Idiots on Parade: Columbia University Alumni Prove That 'Educated' Doesn't Mean 'Smart'
The current issue of "Columbia - The Magazine of Columbia University" proves beyond doubt that just because a person completes his or her education from the once prestigious Ivy League school doesn't make the individual smart.
In the magazine's Letters sections, more than 1/2 dozen alumni comment on an interview the magazine conducted with University President Lee C. Bollinger, in which Bollinger discusses his controversial invitation to campus and introduction of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A-Jad befouled Columbia last September 24, 2007.
Most of the alumni were critical of Bollinger. But not for the obvious reason, i.e. allowing a blood-stained, gay-hating, women-stoning, anti-American, genocidal maniac a global platform from which to spew evil.
No, these 'educated' alumni think dear old "Stinky" -- as we've come to call Bollinger -- was too tough in his introductory remarks of the worst living head-of-state since Adolph himself.
"President Bollinger's remarks at the appearance of President Ahmadinejad are an embarrassment to the University," believes W.L. Williamson '49 of Madison, WI. Adds J. Pierre Kolisch '39 of Portland, OR, "A speaker of Bollinger's experience knows that 'very sharp' is a deceptive characterization of his deliberately critical introduction of Ahmadinejad."
So here is the clear message for other University administrators and faculty members who think they can advance their own prestige by inviting hate mongers to campus: Don't.
Everyone believes in free speech. But no one MUST lend their institutional credibility to enable the likes of Ahmadinejad to advance their own agendas. If you invite a tyrant to your campus, you will be hated from all sides. As Lee Bollinger has discovered and well deserves.
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