Miguel Cisneros Jr., a Columbia College sophomore, died on Aug. 22 in a tragic drowning incident, Columbia College Dean James Valentini wrote in an email to students on Friday. He was 19 years old.

Many of our staffers went home from the office on March 8, 2020, just like any other normal Sunday night—for the last time in what would eventually be over a year. However, despite being physically apart, our staff was able to produce some of our best journalism in recent years, bringing us to win the Best All-Around Student Newspaper award by the Society of Professional Journalists. This award celebrates Spectator journalism during the 2020 calendar year, which was “considered outstanding work worthy of a national honor.”

After three years of tireless work from our product design and engineering sections, Spectator’s new website has officially launched! We are so excited for you to view our journalism and products on our new platform and hope you enjoy it just as much as we do.

Most people cannot blame Greta Gerwig’s Little Women for almost burning their homes down. However, I am among the exclusive group who can. It was on January 26, 2020, when I took a trip to the AMC on 84th Street with my mother to see Little Women. It was also on the windy Sunday afternoon of January 26, 2020 that I began exhibiting symptoms of the coronavirus in the middle of a crowded theater of bookworms and mother-daughter pairs. I went into the film with just a stuffy nose, and I left with a 103-degree fever. My temperature rose as Beth slowly withered away. I—a fellow Elizabeth—swore my brain would burst and I too would not make it to the end of the film.

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