The inventor of the term “intersectionality,” a former member of a hate group, and a sociology professor discussed the connection between misogyny and white supremacy at a panel Wednesday night.

Campus Services has made significant changes to the room arrangement of Alfred Lerner Hall this semester to increase student space, including the relocation of student mailboxes and the addition of a student-run food bank.

Poets Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand spoke about the role of poetry in combating present-day racism and white supremacy at a discussion hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women on Tuesday.

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

At a panel held Monday night at the Journalism School’s Pulitzer Hall, Michelle Goldberg, a columnist at Slate, and John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine, spoke about recent anti-Semitism faced by journalists.

Criminal justice activist Aisha Elliott led a discussion about sexual violence against incarcerated women at a panel organized by anti-sexual assault activist group No Red Tape on Monday night.

Charles Murray, a controversial sociologist, spoke to the Columbia community in Lerner Hall Thursday night about the factors that led to Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency.

Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, SIPA ’96 and publisher of the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, spoke about the vital role communication and media play in fostering a better understanding of Islam in Low Library on Tuesday night.

At the opening ceremony of Columbia’s Black History Month programming on Monday night, Tamika D. Mallory, an activist and the co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, spoke about intersectionality and expanding dialogue around race to a crowd of over a hundred people.