Soul for Youth, a 9-piece band that blends R&B and hip-hop, emerged as the winner of this year’s Battle of the Bands, beating out the six other acts that performed last Friday night to an at-capacity crowd in Lerner Hall.

With SOUNDCHECK, a monthly workshop series on modern music technology, Columbia students have gained a new, free opportunity to explore their musical interests.

The booming percussive thud of the timpani reverberated through Roone Arledge Auditorium on Sunday night. Growing in intensity and thickening in texture, the orchestra bloomed into a dramatic, dissonant conclusion to the last movement, giving the audience a moment to experience the music’s organized chaos at its most intense before breaking into applause.

Inside the spacious lecture hall of 309 Havemeyer last Thursday night, a crowd of around 70 people—mostly students, though a few professors and even one or two married couples from outside the school were in attendance—listened, laughed, and recited poetry, continuing one of Columbia’s most endearing traditions: the 32nd Annual Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest.

On the fifth floor of Lerner Hall, slightly past the Center for Undergraduate Student Life, there’s a door bearing the sign, “CU Records.”