A group of primarily black Columbia underclassmen were harassed outside Butler Library around 4 a.m. Sunday morning by a white student shouting, “White people are the best thing that happened to the world” and “We built modern civilization,” according to students present at the scene.

In response to Columbia’s growing international student population, as well as student concerns regarding space and accessibility, Director of the International Students and Scholars Office David Austell announced that the office will be hiring four new staff members and plans to expand its office space.

Columbia’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action received 174 allegations of discrimination and discriminatory harassment from individual complainants in the 2017-18 academic year, a number that has increased by 54 percent from the 2016-17 academic year, according to first-ever annual report from the EOAA. The number of gender-based misconduct reports made to EOAA also increased by 46 percent from the prior academic year.

International students voiced their concern over a newly proposed federal policy that could establish a maximum period of authorized stay, making it more difficult for international students to remain in the country.

The newly revived Coalition Against Sexual Violence is launching “Let’s Bring Sexy Back”—a sex positivity and consent education campaign that will include events and programming throughout the year aimed at building student awareness around gender-based misconduct.

Columbia’s Native American Council has gathered over 1,000 student signatures in just one day on a petition calling for Columbia to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day as an official University holiday.

Updated October 5, 2018 at 5:13 p.m.

A majority of postdoctoral workers at Columbia voted to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board announced earlier this afternoon.

Conservative radio host and author Lawrence B. Jones emphasized the importance of diversity outreach within the Republican Party at the Columbia University College Republicans’ first event of the year on Tuesday.

At the Columbia Political Union’s first debate of semester, President of the Roosevelt Institute Ricardo Jaramillo, CC ’19, and President of Columbia University Democrats, Joanna Cohen, CC ’20, debated prison justice reform.