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University President Lee Bollinger addressed the issue of divestment, the lack of financial aid for international and General Studies students, and his reflections on President Trump’s impeachment trial during his semesterly Fireside Chat on Thursday.

After winning its third NCAA championship in five years last March, the Columbia fencing team met President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday morning. The Lions were invited to attend alongside over a dozen other national championship teams in recognition of their victories.

Professors and political organizers discussed the future of American democracy and U.S.- Russian relations at the Special Roundtable on Ukraine and the Impeachment Investigation attended by over 50 students, faculty, and staff on Monday afternoon.

The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump violated the first amendment by blocking people whose views he disagreed with from his Twitter account. The case, brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, could have broader implications for standards of free speech in a social-media driven public.

On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Since the United States cannot formally back out of the agreement until 2020, Trump’s proclamation was mostly symbolic. Regardless, the policies enacted by our current administration—including lifted restrictions on coal, eased controls on drilling, and slashed climate and clean energy programs—havecountless tangible effects.

Conservative author and academic Heather Mac Donald argued that politically correct culture and identity politics on college campuses create an atmosphere of intolerance during a Columbia University College Republicans event Tuesday night.

International students voiced their concern over a newly proposed federal policy that could establish a maximum period of authorized stay, making it more difficult for international students to remain in the country.

The Office of University Life has released a statement in solidarity with Columbia’s transgender community, two days after the Trump administration’s announcement of a newly proposed interpretation of Title IX that would effectively erase the federal recognition of transgender Americans.

At the year’s first Awakening Our Democracy panel conversation on Tuesday, speakers broke down the immigration issues facing Trump-era America.