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radio okay here we are hour three thanks for listening 88. 888-914-9. I'm going to come to your

phone calls here in just a minute. First, I want to share with you a breaking story. There's so many

breaking stories. This one is about college rankings. And this is taken from CNN. College

Rankings Whistleblower, exposing inaccurate data was unpleasant but necessary.

The scandal engulfing Columbia University and U.S. News and World Report rose to a new level when Columbia acknowledged

that some of the figures it had submitted last year to U.S. news were inaccurate.

U.S. News and World Report initially removed

Columbia from its college rankings entirely, then demoted it from second place to 18th place

after Columbia declined to submit this year's ranking survey. The article that first exposed

Colombia's misrepresentation was written not by a disgruntled rival, but by a

tenured professor in Columbia's own math department. Many people must have scratched their heads and

wondered, why did he do it? I am the Columbia math professor in question, writes the person who's

writing this article. And I would be the first to admit that what I did was both unusual and

unpleasant. I began looking into the

matter because my suspicions were piqued by Columbia's dubious claim to U.S. news that 83%

of its undergraduate classes enrolled under 20 students. I assumed that Columbia would address

the questions I raised promptly and forthrightly. I never guessed that this response would be so slow and clumsy, causing the scandal to drag on

for months.

While the short-term damage to Columbia's reputation has been painful to witness, I am convinced

that it was necessary for me to speak out.

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