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One Year After Encampment Raid, Columbia Asserts Tighter Control over Campus Community
The university’s administration is targeting everything from the university senate to the gates that student protesters recently locked themselves to.
Inside the Sit-in That Rocked Barnard College
Students stormed past security guards and managed to occupy a hallway leading to the administration’s offices. Over six hours of tense negotiations followed.
Columbia & NYU Tax Break Targeted to Repair Disparities Between Private Universities and CUNY
A cross-campus alliance of students is pushing for the REPAIR Act, which would force Columbia and NYU to cough up $327 million in annual property taxes they are currently exempted from.
West Harlem Pushes Back Against Columbia’s Latest Manhattanville Campus Expansion
Amid an affordable-housing crisis in the neighborhood, community members are fighting to stop the university’s ongoing construction of a satellite campus.
Barnard’s Restrictive New Free Speech Guidelines Condemned at Campus Teach-in
On Monday students, faculty and staff denounced these measures, which are seen as a response to pro-Palestine protests that roiled Barnard last spring.