As heard by  The Blue and White. Illustration by Selin Ho BARNARD’S VERY OWN FREQUENT FLYER Word on the street is that Chair of the Barnard English department, Professor Ross Hamilton, commutes to teach his class cross-Atlantic. You heard that right—he permanently lives in Spain,  jets in for the start of the week to teach his classes, and escapes back to the Iberian sunshine by the weekend. THE FREE SPEECH FABLE  A certain Columbia free speech organization has taken its miss

On the termination of Temporary Protected Status. By Tara Zia Illustration by Jing Geng Over the last few months, the Trump Administration’s terminations of Temporary Protected Status have made headlines on a weekly basis. For Nina Alvarez, these headlines do not go unnoticed: Documenting the story behind this immigration policy and those it impacts represents a years-long effort.  A journalist, documentarian, and video photographer, Alvarez has over 20 years of reporting exp

By Hannah Lui and Ava Lozner Illustration by Jing Geng Affirmative by Hannah Lui In the summertime … The city festers with the impatience of a man lying awake waiting for his wife to return from her lover, feeling the heat stir… My favorite work of literature begins thus. It is a fragment of an unpublished series of essays belonging to Haruki Murakami, the man from whom I take all my philosophies of life. The ellipses exclude a three-page description of a young woman’s breast