I get flamed for disagreeing with the birthers on FR, but this is one puzzlement that has always bothered me. I graduated Fordham with 500+ other grads. I was no BMOC and I was an average student. Yet if my name was mentioned to each of those 500 more than half would recall something about me, from class, from the Webster Ave bars, from BB games at MSG. If Root’s contention that he’s spoken to 400 classmates and none remember Obama is believable, and no one has comeforward to challenge him, then there is a real chance that what we have in the WH is the lead character from Six Degrees of Separation.
Although it sounds like Fordham has a smaller class size than Columbia, I would bet that if Fordham allowed junior year transfer students while you were there, some of these people would not be widely known to the class.