Ushoshi Das
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Nearly four months after the University said it had disciplined those involved in the “irregular” admission of Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend to the College of Dental Medicine, Columbia announced Wednesday that another key administrator implicated, Dr. James Fine, senior associate dean for postdoctoral academic and student affairs, will step down from his role.
Under blue lights and bright white projections of the Columbia crown at Cipriani 42nd Street, Columbia College awarded four of its alumni the John Jay Award on March 4, which recognizes graduates for distinguished professional achievement.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani was due for an uneventful end of what had been a busy February‎—at least, according to his schedule.
A truck with digital billboards displayed the names of over 50 students identified as alleged “leaders” of CU Apartheid Divest outside of Columbia’s Morningside campus on Monday and Tuesday after the group sparked a wave of backlash for writing “Marg bar Amrika”—Farsi for “Death to America”—in an X post on Saturday.
Updated March 8 at 10:54 p.m.
Columbia trustee emeritus and prominent Barnard donor Philip Milstein, CC ’71, was among two others to invite convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to an awards dinner hosted by the American Jewish Committee in 2013, according to documents released by the Justice Department on Friday.