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Next up in our continuing Senior Wisdom series: SEAS soon-to-be-graduate David Judd.

Name, School:
David Judd, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. (Which should still be called the School of Mines, clearly.)

Claim to fame:
Left-wing mujahid. (See here & here.)

Post-grad plans:
For now, a Java programming job in eastern Jersey. Maybe in a couple years, a computer science master's. Someday, the victory of socialism.

Preferred swim test stroke?
None! (See here.)

What are three things you learned at Columbia?
1. Fox News personnel have a curious obsession with male genitals.
2. There is no demonstration so innocuous that it will not be controversial at Columbia, nor is there any statement so shamelessly callous that some "liberal" Columbia student will not take proud ownership of it.
3. If you share the element of bitterness expressed in (2), it is a bad idea to let it slip out in a job interview. Honesty is important, but so is tact...


sfsCheck newsstands tomorrow, and you'll see something familiar: a shiny New York Magazine cover story digesting the last 40 years of crazy activism at Columbia, featuring glamour shots of David Judd, Chris Kulawik, Karina Garcia and a smattering of other rabblerousers. Take a seat, because it's a doozy, reaching back to the SDS protests of the 60s, racing through Minutemen, and parsing every protest and meeting since then for a larger point about College and the Left (it is New York Mag, after all).

Here are the takeaway points, in case you're too mired in papers to read the whole thing: Radical kids today don't have the energy of Mark Rudd & Co. Career-oriented Democrats don't have the energy of the radicals. Kulawik doesn't need energy, because he's got skillz. Columbia has historically been riven by identity politics--mostly around Israel-Palestine--but now the lines are starting to blur.

Well, now everyone else knows.

- LBD


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