Ivo Sanader
This has not been the best week for Columbia’s public relations. Now it gets worse. Ivo Sanader, former Prime Minister of Croatia and current visiting scholar at Columbia’s Harriman Institute, was arrested in Austria on Friday, and remains in custody pending extradition. Sanader is suspected of conspiring to commit crimes and abuse of office by the Croatian Office for Suppression of Organized Crime and Corruption.
While it's only fair to state that obviously any dirt on Columbia will come out at relatively the same time (so it's all forgotten at the same time), damn, son. When it rains, it pours.
I'm transferring to Colombia University in Bogota. At the very least, there'd be fewer drug rings and far less crime.
what is a visiting scholar? does he teach any classes here?
The article states that he was arrested in Austria, which makes a lot of sense due to it's much greater proximity to Croatia...
this is a bad week for me to commit suicide
That's not funny. Please call CPS if you are seriously thinking of suicide. (212) 854-9797
http://health.columbia.edu/services/cps
it's a bad week to make a joke.
oh wait every week is a bad week at CU.
Do they teach ethics here?? Oh, sorry, I forgot, CC teaches people how to justify abuses. Robert Moses took CC didnt he???
Does this really reflect badly on Columbia? A former Eastern European president is being accused of political corruption by a later administration's corruption watchdog body. It's just politics (whether or not he's actually guilty.) If his only relation to Columbia is that he happens to currently be teaching a class here as a temporary "political guy from far away" then I wouldn't be too concerned. The drug bust (Columbia undergrads going to jail) and the Epstein case (INCEST!!!) are much bigger deals.
Hey Bwog - Croatian media asked the Harriman institute and they commented briefly that he's no longer affiliated with them after he was placed on Interpol's wanted list this Friday, so he's no longer a "current" visiting scholar.
He never actually was a scholar, he was supposed to join the Harriman Institute this fall. He was supposed to lecture about fighting corruption lolz
We're going up in class, at least.
From incest and cocaine to political abuse of office. Say what you want but we're classing up this joint.
Anybody want to bet on what's coming next? Espionage? We need a spy.
I thought we had a spy... one of the Russian spies attended the Business school before she got arrested
we need a shiny new spy! preferably a sexy and/or classy one, a la angelina jolie.
Bad things come in threes. hopefully this is the last one and we can make it through finals without incident. I can't afford to keep checking bwog that often if more shit goes down.
finals was the third. Maybe there won't be room for them in the universe now.
We shouldn't have banned four loko. Now, we gotta suffer the consequences.
is Coco referring to the author of this post? Cuz I've never heard that nickname used for him before, well only on rare occasions. And i know this bc the author of that post was me :P
Chill, homes. S/he doesn't *actually* love you.
My presence in this school negates any bad news. You people are lucky you have me.
if you are paid to sneak unapproved Croatian literature into the Columbia curriculum?
Core-upption!
I can tell from his face that he is evil. He looks like a bond villain. How did Columbia let this man in?
I thought we already had a spy... sort of.
This is an excellent addition to our repertoire of illegal activities.
Excellent...now that Columbia has three alumni heads of state, runs drug rings, is expanding into upper Manhattan, AND can siphon state funds from emerging Eastern European countries like Croatia, we are well on our way to world domination.
Next I suggest we invest in killer spy-sharks... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11937285
Q:What's that?
A:Oh thats the sound of our US news ranking plummeting.
Q:No that other noise.
A:Oh thats the other ivy leaguers laughing.
Q: What's that?
A: Oh, that's the sound of a grade-chaser whining for no good reason.
Q: No that other noise.
A: Oh, that's the Columbia admissions committee weeping that they let another dumbass slide through.
though, what did t his guy actually do? it sounds like nothing
Columbia University in the City of Gotham
Meh. Not that interesting. CC/SEAS undergrads who are campus personalities selling drugs out of their dorms and frats and consorting with dangerous drug suppliers and a famous professor, married to another famous professor, committing years of incest with his daughter (with younger daughters at home) are a lot more salacious.
the negativity we're getting from each successive story is increasing at a decreasing rate. Pretty soon we'll cross over into the 'negative bad' region of the graph. At this rate by next week someone will win a nobel prize or find a cure for cancer or something.
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