Audrea Chen

Dec 10, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Audrea Chen |Colette Holcomb |Emily Pickering

The New York Police Department used barricades to separate protesters and counterprotesters. The New York Police Department used barricades to separate protesters and counterprotesters. Columbia University Apartheid Divest held an “NYC all out for Palestine” protest on Monday —the last day of class for the fall semester—beginning at the main Barnard gates and later marching around the college’s campus.

Dec 8, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Susan Bernofsky |Audrea Chen

Thanks so much for producing an annotated version of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s recent report. One point where you, unfortunately, fail to counter misinformation contained in the report is when you repeat the report’s insinuation that a University senator’s personal convictions might disqualify them—a “potential conflict of interest”—from serving in the senate or on a particular committee. Instead, you ought to have contextualized this claim.

Dec 2, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Audrea Chen

Quoting the open letter, Baker defines Zionism in his op-ed as the belief “in the Jewish People’s right to self-determination in our historic homeland,” which, again citing the open letter, he describes as “a fundamental tenet of our Jewish identity.” But the problems begin immediately in the piece, starting with the fact that Baker’s claim has no root of any kind in critical scholarship or serious investigation.

Oct 28, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Audrea Chen |Emily Pickering

The letter highlighted pro-Palestinian student protest groups on campus, deeming their calls for the University to divest from Israel “blatantly antisemitic.” The letter highlighted pro-Palestinian student protest groups on campus, deeming their calls for the University to divest from Israel “blatantly antisemitic.” Attorneys General Alan Wilson of South Carolina and Tim Griffin of Arkansas penned a letter to interim University President Katrina Armstrong on Wednesday raising concerns about...

Oct 16, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Audrea Chen |Rebecca Massel

D’Armiento, professor of medicine in anesthesiology, is currently serving her third two-year term as chair, which will end in spring 2025. The petition alleges D’Armiento has not acted “in an impartial manner towards all Senators” and advocates for “best practices and good governance” within the senate.