18683.html 770 56634 7660 3605 6026632646 5635 Press Release: Columbia to Host Mid-East Environmentalists 
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Anne Canty, Director of Communications
Media Advisory

Columbia to Host Mid-East Environmentalists

Environmentalists from the Middle East--all members of the newly formed group EcoPeace--will come to Columbia University on Tuesday, June 27th, to participate in a public forum "Peace and the Environment: the Challenges Facing Sustainable Development in the Middle East."

EcoPeace is a consortium of Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmental non-governmental organizations. Members are currently touring the United States and will be in New York City for six days, beginning today, Friday, June 23rd. The group was formed in late 1994 with the objective of furthering peace and integrating environmental considerations into the regional development agenda.

The Columbia forum, which will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 PM in Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Research Center will be moderated by Dr. George Gruen of Columbia's Middle East Institute. Tuesday's forum is one of several scheduled for New York City. While in New York, the group will also be meeting with United Nations officials.

The following EcoPeace representatives will visit New York City:

Members of the EcoPeace delegation will be available for interviews throughout their time in New York.

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18684.html 775 56634 7660 12242 6026632637 5660 Press Release: Columbia Center to Develop New Ways to Deliver Digital Information 

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Anne Canty, Director of Communications
For Immediate Release

Columbia Center to Develop New Ways to Deliver Digital Information

Columbia University's Center for Research on Information Access will develop new, imaginative ways to deliver digital information that will ultimately aid the average computer user. The new Center will guide multi-disciplinary research on digital libraries, with a specific focus on incorporating new technologies into existing architectures.

Initially funded through the Provost's Investment Fund and the Strategic Initiative Fund, the Center was announced by Elaine Sloan, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian and Vice Provost Michael Crow. Judith Klavans, a researcher in computer science and linguistics, is its first director.

"The Internet and digital technology have dramatically expanded the nature and amount of information available to scholars and the public, but the development of creative tools for reaching the information has not kept pace," said Dr. Sloan. "CRIA will serve as both a research arm of the University and a mechanism to ensure that Columbia's library system retains its world-class position as it incorporates new information technologies."

Dr. Crow, who played a key role in conceptualizing the Center, said: "Multidisciplinary projects, especially ones that focus on emerging technologies, will figure significantly not only in the future of the University, but in the University of the future. Digital technology has revolutionized the way we see, think and interact with information. The new center will establish Columbia as a leader in the digital information movement."

The Center will build on the foundation established by Project Janus, Columbia's prototype digital library. Developed at the University's Law Library over four years ago, Janus will be enhanced to handle many different types of data including text, images, audio, video and quantitative data. Research associated with the center will focus on creating applications that accommodate existing server architecture and developing new presentation software -- literally what the computer system shows to the user. CRIA will work with departments and schools planning major projects using digital data; it will aim to develop systems that are fully modular and have many applications.

The Center already plans to undertake several projects to make information more widely available to users. Researchers will collaborate with a medical informatics project at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center to allow patients to gather and understand information about their ailments. They also hope to digitally preserve 7,500 hours of oral history tapes made of Yiddish speakers in the 1940s. These projects demonstrate the need to create tools that allow ordinary users access to new information technologies.

"Integration and cooperation between researchers is essential to the success of the cyber-library of the future. By drawing on the exceptionally strong faculty at Columbia, teams can be formed to push forward and develop advanced technologies," said Dr. Klavans. "The ultimate goal of our research is to make information widely available at low cost to all people, making use of advanced, efficient and accessible systems."

The Center will devote much of its research to the development of digital libraries. "The library of the future," said Klavans, "must serve the entire spectrum of library users, from elementary and secondary students to university scholars, from the general reading public with limited technical expertise to the technical specialist, providing seamless access to all fields of knowledge," said Dr. Klavans. "It must provide users with easy electronic access to the complete range of books, articles, films, sound recordings and other media currently housed in physical library settings. And it must give users the ability to access vast amounts of information in a cohesive and comprehensive form."

