Agree that Obama did not attend columbia college.
Rather he attended the non ivy league columbia dept called the School of General Studies. Anyone can get into that dept.
I did. I was in the School of General Studies and graduated in 1986.
Obama was known by the GS students that I ran with. We gave a reading of prose and poetry in the Jazz room of the West End on 114 & Broadway somewhere about 1981 plus or minus. Several who were there say that Obama was there. I recall a black guy with a white girl there. He left after I read. Likely because what I said pissed him off.
Most of my poetry was as bad as Obama’s stuff. But a few of my poems are world class. These were always the ones that I worked on for several years.
Now that is about the most logical and believable explanation of this situation I’ve heard. Thank you very much for the post!
“I did. I was in the School of General Studies and graduated in 1986.”
May I ask, what institution is shown on your diploma as having conferred your degree? (Columbia College? Columbia University? Something else?)
Does your diploma mention something like “The Faculty of the School of General Studies...” or say anything about the SGS?
If you attended a graduation exercise, did it include all “Columbia” students, or were there separate events for College versus University?