1968
2020-01-22T08:29:49.046Z
When first-year Barnard student Tessa Majors was killed in an attempted robbery at the entrance to Morningside Park on 116th Street, shaken members of the Columbia community shared their wide-ranging relationships and experiences with the park.
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2019-10-31T02:38:47.309Z
At the end of his final year teaching at Columbia, Michael Rosenthal, a professor emeritus in the English department, received a gift from his Literature Humanities students: a hardcover copy of “Tales from Shakespeare” with its pages hollowed out. Inside sat a bound booklet titled “If I Could Be Permitted a Totally Ridiculous Statement”—a compendium of Rosenthal’s one-liners for each book on the syllabus. In a section of general “Rosenthalisms” lies the following quote:
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2019-02-07T11:05:34.813Z
In honor of Black History Month, Spectator is publishing a series of profiles on notable black alumni scholars, activists, leaders, and more whose stories we have previously overlooked and failed to cover. The first article in the series features Raymond Brown, CC ’69, who came into the national spotlight during the 1968 protests as the leader of the Student Afro-American Society, a group that led the community—and inspired the nation—in protest against Columbia’s involvement in the Vietnam War and gentrification of Harlem. Brown is also a calligraphy-writing, yoga-practicing grandfather to a two-year-old boy.
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2018-10-12T03:30:41.602Z
A couple weeks ago, David Hanzal had a bout of déjà vu. Someone came into People Against Landlord Abuse and Tenant Exploitation, the West Harlem nonprofit better known as P.A.’L.A.N.T.E., asking for advice—someone like Hanzal, four years ago. “He walks in, he says, ‘I’ve organized my building, I’ve done 311, I don’t know what to do, the landlord’s doing this.’” The client lives right near Columbia’s 17-acre Manhattanville expansion, in the neighborhood of the same name. “He's got a long road ahead of him. You know, he’s where I was in 2014.”
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2018-10-02T04:51:39.449Z
Created in the wake of the 1968 protests, the University Senate was originally meant to restructure the University’s administrative and governing systems in order to effectively incorporate student and professorial input in university-wide policy decisions. Is the University Senate fulfilling its mandate?
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2018-04-28T16:24:57.863Z
Current student activists and alumni who participated in Columbia’s historic 1968 protests voiced their support for the graduate student union at a talk on the legacy of student activism Friday night.
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2018-04-27T06:00:06.823Z
This story is part of a series on the 1968 protests at Columbia and their present-day implications fifty years later.
2018-04-26T09:06:16.959Z
This story is part of a series on the 1968 protests at Columbia and their present-day implications fifty years later.
2018-04-26T08:18:24.891Z
A few weeks ago, I watched Emma Gonzalez address hundreds of thousands of anti-gun protesters in Washington. I was one of millions more tuning in on television to hear her powerful six-minute, 20-second speech, most of which was delivered in silence as she stared fiercely ahead, tears trickling down her cheeks. The intensity of her rage, the righteousness of her cause, the incandescence of her youth brought back memories of a time 50 years ago when campuses across America were on fire. Like cicadas with a half-century life cycle, students were making deafening noises again.
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