Spectator announced Wednesday a $1.5 million fundraising campaign to mark the 150th anniversary of the paper and secure its future.

The Society of Professional Journalists announced the winners of the 2025 Mark of Excellence Awards in Region 1 on April 23. Spectator won in two categories—“News Videography” and “Science/Environment Reporting”—and placed as a finalist in seven others.

In the early days of her presidency during the summer of 2023, Minouche Shafik was scanning a crowd of new faces at a meet and greet event when she spotted a name tag that read “Community Board 9.” She immediately stopped.

Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, joined fellow Palestinian rights advocates on Sunday to speak at a “Voices for Gaza” fundraiser, where he shared diary entries from his experience in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. His appearance at the event came just days after a federal judge ruled he be deported to Algeria or Syria.

When nonaffiliated tenants in Columbia-owned units move out or die, the University has historically converted those units into student housing.

Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, described Columbia’s agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration to pay $220 million to restore federal funding as “in line with our values” in her first interview with Spectator Wednesday evening.

After more than three months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, was welcomed back to Morningside Heights at a rally on June 22.

Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, has spent the past week getting used to sleeping in a real bed again, eating whatever he wants, and, most importantly, he said, spending time with his wife and newborn baby since his release from the detention that separated him from these experiences for 104 days and caught the world’s notice.

Updated on June 24 at 1:31 p.m.