It wasn’t too long ago that Columbia University, like pretty much every school in the country, shut down in-person classes because of COVID.
In fact, when Columbia’s current class of seniors began attending the school as freshmen four years ago, they had to log in to virtual classes — for their entire freshmen year. Supposedly, this was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Extreme times require extreme measures, those students were told. Never mind that those measures were pointless and did far more harm than go …