E-mail #14 - Sent February 18th, 2008
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008/
Dear Seniors,
It's time to take out your calendars and mark off some dates. This
Thursday (2/21) is the second Lerner Pub of the semester. This Sunday
(2/24), join me and CCSC08 for dinner. Come to our council meeting
(which will be catered by Saigon Grill), ask us your questions about
graduation, Senior Week, upcoming events, school policy, or give us
any suggestions and feedback that you may have. And finally, Winter
Gala, the annual senior formal, is March 5th. The theme is black and
gold masquerade, so get excited.
For events later in the semester, visit our class website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008/
Also, this is the absolute last week for Senior Portraits! Don't
forget to sign up!
Finally, don't miss the historical launch of Consilience: The Journal
of Sustainable Development. Consilience was started by a group of
students at Columbia who wanted to create a space for
interdisciplinary discussion of issues related to sustainable
development. After a year of hard work, the first issue has just been
released online at www.consiliencejournal.org this week! Come to the
launch event tomorrow (Monday) at 7:30pm in Low Rotunda featuring
keynote speaker Jeffrey Sachs and journal advisor Joshua Graff Zivin.
There will be refreshments provided.
There are many other wonderful events happening on campus this week.
Look below for more information. Have a great week.
Best,
Neda
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SENIOR EVENTS:
1. Lerner Pub
2. Have Dinner with CCSC08
3. Senior Portraits
4. Senior Fund has gifts for YOU
5. CLASS RINGS
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OTHER EVENTS:
6. Consilience Launch
7. Relay For Life
8. Women's Ways Of Leading
9. Forte Foundation Event
10. got SeOUL?
11. First Annual OLAS Latin American Film Festival
12. *A Discussion with Former CBS Radio President, Nancy Widmann*
13. Columbia New Poetry
14. Kick off our Series on Small HIV/AIDS NGOs in New York
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1. Lerner Pub Numero Dos
Lerner Party Space
Thursday (2/21)
10pm-midnight
2 IDs to drink
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2. Dinner with CCSC08
Sunday (2/24) at 7pm
Satow Room in Lerner
Come to our weekly meeting, ask us questions, give us feedback, or
just eat with us. Catered by Saigon Grill!
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3. Senior Portraits
Reminder to get your senior portrait. The final photo session is this
week. Please sign up for times at www.cwsouryear.com School Code:
87186, with a Sitting Fee: $5.00 [payable at the photo session].
If you have any other questions email yearbook200@columbia.edu or
check out the website at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/yearbook/Senior.html. This is your last
chance for senior portraits and to be in the yearbook!
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4. Senior Fund has Gifts for YOU!
Have you donated to the Senior Fund? Are you still waiting for the
Thank You gift that you qualified for? Come to Lerner this Wednesday
(2/20) and look for us tabling on the ramps with your gifts! We will
be there between noon and 3pm.
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5. Class Rings
They will be in the bookstore February 28th and 29th, and March 3rd
(Thursday, Friday, Monday), from 12pm - 6pm. Get one!
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6. The Launch of Consilience
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development was started by a
group of students at Columbia who wanted to create a space for
interdisciplinary discussion of issues related to sustainable
development. After a year of hard work, the first issue has just been
released online at www.consiliencejournal.org this week! The concept
of consilience comes from E.O. Wilson's book Consilience: The Unity of
Knowledge and the foreword to the first issue of Consilience: The
Journal of Sustainable Development was written by none other than E.O.
Wilson himself!
We invite you to our launch event celebrating the first issue on
Monday, Feb. 18th at 7:30 [Doors will open at 7:00] in Low Rotunda
featuring keynote speaker Jeffrey Sachs and journal advisor Joshua
Graff Zivin. There will be refreshments provided.
The Editorial Board is pleased to invite you to the launch event
in celebration of the inaugural issue of
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
February 18, 2008
7:30 PM
Doors open at 7:00 PM
Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University
We are honored to present the following distinguished speakers:
Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet
Professor of Sustainable Development, and Special Advisor to United
Nations Secretary-General.
And Dr. Joshua Graff Zivin, Associate Professor of Health Policy and
Management, Director of the Sustainable Development PhD Program at
Columbia University, and Journal Adviser for Consilience.
Seating is limited. RSVP to Betsy Ness-Edelstein at betsy@ei.columbia.edu
Please visit www.consiliencejournal.org for more information. The
journal is now officially published online!
con·sil·ience(noun): The joining together of knowledge and information
across disciplines to create a unified framework of understanding.
