COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK -- It seems appropriate that on the seventh anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, both presidential candidates are here in New York, at a university, calling upon the need for national service.

As an entering college freshman, I was ready for that call after September...

Leading up to today's event, which I attended, I kept hearing and reading that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a "controversial" figure. But controversy implies a dispute, and there seems to be a unanimous consensus on campus that the Iranian president is repugnant, and his world views reprehensible.

For...