The authors of an open letter responding to President Laura Rosenbury’s October 26 email have invited members of the Barnard and Columbia communities to add their signatures.

Early Monday afternoon, the Graduate Workers of Columbia-UAW (GWC-UAW) released an open letter to President Bollinger, in which it declared to hold a strike authorization vote if the university did not honor the union’s existence. As part of graduate students’ 3-year-long struggle to unionize on Columbia’s campus, this letter comes as a response to Columbia’s January announcement that […]

There are many things at Columbia that make us cringe, curse, and shake our heads. But stairs, of all things, should not be included on that list… or so you’d think. Yet in some buildings, taking the stairs can mean endless frustration and confusion. Daily Editor and dutiful stair-climber Betsy Ladyzhets calls out those who make the walk even harder. […]