Obama is listed as an alumnus in the directory I received 15 years ago. He is clearly on someone’s list. However, the fact that no one from the school has come forward to say they remember him is telling. It only takes me two steps through my contacts from the class of ‘82 to find anyone from that class.
My guess is that he got registered and went through an independent study program under the tutelage of his Marxist mentors somewhere on the Upper West Side, carefully avoiding “contamination” from the riff-riff on campus. It helps me put a lot of other pieces in place regarding the political scene when I was there., including the types of articles that got posted in the campus newspaper and magazine.
Oh, and it’s “would HAVE”, not “would OF”. Yes, I majored in English at Columbia.
This guy, Phil Boerner, says he was his roommate at Oxy and Columbia. They both transferred to Columbia the same year.
http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan_feb09/alumni_corner
So, someone can look at both schools and see if Phil attended.
Obama is listed as an alumnus in the directory I received 15 years ago.
Bears bolding and repeating. When we cut out the silly Manchurian candidate stuff (because, SURE, in the 60s, everyone thought a half-black illegitimate child would be the PERFECT candidate for President one day) and add in KNOWN facts like yours, the story becomes clearer.
I tend to agree with your theory of the independent study program. Those papers could be quite embarrasing.
Obama is listed as an alumnus in the directory I received 15 years ago.
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what year does your directory state that obama graduated. also is he an alumni of the college, gs or teachers college?