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The Columbia Spectator, founded in 1877, delivers news and information daily to thousands of readers around Columbia, Morningside Heights, and West Harlem. We are the second-oldest college daily paper in the country and have been financially independent from the University since 1962. The newspaper is published five days a week during the academic year and our blog network, Spectrum, offers update

s on news, arts, commentary, and photos from around campus and New York City. The organization is run by undergraduates from Barnard, Columbia College, the School of General Studies, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, with a staff totaling over 200 students. Spectator has opportunities for a wide range of interests, including reporting, writing, editing, photography, design, multimedia, and finance. Along with the daily paper and blogs, Spectator Publishing Company Inc. includes The Eye, a weekly arts and features magazine; and the business division, which manages Spectator's financial standing. If you're interested in joining or have any general questions, please contact us at [email protected].

Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science admitted 4.29 percent of applicants for the class of ...
03/28/2025

Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science admitted 4.29 percent of applicants for the class of 2029, accepting 2,557 students from a pool of 59,616 applications.
The schools notified regular decision applicants of their decisions on Thursday evening.

Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science admitted 4.29 percent of applicants for the class of 2029, accepting 2,557 students from a pool of 59,616 applications.

Barnard will implement “Foundations @ Barnard: A New Era for First-Year Learning,” ushering in a new curriculum that wil...
03/28/2025

Barnard will implement “Foundations @ Barnard: A New Era for First-Year Learning,” ushering in a new curriculum that will ensure Barnard first-year students take the majority of their classes, including their Modes of Thinking requirements, at Barnard.

Barnard will implement “Foundations @ Barnard: A New Era for First-Year Learning,” ushering in a new curriculum that will ensure Barnard first-year students take the majority of their classes, including their Modes of Thinking requirements, at Barnard.

Wrestling traveled to Philadelphia last week for the NCAA wrestling championships. Five Lions represented Columbia at th...
03/28/2025

Wrestling traveled to Philadelphia last week for the NCAA wrestling championships. Five Lions represented Columbia at the Wells Fargo Arena, and while four suffered 2-0 losses, junior Nick Fine saw the longest run of the team, ultimately ending in the second consolation round.

Wrestling traveled to Philadelphia last week to compete in the NCAA wrestling championships.

Baseball’s Ivy League campaign began this weekend with a series sweep over Brown. Junior outfielder Cole Fellows and jun...
03/28/2025

Baseball’s Ivy League campaign began this weekend with a series sweep over Brown. Junior outfielder Cole Fellows and junior infielder Sam Miller dominated at the plate, going a combined 13-24 with four home runs, 14 runs, and 16 RBIs.

Baseball swept Brown in its opening Ivy League series over the weekend, outscoring the Bears by a total of 27 runs over three games and placing Columbia atop the conference table early on.

Spectator spoke to the dedicated Lions fans who followed women’s basketball to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during its h...
03/27/2025

Spectator spoke to the dedicated Lions fans who followed women’s basketball to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during its historic March Madness run.

A faithful group of Lions fans arrived at Carmichael Arena in Chapel Hill on March 20 to watch women’s basketball defeat the University ...

Men’s tennis traveled to California for a pair of matches over spring break. While the team started with a close win aga...
03/27/2025

Men’s tennis traveled to California for a pair of matches over spring break. While the team started with a close win against a tough University of San Diego opponent, its winning streak ended against Pepperdine University.

Men’s tennis traveled to California over spring break to take on the University of San Diego and Pepperdine University, splitting results to end a five-match winning streak.

Amid numerous funding freezes and staffing cuts, the Trump administration has stalled funding to the U.S. Department of ...
03/27/2025

Amid numerous funding freezes and staffing cuts, the Trump administration has stalled funding to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In West Harlem, where public housing is abundant, residents are fearful about potential impacts to accessibility.

The Trump administration has stalled funding to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through numerous funding freezes and staffing cuts. In West Harlem, where public housing is abundant, some residents are fearful about potential impacts to housing accessibility.

“Universities are targeted because they produce a form of social power that is dangerous to all authoritarian regimes—tr...
03/27/2025

“Universities are targeted because they produce a form of social power that is dangerous to all authoritarian regimes—truth. Not final truth, not God-given truth, but empirical truth that withstands the hardest tests we can devise,” sociology professors Gil Eyal and Peter Bearman write in a new op-ed. They argue that Columbia “risked squandering our unity by appearing to appease the Trump administration” and push the administration to take a stronger stance against the federal government’s demands.

The letter that the University submitted in response to the Trump administration’s demands fails to rise to the gravity of the authoritarian moment we are experiencing. A federal administ...

On March 6, Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry kicked off the Athena Film Festival with a screening of her new fil...
03/27/2025

On March 6, Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry kicked off the Athena Film Festival with a screening of her new film “Satisfied,” a documentary about her two years originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in “Hamilton.” The screening was followed by a talkback with Goldsberry and film director Melissa Haizlip.

Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry kicked off the Athena Film Festival on March 6 in the Diana Center Event Oval with a screening of her new film “Satisfied,” a documentary about her two years originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in “Hamilton.” The screening was followed by a tal...

