State Sen. Cordell Cleare hosted a “Clean Slate Clinic” event in Central Harlem on Friday, offering resources to formerly incarcerated community residents and featuring a lineup of criminal justice advocacy organizations.

Dozens of Columbia affiliates and Morningside Heights community members gathered at Broadway and 115th Street on the first day of spring semester classes to protest the University’s continued gate closures, which began over two years ago.

Tamara Hache: "With these epics, we might have an expectation of, you know, sort of a more hypermasculine, I don’t know, feel to them. Because of our own expectations, again, as 21st-century readers, of what an epic is, right? But when we go and we look closer at them, we see that this is not the case, right?"

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the detention cases of Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, and Rümeysa Öztürk, TC ’20, on Tuesday.

Teniola Adedire: You may have heard by now, Columbia has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism. While Columbia had already planned to incorporate the definition into its antidiscrimination policies back in the spring semester, acting University President Claire Shipman announced in a July 15 email its formal adoption. The definition will be incorporated into the work of the Office of Institutional Equity, which is responsible for investigating reports of discrimination on campus.

Luisa Sukkar: In the three months since the spring semester wrapped up, Columbia has continued its run in the national headlines. From a hacker stealing student data to the University reaching a settlement with the federal government, here are six of the top stories you may have missed this summer:

Welcome back to Campus Speculations, the series where we ask Columbia affiliates their takes on all of the questions you’re dying to know the answers to. In this new episode of Campus Speculations, host Achilles Frangos and co-host Isabelle Bouvier chat with Columbia affiliates about their Bacchanal plans.

“Hey so today, we’re going to be doing some edging ASMR.”

Many Columbia students go on to do incredible things after they graduate…

During the first New York City Democratic mayoral primary debate on Wednesday, candidates were asked questions related to Columbia, including the Department of Education’s claim that the University failed to meet accreditation standards and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s March 8 detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24.