Columbia finally did it. After years of sitting on the sidelines in a city where late-night talk shows litter the Midtown landscape, the undergraduate community produced a late-night television show of its own, one determined to fill in the gaps of campus gossip and throw some much needed shade at Columbia in ways that are equally blatant and refreshing. CU Tonight is the monthly late-night comedy special that undergraduate students from Barnard to SEAS didn’t know they needed.

Raw Elementz, Columbia’s oldest hip-hop dance collective, has been a dance powerhouse on campus for nearly two decades. This year marks the group’s 18th consecutive year performing for the Columbia student body, and this season follows last spring’s 10-year anniversary of the RAWCUS: 360° annual showcase. There is no doubt that Raw Elementz has remained a driving force in hip-hop dance and choreography far longer than any other group on campus, but it may be the case that this crew is just getting warmed up.

Forget ball-drops, forget rain and frozen ponchos, Monday night’s concert at Glicker-Milstein theater surpassed any 2019 New Year’s Eve party you might have been stuck with—and was only a month late in doing so.

Columbia University Bach Society is not your average extracurricular commitment. Whereas many music groups try to modernize their content, the Bach Society diligently practices challenging compositions of high baroque and Western classical music.

It was a lucky chance that Kosta Karakashyan, CC ’19, decided on Columbia. Nearly four years ago, when Karakashyan was applying to college in the U.K., he became frustrated by the application process.