Columbia’s student workers’ union no longer plans to go on strike during the spring semester following its parent union’s decision to not approve the strike earlier this month. As of April 14, members had voted in favor of setting April 23 as their deadline to strike.

The board of trustees is “expected” to release its conflict of interest policy this summer, a University spokesperson wrote in a Monday statement to Spectator, after Columbia College students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a referendum calling for its release.

When the city that never sleeps fell asleep during the COVID-19 pandemic, Meghan Suma, Journalism ’22, confronted a dilemma: face severe pay cuts as a restaurant manager, or take a leap of faith and go to journalism school.

A panel hosted Wednesday by the Columbia chapter of Students Supporting Israel that featured two members of the Israeli military drew fierce opposition, with dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathering outside Lerner Hall to protest the event.

Over a dozen students gathered in Hamilton Hall to hear former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, CC ’92, SIPA ’93, speak at an Undergraduate Community Initiative event on Feb. 26.

Over two dozen demonstrators gathered at the 116th Street and Broadway gates Wednesday afternoon to protest ongoing U.S. and Israeli military action in Iran.

A New York judge dismissed Columbia’s expulsions, suspensions, and degree revocations of the pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied Hamilton Hall in April 2024, ruling on Friday that Columbia could not use sealed arrest records as evidence in the disciplinary hearings. Now, the University is considering a variety of options to continue to discipline the protesters.