Candidates for Barnard Student Government Association’s first-year class council shared platforms that addressed recurring student concerns, such as Barnard’s dining hall swipe-in and dorm guest policies, but also paid more attention to the experiences of low-income, undocumented, and international students on campus at the candidates’ forum on Sunday.

U.S. representatives and city council members expressed their support for Columbia’s graduate workers’ efforts to unionize at a community forum on Wednesday.