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

by The Specter Editorial Staff

(Updated in compliance with federal funding retention guidelines)

New Core Curriculum Requirements:

• Appeasement 101: How to Fold Under Pressure While Maintaining a Tone of Reflection
  Taught jointly by Legal Counsel and PR Strategy. Prerequisites: None. Backbone optional.
  

• Maskless Expression in the Surveillance State
  Learn how to communicate dissent with your full face visible and your future employment prospects at risk.
  

• Introduction to Selective Free Speech
  Explore why some student voices matter more than others—through weekly case studies and guided Title VI inquiries.
  

• Expulsion as Pedagogy
  A deep dive into how removing student leaders promotes intellectual vibrancy. Final project: Write a grievance that won’t be read.
  

• The Antisemitism Policy Lab
  Brought to you by five outside consultants, three government offices, and four national watchdog groups. Warning: Conflation with criticism of Israeli policy may occur.
  

• Advanced Institutional Regret
  A graduate-level seminar in preemptive sorrow, public messaging, and carefully curated historical context. Group work discouraged.

Featured Guest Lecturers:

• Project Shema, ADL, the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, and Kalaniyot (with special appearances by Yad Vashem and federal auditors).

Campus Life Update:
All protests will now take place in designated Reflection Zones (formerly known as sidewalks), under the guidance of our 20 new security staff trained to promote peace by detaining students.

Coming Soon:

• Title VI Coordinators’ Annual Report, available in both PDF and redacted format.

• Interfaith America dialogue events titled: “Why Can’t You Just Talk About It Nicely?”