Note to CNN and Anderson Cooper: Don't send a member of the fourth estate to report on an epic snowstorm from the campus of a school famous for its riots.

Full disclosure: I graduated Barnard College in '05, and while there, wrote for the campus newspaper, The Columbia Spectator.

Columbia University prides itself in being in the city of New York; that's literally their slogan. Even if Morningside Heights is Manhattan lite, there are very real elements of New York…