barack was always very self-confident. he was fun to be around and easygoing and a good conversationalist. >> it turned out that i really liked to read and i liked to argue politics with my professors, and i really, sort of like a sponge, started soaking up a lot of information and spent the first two years there sort of rediscovering what was important to me, and was active in a lot of campus activism. >> there were student groups that were trying to get the college to divest from investing in south africa, and there was a rally in front of where the board was meeting the trustees, and barack was the first speaker at that rally. >> i want to bring attention to occidental's investment in south