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    THE BLUE AND WHITE

    Columbia’s Undergraduate Magazine. Founded 1890.

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    Postcard from Morningside, December 2018
    The Blue and White Magazine

    Postcard from Morningside, December 2018

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    Nature’s Invisible Hand
    Mary Elizabeth Dawson

    Nature’s Invisible Hand

    A conversation with Paul E. Olsen. By Mary Elizabeth Dawson Paul E. Olsen is the Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and...
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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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    Strangers in Their Own Homes
    Ursula Murray-Bozeman

    Strangers in Their Own Homes

    Not all residents in 620 go to Barnard. By Ursula Murray-Bozeman When Victoria Sullivan moved into 620 W 116th St. in 1965, it was like...
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    SoHo’s Siltiest Spot
    Gaby Edwards

    SoHo’s Siltiest Spot

    A look at De Maria’s perplexing Earth Room. By Gaby Edwards A room full of dirt? Art? I asked myself as I made my way down to SoHo. My...
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    Tamar Vidra

    Black Coffee

    She served the coffee black to me, he said. And I heard the cicadas hissing from outside and the slurp of his noodles and I stared at...
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    Scrambling for Funds
    Grace Adee and Billie Forrester

    Scrambling for Funds

    The culture and controversy of Columbia’s marching band. By Grace Adee and Billie Forester The Columbia University Marching Band may...
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    Campus Gossip, December 2018

    Columbia, in its good judgement, has given the space formerly belonging to the Columbia Daily Spectator to the Alumni Development Office...
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    Pouring Over Coffee Culture
    Ryan Mohen

    Pouring Over Coffee Culture

    Coffee on campus was not always Joe and go. By Ryan Mohen Coffee is often a purchase made in motion, in most cases necessarily so....
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    It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…

    A little jingle to get you in the holiday spirit. Hum in Butler to the Michael Bublé version of “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like...
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    Hiding in Plain Sight
    Sam Needleman

    Hiding in Plain Sight

    Frantic first-years stow contraband on the eve of dormitory raids. By Sam Needleman Among the residents of John Jay Hall who spent...
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    Blue Notes, December 2018
    The Blue and White Magazine

    Blue Notes, December 2018

    New signs prohibiting animals on Columbia’s lawns may make caring for emotional support animals even harder for students. Columbia...
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    Elise Fuller
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    Elise Fuller

    “The funny story I always tell people is that in eight grade, I went online, and I looked up history and sociology and how I could study...
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    Are We a Thing?
    Jacob Snyder and Gi Ferrigine

    Are We a Thing?

    Affirmative Tell me one thing: when it’s a cold Saturday night in late January, who’s going to join you in opening a bottle of wine,...
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    Told Between Puffs, December 2018

    In which our hero gets E. coli. Verily was eating a salad when his phone buzzed.Excited to hear back from his doctor about a particularly...
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