Columbia's sorry history makes Ahmadinejad a winner

When I enrolled at Columbia College in the mid-70's, no one talked about this stuff. The school had endured devastating student strikes that violently shut down the campus in 1968, 1970 and 1972, and when I enrolled in 1974, both my class and the one ahead of me had large contingents of Orthodox Jews. At the time it seemed that the college was seeking to stop the violent radicalism by taking