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2 months ago | 
columbiachronicle.com | Samantha Ho |Sofía Oyarzún |Lily Thomas |Greer Stewart
Senior acting major Kamiyah Castellanos is observing her first Ramadan in on-campus housing at the University Center. She is on a meal plan but because she fasts and needs to eat outside of the regular dining hours, she relies on grab-and-go meals from the dining hall.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Sofía Oyarzún |Emma Jolly |Kate Larroder |Lily Thomas
After putting together an hour-long comedy sketch in the span of a month, Marissa Comstock takes a bow of pride as the full-house audience applauds her and her castmates’ performance in the “Freshman Fifteen” show on Friday, Feb. 28. The first-year comedy major broke new ground for the college’s School of Theatre and Dance when she pitched, directed and head-wrote “Freshman Fifteen,” a 15-act comedy sketch written, directed and performed by about 15 first-year students.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman |Sofía Oyarzún |Lily Thomas
[email protected] Peyton Reich is a junior photojournalism major, minoring in marketing. Reich has covered the Mexican Independence parade, Columbia's Black Student Union and theatre performances. Reich joined the Chronicle in August 2023. Hometown: Flossmoor, Illinois
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman |Sofía Oyarzún |Lily Thomas |Amelia Rodriguez |Amelia Rodríguez
The college celebrated its founding in 1890 with an anniversary event on Tuesday, Feb. 11 in the Conaway Center at 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The celebration featured trivia, guest speakers and the unveiling of a mural made by Columbia alum Mac McGuire, an illustration major who graduated in 2024. The college started as the Columbia School of Oratory by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley in 1890. It became the Columbia College of Expression in 1927 and then in 1944 was renamed Columbia College.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Sofía Oyarzún |Lily Thomas |Amelia Rodriguez |Amelia Rodríguez |Doreen Abril Albuerne-Rodriguez
Desde que se implementaron cuotas por la administración del presidente Donald Trump para arrestos de inmigrantes indocumentados, las preocupaciones de los estudiantes han escalado junto a los números de deportaciones. En la primera reunión del semestre de Alianza Latina, la organización estudiantil de Columbia que provee un espacio para los estudiantes latinos, el miembro Angle Katana, estudiante de escritura creativa de tercer año, estaba emocionado de regresar a las actividades y la comunidad.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Sofía Oyarzún
December 13, 2024 Tras la elección de Donald Trump a un segundo mandato que comenzará en enero, las incertidumbres entre las comunidades inmigrantes en Chicago están creciendo. Los datos de las encuestas a pie de urna han revelado que aunque la Vicepresidenta Kamala Harris ganó la mayoridad del voto Latino, Trump ganó más de lo se esperaba y en sus previas elecciones. Según el Consejo de Sociedad de las Américas, Latinos representan 15% de los votantes elegibles, sumando hasta 36 millones.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Sofía Oyarzún
After qualifying as a Hispanic-Serving Institution two years ago, Columbia will be able to apply for a major Department of Education grant next year that could help develop and strengthen resources for Hispanic students. In Fall 2022, 25.8% of Columbia’s students identified as Hispanic, the number needed to become an HSI. However, the college was not eligible to apply for federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education until next year, the Chronicle previously reported.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Sofía Oyarzún
December 6, 2024 In the “Six Floors Under” video game, users try to beat ghosts on different levels of the character’s journey to the afterlife. Senior game design major Sally Juettner showed how the student-designed game worked during one of the activations on Thursday, Dec. 5 at the college’s “Power of Persistence” gala held at the Student Center. Juettner was narrative director of the game, a creative collaboration made in the Game Studio 1 class this fall.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Sofía Oyarzún
En el Centro de Conaway, más de 60 personas formaron un círculo de baile animándose el uno al otro, y cantando juntos la música de sus varios países de herencia latina. El evento del viernes, 15 de noviembre, se llamó “Noche de Herencia Latina”, organizado por Alianza Latina. Con actuaciones de estudiantes, comida y una DJ profesional, los asistentes disfrutaron la forma en que la música une a los latinos de países latinoamericanos.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Sofía Oyarzún
En un cuarto lleno de gente pensando en sus seres queridos fallecidos, Liliana y Los Caballeros actuaron la canción “Amor Eterno”, que trata de la pérdida y de “aprender [a] encontrar la belleza en el dolor”, dijo Liliana Pulido. La estudiante de artes de audio de último año, la cantante y violinista del grupo, dijo que la canción de Juan Gabriel es un “himno nacional para los latinos”, apto para el Día de los Muertos. En el evento, la audiencia cantaba junto.
