This issue encompasses The Eye’s mission to thoroughly explore and investigate campus phenomena by centering the people that make Columbia what it is. Just as importantly, these pieces also underscore the importance of institutional accountability. We don’t take our privilege to report on and for Columbia for granted.

My Literature Humanities class reunited after two years in fall 2024. To my surprise, it wound up in the pages of The Atlantic.

Many Columbia students go on to do incredible things after they graduate…

When Brian Daley, a then-high school senior in Boise, Idaho, applied to college, he knew he would study computer science. An ambitious student, Daley was a U.S. Presidential Scholars Program candidate, had years of research experience in machine learning and data science under his belt, and had already first-authored two research papers alongside university professors. So, when he was rejected from his top-choice school, Stanford University, he felt discouraged. Then came a lifeline: Columbia. Not just through an acceptance to Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, but with distinction as an Egleston Scholar, a title reserved for the top 1 percent of each SEAS incoming class. “In my mind, I was a failure,” Daley told me of the early rejection. However, for Daley, failures are not closed doors; they are a driving force forward.

The New York Police Department arrested 78 protesters in response to a Wednesday pro-Palestinian demonstration in Butler Library, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to Spectator Thursday morning.

Over the past several months, debates, policy changes, and federal funding cuts in science and health care have begun to reshape the nation. The Eye’s health and science issue interrogates how these shifts are unfolding at Columbia: It features conversations with members of the University community who are redefining science research and providing health care access on their own terms.

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source.

Over the course of this academic year, Columbia has experienced many changes in the face of uncertainty, from the overruling of race-based affirmative action to student protests over the ongoing war in Gaza. As The Eye steps away from themed issues, we hope to expand our scope and cover more of the issues impacting Columbia and the surrounding community.