College and University Monitor

The Columbia College Student Council will vote Sunday on whether to allow a referendum in the upcoming elections cycle that would gauge student support for the BDS movement, according to a report published by the New York City university newspaper, the Columbia Spectator.

If the ballot initiative, being presented by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), should pass resulting in a campus-wide referendum on BDS, that vote would be presented to the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing, which evaluates whether the majority of Columbia students favor divesting from Israel....