Ufon Umanah

2018-12-10T06:47:56.703Z
The Office of the President states that during Lee Bollinger’s 16 years as University President he has fostered “an innovative and sustainable approach to global engagement,” despite evidence showing that the university has invested in or partnered with foreign and domestic institutions that have questionable backgrounds. As undergraduates, should we support his efforts to expand Columbia abroad?
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2018-11-27T05:04:38.296Z
Considering how civically engaged we are on campus (unionization, midterm elections, etc.), what is our responsibility—if we have one—to extend that around the dinner table during the holidays in politically polarizing times? Should we confront family we don’t agree with?
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2018-11-14T01:44:22.816Z
Greek life—from traditional fraternities and sororities to pre-professional societies and multicultural organizations—has long been a staple of American university life. But, given many national incidents of hazing and sexual assault at fraternities and actions by Columbia’s peer schools to curtail or eliminate it, should Columbia ban Greek life?
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2018-10-30T05:32:28.542Z

2018-10-16T04:35:39.637Z
According to a 2017 New York Times report, 13.4 percent of Columbia’s undergraduate students come from the top 1 percent of household income brackets in the U.S., and 21.1 are in the bottom 60 percent of household income brackets. What does it mean for learning inside and outside the classroom that the demographics of the Columbia community are so vastly disproportionate to the demographics of the country?
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2018-10-02T04:53:05.589Z
Created in the wake of the 1968 protests, the University Senate was originally meant to restructure the University’s administrative and governing systems in order to effectively incorporate student and professorial input in university-wide policy decisions. Is the University Senate fulfilling its mandate?
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2018-09-18T05:58:19.245Z
In our public imagination, Columbia has the dual identity of being both a traditionally entrenched Ivy League university and a liberal activist haven, and as a result it faces the perceived trappings of both. How can we reconcile these two seemingly opposed value systems? What is––or should be––Columbia's role in preserving the status quo? In spearheading radical change?
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2018-09-18T01:33:48.063Z
Photos by Arielle Shternfeld / Columbia Daily Spectator
By Ufon Umanah
2018-09-07T02:16:33.693Z
So, you want to run for office, but like most first-years, you have no idea where to start. Who could blame you? NSOP was only a week ago, and now you have to compete for hearts and minds you didn’t even know existed before Labor Day. It’s impractical at worst, mad at best.
... By Hannah Barbosa Cesnik, Elise Fuller, Mikhail Klimentov, Kevin G. Chapman, Ufon Umanah, and Editorial Board
2017-01-20T12:42:12Z
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