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    THE BLUE AND WHITE

    Columbia’s Undergraduate Magazine. Founded 1890.

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    Letter from the Editor, May 2022
    Claire Shang

    Letter from the Editor, May 2022

    By Claire Shang It’s May. Just when everyone feels they’ve gotten in the swing of things, suddenly everything is over. People are...
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    Letter from the Editor, April 2022
    Claire Shang

    Letter from the Editor, April 2022

    Earlier this month, scrolling through Elon Musk–owned Twitter, I came across some 2020 data on the subscription base of Harper’s...
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    Letter from the Editor, March 2022
    Claire Shang

    Letter from the Editor, March 2022

    This is my favorite time of year—just before spring unfurls in full, when each new day of sunlight still feels like a gift to be marveled...
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    Letter From the Editor, December 2021
    Dominy Gallo and Lyla Trilling

    Letter From the Editor, December 2021

    I don’t know how I’ll ever write this last letter.
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    Letter From the Editor, November 2021
    Dominy Gallo

    Letter From the Editor, November 2021

    Old habits die hard.
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    Letter From the Editor, September 2021
    Dominy Gallo

    Letter From the Editor, September 2021

    The Blue and White staff certainly looks good in blue and white.
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    Letter From the Editor, June 2021
    Dominy Gallo

    Letter From the Editor, June 2021

    Death to the ban on hugs.
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    Letter From the Editor, April 2021
    Dominy Gallo

    Letter From the Editor, April 2021

    Here’s to new light.
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    Letter From the Editor, March 2021
    Dominy Gallo

    Letter From the Editor, March 2021

    Our magazine isn’t a magazine at all: It’s music.
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    Letter From the Editor, December 2020
    Sam Needleman

    Letter From the Editor, December 2020

    Lacunae are, first and foremost, textual chasms—gaps on the page where something once was, or where something could be. They’re the...
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    Letter From the Editor, November 2020
    Sam Needleman

    Letter From the Editor, November 2020

    By Sam Needleman Bereft of cohesion, and hardly expecting any looming events to provide it, our editors chose to bind this issue of The...
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    Sam Needleman

    Letter from the Editor, Orientation 2020

    Sam Needleman This month, in his profile of Anjali Verma (Off-Campus Characters, p. 12), Staff Writer Jaden Jarmel-Schneider writes about...
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    Sam Needleman

    Letter from the Editor, May 2020

    By Sam Needleman This isn’t how it was supposed to go! We were working on our April issue when the Bad News came, and we were forced to...
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    Ufon Umanah

    Letter from the Editor, December 2019

    Ufon Umanah Ah, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about it, the...
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    Ufon Umanah

    Letter from the Editor, April 2019

    By Ufon Umanah There’s no more important task before us than the preservation of history. I’m not saying this because without history,...
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    Caroline Hurley

    Letter From the Editor, December 2018

    By Caroline Hurley You think you know someone until it comes time to buy them a Christmas gift. You’re frantically browsing Oprah...
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    Caroline Hurley

    Letter From the Editor, October 2018

    By Caroline Hurley I think that there’s something to be said for confusion; that feeling of untethered loss; that state of cognitive...
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    Letter From the Editor, Orientation 2018
    The Blue and White Magazine

    Letter From the Editor, Orientation 2018

    The first picture of me as a student on campus was taken unsurprisingly on move-in day, unsurprisingly by my mom. It’s a series of...
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    Letter From the Editor, May 2018
    The Blue and White Magazine

    Letter From the Editor, May 2018

    I’ll admit it–when Professor Erik Gray brought up Lionel Trilling in this month’s Conversation interview (pg. 20), I had absolutely no...
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    Letter From the Editor, April 2018
    The Blue and White Magazine

    Letter From the Editor, April 2018

    The Major League Baseball home opener for my hometown team is April 5th this year. The Yankees take to the diamond on April 2nd—who cares...
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