100 Years of The Core

Columbia College celebrates a century of dialogue and debate through a year of festivities and conversations.

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February 05, 2020

Core MAD LIBS

Create your own Core-inspired scene, set in beloved Tom’s Restaurant.

Literature

What story will you create? Core MAD LIBS.

November 11, 2020

Your Core Stories

From becoming crossword masters to humor that "transcends time", the Core has inspired generations.

Core Impact

Illustration of select, submitted Core Stories

September 28, 2020

The Core Responds to Here and Now

As the Core's framework endures, it must evolve...

Core Impact

Home to Ithaca painting by Romare Bearden

June 30, 2020

Core Scholar Sirena Khanna CC’20 Reimagines Beauty in Michelangelo’s David

"If we simply reduce beauty to numbers and fame, we might miss out on the many beautiful things the world has to offer"

Art

Animation of Michangelo's David by Core Scholar

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"It is a gift to be young and to be introduced to genius, in a way that will make it forever possible over a lifetime to return and deepen that capacity to experience more poignantly the mysteries of genius."

Lee C. Bollinger

2018 Commencement speech

"A human being has close kinship with the whole human race—not a bond of blood or seed, but a community of mind."

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations (Lit Hum Syllabus 1937-1941)

"Do you think it is a small matter" asks Socrates, "to determine which whole way would make living most worthwhile for each of us?"

Plato

Philosopher

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