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  2. Al Lerner - Wikipedia

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    Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lerner was the only son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. [2] His parents owned a small candy store and sandwich shop in Queens, New York.He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and then Columbia College, the liberal arts college at Columbia University, graduating in 1955. [1]

  3. J. Clifford Baxter - Wikipedia

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    Baxter was born in Amityville, New York, and graduated from New York University. After graduating, he served in the U.S. Air Force from 1980 to 1985 and rose to the rank of captain. After he was discharged from the military, he enrolled at Columbia University where he received an MBA degree two years later.

  4. Robert Nozick - Wikipedia

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    At one point, Nozick joined the Young People's Socialist League, and at Columbia University he founded the local chapter of the Student League for Industrial Democracy. He began to move away from socialist ideals when exposed to Friedrich Hayek 's The Constitution of Liberty , claiming he "was pulled into libertarianism reluctantly" when he ...

  5. History of Columbia University - Wikipedia

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    Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City, founded in 1754, prior to the American Revolution. The history of Columbia University began prior to its founding in 1754 in New York City as King's College, by royal charter of King George II of Great Britain.

  6. President of Columbia University - Wikipedia

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    At Columbia's midtown Manhattan campus (1857–1896), a house for the president was built in 1862 near the corner of 49th Street and Fourth Avenue (later Park Avenue), which served as the home of both Charles King and Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. It was the president's official residence until that campus' demolition in 1897.

  7. Kathy Boudin - Wikipedia

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    Boudin was named an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where she was the co-director and co-founder of the Center for Justice at Columbia University. [35] Her appointment was controversial due to her guilty plea to a felony murder charge and her past participation in a group which carried out terrorist attacks ...

  8. Columbia University - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia University Orchestra was founded by composer Edward MacDowell in 1896, and is the oldest continually operating university orchestra in the United States. Undergraduate student composers at Columbia may choose to become involved with Columbia New Music, which sponsors concerts of music written by undergraduate students from all of ...

  9. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun - Wikipedia

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    Carolyn Heilbrun (née Gold; January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies.