For B, otherwise known by their tunnel tag King Garfield, the tunnels underneath Columbia are a sort of fossil—a concretized version of the past. The walls are lined with valves, peeling paint, and old graffiti, the floors littered with WKCR flyers. Ever since he first explored them, B has been sneaking into the intricate system of tunnels that sprawl underneath Columbia’s campus.

Human stories are the very core of what we do here at The Eye. They drive us. Our goal as a family of writers and eclectic humans is to wade past the pleasantries of “What’s your major?” and “Where are you from?” in search of the hidden idiosyncrasies that are the stuff of late-night, meaning-of-life conversations between close friends.