Barnard-Film-Archives

A young man and a young woman continue to miss each other at a museum. A ballet dancer twirls to the swells of the San Francisco Orchestra. A man listens carefully to the sounds around him while his family waits for him to hear them. Each of these stories range across different genres, ideas, and topics, almost seeming to hold little in common. Yet in reality, these stories were just a few of the films that were featured at this year’s CU Film Showcase hosted by the University Life Events Council.

Sitting inside the dark black box theater is a simple wooden structure—the bones of the house. Over the course of one weekend, this house will hold religious icons, a moonlit window, and the ghosts of women sacrificed in Greek mythology as three different stories come to life.

Kimberly Tsui, CC ’22, is an avid follower of Hollywood news. As a self-described nerd who hopes to one day enter the film industry, Tsui frequently reads content produced by large publications like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. However, she often found herself dissatisfied by the emphasis that news reports placed on objectivity, rather than taking a stance on issues of representation. As a response to this dissatisfaction, she founded Stereoscope Magazine.

Columbia-Barnard Young Democratic Socialists of America’s tuition strike, which organizers claim mobilized at least 1,000 student strikers at its peak, ended on Monday, April 5.

The polls for General Studies Student Council open on Monday, April 12, at 10 a.m. and will remain open until Thursday, April 15, at 10 a.m. The polls for the Barnard Student Government Association reopened on Wednesday, March 31, at around 4:30 p.m. and will remain open until Monday, April 12, at 12 p.m.

Barnard has received a record number of undergraduate applications for the class of 2025. This puts the college among the many selective, historically wealthier universities, including Columbia, that have seen more applicants than ever before amid the coronavirus pandemic—while public universities with smaller endowments and less wealthy students on average scrape for applicants.

Andersen Gu, a Columbia College sophomore, knows what it means to navigate New York as a Chinese American. Growing up in a predominantly Chinese-immigrant community in Queens, surrounded by people who looked like him, Gu found comfort in the community in the city; hearing people around him speak different languages made him accustomed to diversity and attending Chinese school connected him to his origins and community.

With a bright smile and infectious enthusiasm, chef Adriana Urbina cuts slits in a sweet potato before placing it into the microwave. In a bowl, she mixes chickpeas, yogurt, and lemon juice together. To finish off, she breaks mint leaves into tiny pieces for a garnish on the top. The end product is a nutritious dish she makes multiple times a week: chickpea-loaded sweet potatoes with lemon tahini.

A group of college-aged women dressed in togas roll hoops to a finish line and jump over hurdles in the 1920s. Another group of women listens diligently to recordings of consonants and vowels for an English speech course in the 1940s. Others are dressed in their best winter clothes with suitcases in hand about to embark on a journey to the Westchester hills. What do all these women have in common? They are all part of Barnard’s unique history.