We know Barry’s Senior Thesis is missing but do we have evidence from the powers that be that one ever exsisted? Most elite academia have Senior thesises in their library.
It wasn't a senior thesis. Unlike Princeton, Columbia didn't require a thesis from every student.
The word is that at that time there wasn't a thesis requirement for an honors degree in poli sci or international relations either, so whether he got honors or not, Obama didn't write one.
The "thesis" was a course paper that got described as a "senior thesis" by the professor, Michael Baron, in an interview with the NY Times, and the story grew from there.
Because it actually wasn't a senior thesis, the paper wasn't going to be archived like Michelle Obama's or Hillary Clinton's thesis was.