The cost of clean beauty: Performers say eco-friendly makeup doesn’t last
Despite growing demand for cleaner products, durability and visibility remain the deciding factors in performance makeup.
Lily Thomas, Reporter
Annual Lavender Ceremony brings LGBTQ+ community together to celebrate their accomplishments
Graduating students who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community received cords to wear at commencement.
Students boogie at Friday Night Fever-themed annual Blood Ball
The student-run event drew nearly 200 attendees and turned the Student Center into a disco-themed space focused on connection, community and campus tradition. The event traces its roots to 1890, when Mary A. Blood, the ball’s namesake, and Ida Morey Riley, the college’s first co-presidents, founded the Columbia School of Oratory.
Illinois voters head to the polls in unusually competitive primary
An open U.S. Senate seat and five congressional vacancies have created one of the most wide-open Illinois elections in decades, even as student engagement on campus remains limited.
SGA hosts ‘Pump Up The Love! Blood Drive’ amidst national blood shortage
The club’s fourth annual blood drive brought in student donors to give back to their community and address the nation’s “severe” blood shortage.
How scars impact self-confidence during sex
Having visible scars can bring up a lot of emotions during sex, but working on confidence and communication is key.
‘Area 2’ screening revisits Chicago police torture, cost of silence
The film, which was screened at Columbia on Wednesday, Jan. 28, explores how the city’s journalists, courts and police handled torture allegations that sent two Black men to death row in the 1980s.
