https://www.wikicu.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=PkaynycWikiCU - User contributions [en]2026-04-18T20:26:48ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.8https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Langston_Hughes&diff=39489Langston Hughes2012-10-22T04:08:04Z<p>Pkaynyc: The institutional racism is well documented not his trouble with problem sets. The poem was written 30 years later and is about a City College student not Columbia.</p>
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<div>[[Image:LangstonHughes.jpg|thumb|200px|Langston Hughes]]<br />
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'''Langston Hughes''' is a famous [[w:Harlem Renaissance|Harlem Renaissance]] poet who attended the School of Mines (now [[SEAS]]) at the urging of his father, an engineer, for the [[1921]]-[[1922]] year, during which he lived in [[Hartley Hall]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 6]</ref>. He dropped out, though the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions|admissions department]] likes to tout him as an alum.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/ Undergraduate Admissions - Intro to Columbia]</ref> His departure may have had something to do with institutional racism.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
*[http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/langston_hughes.html C250 Columbians Ahead of their Time - Langston Hughes]<br />
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