Despite the disheartening stretch of poor play and bad luck, there remain reasons to be optimistic about head coach Jim Engles’ young squad. While the basketball gods aren’t smiling on Columbia just yet, let’s take a look at five things that still provide some hope for the Lions.
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In two places—an off-grid RV site outside Questa, New Mexico and a Benedictine Monastery called Our Lady of the Desert—I looked around for something worth worshipping.
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The name implies something sharp: a quick left turn or a jagged, jutting movement into a new terrain. In baseball, from which the name derives, the change-up pitch refers to several individual acts happening all at once. In sequence, the pitcher frames his body and arches his release, projecting a sense of where the ball might arrive.
Read MoreIf we imagine the rest of the men’s basketball season playing out in one million separate worlds, is there a world where Columbia qualifies for the Ivy League Tournament? That’s the question behind The Change-Up’s statistical strategy of forecasting this year’s Ivy season, and the short answer is: yes, but don’t count on it.
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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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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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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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45 seconds into the contest, Columbia has the ball on offense. The Lions snatch an offensive rebound and Casey bolts to the three-point line before commanding the ball from her teammate. She gets the ball, shoots, and swishes a three—Columbia’s first basket of the day.
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When I was little, I wanted to be like Angela Ruggiero.
Read MoreIn a world where you can order food at the tap of a button, more and more restaurants find that food deliveries account for most of their revenue, according to conversations with local restaurant owners. With rent skyrocketing every year, these places find it harder and harder to keep up, as the number of diners willing to eat-in decreases.
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This may not seem like much, but in a sport that can often seem solitary, Columbia fencing makes it seem anything but.
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