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Revision as of 12:36, 23 April 2008
Nobody's really sure what the Committee on Global Thought does. It was created on December 14, 2005 and seems to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Orhan Pamuk, in the limelight. It is, however, well-funded and its events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent.
Fun Fact: the group came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally."
The name is a ripoff of the University of Chicago's much older and more intellectually rigorous Committee on Social Thought, which actually awards its own PhDs.
