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Tonight, students and members of the broader Columbia-Barnard community gathered to grieve Tess Majors. Students, including Aarushi Jain (BC‘20) who took this photo, have begun leaving flowers at the Barnard gate to honor Tess’s memory. . . At the gathering this evening, President Bollinger made brief remarks: . “I am unmoored by the tragedy that unfolded yesterday evening and that led to the death of Tess Majors. Unmoored because Tess was a Barnard student, and in a very real sense Barnard students are Columbia students just like Columbia students are Barnard students; unmoored because Tess was among the youngest members of our community and we feel especially protective of them; unmoored because Jean and I are parents and grandparents and we can oh so readily imagine the pain and grief of Tess’s parents and family; and unmoored because this utterly unspeakable loss happened only a few yards in front of the home where Jean and I live, so we will forever have the searing reality of that physical proximity. . On behalf of Columbia, I want formally to extend our heartfelt love and condolences to Barnard and to President Beilock, who I know will personally carry the burden of grief and mourning of the entire Barnard community. . All of the horror that encompasses this death should not and cannot detract from the appreciation of Tess Majors, the person. Tess must have been extraordinary. I am slowly beginning to get a glimpse of a brilliant young individual. And I am eager to learn more, because Tess will be in my mind, and our collective minds, for a long time to come.”

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