Columbia University is an Ivy League college. It is not a member college of the State University of New York. Columbia University is located near Harlem.

"SUNY-Harlem" is a recent, disparaging nickname for Columbia.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=suny+harlem
suny harlem

As in State University of New York...another name for Columbia University, the New York Ivy.

SUNY Harlem's football program blows. But Princeton swallows.

by Giant Lemming Oct 24, 2004

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"SUNY-Harlem" for Columbia University

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Education 23 Feb 2005 by Yali Elkin
Anyway, the atmosphere at SUNY Harlem (my wife loves that) has become so charged with the animus that many professors bear against the usual suspects (the United States, capitalism and the Jews), that Jewish students are being harassed, ...
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... Ali Lemer Student of Not Much "SUNY Harlem" Phil Nicholls Department of Anthropology SUNY Albany -- /"" Ali Lemer * Greg * | / ~~ ...
alt.fan.lemurs - Sep 11 1993, 6:08 pm by Ali Lemer - 7 messages - 6 authors

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... center, "Bigfoot's Sister!!" - To Columbia, "SUNY-Harlem!!" ; to Cornell, "SUNY-Ithaca" & "SUNY-JUCO" (more surreally: to Harvard, "SUNY-Boston!") - To ...
rec.sport.basketball.college - Mar 5 1995, 12:28 am by Zarathustra - 6 messages - 6 authors

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... Which explains quite a bit. Jim Kazonosky -- a. ka Jim Kazo-i don't know shit. A janitor at SUNY-Harlem (Columbia University), Jim is a Rangers fan. ...
alt.sports.hockey.nhl.phila-flyers - Apr 3 2001, 5:12 am by Dr-G0NZ0 - 30 messages - 12 authors

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