A last-minute nudge from a friend is what launched Mariam Jallow, CC ’25, into her four-year journey in student government. The outgoing Columbia College Student Council president, Jallow has spent ...

Dragging herself across the cracked floors of her living room, Gloria Acevedo was just in reach of her phone. After making her way up to her fifth-floor apartment, the 74-year-old had fallen. Normally ...

As New York Police Department officers arrived at Columbia’s campus in droves Wednesday evening amid an ongoing pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, our reporters braced for what would soon ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Afghan education activist and co-founder of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, will deliver Barnard’s 2025 Commencement address on Tuesday, the college announced in a ...

When my editor in the fall of 2023 first asked me to consider applying (“shooting”) to succeed her as Arts & Culture editor at Spectator, my instinctive reply was, “I don’t know what the fuck I’m ...

Men’s tennis advanced to the NCAA championship quarterfinals after defeating North Carolina State University to win the Super Regional this past weekend. The victory marks the Lions’ second season in ...

Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital agreed on May 5 to pay $750 million to 576 former patients of convicted OB-GYN Robert Hadden as part of a court-approved settlement. The agreement brings the ...

The Columbia College community celebrated the class of 2025 at its annual Class Day ceremony on Tuesday. The event, held on the Morningside campus, was the first this year to see an in-person speech ...

Phoebe Anderson, CC ’24, ended her collegiate career on a high. After a standout performance at the 2024 Northeast Regional competition, she punched her ticket to the NCAA Cross Country ...

Author’s note: I have written my senior column as a braided essay: a series of distinct vignettes and reflections across time placed in thematic—not chronological—order that I see as exemplative of my ...

I grew up by the latchkey kid motto: Don’t talk to strangers. It’s hard to imagine that the same kid who checked every bush for would-be kidnappers would one day step into apartments, climb into cars, ...

“The fact is, in practice, free speech is hard. It is counterintuitive and it requires real effort to live by its expectations. … We have, over time, come to realize that we need to learn how to ...