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Bonny Quan, BC ’24, talks to her camera at 8 p.m. as she returns to her dorm from a run. She signs off with a rundown of things left to do: attend a computer science class and a club meeting. This video, posted on her YouTube channel, is her latest “day in the life” vlog, a 20-minute window into the life of a college student in New York City.

With a new generation of athletes like Ada Hegerberg, Marta Vieira da Silva, and Naomi Osaka, activism in sports has shifted in a new direction. Female athletes have risen to the front lines of many protests, ranging from struggles for equal pay in sports to police brutality and racial injustice.

We live in a data-driven society where everything can be broken down into numbers: Columbia’s 265,000 followers on Instagram, a 66.7 percent voter turnout in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, 4,667 for a Columbia Housing lottery number. Often, numbers can overwhelm us.

Amid this year of many changes, another was announced to Columbia’s undergraduate class of 2024: “Citizen: An American Lyric,” by Claudia Rankine, SoA ’93, has been added to the Literature Humanities summer reading list.