Mar 04 2008
Gravel wins!
Columbia University’s School of General Studies held their Annual Gala Saturday night and presented Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Gravel with the first annual Isaac Asimov Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Columbia alum and former U.S. senator to Alaska recalled his years at GS as a student of humble means. Gravel gathered the kids around while he regaled them with tales of working as a cab driver to make ends meet, living off French onion soup, and sharing a graduation cap and gown with a friend. (I think he left out the part about killing a vagrant man, it being a classy event and all).
Does anyone else get the feeling that Gravel was walking up and down the streets of New York, crazily talking to himself, and just stumbled upon this black-tie affair? The awards committee just made up an award to get him to stop yelling at the cheese spread. That’s what any respectable Ivy League university would do for a potential world leader.