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Ebony M. Smith ’24 is a Crimson Editorial editor in Eliot House. Last week, Harvard’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1900s were made public with the reveal of a not-so-shocking yet disturbing photo: Ten Harvard student KKK members donning white robes crowded the John Harvard statue on Class Day 1924. What struck me was not the underlying bigotry and white supremacy that seemed to fit so perfectly with an administration that accepted very few Black students at the time, but the anonymity of those ten white students. To this day, we have no evidence of who those students are.

Ariel Zilber, Daily Mail, March 16, 2021 Columbia University has been slammed for ‘bringing back segregation’ after announcing additional commencement ceremonies for students based on their ethnicity, income level, and sexual orientation. The six virtual ceremonies, which will be staged in addition to the general campus-wide commencement event, were announced by Columbia’s Multicultural Affairs department. Special events are being held for black, LGBTQ, Native, ‘Latinx’, low-income, and Asian graduates. But the university insisted these ceremonies are ‘voluntary’ and ‘open to ...

Columbia University will be hosting one ceremony for the 2021 graduating class despite reports that it'd be hosting a variety of different ones separating students by race, gender, and ethnicity.

The ceremonies will 'provide a more intimate setting for students and guests to gather, incorporate meaningful cultural traditions, a spokesperson for the Ivy League school said.

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton described a Fox News article on the additional ceremonies as "segregation."