Umanah. A former student at the School of General Studies, a former Columbia University Senator, and a current lecturer in Constitutional Law and Government at the Columbia School of Professional Studies, Christopher Riano is about as ‘Columbia’ on paper, as one could possibly be. His experiences beyond these (and other) accolades, however, defy such straightforward categorization. The Blue and White’s Investigations Editor, Ufon Umanah, CC ‘20, talked with him over t

In which our hero takes a break. Verily sat down to begin writing. Microsoft Word™ labored to start up, giving Verily a moment to consider his argument. His mind darted from premises to conclusions; he measured example against counter-example; he designed a baroque conceptual superstructure. But Word had been open tabula rasa for minutes now, and the words would not come. There stood impregnable walls between spirit and hand, with no faux-horse in sight. Verily sighed, reachi

Kirk Wu, a sophomore in Columbia College, passed away on Thursday, October 11th in McBain Hall. Wu came to Columbia from Pasadena, California. There, he was recognized for the positive difference he made at San Marino High School with the school’s Promethean award, presented to “graduates who have displayed character, courage, and kindness,” through his participation in debate, science, and math competitions. He was the president of his high school’s Model United Nations and