Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, May 2022
By Claire Shang It’s May. Just when everyone feels they’ve gotten in the swing of things, suddenly everything is over. People are...
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Claire Shang
- Apr 23
Letter from the Editor, April 2022
Earlier this month, scrolling through Elon Musk–owned Twitter, I came across some 2020 data on the subscription base of Harper’s...
Claire Shang
- Mar 10
Letter from the Editor, March 2022
This is my favorite time of year—just before spring unfurls in full, when each new day of sunlight still feels like a gift to be marveled...
Dominy Gallo and Lyla Trilling
- Dec 20, 2021
Letter From the Editor, December 2021
I don’t know how I’ll ever write this last letter.
Dominy Gallo
- Sep 23, 2021
Letter From the Editor, September 2021
The Blue and White staff certainly looks good in blue and white.
Dominy Gallo
- Mar 3, 2021
Letter From the Editor, March 2021
Our magazine isn’t a magazine at all: It’s music.
Sam Needleman
- Dec 7, 2020
Letter From the Editor, December 2020
Lacunae are, first and foremost, textual chasms—gaps on the page where something once was, or where something could be. They’re the...
Sam Needleman
- Nov 2, 2020
Letter From the Editor, November 2020
By Sam Needleman Bereft of cohesion, and hardly expecting any looming events to provide it, our editors chose to bind this issue of The...
Sam Needleman
- Sep 4, 2020
Letter from the Editor, Orientation 2020
Sam Needleman This month, in his profile of Anjali Verma (Off-Campus Characters, p. 12), Staff Writer Jaden Jarmel-Schneider writes about...
Sam Needleman
- May 10, 2020
Letter from the Editor, May 2020
By Sam Needleman This isn’t how it was supposed to go! We were working on our April issue when the Bad News came, and we were forced to...
Ufon Umanah
- Dec 7, 2019
Letter from the Editor, December 2019
Ufon Umanah Ah, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about it, the...
Ufon Umanah
- Apr 28, 2019
Letter from the Editor, April 2019
By Ufon Umanah There’s no more important task before us than the preservation of history. I’m not saying this because without history,...
Caroline Hurley
- Dec 10, 2018
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
- Oct 28, 2018
Letter From the Editor, October 2018
By Caroline Hurley I think that there’s something to be said for confusion; that feeling of untethered loss; that state of cognitive...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Aug 24, 2018
Letter From the Editor, Orientation 2018
The first picture of me as a student on campus was taken unsurprisingly on move-in day, unsurprisingly by my mom. It’s a series of...
The Blue and White Magazine
- May 13, 2018
Letter From the Editor, May 2018
I’ll admit it–when Professor Erik Gray brought up Lionel Trilling in this month’s Conversation interview (pg. 20), I had absolutely no...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Apr 5, 2018
Letter From the Editor, April 2018
The Major League Baseball home opener for my hometown team is April 5th this year. The Yankees take to the diamond on April 2nd—who cares...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Feb 21, 2018
Letter From the Editor, February 2018
Recently I remarked to a friend how it felt to visit Carman 10 after almost two years since I moved out. Looking out the window by the...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Dec 14, 2017
Letter From the Editor, December 2017
By David Alexander Swanson Thanksgiving has passed. Out march the elves and the reindeer, the snowmen and candy canes in their cohorts....
The Blue and White Magazine
- Aug 28, 2017
Letter From the Editor, Orientation 2017
By David Alexander Swanson To the Class of 2021, allow me to be the 600th to welcome you to our hallowed halls, and to be the first to...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Mar 27, 2017
Letter from the Editor, March 2017
by Alex Swanson There’s a particular sense of dejection on campus around midterms. I myself write this, sleep deprived, writing-hand in...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Feb 10, 2017
Letter From the Editor
Writing my first Editor-in-chief’s letter a day after the inauguration of President Trump puts me in quite the odd position. The syzygy...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Oct 18, 2016
Letter from the Editor, October 2016
During my freshman year I tripped while walking up the stairs in Ferris and cut my head without realizing it. I got up thinking I was...
The Blue and White Magazine
- Sep 2, 2016
Letter from the Editor, Orientation 2016
It has become somewhat of a summer tradition for me to make a very ambitious to-do list (this year’s included learning to program in Java...