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Op-Eds

How Columbia can support its international students

By Aum Desai and Haris Shah

Op-Eds

Telling Claude to ‘max-out’ your resume won’t improve your recruiting chances. But amending Local Law 144 will.

By William Tang

Staff Editorials

Ins & Outs: October edition

By Spectator Editorial Board

Op-Eds

How Columbia can support its international students

BY Aum Desai and Haris Shah · NOV 5

Op-Eds

How Columbia can support its international students

BY Aum Desai and Haris Shah · NOV 5

Op-Eds

Telling Claude to ‘max-out’ your resume won’t improve your recruiting chances. But amending Local Law 144 will.

BY William Tang · NOV 5

Op-Eds

Columbia must create a Disability Cultural Center

BY Miriam Edelman · OCT 30

Op-Eds

No, it is about consent: A response to the Sundial’s defense of rape culture

BY The board of Columbia University Democrats · OCT 23

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: Oelbaum misunderstands Morningside Heights

BY Andrea Brecker · OCT 26

Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: Oelbaum misunderstands Morningside Heights

BY Andrea Brecker · OCT 26

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Fortress Columbia never

BY Mimi McDermott · OCT 15

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: The Columbia fencing alumni advisory committee defends Michael Aufrichtig

BY Columbia Fencing Alumni Advisory Committee · APR 30

Letters to the Editor

Letter from the Editor: The power of a byline

BY Achilles Frangos · DEC 12, 2025

Columns

Sing, O quiet disapprover

BY Aidan Hunter · OCT 30

Columns

Sing, O quiet disapprover

BY Aidan Hunter · OCT 30

Columns

Talk to the trees

BY Ollie Mitchell · OCT 28

Columns

The Black art of belonging

BY Amir Mason · OCT 19

Columns

Introducing the fall columnists!

BY Haya Ghazale · SEP 21

Staff Editorials

Ins & Outs: October edition

BY Spectator Editorial Board · NOV 1

Staff Editorials

Ins & Outs: October edition

BY Spectator Editorial Board · NOV 1

Staff Editorials

Campus discourse needs an ethics code

BY Spectator Editorial Board · OCT 20

Staff Editorials

Introducing Spectator’s 150th fall editorial board

BY Spectator Editorial Board · OCT 16

Staff Editorials

September Ins & Outs

BY Spectator Editorial Board · SEP 29

Discourse and Debate

Discourse and Debate: Columbia, where leaders of the world were once formed

BY Juan F. Rosado Del Ríos · OCT 26

Discourse and Debate

Discourse and Debate: Columbia, where leaders of the world were once formed

BY Juan F. Rosado Del Ríos · OCT 26

Discourse and Debate

Discourse and Debate: If Columbia cares about access to higher education, it needs to start paying taxes

BY Kate Mao · OCT 25

Discourse and Debate

Discourse and Debate: The hidden costs of a ‘full ride’ at Columbia

BY Sophia Sarkies · OCT 25

Discourse and Debate

Discourse and Debate: Columbia’s commitment to geographic diversity must go beyond admissions

BY Jeeah Kim · OCT 21

Race and Place

How my grandmother’s art inspired me to pursue an Afrocentric Ph.D. in theatre and performance studies

BY Lauren Stockmon Brown · OCT 5, 2023

Race and Place

How my grandmother’s art inspired me to pursue an Afrocentric Ph.D. in theatre and performance studies

BY Lauren Stockmon Brown · OCT 5, 2023

Race and Place

I am more than a figure in your textbook

BY Avian Muñoz · APR 15, 2023

Race and Place

“Eat, Pray, Love” reconsidered

BY Ning Chang · MAR 21, 2023

Race and Place

Remaining silent about Black oppression is an act of violence

BY Colin Roedl · FEB 14, 2023

The Scope

‘Matter of opinion’: Notes toward an unsettled purpose

BY Columbia Daily Spectator Staff · APR 28

The Scope

‘Matter of opinion’: Notes toward an unsettled purpose

BY Columbia Daily Spectator Staff · APR 28

The Scope

Degrees of ambition: Mapping preprofessional pressure at Columbia

BY Columbia Daily Spectator Staff · FEB 9

The Scope

‘At the Helm’: Examining Past Presidential Leadership and Governance at Columbia

BY Su Ertekin-Taner · DEC 8, 2025

The Scope

After 1968: A Retrospective on Campus Protest

BY Columbia Daily Spectator · JUN 9, 2024

Video Projects

In search of effective leadership: Spectator Editorial Board on Columbia’s next president

BY Achilles Frangos, Sarah Browne, Cami Duran, and Jules Heidelberg · DEC 2, 2025

Video Projects

In search of effective leadership: Spectator Editorial Board on Columbia’s next president

BY Achilles Frangos, Sarah Browne, Cami Duran, and Jules Heidelberg · DEC 2, 2025

Video Projects

Campus Speculations: Bacchanal 2025 Edition

BY Achilles Frangos, Elliot Heath, Hanan Ali, and Isabelle Bouvier · JUL 26, 2025

Video Projects

Address from the editorial page editor: On the power of voice in a time of turmoil

BY Achilles Frangos, Aruna Das, Jules Heidelberg, and Elliot Heath · FEB 22, 2025

Video Projects

Campus Speculations: Valentine's Day 2025 Edition

BY Achilles Frangos, Ellessandra Taormino, and Emily Huang · FEB 22, 2025

Love, Actualized

Ode to the Core

BY Hamid Dabashi · DEC 9, 2025

Love, Actualized

Ode to the Core

BY Hamid Dabashi · DEC 9, 2025

Love, Actualized

Falling in and out of love with an institution

BY Dennis Yi Tenen · OCT 22, 2025

Love, Actualized

I appreciate President Armstrong’s heartfelt letter

BY Peiyi Yu · OCT 17, 2024

Love, Actualized

Love letter to Barnard and Columbia protesters from a class of 1978 protester

BY Jody LeWitter · MAY 13, 2024

Editorial Cartoons

Call for editorial cartoons

BY Sydney Alleyne · FEB 25

Editorial Cartoons

Call for editorial cartoons

BY Sydney Alleyne · FEB 25

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial Cartoon: The Fall of Western Civilization

BY Lucas Pasquina · OCT 13, 2022

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial Cartoon: Another night in a Barnard dorm…

BY Bronwyn Chochinov · SEP 8, 2022

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial Cartoon: Prospects for the summer

BY Liam McGrane · APR 9, 2021

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