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A history, if you can notice it A history, if you can notice it Tina Wang / Staff Illustrator By Artem Ilyanok | April 9, 2021, 1:16 PM Whenever I walk across a campus, I stop to read the plaques that litter it. Sometimes I stare at statues, search up the people whom residence halls are named after, or read about the history of each building. Recently, while visiting a friend in college, I did exactly that as he showed me around campus. He was bemused, to say the least. To my amazement, he told me that he couldn’t understand why I was stopping to read about former university donors, pre...

Graduate Workers Union announces intention to strike on March 15 Graduate Workers Union announces intention to strike on March 15 Princeton Huang / Staff Photographer The union plans to stop teaching classes and conducting research until members successfully negotiate with Columbia for their first labor contract. By Talia Abrahamson | February 26, 2021, 2:03 AM Standing on the steps of Low Library, graduate and undergraduate student workers of the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers announced on Thursday their intention to strike on March 15. Union members plan to stop teac...

63 shares Activists outside a meeting of the Labour National Executive Committee in London, with signs protesting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, September 4, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images/ via JTA /SUE) JTA — When is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel? Anti-Semitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy theories and their modern variants. But what about when that hatred is expressed through rhetoric about the Jewish state? Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism? Those questions have divided American Jews in recen...