Lerner-Hall

Lately, I’ve been reframing the unique features of my body as gifts from generations before me. I imagine my smile as belonging to my ancestors who found reasons to smile despite great adversities. I wonder if my back that allows me to stand tall belonged to men who refused to cower in fear. Did my hips belong to women who found rhythm in the crashing waves of the Caribbean Sea?

Eight mysterious figures, a semicircle of red chairs, and a hollow, gray stage––together, a town hall meeting at the edge of a world in crisis. Immediately, these figures warn the audience: “This is serious.” However, they go on: “This is not important,” “[This is] just a play.”

Several acts of vandalism have been reported on the 16th floor of East Campus, according to an email sent by Residential Life to the building’s residents.

Home Sweet Harlem feels like chef and owner Donna Lewis’s home. The brick walls are lined with modern artwork by black artists, while the pale yellow backroom showcases old framed photographs. Lewis’ menu—which offers Southern food like homemade pancakes, fresh buttermilk biscuits, and salmon croquettes—exudes a similar sense of comfort.

“Mine?” “Mine?” “Mine?” “Mine?” The animated squawking seagulls chant in unison, grasping for their hunger to be fulfilled.

I envy people who don’t like dining hall food because it means they must have grown up eating really good food. Dining hall food is delicious, but it will never be the same as whatever your mom, dad, grandparent, or other caretaker makes especially for you. And yet, out of all the love I have for my home, I’ve never felt nostalgic for a home-cooked meal. If we’re being perfectly honest, my family kinda cooks like shit. You always hear about how food is a person’s true connection to their home, culture, and family—but what if your parents aren’t very good cooks, and your grandparents live in Florida?

Vice President for Campus Services Scott Wright described plans for renovating Columbia spaces to better serve marginalized groups, a vision for designing a student-integrated health center, and affordable summer housing at the Columbia College Student Council meeting Sunday evening.

I am confident that, within the last week, everyone at this University has walked across the Broadway Median Strip at least once. For anyone unfamiliar, the BMS––as I’ll call it going forward––is that narrow patch of land that separates the two directions of traffic on Broadway Avenue. Columbia students use it––rather, need it––to cross the street. However, the BMS has unrealized potential: It is time for the Broadway Median Strip to become a destination rather than an intermediary between point A and point B.

Calorie counters, smaller plates, and high chairs are just a few of Hewitt Dining Hall’s newest additions following renovations this summer. However, in light of some of these changes, students have voiced concerns that public calorie counting may expose private dietary habits, smaller plates may contribute to rationing food, and new high-tabled areas may restrict dining accessibility.