A Tale of Two Columbias : The patriotic and the politically correct.

The Wall Street Jornal ^ | May 11, 2005 | Editors

[rmlew]

On April 28, First Lieutenant William A. Edens was killed in Tal Afar, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device destroyed the armored vehicle in which he was traveling. Four other U.S. soldiers died with him. Lieutenant Edens, who was 29, is survived by his wife, Christina, and by his parents. At his memorial service last week, he was remembered as "a great man, an amazing soldier and a wonderful friend" by First Lieutenant Joshua Grenard, a classmate of Eden's in the ROTC program of the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Now consider a different Columbia: Columbia University, in New York City. On Friday, the university senate voted by a 53-10 margin, with five abstentions, against a resolution to re-establish an ROTC program on campus. Prominent in this roll call of dishonor was President Lee Bollinger, who voted against, and Provost Alan Brinkley, who gave an impassioned speech comparing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to a campus organization that allowed "African-Americans to join . . . only if they pass for white." Oddly, Mr. Brinkley abstained from voting, suggesting he lacked even the courage of these convictions.

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[rmlew]

Does one expect any different from Patrice Lumumba on the Hudson?

[Rummyfan]

Columbia University is a disgrace. They had best be careful or the backwash from the sewage that is their faculty is going to wash the place away. Hard to believe that Eisenhower was once the university president.

[rmlew]

Columbia ping

[Travis McGee]

Pay the big bucks, send your son or daughter to get a fine degree, and you are rewarded 4 years later with a goose-stepping little Red Guard who will spit on your grave and wipe his feet on Old Glory.