More than 40 House and Senate Democrats signed onto a Friday letter urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to halt efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, and criticized the “continued targeting” of Khalil by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani was due for an uneventful end of what had been a busy February‎—at least, according to his schedule.

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.

Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, described Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Thursday arrest of Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26, as a “manufactured” emergency at a Friday University Senate plenary, noting that the agents who arrested Aghayeva were armed.

Nearly a decade after former President Barack Obama, CC ’83, left the White House in 2017, the Incite Institute at Columbia unveiled another facet of his legacy, publishing the official oral history of his presidency on Feb. 17—Presidents’ Day.