Columbia Students Watch Presidential Summit With Passion

I have been to a Super Bowl, and even to one or two operas. I was at Invesco Field in Denver when Senator Obama accepted the Democratic nomination. Yet, I have never seen a large audience as quiet, rapt and intense as the young people at Columbia University watching the Presidential Summit last night. They are passionate about this election, but polite about other people's choices, which was amazing to see on a campus that was literally torn apart exactly forty years earlier during another national election.