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The Ear — 58 episodes

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A Step Inside the Ring: Women’s Wrestling’s Road to Varsity

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Who Should Teach the Core? A Graduate Workers Union’s Clash with Columbia and its Impact on University Curriculum

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Two Schools, One Schedule: The Columbia-Juilliard Exchange

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A Small Click, A World of Access: Spectator Editorial Board on Columbia’s data breach

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A Stroll Through Shifting Shops: How Small Businesses in Morningside Heights Have Changed

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A Collector, a Cartoonist, and a Figure on ‘the Timeline’: The Life and Legacy of Adam Elkhadem

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Dressing the Part: Professional Style on Columbia’s Campus

8

The General Studies Gap: What $30 Million Means for the School Designed for Nontraditional Students

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Twin telepathy: How field hockey players Kate and Ashley Kim embrace sisterhood on the pitch

10

Jagdish Bhagwati: The Columbia economist who helped shape India and the world

11

In search of effective leadership: Spectator Editorial Board on Columbia’s next president

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From Morningside Heights to Wall Street: An exploration of Columbia’s finance clubs

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Trump vs. Columbia: What the University’s Concession Means Now

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Performing post-gate closures: Columbia’s Postcrypt Coffeehouse

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The Keepers: Who Holds Our History?

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Arrests at Barnard: An account of the Milstein sit-in and the nine arrests that followed

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Thinking twice about a dog’s thoughts: Barnard’s Dog Cognition Lab

18

From Hamilton Hall to Hind’s: Inside the Occupation

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33 Hours in the ‘Liberated Zone’

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Riverside Church and the Road to Racial Justice

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Neurodivergent community and support at Columbia

22

Nim Chimpsky and Columbia’s Fraught History with Animal Experimentation

23

From Canton to Columbia: Low’s Legacy with Opium

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Columbia’s ‘activist Ivy’ legacy amid pro-Palestinian campus resistance

25

The Cradle of the Bomb: Columbia University and the Origins of the Manhattan Project

26

Life Behind Language: How Heritage Impacts Language Learning

27

Mapping Rurality: Defining Columbia’s ‘Rural Student’

28

Voices in the Archive: The Repatriation of Columbia's Indigenous Audio Recordings

29

Searching for Said: Edward Said’s Legacy Beyond ‘Orientalism’

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Perception vs. Reality: Student Crime Fears in NYC

31

RAs at Columbia: The Trials and Triumphs

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“Every Corner of the Globe”: Is Columbia Limiting International Students to America?

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Organizing for Iran at Columbia and beyond

34

Extreme Activism: ‘What We Did to be Seen’

35

Contemporary Curriculum: Changing the way we learn Black history

36

Lust, Love, and Literature: The Columbia Murder that Launched the Beats

37

Disorientation: Navigating the Pandemic as an International Student

38

Some Food for Thought: The History of Dining on Campus

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Is It Frat Flu, Carman Cough or COVID-19?: Balancing a Pandemic with Student Health Needs

40

When the Navy Came to Campus: Columbia’s Navy ROTC Debate

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Understanding Rural Education Inequity

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Columbia’s Composers: Keeping Composure in Quarantine

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Jazz: Universal Language or Community Divider?

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Science and Skulls: Measuring Columbia’s Eugenicist Past

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The Many Lives of Greek Life

46

Fall Break Debate, 50 Years Later

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Chiseling the City

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Two Murders, 47 Years Apart

49

The Continued Crisis

50

The Woman at the Center of the Photograph

51

Women Bard from Entry

52

Ear Mini Episode: The Grove

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Dark (Morning)side of the Moon

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S03 Episode 2: Starr's Wars, Episode II

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S03 Episode 1: Starr's Wars, Episode I

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S01 Episode 3: Two Minutes to Midnight

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S01 Episode 2: Columbia’s Prehistory

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S01 Episode 1: The Timeless Sundial