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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.

It is 1990. Twelve-year-old Beans and her family learn that a golf course is to be constructed on Mohawk burial grounds. They eagerly join a group of protesters to try to block the construction, but riot police disperse tear gas into the crowd of protesters, triggering a shootout that leaves an officer dead. The Mohawk people barricade their land; the Canadian government, who refuses to concede, soon calls the army to step in. The Oka Crisis has begun.

Despite COVID-19 restrictions that have isolated dance students across the globe, Barnard dance classes are in full swing. In their Zoom rectangles, dancers listen to their lectures and clear spaces in their homes for technique classes in disciplines like ballet and modern. In 2018, Barnard still offered tap classes such as Tap Ensemble and Tap as an American Art Form, which were classes that taught beyond the introductory levels of these dance styles. However, tap classes and lectures have disappeared from the Barnard dance course offerings despite still being listed on the Barnard dance department website.

At the beginning of the short film “Oleander,” the spirited teenager Oleander Jones kisses her boyfriend in the back of his pickup truck, proudly declaring, “I believe in the power of love. And by love, I mean sex, and by sex, I mean that sexual fulfillment is a fundamental right.” In a country where sexual education—particularly the continued emphasis on abstinence-only sexual education—is an increasingly contentious subject, Oleander’s unabashedly pro-sex attitude shatters norms of female sexuality.

Over the past few months, nearly 20 restaurants in Morningside Heights have temporarily or permanently shut down as a result of the pandemic. While outdoor and indoor dining have given restaurants avenues for revenue, indoor dining has been put on hold starting Monday, Dec. 14. Despite these hardships, two new restaurants along Amsterdam Avenue have recently opened.

As a child, writer and director Channing Godfrey Peoples attended the Miss Juneteenth pageant held each year in Fort Worth, Texas. Seeing beautiful black women celebrated on stage, on the holiday that commemorates when slaves in Texas learned that they had been freed in 1865, left a lasting impression on her.

It was a decade of many firsts for the Columbia women’s tennis program. Led by head coach and former Lion Ilene Weintraub, CC ’02, the Light Blue notched its first-ever winning Ivy League season, claimed its first Ancient Eight title, won ECACs four times, and earned its highest ranking in program history.

Columbia women’s tennis built on its six-game winning streak on Feb. 23 with a decisive win over Washington State University, nationally ranked No. 34. The Lions finished the grueling match with a 4-3 win at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center.

Almost every part of women’s swimming and diving was firing on all cylinders on Saturday when Columbia (4-3, 4-3 Ivy) dismantled Dartmouth (2-7, 1-4 Ivy) 215-84 in its last home meet of the season. The contest against the Big Green also marked the last dual meet of eight seniors’ careers. The Light Blue flexed their muscles to honor those seniors, only dropping three events to Dartmouth the whole day.