Society of Columbia University Graduates

Last night, myself, Erin, Editorial Page Editor Oriana Magnera, Managing Editor Amanda Erickson, and Alumni Director Amanda Murphy traveled down to midtown to speak before the Society of Columbia Graduates at the Columbia Club (which, sadly, rents out space from the Princeton Club ).
The purpose of the event was to "highlight current issues on Campus and on Morningside ... without the filtering that takes place by the time we read about them in the New York Times," according to event coordinator Michael Garrett, CC '65.
The conversation centered around the usual subjects--Manhattanville and Minutemen--but the main thrust of the conversation actually came from the alumni reliving their glory days as anti-war protesters and decrying last week's anti-war strike. "Three hundred protestor?" they scoffed. "Why, in our day we had 3,000, in the snow. And we didn't have these newfangled copy machines for our fliers--we had to mimeograph them. Barefoot. In the snow. Insert old-geezer quote here."
Kidding aside, though, they basically called this new crop of student activists pansies. Also on the minds of alumni: changes to the core (it's nice to know that some things never change) and the use of four-letter words in print (nice to know that some things do, as well).