The legal team for Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, submitted 17 declarations to Judge Michael Farbiarz of the District of New Jersey on June 5 describing the harm that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detainment of Khalil has caused him and his family.

The Southern District of New York Court blocked federal prosecutors’ attempts to gain access to information about Columbia University Apartheid Divest’s Instagram account, including individuals who ran the account and the users who interacted with it, according to court records unsealed on Tuesday.

During the largest mass arrest on Columbia’s campus since the New York Police Department swept Hamilton Hall and the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in April 2024, the New York Police Department and Public Safety officers responded with force as officers arrested 78 protesters on May 7 amid a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Butler Library.

U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions III ordered on Friday that Rümeysa Öztürk, TC ’20, be transferred by the end of the month to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Vermont from Louisiana, where she is currently detained.

Thomas Sipp, Law ’23, joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom in September 2023. Two years later, he submitted his resignation letter. The reason: His esteemed law firm was in talks to become the latest to strike an appeasement deal with President Donald Trump.

Following the resignation of former interim University President Katrina Armstrong, Republican lawmakers have criticized the appointment of Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, as acting University president.

The Department of Homeland Security alleged that Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, willfully failed to disclose his employment with the Syria office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he applied for permanent U.S. residency in a Sunday filing in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey.

Protesters wearing shirts that read “Jews say ICE off campus” gathered on Low Steps on March 11 to protest the March 8, detainment of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his University-owned residence in New York City.

The University Senate unanimously passed a resolution to “rededicate” Lerner Hall as a student space at Friday’s plenary.