A special broadcast from December 12th, 2023 featuring representatives from the Columbia Review, Housing Equity Project, Reproductive Justice Collective, and the CU Tuition Strike. All these groups are a part of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition, originally formed in 2016 but reactivated in November of this year. They discuss the process of joining the coalition, their experiences as student leaders, and their next steps. After some contextual information about the history of CU Apartheid Divest, the discussion begins at 06:24.

This broadcast was aired live on WKCR from 9-10 p.m. on 89.9 FM and wkcr.org. It was hosted by Sofia Rivera, Sofia Trujillo, and Josh Kazali.

Statements made in the broadcast do not necessarily reflect the values held by WKCR FM, nor the entirety of the student groups represented.

On the December 11th episode of Monday Morningside: We are extremely excited to be introducing Macy Hanzlik-Barend, your new host of Monday Morningside for 2024! (0:09) Plus, Vivien Sweet reads "Altruism, Butchered" from the November issue of the Blue and White (3:24); and an archival interview with Professor Frances Negrón-Mutaner from 2013 on the El Diario photo archive (31:19).

You can listen to Monday Morningside every Monday from 8:30-9:30 AM on 89.9 FM, or ⁠⁠wkcr.org⁠⁠ online. You can contact us at [email protected].

On the November 13th episode of Monday Morningside: Columbia Spectator's University News Deputy Editor joins to discuss the recent suspension of the Columbia chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, following a walkout last Thursday, November 9th (4:17); Renee Morales reads and discusses her poetry, as well as her upcoming poetry collage project (26:22); and McKenna Roberts previews the upcoming 50th Anniversary Hip Hop Festival on WKCR (50:06).

You can listen to Monday Morningside every Monday from 8:30-9:30 AM on 89.9 FM, or ⁠wkcr.org⁠ online. You can contact us at [email protected].

On the October 23rd episode of Monday Morningside: A brief statement from WKCR's News and Arts Department (1:29); a conversation with Colin Roedl's project, To Resist is to Love What Could Be and their recent event on Columbia's campus (5:10); a report from Natalie Buttner on the Barnard RA Union, and their recent rally on the 20th of October (26:56); and a preview for Ian Pumphrey's Sunday Profile on Japanese band Fishmans (39:53). Plus, a bonus reading of a passage from George Eliot's Middlemarch (50:43).

You can listen to Monday Morningside every Monday from 8:30-9:30 AM on 89.9 FM, or wkcr.org online. You can contact us at [email protected].

Originally aired Friday, October 13th, from 8:20 until 9:30 AM.

This special news broadcast covers student protests on Columbia’s campus on Thursday, October 12th, 2023, by the student groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Students Supporting Israel. Widely reported by national media media outlets including the NYT, WSJ, NBC, NY Post, we are presenting an account of yesterday's accounts from a student perspective.

The views presented in this program do not reflect the beliefs of WKCR, nor the programmers of WKCR. We have attempted to present a fair and balanced depiction of what happened, from the perspective of ourselves and other students. As a disclaimer, the following program will contain sensitive and potentially upsetting content that may not be suitable for all listeners. Please listen at your own discretion.

The broadcast includes:

This program was hosted by Ale Diaz-Pizarro (Station Manager) and Josh Kazali (News and Arts Department Head), with reporters Ashwin Marathe, Macy Hanzlik-Barend, Ted Schmiedeler, Natalie Buttner, and additional reporting from Ella Presiado.

WKCR-FM, Columbia University’s non-commercial student-run radio station, is dedicated to presenting a spectrum of alternative programming—traditional and art music, spoken arts, and original journalism. In the New York area, the station can be heard at 89.9 megacycles in FM; worldwide, it streams online.

Monday Morningside is back for Fall 2023, for the first live episode of the new season!

On the October 9th episode of Monday Morningside: we speak to WKCR's program director Maria Shaughnessy about the history and upcoming airing of Ragas Live (2:06); Ashwin Marathe interviews Professor Michael Gerrard, the Andrew Sabin Professor at Columbia Law School, on the recent Supreme Court rulings on EPA's water regulation (13:42); and a round-table discussion of New York Film Festival 61 with Josh Kazali, Alexandra Arredondo, and Kaveh Jalinous (25:13).

Tune in to WKCR's Monday Morningside every Monday from 8:30-9:30 AM at 89.9 FM and WKCR.org. Hosted by Josh Kazali, contact [email protected]

On the May 8th episode of Monday Morningside (the last episode of Columbia's academic year until the Fall!), after some tender thank yous: Josh Kazali and Milly Hopkins talk about the Writer's Guild of America strike—which began last week—with Samantha Herman, a writer and strike captain for WGA West (4:33); Tara Isabel Zia reads her Blue Note, "The Good Kind of 'Extra'" from the April issue of the Blue and White, and talks about Mediterranean hospitality and her love of cardamom tea (31:20); and Josh Kapilian reports on the Mets-Rockies game from Citi Field (49:45).

Monday Morningside will return regularly in the Fall, but WKCR's News and Arts department will continue to produce programming over the summer, in large part to listener donations. You can tune in 24 hours, 7 days a week at 89.9 FM, and WKCR.org.

You can also email Monday Morningside at [email protected].

On the (jam-packed) April 24th episode of Monday Morningside: Iris Hsiang dives into the continued efforts* of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race to secure departmentalization, reporting from the rally on April 20th (2:38); Milly Hopkins speaks with students at the April 6th protest against the eviction of the Red Balloon Learning Center** (13:23); Josh Kazali speaks with Allanah Grant Elster, the festival director of Obscura Film Festival—the recently rebranded undergraduate film festival of Columbia—and offers some early summer film recommendations (24:36); and Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum reports from Yankee Stadium, where the Yanks face the Toronto Blue Jays (42:26).

Tune into Monday Morningside every Monday from 8:30-9:30 AM EST, only at WKCR.org and 89.9 FM.

* For more on CSER's fight for departmentalization, listen to the Blue and White's Grace Adee read her essay "A Department of Our Own," from the November 28th episode of Monday Morningside.

**For an in-depth discussion about the Red Balloon's eviction, listen to Isaac Stiepelmann and Ashwin Marathe's conversation with Annapurna Schrieber from the April 3rd episode of MM.

In an extra special feature, enjoy a conversation with Jinwoo Chong, a recent graduate of Columbia's Creative Writing MFA, and the debut author of Flux. In our conversation, we talked about Theranos, Timothee Chalamet, time travel, and much, much more. If you want to skip straight to the interview, you can go to (3:35).

Flux was published in March of this year, and was an Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and an Apple Books Pick for March. His short stories and other work have appeared in The Southern Review, The Rumpus, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature. You can buy it at most major bookstores and you can find more information at jinwoochong.com.

Originally broadcast 9:00 pm EST on WKCR.org and 89.9 FM.

On the April 3rd episode of Monday Morningside: Ashwin Marathe and Isaac Stiepelmann interview Annapurna Schreiber on role of the Red Balloon Learning Center in the local Upper West Side and Harlem community, especially regarding Columbia's recent decision to not renew the Red Balloon lease (2:19); Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum reports from Yankee Stadium, where the Yankees face the San Francisco Giants in their third game of the season (35:27); and on the Blue Jay, senior editor Muni Suleiman reads her piece, "On the Record" from the March issue of the Blue and White, and discusses the memorializing of historical anti-Blackness on Columbia's campus (43:12). Listen to Monday Morningside every Monday from 8:30-9:30 AM on wkcr.org.