On the (jam-packed) April 24th episode of Monday Morningside: Iris Hsiang dives into the continued efforts* of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race to secure departmentalization, reporting from the rally on April 20th (2:38); Milly Hopkins speaks with students at the April 6th protest against the eviction of the Red Balloon Learning Center** (13:23); Josh Kazali speaks with Allanah Grant Elster, the festival director of Obscura Film Festival—the recently rebranded undergraduate film festival of Columbia—and offers some early summer film recommendations (24:36); and Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum reports from Yankee Stadium, where the Yanks face the Toronto Blue Jays (42:26).

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* For more on CSER's fight for departmentalization, listen to the Blue and White's Grace Adee read her essay "A Department of Our Own," from the November 28th episode of Monday Morningside.

**For an in-depth discussion about the Red Balloon's eviction, listen to Isaac Stiepelmann and Ashwin Marathe's conversation with Annapurna Schrieber from the April 3rd episode of MM.