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Mooning Manhattan
How the 132nd Varsity Show critiques Columbia’s administration
 • Jayna Rohslau
Good Whale Hunting: Love and Grief in Yusuf Luqman’s "The Whale"
How mournful anguish and oceanside decay make the student-run play a “modern-day prophecy.”
 • Jayna Rohslau
Killing the Joke: Redefining Humor at Columbia
Keeping the spirit of comedy alive is no laughing matter.
 • Joelle Rosenthal
Resisting Abstraction: Towards a Truer Cosmopolitanism
It’s time Columbia trades our globalizing tendencies for true love of thy neighbor.
 • Chloe Hoyle
Meet the Butlerian Smokers
They’re more than just students who loiter; They’re best buds.
 • Sebastian Galbenus
How Taiwan Travelogue Parallels Columbia’s Elitist Food Culture
Why the exploration of food and status in a novel about colonial-era Taiwan is relevant to our community today
 • Xinyan Chen
A Taxonomy of “MAGA Summer”
A year after "brat summer," the so-called MAGA "Cruel Kids" are declaring this season for themselves.
 • Nikos Mohammadi
Rebuilding Columbia’s Premier BDSM Club
The student group is back, and its mission goes beyond more than just rope.
 • Nate Maretzki
The Most Famous Trash Worshipper in Morningside Heights
All of these books were somebody’s garbage. Until they reached Paul’s table.
 • Hazel Pearson
The Story of Columbia’s Architecture Through the Decades
Lessons we can Learn-er from Columbia’s little-known architectural history.
 • Nick Baum
On Being Mousy
Mousy: (of a person) nervous, shy, or timid; lacking in presence or charisma.
 • Chloe Hoyle
Review: Indecent, a Play Within a Play Within a Play, Is a Story for Our Times
What the Columbia Players’ production can teach us about self-censorship, resilience, and community
 • Xinyan Chen
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