Madison Andrus

At the third town hall held by the Mental Health Task Force, a sparsely populated crowd discussed ways in which the Berick Center for Student Advising could better serve the needs of students by increasing adviser advocacy on the behalf of their students and implementing a nonrandom system of adviser assignment.

During a packed last meeting of the semester, the Columbia College Student Council discussed the implementation of procedures to remove ineffective representatives, potential changes to club funding allocation based on measures of inclusivity, and the creation of a Bacchanal Governing Board that would include the undergraduate councils in financial decisions made by the Bacchanal Committee.

Columbia will only offer a single unified health insurance plan for students starting next fall, increasing premiums but decreasing out-of-pocket maximums for a majority of students currently on University health insurance, Columbia Health announced Wednesday.

The former Office of Global Programs has officially announced its transition to the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement, introducing enhanced support and dedicated study-abroad advising for undergraduate global opportunities at Columbia.

Missing classes, inaccurate class status for Core Curriculum courses, and slow updates regarding course times plagued student registration for the fall 2019 semester.

Last Thursday, the Columbia Elections Commission notified University Senator-elect Heven Haile, CC ’21, that someone had reported her for publicizing a false endorsement from the Columbia University Mental Health Task Force, an offense that could be ruled as a major rules violation according to election policies.

Following a failed motion to impeach the current Columbia College Student Council student services representative for alleged rules violations during this year’s election cycle, four council members—University Senator Alfredo Dominguez, CC ’19, University Senator Toqa Mohamed Badran, CC ’19, Race and Ethnicity Representative Heven Haile, CC ’21, and Vice President for Communications Isabella Lajara, CC ’20—resigned from their current roles during the Sunday night meeting.

The Columbia Elections Board announced results of the Columbia College Student Council election late Saturday night, ending weeks of debate and campaigning for the over 50 candidates who ran for positions on council.

Engineering Student Council election results were released Saturday night after four days of voting. A number of races were uncontested, and at least ten do not have representatives as no candidates ran for those positions.

Columbia College Student Council voted to increase the allocation of funding for its pilot MetroCard program by $4,100, increasing the likelihood that nearly the full student demand for subsidized MetroCards will be met.