Robert Jervis, the Adlai E. Stevenson professor of international politics, passed away from lung cancer complications in his home on Dec. 9. He was 81 years old.

An email from University administration announcing an unexpected change to stipend pay schedules has left many graduate student-workers reeling. As stipend payment timing is modified to align with normal payroll distribution, many students will begin the fall term with less funds than they had prepared for, especially given the short notice.

As the University prepares for an in-person fall semester, the graduate student-worker union is undergoing internal reform to address the challenges it faced during its spring strike, including the resignation of all 10 bargaining committee members in May.

Last summer, Joon Baek, CC ’21 and president of Columbia College Student Council, woke up to dozens of texts from other students regarding the new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rules that threatened deportation and banned reentry for students whose institutions were operating entirely online. By the end of that day, he had organized an emergency town hall meeting for international students at Columbia. By the end of that week, he was speaking at a press conference with New York Attorney General Letitia James.

As members of the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers shifted in-person picketing efforts to the Columbia Irving Medical Center on Wednesday and to the Manhattanville campus on Thursday, the protests have become a stage for contenders in New York City’s upcoming Democratic mayoral primary on June 22 to take a stance on labor rights issues.

“It’s the type of relief I can’t even explain,” said Andrea Sahouri, Journalism ’19, following her acquittal.

QuestBridge, a national organization connecting low-income students to selective colleges, announced Barnard as one of its three new partner institutions earlier this week.

In front of an array of posters emblazoned with red and black slogans, the Columbia-Barnard Young Democratic Socialists of America mounted a rally in support of its tuition strike. The rally began with a press conference in front of University President Lee Bollinger’s 60 West Morningside Drive home and culminated in a march to the steps of Low Library.