Viz:
COVER STORYDid he go to classes at all? I bet not hardly -- he was doing something else out of his apartment. What? Was his degree a grant? Just a ticket to Hahvahhd?
Barack Obama ’83
Is He the New Face of The Democratic Party?
By Shira Boss-Bicak ’93
http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php...Obama says he was somewhat involved with the Black Students Organization and participated in anti-apartheid activities. “Mostly, my years at Columbia were an intense period of study,” he says. “When I transferred, I decided to buckle down and get serious. I spent a lot of time in the library. I didn’t socialize that much. I was like a monk.”
Obama says it is difficult to separate his college experience at Columbia from the urban experience of living in New York City, and his memoir offers little about his time on campus
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Upon graduating from Columbia, Obama attempted a career as a community organizer. He wrote that when classmates weren’t sure what that was, he didn’t have a sufficient answer for them. “Instead, I’d pronounce the need for change,”
Sometimes there is a grand conspiracy, maybe who knows? Quite a few aligned stars otherwise -- the heavens are rarely that aligned for anyone.
I think maybe all those 'chairs of islamic studies' in US Colleges paid for by Saudi money result in THE SELLING OF DEGREES?
See #5599 Harvard got $ 20 million.
is this what you were looking for?
http://www.campusreportonline.net/main/articles.php?id=806
On February 26, the New York Times Magazine reported that Yale admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Deputy Foreign Secretary of the Taliban, into a non-degree program, with a chance to gain full degree status by 2006.
“In some ways I’m the luckiest person in the world,” Hashemi told the Times. “I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.”