NEWS
Former ESC President Aida Lu prepares for her impeachment testimony outside the Satow room. Lu was impeached by an overwhelming 23-4 vote on Feb. 19.
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NEWS
A fire broke out on the third floor of Ruggles Hall shortly after 11 p.m. on November 29, charring walls and spewing smoke onto 114th Street. The fire and its ensuing cleanup kept Ruggles residents out of their dorm for over five hours.
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NEWS
During Mike Cernovich’s speech on campus on Oct. 30, Jovanni Valle, a right-wing activist who has been involved in multiple altercations with authorities, began arguing with the crowd outside Lerner Hall and accused a protester of stealing his phone before ultimately leaving.
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NEWS
The Milstein Center, a new space for private study as well as academic resources at Barnard, is nearing the final stage of construction and is scheduled to be completed in August.
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THE EYE
A couple smiles for a portrait from the series ... “Observing Affection.”
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THE EYE
The General Grant Houses basketball court at night. Baller City Basketball, a youth program that serves kids in the Grant Houses, has lacked enough funding to function for the past two years.
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THE EYE
Kids who live in the Grant houses play a game of pick-up basketball one evening in early April.
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OPINION
A portrait of several first-years accompanies Heven Haile’s op-ed, “The right to be mad.”
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NEWS
Bernie Sanders gives a speech about political revolution during the New Student Orientation Program: “Our political job is to stand up to that demagoguery and to come together as a nation … not to allow Trump and his political allies to divide us up ...When we stand together and focus on the real problems facing our country, there’s nothing we cannot accomplish.”
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A&E
Students perform during the Intercollegiate Chamber Music Festival at Lincoln Center in February. The festival, which was organized by Columbia students, featured performances by musicians from Princeton, Williams, Juilliard, MIT, and Columbia.
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A&E
The 124th annual Varsity Show opted to highlight cliché, showcasing the stereotypical Columbia experience rather than topicality.
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A&E
This semester, the Columbia Ballet Collaborative’s performance featured the original work of three visiting choreographers and two student choreographers, as well as one restaging.
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NEWS
Barnard President Sian Beilock was inaugurated as the college’s eighth president on Feb. 9.
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NEWS
A portrait of Julia Hewitt, GS ’20, and her daughter, for her op-ed: “Columbia should provide childcare for undergraduates.”
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A&E
Soul For Youth, a ten-piece ensemble, performs at Battle of the Bands in early February, in competition for the student opener slot at Bacchanal. The group won the competition.
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SPORTS
Garrett Ryan, CC ’18 and a wrestler for Columbia, crafts a piece on a potter’s wheel at Teachers College. While choosing a college, Ryan made sure he would be able to continue his passion for pottery in his spare time off the mat and outside the classroom.
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A&E
Award-winning director J.J. Abrams receives the Athena Leading Man Award at the Athena Film Festival on Feb. 23 at Barnard College. In an exclusive interview with Spectator, Abrams spoke about what it meant to be receiving the Leading Man award for advocates of women’s rights in the film industry in the year of #MeToo movement. “I think that the message for a man is look in the places you might not have looked normally, because these people are there and not only can they be hired, they should be hired,” he said.
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PHOTO
The solar eclipse, though only a partial one, drew an enormous crowd in front of Pupin on Aug. 21. Students, faculty, and the greater Columbia community gathered to use improvised pinhole projectors, eclipse glasses, and solar telescopes from the astronomy department.
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SPORTS
The football team celebrates after winning 24-6 against Brown in the final game of its best season in 21 years this fall. The team finished second in the Ivy League and 8-2 overall.
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PHOTO
Amma Asante pauses on the red carpet during the annual Athena Film Festival at Barnard College.
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A&E
In celebration of renowned dancer, choreographer, and artistic director Arthur Mitchell’s lifelong contributions to racial diversity in dance, “An Informal Performance on the Art of Dance” was presented at Miller Theatre in October.
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A&E
At “An Informal Performance on the Art of Dance,” dancers from eminent companies that champion racial inclusivity performed a variety of repertories, some choreographed by Mitchell himself, the rest previously danced by or inspired by Mitchell.
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A&E
GendeRevolution presents “Asterisk,” a new play written by Christine Aucoin, BC ’18, with collaborator Rowan Hepps Keeney, BC ’18, in the Diana Center’s Glicker-Milstein Theatre in early April.
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NEWS
Dean Marinaccio leads the admissions team in mailing decision letters to applicants of the class of 2022. Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science admitted a combined 5.5 percent of applicants for the 2018 admissions cycle.
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OPINION
A portrait of Shaquan Nelson, SEAS ’19, for his op-ed “Why I left my frat.”
Michael Edmonson/Senior Staff Photographer
THE EYE
Tracy O’Neill, a doctoral student in communications at the School of Journalism, participated in the graduate workers’ strike this spring.
Jaime Danies/Senior Staff Photographer
NEWS
In late February, graduate workers protested on Low Steps following the announcement from Provost Coatsworth that the University would wait until the status of graduate student workers was reviewed by a federal appellate court before it would consider further action, again delaying the legal process for what experts believe could take months.
