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“Hate Happens at Columbia.” How Does the University Respond?

Volume XXVI Issue 4

By Lilly Kwon / Staff Illustrator
By Parth Chhabra • February 28, 2019 at 7:07 AM

Photo by Rya Inman / Senior Staff Photographer

Professor Midlarsky, who is Jewish, found her office vandalized by two swastikas and the slur “Yid” when she came to her office around 1 p.m. on November 28.

Photo by Xixi Wang / Staff Designer

Photo by Rya Inman / Senior Staff Photographer

Kwolanne Felix, a first-year at Columbia College, was part of a group harassed by a student spouting white supremacist rhetoric outside Butler Library on December 9.

Photo by Rya Inman / Senior Staff Photographer

A Carman Hall hallway. On December 2, a black Carman resident found an air vent outside their dorm graffitied with a racist slur.

Photo by Aaron Holmes / Crimson, Bulldogs, and Tigers Battle for Title

In November and December of 2015, a bulletin board expressing support for the trans community was repeatedly vandalized. An unsigned piece of paper attached reads, "I RESPECTFULLY QUESTION THE VALIDITY OF TRANSGENDER IDENTITY!"

Photo by Rya Inman / Senior Staff Photographer

The thirteenth floor of Carman Hall today, where the vandalized Trans Awareness Week bulletin board was posted in 2015.

Photo by Rya Inman / Senior Staff Photographer

Kwolanne Felix, along with three partners, is working on an initiative to provide the campus with a student-run space that helps students affected by hate crimes and bias incidents find resources—including on how to report—and peer mentors who have experienced similar discrimination on campus