I think that more than 50% of the brighter lights among the jews have shifted over to vote republican and among the columbia grads of the 50's 60's & 70's the percentage may be higher--and that would account for the 15% of jews who voted for bush in 04. its still a cerebral or canny exercise for jews to vote republican.
Say you must have been around when columbia began the longest football losing streak in college football about 1961. When I was there in the 70's the losing streak still had another 10 years to run. My brothers went to UVa and Penn State. When the talk turned to football--I had to leave the room. I learned then that there's a significant correlation of meanings between morale and morals. I think that was a lesson learned by many guys from the 70's.
How dare you SIRRAH! As a former Varsity C man in football who graduated in '61 I take deep umbrage at the mere mention of a long losing streak. :-) It's...It's...unpatriotic!
By the way, my old roommate, Bill (Ballsie) Campbell '63, heard Alma Mater's call and left business for a while to coach the Lions--to no avail.
I did some recruiting in Texas for awhile, but we simply never were able match enough brawn with enough brains to overcome the limitations of a small school with very high academic standards.
I remember a John Wayne movie where he was brought in as coach of a failing school to earn some money and he recruits all these semi-professional wild men with no brains as mercenaries to play and lead the school to football glory. Hmm. Mercenaries? I'm for it!