An anti-Asian slur was used to deface a recruitment poster in John Jay Hall for Alpha Kappa Psi, a preprofessional business fraternity, according to a statement to Spectator from the AKPsi executive board.

Four days after Risha Hede, BC ’23, settled into her ninth-floor residential apartment in 620 W 116th St. for the spring semester, her dorm began to have problems with its water supply. Two days before the start of classes, residents on floors seven through 10 reported low pressure, a lack of water, extreme hot or cold temperatures, smelly or unhygienic water, and toilets not flushing.

Nemat “Minouche” Shafik is used to making history. At the age of 36, she became the youngest-ever vice president of the World Bank; in 2008, she became the first permanent woman secretary of the U.K. Department of International Development; and in 2017, she became the first woman director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Recent freezing temperatures in New York City have damaged pipes and caused flooding in several buildings on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center campus.

When Jodi Kantor, CC ’96, was a student at Columbia, she never would have imagined herself becoming a career journalist. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, she felt a responsibility to go into a more lucrative field, as she had educational opportunities that others in her family did not.

On Monday evening, hundreds gathered on Low Steps for a vigil and demonstration commemorating the 10 people who died in an apartment fire in Urumqi, a city in China’s Xinjiang region, per the current official death toll.

Former President Barack Obama, CC ’83, discussed the next generation of leaders and the importance of democratic values at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum last Thursday, nine days after the national midterm elections. More than 800 people from 70 countries attended the event at the Javits Center in Hudson Yards.

The University Senate has formally voted to establish the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, as the University’s newest institute under the umbrella of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Dean of the Columbia School of the Arts Carol Becker will step down at the end of the academic year after 16 years in the role, University President Lee Bollinger announced today in an email to the community.

A recently released report from Public Safety provides a comprehensive look at reports of crimes and fires at the University over the past three calendar years, as the pandemic forced many students and staff off campus.