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The Last Ivy Standing: Columbia’s Case for Remaining Test-Optional
As other highly selective institutions revive standardized testing requirements, Columbia’s decision not to follow aligns with their desired academic…
Mar 25 • Uma Rajan
Within Six Stops
Nostalgic cafés, best-in-town curries, and a retro-futuristic workout
Mar 21 • Sebastian Galbenus
The Myth and Reality of Columbia’s Conservative Women
Trad conservatives or feminists in disguise?
Mar 20 • Christina Ma
Morningside Heights’ Small Business Crisis
Big chains are threatening the life and economy of our neighborhood
Mar 19 • Nick Baum
Finding God Through the Core
A conversation with Columbia Catholic Ministry Chaplain Father John Wilson
Mar 18 • Imaan Chaudhry

March 2026

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Within Six Stops
Nostalgic cafés, best-in-town curries, and a retro-futuristic workout
Mar 21 • Sebastian Galbenus
The Myth and Reality of Columbia’s Conservative Women
Trad conservatives or feminists in disguise?
Mar 20 • Christina Ma
Morningside Heights’ Small Business Crisis
Big chains are threatening the life and economy of our neighborhood
Mar 19 • Nick Baum
Finding God Through the Core
A conversation with Columbia Catholic Ministry Chaplain Father John Wilson
Mar 18 • Imaan Chaudhry

January-February 2026

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32 Years Later
Rethinking the private, public, and universal
Mar 2 • Alex Nagin
The Case for Reasoned Activism
Why defending free speech isn’t enough
Feb 22 • Coby S
Killing the Joke: Redefining Humor at Columbia
Keeping the spirit of comedy alive is no laughing matter.
Feb 20 • Joelle Rosenthal
Meet the Sundial Senior Staff
The article that finally made it out of the group chat
Feb 16 • Sundial

November-December 2025

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Dispelling Misconceptions About Students Supporting Israel
Contrary to what many believe, we are a nonpartisan cultural community, not an ideological one.
Dec 17, 2025 • Avi Litvak and Rafael Vanuno
No, Columbia Is Not a Democracy
The Student Affairs Committee misrepresented the Statute amendments. It’s time to set the record straight.
Dec 9, 2025 • Shoshana Aufzien
Can We Talk About the Genocide Question?
An inside account of the bureaucratic nightmare Columbia's BridgeUSA chapter faced attempting to host a discussion about Israel-Palestine.
Dec 8, 2025 • TJ Gill
Why Sundial Rejects Anonymous Submissions
Taking ownership of one’s ideas is a critical prerequisite for a healthy campus culture
Dec 3, 2025 • Alex Nagin and Imaan Chaudhry

October 2025

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Our Free Speech Crisis
Why the fight for free speech is the ground we stand on together.
Oct 26, 2025 • Alex Nagin
Secrets of Riverside Park
Transforming a “wasteland” into today’s Riverside Park cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars, more than fifty years, and no shortage of scandals
Oct 24, 2025 • Nick Baum
Summer Offensive: A Veteran's Perspective on Columbia’s Civic Culture
In Ukraine, I experienced comfort in a war zone. At Columbia, I experienced hostility for carrying the American flag.
Oct 23, 2025 • Sam Nahins
In Defense of Our Fathers
On the misapplication and perversion of feminism in Columbia’s Introduction to International Politics course
Oct 22, 2025 • Jessica Weinfeld

News

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SUNDIAL EXCLUSIVE: Higher-Ups at Columbia’s College of Dental Medicine Manipulated Admissions for Epstein’s Girlfriend
Epstein files show girlfriend received admissions favoritism and professors took his funding after 2008 conviction
Feb 10 • Xinyan Chen
Dear Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union: Hands Off the Dual BA
TCDSU’s attempt to end the Dual BA with Columbia is not about protecting students—it’s about controlling them
Oct 16, 2025 • Alex Nagin and Artemis Edison
Columbia Black History Month Committee Hosts Controversial Anti-LGBTQ Speaker
Dr. Umar Johnson, an activist and motivational speaker known for his opposition to homosexuality, spoke at the committee’s Winter Soulstice event on…
Feb 26, 2025 • Alexis Cartwright
Could Your Donation Be Funding Terrorism?
A Sundial investigation reveals that many fundraisers circulating in the Columbia community could be shuttling money to Hamas.
Oct 31, 2024 • Jack Engel

Campus Life

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The Myth and Reality of Columbia’s Conservative Women
Trad conservatives or feminists in disguise?
Mar 20 • Christina Ma
Finding God Through the Core
A conversation with Columbia Catholic Ministry Chaplain Father John Wilson
Mar 18 • Imaan Chaudhry
Falling From a Pothole Into a Well
Reflections on CISA’s Iran Protest
Feb 24 • Nikos Mohammadi
Killing the Joke: Redefining Humor at Columbia
Keeping the spirit of comedy alive is no laughing matter.
Feb 20 • Joelle Rosenthal

Administration

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The Last Ivy Standing: Columbia’s Case for Remaining Test-Optional
As other highly selective institutions revive standardized testing requirements, Columbia’s decision not to follow aligns with their desired academic…
Mar 25 • Uma Rajan
Iranians Suffer, Columbia Stays Silent
The University’s ambivalence on Iran is a moral failure.
Mar 15 • Giselle Sami Dalili
Institutional Expansion Is Not Merely a Cash Grab
Administration critics must accept Columbia’s economic reality
Mar 8 • Neal Tandon
An “Academic Freedom” Without Boundaries Is No Principle at All
Why we can't ignore abuses of faculty authority
Mar 5 • Elisha Baker

Academics

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The Last Ivy Standing: Columbia’s Case for Remaining Test-Optional
As other highly selective institutions revive standardized testing requirements, Columbia’s decision not to follow aligns with their desired academic…
Mar 25 • Uma Rajan
The Case Against Optimizing Our Education to Death
Columbia is embracing AI. Students are paying the price.
Mar 17 • Xinyan Chen
Ivana Hughes and Tucker Carlson Bridge the Political Horseshoe
On a Columbia scientist’s unlikely conversation with one of America’s most polarizing media figures
Nov 19, 2025 • Nikos Mohammadi
In Defense of Our Fathers
On the misapplication and perversion of feminism in Columbia’s Introduction to International Politics course
Oct 22, 2025 • Jessica Weinfeld

Israel-Palestine

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Zionism Is a Political Ideology. Stop Pretending It’s Not.
A response to Avi Litvak and Rafael Vanuno’s recent op-ed, “Dispelling Misconceptions About Students Supporting Israel”
Dec 17, 2025 • Noah Edelman
Dispelling Misconceptions About Students Supporting Israel
Contrary to what many believe, we are a nonpartisan cultural community, not an ideological one.
Dec 17, 2025 • Avi Litvak and Rafael Vanuno
Can We Talk About the Genocide Question?
An inside account of the bureaucratic nightmare Columbia's BridgeUSA chapter faced attempting to host a discussion about Israel-Palestine.
Dec 8, 2025 • TJ Gill
Why Don’t Columbia’s Pro-Palestinian Advocates Care About the Ceasefire?
Israel and Hamas agreed to a peace plan. Here’s why CUAD and other student groups won’t get behind it.
Oct 20, 2025 • Oren Hartstein and Nikos Mohammadi
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