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Columbia professor submits mask ban proposal to University Senate

The proposal makes exceptions for medical masks, but does not currently list religious face coverings as an exception.

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“We’re just calling for people to not hide their identity inside of a classroom,” Andrew Marks, professor and chair of the department of physiology and cellular biophysics, who submitted the proposal, told Spectator.
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