New York City Mayor Eric Adams has asked Columbia University to publish the 2009 admission records of mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani after leaked documents indicated the candidate identified himself as both "Asian" and "African American" on his application. Adams called the alleged misrepresentation "deeply offensive" and said it could have deprived another student of a place at the Ivy League school. Mamdani, a 33-year-old Ugandan-born Democratic Socialist assembly member, told the New York Times he selected multiple categories because neither label alone captured his background; Columbia ultimately rejected the application and he was not yet a U.S. citizen at the time. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a long-time professor of African studies at the university. The records surfaced after a hack that compromised data on more than two million Columbia affiliates. Adams' campaign wants the university to investigate whether Mamdani violated policy and to clarify whether his non-citizen status influenced the admissions decision. The controversy erupts as Mamdani leads the November mayoral field. An American Pulse survey released Thursday showed him with 35% support, followed by former Governor Andrew Cuomo at 29%, Republican Curtis Sliwa at 16% and Adams, running as an independent, at 14%.