College professors aren’t usually known for their fashion sense.

Audience members gathered in Roone Arledge Auditorium Saturday night for Ijoya’s second annual showcase, “X: Legacy,” marking the Columbia African dance team’s 10th anniversary and showcasing dances from across the continent.

Swiping right is traditionally associated with dating apps such as Tinder. But Pol Villaverde, SIPA ’26, invites New Yorkers to use his app, Palumba, to swipe right on their next mayor.

When he was in second grade, Alexander Fan, CC ’25, asked his mom if he could audition for his school’s cheerleading squad. Years later, after dancing at college football and basketball games as a member of the Columbia University Dance Team, he is now a cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Residents of West Harlem only need to step outside to experience the city’s art scene this fall. For the second consecutive year, the Harlem Sculpture Gardens, curated by the West Harlem Art Fund and co-presented by the NY Artist Equity Association and the West Harlem Art Fund, have transformed Harlem parks into galleries.

Although they plan to become an engineer, Edith Domanski, BC ’29, can’t imagine a life without writing fiction. For Domanski, writing is a way to deal with stress, process events in their life, and immerse themself in worlds of their own creation.

Maya Shkolnik, CC ’25, arrived at Columbia as a prospective economics or computer science major intending to pursue a career in consulting. Four years later, she has shed her previous career goals and plans to spend the summer in Lithuania, taking photographs to document the influence of military surveillance on everyday life.

Students sat around circular tables, chatting and complimenting each other’s clothes as African music played in the background. Soon after, the room quieted as event co-chairs Chiamaka Kanu, BC ’26, and Sophie Agbekpenou, SEAS ’26, got the crowd’s attention: Afropolitan’s first performance of the night was about to begin.

When he was a teenager, Richard Rodgers, CC 1923, went to see the Varsity Show for the first time. After the show, he met one of the actors, Oscar Hammerstein, CC 1916, Law 1917. Rodgers wrote in his autobiography “Musical Stages” about that afternoon: “I went home with one irrevocable decision, I would also go to Columbia, and I would also write the Varsity Show.”