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Dec 3, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Shea Vance |Maya Stahl
Barnard will contribute less to faculty and staff benefits in 2025 as it works to recover from a projected $252 million in debt and a growing deficit, Barnard President Laura Rosenbury announced at a faculty meeting on Nov. 11. The cuts are part of a larger plan to improve the college’s financial situation as it faces a negative financial outlook for fiscal year 2025.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kristin Merrilees |Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance
How should any rendition of the play sink its teeth into the unsettling nature of the material without repulsing the audience with grotesquery? How can it bring the audience to empathize with the main character’s deep psychological trauma without acquitting him of his repugnant crimes against nature? How should it probe the moral complexities of psychiatry, sexuality, and religion without coming off as if on too high a horse?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Sarah Huddleston |Shea Vance
The medal, named after founding father and Columbia College attendee Alexander Hamilton, is the highest honor bestowed by the Columbia College Alumni Association and recognizes members of the college community for service to the college and accomplishment in their respective fields. The 76th ceremony raised over $1 million for the college.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Joseph Zuloaga |Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance
This election cycle, Republicans regained control of the Senate for the first time since 2018, and they are poised to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives. Democrats were forced to go on defense to protect their current razor-thin 51-49 Senate majority in vulnerable races like those in West Virginia and Montana, but Republicans successfully flipped both seats red.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance |Amira McKee
“I wanted to show my daughter the process and that it’s important to vote as a citizen, like to exercise our freedom for our right to vote,” David Jang, a West Harlem resident who cast his ballot at the Grant Houses, said. He said that despite the tense climate nationally, West Harlem has not felt the division. “It’s our voice as a people. It’s our voices of people to be able to have a say in what we believe is a right way of living, a right way of thinking,” Eubanks said.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Shea Vance
Columbia has submitted around 100,000 pages of material to the committee since it began its investigation into the University. Columbia has submitted around 100,000 pages of material to the committee since it began its investigation into the University. “We provided this information in connection with our response to the Committee’s subpoena and requests, and we requested confidential treatment of the information we provided,” Slater wrote.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Sarah Huddleston |Shea Vance
After graduating from Columbia, where he studied political science, Oswald worked for the Jersey Journal for eight years, serving as the publication’s managing editor for two years. He went on to report and edit for the New York Post and the New York Daily News, where he served as news editor for four years and oversaw features for one year. He also spent time working at The Forward, PBS NewsHour, and NBC News.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Maya Stahl |Shea Vance
The “Liberation Sukkah” is open to all individuals as the holiday “is about welcoming the stranger,” a flyer distributed on Math lawns reads. The “Liberation Sukkah” is open to all individuals as the holiday “is about welcoming the stranger,” a flyer distributed on Math lawns reads. A group of anti-Zionist Jewish students began building a “Liberation Sukkah” on Math lawns at around 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the first night of the Jewish holiday Sukkot.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Saul Quintanar |Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance
Columbia reported on Sept. 27 an investment return of 11.5 percent on its endowment for the fiscal year of 2024—putting the University on track to outperform peer institutions in investment returns. The past year’s gains bring the endowment up to $14.8 billion from $13.6 billion in 2023 following a $1 billion dip in fiscal year 2022 Columbia reported five-year and 10-year returns of 8.5 percent and 7.4 percent, respectively, with the latter slightly decreasing from 8 percent.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Emily Pickering |Esha Karam |Sarah Huddleston |Shea Vance
From 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., various faculty members presided over individual listening sessions as pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests unfolded nearby on campus. Interim University President Katrina Armstrong was scheduled to host a session from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. but was absent.
