Posted on 02/09/2010 6:14:58 AM PST by Man50D
HE IS TOTUS!
Won't half of them say they knew him, even if they didn't? I work with a guy who knew Bill Gates at Harvard (same major, actually). He claims Gates was the most money-hungry person he ever knew.
“In any case, he’s hiding something.”
Politically, he’s not hiding much.
Lets just call him the MANCHURIAN president
Columbia College is the main undergraduate branch of Columbia University. It used to be that males went to Columbia College, females to Barnard College, both parts of the same university. It’s not so simple now, however. Perhaps some alums can enlighten me on this subject.
Barnard College was founded in 1889 because Columbia would not accept women students. In the half-century that followed, Barnard became one of the top schools in the country, with a tough liberal arts curriculum, fiercely proud of its role in educating women. In the 1970s wave of mergers and alliances that saw other Ivy League institutions go coed, Columbia College held out as a school for men only. But last week Columbia finally broke with its tradition. The college announced that it will begin accepting female students by the fall of 1983. Barnard, meanwhile, declared that it will remain a college for women, but with a special relation to Columbia.
The announcements ended more than a decade of merger talk. In 1973 the two made an agreement for something called “integration without assimilation,” which meant that students could share libraries and many courses. Columbia, in need of women students to increase its pool of applicants, was soon describing single-sex education as “an anachronism” and urgently proposing marriage.
Barnard kept replying that it wanted to maintain its independence, but it yielded some of its autonomy in return for the privilege of cross-registering for a number of courses. This agreement placed Barnard tenure decisions in the hands of a faculty committee in which Barnard was outnumbered by Columbia 3 to 2. Last fall when Ellen Futter, 32, became president of Barnard, she referred to the “strange and wonderful” relationship with Columbia. Strained was more like it. Hardly had she been chosen when Columbia University President Michael Sovern, 50, who had taught Futter at Columbia’s law school, threatened that if Banard would not merge completely, Columbia would go coed by itself, thus competing directly for Barnard’s students.
In the bargaining that followed, Futter gradually agreed to sharing classes, dormitories and dining halls. But having observed how coordinates turned into conglomerates (Brown and Pembroke, Harvard and Radcliffe, Tulane and Sophie Newcomb), she held out for control over faculty tenure appointments and most of Barnard’s undergraduate degree requirements. On these issues the negotiations collapsed.
To listen to the two presidents, the new arrangement is the best of all possible non-unions. Boasted Futter: “The agreement reached today is a tremendous triumph for Barnard College.” Said Sovern: “I don’t see any snakes in this Eden.” In the short term, both appeared to be right. For seven years, under contract, the two institutions will continue to cross-register courses and share facilities. (Barnard’s library has 150,000 volumes, Columbia University’s 5 million.) Barnard will regain control over its own faculty (tenure will be decided by a committee of two Barnard and two Columbia professors, plus one outside scholar). Futter insists that the contract will provide stability and that Barnard’s $25 million endowment can support its program. The college emphasizes strong teaching and has a largely female faculty who can serve as role models for students. The policy works: Barnard has seen its pool of applicants increase by 51% in the past four years. Says Elizabeth Kennan, president of Mount Holyoke, another top women’s college: “Barnard should not fear competition from a coed Columbia. There is an intense interest among young women today for women’s colleges that will put Barnard in a strong position.”
Columbia’s drawing power, by contrast, has declined in recent years, partly because of its city location. Also it has a faculty heavily oriented toward graduate study and research. The number of Columbia’s applicants is well below the competition’s. More important, its yield ratio (those who actually attend after being admitted) is near the bottom of the Ivy League. By admitting women, Sovern estimates, Columbia will double the applicant pool from 3,500 to 7,000.
Most of the new applicants will be women, but some will be men, “because there are many men who don’t want to go to a male college.” Sovern, in fact, predicts a booming future for everyone concerned. Says he: “We now have the complete choice for the young American woman—she can go single-sex at Barnard or coeducational at Columbia. My guess is that Columbia recruiters will find some women who would really rather go to a single-sex college in the city, and they will go to Barnard.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,955006,00.html#ixzz0f5GOPpn3
BLEEP THAT!
He's the ultimate PUBLIC FIGURE!
He should have no expectation of privacy, and should have been immediately forthcoming with any requested records.
Sooooo....how much does one a-them cost?
bookmark
Not sure.....ask Percy Sutton.
Cunningham and Jeff Kuhner’s shows recently and said he thinks that Farah is making a mistake by not saying on the billboards ‘Obama where is your birth certificate?” because people can take the current billboards as addressing illegal aliens more so than Zero.
I would wear that.
I was responding to that statement, not making it.
Spineless wimps can be broomed. Traitors go to the bone.
I don’t believe there is PROOF OF ANYTHING. All we have to go on is what he tells us. What fools we are to have elected a phantom.
Excellent question.
For what it’s worth, from B.O.’s MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/barackobama
Harvard University 1988 to 1991
Cambridge, MA
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: J.D. - Magna Cum Laude
Clubs: President - Harvard Law Review
Columbia University In The City Of New York 1981 to 1983
New York, NY
Graduated: 1983
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor’s Degree
Major: Political Science
Occidental College 1979 to 1981
Los Angeles, CA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
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