This Saturday, Spectator and Columbia College Student Council will co-host their biannual Free Food Expo from noon to 2 ...
03/27/2025

This Saturday, Spectator and Columbia College Student Council will co-host their biannual Free Food Expo from noon to 2 p.m. on Low Plaza. Come check out the event and sample offerings from 13 local vendors across Morningside Heights and beyond!

This Saturday, March 29, Spectator and Columbia College Student Council will co-host the biannual Free Food Expo from noon to 2 p.m. on Low Plaza. To participate, install the Columbia Spectator app, available on the A...

The federal government brought new accusations in their case against Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, alleging that he willfull...
03/27/2025

The federal government brought new accusations in their case against Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, alleging that he willfully failed to disclose membership in certain organizations when he applied to become a permanent U.S. resident.

The Department of Homeland Security alleged that Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, willfully failed to disclose his employment with the Syria office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he applied for permanent U.S. residency in a Sunday

“Columbia’s disavowment of student activism as illegitimate—and its readiness to refer to the federal government’s conce...
03/27/2025

“Columbia’s disavowment of student activism as illegitimate—and its readiness to refer to the federal government’s concerns as legitimate—when it challenges embedded systems of oppression is a calculated maneuver to suppress political resistance,” Keegan Butler, GSAS ’25, writes in a new op-ed, where he argues that the University is perpetuating “archaic institutional racism.”

Once again, Barnard and Columbia have exposed the hypocrisy at the heart of their institutional rhetoric. On March 5, Barnard College called in the New York Police Department, which arrested

“At Columbia, where students juggle rigorous coursework, extracurricular commitments, and ambitious career paths, the na...
03/27/2025

“At Columbia, where students juggle rigorous coursework, extracurricular commitments, and ambitious career paths, the nature of our romantic relationships have an immense influence on our present lives and our futures,” Mexican lawyer and Columbia alumnus Denisse G. Gómez writes in a new op-ed. For Gómez, supportive partners “uplift without hesitation, celebrate without resentment, and adapt to growth without fear.”

A woman I admire once shared a piece of advice that would accompany me through a couple of heartbreaks: “You have to know how to be with someone who gives you wings to fly.” She would say that the reason for her divorce was that he didn’t know how to handle the success she began to have years ...

Harsh Jain, Business ’14, CEO and co-founder of India’s leading sports technology company, Dream Sports, will serve as t...
03/27/2025

Harsh Jain, Business ’14, CEO and co-founder of India’s leading sports technology company, Dream Sports, will serve as the School of Engineering and Applied Science Class Day speaker on May 19, SEAS announced Wednesday.

Harsh Jain, Business ’14, CEO and co-founder of India’s leading sports technology company, Dream Sports, will serve as the School of Engineering and Applied Science Class Day speaker on May 19, SEAS announced in a Wednesday

Women’s golf secured 15th out of a 19-team pool with strong performances from its first-years at the Red Rocks Invitatio...
03/27/2025

Women’s golf secured 15th out of a 19-team pool with strong performances from its first-years at the Red Rocks Invitational in Sedona, Arizona from March 14 to March 16.

Women’s golf headed west to Sedona, Arizona to compete in a 19-team tournament for the Red Rocks Invitational from March 14 to March 16.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor, CC ’96, will serve as the Colum...
03/27/2025

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor, CC ’96, will serve as the Columbia College Class Day speaker on May 20, Columbia College announced Wednesday.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor, CC ’96, will serve as the Columbia College Class Day speaker on May 20, Columbia College announced Wednesday.

Women’s tennis suffered back-to-back losses over the course of two weekends, losing to No. 43 Rice on March 15 and No. 5...
03/27/2025

Women’s tennis suffered back-to-back losses over the course of two weekends, losing to No. 43 Rice on March 15 and No. 51 Cal Poly the next Friday. No. 71 Columbia looks ahead to the start of conference play this Saturday.

Women’s tennis broke a three-game winning streak with a loss to Rice University at home on Saturday before taking on California Polytechnic State University, where they fell in a tightly contested 4-3 match.

Over 50 demonstrators gathered at the Sundial and outside Columbia’s 116th and Broadway gates on Monday as part of an “i...
03/27/2025

Over 50 demonstrators gathered at the Sundial and outside Columbia’s 116th and Broadway gates on Monday as part of an “informational picket” organized by Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers.

Over 50 demonstrators gathered at the Sundial and outside Columbia’s 116th Street and Broadway gates on Monday as part of an “informational picket” organized by Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers.

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The Columbia Spectator, founded in 1877, delivers news and information daily to thousands of readers around Columbia, Morningside Heights, and West Harlem. We are the second-oldest college daily paper in the country and have been financially independent from the University since 1962. The organization is run by undergraduates from Barnard, Columbia College, General Studies, and SEAS, with a staff totaling over 250 students. Spectator has opportunities for a wide range of interests, including reporting, writing, editing, photography, design, multimedia, marketing, sales, and finance. Along with daily content online and weekly paper, Spectator Publishing Company Inc. includes The Eye, an arts and features magazine, and the business division, which manages Spectator's financial standing. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. To submit an op-ed, contact [email protected]. Send news tips to [email protected].

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