The General Studies Elections Task Force announced the results of the 2025-26 General Studies Student Council election in a Thursday email to General Studies students. The task force reported the largest voter turnout in GSSC history with 737 total voters. Oscar Wolfe, GS/JTS ’27, who is currently the vice president of policy, will serve as GSSC’s next student body president.

Mario Torres and Lester Wilson, Columbia Facilities workers who were inside Hamilton Hall during the April 30, 2024, occupation of the building, sued pro-Palestinian protesters on April 25 for battery, assault, and conspiracy.

A.G. Sulzberger, chairman and publisher of the New York Times, and Jelani Cobb, dean of the Journalism School, spoke about the fight for global press freedom at an April 21 conference in Pulitzer Hall.

Taylor Moniz, GS ’25, General Studies Student Council senior class president, walked out of an April 15 meeting in protest, calling the council’s lack of acknowledgement of student concerns a “failure.” Several students followed Moniz’s lead, with the walkout garnering mixed reactions from attendees.

Staff at the National Institutes of Health have been instructed to freeze all federal grants to Columbia and a handful of other institutions until further notice, according to an internal email published by Nature and an exclusive report by ScienceInsider.