Cindy Chen

Everyone wants to be a martyr

There is a subtle strain of egoism even in the nonprofit industry, I believe. Deep down, as altruistic as I call myself, I want to be Somebody worthwhile.

By Sarah Ngu | Apr 14 07:22 pm ET

Wi no Fi?

My laptop lacks the expensive cellular broadband card that I would otherwise need to access the Internet in a location devoid of Wi-Fi and I don't have the the keys for the plethora of encrypted student-owned wireless networks found all over campus.

By Elías Stallard-Olivera | Mar 24 07:47 pm ET

Israeli “apartheid”: a call for facts

If suicide bombers and rockets were entering the United States from any of its neighbors, one could say with a great degree of certainty that the United States would not stop with a simple security wall.

By Eric J. Schorr | Mar 3 06:58 pm ET

Meal plan manifesto

In a country that boasts one of the world’s highest obesity rates and one of the lower life-expectancy ratings in the developed world—not to mention the current state of our health care system—Barnard should be encouraging its students more than ever to be leaders in the health and environmental revolution, and specifically, to be women that lead by example.

By Francesca Procaccini | Feb 24 07:26 pm ET

Haiti, “Security,” and Public Health

Classifying Haitians as violent through policy and practice limits the capacity that community leaders can build infrastructure in the country and reproduces racialized depictions of black political resistance.

By Edna Bonhomme | Feb 3 09:31 pm ET

Hope for Haiti, at home and abroad

Marie-Olene is one of the many children that brings me to tears regularly and compel me to do as much as I can to help. Since I’ve returned, people have repeatedly asked me a variation of the question, “What should I do?”

By Gabrielle Apollon | Jan 27 09:24 pm ET

John Jay take-out option: freedom or hindrance?

There has been— or rather, I suspect there will be— a lot of talk about John Jay, now that more on-campus dining locations are going to become “all you can eat”.  But as the Columbia community considers how students may or may not consume food in the dining halls, I find myself thinking of what we are able to take out of them.

By Maria Lantigua and Cindy Chen | Jan 20 08:10 pm ET

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