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Article: The Federalist Paper. (conservative student publication at Columbia University)
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- February 13, 1987
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THE FEDERALIST PAPER
YOU CAN STILL get a good educationat Columbia--yes, and Soviet fishing trawlers still do fish. Nonetheless, in that maison toleree of academic leftism, where political truth is found torso-murdered daily, one student publication had a shocking headline--DIVEST NOW FROM THE USSR. This at Columbia, where all right-brain functions are lobotomized during freshman week: first major university to divest from South Africa. They call that one student publication The Federalist Paper (after Columbia alumni Hamilton and Jay) and Vol. I, No. 1 came out last October. Came out written in elegant, witty, temperate diction, with a fine sense of place ...