Katriel Tolin

2020-03-30T10:34:17.233Z
On Thursday, the United States became the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases, currently reported to be greater than 140,000 nationwide and increasing. Experts have noted that a possible explanation for the increased spread is the inconsistent messaging around the virus, which has led to slow change in preventative behavior meant to “flatten the curve.”
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2020-02-06T11:59:47.652Z
As Aline Estefam, a graduate student in urban planning, approached 125th Street and Broadway, she immediately noticed the contemporary architecture of The Forum at Columbia University. With wide windows and sharp white edges, it stands in stark contrast with the surrounding gradient of brown brick buildings.
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2019-12-12T07:17:22.576Z
Casa Latina was selected to move into a highly sought out brownstone on 542 W. 114th St. for the upcoming academic year.

2019-12-03T23:30:30.213Z
A new study published by Columbia researchers within the Society for Applied Anthropology suggests that universities should offer more resources to conduct conversations about sexual consent. It also outlines steps to take in order to clarify the language of consent on college campuses in relation to time-related factors.
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2019-11-21T08:49:13.723Z
Rhodes scholarship has named Anish Gawande, CC ’18, an Indian Rhodes scholar-elect, making him the fourth recipient of the prestigious scholarship from Columbia in the past 10 years.
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2019-11-14T09:55:09.435Z
Columbia joined 18 other colleges and universities—including six other Ivies—in filing an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy as part of ongoing litigation over the program under the Trump administration.
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2020-05-11T22:47:55.337Z
In light of Columbia’s failure to name Indigenous Peoples’ Day as an official University holiday, Columbia’s Native American Council organized a day-long gathering at the Sundial on Monday rallying students to pen statements to the University Senate advocating for official recognition.
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By Katriel Tolin and Jason Kao
2019-10-14T06:02:34.112Z
Students, alumni, and faculty debated the tension between the intended universality of Core texts and the individualized relationships students of different identities may form with those texts in a panel event on Diversity in the Core on Friday.
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By Clay Anderson and Katriel Tolin
2019-10-03T22:40:08.548Z
In 1989, Laura Hotchkiss Brown, GS ’89, attempted to protest the lack of female inclusion in Columbia’s curriculum by hanging a banner above the names of male writers on Butler Library. The banner—made by Brown and four of her friends—featured the names of eight influential female writers.
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