The Ear
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The Ear is a society podcast hosted by The Columbia Daily Spectator. It has 41 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
By investigating the past and present of Columbia University through audio projects, The Ear aims to uncover rich, controversial, and enduring stories that may be otherwise hidden from the community. The Ear is a podcast of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the undergraduate newspaper at Columbia.
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Dressing the Part: Professional Style on Columbia’s Campus
The General Studies Gap: What $30 Million Means for the School Designed for Nontraditional Students
Twin telepathy: How field hockey players Kate and Ashley Kim embrace sisterhood on the pitch
Jagdish Bhagwati: The Columbia economist who helped shape India and the world
In search of effective leadership: Spectator Editorial Board on Columbia’s next president
Trump vs. Columbia: What the University’s Concession Means Now
Performing post-gate closures: Columbia’s Postcrypt Coffeehouse
The Keepers: Who Holds Our History?
Arrests at Barnard: An account of the Milstein sit-in and the nine arrests that followed
Thinking twice about a dog’s thoughts: Barnard’s Dog Cognition Lab
From Hamilton Hall to Hind’s: Inside the Occupation
33 Hours in the ‘Liberated Zone’
Riverside Church and the Road to Racial Justice
Neurodivergent community and support at Columbia
Nim Chimpsky and Columbia’s Fraught History with Animal Experimentation
From Canton to Columbia: Low’s Legacy with Opium
Columbia’s ‘activist Ivy’ legacy amid pro-Palestinian campus resistance
The Cradle of the Bomb: Columbia University and the Origins of the Manhattan Project
Life Behind Language: How Heritage Impacts Language Learning
Mapping Rurality: Defining Columbia’s ‘Rural Student’
Voices in the Archive: The Repatriation of Columbia's Indigenous Audio Recordings
Searching for Said: Edward Said’s Legacy Beyond ‘Orientalism’
Perception vs. Reality: Student Crime Fears in NYC
RAs at Columbia: The Trials and Triumphs
“Every Corner of the Globe”: Is Columbia Limiting International Students to America?
Organizing for Iran at Columbia and beyond
Extreme Activism: ‘What We Did to be Seen’
Contemporary Curriculum: Changing the way we learn Black history
Lust, Love, and Literature: The Columbia Murder that Launched the Beats
Disorientation: Navigating the Pandemic as an International Student
Some Food for Thought: The History of Dining on Campus
Is It Frat Flu, Carman Cough or COVID-19?: Balancing a Pandemic with Student Health Needs
When the Navy Came to Campus: Columbia’s Navy ROTC Debate
Understanding Rural Education Inequity
Columbia’s Composers: Keeping Composure in Quarantine
Jazz: Universal Language or Community Divider?
Science and Skulls: Measuring Columbia’s Eugenicist Past
The Many Lives of Greek Life
Fall Break Debate, 50 Years Later
Chiseling the City
Two Murders, 47 Years Apart
The Continued Crisis
The Woman at the Center of the Photograph
Women Bard from Entry
Ear Mini Episode: The Grove
Dark (Morning)side of the Moon
S03 Episode 2: Starr's Wars, Episode II
S03 Episode 1: Starr's Wars, Episode I
S01 Episode 3: Two Minutes to Midnight
S01 Episode 2: Columbia’s Prehistory
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