What I Wish I Knew Before Starting College
By: Skylar Zachian || Staff Writer Attention incoming first-years: It’s Skylar, your friendly resident First-Year Advising Mentor, aka FAM, reporting for duty. You may have looked at the title of…
A Year Away: What Does the Future Hold?
By Andrew Lara | Contributing Writer If you could look into the future, are you sure you would want to? As the end of my junior year gets closer, I…
Who’s Afraid of Banned Books?
By Teagan Durkin | Staff Writer When I was a high school sophomore, my book club selected a book that I did not personally vote for. Given that I had…
Mental Health in College
By Crystal Olague || Staff Writer Mental health is a tricky thing. It affects us every day, and we never know how it will affect us. I’ve spent the last…
Please, Tell Me Your Story
By Anna Chiaradonna | Staff Writer As a little girl, I had debilitating anxiety that, many times, could only be soothed through reading. As I have grown up, literature, while…
You Can’t Steal That
By: Anonymous We have some nice things on this campus — and for the amount you’re paying in tuition, you might feel entitled to “repossess” certain items you come across.…
Stop Searching for Love, You Already Found It
By Crystal Olague || Staff Writer Let’s talk about Valentine’s Day. A day of love, joy, and happiness. It is a beautiful day to celebrate all the relationships you cherish…
Black History Month VS Predominantly White Institutions – The Battle for Inclusion on a Foundation of Exclusion
By Mia Aaronson || Staff Writer A “predominantly white institution” (often referred to using the acronym “PWI”) is a term used to describe institutions of higher education where 50% or…
Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over the World?
By Emily Hanson || Arts and Leisure Editor Just when you think you’ve seen the weirdest feature the internet has to offer, it rolls out Artificial Intelligence robots that answer…
Working on Campus: Is it worth the $8?
By Crystal Olague || Staff Writer If you’re a college student, you may understand the importance of having a job, especially a job that pays well. Unfortunately, many students don’t…
A Sociologically Informed Critique of the Meritocratic Argument for Inequality
Photo courtesy of Florian Direny. By Florian Direny || Staff Writer A common objection presented by inequality apologists in the face of social and economic disparities pertains to the argument…
Transitioning to College with Dyslexia
By Anna Chiaradonna I used to believe that I would never make it to college. In elementary school, I was diagnosed with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, and Visual-Spatial Processing Disorder. By…
Floods in Pakistan: How Have You, F&M, the US, and the World Contributed to a Growing Crisis
By Jonah Fisher || Staff Writer On Tuesday night last week, students gathered in the Stohr Auditorium in Stager to hear from three professors. Coming from wildly different perspectives (anthropology,…
An Anecdotal Essay on the Need for Diverse Role Models in the Humanities and Liberal Arts
By Florian Direny || Contributing Writer (Florian Direny, left; Dean Jelani Cobb, right) Picture taken near Columbia’s main campus, next to the best halal food truck of all New York.…
Healthcare Affordability and Access are Crucial to Mitigating the Health Impacts of Environmental Degradation
By Florian Direny || Contributing Writer Anyone even remotely familiar with American political discourse likely knows that healthcare access continues to be at the center of mainstream debates, and for…