Out of 400 Columbia students contacted, NO ONE EVEN REMEMBERED OBAMA.
This according to the article.
Ain’t that strange.
It’s not really that strange that his classmates don’t recall him. He was a junior transfer into a private college who lived off campus, where people make most of the friends they are ever going to make in their freshman dorms and other kinds of freshman orientation, and in their lower-division seminar classes.
If he skipped a lot of class and didn’t join any campus clubs (neither of which is unusual) it’s natural that no one would have gotten to know him or remember him.