he other thing they care about is money - your money. Every university is dependent on alumni fundraising, and they know that negative information about the school undermines alumni donations. Columbia is currently making a big push to increase their alumni donation rate, so they are very sensitive in this regard. What they hate most of all is for the development office to get a letter that reads: "Dear Sir or Madam: I have donated $10,000 a year to Columbia every year for the last twenty years. But as I have seen your left-wing lunacy get out of hand lately, I shall postpone future donations until I see the situation improve."
If you want to help us, the single best thing you can do, after sending us your e-mail address, is to send Columbia such a letter. See the bottom of this page for the appropriate addresses.
What are we demanding? Only fairness. The liberal establishment has grown so drunk on its own power and absolute intellectual self-assurance that it can't even see its own bias anymore. Click here for our list of ten demands. Unlike the academic Left, we acknowledge our opponents' right to be heard on campus, and we are not demanding a university monolithically dedicated to our ideas the way they insist on one monolithically dedicated to theirs. We are the ones on the side of authentic democracy.So please send us your e-mail address so that we can notify you when it is time to mount letter campaigns. Ours is columbiacons@hotmail.com. The more supporters we can mobilize, the more effect we can have, so tell any conservatives you remember from your Columbia days to look us up and get in touch.Second, if you have any particular influence or position in a media outlet, goverment funding agency, or charitable foundation, let us know.Third, if you are a current Columbia student or faculty member with a political grievance we should know about, please contact us.And your donations are essential. The simple fact is that politics costs money and the opposition has virtually the entire university budget at their disposal. Fortunately, since most of their ideas cannot withstand the slightest conservative critique, we can fight them to an ideological standstill while being out-spent a thousand to one. But you know this is not enough: we need to win. So we help sponsor conservative activities, such as speakers and the distribution of conservative literature on campus; many of these activities would not occur without us. The administrators to write to are below; remember that a paper letter attracts more notice than an e-mail and if you can get conservative friends or a person of importance to write, all the better.And do not lose heart. The academic Left has become so viciously absurd that the tide is turning against them in American culture, and we strongly suspect that at the end of the day, they know it.
President
Lee Bollinger
Low Library
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
bollinger@columbia.edu | Executive Vice-President for Administration
Emily Lloyd
Low Library
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
el101@columbia.edu |
Vice-President for Public Affairs
Alan Stone
Low Library
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
as461@columbia.edu | V.P for Development & Alumni Relations
Laurence J. Guido
Box 400
Central Mail Room
New York, NY 10115
ljg24@columbia.edu |
