special features

In honor of the archives issue, we dedicated this week’s Blinks to answering the question: What’s the most interesting story you’ve found in the Spectator archives?

I was first introduced to the world of women’s wrestling by one of my editors, a female wrestler herself. She told me that Bri Csontos, a first-year at Columbia College and previously a member of the Virginia Women’s National Wrestling team, intends to start Columbia’s first women’s wrestling club.

In honor of this week’s Space Issue, we took the word “space” in another direction—in fact, hundreds of miles away. Outer space. What would you do in your first 15 minutes in a galaxy far, far away?

A Korean-American student was originally meant to write this introduction. But she was afraid that, as an Asian person, she was unequipped to produce a preface for a video project that aspires to capture Blackness at our school. Being 12.5 percent biologically blacker than the next blackest person at The Eye, the task of introducing Black Columbia-ness has thus been left to me.

The Eye—the magazine itself—was named after the author and urban theorist Jane Jacobs’ and her belief that the “eyes on the street” help keep cities safe. The Ear, then, alludes to the stories we’re always listening for.

"Tiny Dorm Concerts" is a recurring video segment of The Eye that features Barnard and Columbia-affiliated artists performing their music where they most often play it—the places they live. Artists also have the opportunity to talk about their music, backgrounds, and involvement on campus.

For this week’s Blinks, we asked our staffers to dig out the tiny traditions that have taken shape in their own day to day lives. The little pieces of repetition or habit that hold greater meaning. From paper submissions to salads, and late emails to libraries, here are the results:

"Tiny Dorm Concerts" is a recurring video segment of The Eye that features Barnard and Columbia-affiliated artists performing their music where they most often play it—the places they live. Artists also have the opportunity to talk about their music, backgrounds, and involvement on campus.