Valeria Escobar

As the most recent milestone in his 22-year-long career as a university administrator, Joseph Greenwall began serving as the inaugural vice president of student affairs in the Office of University Life this August.

First-year candidates for the Columbia College and Engineering Student Councils presented platforms dealing with issues of financial accessibility, student engagement with the council, and community outreach in Harlem.

In an effort to clarify procedures around University response to bias-related incidents, the Office of Undergraduate Student Life has updated their website and publicly available information about the procedures and resources available through the Columbia College and Columbia Engineering Bias Response Team, administrators announced in an email to students Wednesday afternoon. The names of the members of the Bias and Discrimination Response Team have also been released.

As the first Questbridge Finalist to come from her high school, Alysha Acosta’s college application process was shrouded in uncertainty. The organization’s website, however, did make one thing certain—she would be provided with a “full four-year scholarship.”

Hailing from all 50 states and 74 foreign countries, the class of 2023 awaited its official introduction as students of Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Following an incident in which six Barnard Public Safety officers physically restrained Alexander McNab, CC ’19, demanding to see his Columbia ID, Public Safety policies across schools have been subject to increased scrutiny and criticism by the student body.

Avichai Assouline, a third year student in the Film M.F.A. Program at the School of the Arts, has died, School of Arts Dean of Faculty Carol Becker and Dean of Students and Alumni Affairs Laila Maher announced in an email to the student body on Monday morning.

Over 300 faculty, students, and alumni called on Columbia to end its $150,000 contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection for emergency medical services at the border, condemning the partnership as a legitimization of CBP cruelty in a faculty-led petition sent to administrators last week.

The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump violated the first amendment by blocking people whose views he disagreed with from his Twitter account. The case, brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, could have broader implications for standards of free speech in a social-media driven public.