Mental health, support for marginalized students, and campus-wide “fun” programming took center stage at the Columbia College Student Council election debates on Saturday.

Black, Latinx, and Native American student groups are asking the Activities Board at Columbia to restructure its system of representatives and provide each of the three demographics with its own representative.

Activists discussed solidarity between those facing struggles in Syria and in Palestine at a panel hosted by Students Organize for Syria and co-sponsored by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Apartheid Divest on Wednesday night.