Scary stuff: Check out this article about forced medical leave from colleges due to struggles with mental health. (New Yorker) It has now gotten a lot easier to report abusive tweets from assholes, though it was great watching this woman contact the moms of her online harassers. (Jezebel) It could also become a lot easier to […]

Want some actual discussion with your free food this time around? Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Students for Human Rights will host a discussion entitled “Traumatized: The War on Drugs, Child Abuse, and the Teen Treatment Industry” in the Lerner Party Space on Tuesday, January 31st at 7:30 pm (note: the free food happens at […]

Sam Moyn, a professor of intellectual history, does not like smart phones, and is not down to chat about cheese. He claims to be neither famous, special, nor wise, but we beg to differ. Here is his Actual Wisdom:  Justify your existence in 30 words or fewer: I teach existentialism in my classes, so I find it […]

Be sure to join GlobeMed at 7:15 pm tonight in 313 Fayerweather, where you’ll find Dr. Maya Sabatello and a discussion on how human rights laws can help global health equity. Oh, and best of all, free Thai food.

Princess Ghida Talal of Jordan, PrezBo and scholars from around the world are in Lerner 555 today discussing academic freedom in places where scholars are imprisoned, executed and oppressed in other ways.  Bollinger began the event talking about the precarious nature of scholarship in the world and on the other side, Columbia’s commitment to the […]