Katherine Gerberich
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We are thrilled to introduce Spectator’s 144th Managing Board. We can’t wait to see where this board takes Spectator. We know it will be an amazing year.
Today, Spectator published a story that examines how student-run clubs at Columbia handle allegations of sexual misconduct within their groups. This story, written in the Eye, illustrates how university policy prohibits student clubs from taking action until an official report has been filed.
24 Columbia College seniors have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the college announced on Monday.
Fourteen Barnard seniors have been inducted as Junior Phi Beta Kappa, the college announced on Monday.
More than 150,000 people took to the streets of New York to advocate for gun control this Saturday as a part of the March For Our Lives. Columbia students organized the New York march, which followed the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The perpetrator of the attack, Nikolas Cruz, is a former MSD student who legally obtained the assault rifle that he used to kill 17 students on Valentine’s Day. In the weeks since the tragedy, MSD students have been the leading voices in a movement to promote gun control and ban assault rifles in the United States.
In the midst of the #MeToo movement, when new allegations of sexual harassment regularly make national headlines, the Women’s March on New York City brought more than 200,000 people of all ages to the Upper West Side. Held on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s election, people took to the streets to call for change in the White House as well as in their day-to-day lives.