Hello newly besweatered readers,

Welcome to our first proper issue of the semester! We hope you’re as excited as we are for a semester of beautiful, challenging journalism about the Columbia experience. Well, it’s probably not reasonable to ask you to be quite as excited as we are. But there’s certainly a lot to look forward to, and you get to read it on our new, much-improved website.

Like last week’s issue, The Eye finds itself unable to escape the whirlwind of changes taking place in our national political landscape. It seems as though every time we look at the news, a fresh headline threatening social and constitutional freedom pollutes our screens.