Consilience is a global, online publication dedicated to promoting
interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. This
publication aims to bring students, researchers, professors, and
practitioners from a variety of disciplines and regions in direct
conversation with each other through an online, academically rigorous
medium.
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7. Relay for Life
Join the Columbia community on April 12th 2008 for Columbia's 5th
Annual Relay for Life.
Following this year's slogan, "Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back," we
invite you to join together with students, faculty, staff, and friends
on Low Plaza in a 15-hour walk-a-thon in a pledge to raise money and
awareness for this important cause. This year's theme will be
Monopoly. Sign-up individually, or with a team and walk for a cure.
If you cannot attend, you can still donate to the cause, or light a
Luminaria in honor or memory of someone you know that's been affected
by cancer.
Register today at http://events.cancer.org/RFLcolumbiauniversityNY
For more information on how you can join the fight against cancer,
visit Columbia's Relay for Life website at www.columbia.edu/cu/cac or
e-mail us at columbia.relay@gmail.com
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8. Women's Ways of Leading
The 8th Annual Women's Ways of Leading Conference
Evolving Identities: A Day of Connection, Encouragement & Empowerment
Saturday, March 8th, 10am-5pm (Registration begins at 9am)
569 Lerner Hall
Submit your application today! Visit www.womenswaysofleading.info or
download the application attached.
Interested in exploring your leadership? Want to connect to women on
campus? Join us for a fun-filled day of connection, encouragement, and
empowerment. This year's committee is hard at work creating dynamic
workshops that will help you explore the many different facets of
being a woman leader. (Re) discover some of your many strengths and
talents! Learn effective strategies for combating leadership pitfalls!
Meet alumni on diverse career paths! Submit your application today!
The deadline is Wednesday, February 20th at 5pm.
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9. Forte Foundation
If you are an undergraduate woman interested in a career in business...
Storm the "bored" room and put your mark on the next generation of
business innovation!
If picturing a career in finance or accounting bores you to tears,
consider this eye-opening fact: the language of business now drives
success in EVERY industry including the arts, public service, media
and entertainment, publishing and even in not-for-profit enterprises.
Come explore how business knowledge can enhance your academic
background, professional ambitions, and social or service interests,
and help you segue into an exciting and opportunity-rich career.
Through Career Lab's industry panels, networking sessions, and
interactive workshops, accomplished women from Forté Foundation
sponsor companies and schools reveal the new world of business and
help you envision your role in it. Regardless of major, all
undergraduate women with an interest in business will benefit from
their insights. Click here to learn more about the scheduled
presenters. Register at www.fortefoundation.org. Includes drawing
for a Sephora gift certificate for women who register in advance and
attend the event!!!
Columbia's Career Lab: Monday, February 18th.
1125 Amsterdam Avenue (115th and Amsterdam Ave)
New York, NY 10025 (Map)
Room: Feldberg Space
4:30pm.
Event cohosted by Columbia Womens Business Society and the Womens
International Business Council.
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10. got SeOUL?
KSA, BSO, & SOL are proud to introduce a bigger and better version of
the annual SeOUL Food event!
"Got SeOUL?" is comprised of two back-to-back events on February 20th
and 21st so mark your calendars and get pumped!!!
--sponsored by the Kraft Fund--
**LA Riots Retrospective**
Wednesday, February 20th
Lerner 569 7-9pm
Korean film director, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, is returning to campus to
show her ground-breaking documentary on the 1992 LA Riots. Join us for
a screening of "Sa-I-Gu" and "Wet Sands", Q&A session, and a
roundtable discussion with the attendants and a panel of CU students
who grew up in LA and experienced the riots.
**SeOUL Food**
Thursday, February 21st
Lerner 555 7-9:30pm
We're making our much-anticipated annual event EVEN MORE AWESOME this
year….FREE ADMISSION!!! Come and try something new at our
multi-cultural buffet, meet new people to win sweet prizes, and cheer
on fellow Columbians as they show what they've got for our performance
showcase!! Performers include Sabor, the KSA Band, spoken word
artists, and many other SURPRISE guests!!!!
SEE YOU THERE!
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11. First Annual OLAS Latin American Film Festival
The Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS), in conjunction
with the Hispanic New York Project of the American Studies Program are
proud to present the First Annual OLAS Latin American Film Festival.