In addition to directing the new center, Klavans is a senior research scientist in Columbia's Department of Computer Science. She came to Columbia two years ago, after nearly 10 years at IBM's Watson Research Center and three years conducting research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Klavans received her B.A. from Oberlin College in 1968. In 1972 she was granted the M.Ed. from Boston University and in 1980 received the Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of London. In her research at M.I.T., she used a computational model to test the theoretical hypotheses proposed in her dissertation, which has recently been published in the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Book Series. Klavans has authored one book, with another in progress, and approximately 30 scholarly articles. She has lectured nationally and internationally on theoretical and computational linguistics.

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Columbia Center to Develop New Ways to Deliver Digital Information

Columbia University's Center for Research on Information Acces18686.html 775 56634 7660 16246 6026632663 5671 Press Release: New Study Claims Special Minority Voting Districts Are Ineffective 

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Note to editors: Professor Epstein can be reached by phone at (212) 854-7566, or by e-mail at de11@columbia.edu.

New Study Claims Special Minority Voting Districts Are Ineffective

Special voting districts created to increase minority representation in Congress do not achieve their goals outside the South and do so inefficiently within the South, a Columbia University study has found.

Political scientists Charles Cameron, David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran have found that federal rules requiring that minority voters constitute a majority in such districts can diminish minority influence in Congress rather than strengthen it. Such a result is possible, they find, because increases in minority voter registrations in one special district may be more than offset by losses in surrounding districts from which minority voters are taken.

The U. S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this week on the constitutionality of special Congressional districts in Louisiana and Georgia.

The researchers, who created a statistical model to assess how well the votes of members of Congress reflect their constituents' desires, say the redistricting plans dilute minority voting strength because the Justice Department arbitrarily requires minority districts to have as many as 65 percent minority voters. Their paper, published by the Center for the Social Sciences at Columbia, asks: "Do majority-minority districts maximize black representation in Congress?" Is it better, they ask, for minorities to wield a modest amount of influence in many districts, or substantial influence in only a few? Do minority voters influence the votes of non-minority representatives, or must minority members of Congress be elected to advance minority interests?

The answer differs by region. Outside the South, where Democrats generally support minority positions, distributing minorities evenly across districts would maximize representation of the minority agenda, according to Professor Epstein, though the Justice Department has never sought such a remedy. Special districts harm that agenda by concentrating minority voters and allowing districts adjoining the special districts to elect Republicans. As many as five Congressional districts changed from Democratic to Republican hands in the 1994 midterm elections because of special districting, Professor Epstein estimates.

In the South, the gap between black and non-black Democrats on minority issues is far greater than elsewhere, so race-neutral schemes do not work as well, and minority districts are more effective.

But if they had to select one districting strategy for the nation as a whole, the authors would abandon minority voting districts. "In the face of a national Republican tide, optimal districting schemes will concentrate minority voters less, rather than more," the authors conclude. Although such a strategy also slightly increases the number of southern Republicans elected, it promises minorities the greatest possible substantive representation in Congress, the authors say, without regard to the race of the representatives elected.

Current districting schemes in the South concentrate minorities too heavily, resulting in "over-gerrymandering," Professor Epstein said. Spreading minorities into districts with as few as 45 to 47 percent minority voters would allow even greater representation than now, the authors say. Minority candidates have a substantial chance of being elected from districts with fewer than 50 percent minority voters, they write. Southern districts with as little as 40 percent black voting-age population have a 50-50 chance of electing a black representative, they find.

To answer the question of which scheme best serves minority representation, the political scientists developed a methodology that analyzed roll call votes by every member of the 103rd Congress, relating them to minority constituents' interests as measured by two voting indexes. They were the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights index, compiled from 14 votes considered important to minority interests, including motor voter registration, gun control and gays in the military, and a modified Congressional Quarterly index of 27 key votes for the 103rd Congress.

