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In Review: "1919: Black Water"
Buell brings the brilliant Torkwase Dyson to campus. By Sam Needleman · Published November 11, 2019. While dogged administrators...

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The Blue Jay: Episode 5
Featuring an interview with Maureen Raymo, the Director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of...

The Blue and White Magazine
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Wait, Just One Question: Happiness – PART 2
The second installment of a graphic series detailing interviews with Columbia’s spiritual advisors on the definition of happiness. By Kat...

The Blue and White Magazine
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Letter from a Jewess of Color
Tackling Ashkenormativity. By Noa Fay. A Jewish woman. If you are an American reading this, you likely pictured an Ashkenazi woman—a...
Noa Fay
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Blue Notes, November 2020
On the inflatable rat, dining alone, student voter turnout, and the politics of Zoom names. By Raquel Turner, Hailey Ryan, Sylvie Epstein...
Raquel Turner, Hailey Ryan, Sylvie Epstein, Eduardo Espinosa
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Wait, Just One Question: Happiness – PART 1
The first installment of a graphic series detailing interviews with Columbia’s spiritual advisors on the definition of happiness. By Kat...
Kat Chen
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Blue Book, November 2020
How to Do Fall Like a Brooklyn Alt-Indie Chick. The complete guide to looking like you’ve attended every LCD Soundsystem show. By Malia...

The Blue and White Magazine
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Joon Baek
By Benjamine Mo Ours is a community of change. As our institution contends with the existential threats of disease and dispersal, student...

Benjamine Mo
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Uwade Akhere
By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider Uwade Akhere, CC ‘21, launched her singing career at a ’70s themed fifth-grade talent show. She’d grown up in...
Jaden Jarmel-Schneider
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Oscar yi Hou
Oscar yi Hou, CC ‘20, paints people—not just as bodies, nor as the reduced, essentialized products of liberal identity politics, but people

Lilly Cao
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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...

Sam Needleman
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In Which Our Hero Takes a Gap Semester
Well, this just won’t do, thought Verily as he opened President Bollinger’s infamously verbose, oft-lampooned email announcing the complete
Hailey Ryan
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Doodling Dissent
Sergio Peçanha on visual storytelling, journalism in the Trump era, and keeping your head up in the face of absurdity.

Dominy Gallo
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The Neurons of Novels
It was a Thursday morning in September and, like any self-respecting undergraduate woefully majoring in English, I opened The New Yorker app

Sophie Poole
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Postcard From Morningside, November 2020
#November2020

Kat Chen
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The Climate Fight’s New Stronghold
Attentive observers recognize that climate change impacts and is impacted by everything we do—from the food we eat to the energy we consume

Elizabeth Jackson
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Commonplace Resilience
The sun consumes the streets, rescuing the asphalt from the burgeoning October chill.

Annelie Hyatt
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Was That Good for You (the Sex)?
I always knew I’d lose my virginity in college.
Nicole Kohut and Michael Colton
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The Antiquation of Antiquity
While the Core Curriculum may advertise itself as the immovable benchmark of the Columbia experience, it has yielded to widespread pedagogic
Nicole Kohut and Claire Schweitzer
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Tradition and Transgression
I face the blank page this evening, not with the usual feeling of joyful, mildly overconfident abandon I have grown so accustomed to

Dominy Gallo
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