Barnard SGA Townhall

Tonight's SGA Townhall in the James Room at Barnard was supposed to address the question: Is our community broken? While there was a lot of eating going on, several good points were brought up including:
-Having a large-scale reaction to the recent bias events similar to the Take Back the Night tradition
- Rather than bringing our community together, the recent events have been decisive; people have retreated to their 'cliques' and comfort zones
-Professors should address issues like what happened at SIPA and TC in classes, we should be allowed to discuss it in class
-Further elaborating on the classroom, our communities are in the classroom- when our assignments and our tests have nothing to do with the real-life events that are affecting us, that is where we get the disparity
-Check out G.S.'s "World Wall" coming to Low Plaza this week. It was inspired by Barnard's wall and comments and frustrations are welcome.
-After the event was over, there were many echoes throughout the room about having the next Townhall be focused on the curriculum at both Barnard and Columbia, and how reforming it can help address some of these issues