Roughly 100 protesters dyed the snow on the South Lawn red using Kool-Aid powder on Tuesday as part of an “all eyes on Rafah” emergency rally held by the Columbia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia University Apartheid Divest.

Titans of the journalism industry, current Spectator staff members, and longtime Spectator supporters gathered in the Faculty House Presidential Ballroom on Saturday evening for the 36th Columbia Daily Spectator Annual Awards Dinner, which honored Ernest “Ernie” Brod, CC ’58, Law ’61, with Spectator’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cas Holloway, former deputy chief operations officer at Bloomberg LP and former deputy mayor for operations for the Bloomberg administration, will serve as Columbia’s first chief operating officer effective Feb. 5, University President Minouche Shafik announced in a Tuesday email to the community.

Columbia banned “alleged perpetrators” from campus following “what appear to have been serious crimes, possibly hate crimes” at a Friday pro-Palestinian rally, interim University Provost Dennis Mitchell announced in an email to the Columbia community on Monday evening.

Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science received 6,009 early decision applicants for the class of 2028, according to Columbia Undergraduate Admissions.

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday opened an investigation into Columbia over alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Hundreds of students, faculty, and affiliates participated in a protest on Tuesday organized by DAR, Columbia’s Palestinian student union, in response to the University’s suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.