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Margaret Connor
Beyond the Bet
What lies beneath the omnipresence of sports betting and crypto trading.



Andrea Contreras
More Than Medication
As students push for abortion access on campus, they wonder whether Barnard is ready for the post-Dobbs world.







Victor Omojola
To Bag a Pulitzer
Four years later, did Kendrick’s win actually mean ... anything?





Sylvie Epstein
The Magnolia
by Sylvie Epstein The magnolia is raining And my bare arms tremble Why does your nose sting when you’re about to cry? I wrote once, about you, and the day with the crunchy leaves, and crying into my mother’s lap I turn over. The white cotton of my pillow is cool against my cheek It feels like a deep breath and so I furrow my brows Why must my chest feel so tight I sit up and groan and put on Shelby Lynne And think about how I should write you a book Down the street, my red le





Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, NSOP 2022
By Claire Shang Of this summer’s happenings, the closing of Max Caffè was far from the most important. But eulogizing a place has endless appeal. The personal implications are potent and ambiguous: The cafe is gone, and so too is the iteration of myself that frequented it. It sat on 122nd and Amsterdam for 19 years. Before the pandemic, it closed at midnight. It served paninis and crostini and even empanadas, which I ordered once and received stale. The coffee was reliably go

The Blue and White Magazine
Bwecommendations, NSOP 2022
In which we demonstrate that summer break did not inhibit our mission to cultivate our rich inner lives.



Kat Chen
Following the M60
What happens when a bus, a gun, and an algorithm walk into a search bar.



Becky Miller
Delaney Wellington
By Becky Miller Picture a 20-year-old Delaney Wellington, BC ’23, sitting at a side-of-the-highway bar in Nashville, waiting for her turn to knock the seasoned, jaded country open-mic comics on their asses. She had never done stand-up comedy before and she was ripping off the Band-Aid; she made her friends wait in the car. After two hours of watching cowboys defensively bomb their sets, her turn came around. Delaney calmly got onstage, cracked a few jokes about her brain tumo







Grace Adee and Muni Suleiman
Picket Proliferations
Organizers across academia speak to the lasting impact of last year's Student Workers of Columbia strike.

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