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A Reminder to Remember
Over the course of 2019, I vowed to remind myself to remember. I served as managing editor that year, and each day contained so much content, crises, and waking hours that sometimes I couldn’t remember what had happened the night before. So I set out on a simple project: at the end of each day, I wrote down one memory from the prior 24 hours, something that I thought I would want to look back on years down the line.
Award season film roundups
Awards season is here! The Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards have already passed, but the Oscars, which are more formally known as the Academy Awards and are granted for meritorious work in the film industry, are next Sunday, Feb. 9. If you’re interested in seeing at least one of these Oscar-nominated films before the event itself, here’s a list of the nominees for best picture this year, as well as some cost-effective ways to watch them 1. “Ford v.
Introducing Spectator’s 144th Managing Board!
We are thrilled to introduce Spectator’s 144th Managing Board. We can’t wait to see where this board takes Spectator. We know it will be an amazing year.
ESC vice president of finance resigns amid calls for impeachment
Engineering Student Council Vice President of Finance Austen Paris, SEAS ’19, resigned during a general body meeting after other council members initiated impeachment proceedings Monday night. The interim role will be filled by Ria Garg, SEAS ’20, who will also continue to serve as the Class of 2020 President. This will make Garg the fourth vice president of finance this semester in a rapid series of successions that has made it difficult for the council to address financial issues.
Columbia to bargain with grad student union, ending years-long struggle over union recognition
Updated Nov. 19, 2018 at 2:17 p.m. After years of refusing to recognize the graduate student union, Columbia will reverse course and bargain with the union in the coming months, President Lee Bollinger and Provost John Coatsworth announced Monday afternoon. The decision to bargain is a massive victory for graduate student organizers, who first earned the legal right to unionize in a 2016 court case and voted to form a union in the months that followed.
Columbia to bargain with grad student union, ending years-long struggle over union recognition
Updated Nov. 19, 2018 at 5:32 p.m. After years of refusing to recognize the graduate student union, Columbia has reversed course and announced a plan to bargain with the union in the coming months, President Lee Bollinger and Provost John Coatsworth announced Monday afternoon. The decision to bargain is a massive victory for graduate student organizers, who first earned the legal right to unionize in a 2016 court case and voted to form a union in the months that followed.
Columbia to bargain with grad student union, ending years-long struggle over union recognition
After years of refusing to recognize the graduate student union, Columbia will reverse course and bargain with the union in the coming months, President Lee Bollinger announced Monday afternoon. The decision to bargain is a massive victory for graduate student organizers, who first earned the legal right to unionize in a 2016 court case and voted to form a union in the months that followed.
Columbia College sophomore has died
Kirk Wu, a sophomore in Columbia College, died Thursday, Columbia College Dean James Valentini wrote in an email to the Columbia community. He was 19 years old. Wu, a native of Pasadena, California, was an editor of the Columbia Economics Review, a cohort leader of 180 Degrees Consulting, and a member of Columbia Taekwondo.
Q&A: Bollinger says Columbia will ignore Trump’s call to end affirmative action
University President Lee Bollinger, a leading legal advocate of affirmative action, said Columbia will continue to implement affirmative action despite new Trump administration guidance to schools nationwide to employ race-neutral admissions standards. Though the Trump administration's stance is not law, educational institutions could still face investigations or lawsuits by the Justice Department and could subsequently lose access to federal funding from the Department of Education.
Live Coverage: Graduate student union begins strike
Graduate students began a weeklong strike Tuesday morning, chanting slogans and carrying signs along a picket line across College Walk as they protested the University's refusal to bargain with the graduate student union. The union’s strike is the latest development in a long legal battle over graduate students’ right to unionize.
CCSC, ESC election results announced
In both councils, the majority of seats were uncontested. However, winning candidates largely framed their platforms around addressing undergraduate mental health and increasing the number of spaces and services that undergraduates will be allocated, especially for identity-based groups. In the CCSC race for University Senator, Danielle Resheff, CC’20, Toqa Badran, CC’19, and Alfredo Dominguez, CC’19, won the three available seats.
Economics reclassified as STEM major, international students now eligible for 2-year work extension
Economics has been reclassified as a STEM major for Columbia College and General Studies students, the International Students and Scholars Office announced on Wednesday. This means that international students studying economics are now eligible to stay an extra two years in the United States after graduation under a federal law that benefits international students with STEM degrees.
Columbia refuses to bargain with graduate student union, moves to challenge labor board decision in federal court
Columbia has decided not to bargain with graduate students and will instead seek a review of the status of teaching and research assistants in federal court, Provost John Coatsworth announced in a letter to the Columbia community on Tuesday. In recent months, the University has filed multiple objections to the results of an election in which graduate students voted to unionize last spring.
General Studies student Hannah Weiss among 12 killed in Costa Rica plane crash
Sophomore Hannah Weiss, a student at the School of General Studies and the Jewish Theological Seminary, died in a tragic plane crash in Costa Rica on Sunday, according to an email sent to students by a JTS administrator. She was 19 years old. The crash claimed the lives of 12 people, including both of Weiss’ parents and her 16-year-old brother. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash, according to the Associated Press.
Gage Bellitto, CC ’20, has died
Gage Bellitto, CC ’20, passed away last week, Dean of Columbia College James Valentini announced in an email Friday. He was 19 years old. Bellitto, a native of Bronxville, New York, died of an opioid overdose, according to Valentini. His family will hold a burial Mass at the Church of St. Joseph’s in Bronxville on Saturday. “When we lose a member of our community, we are all affected,” Valentini said in the email.
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