Posts in Archive 2
X's and O's: Takeaways from Columbia's weekend road-trip

For a Columbia team that’s mostly suffered tough loss after tough loss, a weekend road split has to be a positive outcome. In a season where few bounces have gone Columbia’s way, the Lions engineered enough overtime luck to walk out of the famed Penn Palestra with a 79-77 win before running out of good fortune in a disheartening 79-61 loss at Princeton.

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Archive 2Josiah Cohen
Concentration

From New York City to Arizona, I explore the interactions between environment and the individual. I found we often rely on atmosphere and dress to differentiate individuals, not their own individual characteristics.

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Archive 2Viggo Blomquist
Confessions of a Consumerist

Instead, I reminded myself that her parents paid $20 per hour plus fare for a cab back to school, that her mom didn’t care how much YouTube she watched, that they were my friend’s primary babysitting gig and for her sake I couldn’t piss them off. And so I kept watching a six-year-old who had more toys than most people have skin cells watch other people unwrap cheap gifts. She had the glazed eyes of an addict numbed by her latest fix.

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Archive 2Amabella Rice
New Music Mondays: The Up & Up

New semester, new tunes. This is the first edition of The Up & Up's editors’ picks of the week's best new music. The playlist includes hits and slow jams from a multitude of genres, including hip-hop, pop, alternative, R&B and more.

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Archive 2Henri Vrod
A Lesson in Dedication: Inside the studio with bay b. Bop

For the next thirty minutes, she is in complete control of her audience, moving from one side of the small stage to the other with alluring grace. When watching her it becomes clear she is a seasoned performer, though she has only been performing for a little over two years. At her shows bay b. Bop is always witty, vulnerable, and utterly self-aware.

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Archive 2Tyler Campbell
Finding a Place for the Young Veteran

On any given day, Lewisohn Hall is full of former ballerinas and motocross racers, single parents wrangling children, and Navy SEALS. But it also houses a community of international military veterans who served their home countries due to mandatory conscription. You have undoubtedly sat next to these students in your classes and had no idea.

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Archive 2Maddie Covino
Witchery and Wealth: Wicca's "Suffer On"

He weaves tales of pain, blood, and loss into an atmosphere of acoustic guitars, distorted 808s and blaring, high-frequency hi-hats à la Tay Keith. This combination frames the experimental Wicca Phase Springs Eternal as a shepherd of the burgeoning emo-rap movement, a founding father of a genre still in its infancy.

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Archive 2Henry Schwartz