The Blue and White Favorites
Updated: Sep 8, 2021
A selection of outstanding pieces and illustrations from the magazine’s 2020-2021 archive.
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BLUE NOTES
Courting at the Cloisters
Medieval mystique meets modern love.
By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Brooke McCormick
BLUE NOTES
Peeping Tom’s
Regulars of Tom’s Restaurant keep the diner afloat amidst profound uncertainty.
By Willa Neubauer | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Kate Steiner
BLUE NOTES
Move Over, Roaree
Dept. of Animal Control.
By Raquel Turner | November 2020 Issue
Illustration by Samia Menon
CAMPUS CHARACTERS
Alexandra Waterbury
By Sam Sacks | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Rosaline Qi
CAMPUS CHARACTERS
Sofia Montrone
By Claire Shang | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Rosaline Qi
CAMPUS CHARACTERS
Ali Hassani
By Lyla Trilling | November 2020 Issue
Illustration by Joanne Park
CAMPUS CHARACTERS
Ornella Pedrozo
By Gaby Edwards | September 2020 Issue
Illustration by Brooke McCormick
FEATURES
The E-Word
An extended inquiry into Columbia’s coveted pile of untouchable gold.
By Lyla Trilling | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Hart Hallos
FEATURES
“Students First”
Under Chegg’s corporate strategy, student insecurity is a marketable good.
By Cy Gilman | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Samia Menon
FEATURES
Fueling the Future
Climate activists and academics on Columbia’s divestment from fossil fuels.
By Claire Schweitzer & Jai Qureshi |
March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Samia Menon
FEATURES
Out of Housing and Home
For students who face housing insecurity, Columbia is as ruthless a landlord as any.
By Elysa Caso-McHugh | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Rosaline Qi
FEATURES
Labor of Love
Professor couples on their marriage of the head and the heart.
By Maya Weed | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Samia Menon
FEATURES
To Kill a Marching Band
The stories we tell about The Cleverest Band in the World and the stories it tells about itself.
By Cy Gilman | November 2020 Issue
Illustration by Rea Rustagi
FEATURES
Something’s Gotta Give
Student donors won’t let their elite confines stop them from saving the world.
By Bella DeVaan | December 2020 Issue
Illustration By Maya Weed
FEATURES
Zombie No Go Think, Unless You Tell Am To Think
From Nigeria to Columbia, Black solidarity to end police brutality.
By Victor Omojola | December 2020 Issue
Illustration by Mwandeyi Kamwendo
FEATURES
Among the Magnolias
Students from the South on misconceptions of their home.
By Sophie Poole | December 2020 Issue
Illustration by Kat Chen
FEATURES
The Climate Fight’s New Stronghold
On the Columbia Climate School, what it is, and what it must be.
By Elizabeth Jackson | November 2020 Issue
Illustration by Samia Menon
ESSAYS
Artists of Artifice
A dispatch from dispo culture.
By Claire Shang | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Kat Chen
ESSAYS
The Future is Femcel
Even in the celibate cybersphere, there’s a gender gap.
By Chloe Gottlieb | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Joanne Park
ESSAYS
The Cult of Brohood
Frats conceal sexual violence with mafia-style rules.
By Lyla Trilling | December 2020 Issue
Illustration by Rosaline Qi
THE CONVERSATION
The Loathing of Big Oil
Lawyer Steven Donziger speaks from home confinement on Chevron’s strategy to punish those holding them accountable for environmental atrocities.
By Milan Loewer | May 2021 Online Exclusive
Illustration by Kate Steiner
THE CONVERSATION
All of That Stuff Gets Built!
Mabel O. Wilson on architecture and Blackness.
By Sam Needleman | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Kate Steiner
THE CONVERSATION
Views From the Picket Line
Columbia graduate workers cry out for change.
By Dominy Gallo & The Blue and White Staff | March 2021 Online Exclusive
Illustration by Madeleine Hermann
THE CONVERSATION
Us And Our Broken Things
A conversation with Professor Sandra Goldmark on sustainability, art, and repairing “stuff culture.”
By Elizabeth Jackson | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Maya Weed
THE CONVERSATION
Against the Punitive Society
Bernard Harcourt on critical praxis and abolition.
By Cy Gilman | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Rea Rustagi
THE CONVERSATION
The Wild Space of Thought
Saidiya Hartman on undergrads and abolition.
By Sam Needleman | December 2020 Issue
Illustration by Kate Steiner
THE CONVERSATION
The Neurons of Novels
A Conversation with Nicole Krauss.
By Sophie Poole | November 2020 Issue
Illustration by Maya Weed
AT TWO SWORDS’ LENGTH
Are You Really Passionate About Your Major?
By Claire Schweitzer & Tarini Krishna | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Aeja Rosette
AT TWO SWORDS’ LENGTH
Is He ... You Know ... ?
By Gabe Garon & Nicole Kohut | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Vanessa Mendoza
AT TWO SWORDS’ LENGTH
Was That a Girlboss Slay?
By Gabe Garon & Lyla Trilling | December 2020 Issue
Illustration by Mwandeyi Kamwendo
AT TWO SWORDS’ LENGTH
Was That Good for You (the Sex)?
By Nicole Kohut & Michael Colton | November 2020 Issue
Illustration by Madeleine HErmann
HUMOR EXCLUSIVE
Dear Dante, Season 1
In which Columbia’s piteous are offered sage advice.
By Michael Colton | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Aeja Rosette
HUMOR EXCLUSIVE
Pandemic Love Log
These entries are, unfortunately, true. College names have been faithfully maintained to punish the guilty. No dates were harmed in the making of this column.
By Sam Needleman & Nicole Kohut | February Online Exclusive
Illustration by Aeja Rosette
VERILY VERITAS
In Which Our Hero Appeals to Lesser Intellects
By Elizabeth Jackson | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Aeja Rosette
VERILY VERITAS
Verily Applies to Be Editor-in-Chief
By Tarini Krishna | March 2021 Issue
Illustration by Julia Lin
VERILY VERITAS
In Which Our Hero is Compelled to Prove How Well He Knows His Friends
By Elizabeth Jackson | September 2020 Issue
Illustration by Kate Steiner
THE SHORTCUT
Gesamtkunstwerk
By Adam Glusker | April 2021 Issue Illustration by Rea Rustagi
THE SHORTCUT
Nobody
By Sophie Paquette | December 2020 Issue
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Art History
By Eleanor Lin | April 2021 Issue
Illustration by Victoria Fu
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
YES DEAR INC.
By Morgan Levine | September 2020 Issue
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Hui
By Benjamine Mo | September 2020 Issue
Cover, April 2021
By Kat Chen
Centerfold, April 2021
By Rosaline Qi
Postcard From Morningside, April 2021
By Maya Weed
Cover, November 2020
By Lilly Cao, Kate Steiner, Kat Chen, Madeleine Hermann, Julia Lin, Mwandeyi Kamwendo, Rosaline Qi, Rea Rustagi, and Samia Menon
Centerfold, November 2020
By Maya Weed
