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Joel Lavine, a suspended professor at Columbia University, managed to dodge jail time in his years-old sexual misconduct case. According to CBS News, the tenured professor was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge for sexually abusing a former patient whom he had known since she was a teen. Survivor alleged the abuse took place in early 2019, […]
Columbia University professor Carl Hart is an admitted heroin user—and he’s making no apologies about it. The revered neuroscientist opened up about his recreational drug use in his new book Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear. The 54-year-old father of three detailed revealed he uses heroin on a regular basis, but insists […]
A new study shows that if the U.S. had enforced social distancing guidelines one week earlier in March, around 36,000 fewer people would have died from COVID-19. The research comes from Columbia University disease modelers who say if the country had started issuing lockdowns on March 1, two weeks before many stay-at-home orders had taken effect, […]
The lead prosecutor of the Central Park Jogger case has resigned from Columbia Law School, amid renewed scrutiny over her involvement in the 1989 case. Elizabeth Lederer announced her decision in a statement shared by Columbia Law School Dean Law Gillian Lester. Lederer worked part-time at the university as an adjunct faculty member and lecturer in law. “I’ve enjoyed my years […]
Columbia University officials have responded to a viral video in which one of their students is seen delivering a racist rant. A group of underclassmen posted footage of the incident on social media Sunday, sparking nationwide outrage. The video features white sophomore student Julian von Abele shouting white supremacist rhetoric at his fellow students, some of […]
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