McBain Hall, one of the most frequently-selected sophomore dorms, is in violation of the city’s building safety rules, according to a report by the New York City Department of Buildings. Following the report that said the building posed a danger to the public Columbia has erected sidewalk guards around McBain last month.

Carl Dix, founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party, described 1968 as a radical era of protests at a panel on the relationship between capitalism and gentrification Wednesday night.

Columbia College Student Council unrolled a pilot program for faculty-student advising that began at the end of last semester—a program that a majority of students have not utilized consistently, if at all.

Sam Goldberg, CC ’18, had just come out of a weekly meeting with her thesis adviser when she saw a chain of emails from the University congratulating her for her nomination as valedictorian.

Prominent neuroscientist Thomas Jessell was engaged in a relationship with a lab member under his supervision for years, violating University policies on consensual romantic and sexual relationships, before being removed from all administrative posts this past March, Spectator has found.

The class day speaker for the School of General Studies was announced in a statement to GS students on Friday.

Columbia has named five honorary degree recipients, including a former director of the White House Office of Political Affairs, the curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the founding partner of the studio that designed the High Line. These degrees will be given out at Commencement in May.

The University Senate unanimously passed a resolution in support of freedom of expression on campus at the Senate plenary meeting last Friday.

Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science have admitted a combined 5.5 percent of applicants for the 2018 admissions cycle, the University announced today.