The authors also coded representatives by race and political party, into the categories Republican, Black Democrat or Non-Black Democrat. (The 103rd Congress had 38 black members, of whom all but one were Democrats.) They then examined the relation between a legislator's voting and patterns of the percentage of minority voters in their district. This allowed the Columbia researchers to calculate the districting strategies that maximize votes in favor of minority-sponsored legislation.

Importantly, said Professor Epstein, these strategies are different from strategies that would maximize the number of minority representatives. The authors single out Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina as states whose current district boundaries under-represent minority interests.

In the case argued before the Supreme Court this year, U.S. v. Hays, the plaintiffs assert that districts drawn to insure that minority voters are a majority violate the rights of non-minority voters under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause. They argue that the government must treat citizens as individuals, not as members of a racial or sexual class. Civil rights groups say the Supreme Court has in the past allowed the use of race as a factor in drawing electoral districts, so long as it is not done for the sole purpose of segregating voters.

Before states were compelled by the Voting Rights Act to construct such districts, no Southern state had sent a black to Congress since 1901. The first black representatives from majority-minority districts were both elected in 1972: Barbara Jordan from Texas and Andrew Young from Georgia.

The Act, signed into law 30 years ago on Aug. 5, 1965 and strengthened in 1975 and again in 1982, provides that racial minorities shall not have "less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice."

The question of whether minority voting districts might be unconstitutional was first raised by the Supreme Court in 1993, when in Shaw v. Reno it ruled that North Carolina's 12th Congressional District--which snakes 160 miles along Interstate 85--had a bizarre shape and might create an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The court remanded the case to a federal district court, which upheld the district on the basis that it united urban interests as well as racial minorities.

Professors Cameron and Epstein are assistant professors of political science at Columbia. Professor O'Halloran is assistant professor of international and public affairs at the University.

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Note to editors: Professor Epstein can be reached by phone at (212) 854-7566, or by e-mail at de11@columbia.edu.

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Weisgall to Receive Columbia's Schuman Award

Hugo Weisgall, the opera composer, has been named by Columbia University to receive the William Schuman Award, a $50,000 prize for music composition, the University has announced.

Dr. Weisgall, 82, a world-renowned composer, is the fifth recipient of the Schuman Award, which honors "the lifetime achievement of an American composer whose works have been widely performed and generally acknowledged to be of lasting significance." Named for the celebrated American composer, the award was established in 1981 through a gift to Columbia from the Bydale Foundation. Dr. Schuman himself received the first award, followed in 1985 by David Diamond, in 1989 by Gunther Schuller, and in 1992 by Milton Babbitt.

Dr. Weisgall will formally receive the award at a performance of his opera Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Manhattan School of Music on December 6.

From his first major opera, The Tenor, in 1948, to nine others, including The Stronger, Purgatory, Athaliah and Nine Rivers from Jordan, Dr. Weisgall has explored the philosophical, social and moral dilemmas of the 20th century. Besides Pirandello, librettos for his operas are derived from Denis Johnson, Wedekind, Strindberg, Racine, Yeats, Mishima, Shakespeare and The Bible. In all his works, literary merit combine with attention to musical and dramatic detail. He also has composed four ballets and song cycles, including Soldier

Songs, A Garden Eastward, Fancies and Inventions, Translations and The Golden Peacock, and numerous vocal, choral and instrumental compositions, including works for orchestra.

Peter Smith, dean of the school, said: "It is very satisfying that an award given by Columbia University should go to so widely admired an American composer of opera, considering how its Music Department has helped to

champion this art form through its long and fruitful associations with Douglas Moore, Otto Luening and Jack Beeson. It is particularly pleasing to note that Six Characters in Search of an Author was commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund, which is also administered by the University. We know that giving the Schuman Award to so humane and generous a teacher as Dr. Weisgall honors the very role of composer-teacher exemplified through several generations at Columbia as well as the recipient himself."

