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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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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...
Caroline Hurley
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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
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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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...
Tamar Vidra
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Scrambling for Funds
The culture and controversy of Columbia’s marching band. By Grace Adee and Billie Forester The Columbia University Marching Band may...
Grace Adee and Billie Forrester
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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
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
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
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
“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?
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,...
Jacob Snyder and Gi Ferrigine
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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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