This festival strives to promote awareness of Latin American cultural
experiences through screenings of movies from various South American
countries. All admission is free and all movies are subtitled in
English.
Tocar y Luchar--Venezuela
Monday, February 18, 2008—Room 516, Hamilton—7:30pm-9:30pm
On February 16, 2008 Tocar y Luchar will be presented in Hamilton
Hall. This moving documentary narrates the true story of a youth
orchestra composed of underprivileged children from marginalized
communities in Venezuela. In a touching and inspiring film, these
youths are brought together through the power of music. They learn to
play together at a level that exceeds that of many professional
orchestras while rising above their socio-economic situation. This
orchestra system has produced some of the most renowned musicians in
the world including world-class conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the
Berlin Philharmonic's youngest player Edicson Ruiz.
http://www.tocaryluchar.com/
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12. *A Discussion with Former CBS Radio President, Nancy Widmann*
Tuesday, February 19th | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Satow Room (Lerner Hall)
Are you interested in learning about careers in media from an industry
executive? Would you value the business and career advice of one of
the most sought after leaders in media?
If so, then the Multicultural Business Association cordially invites
you to attend a talk with Ms. Nancy Widmann, the former president of
CBS Radio. This is your opportunity to ask those sensitive, but
crucial, questions in a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere with one of
the foremost and experienced minds leaders in media today.
Please visit Ms. Widdman's website http://www.nancywidmann.com/ for
more information.
Business casual attire
Refreshments will be provided
Please RSVP to mba.columbia@gmail.com
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13. Columbia New Poetry is a student organization dedicated to new,
thought-provoking writing. In addition to weekly meetings & monthly
events, we sponsor a New York poetry events calendar on our Web site.
This semester, we are gathering work for our first experimental poetry
journal.
Attempt poetry, short prose, new media, or visual composition as
you've never written it. Shun the publishable. Squeeze the last
drops of new out of your work. Fail better! Our journal seeks to
collect the most adventurous & ambitious writing at Columbia…
…much of which has yet to be written. Writers of all stripes, send
new work to newpoetry@gmail.com 'til March 17, 2008.
To learn more about Columbia New Poetry & the forthcoming journal,
visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/newpoetry
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14. Kick off our Series on Small HIV/AIDS NGOs in New York
Global Justice/Student Global AIDS Campaign
Dinner-and-Discussion with
James Learned of CHAMP
CHAMP is the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (www.champnetwork.org)
Learn about a small NGO that is working on the cutting edge of
policy and advocacy, addressing the realities of the HIV epidemic and
building an activist network across the country!
James Learned will discuss CHAMP's campaigns including the
Prevention Justice, Find the Condoms in Your [High] School and
Solidarity Network Campaigns, as well as CHAMP's work on issues of
needle exchange, housing, and other critical factors in epidemic.
Join Global Justice as we kick off our series on small HIV/AIDS NGOs
in New York.
EARL HALL
7:30 PM
Tuesday, February 19th
RSVP to kjc2106@columbia.edu
James Learned's Bio:
James Learned is Manager of Operations and Programs of CHAMP.
Beginning with his involvement in ACT UP New York in the late '80s, he
is a long-time advocate for HIV treatment access and education. From
2000 through June 2005, James was Director of Treatment Education at
AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) where he
developed and implemented innovative forms of client-centered HIV and
hepatitis C education for consumers and service providers, creating
and training curricula on topics related to HIV disease, viral
hepatitis, and barriers to care. James expanded the demographics of
ACRIA's clients; in 2005, 86% of the clients were people of color and
45% were female. For over five years, he edited the quarterly
treatment publication ACRIA Update. James has written extensively
about HIV and viral hepatitis issues for community-based publications
and conducted trainings for people with HIV and/or viral hepatitis,
clinicians, and non-medical service providers. James co-founded the
Hepatitis C Action & Advocacy Coalition (HAAC), a national advocacy
group dedicated to ensuring accurate and honest information, providing
emotional support, and making medical care and treatment accessible to
people with hepatitis C. Previously, he worked with the underground
buyers' club, the People with AIDS Health Group, importing drugs from
other parts of the world that showed promise to treat opportunistic
infections and co-morbidities. Most of James' work has focused on the
needs of people of color, women, and substance users living with or at
risk for HIV.
--
Neda Navab
President, Columbia College Class of 2008
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