Disorientation guide
Subtitle: Columbia 2014
Publisher: The editors
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Handbooks, manuals; Students; Political aspects; Columbia University; Barnard College
Description: This guide, created by Columbia and Barnard students, is aimed at providing incoming first-year students with information and resources about problems with Columbia's administration. Included are articles about prison and fossil fuel divestment, transgender admission at Barnard, gentrification, and sexual assault on campus. Various student groups included Student Worker Solidarity, International Socialist Organization, and GendeRevolution contributed.
Notes: Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; title: Welcome to dis guide!; title: Da core; title: Zine FAQ; title: Columbia: a brief (colonialist) history; title: Up against the wall, motherfucker! The Columbia student strike of 1968; title: Smiles and lies: tips for dealing with your administration; title: Columbia, capitalism and you; title: Student worker solidarity; title: LIberate! Yourself from the concrete jungle: Barnard Outdoor Adventure Club; title: Divest for climate change; title: Business as usual: the prison industrial complex and Columbia; title: The Harlem raid; title: Manhattanville rises: gentrification and Columbia; title: Red tape won't cover up rape: sexual assault and Columbia; title: Womanhood and women's colleges: the trans* reality at Barnard; title: On "Leaning In" and corporate feminism; title: (mis)education reform; title: The perks of a hostile environment: Students for Justice in Palestine; title: Asian Political Collective; title: Advice for first years: words of wisdom from Proud Colors; title: Expanding safe spaces