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Did you know... that the Alma Mater statue at
Columbia University was damaged by an explosion during student protests in 1970?
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Columbia does not have "three backup copies" of Alma Mater -- or even one, which is all it would need in any event. When I was a student there in the mid-1980s someone stole the end of Alma Mater's scepter, and Columbia did not have a copy of even that part of the statue to install as a replacement. The stolen piece was returned and reinstalled more securely. The university may have made a cast of it just in case it gets stolen again, but there is no way it could have made a cast of the entire sculture without people seeing them do it.
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Improved to Good Article status by
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Hi
Normsupon, review follows: article promoted to GA on 29 September; article is well written and cited inline to reliable sources throughout; I didn't find any issue with overly close paraphrasing in a spotcheck on sources; hooks are interesting and mentioned in the article, I can verify ALT0 and ALT1 to the sources cited and happy to AGF on ALT2; nominator looks to be QPQ exempt. Looks fine to me -
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