“why didn’t anyone ever see him? My educated guess is Obama was in the Soviet Union studying communism. Columbia had a “sister school” in Moscow. That would be the only real answer as to why Obama was rarely if ever seen at Columbia.”
For the sake of completeness we must consider an alternate hypothesis:
https://www.wired.com/2012/01/obama-mars/
More people saw him on Mars than at Columbia Law School.
;-)
Isn’t this Colombia University “College” - the School of General Studies a better explanation of Zero being at Colombia University yet little seen than Root’s sensationalized claim? Then it was considerably less prestigious & rigorous than the “Ivy League” undergraduate counterpart. The “School of General Studies was designed for the “part-time” students - originally returning WWII GIs. Classes were likely separate and at different times. The less rigorous aspect of the school fits Zero to a T. The fact that then it was not really “Ivy League” is conveniently forgotten much like Slick Willy’s being a dropout Rhodes Scholar. I think now (1991) there is no distinction.