I read that someone did interview lots of people in his class and no one remembered him. It even seemed unusual to the Columbia grads.
The fact that Obama will not release any part of his college record is thought to reflect the fact that he did not go to Columbia University, but Columbia College, which was an affiliated program but virtually an external degree program, aimed at people who already had some college but didn’t have the grades or preparatory courses to get into Columbia University. Obama’s grades at his first college, Occidental, were apparently not very good.
This would explain why nobody knew him, because he lived off-campus and was actually in a different program, although one affiliated with Columbia University.
If this is true, one wonders also how he got into Harvard from the Columbia College program. Supposedly, the same Khalid wrote a letter for him and managed to help him get into Harvard.
Assume, for the sake of argument, that he didn't attend classes (perhaps only went for exams), and that he was not registered as Obama but was registered under some other name. What, if anything, does this change in terms of avenues of inquiry?
Wayne Root, the once or maybe still Vice Presidential nominee of the Libertarian party on Bob Barr’s ticket, was a classmate of Obama’s at Columbia. He doesn’t remember him and could find no classmates who could either...