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University commencement season in New York City starts on Friday, in a climate that is anything but normal. At N.Y.U., dozens of graduate student workers are threatening to withhold grades if the university does not remove police officers from campus. Nemat Shafik, Columbia’s president, announced on Monday that the school was canceling its main commencement ceremony, largely for security reasons. will hold its large commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium next Wednesday. The New School will hold its commencement at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens next Friday.

Persons: Nemat, Shafik, ”, Zohar Ford, Dr, “, ” “ Organizations: University, Fashion Institute of Technology, City College, Fordham University, The New School and Columbia, Columbia, School of Professional, School of Social, Yankee, New, Louis Armstrong, Low Library, Hamilton Hall, Financial Times Locations: New York City, Israel, N.Y.U, Gaza, Queens, Morningside, Hamilton, “, Columbia

☆ Columbia’s student journalists produced New York magazine’s cover story. Here’s how they did it
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“It was clear from the outset that The Spectator was really leading the coverage,” Summers told CNN by phone Monday. The photographs were captured by student journalists — including the cover image shot by freshman Stella Ragas — working in conjunction with New York photo director Jody Quon. Gathering reporting from campus for the issue, however, was not without its challenges for the student journalists. “There is significantly more trust of us than national outlets who parachute in and maybe don’t have the intimate knowledge,” Ramirez told CNN. In fact, when the encampments first propped up on campus, Ramirez told CNN that the student journalists were reluctant to retire for the night.

Persons: New York CNN —, Nick Summers, Isabella Ramirez, Summers, ” Summers, Ramirez, —, Stella, Jody Quon, David Dee Delgado, ”, Quon, “, ” Quon, ” Ramirez Organizations: New York CNN, New York, Columbia University, Columbia Daily Spectator, The Spectator, New, CNN, The, Hamilton Hall, Israel, Rye, Protesters, Reuters “ Locations: New York, Morningside, Rye Spaeth, Hamilton Hall

☆ Winners and Losers of the Columbia Protests? History Will Tell.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Two years later, a plurality of Americans held the view that so-called outside agitators — in this instance, Communists — were behind the civil rights movement. If we think of attention as a prevailing measure of success, then the Columbia protests, inspiring so many others and consuming global headlines, have been triumphant. “I see very little talk this week about what is happening to Palestinians in Gaza,” Peter Staley, the celebrated AIDS activist, told me. He recalled a major ACT UP demonstration in December 1989 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that is still debated among participants. The idea was to disrupt a Mass offered by Cardinal John O’Connor to condemn the church’s stance on condoms.

Persons: Eric Adams, ”, condescension, —, unmet, ” Peter Staley, Cardinal John O’Connor, ” Mr, Staley Organizations: Columbia University, Hamilton Hall, Gallup, Washington, Police Department, ACT Locations: Gaza, Columbia, Morningside Heights, St, Patrick’s

☆ Paul Auster’s New York Tragedy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Lucy Sante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I first became aware of Paul Auster, who died on April 30, from reading old issues of The Columbia Review when I was a student at the university. He translated French Surrealist poetry and wrote prose fiction, set in a sort of silent-movie cityscape that anticipated his novels and films. We inhabited the same Morningside Heights world of the early 1970s, with its cranks and cults, mimeographed screeds and tracts. Surely Paul, too, patronized Marlin Café and the Moon Palace. Paul was living blocks away, and when I met him he made me feel as if the whole neighborhood welcomed me.

Persons: Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth, mimeographed, Paul, Marlin Café Organizations: Columbia Locations: New Jersey, Newark, Columbia, Morningside, Manhattan

☆ Opinion | Student Protest Is an Essential Part of Education
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Serge Schmemann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Anyone who was at Columbia University in the spring of 1968 cannot help but see a reprise of those stormy, fateful and thrilling days in what is happening on the Morningside Heights campus today. But there is a troubling and significant difference. That, in turn, has thrust the protests squarely into the polarized politics of the land, with politicians and pundits on the right portraying the encampments as dangerous manifestations of antisemitism and wokeness and demanding that they be razed — and many university administrations calling in the police to do just that. The transformation of the protests into a national political football is perhaps inevitable — everyone up to President Richard Nixon sounded off about students in ’68 — but it is still a shame. Because student protests, even at their most disruptive, are at their core an extension of education by other means, to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz’s famous definition of war.

