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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Blue and White Magazine
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...
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....
The Blue and White Magazine
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...
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...
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...
The Blue and White Magazine
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...
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,...
The Blue and White Magazine
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...