Dr. Weisgall, who earned the Ph.D. in German literature from the Johns Hopkins University, is the recipient of numerous prizes and commissions, including three Guggenheim fellowships and appointment as composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. He is a member and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Born in Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1920 and studied at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and the Curtis Institute

in Philadelphia. Descended from four generations of cantors, including his father, he absorbed from an early age the musical traditions of the Jews of central Europe as well as the standard opera and song repertory.

In addition to composing, conducting and singing, he has been a teacher and administrator. He is a founder of the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore

and the founder of the Hilltop Opera Company. He directed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts and has taught at the Juilliard School of Music and Johns Hopkins. Since 1952, he has served as chairman of the faculty of the Cantors' Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and is distinguished professor emeritus of the City University of New York.

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18689.html 770 56634 7660 3620 6026632664 5640 Press Release: Columbia Leads in Newcombe Honors 

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Columbia Leads in Newcombe Honors

Six Columbia University graduate students have won coveted Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships, more than awarded to any other university.

The grants of $12,500 each were awarded to 40 students for the study of ethical or religious values and support a year of uninterrupted work. The students, their departments and their dissertation projects are:

  • Edwin F. Bryant of Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom; Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures; "In Defense of the Tradition: Mahabharata and Historicity."

  • Paul Edison of Salt Lake City, Utah; history; "Latinizing America: French Science and the Cultural Colonization of Mexico, 1857-1914."

  • Jennifer A. Greenfield of New York City; history; "In Search of the Social Bond: Political Economy and Bourgeois Ideology in 19th Century France."

  • Erik M. Heen of Jersey City, N.J.; religion; "Saturnalicius Princeps: The Enthronement of Jesus in Early Christian Discourse."

  • Jesse M. Lander of Bridgewater, Conn.; English and Comparative Literature; "Print, Polemic, and Popular Forms: Religion and Community in Early Modern England."

  • Laura B. O'Connor of Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland; English and Comparative Literature; "Celtic Resistance to Anglicization."

Bryant, Edison and Lander hold Columbia undergraduate degrees. The 40 winners were chosen from more than 500 applicants. Columbia's six led the University of Michigan with five and the John's Hopkins University with four.

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The Golden Peacock, and numerous vocal, choral and instrumental compositions, including works for orches18693.html 775 56634 7660 7742 6026632665 5652 Press Release: Pulitzer Prizes Debut On-Line on Columbia Journalism Review's Web Site 

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For use after July 10, 1995

Contacts:
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Pulitzer Prizes Debut On-Line on Columbia Journalism Review's Web Site

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today that it is launching its World Wide Web site and making available the 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning articles, photos, political cartoons and music on its site at http://www.cjr.org/ or directly to the Pulitzer site at http://www.pulitzer.org/.

"As an alternative to the clutter and commercialism on the Internet and in keeping with our mission of defining standards for our profession, we are offering examples of the world's best journalistic work to the general public. The full text of the articles, vivid color news photographs, audio samples of the music and in-depth information about the winners, the history of the prizes and the judging process are all included," said Suzanne Braun Levine, editor of CJR. "We are delighted that the Pulitzer Board and the winners have supported this effort so whole-heartedly."

Seymour Topping, administrator of The Pulitzer Prizes, said, "Since the Prizes were first given 79 years ago, all of the actual winning work has been available only to a handful of scholars and writers who were willing to come to Columbia to view the Pulitzer archive. Now everyone with access to the World Wide Web will be able to appreciate for themselves the quality of America's best efforts in journalism. We hope that the web site will become a continuing electronic archive for Pulitzer awards and information."

CJR, the nation's oldest media monitor founded in 1961, plans to continue developing its home page in the next few months to include adaptations of some of its existing editorial content, including the popular "darts and laurels" section, and to add other new features that will expand its role as the forum for discussion of journalistic issues.

The Center for New Media

The CJR home page represents the first major production of the Center for New Media, a working laboratory for journalists, filmmakers, engineers, educators and publishers to develop new forms of storytelling and multimedia products. The University is renovating its Journalism building to accommodate the Center, which will serve as a state-of-the-art digital facility.

