The problem that we Barnard students face today is two-fold and contradictory. There is far too much breadth in the Nine Ways of Knowing, and at the same time, there is not enough.

The new year has seen developing controversy and discussion over the direction of a proposed ethnic studies program at Barnard College.

After a semester filled with discussion of issues of diversity and education, Barnard College is grappling with how best to address race and ethnicity in an academic context.

The critics of the recent hunger strike are quick to decry the privilege of the strikers and their supporters.

During the much-covered hunger strike, the New York Post printed an article about the end of one striker’s fast that was both factually inaccurate and telling in its treatment of the issues at hand

Ethnic studies strives for praxis, the Aristotelian marriage of theory and action. Rather than “explaining” a subject, ethnic studies historicizes to denaturalize.

Student strikers sleeping in tents outside Butler. Rallies at the Sundial. Demands debated in articles and conversations. Conservatives joking about pizza and barbecues.

Yesterday, five students began a hunger strike, depriving their bodies as the worst aspects of Columbia University have deprived all of our minds, hearts, and spirits.

In the past weeks’ furor about nooses and graffiti, which dramatize age-old concerns about our Eurocentric curriculum, paternalistic gentrification efforts, and feelings of marginalization from stu

*In what is lately becoming an increasingly fragile climate in which to talk about race relations, the debate about Ethnic Studies at Columbia is one of the most obviously delicate components of th