Karen Xia

A lawsuit filed against Columbia and former General Studies Dean of Students Tom Harford was amended on Thursday to include new details of Harford’s alleged history of repeated sexual harassment as well as the University’s failure to address it, claiming that Columbia had knowledge of prior reports of his misconduct. The amended suit also alleges that the University retaliated and effectively forced the plaintiff to go on medical leave and subsequently drop out of school.

Niels Chardon-Boucaud, a masters student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, died Friday, SEAS Dean Mary Boyce announced in an email sent to SEAS graduate students yesterday afternoon. He was 21 years old.

Finishing her first year in charge, Dean of General Studies Lisa Rosen-Metsch, GS ’90, has moved swiftly to address the growing needs of the school, renewing fundraising efforts to better engage its alumni, increasing resources for its significant veteran population, and establishing herself as an accessible administrator among the student body.

An unknown perpetrator tore an air vent cover off the wall, marked it with an anti-black racial slur, and placed it outside the front of a black resident’s door in Carman Hall earlier this month.

Barnard has banned Julian von Abele, CC ’21, the student who harassed and grabbed a group of primarily black students on Columbia’s campus earlier this week, from its campus, according to a statement released early Wednesday morning.

Graduate and postdoctoral unions have voted 1035 to 720 in favor of ratifying Columbia’s bargaining framework, marking the beginning of negotiations after decades of stalemate and ending the possibility of a graduate student strike.

In the days following its release, Columbia’s proposed bargaining framework for the graduate student and postdoctoral unions has become a point of contention among members of both unions, who—despite having successfully pressured Columbia to finally come to the bargaining table—remain fragmented and uncertain about how to proceed.

All Columbia student dormitories will undergo health and safety inspections by University officials from Residential Life, Housing, and Fire Safety beginning Nov. 12, according to an email from Columbia Housing to students earlier this afternoon.