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Three pieces of Columbia-related real-world news: first, some dude named Barack Obama has been chosen as TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. The most interesting part of the feature are “previously unpublished photos” of a very cool lookin’ Obama, taken while he was at Occidental, a year before arriving at Columbia. One of the photos (at right) has a cigarette that looks enough like a blunt that Matt Drudge has it up on his front page already.
In endowment news, Yale estimates that its endowment has fallen 25% since the end of June, further adding that it expects no growth until fiscal 2011. As a result, Yale will be cutting expenses by slowing salary growth and delaying construction of several new buildings.
Finally, a Columbia University tech start-up has won a national award. Hey, if this is a good time to found a bank, maybe tech start-ups can work as well.
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@Me again Yeah i gotta agree, it looks like a j. I guess our next Prez forgot about white for white, brown for brown.
@fly like paper fresh cool young lu!
@Yale who? I don’t want to hear about Yale’s endowment. They certainly aren’t endowed where it matters anyway.
@also can anyone tell me why in some of these obama pictures he has a ring on this finger where a wedding ring would go? why would he do that?
@it is a cigarette.
@oh bwog, your lack of knowledge in the world of marijuana and all things fun amuses me…obviously a joint, not a blunt.
@UMM To me this appears to be a “fat joint” rather than a blunt. If you are going to make assumptions, at least make them logically! JEEEEEEZ!
@oh and who knew something like STV existed at CU? What a great way to encourage entrepreneurship and an interest in tech.
@Obama is a baller. Props. This is what the Ivy League is (and America should be) about – Butler by day, balling by night.
@too bad this was taken when he was at occidental. when he transferred to columbia he became “a monk” (by his own admission) and stopped going out.
@who cares about yale
@Guess who I always knew our president elect was the fuckin man. I’ll light one up in his honor.
@true story too legit to quit