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Dec 11, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Colin Roedl |Brenda Huang
Every Sunday afternoon during the academic year, a group of about 20 students from Columbia College, Barnard, and the School of General Studies meets on the fourth floor of Riverside Church. We gossip, pitch and recruit op-eds, and now, after a multi-year hiatus, operate as Spectator’s editorial board. Ever since I joined Spectator, the section’s mission has been deceptively simple: reflect and direct campus and community discourse.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julian Michaud |Emily Huang |Colin Roedl |Elliot Heath
Interviewee 1: Well, I have to go back to Saudi and start my job. Interviewee 3: Trying to get a job. Maybe, like, not get deported. Colin: So just fun—Are you going to be outside? Are you enjoying the heat? Interviewee 5: Same thing. It’s too hot outside to be doing anything besides enjoying the heat, you know? Interviewee 6: The Citi Bike rides. So, I do love that and maybe the free kayaking that happens on Pier 26. So, that’s something really fun. Colin: Can we ask you guys a quick question?
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Julian Michaud |Colin Roedl |Wyatt King |Elliot Heath
Senem: What does love mean to you? Colin: Yeah, what is love? Interviewee No. 1: You were the one who wanted it, Sean. Love is the lawns with my friends. Interviewee No. 2: Sex, good conversation. Interviewee No. 3: I just love God, and I just love, you know, spreading that love to people, you know. Interviewee No. 4: Female friendships. Love your girls. Interviewee No. 5: I don’t know. Do I say something mean or something nice? Colin: What’s in your heart? Interviewee No. 5: What’s in my heart?
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julian Michaud |Colin Roedl |Wyatt King |Elliot Heath
Interviewee No. 1: You were the one who wanted it, Sean. Love is the lawns with my friends. Interviewee No. 3: I just love God, and I just love, you know, spreading that love to people, you know. Interviewee No. 5: I don’t know. Do I say something mean or something nice? Interviewee No. 4: It’s just loving somebody unconditionally and for who they are in their truest form.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Colin Roedl |Andrew Park |Irie Sentner
My name is Colin Roedl. I am a junior at Columbia College and Spectator’s 148th editorial page editor. Like the rest of the world, I wield multiple identities at once—and though these identities differ from person to person, we are all tasked with determining how best to manage them. I balance being a student, an active voice in my community, a mentor, and a son every day.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Colin Roedl |Elliot Heath |Andrew Park |Irie Sentner
On Monday evening, interim University Provost Dennis Mitchell wrote an email to the Columbia community about the “deeply troubling incident,” adding that “The New York City Police Department is taking the lead role in investigating what appear to have been serious crimes, possibly hate crimes.” A member of Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and one of the speakers at Friday’s demonstration, Maryam Iqbal, Barnard class of 2027, said she first noticed the smell when the...
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julian Michaud |Colin Roedl |Elliot Heath |Wyatt King
Colin [0:00]: What’s up Columbia? My name is Colin Roedl, and we’re back for a brand new episode of Campus Speculations. Today, we’re going around asking the Columbia community what they’re looking forward to in the new year. So, let’s go! Interviewee No. 13 [1:32]: I was just thinking that in the new year, I want to get more involved on campus and join a club.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julian Michaud |Wyatt King |Colin Roedl |Vi Tran
Colin Roedl [0:01]: What’s up, Columbia community. My name is Colin Roedl, your host of Campus Speculations. I have missed you so much. So much has happened since we last caught up. I’m thinking JJ’s is now open all night long, we have a new president, summer has unfortunately ended, and now the weather has dropped. But, as we see around us, campus is in full swing right now.
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Feb 22, 2023 | 
l8r.it | Alisa Shodiyev Kaff |Valentina Martinez |Colin Roedl |Elliot Heath
V.O. (0:00): From popular crime dramas like “CSI” to real-life investigations, fingerprints have long been the gold standard for solving crime. But one of the biggest challenges in forensic science is linking prints from different fingers to the same person, leading countless investigations to hit a wall. Now, a group of Columbia students is challenging the consensus that every fingerprint is unique.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Colin Roedl
I contemplated whether I was going to write this op-ed on my way back to campus from the Justice for Tyre Nichols protest , held in Washington Square Park on Jan. 28. My apprehension stemmed partly from my frustration that the systems we participate in actively take advantage of Black voices and bodies, and partly because I just felt hopeless.
