An anti-Asian slur was used to deface a recruitment poster in John Jay Hall for Alpha Kappa Psi, a preprofessional business fraternity, according to a statement to Spectator from the AKPsi executive board.

In December, the Schwarzman Scholars program selected four undergraduates and two alumni—David Chen, GS ’23, Kewen Kong, CC ’23, Charlie Wallace, CC ’23, Vish Rao, SEAS ’23, Alison Kahn, BC ’21, and Rory Madigan, CC ’20—as members of their 2023-2024 cohort. The program allows students to pursue a fully funded one-year master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and join a cohort of students from over 121 different universities globally.

The United Front Against Displacement led University affiliates, City University of New York students, and neighborhood residents on Thursday in protest against the Co-Designing Smart Cities course offered by the School of International and Public Affairs. The protest, which highlighted the organization’s demands for an official apology from Columbia’s administration and the permanent removal of the course, featured testimonies from Harlem residents against the University’s expansion in West Harlem.

Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers hosted its second rally of the semester on Low Steps last Friday, demanding “timely and complete pay” from the University for graduate student workers, an end to “unpaid teaching labor,” and the removal of police officers from campus. The rally, which comes after two New York Police Department officers disrupted an SWC-UAW general body meeting on Nov. 21, included testimonies from graduate students in departments such as chemistry, environmental science, and Germanic languages.

Student-Worker Solidarity hosted its second teach-in of the semester in the lobby of Uris Hall last Friday, examining the University’s expansion into West Harlem and construction of the Manhattanville campus. The teach-in, entitled “The Assault on Harlem: a history of CU’s landlording,” was organized with Housing Equity Project and covered the University’s history of gentrifying its surrounding communities.

Student-Worker Solidarity hosted its first teach-in of the semester on South Lawn last Friday, reflecting on over 60 years of radical dissent from students at the University.