Columbia Daily Spectator

1 week ago | columbiaspectator.com | Andrew Vincenti |Isabella Ramírez |Esha Karam |Sarah Huddleston

Men’s golf traveled to New Jersey over the weekend for the Princeton Invitational. The Lions competed in a 14-team field over a weather-shortened two-day, two-round tournament. The Lions continued to build upon their end-of-season surge at the invitational. Their fifth-place performance out of 14 teams marked the Light Blue’s third straight top-six performance.

1 week ago | columbiaspectator.com | Ricardo DeAratanha |Tulasi Cherukuri |Emily Pickering

“This was the first time in a 25-year career that I’ve ever been subjected to discipline in a job — much less terminated from one,” he wrote. “I have immense respect for Jelani Cobb as a journalist and educator, but the decision to let me go was hasty, ill-considered and quite frankly baffling.” Cobb is dean of the Journalism School, which publishes CJR. With Chan’s departure, Betsy Morais, CC ’11, will lead the publication as interim editor. Morais was previously the managing editor of CJR.

1 week ago | columbiaspectator.com | Lucas Metzger |Andrew Vincenti |Isabella Ramírez |Esha Karam

Around midday on March 24, the long-awaited question of who would take the helm of the men’s basketball program was finally answered. The Lions’ coaching vacancy was to be filled by Kevin Hovde, then-assistant coach at the University of Florida, a team that had just won the Southeastern Conference championship and was still competing in the NCAA tournament. Earlier in the month, it was announced that Jim Engles, the team’s head coach for the past nine seasons, was stepping down.

1 week ago | columbiaspectator.com | Jordan Millar

Culture Fit Collective, founded by Mario Pauldon, CC ’25, is a new student-run group on campus that gives style and fashion enthusiasts a space to celebrate and share their interests. While the club came to be in fall 2024, the idea behind the collective began when Pauldon saw a need for more inclusive fashion outlets for students, particularly those with diverse senses of style.

1 week ago | columbiaspectator.com | Mulki Ahmed

Hosting a charity concert, literary society and social fraternity Alpha Delta Phi transformed the second story of its brownstone into a concert venue on Friday night for an early kickoff to Bacchanal. CDs hung from a chandelier and the furniture was cleared out to make space for the crowd to dance to music played by local performers in a smoky room.