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After months of YouTube workouts, chilly runs, and reorganizing dorm rooms and childhood bedrooms to make space for a yoga mat or weights, Columbia students will soon have another option. Dodge Fitness Center will reopen for limited student use for the first time in over 10 months on Tuesday. The Dodge reopening will begin with a maximum capacity of 320 online reservations per day, a fraction of its typical usage.

Columbia students are organizing the largest tuition strike in U.S. history. In the past two weeks alone, over 3,000 students have joined the effort, and the number of committed strikers continues to grow rapidly. But it’s not just the sheer scale of the tuition strike that makes it so unprecedented—it’s also the nature of the demands themselves.

The Black Lives Matter movement has ushered in an era of reexamining policies and practices of police departments across America. While the movement primarily examines municipal precincts, Columbia’s Department of Public Safety has also come under scrutiny. From the Alexander McNab incident to the University’s practice of hiring former police officers, members of the Columbia community have been protesting Public Safety’s connection with the New York Police Department. The goal of Spectator’s newest project, DIY Policy, is to attempt to create policy alternatives—supported by argument and evidence.