I watched the video that Columbia University's new president Shafik made, addressing students. She seems to know nothing about Columbia, a pretty old institution by U.S. standards, with enormous amounts of baggage, bad and good. (Editing this: I just read that Shafik is a member of a Coptic Christian church. Why does she say in the video that she grew up Muslim? Or maybe she means "surrounded by Muslims.") Columbia: the only employer I've had in 40ish years of U.S. office life that made me sign an NDA. At least one lawsuit if not more that Columbia lost in matters of discrimination. Sooo many stories, sooo much gossip. And I only worked there for about 4 years total in the 80s and 90s. On the medical side? Broken elevators at the dental school. We laughed about the condition of the dental school with my brilliant dental student who treated me. Me, making sure I *don't* give birth at Columbia's hospital although I lived 12 blocks away. Good things too, but never neutral.