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The tissue box screeches as it is pushed across the desk. The copy machine lulls as pages filled with meaningless numbers emerge and the sound of fingers tapping against a keyboard is heard. These details take on heavy meaning in the high-pressure and misogynistic work environment in which Jane finds herself isolated.

Every Wednesday night, on the eighth floor of Dodge Hall, a soft banjo sound envelops the hallways as students gather for weekly rehearsal. This is the setting of James Kerr’s bluegrass ensemble course, a class that endeavors to learn about bluegrass music and develop a setlist of traditional bluegrass songs to be performed at their end-of-semester concert.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Senate Bill 206, otherwise known as the Fair Pay to Play Act, into law on Monday. The bill, which is set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, will allow California NCAA student-athletes to profit off of their names, images, or likenesses.

It is the fall of 2015. As summer wilts, Columbia’s campus again transforms into the ant colony of activity that invariably defines the beginning of each academic year. Amid the moving in, the exploring and rediscovering, and the registration days, major pedagogical change looms large on the horizon.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper encouraged students to absorb daily news with a healthy dose of skepticism at a panel discussion held at the School of International and Public Affairs on Thursday.

Columbia graduates headlined ballots in New York and nationwide in the midterm elections on Tuesday.

At Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society performance at Miller Theatre on Saturday night, the three-time Grammy-nominated band continued to champion the New Music genre of jazz. However, Argue is not simply working on the New Music genre—his music also offers a personal political critique.

Establishing Columbia as a global university has been a driving vision of University President Lee Bollinger’s tenure.

In the wake of several student deaths and the ensuing discussion of mental health on campus, administrators are feeling a heightened sense of urgency around revisiting a policy that would lower the number of credits Columbia College and School of General Studies students can take per semester.

In March, a paper that was authored by an all-star cast of scientists and predicted dangerous superstorms and accelerated rises in sea level was published in the European journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. But for many observers, the paper was old news—an earlier version of the article had been released to the web in July 2015.