Sarah O'Grady
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What started out as a makeshift recording studio crammed inside a John Jay Hall dorm room is now WKCR-FM, Columbia’s radio station. Going 85 years strong, the station continues to make waves throughout the New York City metropolitan area as a platform for music not broadcast elsewhere.
Next of Kin, offered at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, is not an ordinary architecture course. For the last day of its Advanced Studio IV final reviews on April 28, professor Christoph Kumpusch invited experts from across disciplines to guest critique, including a death doula, a New York City Ballet principal dancer, and Australian architect and model Bianca Censori.
Most students returning home from college connect with loved ones over family dinner. For Zelda Adams, CC ’26, though, family bonding takes a different form, one involving fewer board games and a lot more blood.
For Will Park, CC ’26, what started out as his older sister dragging him outside to take Instagram-worthy pictures of her and her friends became photographing models at Paris Fashion Week.
For its 50th Scholar and Feminist Conference, the Barnard Center for Research on Women had one goal: meet the moment.
A seemingly inconspicuous white intercom speaker alluded toward the board’s presence, silently presiding over the length of an Avid Academy panel discussion. Emmy-nominated “Severance” editors Keith Fraase and Joseph Landauer discussed their editing histories at the event, from fluid morphs to inspirational nuggets of gold.
As dusk engulfed Columbia’s central lawns, a warm glow radiated from the Sundial as the Chicanx Caucus added the finishing touches to its communal ofrenda—a table decorated with photographs, flowers, and candles for Día de Los Muertos.