By Larkin White Preparing for my interview with Anna Sugrue, a Barnard senior passionate about prison abolition, I perused the internet...

By Eden Rosenbloom When I met with Priya Pai, CC ‘20, after her office hours for User Interface Design, for which she is a TA, her...

Tommy Song, CC ‘20, is kind and low-key, but this demeanor hardly stifles his passion for knowledge and justice. His mantra in...

“Open hands, open hands,” said Carolyn Friedman at the conclusion of our hour-long breakfast interview, still reeling from closing night...

Rushing from the voter registration table that she was running, Naava Ellenburg arrives at the Milstein lobby dressed head to toe in...

You might remember Jacob Kaplan as Rob Goldberg from the 123th Varsity Show. He remembers that show, almost three years later, reclining...

It’s not that being a part of the Columbia Democrats and serving as their president last year was out of the question for Joanna Cohen...

On average, Sean Kelso sees a new movie every week. One of his most recent favorites was The Art of Self-Defense, a small-release film...

By Drazen Medina Many of us pass through these years at our respective schools wondering what mark, if any, we have made on our peers and...

By Kate Iida “I would say my music falls into the singer-songwriter genre,” Michelle Shen began, sitting across from me in the dimly lit...

Phoebe Forlenza immediately strikes one as an easy-going and friendly person. She credits her parents with teaching her to show “respect...

By Nicole Kohut Foregoing her chair in order to sit on the floor, accumulating balls of carpet fuzz, Melody Tai tells me she has been...

By Sam Needleman On a balmy evening back in December, I carved an interlude in my preparations for the Lit Hum exam and trekked to East...

“The funny story I always tell people is that in eight grade, I went online, and I looked up history and sociology and how I could study...

In April of 2019, Mo Crist, BC ’19, and the Barnumbia slam poetry team will head to the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) in...

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...

When Ari Boosalis, CC ‘19, arrived at Columbia, he was struck by how much the campus environment differed from that of his Jesuit high...

Alfredo Dominguez, CC ‘19, does not see what the big fuss is about–he wouldn’t have picked himself as a Campus Character, and does not...

“I’m trying to find that sweet spot between the humanities and sciences.” Judy Liu, BC ‘19, tells me over the phone from India. Liu, who...

By Miya Lee “I was trying to think of some talking points for this, but usually the things I say are so vulgar I would never want them in...