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Dec 14, 2010 · Last spring, amid a faith crisis in journalism, I found the Tow Center. I had heard about national media outlets shoving microphones in students’ faces during protests, mass layoffs at news publications across the United States since 2023, and a Gallup poll confirming a national decline of trust in journalism. At that moment, I decided to look to the Columbia Journalism School, which has ...
Listening Tables
Sep 8, 2024 · I am writing to explain an idea for an initiative meant to begin addressing this question, mounted by the Trust Collaboratory, a research center at Columbia’s Incite Institute.This idea was born when a group of faculty, deans, and alumni leaders of very different points of view sat down at a table together over a meal and talked about the hard problems of the moment.
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Jonathan Lederer, CC ’26, reported being punched in the face and his twin brother, David Lederer, SEAS ’26, reported having the brothers’ shared Israeli flag stolen at a protest on Monday, according to a Clery Crime Alert sent to the University community Wednesday morning and interviews with Jonathan and David Lederer.
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Former Columbia men’s basketball assistant coach Todd Golden has been accused of sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, and stalking in a Title IX complaint filed to the University of Florida, where Golden currently serves as the men’s basketball head coach, according to a report by the Independent Florida Alligator.
Torres announces COLUMBIA Act to create ‘antisemitism monitor’ …
Apr 26, 2024 · Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) announced on Friday that he plans to introduce a bill that would allow the Department of Education to impose a “third-party antisemitism monitor” for any institution of higher education that receives federal funding. Torres coined the legislation the College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability Act, or the COLUMBIA Act.
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In his June 6 opinion piece, New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that a paradox exists within the “educated class”: The progressive student of today tends to position themself as “an enemy of privilege” while speaking from their lofty post at elite institutions. Many students, Brooks claims, fail to recognize the hypocrisy of being both part of and critical of the ...
Is Columbia in crisis? - Columbia Daily Spectator
Apr 18, 2024 · On April 17, University President Minouche Shafik became the latest in a line of leaders in higher education to testify before Congress. As part of the House probe into antisemitism on college campuses, the hearing, titled “Columbia in Crisis,” was theoretically the fruit of a bipartisan effort to combat bigotry by holding administrations across the country accountable for their handling ...
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As polls closed across the country in the 2024 general election, the last West Harlem voters filed into poll sites to cast the final ballots. After voting, residents gathered for community healing events and attended watch parties in anticipation of the results.
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Within the intimate and dimly-lit Ailey Citigroup Theater, dancers emerged from the stage’s wings in cloth ballet shoes, pointe shoes, and a myriad of costumes, bringing the Columbia Ballet Collaborative’s Fall Gala to life on Saturday against backdrops of blue, green, and white.
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Columbia football has traveled a long and often bumpy road to clinch its second Ivy League title in program history. From 1961 to 2024, with an infamous 44-game losing streak in between, thousands of Lions have come and gone—but Spectator has seen the program through it all.