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
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Barnard SGA Townhall
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
No Justice! No Peace!
A rally was held in response to the yesterday's act of racism in front of the main gates of Teacher's College this afternoon at 2 pm. Students, administrators and people from outside the Columbia community came to show solidarity and support the protest against ignorance and racism on Columbia's campus.
Town Hall Meeting
An emergency meeting was held Tuesday October 9th at 9pm in Earl Hall to discuss recent events involving the hate crime at Teacher's College.
2 students from Teacher's College discuss ways of getting involved and showing support.
Students express their sentiments after the meeting.
If you would like to get involved, TC students as well as students from all Columbia University schools will be meeting at 2 pm at the main gates of Teacher's College to protest.
Discussions will be held at the cafeteria at Teacher's College from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. At the same time, President Susan Fuhrman and Provost Tom James will be joining students in a community meeting about the topic in 179 Grace Dodge.
Raise your voice to help improve our campus!
Noose Hung on Professor's Door
Here is the announcement from the president of Teacher's College.
From: Fuhrman, Susan
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:35 PM
To: TC Community
Subject: Community Alert
To the TC Community:
The police were here this morning because a hangman's noose was discovered on the office door of one of our African American faculty members. The incident has been reported to the New York City Police Department (Detectives Bureau of Manhattan) and is under active investigation by the Hate Crimes Task Force.
The TC community and I deplore this hateful act, which violates every Teachers College and societal norm.
Anyone who has any information about this incident is urged to immediately contact (anonymously or otherwise) any of the following:
The 26th Precinct Detective Squad (212 678-1351);
Crime stoppers (1 800 577-TIPS);
John DeAngelis, Chief of Public Safety (212 678-4180);
Janice Robinson, TC General Counsel and Executive Director,
President's Office of Diversity and Community (212 678-3732).