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View the interactive web feature analyzing the 1968 protests and their legacy with audio slideshows, interviews, video, and a graphic timeline including associated articles.

Spectator got a chance to sit down with Board of Trustees Chair Anna Quindlen, BC ’74, and future Barnard College president Debora Spar, following the announcement of Spar’s appointment on Tuesday morning.

View the interactive web feature on the Manhattanville expansion with audio interviews, photos, and an interactive map featuring affected buildings.

A group of faculty members in the Arts and Sciences has been circulating for signature a “statement of concern” to be presented to the Arts and Sciences Faculty meeting on November 13. The main accusation in the statement is that the university administration has failed to make a vigorous defense of academic freedom.

We speak for a growing number of faculty members at Columbia University who believe that President Bollinger has failed to make a vigorous defense of the core principles on which the university is founded, especially academic freedom.

"Among the issues of concern to students beginning their strike today is one that is common to Barnard and Columbia: the extent to which we are failing to live up to our diversity aspirations."

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On Thursday afternoon, Spectator sat down with University President Lee Bollinger to discuss recent bias incidents, the invitation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the University's plans for Manhattanville expansion. The following is a transcript of the conversation.