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6:29 am
Mon May 14, 2012
Columbia University Janitor Graduates With Honors
By editor
Originally published on Mon May 14, 2012 8:48 am
When Gac Filipaj fled war-torn Yugoslavia in 1992, he became a refugee in New York. He took a janitor's job at Columbia University because it included free tuition. But he first had to learn English. After a dozen years, he received a bachelor's degree in classics over the weekend.