Speakergate 2012
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the current President of Iran. Invitations for him to speak at the university during the annual autumn World Leaders Forum ignited controversy in both 2006 and 2007; a private dinner invitation the president extended to Columbia groups renewed the uproar in 2011. Ahmadinejad once again was the center of the campus dialogue as a conspiracy within the Columbia University College Republicans drew in both Bwog and The Spectator.
Sources
(1) http://bwog.com/2012/02/27/ahmadinejad-not-invited-to-campus-bwog-confirms/ (2) http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/26/college-republicans-look-invite-ahmadinejad-campus (3) http://bwog.com/2012/02/27/college-republicans-exec-board-addresses-media/ (4) http://bwog.com/2012/02/28/former-cucr-president-casts-even-more-doubt-on-ahmadinejad-invitation/ (5) http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/28/editors-note (6) http://bwog.com/2012/03/01/we-know-what-cucr-did-last-week/ (7) http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/03/01/two-cucr-board-members-resign-after-circumventing-board
