At its meeting on Monday night, the Representative Council of Barnard’s Student Government Association denounced Barnard College President Sian Beilock’s email from earlier that day addressing a referendum regarding whether SGA should advocate for the college to divest its endowment from eight companies with ties to Israel.

Supporters of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement are celebrating this week, after Barnard students voted in favor of a referendum asking the Student Government Association to write a letter to administrators asking to divest the college’s finances from eight companies that “profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.”

When Mya Alexice, BC ’20, who identifies as Afro-Latina, decided to become an English major at Barnard, she was alarmed by a lack of diversity in the books she was required to read.

Barnard’s Student Government Association has asked students to vote on a referendum regarding whether SGA should ask the administration to divest from eight companies that profit from or engage in business with Israel, but pro-Israel students have criticized the voting process for unfairly excluding those who oppose the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement.

Jemima Gedeon will serve as Barnard’s new associate dean of studies for Student Success starting April 30, Dean of Studies Natalie Friedman announced in an email to the college community on Tuesday.

Representatives from Aryeh spoke in front of over 100 students at Barnard’s Student Government Association meeting, requesting that SGA refrain from using the word “apartheid” in its upcoming referendum on divestment from Israeli companies.

Columbia-Barnard Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine urged Barnard’s Student Government Association to encourage the Barnard administration to divest from eight companies that profit from or contribute to the subjugation of Palestinian people at an SGA meeting on Monday night.

When Representative for Student Health Services Valerie Jaharis, BC ’19, was reviewing answers to last semester’s Desserts After Dark survey, one response stuck out to them as emblematic of Barnard’s perspective on disabilities.

At a panel discussion on Monday, men of color from a variety of positions in the Columbia community discussed their experience on campus, highlighting the difficulties of attending a predominantly white institution.

Jennifer Hyman, co-founder and CEO of Rent The Runway, shared stories of the sexual harassment she faced while breaking into the male-dominated world of start-ups during a talk at Columbia on Wednesday.