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Students line up for RegFest check out with Associate Provost for Student Retention Greg Foster-rice and Dean of Students Douglas Eck in the Student Center on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.
Breaking: College adds additional seats for some courses, moving frustrated students off waitlists
By Matt Brady, Copy Editor • May 9, 2025
Five Columbia faculty earn tenure, six promoted to full professor
Five Columbia faculty earn tenure, six promoted to full professor
By Doreen Abril Albuerne-Rodriguez, Editor-in-Chief

Five Columbia faculty members were granted tenure this year, and six were promoted to the rank of full professor.    The awards were granted on schedule this year after a five-month delay last year left faculty who had applied for tenure and promotion in limbo, as the Chronicle previously...

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Columbia needs to remind students of safety measures like red phones
Columbia needs to remind students of safety measures like red phones
By Editorial Board

Columbia has many safety programs throughout the campus, including the very recognizable blue light phones, but one of the services that they provide often goes overlooked. Many students are not aware of the more than 100 red phones that connect directly...

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Column: Music festival, concert prices ruin experience for younger generations
Column: Music festival, concert prices ruin experience for younger generations
By Manuel Nocera, Copy Editor

The next couple months will be jam packed with music festivals such as Lollapalooza, Riot Fest and Sueños. Artists like The Weeknd, Beyonce and Tyler, the Creator will headline venues around Chicago this summer.    Anticipation is tempered...

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Cómic: Día de la Tierra
Cómic: Día de la Tierra
By María Sanchez Medina, Illustrator
Cómic: Mes de la concienciación sobre el estrés
Cómic: Mes de la concienciación sobre el estrés
By María Sanchez Medina, Illustrator
Cómic: Blood Ball
Cómic: Blood Ball
By María Sanchez Medina, Illustrator
Junior acting major Thomas Toohill and Addie Reynoso give an intense and emotional performance in Columbia's musical production of Rent at the Courtyard Theater on Friday, May 2 2025.
Review: Musical production of ‘Rent’ delivers amazing experience about passion, survival
By Lee Overton, Staff Reporter
Review: ‘Thunderbolts*’ tackles trauma with new team
By Uriel Reyes, Bilingual Reporter
The Rev. Michael Enright, pastor of St. Paul's Catholic Church in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, keeps a portrait of the late Pope Francis as he welcomes the news of Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025.
Chicago celebrates city native, first pope from United States
By Sofía Oyarzún, Staff Reporter
Beauty pageant winners stop and pose in front of the stage at the end of the parade route on Saturday, May 3, 2025.
In pictures: Chicago celebrates 134th Polish Constitution Day with parade
By Charles Rahn, Photojournalist
Tom Simons, also known by his YouTuber name TommyInnit, performs crowd work comedy at Racket NYC, a live music venue in New York City on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
Exclusive: Content creator Tom Simons talks new book, tour ahead of Chicago show
By Emily Ramirez and Uriel Reyes
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