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Columbia and Barnard students joined thousands in Washington Square Park for a rally hosted by Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Monday.

In September 2014, thousands of student protesters flocked to the streets of Hong Kong after an announcement to implement reforms to the electoral system which would grant China’s Communist Party greater control over Hong Kong’s appointment of its Chief Executive, the highest elected office in the region. These thousands of unnamed faces flocked together, inadvertently instigating the Umbrella Movement, which would persist for the next three months.

A sign in women’s tennis head coach Ilene Weintraub’s office says: “Fall in love with the process and the results will come.” Weintraub encourages her players to adhere to that saying, and if the outcome of the Columbia Invitational is indicative of anything, it’s that the results appear to already be coming in for the team.

Each week, close to 1,200 students take dance classes at Barnard. This abounding interest in dance is supported by a vibrant extracurricular performing arts scene, home to dozens of dance groups ranging in style from tap to contemporary to Bhangra. Out of these organizations, three dedicate their efforts to the ballet form.

Columbia has been ranked the third top national university of 2020, tying with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University for the spot, according to the U.S. News and World Report. Princeton University and Harvard University were ranked first and second, respectively.

This summer, a couple of campus publications brought to light a contract that Columbia recently signed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. For a tidy sum of $150,000, the University’s National Center for Disaster Preparednesswill develop “medical protocols for assessing individuals trying to cross our Southern border.” From all appearances, these protocols will mainly be deployed at the short-term federal detention camps and processing centers near the border itself. However, the contract raises much broader questions about medical ethics and the University's increasingly cozy relationship with Border Patrol.

For the first time in over 70 years, the Art Humanities curriculum is the subject of serious review. The art history department hopes to create a more diverse and inclusive syllabus that will be adopted by next fall.

The Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate, in conjunction with the Columbia Alumni Association, announced the creation of the Student Leadership Advisory Council, a University-wide organizational unit intended to enhance student-alumni relations, in an email on Thursday afternoon.

Columbia Health will be instituting a new two-path model for its counseling drop-in system: one option for short-term “problem solving” and another one for more urgent mental health concerns.

Liz’s Place has opened its doors again after a summer of renovations, and though it reopens under the same name, the café has transformed its offerings in accordance with Barnard’s change in food provider from Aramark to Chartwells.