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The Holy and the Stylish
At the intersection of art, fashion, religion, and politics. By Kate Steiner Art has long served as a tool for translating the human...

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An Orientation to the Occult
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...

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Understanding Betsy DeVos’s Vision
What potential changes to Title IX guidance could mean for Columbia. By Ufon Umanah Since US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos’s tenure...
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Kavanaugh v. Bollinger
“The use of race to achieve an integrated student body is not necessitated by the lingering effects of past discrimination because...

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The Magazine of Old
How The Blue and White came to be By Gaby Edwards The very first issue of The Blue and White dates back to 1890 when it was founded as a...

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The Columbia Blue Guide
Eight recommendations you actually should do By Jasmine Park Welcome to the Greatest University in the Greatest City in the World™! If...

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Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Getting elected is tough; getting re-elected is not Each September brings a sea of new (shining, hopeful, motivated, etc.) faces to...

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First Name, Last Name, School, Class Year, Uni, Email
With endless possibilities, all these clubs need is your contact info Illustration by Sahra Denner Illustrations by Sahra Denner

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The House on the Hill
The case of the mysterious Riverside house, and why someone built it People go to Riverside Park for three reasons: to feel like they’re...

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A Million Dollars of Red Tape
BUT HIS EMAILS Columbia’s legal troubles keep piling up In the February 2014 issue of this magazine, Anna Bahr, BC ‘14, unveiled the...

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Graduating Without Taking the Core Curriculum
Columbia continues age-old tradition of awarding fake degrees By Zoe Dansdill 1. Alexander Hamilton The first U.S. Secretary of the...

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The State of the Union
Graduate students hit the picket line, demand that Prezbo bargain By Mary Dawson When the Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC) gave a...

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Poker Face or Baby Face
From the Travel Desk: A freshman experiences New York’s underground poker scene On a particularly boring Wednesday afternoon I received a...

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Trapped in the Ivory Tower
For graduate students, #MeToo moment not easy to come by By Helena Ong During the 2017 November plenary of the Columbia University...

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The Tale of Two Lus
The impeachment was a surprise, even to dedicated ESC watchers By Ufon Umanah “Presidential candidate Lu appeared to carry the group with...

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Only Live Music in This Crypt
A look at Columbia’s actual underground music scene By Ruthie Gottesman Outside, it is hailing and wind is howling on this wintery Friday...

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No Need to Take the Subway
From the Travel Desk: A jaunt to Manhattanville Chaotically refined, delicately concrete, intimately enormous: the new Manhattanville...

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Amelia Roskin-Frazee Lawsuit Dismissed
Content Warning: This article contains discussions of sexual assault and Title IX. Judge George Daniels of the Southern District Court of...

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When The Union Comes A-Knocking
By Mary Elizabeth Dawson Earlier today, the Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC) released an open letter declaring their intention to hold...

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C.E.Bye
The recent demise of the moderator of elections.

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