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Virtually Prestigious
In a year of upheaval, the University’s attempts to defend its elite reputation are more vapid and vain than ever.

Kelsey Kitzke


“This Is the People’s City, Not the Cops’”
Conversations with student activists and organizers at the epicenter of the national abolition movement.

Billie Forester


Ornella Pedrozo
By Gaby Edwards When I FaceTime Ornella Pedrozo, BC ‘21, she’s breaking for lunch. She’s making something delicious in her Upper West...

Gaby Edwards


Anjali Verma
By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider During her first-year Accelerated Physics course, Anjali Verma’s professor, Brian Cole, told her to check out...
Jaden Jarmel-Schneider


Blue Notes, September 2020
In which our writers impart (relatively) sound advice to the Zoom Class of 2024.

The Blue and White Magazine
NSOP Icebreakers: Zoom Edition
By Malia Simon Uh oh! It’s Orientation season, and you know what that means: NSOP leaders are already plotting the many ways to “get you...
Malia Simon
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...

Sam Needleman


Postcard from Morningside, May 2020
By Kate Steiner

Kate Steiner


Centerfold, May 2020
By Brooke McCormick

Brooke McCormick
In Which Our Hero Takes a Pandemic for a Plague
By Sydney Contreras “Huzzah!” cried Verily gleefully upon watching the last of his suitemates roll their Hartley moving bins into the...
Sydney Contreras
Chores and Chainsaws
In lieu of luminaries, learning from a seasoned telecommuter.

Sylvie Epstein


Don’t You Just Love Quarantining in LA?
Affirmative By Harris Solomon It’s soft and warm inside my bed. I’m dreaming about ahi tuna and equitable wealth redistribution when a...
Harris Solomon and Nicole Kohut
from Brookline
By Sylvie Epstein The towns of the Eastern Seaboard like to call my name. and gray plush on the passenger’s seat flashes with the passing...

Sylvie Epstein
to all
By Samia Menon I can only describe things that are real: sharp air that tastes like the color of hospital lights, yellow summers that...

Samia Menon


What’s in a Grade?
Columbia’s new mandatory pass/fail policy is unprecedented.

Billie Forester


Pixelated Peers
Matriculate overcomes barriers to advise low-income prospies.

Chase Cutarelli
Party of One
On libations in isolation.

Eliza Rudalevige
Disco Lights and the Divide
Columbia’s small but mighty low-income community transformed my first year.

Raquel Turner


Self-Love in the Time of Corona
Resetting my sleep cycle for my own damn good.

Dominy Gallo


Mistakes Were Made
On sweating the small stuff.
Sophia Cornell
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