As Shreya Sunderram, BC ’19, sat in the living room where she holds her most valuable college memories, she thinks to how often the one-on-one interactions with her friends, peers, professors, and students have shifted her understandings of the world.

Shawn Edwards, SEAS ’90, ’95 and Chief Technology Officer at Bloomberg, highlighted the importance and expansive impact of engineering in a world that is being transformed by technology at the School of Engineering and Applied Science‘s Class Day on Monday afternoon.

On Tuesday, hundreds filled Roone Arledge Auditorium in Lerner Hall for a service to celebrate the life of former Dean of the School of General Studies Peter Awn. One after another, administrators, professors, friends, and family members spoke in-depth on the many different ways in which Awn touched their lives.

On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of students, faculty, administrators, family members, and friends gathered in the Roone Arledge Auditorium in Lerner Hall to commemorate the life of former School of General Studies Dean Peter Awn through speeches, music, and photographs. Many also wore colorful socks, items of clothing that almost always accompanied the former administrator.

May 1, more commonly known as Decision Day, marks the last day that students admitted regular decision can commit to attending Columbia in the fall. As part of the most competitive applicant pool to date, the class of 2023 saw a record-low acceptance rate of of 5.1 percent, with only 2,190 students accepted out of the 42,569 who submitted applications.

The Food Pantry at Columbia will begin receiving $5,000 in annual funds through a new partnership between Columbia Dining and the national nonprofit Swipe Out Hunger.

Last Thursday, the Columbia Elections Commission notified University Senator-elect Heven Haile, CC ’21, that someone had reported her for publicizing a false endorsement from the Columbia University Mental Health Task Force, an offense that could be ruled as a major rules violation according to election policies.

The six Barnard Public Safety officers involved in the physical confrontation of Alexander McNab, CC ‘19, have been placed on paid administrative pending investigation, Barnard administrators announced to students on Friday evening.

Candidates for the Columbia College and Engineering Student Councils emphasized the need to expand resources for underrepresented groups on campus, increase club inclusivity, and call for initiatives that build community on and off campus at the student council debates on Sunday.

The fifth annual 1vyG Conference, held last weekend at Princeton University, saw the greatest number of delegates from the School of General Studies in attendance in the conference’s history, bringing to light the nuances of the first-generation, low-income community that exist within Columbia’s entire undergraduate community to the forefront of student discussion, and placing emphasis on the need for diversity within student mobilization and advocacy.