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In the onslaught of discovering the perfect abode, one apartment has the perfect sales pitch: a path to the White House. For $2,500 it could be yours, presidency and all (maybe). And on 142 West 109th Street, it’s only a short walk from campus! “Yes president OBAMA lived in this unit while he attended Columbia […]

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Were you in line to buy a 5S or 5C yesterday morning? So were some homeless men in California who were promised to be paid $40 to do so. (USA Today) “They’re focused on trying to mess with me,” says Obama about Republicans and the bill they passed linking government funding to Obamacare defunding. (NY […]

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We were going to launch a campaign to round up all you summer readers and bring this urgent question to the President’s attention. Then the heat got the better of us or something, but it’s the thought that counts right?

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Columbia College 2011 President Sean Udell and Vice President Alexandra Coromilas have founded the CUPOTUS Project. As you might guess, its goal is to secure President Barack Obama CC ’83 as speaker for university-wide Commencement. But wait!  Before you shake your heads and dismiss it as a pipe dream, listen up–their strategy is different. In […]

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Columbia professors get elected to things (Senate.gov) Columbia’s core is the magic of video games (NYT) Columbia’s architecture is blogworthy for Bloomberg (Bloomberg) Columbia knows about the best diets (CNN) Now that Obama’s popularity is declining, it turns out he never attended Columbia? (TransWorldNews)

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Same Semester, New President!

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