Podcasts by The Ear

Extreme Activism: ‘What We Did to be Seen’ from 2022-02-15T17:26:04

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this week’s episode, reporter Cyra Paladini speaks with membe...

Contemporary Curriculum: Changing the way we learn Black history from 2022-02-14T18:06:27

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. How can we look beyond the syllabus to change the way we educate...

Lust, Love, and Literature: The Columbia Murder that Launched the Beats from 2022-02-07T03:02:24

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this week’s episode, reporter Andrew Kirdahy recounts the ear...

Disorientation: Navigating the Pandemic as an International Student from 2021-12-21T19:56:40

COVID-19 has totally changed students’ experience with higher education, and the difficulties faced by international students are especially challenging. Under global COVID-19 restrictions, inte...

Some Food for Thought: The History of Dining on Campus from 2021-12-13T01:31:22

In this Ear episode, reporter Alan Chen outlines the history of Columbia’s dining halls. From the origins of the JJ’s Place pub to the bygone Wien Dining Hall, on-campus dining has changed over ...

Is It Frat Flu, Carman Cough or COVID-19?: Balancing a pandemic with student health needs from 2021-12-03T02:10:04

Columbia Health adamantly encourages students to reach out for care or guidance, however, students are struggling to get the medical help they need from the University. While finding the time to...

When the Navy Came to Campus: Columbia’s Navy ROTC Debate from 2021-06-12T23:43:53

Content warning: This episode discusses issues of sexual abuse and assault. 

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and inves...

Understanding Rural Education Inequity from 2021-04-17T00:34:45

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this week’s episode, reporter Natalie Goldberg investigates a...

Columbia’s Composers: Keeping Composure in Quarantine from 2021-04-09T01:51:34

Welcome back to The Ear! In this episode written for the Eye's Arts and Entertainment issue, reporter Matthew Lucia interviews the composers from Columbia’s fall 2020 advanced ...

What The Turtle Doves Told Me from 2021-02-18T04:10:52

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Jazz: Universal Language or Community Divider? from 2021-02-16T03:59:33

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present.

In this week’s episode, reporters Noah Sheid...

Science and Skulls: Measuring Columbia’s Eugenicist Past from 2021-02-02T15:20:40

Content warning: This episode discusses Columbia’s history with eugenics, sterilization, and the Nazi Party.

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast ded...

The Many Lives of Greek Life from 2020-12-04T17:56:43

Content Warning: This episode of The Ear discusses sexual violence and rape.

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s ...

Fall Break Debate, 50 Years Later from 2020-10-30T04:28:29

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

In this week’s episode, reporter Claudia Gohn dives into the history...

Chiseling the City from 2020-10-16T04:27:24

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

In this week’s episode, reporter Briani Netzahuatl delves into the r...

Two Murders, 47 Years Apart from 2020-05-12T02:20:56

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

In this week’s episode, The Ear delves into the murder of Columbia L...

The Continued Crisis from 2020-05-07T01:44:30

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

In this week’s episode, reporters Teresa Lawlor and Sam Hyman examin...

The Woman at the Center of the Photograph from 2020-03-05T04:08:09

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

In this week’s episode, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee—a brill...

Women Bard from Entry from 2019-11-20T01:28:10

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

Our new season kicks off with a story about the historical relations...

Ear Mini Episode: The Grove from 2019-05-06T00:37:49

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

In this mini-episode of The Ear, reporter Luke Cregan remembers the Grove...

Dark (Morning)side of the Moon from 2019-05-05T03:29:10

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

Urban light pollution has never stopped Columbia students from looking at...

S03 Episode 2: Starr's Wars, Episode II from 2019-04-26T20:43:03

Welcome back to The Ear, The Eye’s podcast dedicated to documenting, detailing, and excavating Columbia’s history!

This week’s episode is the second in a two-part series about the historic...

S03 Episode 1: Starr's Wars, Episode I from 2019-02-19T21:32:21

This week’s episode is the first in a two-part series about the historical role of chaplains at Columbia. Reporter AJ McDougall investigates the legacies of John D. Cannon and Bill Starr, Episcopal...

S01 Episode 3: Two Minutes to Midnight from 2018-03-29T03:05:22

Whenever you walk to your class in Pupin Hall, you’re strolling on top of nuclear history. Yet unlike the other institution famously involved in the Manhattan Project, the University of Chicago, Co...

S01 Episode 2: Columbia’s Prehistory from 2018-03-01T18:36:47

In this week’s episode of The Ear, reporter Jesse Chase-Lubitz travels back to the beginning of Columbia’s history—the alma mater of our alma mater: King’s College. Is King’s College a part of Colu...

S01 Episode 1: The Timeless Sundial from 2018-02-06T00:00

If you’ve ever wondered why Columbia’s sundial can’t tell time, then you’re in the right place. Reporter Kara Schechtman traces the story of the campus landmark, uncovering its hidden history.
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Looking for Matilda the Goat from 2017-11-15T08:30:09

Tune into this week’s The Ear episode to hear about Matilda the Harlem Goat, who was almost Columbia’s mascot.

The Ear Episode 4: We Won! from 2017-10-20T07:59:37

Tune into our latest episode of The Ear celebrating something that suddenly everyone cares about: football. 13,000 people—students, professors, and proud alums—filled the stands to watch the game; ...

The Ear Episode 3: Path of Most Resistance from 2017-04-27T21:14:27

In this week’s episode of The Ear, we took a closer look at how student poets use their work as a form of resistance under the Trump administration. We attended Columbia University Amnesty Internat...

The Ear Episode 2: Gorsuch and Such from 2017-04-11T09:28:37

The Eye—the magazine itself—was named after the author and urban theorist Jane Jacobs’ and her belief that the “eyes on the street” help keep cities safe. The Ear, then, alludes to the stories we’r...

The Ear Episode 1: Battle Between Presidents from 2017-03-28T09:44:14

The Eye—the magazine itself—was named after the author and urban theorist Jane Jacobs’ and her belief that the “eyes on the street” help keep cities safe. The Ear, then, alludes to the stories we’r...