Maybe it was the uniforms that tipped her off: Idris Leppla, a senior at Columbia, has discovered something shocking — the Naval Academy is part of the United States Navy. In a hard hitting expose in the Columbia Spectator, the college senior recounts learning this when her brother decided to attend said Academy, located in Annapolis, Maryland. It has since been revealed that the US Military Academy at West Point is affiliated with the US Army, and the US Air Force Academy has something to do with the Air Force though what that is exactly remains to be discovered. Ms. Leppla, who claims that total strangers say "Wow, you must be smart" when they learn she attends Columbia, has issued a warning to anyone thinking about applying to these institutions that they are in fact military organizations. I'm glad this information is being disseminated to an unwary public, especially to young people not quite as gifted as Ms. Leppla.