Madison Andrus
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The Columbia Elections Board announced results of the Columbia College Student Council election late Saturday night, ending weeks of debate and campaigning for the over 50 candidates who ran for positions on council.
Engineering Student Council election results were released Saturday night after four days of voting. A number of races were uncontested, and at least ten do not have representatives as no candidates ran for those positions.
Columbia College Student Council voted to increase the allocation of funding for its pilot MetroCard program by $4,100, increasing the likelihood that nearly the full student demand for subsidized MetroCards will be met.
The man that struck the late General Studies Dean Peter Awn with his car has officially been charged with a moving violation and a traffic infraction, and faces a fee of up to $900 and 15 days in jail if found guilty.
After decades of activism surrounding the University’s lack of dedicated scholarship to issues of race and ethnicity, Columbia approved its first African American and African Diaspora studies department last fall. Here, in light of Black History Month, some of those who made it happen reflect on the push for change in a slow-moving world of academia.
At its second meeting of the semester, the Columbia College Student Council discussed textbook affordability for low-income students, largely focusing on an ill-received proposal that would increase tuition by $600 per year to cover textbook costs for all students.