Someone on the inside at Columbia created a record of attendance there. The school was a hotbed of radicalism is the 60s and 70s (Cloward and Piven were faculty members there), and still is today.
Bingo!
“Someone on the inside at Columbia created a record of attendance there. The school was a hotbed of radicalism is the 60s and 70s (Cloward and Piven were faculty members there), and still is today.”
Columbia’s public inquiry website staff during the presidential campaign would not respond substantively and would only refer people to do an Internet search of their own, when asked from which division Obama graduated and in what year. His campaign website said, “Columbia University,” not “Columbia College.” Graduates of Columbia College, which is an undergraduate college of Columbia University, would almost certainly write, “Columbia College, New York City” or “Columbia College of Columbia University.”
His not writing Columbia College (there’s another Columbia College in Chicago) and leaving it at “Columbia University,” suggests that maybe he took some courses at Columbia University’s School of General Studies (referred to as”G.S.”), a place that was much, much easier to get admitted to and popular with night and part-time students. If one attended G.S., it’s conceivable no one would remember you. People used to pass through there like ships in the night. (Here’s a long shot: given Obama’s likely ties to William Ayers who attended Bank Street College not far from where Obama lived and near Columbia at the same time as Obama did, maybe it was the Bank Street College Obama attended and not Columbia).
If Obama attended Columbia College, as the Obama’s camp says, even for two years, and actually made it to class, he would be remembered, do doubt about it. If people have his photo in their yearbook, they’d remember the face. These are not dummies, they’re excellent students. In fact, if he was a tranfer student who showed up just occasionally to classes in this small, liberal arts college, that fact, too, would be remembered. They’d have thought, “What’s with this guy? It’s not fair that he can just waltz in here just once in awhile.” The 1980s is not that long ago. Professors and even staff from those days are still around on campus or retired and well aware of who the president is.
Another possibility is that he took not some, but most of his courses at The School of General Studies (G.S.). and only one or two classes at Columbia College and either then or in some future year, with some monkey business by someone, the College gave him credit for the whole kit and caboodle of non-Columbia College classes as part of their bending over backwards for “people of color” under their understanding of the initiative called “affirmative action “ Obama would not be the first person in the history of Columbia to distort their backgrounds and claim they have a Columbia diploma.
Every student who graduated from Columbia College in those days had to take two years of “C.C.” – Classical Civilization – an intensive two-year core curriculum consisting of in-depth reading of political, philosophical and social thought.
(Now it’s one year: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/cc.php)
Nothing that comes out of Obama’s mouth suggests he’s a man who took C.C. in the early 1980s (If his handlers are reading this, we might start hearing Obama quoting Plato’s Republic and saying he read it at Columbia). There is not a peep about CC or about anything he learned at Columbia, nothing about the neighborhood, nothing about the fact that the diner a couple of short blocks from Columbia is the setting for Seinfeld.. His “foot in mouth” bloopers are coming so often and indicate such a lack of information in his head that one really does have to believe that the Indonesian madrassah’s curriculum from 1967-1971 (the key years of his elementary school education - maybe when Americn kids were learning something about their country) and the marijuana and whatever else he took in the years that followed made him into a space cadet. By the way, I remember reading that an elementary school teacher of his from Indonesia does remember him, even if no Columbia College contemporaries more than a decade later do not.
Once he was elected president, Columbia publications claimed him as their own with cover stories. His official grades must be very well hidden or at the bottom of the Hudson. I can’t help but think that at least some office staff, as well as teaching staff at Columbia College and University in general are demoralized by the unanswered questions and the veil of secrecy. The rest have been given Koolaid.
It’s also possible he was absent from class so much that there were ramifications on his grades, maybe a disciplinary trail for drugs, etc. What there surely was in the 1980s was a continuation of what started in the very early 1970s and that was a mindblowing, huge permissiveness by all parties on campus when the student in question was a “minority student.” By the 1970s, there were special, separate “Deans for Minority Students” at the various divisions of Columbia University. It was there job to “support’ the minority students. They gave the students complete latitude to do as they pleased. Infringements of policy were overlooked.
A look at the 1982 and 1983 Columbia College yearbooks would be very informative about who the deans and professors were from that period, even the cafeteria, library, medical services, and office staff.
Yesterday’s and today’s Columbia political science and history and Contemproary Civilization professors must have been proud when the alleged Columbia political science major, B. Hussein, stated in his formal surrender speech to Islam on June 5 in Egypt, that the U.S. Constitution was written “20 centuries ago.”
The media didn’t say a word about this (Had it been George Bush who said it, the media would have made it top story for years to come ). Maybe the Columbia Political Science Department professors were brave enough to take note of the president’s ridiculous gaffs, shallowness of knowledge, appeasement to Islamic fascists and the capitulation of the U.S.
Hey, maybe it was TOTUS who went to Columbia.… But, golly, even TOTUS would be remembered by somebody for how he sat up straight, the way he lit up a room and was never at a loss for words, the way he told the teacher just what he wanted to hear….
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