Yeah but where did Obama get his degree?

Yeah thats right... COLUMBIA! :-p

As for number 27:

Some Generals come from West Point. Some come from the state schools. Either way neither my Alma Mater nor any of the other Ivies seem to be producing many (though I do personally know of 3 Columbia grad Generals in the Army Medical Corps...) Still...whether the Ivies ban ROTC or not, students there can still become officers. I did it. I know tons of others who did too.

THEY WANT THE US OUT OF IRAQ? Great! Then they need to get of their asses and come join the Army, and show President Bush what hes doing wrong and how to fix it.

Dear New York,

Something to think about before you start going all self-righteous on the city of Chicago:

Which city has the Scrooge McDuck billionaire Republican mayor, and which city has a Democratic machine instead?

Which city does Barack Obama represent?

matty - NYC was not the impetus for Iraq. 9/11 preceded the war with Afghanistan - the Iraq segway was political misdirection. And if you look back on footage of NYC gatherings around 2001, there were many vocal protests about letting 9/11 be impetus for war.

Two consecutive Republican mayors - one of whom switched parties before the election to run in a less crowded field, and the other who is considered a moderate on the national scale (pro-choice, etc.).

I certainly do not consider myself Jewish, nor do I think "we" as a city consider ourselves Jewish. One of the joys of NYC is it's not any particular ethnicity, it's everything. So hock mir nisht kein chainik.

Better yet, the civil liberties-obsessed hypocrite a**hole protestors pulled fire alarms in FIVE buildings just before the protest yesterday. In other words, just in case you wanted to go to CLASS or to the LIBRARY instead of attending their protest, you couldn't. Thanks, jerks. I feel so much more empathy for your struggle now that my right to LEARN was deemed secondary to your right to stand on a soapbox in the snow.

PS: Bush doesn't care if you skip out on your Comparative Ethnic Studies class.

Stupid self-absorbed baby boomer's kids think it is some kind of rite of passage to protest. I don't understand how this war affects them.

No one really cares if Columbia students strike. Why not just take the rest of the semester off? Better yet, go volunteer in Darfur or something.

Interesting about the divestment; why not ban investments in companies that make tobacco products, recreational firearms, soda, managed health care, Jennifer Lopez CDs, fast food, gasoline, pornography, candy, credit cards, video games, alcohol, and any for-profit drug company. Someone in the world and at least one Columbia student must think that all of these products are either immoral or hurtful too.

In fact, why doesn't Columbia just secede from the U.S? They can tell the world that since they are against war and fully embrace pacifism, they will be helpless should anyone decide to attack them. Within a year, it would be overrun by Muslim fundamentalists and its students would be wearing burkas or sticking their ass up in the air to pray 5 times a day. And they will only be allowed to read the Koran. Then they call all live in the empty library and have as many children as possible since abortions and birth control won't be legal.

"...you're nothing special and new yorkers die just as easily as cow huggers.

love,

chicago."

We ALL die easily but you yokles from Chicago squeal like PIGS while doin' it.

love,

NYC

"...you're nothing special and new yorkers die just as easily as cow huggers.

love,

chicago."

We ALL die easily but you yokles from Chicago squeal like PIGS while doin' it.

love,

NYC

"...you're nothing special and new yorkers die just as easily as cow huggers.

love,

chicago."

We ALL die easily but you yokles from Chicago squeal like PIGS while doin' it.

love,

NYC

Personally I'd suggest more Columbia students become military officers so that, eventually, the those Colonels and Generals who advise the president will come from Columbia rather than Central Michigan, or Bob Jones U...just an idea...)

And here I thought the generals came from Weat Point. And too bad half the Ivy League bans ROTC. Freedom of speech and academia and assembly indeed.

my 4 years at columbia proved to me that every time a bunch of ivy league kids stand in the cold with oak tag handing out flyers it really does make a huge difference

my 4 years at columbia proved to me that every time a bunch of ivy league kids stand in the cold with oak tag handing out flyers it really does make a huge difference

seriously, this shit is pissing me off. New York was the impetus for Iraq, tragic as it was, yet New Yorkers blame the midwest for its problems. You have had at least 2 consecutive REPUBLICAN mayors in office - yet you call yourself jewish - and somehow it's the midwest's fault. I get the feeling half the people who post about the midwest are from here and hate their frathead older brothers so they hate on it.

We are the heart of the nation, we are not the dirt evangelistic south you might be confusing us with, we are boring christians, consistently democratic and were once the industrial mainstay of the nation.

Yeah, so you know, f all of you and all that. Quit blaming us for your bullshit problems that you fucking started. Dipshits.

oh hey shitheads who rag on the midwest - you have equally as many illiterate goomba piece of shit long islanders/NJers/Bronx/Harlem people dying out there as we do. go fuck yourselves, you're nothing special and new yorkers die just as easily as cow huggers.

love,

chicago.

dear gothamist llc,

please make your comments section in other ist sites actually work before tackling "the big issues."

-matty

p.s you people are lazy and have other people do work for you for free and you can't even get an mt blog working correctly.

why are they striking against the war? this war is awesome! All the midwestern children are dying. You know the children of the fucknuts who voted for bush. They wanted it, they got it.

2003 called, it wants its entitled brat feel-good strike back.

Oooh, a war-protest at an Ivy League university. How gloriously edgy!

squidfly: Draft isn't coming back no matter how much Rangel wants it. I wouldn't be running off to Canada if there were one. Surprised you haven't run north of the border already. Good way to totally ignore the substance of an argument. Whatever money paid for your tuition it sure was well spent.

#10: Father is dead, mother might as well be. So no, that would be my money, not my parents or anyone elses. Go ahead, turn that into raw material for another snarky trolling response. It suits you I'm sure.

Point being, the professors are wasting the money of the students whose classes they are cancelling. Whether it's the students paying their own tuition, their parents, or the taxpayers through financial aid, it's the same waste. The professors can shout to the mountaintops about their politics (even if it is 4 years late) on their own time and their own dime.

Strike against war... read: Excuse to skip class.

Not that I mind protesting. Heck even if I didn't agree with them I wouldn't mind the protesting. What I mind is bothering students, disrupting the campus, and getting in people's way when none of them did anything wrong. Or is Dick Cheney living in Low Library Now?

If your going to protest, for goodness sake go to DC where someone important might actually hear you.

Protesting on campus is just a self congratulatory slap on the back for some perceived (and completely undeserved) sense of moral superiority.

"Oh look at us, we're protesting the war" Stop talking about it and go DO SOMETHING about it.

(Personally I'd suggest more Columbia students become military officers so that, eventually, the those Colonels and Generals who advise the president will come from Columbia rather than Central Michigan, or Bob Jones U...just an idea...)

Strike against war... read: Excuse to skip class.

Not that I mind protesting. Heck even if I didn't agree with them I wouldn't mind the protesting. What I mind is bothering students, disrupting the campus, and getting in people's way when none of them did anything wrong. Or is Dick Cheney living in Low Library Now?

If your going to protest, for goodness sake go to DC where someone important might actually hear you.

Protesting on campus is just a self congratulatory slap on the back for some perceived (and completely undeserved) sense of moral superiority.

"Oh look at us, we're protesting the war" Stop talking about it and go DO SOMETHING about it.

(Personally I'd suggest more Columbia students become military officers so that, eventually, the those Colonels and Generals who advise the president will come from Columbia rather than Central Michigan, or Bob Jones U...just an idea...)