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SPORTS
Sophomore guard Mike Smith drives to the basket during the alumni game against Dartmouth.
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SPORTS
University President Lee Bollinger attends the alumni game, which marked the 50-year anniversary of the team’s only Ivy League championship.
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NEWS
Hawk Newsome, president of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, speaks during a protest outside Tommy Robinson’s speech in Lerner Hall. About 30 protesters inside the auditorium interrupted the white nationalist’s speech, while more than 250 demonstrators gathered outside in protest.
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NEWS
A protester silently holds a sign reading “Fuck you, Nazi” during white nationalist Mike Cernovich’s speech in October.
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SPORTS
During the national anthem before football's 41-17 win at Marist, sophomores Tyler Holmes (pictured) and Justin Hill knelt in protest. It was the first time this school year that any Columbia athlete had knelt during the national anthem.
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NEWS
Frat row at night in September. An investigation by Spectator found that high dues and hidden costs leaves Greek life an aspect of campus life that is inaccessible to low-income students.
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SPORTS
Many Columbia cheerleaders took a knee during the national anthem at Homecoming this year.
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SPORTS
The crowd rushes the field to celebrate Columbia’s overtime victory at Homecoming against Penn this fall.
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NEWS
In late September, the Stephen Donaldson Lounge, a space for LGBTQ students, was moved to Schapiro Hall. The event closed with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting, after which attendees were free to explore the lounge.
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SPORTS
In late February, men’s swimming and diving rounded out its season with a fourth-place finish at the Ivy League Championships in Princeton.
Kali Duffy/Senior Staff Photographer
A&E
An all-female production team produced Columbia Musical Theatre Society’s rendition of “The Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a musical comedy originally by William Finn, in the Diana Center’s Glicker-Milstein Theater this fall.
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SPORTS
Women’s soccer finished second in the Ivy League this year after its final game was a scoreless draw in double overtime against Harvard.
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SPORTS
At the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in Van Cortlandt Park in late October, the women’s team won its first Ivy-league title since 2005.
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PHOTO
More than 150,000 people took to the streets of New York to advocate for gun control in late March as a part of the “March For Our Lives.” Columbia students organized the New York march, which followed the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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NEWS
In late April, fifty years after the Columbia 1968 protests, the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers officially went on strike, demanding the University recognize the union.
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NEWS
During the GWC-UAW strike in April, undergraduates joined their TAs on the picket line in solidarity.
Katherine Gerberich/Senior Staff Photographer
NEWS
On the first day of the strike, the union limited its physical picket line to College Walk but encouraged supporters via social media and faculty email lists to interpret its picket as blocking access to all academic buildings on campus.
Katherine Gerberich/Senior Staff Photographer
NEWS
A portrait of Jaipreet Sethi, BC ’18, for a story about the experiences of students of color at Columbia: “In the classroom, it often feels like I’m representative of the entire South Asian experience. I’ve put that pressure on myself too because it’s become so internalized that it’s my duty to speak up for the student of color experience.”
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NEWS
A portrait of Idris O’Neill, BC ’21, for a story about the experiences of students of color at Columbia: “In terms of white allyship—hold this institution accountable. You’re the person they protect, you’re the person they want to hear from. So you tell them ‘Fuck you, Columbia.’”
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NEWS
A portrait of Gabby Ureña, CC ’20, for a story about the experiences of students of color at Columbia: “Although Columbia prides itself on it its diversity, sometimes it feels like the diversity is so spread out that you don’t actually see any of it.”
Jaime Danies/Senior Staff Photographer
NEWS
A portrait of Solace Mensah-Narh, BC ’21, for a story about the experiences of students of color at Columbia: “I feel blacker at Barnard than I ever have in my entire life.”
Jaime Danies/Senior Staff Photographer
NEWS
A portrait of Kai Tinsley, SEAS ’20, for a story about the experiences of students of color at Columbia: “Quite frankly, I don’t feel like I belong here. Not in the sense that I didn’t work hard to get here or that I’m less deserving of being here, but statistically, I’m not the average Columbia student. I’m just trying to get to a place where I’m OK with that.”
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NEWS
A portrait of Kyoko Hirose, CC ’21, for a story about the experiences of students of color at Columbia: “There should be, in my opinion, more mandated, regulated cultural competency workshops ... We need something to regulate that, because clearly some students aren’t going out of their way to do that on their own.”
Jaime Danies/Senior Staff Photographer
NEWS
Justice Ginsburg spoke as part of “She Opened the Door,” the first Columbia Women’s Conference, which included a series of events from keynote speakers to leadership workshops, in February.
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NEWS
Hiding instruments and ducking Public Safety officers, the Columbia University Marching Band held its Orgo Night performance in room 209 of Butler Library, defying a decision by administrators that has denied them access to the library since last December.
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A&E
The Athena Leading Man, J.J. Abrams, stops to take photos with attendees before the Athena Film Festival Awards Reception.
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