New York lawmakers have introduced the “Fair College Admissions Act,” a bill that attempts to prohibit legacy and early admissions policies at all public and private colleges and universities in New York.

Madeleine Albright, SIPA ’68, GSAS ’76, the first woman to serve as secretary of state, died of cancer on Wednesday, her family announced. She was 84.

Hundreds of students evacuated from McBain Hall at 3:18 p.m. today after a fire alarm was triggered following a resident adviser’s alert of smoke in a dorm room. Residents were permitted to re-enter the building at 4:06 p.m after the New York Fire Department cleared the building.

Bernard Nussbaum, CC ’58, a former Spectator trustee and its 81st editor in chief, died on Sunday, March 13. He was 84.

A new analysis from a Columbia professor claims the University has misrepresented institutional data to U.S. News & World Report, which publishes controversial but influential annual rankings of colleges and universities.

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, the Lawrence C. Kolb professor at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, has been suspended from his roles as chair of the psychiatry department and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the hospital, senior administrators announced today in an email sent to the Columbia University Irving Medical Center community.

Dr. Joel Lavine had a years-long history of predatory and retaliatory behavior toward female coworkers, according to sources familiar with the matter and confidential University reports obtained by Spectator. The University is funding private security for one of those former colleagues out of concern for her physical safety.

University President Lee Bollinger has purchased an apartment at the Beresford, a historic building on the Upper West Side. The 10th floor, three-bedroom apartment sold for $11.7 million.

Rihanna announced her pregnancy with rapper A$AP Rocky today with a photoshoot in front of Columbia’s Manhattanville campus, near Rocky’s childhood home. The couple took photos along the 12th Avenue corridor, where dozens of businesses have struggled after being forced to move during the campus’s construction. The Business School’s Kravis Hall was visible in the background of the photos.