Each April as we look back on a full year of reporting and writing, the expanse of the landscape of story topics on which our writers have tread always amazes me. This year, the expanse of our journalistic wanderings, both on campus and off, makes me particularly proud.

Graduate students began a weeklong strike Tuesday morning, chanting slogans and carrying signs along a picket line across College Walk as they protested the University's refusal to bargain with the graduate student union.

Welcome to our comics issue! Taking inspiration from this year’s fantastic New York Times Magazine comics issue, we teamed our writers up with our wonderful illustrators to bring you stories from campus as comics. (Don’t worry, though, we’ve got some of our good ol’ narrative pieces for you, too.)

Welcome to our penultimate issue of the semester. If you’re like us, you learned the word “penultimate” from A Series of Unfortunate Events and you are also pretty sad that our semester is coming to a close. (Parth wants to add that he is a nerd and learned it from the “penultimate” shell of an electron.)

Welcome to the Archives issue. Our pieces this week look back; from the history of jazz at Columbia to personal pasts, we endeavour to take you through histories of various scales and impacts.

Absolute is (temporarily) shut down. Hung over first-years haunt the space outside Carman, where they seem to cluster like pigeons. Fall break lies just behind a barbed fence. It’s Halloween time.

Dear kind, careless, caffeinated reader,

This week, we’re talking about space. So many of the problems on this campus are because of a lack of space—for students to learn and play, for new buildings. We’re also thinking about intellectual space and whether there’s enough for thinkers of color at Columbia. We hope that this issue gets you thinking as well.

This is just to say: I have eaten the apples that you had picked. And that you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me, the snake told me to.