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Little, Black, and Bold
Andi Owens, GS ’63, on Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, Harlem walking tours, and being Black at Columbia in the ’60s.

Willa Neubauer


Welcome to Hotel Covid
A look inside New York’s hottest and most contagious deal.

Chase Cutarelli


Labor of Love
Professor couples on their marriage of the head and the heart.

Maya Weed


“Students First”
Under Chegg’s corporate strategy, student insecurity is a marketable good.

Cy Gilman


Alexandra Waterbury
By Samantha Sacks I remember seeing Alexandra Waterbury, G.S. ’21, for the first time at the water fountain outside studio 1 in Barnard...

Samantha Sacks


A New Era for Barnard Tap
The hiring of a legend promises change for the Barnard dance department.

Eliza Rudalevige


A Senior Send-off
Three graduating B&W’ers find unlikely love in a hopeless place.

The Blue and White Magazine


KGB + The Machine
Robo-poetry reveals the shortcomings of AI—and our need for human M4M submissions.
Kat Chen, Gaby Edwards, and Benjamine Mo


The E-Word
An extended inquiry into Columbia’s coveted pile of oddly untouchable gold.

Lyla Trilling


The Limits of Accountability
A year on Columbia Debate Society.

Claire Shang


Who Are We Scrolling For?
Reflections on anonymity and abuse.

Kelsey Kitzke


“Big Problems” at Barnard
First-Year Experience directors offer bandaids for 2020’s many bullet holes.

Becky Miller


Art History
I always had a weakness for the Beauty.
Eleanor Lin


Bwecommendations, April 2021
Cultural miscellany, faithfully compiled by the staff. But this time, it’s April.

The Blue and White Magazine


Pesky Pathologies
A wild goose chase for a therapist—in this economy!

Nicole Kohut


Dear Dante: Season 2
In which a faithful friend misses out on the fun.

Dante


In the Wings
This year’s Senior Thesis Festival celebrates and uplifts marginalized voices.

Sadia Haque


Hollywood Boulevard, Memory Lane
Revisiting a childhood film favorite with less unworldly eyes.

Gaby Edwards


Views from the Picket Line
Columbia graduate workers cry out for change.

The Blue and White Magazine


Bwecommendation: Hiroshima mon amour
In Resnais’s classic, ephemerality is beautiful, even life-saving.

Samia Menon
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