Which magazine? Columbia College Today or Columbia Magazine? Big Difference. Same question regarding graduation: was it in the Columbia College program or the university program? Maybe he attended the School of General Studies and not the College (?)
It was called “The Sundial” and it was an extremely poorly written piece of idiocy. Maybe you know how connected that magazine was with Columbia college or univ. It was AFAIK the only authentic piece of writing found by him, ever. If he wrote it then, probably did. I don’t know if non-students could put articles in, might be an interesting avenue of research. Of course, no one remembers him in Columbia.
http://documents.nytimes.com/obama-s-1983-college-magazine-article
STUDENT magazine not alumni magazine: “The Sundial.”
http://documents.mx/documents/1983-article-by-barack-obama-breaking-the-war-mentality-in-columbia-universitys-sundial-magazine.html
Columbia College (like Harvard College) is the original institution of higher learning that Columbia University grew into. “Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the university’s main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1754 by the Church of England as King’s College, receiving a Royal Charter from King George II of Great Britain. Columbia College is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. The college is distinctive for its comprehensive Core Curriculum. Columbia College is highly selective in its admissions. For the class of 2019, the college accepted 6.0% of its applicants, the 2nd lowest acceptance in the Ivy League behind only Harvard.”—Wikipedia
Columbia University’s School of General Studies is a different college of the university.
Barack Obama is listed in the Columbia COLLEGE “Class Day” graduation program.