Joan Konner, dean of the school and publisher of CJR, said, "The new service is a demonstration of convergence in two important ways: new media and high quality journalism; and the tradition of excellence in the school and its commitment to the future of journalism."

Recent Columbia journalism graduates Trisha Smith and Hilary MacGregor, who specialized in new media, and Andrew Lih, a 1994 Columbia graduate in computer science and engineering, have been working on the site for six weeks under the University's recently formed Center for New Media housed at the Graduate School of Journalism.

"Columbia University and the School of Journalism are committed to remaining at the forefront of the transformation of newsrooms into multimedia content centers and developing new media products," said Stephen D. Isaacs, associate dean for academic affairs.

Columbia has established the Center for New Media to pioneer newsgathering and multimedia production techniques as well as to focus the University's efforts in multimedia. The Pulitzer Prizes are made annually in 14 categories of journalism, and to authors in history, biography, fiction, non-fiction and poetry; and in music and drama.

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Anne Canty, Director of Communications
Media Advisory

New York City High School Students Debate at Columbia

High School-aged participants in Columbia University's rigorous academic program, Double Discovery, will showcase the debating skills they mastered this summer on Wednesday, August 2 at 1:30 PM at Altschul Auditorium, in the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. Teams of students will debate questions ranging from "Should New York City Police Officers Patrol Public Schools?" to "Does Rap Music Promote Violence and Disrespect Toward Women?" Columbia's President, George Rupp will start the debate competitions, which will be judged by a volunteer panel.

Columbia's Double Discovery Center, founded 30 years ago by students at Columbia College, offers year round academic programs for high school and junior high school students who attend New York City public schools. Double Discovery is aimed at low-income, first generation college bound students; 97% of the program's graduates are accepted to college.

Sixty-seven percent of the mostly African American and Latino students who attend Double Discovery graduate from college in four years. That's compared to a four-year graduation rate for of 48% for African Americans and a 44% rate for Latinos nationally.

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writers who were willing to come to Columbia to view the Pulitzer archive. Now everyone with access to the World Wide Web will be able to appreciate for themselves the quality of America's best efforts in journalism. We hope that the web site will become a continuing electronic archive for Pulitzer awards and informat18697.html 770 56634 7660 5661 6026632651 5642 Press Release: Konner Named Top Journalism Educator 

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For Use upon Receipt, Monday, August 7, 1995

Konner Named Top Journalism Educator

Dean Joan Konner of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism will receive the 1995 Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Educator Award Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Washington, D.C.

The award honors an educator who has made significant contributions to electronic journalism education and is presented by the Radio-Television Journalism Division of the Association. As dean and as a member of the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Ms. Konner has advocated electronic journalism programs that match the strength and values of newspaper and magazine programs in journalism schools.

An award-winning executive and producer for public television and NBC News before being named dean of the Graduate School of Journalism in 1988, Ms. Konner has won the most prestigious broadcasting prizes for her work, including 12 Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. As dean, she also serves as publisher of Columbia Journalism Review.

Before coming to Columbia, Ms. Konner was president, executive producer and partner with Bill Moyers in Public Affairs Television Inc., an independent production company, which produced all of Mr. Moyers' programs for public television, including "In Search of the Constitution," "God and Politics," "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis," and "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth."

Ms. Konner joined WNET in 1977 as executive producer for national public affairs programs. For three years she served as executive producer of "Bill Moyers' Journal." From 1981 to 1984 she was vice president, director of programming and executive producer for WNET's Metropolitan Division. Under her leadership the station earned 11 Emmys.

Before joining WNET, she was producer, writer and director for NBC News for 12 years, during which she produced documentaries on a wide range of issues, including American foreign policy, radioactive waste and marijuana use. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia's Journalism School, she began her journalism career as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for The Record of Hackensack, N.J.

