The Specter is a faculty and staff-driven newsletter with contributions from members of CUIMC Stands Up and the Columbia Faculty Alliance. Sometimes satirical, sometimes serious, it draws on Columbia’s own polished, bureaucratic, and sanctimonious style — whether to parody or expose it. We use this platform to highlight the contradictions, moral compromises, and institutional absurdities we are all being asked to normalize.

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Post #13

The diversity formerly known as diversity

By The Specter Editorial Staff

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Post #12

BREAKING NEWS: The Specter has obtained advance copy of new Guidelines for Fall Instruction

By The Specter Editorial Staff

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Post #11

Reading Between the Lines (White House edition): July 24, 2025 Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Total Submission from Columbia University

By The Specter Editorial Board

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Post #10

Columbia Family Values: A Road Trip to Nowhere

by Columbia’s ungovernable conscience: The Specter editorial board

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Post #9

Urgent Reminder to Staff: The Blue Folder

by the regularly-ignored campus staff contributors to the Specter Editorial Board

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Post #8

Columbia Buys Back Its Federal Grants and Sells Off Its Spine

By The Specter Editorial Board

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Post #7

Reading Between the Lines: Columbia’s July 22, 2025 University Statement on UJB Determinations for Butler Library Disruption and Alumni Weekend Encampment

by The Spector Editorial Staff

From the Office of Equitable Expulsions: A Statement on the Efficient Removal of Student Conscience

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Post #6

Relief and Reckoning: T32s Return to CUIMC

by Melanie Wall

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Post #5

July 22, 2025 - Columbia's Fall Course Catalog Has Arrived!

by The Specter Editorial Staff

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Post #4

Reading Between the Lines: Shipman’s July 15, 2025 letter Our additional Commitments to Combatting Antisemitism

by The Specter Editorial Staff