March-Madness

March 7 was the last time the Columbia men’s basketball team took the floor. That night, now over eight months ago, rival University of Pennsylvania thrashed the Lions in Philadelphia 85-65, wrapping up a devastating 6-24 campaign that saw Columbia finish at the very bottom of the Ancient Eight.

With spring break around the corner, finding good deals for flights may be difficult. But don’t worry: it’s not impossible. There are still good, inclusive deals to be found within the depths of the Internet. Spectrum has scoured a myriad of sites to find the best airline tickets so you can vacation on a budget!

An estimated 150,000 people marched in New York City’s March for Our Lives protest on Saturday, an event organized by several Columbia Law School students in efforts to advocate for stricter gun control.

On April 27, 2017, not long before of the 30th anniversary of Take Back the Night, the streets of Morningside Heights were silent.

In the midst of the #MeToo movement, when new allegations of sexual harassment regularly make national headlines, the Women’s March on New York City brought more than 200,000 people of all ages to the Upper West Side. Held on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s election, people took to the streets to call for change in the White House as well as in their day-to-day lives.

On Feb. 15, students and professors, heads adorned in different shades of pink, flooded into the Event Oval of the Diana Center. The pussyhats clashed with the Event Oval’s elegant mahogany—they were as pink as Pepto-Bismol, teacup pigs, pencil erasers, intestines, or bubble gum.

The Trump era has inaugurated a wave of protests and struggle not seen in the United States for some time. Since the election of Donald Trump, students in particular have begun to sense the urgent need for a sustained and strong resistance against the Trump administration and its policies. In the days following Trump’s election, students at Columbia and across the country walked out of class to demonstrate their opposition to Trump himself, his policies, and the rise of ethno-nationalism that his election represents.

Over 100 Columbia students joined approximately 500,000 protesters for the Women's March on Washington in response to the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Saturday, comprising one part of the largest nationwide protest in United States history.