Students gathered in front of Columbia’s locked campus gates on Sunday afternoon, setting up a folding table on Broadway and 116th Street and propping up a colorful sign reading “The People’s Kiosk.”

Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino spoke about the Panama Canal and its central role in the country’s global position at Low Library Rotunda during the World Leaders Forum last Tuesday.

Three Columbia students filed a federal class action lawsuit Friday over the University’s handling of the May 7, 2025, pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library, alleging Public Safety officers locked protesters inside a reading room and assaulted them due to pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration.

On her first day as Columbia’s 21st University president, Jennifer Mnookin wrote to the University community that “great universities like ours must insist on intellectual seriousness while recognizing the varied ways serious inquiry proceeds.”

Laid over a collage of six eyes is text reading, “How are your RAs being ordered to spy on you?” It is the third of seven slides in a social media post that criticized a new task for residential advisors: drawing “sociograms” of their residents by visually mapping social connections based on notes from the school year, documentation from initial conversations with residents, and new outreach to “fill gaps in information.”

Despite running a philosophy magazine of the same name, Aharon Dardik, GS ’26, doesn’t publicly identify as a gadfly of the state. To do so would be a bit “cringe,” he said.