Many of the players who helped Columbia to 23.1 points per game last season are back in the fold. The pieces are there; they just need to come together.
The offense has to start roaring.
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She is completely vulnerable and emotionally naked with her readers, writing: “This year I cried at everyone's table / I spit on the street and was late on purpose / Stepped in glass and my dog died / I saw minutes over and over.”
When I finished reading the collection, I kept returning to one word: urgency. The poems all possess this sensibility, like Parker is desperately trying to be seen.
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This is what we need — more depictions of Black youth simply existing in the world — because in the United States, Black youth are criminalized for their existence. DuVernay reveals how something as mundane as childhood is a luxury for many Black and brown boys and girls that can have it snatched away at any moment.
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Listen in as Henri and Zach interview Mamadou., one of the most exciting voices Columbia’s music scene has to offer. Blending influences of poetry, hip-hop, soul and R&B, Mamadou.’s music is versatile in both genre and mood. His ability as a storyteller is fascinating, and despite the somber subject of Mamadou.’s rhymes, it’s difficult to not find yourself singing along to the grooves he creates.
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DormStories speaks with Naomi Hollard, the leader of Sunrise Columbia. Sunrise is a climate change activist movement. They have an upcoming town hall this Saturday on the Green New Deal. We talk about the creation of Sunrise Columbia, Hollard's path into activism, the fact everyone has something to lose from climate change, and The Green New Deal.
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Each morning of fourth grade—her first school year in Louisiana—the eldest Thompson child had to be dialed in. There was no way Ms. Maniscalco could’ve known, but the chocolate kisses she gave to the first person who finished their multiplication and division problems were Annie’s only potential source of food until dinner.
2019 has been an eventful year for music. Big names from a variety of genres have released projects, ranging from the electronic pop of Billie Eilish’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? to the hardcore trap anthems that Rich the Kid brings in The World Is Yours 2. While the year has only just begun, we have seen releases from both established industry names like Sia and newer independent artists like HappyBirthdayCalvin.
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Gabe Stefanini began the basketball season an unknown quantity and quickly emerged as Columbia’s glue, a life raft keeping the Lions afloat. For a program desperately needing a steady hand, Stefanini’s exemplary play offered a glimpse at the team-wide sea change that can occur when a role player becomes a star.
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The first thing that stands out about Forrest is his shooting, which helped Lower Merion to a 28-6 record, ranked 23rd in Pennsylvania, in his senior season. The guard has a very clean shooting stroke and a tight, quick release that should translate very well to the college game.
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Before this spring, I had never been on the water with a crew. I trained for months on the indoor ergs, all in preparation to finally hold an oar in my hands.
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Now, a portrait of the vibist as a young man. From Southern California, J.C. started on piano when he was six, but it wasn’t his main passion (get it?). “I wasn’t a good practicer,” he told me. “It was casual.” That is, until the day his middle-school band teacher asked if he wanted to play vibes. And he’s been hip ever since.
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Yet Dubus gave me a vocabulary and an understanding of fear that I would have never encountered if not for him. Love is mysterious, wonderful, and hard work. Why can’t fear be all of those things as well? A darkness within our selves that is intertwined with the possibility of wonder and mystery.
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For the first time in my life, I had something that centered myself. I could walk the streets of Harlem, removed from fear. I couldn’t define what sparked it, either, this sentimental sensation whenever I placed my pen onto the canvas. And I got addicted. It was my release. My weapon.
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On the fourth episode of DormStories, hosts Viggo Blomquist and Aunnoy Podder sit down with Professor Geraldine Downey and Jarrell Daniels from Columbia’s Center for Justice.
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In the second episode of The Up&Up, Henri and Zach talk to Bacchanal student opener Oswald Fresh. A senior from Houston, Fresh describes his sound as “a mix of Jack Johnson and Juice WRLD.” Topics cover Bacchanal, finding his sound, influences, and much more.
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Nonetheless, with just three seniors (Adlesh, C.J. Davis, and Peter Barba) departing at the end of the semester, Columbia’s future looks bright. But one only truly knows how bright the future looks by examining it; let’s do that by comparing two of the team’s brightest first-years with two of its top upperclassmen.
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I didn’t notice the small memorial the first time I walked into the building, but when the flickering candle caught my eye one night, I was reminded of Awn’s omnipresence. He is everywhere in Lewisohn Hall, and even now I find myself waiting for him to bound down the stairs or waltz through the glass door of the GS lounge.
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Welcome to the debut episode of The Up&Up!
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