Persons: longhaired pukes, Richard Nixon, Carl von Clausewitz’s Organizations: Columbia University, Columbia Locations: Morningside, ’, —

☆ One Partner Runs the Marathon — and the Other Does Everything Else
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Shamyla Khan-Malik was working from home on the Upper West Side last week when her husband came back from an almost two-hour run. “I was doing something a bit more important,” she added. “He loves to talk about his routes,” said Ms. Khan-Malik, 34, who is a technology consultant. “We live near Central Park, so he has many options. After dinner he usually moans about whatever muscle hurts that day, she said.

Persons: Shamyla Khan, Malik, “, ”, Khan Locations: New York City, Central Park, Morningside, Riverside

Students nationally are holding people in power accountable, said Jackie Alexander, incoming president of the College Media Association and director of student media at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. With growing reports of student journalists being doxxed, ostracized on campus and otherwise harassed, the College Media Association is looking into ways to help them, Alexander said. “I've never seen a better front page,” veteran editor and Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin said on social media. “So many people think of student journalists as students first,” Martin said. “But in a lot of ways student journalists are just journalists.

Persons: Stanford, “ I've, —, “, ”, Theo Baker, Marc Tessier, Lavigne, George Polk, Polk, Pat Fitzgerald, Jackie Alexander, ” Alexander, ” Charles Whitaker, ” Whitaker, Tessier, Levigne, it's, He's, ” Baker, he's, Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Alexander, Martin, lowkey, Joe Biden, Bill Grueskin, ” Martin, Raul Reis, ” Reis, ” There's, Whitaker, there's, aren't Organizations: Northwestern University's, Stanford University, Columbia Daily Spectator, Harvard Crimson, Harvard, Foreign, Initiative, College Media Association, University of Alabama, Medill, Daily Northwestern, Stanford, The New York Times, The, University of North, Columbia Journalism, UNC, Trump, The University of Texas, Austin Locations: New York, Birmingham, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Manhattan, Morningside Heights, West Harlem, Texas

Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles. 1. pellicle — a thin skin or film:Chestnuts, a holiday favorite, don’t make it easy for us to cook them at home. The pellicle, its sticky inner skin, clings to the nut and can give it a bitter taste. This is achieved less by rethinking motivations than by burrowing into the language, far richer than I imagined. — The Best Coffee Break Is an Affogato (Aug. 11, 2021)The list of the week’s easiest words:

Persons: pellicle, chyme, Jimmy, yecch, ’, Brunie, McDermott, ‘, ”, Forest Simmons, Michael Starbird, Su, dotard, Seana McKenna, Ben Carlson, cortado, Maillard, enby, Taylor Mason, Asia Kate Dillon, —, clayey, bombe Organizations: Charter, Education, Andersen, Russian Locations: New York, Ontario, Copenhagen, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

☆ At a Manhattan Park With a Troubled History, a Promising Research Site
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a sticky July afternoon, as the sun beat down and the temperature climbed into the high 80s, several dozen people gathered on the banks of a murky pond in Morningside Park in Manhattan to talk about a slimy green problem. The pond, built in 1989, is a highlight of the leafy park, which runs for 13 blocks through Harlem and Morningside Heights. But in recent years, it has turned a sickly shade of green as algae has overtaken its surface. And on this Saturday, scientists from Columbia University and the city’s Parks Department began a new research effort at the site into the spread of harmful algae blooms worldwide. For the university, the project represents a new chapter in its complicated and sometimes tense relationship with the surrounding community over this section of the park.

Persons: Joaquim Goes, Columbia’s Lamont Organizations: Columbia University, city’s Parks Department, Columbia Locations: Morningside Park, Manhattan, Harlem, Morningside Heights, Columbia, Texas, Oman, Arabian

☆ How to Make Your Walk a ‘Microadventure’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Jancee Dunn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I decided to take a “scent walk” with my best friend, Julie, who lives in Morningside Heights in New York City. Rob Mastrianni, a park ranger in Manhattan, who recommended taking a walk with the express goal of spotting wildlife. If there’s a safe way to take a walk in the rain, wind or fog, “lean into the elements,” said Rob Walker, the author of “The Art of Noticing,” a book about finding opportunities to be amazed in everyday life. Revel in the dramatically shifting landscapes — the drama of wind whipping through the trees, or the way that rain can make greenery look more vivid. “I don’t want to encourage anyone to go kick a football around in a hurricane,” Walker said.

Persons: Julie, Rob Mastrianni, ”, Pattie Gonia, “ They’re, “, Rob Walker, Revel, ” Walker Organizations: Boston Locations: Morningside Heights, New York City, Manhattan

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