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Killing time

Yesterday’s announcement was thus both surprising and disheartening, both because of the reverberations that the action—or rather inaction—will have for students, and because of what it signifies regarding administrative timelines.

Yesterday’s announcement was thus both surprising and disheartening, both because of the reverberations that the action—or rather inaction—will have for students, and because of what it signifies regarding administrative timelines.

Is Columbia scared of its students?

Time after time, Columbia University seems to disregard or even actively minimize the input of students as if the powers that be are scared that students can’t appreciate nuance or complexity.

Time after time, Columbia University seems to disregard or even actively minimize the input of students as if the powers that be are scared that students can’t appreciate nuance or complexity.

Postcrypt? Priceless.

Why would the school want to close “one of Columbia’s open secrets” and “an effortlessly cool place on campus”?

Why would the school want to close “one of Columbia’s open secrets” and “an effortlessly cool place on campus”?

Four issues to keep your eye on

Fight for quality of life

Fight for quality of life

Not the time for silence

I am not willing to sacrifice the character of this University.

I am not willing to sacrifice the character of this University.

The death of spontaneity

Students attempt to safeguard spontaneous events, but are ultimately blocked due to any number of constraints (space, funding, permission), but mainly because they do not know whose name they must throw around to make Public Safety go away and let them build a snow ramp.

Students attempt to safeguard spontaneous events, but are ultimately blocked due to any number of constraints (space, funding, permission), but mainly because they do not know whose name they must throw around to make Public Safety go away and let them build a snow ramp.

Administrating community

But before we get all charged up about the new RezPro (bring this into circulation, people), let’s just check in with our favorite administration to make sure they’re not just slapping on another layer of bureaucracy to cover the cracks in the Columbia “community.”

But before we get all charged up about the new RezPro (bring this into circulation, people), let’s just check in with our favorite administration to make sure they’re not just slapping on another layer of bureaucracy to cover the cracks in the Columbia “community.”

Burned by Health Services

Columbia Health Services’ Primary Care is inadequate and incompetent to the point of outright negligence.

Columbia Health Services’ Primary Care is inadequate and incompetent to the point of outright negligence.

Defending the Arts Initiative

Our position is that key to the survival of the Arts Initiative on campus, and by extension the creative capacities of individuals and student groups, is AI’s decentralized place, which acts as a point of convergence for all schools.

Our position is that key to the survival of the Arts Initiative on campus, and by extension the creative capacities of individuals and student groups, is AI’s decentralized place, which acts as a point of convergence for all schools.

Journey to the center of Columbia

And when we enter that world, we can speak to ghosts and leave a little of ourselves to speak to the future.

And when we enter that world, we can speak to ghosts and leave a little of ourselves to speak to the future.