An individual posing as a Columbia “special events” employee entered at least seven undergraduate classes on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, selling students discounted tickets to the New York Comedy Club, according to six students and four faculty members. The University did not respond to a request for comment as to whether the individual is affiliated with Columbia.

Columbia’s military ball, brought together nearly 700 attendees for an evening of speeches, dinner, and dancing at the annual event at Pier 60 on Nov. 14, marking the largest number of guests in the event’s history, according to a Nov. 19 news release.

When Betsy Morais, CC ’11, was a student at Columbia, she spent her birthday at City Hall reporting for Spectator. She remembers thinking, “I can think of no other way I’d rather spend this day.”