Hunger Strike

Interdisciplinary concentration in ethnic studies to be offered at Barnard

This March, the Barnard College Committee of Instruction approved a small-scale ethnic studies program after a group of students and faculty collaborated together to create a proposal.

By Andrea Garcia-Vargas | Mar 31 02:48 am ET

Activists Hold Hunger Strike, Protest Iraq War

In a year whose first enduring image was of the frenzied protests surrounding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s September visit to Columbia, student activism has played a large and multifacet

By Mary Kohlmann | May 10 01:55 pm ET

Coming Together

This semester, we as students have felt many things—anger, joy, determination, even, at times, despair—but I am proud to say that complacency was not one of them.

By Andrew Lyubarsky | Dec 10 01:43 am ET

Hispanic Studies Adjusts To Meet Core Reforms

With reforms to the Core Curriculum’s Major Cultures requirement in the offing, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese—which less than three semesters ago transformed Columbia’s Spanish-language-

By Scott Levi | Dec 6 02:17 am ET

Reform Effort Pre-Dated Strike

Students, administrators, and faculty were studying how to reform the Major Cultures component of the Core Curriculum last semester, well before hunger strikers struck an agreement with administrat

By | Dec 5 03:13 am ET

Activism for Paper-Writers

If you’re a liberal arts student, chances are you should probably stop reading this column and get back to writing the papers that should, by all rights, be the bread, butter, and unrelenting curse

By Chas Carey | Dec 4 12:21 am ET

The Importance of Protest on Campus

Of all the criticism lobbed at hunger strikers and their supporters these past few weeks, most troubling is the charge that strikers were myopically and hyperbolically obsessed about a few faculty

By Candace Mitchell | Nov 29 12:55 am ET

Students Remain Divided on Strike Methods

In the wake of the student hunger strike, students have expressed mixed opinions about the methods employed by the campus activists.

By Mary Kohlmann | Nov 28 02:40 am ET

Hating on Hate

In response to recent hate crimes around the city, New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn led a movement to launch the Day Out Against Hate.

By Editorial Board | Nov 28 12:39 am ET

Why I Write Against the Hunger Strike

In the twilight hours of Nov. 15, I was one of five Columbia students who helped organize that night’s rally against the hunger strike.

By Josh Mathew | Nov 26 11:50 pm ET

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