Miranda Lu

city news deputy editor @columbiaspec | columbia '27
✉️: [email protected]

[Heather 🇹🇼 @heatherweixi]

Khalil, who arrived with his wife and newborn son, spoke to press alongside @AOC at Newark Airport. Shoutout to @TsehaiAlfred who is at the scene reporting for @ColumbiaSpec!

[Miranda Lu @_mirandaalu]

@manuelas957 @NOTUSreports congrats manuela!!

[Joseph Zuloaga 🌁🗽 @JosephZuloaga]

New for @ColumbiaSpec: Nearly 10 years since Spectator analyzed the state of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences through "Unfunded Mandate," we take a new look as Columbia, its administration, and the country have changed.
✍️w/ @emilypckk, @spencerdaviis
https://t.co/tLo3jDqqcA

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

ICE agents detained Palestinian student and activist Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, on Monday morning when he arrived at a Citizenship and Immigration Services office for an appointment to take his citizenship test in Colchester, Vermont.

https://t.co/z89Nlwf6Mn

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

A Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that the federal government’s deportation case against Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, can proceed. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident with no criminal record.

https://t.co/mxickSqUxb

[Tsehai Alfred @TsehaiAlfred]

Hamilton Heights already has more than a dozen supportive housing projects. For three years, the city has been trying to add a new one—without public review.

“We have two children. Our neighborhood can’t take it,” one resident told me.

latest @ColumbiaSpec

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

Amid several deportation orders targeting students advocating for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza, lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, appeared before a federal judge in New Jersey on Friday to argue for Khalil’s case to proceed outside of Louisiana.

https://t.co/nV0u96H3Hq

[Tsehai Alfred @TsehaiAlfred]

At Louisiana ICE jails, detainees often “disappear,” facing “systemic abuse” and “isolation from legal resources,” according to a 2024 human rights report.
latest for @ColumbiaSpec w/ @surinavenkat

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, a Palestinian activist and lead negotiator for the April 2024 “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, his lawyer told Spectator.

https://t.co/5wrmvoKW1D

[Joseph Zuloaga 🌁🗽 @JosephZuloaga]

BREAKING for @ColumbiaSpec: The Trump administration has cut $400 million in federal funding to Columbia.
https://t.co/ckxT4obPKX

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

BREAKING: New York Police Department officers with helmets and zipties entered Barnard’s campus at roughly 4:50 p.m. on Wednesday, nearly four hours after pro-Palestinian protesters began a sit-in at Milstein, and began detaining protesters.

https://t.co/UZa5VbiaKW

[Elliot Heath @ElliotHeath10]

We recently posted a welcome video for prospective @ColumbiaSpec staff, which featured an introduction from our editor in chief, @SheaVance22 , and testimonials from other editors.

Watch the final product, with masterful editing by @emilyhuangml , here: https://t.co/bczUEKXmqZ

[Heather 🇹🇼 @heatherweixi]

New from @ColumbiaSpec today: @Grace_Kaste investigated the West Harlem Development Corporation, finding a "history of workplace conflict at the WHDC and a reluctance by organization leaders to spend organization funds on initiatives for HDFC residents."
https://t.co/AlFg0W32uy

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

As polls closed across the country in the 2024 general election, the last West Harlem voters filed into poll sites to cast the final ballots. After voting, residents gathered for community events and attended watch parties in anticipation of the results.
https://t.co/vFi0qxAeYr

[Tsehai Alfred @TsehaiAlfred]

latest for @ColumbiaSpec

[Elliot Heath @ElliotHeath10]

I wrote, voiced, and edited a video timeline of protests at Columbia since Oct. 7, 2023. With help from @wyatt_m_king, the piece recaps the past 12 months of campus activism as the movement continues this year.

Go watch on the @ColumbiaSpec YouTube here: https://t.co/79whoGjXHJ

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

Dual language schools have provided unique support and stability for recently arrived families in various ways. But once the city makes families relocate under Mayor Eric Adams’ 60-day eviction policy, that stability may be threatened.
https://t.co/J7KQ09KUE7

[Evie Steele @evieajsteele]

Breaking from @thehoya:

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

In collaboration with @NYMag, @ColumbiaSpec created the magazine’s new cover package, providing an intimate look at the crisis on the ground at Columbia University that has gripped the nation. Writing and photography was done entirely by our staff.

🔗: https://t.co/HKdf5VVtX5

[Amira McKee @_amiramckee]

"It’s going to be one of those moments where people ask, 'Where were you when …?' And we’re all going to have to have an answer."

An oral history of protest and discipline at Columbia in the words of those living it.

Read @ColumbiaSpec and @NYMag.

https://t.co/vWpN9izh1p