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"Barack Obama ’83, My Columbia College Roommate"
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Columbia College Today, January/ February 2009, Alumni Corner, "Barack Obama ’83, My Columbia College Roommate". Photo caption: Obama and Boerner snapped photos of each other when they were roommates on West 109th Street. Inset: Boerner today. PHOTOS: OBAMA AND BOERNER IN APARTMENT, COURTESY PHIL BOERNER ’84; BOERNER TODAY: PERN BECKMAN ’84
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I was Barack Obama ’83’s roommate at Columbia College in fall 1981. I met him in 1979, when we were freshmen at Occidental College (Oxy) in Los Angeles and our dorm rooms were directly opposite each other. […] The crowd we hung out with included men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics and international students. […] We both transferred from Oxy to Columbia in fall 1981. Barack had found an apartment on West 109th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, and suggested that I room with him. Our sublet was a third-story walk-up in a so-so neighborhood; the unit next door was burned out and vacant. […] After that first semester, we had to move. […] Since I last saw him in 1985, we have exchanged a few letters and photos. […] my six years of knowing him in college and the years immediately after […]