Article from 2009 written by the guy (Phil Boerner) who took the photo of Obama with the guy on the couch.

https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/jan_feb09/alumni_corner

Strikes me as odd because what this guy says flies in the face of everything I had read about Obama being an unknown at Columbia. I'm talking about the reports from Wayne Root and Prof Graf who should have known Obama (same year and major/ pol/sci prof) but don't remember him.

According to this article Obama was on the campus a lot and had a lot of visitors while in NYC.

Not adding up, to me, because nothing of that sort came up from what I recall. This article should have been corroborated by a lot of people and Root/Graf debunked by those people.