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City officials declined to give money to Community Board 9 based on the group’s preliminary budget recommendations for housing and park renovations for the next fiscal year. However, the mayor’s office agreed to allocate money for youth education, which was a financial priority for CB9, a local advisory board representing Morningside Heights and surrounding areas.

Her words reverberated throughout the classical dome of Low Library’s rotunda, evoking the ancient Greek literature to which she alludes in her plays. She began with her first of a million suggestions: “Entertain all your far-out ideas.” She paused, looking up at the expansive ceiling and out at the sea of faces before her in Low Library’s rotunda. “It sounds good in here.”

Columbia and Barnard are both known for being politically active campuses. With the primaries in full swing and the presidential election right around the corner, you might be looking for how to get involved with political organizations on campus. Let Spectrum’s list guide you!

A woman ascends a staircase next to the audience, a noose hung loosely around her neck. At the same time, a man descends the same staircase, approaching her with a watermelon in his arms.

Suzan-Lori Parks says that some have likened her forthcoming play “White Noise,” to getting your skin peeled off, layer by layer. But Parks’ works, while often an amalgamation of the provocative, unsettling, disturbing, and even upsetting, still remain a method of course correction, a way to heal through narrative.

Unlike some other Columbia students, I have no prestigious Wall Street or Silicon Valley summer internship to boast about, and I have no intention of getting one. To the contrary, I spent this past summer witnessing how corporate interests have waged a class war against the most vulnerable Americans.

With less than a day until President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, students at Columbia and Barnard are mobilizing to protest as part of Women's Marches in both New York and Washington, D.C. in opposition to the new president.

Every fall break, the Columbia University Democrats bus out across the country, from Virginia to Ohio, on an annual campaign trip. In years past, we have helped elect governors and helped reelect presidents. But this year, we will take to the porches and street corners of Maine, not to support a candidate for election, but in the hopes of attaining an ideal—campaign finance reform.