Sydney Goldson

Sep 8, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Cassie Wang |Tommy Koh |Sydney Goldson

If Columbia were a perfectly unified community, free of tensions and controversy, perhaps there would be no need for discourse and nothing left to debate. However, this is certainly not the case. Now more than ever, featuring a diverse set of views on contentious questions is essential to fulfilling Opinion’s mission of reflecting and directing campus discourse.

Nov 20, 2023 | columbiaspectator.com | Avian Munoz |Sydney Goldson |Ning Chang |Andrew Park

On October 12, a huge crowd assembled on the east side of South Lawn to show support for Palestinians. As helicopters hovered over campus, student leaders held a moment of silence honoring all victims of violence, led peaceful chants, and gave powerful speeches advocating for the rights and dignity of all those affected by Israeli occupation. But this is not the story that the media told.

Apr 30, 2023 | columbiaspectator.com | Sydney Goldson

At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I'll admit that I spent the first few months of the ChatGPT craze stubbornly ignoring the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. Programs were producing glossy, highly-rendered images with only a few words of input? Hardly impressive, given that these generators only worked by compiling the work of countless artists without credit.