Executive Vice President for University Life Suzanne Goldberg to leave Columbia, join the Biden administration
Executive Vice President for University Life Suzanne Goldberg to leave Columbia, join the Biden administration Yasmine Akki / Senior Staff Photographer After 15 years at the University, Goldberg will be leaving Columbia to join the Biden administration
Content warning: This article deals with themes of sexual violence.
Executive Vice President for University Life Suzanne Goldberg will be stepping down as EVP and taking a temporary leave of absence from her faculty position at Columbia Law School to join the Biden-Harris administration, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email sent out just hours after President Biden’s inauguration.
Ignored, Erased, Unheard: The Doctor Behind the Name Change of Bard Hall
Ignored, Erased, Unheard: The Doctor Behind the Name Change of Bard Hall Natalie Tak / Staff Illustrator December 15, 2020, 9:57 PM
Halfway through the interview with Dr. Raymond Givens, two young boys materialize through the slightly-pixelated Zoom virtual background displaying the stoic face of the rapper Biggie Smalls. The little one pops cheerfully through the famous rapper’s mouth, waving a tiny green toy at the camera, and the taller one comes running through the rapper’s tilted plastic crown, grinning cheekily and tugging at his father’s surgical scrubs. Givens, smiling at his sons and not at all fazed by the distraction, smoothly introduces his six-year-old, Lucas, and his two-year-old, Nicholas, pausing momentarily to swoop Nicholas into his lap and put his arm around Lucas’ shoulder. Givens gently corrals them out of the room, apologizes for the interruption, and without missing a beat,