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Campus Gossip, May 2018
Think Columbia elections are boring? Varun Devatha, Cornell ’19, recently survived being disqualified over a supporter’s meme containing...
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Expressing the Unexplained
A conversation with Erik Gray By Caroline Hurley Editor-in-Chief Caroline Hurley sat down with Professor of English Erik Gray for this...
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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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Measure for Measure, May 2018
Through the scratched glass of the sky painted window, In the center of the kitchen that we all wished was a couple feet wider, There is...
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Told Between Puffs, May 2018
In which our hero solidifies summer plans ‘There is something distasteful in the informality of email,’ thought Verily as he opened up...
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Was it Worth It?
Affirmative Stumbling bleary-eyed out of Butler as the sun begins to peer bashfully over the horizon, one often struggles to free oneself...
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Toni Airaksinen
By Ryan Mohen The first thing you find when you search Google for Toni Airaksinen’s name is an extremely active Twitter account with...
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Blue Notes, May 2018
During her inauguration this February, President Sian Beilock of Barnard noted, “In computer science, … there are important areas like...
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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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Minding Progress
A conversation with Michele Moody-Adams By Isaiah Bennett A widely-renowned moral and political philosopher, and both the first woman and...
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Measure for Measure, April 2018
Now Open at 6 a.m. on Sundays Now look here fella, The Lord’s Day never gave me any trouble. None at all. I’d be up the there, right...
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Digitalia Columbiana, April 2018
These excerpts were culled from documents left on Columbia’s lab computers. We encourage our readers to submit their own digitalia finds...
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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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Told Between Puffs, April 2018
In which our hero struggles to write a thesis ‘It’s all dribble,’ thought Verily, as he crumpled up another piece of vellum parchment....
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Do you March?
Affirmative By Isaiah Bennett Are you fucking kidding me? I March… so hard. You know what March means, don’t you? Shit might as well be...
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