Nearly two years after the 2019 Homecoming festivities, the Lions took the field on Saturday to face Penn, defeating the Quakers 23-14. The win marked the Lions’ 400th all-time win and their first in Ivy League play this season. Players sported light blue throwback jerseys in honor of the 1961 championship-winning team.

After 22 months, Columbia football finally returned to its home in northern Manhattan in its season opener on Saturday. The Lions soundly beat Marist College 37-14 by dominating both sides of the ground game. After falling behind 14-0 in the first four minutes, Columbia scored 37 unanswered points en route to topping 300 rushing yards in a game for the first time since 1988. It is an optimistic sign for an offense that ranked last in the Ivy League in 2019.

A New York Times investigation last week found that George Yancopoulos, CC ’80, GSAS ’86, VP&S ’87, received exclusive, preferential access to COVID-19 testing during the first wave of the pandemic, when testing supplies were critically limited and cases were surging in New York. Yancopoulos is the president of the pharmaceutical company Regeneron and a major Columbia donor.

Mario Van Peebles, CC ’78, and Rocco B. Commisso, SEAS ’71, Business ’75, will be speaking at the Columbia College and School of Engineering and Applied Science Class Day ceremonies, respectively.

As Joe Biden secures the 2020 election, the shift in power to the Democratic Party signals forthcoming change to higher education policy. Among other initiatives, Biden’s current higher education platform promises to reinstate broader Title IX protections and support lower-income students’ attendance of public four-year programs and community colleges.

When Maria Ordoñez, CC ’21, walked into the New York State Board of Elections office in February, a stack of registration forms in hand, she could already feel history unfolding at her fingertips.

Citing wages below area standards, insufficient health benefits, and the University’s refusal to participate in state apprenticeship programs, the New York City District Council of Carpenters has taken up in protest against Columbia to demand fair labor practices for nonunionized construction workers on a Manhattanville dormitory.