Hey, good morning! Is that a new haircut I spy? Looks nice.

Anyway, here’s the news.

Happening In The World: The Nicaraguan government has released ink and paper it had seized from La Prensa, Nicaragua’s only national newspaper. The initial seizure, per a co-owner of La Prensa, came as a consequence of the paper’s criticism of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his response to extensive protests against his government. The United States’ Acting Assistant Secretary for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Michael Kozak, welcomed the move and called on the Nicaraguan government to go further in ensuring freedom of speech for its citizens. (Reuters)

Happening In The US: A four-year-old boy from Pueblo, Colorado died of the flu this week after his mother refused to fill his perscription for Tamiflu, a well-known antiviral drug. The mother, worried about the medicine’s side effects, took to an anti-vax Facebook group and asked for alternative treatments. Among the “remedies” suggested were “breastmilk, thyme and elderberry.” The story has drawn further scrutiny to social media’s handling of disinformation, especially given that the group in this story, “Stop Mandatory Vaccinations,” remains on Facebook as of this writing. (NBC News)

Happening In NYC: The New York City Housing Authority is presently in the process of turning over partial ownership of many of its properties to private management, as part of a program known as “Permanent Affordability Commitment Together,” or PACT. The program — an extension of an established federal program known as “Rental Assistance Demonstration,” or RAD — seeks to allay some of the costs of building maintenance and repair, while still keeping federal funding. Residents of the converted or soon-to-be converted buildings worry about what may be lost in the conversion, such as low rent costs and federally mandated mold monitoring. By the year’s end, NYCHA plans to place nearly 9% of its 200,000 apartments under the program, including two Manhattanville properties. (The City)

Happening on Campus: All this weekend, the Manhattanville Campus’s Lenfest Center for the Arts is holding its third annual “Zoom-In,” a screening series and thesis showcase presented by the MA Film and Media Studies class of 2020. Come see films and post-film Q&A panels with artists from the Columbia School of the Arts. Films this year cover a range of topics, from Portuguese folklore festivals to the Arab Spring. “Zoom-In” is free to the public, and runs from 10 am to 9:30 pm today, and 10:30 am to 5:45 pm tomorrow.

Extra Credit: Chloe recently did a Very Good Piece on Butler’s comics on the 10th floor. Go read that. But did you know that there’s a new room dedicated to comics on Butler’s 4th floor? Not only is it an amazing place to study, the collection also includes “Artist’s Editions” of popular comics. Don’t Google what that is — just go see for yourselves, and get back to me.

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