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Riya Mahanta
Riya Mahanta is a Campus News Staff Writer at The Barnard Bulletin. She is a sophomore at Barnard.
Gas leak leaves 620 residents without stoves throughout semester, renovations soon to begin
Residents have gone nearly six months without working stoves or ovens following a May gas leak. The College says upcoming improvements will include electric kitchen ranges and air conditioning units.
Riya Mahanta
Nov 12
Palestinian, Jewish student groups gather on campus during second anniversary of October 7 attack
The day’s events fall on the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel and subsequent war in Gaza.
Fiona Hu, Riya Mahanta, Jaya Shankar, and Kimberly Wing
Oct 7
Students and alumni lock themselves to Amsterdam gates demanding Columbia protect students from ICE
Protesters called for financial transparency from the University, and for Columbia to publicly oppose the detention of students by ICE and demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi.
Giselle Bradshaw, Riya Mahanta, Theresa Cullen, Fiona Hu, and Kimberly Wing
Apr 23
NYPD arrests students on Barnard campus amid ‘active bomb threat’
The NYPD entered Barnard’s campus to clear students and faculty out of the Milstein Center amidst “an active threat” in the building.
Giselle Bradshaw, Theresa Cullen, and Riya Mahanta
Mar 6
CUAD launches sit-in at Barnard’s Milstein Library, declares building the "Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Liberated Zone"
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) has launched its second sit-in this semester, protesting Barnard's expulsion of three...
Riya Mahanta, Jaya Shankar, and Kimberly Wing
Mar 5
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