NEWS FROM 68TH AND LEX 
With enrollment at an all-time high, up 4 percent from last year, students have very few common spaces to settle in between classes. Moreover, places students have traditionally used as sitting space, are now closed off for renovations.
With four out of the five cars out of service, students are having to wait or walk to get to lower-floor classes in the North Building. And for those with disabilities, it has become a struggle just to get to class.
Professor Victoria Johnson’s path to nominee for the 2018 National Book Award is unconventional, but a closer look reveals the threads between these vastly different chapters of her life.
The college has introduced “active shooter protocol” signs all over campus, urging students to “know their ABCs: avoid, barricade and confront.”
The cafeteria will reopen with a new vendor in late November or December, and between now and then, students have the chance to name it.
