Nina Pedrad takes a ride in the Hamilton elevator and then makes up a story about it for The Blue and White. It’s fiction! You wanna know how it happened, gumshoe? It was daytime and I was late (typical). Packing those snacks for the subway always turns into AP Ziploc Baggies. My low heels bolted […]

Students have a real power that is often unrealized. Talk about issues, talk about things you want changed, and then go do something about it.

The latest issue has hit campus!  Look for it in most dorms and public spaces.  Today, Bwog Editor Emeritus Jim Downie investigates the other half of Sunil Gulati’s life. It’s a beautiful August day in Mexico City. The temperature is a balmy 78 degrees; the lung-choking smog is blown away by a cool breeze. In […]

"When you live with someone who quit you are also affected. They are seen as potentially poisonous. I like to call them 'Team Cancer.'"

You might not know the following figure–but you should.  In Campus Characters, The Blue and White introduces you to a handful of Columbians who are up to interesting and extraordinary things and whose stories beg to be shared.  If you’d like to suggest a Campus Character, send us an email at editors@theblueandwhite.org. ”After Buffalo, anything was […]

"The class was so ineffectively done that I felt cheated out of the class I was supposed to have taken--the class in the course description."

The Blue and White investigates everything you left at the bar last weekend. “It’s just like an Ivy League Eugene O’Neill play,” says Tim Monaghan of the trails of lost luxuries left behind weekly by Columbia students. While bartending 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., Monday to Thursday, Monaghan witnesses students leave behind everything from keys […]

You might not know the following figures–but you should [Ed note: well, you all know this one.] In Campus Characters, The Blue and White introduces you to a handful of Columbians who are up to interesting and extraordinary things and whose stories beg to be shared.  If you’d like to suggest a Campus Character, send […]

"It just seems kind of arbitrary the way everything has happened."

Between 1980 and now, the percentage of all university classes taught by tenured professors has dropped from 75 percent to less than 25 percent.

CAVA has historically had trouble securing funding for even its most basic needs.

Air Force Colonel Greg Johnson decided he wanted to be an astronaut at the age of 7, the night he watched Apollo 11 land the first humans on the Moon. Johnson’s road to space was long—he trained as a fighter pilot at the Air Force Academy, graduated an engineer from Columbia University in 1985, and […]

"It will become one of those landmarks that marks the city, one that you can see from all the way down Broadway."

Columbia and Barnard have different administrative strategies when it comes to students with eating disorders. In this article from the upcoming issue, The Blue & White explores those differences by talking with the students who have navigated them. “When you arrive on campus as freshman, you’re keenly aware of your freedom, but when you arrive […]

Though the process for selecting next year’s housing begins in earnest next week, students who are part of special interest communities already know where they will be living this fall. Those locations—whether they be brownstones or a singles in Wien—play a large role in determining the lifecycles of these student groups, for in special interest […]