The Blue Jay
By Verily Veritas
Cover art by Lilly Cao
The Blue JayDec 08, 2019
S3:E2 Diary of a Bartender
Director of The Blue Jay, Samantha Sacks, takes us with her to bartending gigs throughout the city. Let's eavesdrop on New Yorkers, together.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S3: E1 How to Listen
Welcome to a new season of The Blue Jay! This episode is a tribute to WKCR's Phil Schaap. We hear interviews with alums who tell us how Schaap kept jazz alive by teaching generations of listeners how to listen.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S2: E2 Zooming Into Summer
In this belated episode of The Blue Jay, we investigate how the New York jazz scene has changed throughout the pandemic, what Zoom University has meant for students with anxiety, and the struggles of Columbia students to adequately consume sustenance.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White, the undergraduate feature magazine at Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S2: E1 Covid Love Birds
With Chase Cutarelli taking the reins as podcast director, this episode features an advice column, Dear Dante, as well as a food recommendation by Cy Gilman, Sam Needleman, and Tarini Krishna in their new segment, As Far as You Can Go Without a Metro Card. Podcast contributor Sam Sacks interviews freshmen and seniors living off campus on how they navigate the pod life, and Isabel Draper shares a moment of romance.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White, the undergraduate feature magazine at Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S1: E6 Back to Campus?
In this episode, staff member Raquel Turner interviews Matthew Patashnick, Associate Dean for Student & Family Support, to discuss the process of admitting students back to Columbia University campus housing. Elizabeth Jackson returns to send us off into 2021 with a poem.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S1: E5 Columbia Climate School
In this episode we feature an interview with Maureen Raymo, the Director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, discussing her work as director and the newly implemented Columbia Climate School. As always we end with a poem.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on facebook or follow us on twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S1: E4 Extended Version; Racial Tensions in Small-Town America
Full interview and discussion lead by Chase Cutarelli with Sadia Haque, Dayo Adeoye, and Sarah Paul on the inclusion of the now infamous "Thin Blue Line" flag in a photo taken of Chase's high school football team.
S1: E4 Tensions at Home and Online
The Blue Jay is back to welcome the Columbia and Barnard class of 2024! In our first episode of the semester we discuss racial tensions in small-town America, anonymous online forums for undergrads, and feature a poem composed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on facebook or follow us on twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S1: E3 Extended Version; Classes in Corona
Full interview conducted by Chase Cutarelli with Nicholas Wasserman, Nathan Holbert, and Paulo Blikstein, the authors of "Will the coronavirus infect education, too? The risk of a radical shift to online learning after the crisis ends" from the New York Daily News, and Columbia undergraduate student Krystle DiCristoFalo.
S1: E3 Classes in Corona
From the depths of the global pandemic, The Blue Jay is back! This episode of the podcast features an excerpt from an interview with Nicholas Wasserman, Nathan Holbert, and Paulo Blikstein, the authors of "Will the coronavirus infect education, too? The risk of a radical shift to online learning after the crisis ends" from the New York Daily News, and Columbia undergraduate student Krystle DiCristoFalo. Our creative piece this round is a monologue excerpt from the play "Comings and Goings" by Elizabeth Jackson and read by Diego Lomeli.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on facebook or follow us on twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S1: E2 Life at Columbia
Welcome back to the podcast! Our second episode features an interview with The Food Pantry at Columbia and a round table discussion on Columbia student life considering previous plans to move the central campus.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on facebook or follow us on twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.
S1: E1 Oral History and a Ghost Mystery
The first episode of The Blue Jay features an interview with the Columbia Center for Oral History and Research, a discussion on ghosts, a creative piece with ~special effects~, and an anonymous segment inspired by campus life.
The Blue Jay is brought to you by The Blue and White Magazine, a monthly undergraduate publication from Columbia University. Visit our website, theblueandwhite.org, to read current and archived student works stretching back to our founding in 1890. Like us on facebook or follow us on twitter @blueandwhitemag to stay updated with the magazine.