As Journalism dean, she has been active on several committees of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and she spearheaded the establishment of a professional journalism education program at Charles University in Prague.

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te will become a continuing electronic archive for Pulitzer awards and informat18698.html 770 56634 7660 10040 6026632671 5650 Press Release: Columbia Receives NEH Grant to Preserve Rare Joseph Urban Archive 

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Columbia Receives NEH Grant to Preserve Rare Joseph Urban Archive

The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University has received a $220,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and catalog the archives of the modernist architect and theatrical designer Joseph Urban (1872-1933).

Donated to Columbia in 1955 by Urban's widow, the collection totals 15,000 items and includes architectural drawings, stage models, glass plate and acetate negatives, sketches, drawings and paintings, many in fragile condition, said Jean Ashton, library director.

During the 1920's and 1930's, Urban's name was synonymous with modern design. Born in Austria, he moved to the United States in 1911 to become art director of the Boston Opera. Equally skilled as an architect, set designer and interior designer, his work ranged from the exuberant art deco forms of the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City and the Ziegfeld Follies sets to the refined international style of the New School for Social Research and the Hearst International Magazine Building. Many of the decorative interiors he created between 1928 and 1933 became synonymous with New York night life of the period: the St. Regis Roof, the Central Park Casino and the Paradise Restaurant. At his death he had designed between 500 and 700 stage sets for at least 168 productions, many of which he also directed.

The Urban collection is among the most heavily used by researchers and scholars at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library.

"The deteriorating condition of the Urban materials is a source of great concern because it threatens future access," Dr. Ashton said. The two-year grant will allow the library to hire two full-time employees who will improve storage of the materials to protect against further deterioration, make minor repairs and identify items that will need major conservation work. "In the past conservation work has been limited to items loaned for exhibition and the borrowing institutions have paid for restoration or repair," said Dr. Ashton. "But the scope of the problem and the size of the collection demands more than scattershot attention."

In addition, the new staff will reorganize the collection to make it easier to use. "This will entail identifying the name and history of each architectural or design project and each theatrical production represented, determining which items within the collections belong to each project or production and establishing a record of the names and dates associated with each group to provide access points," Dr. Ashton said. "Researchers then will be able to locate all items needed from a single source, instead of having to move through a complicated series of folder and format-based lists, as is now the case."

Part of the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum collection, the Urban materials have been cited extensively in numerous books, including "Joseph Urban: Architecture, Theatre, Opera, Film" by Robert Reed Cole and Randolph Carter (New York: 1992) and "The Ziegfeld Touch: The Life and Times of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr." by Richard and Paulette Ziegfeld (New York: 1992). Brander

Matthews, author, critic and a Columbia English professor from 1891 to 1924, was an influential figure in the literary and theatrical New York and London.

Works from the collection have been loaned for exhibition at the Performing Arts Research Center, Lincoln Center, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of the City of New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Metropolitan Opera and the National Museum of American History. A major exhibition of architectural materials from the collection was mounted earlier this year at the Kunsthalle in Vienna.

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ich scheme best serves minority representation, the political scientists developed a methodology that analyzed roll call votes by every member of the 103rd Congress, relating them to minority constituents' interests as measured by two voting indexes. They were the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights index, compiled from 14 votes considered important to minority interests, including motor voter registration, gun control and gays in the military, and a modified Congressional 18700.html 770 56634 7660 7746 6026632643 5632 Press Release: Columbia's Harriman Institute Names New Director 

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Columbia's Harriman Institute Names New Director

Mark L. von Hagen, a historian of the Soviet period and a specialist on Russia and Ukraine, has been named director of The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, the University has announced.

The institute, based in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, is the country's oldest major university center for graduate study of the former Soviet Union and the Soviet successor states. Professor von Hagen succeeds Richard E. Ericson, director since 1992 and professor of economics at Columbia, who has returned to full-time teaching.

Professor von Hagen, who was the institute's associate director from 1989 to 1992, joined Columbia's faculty as assistant professor of history in 1985 and was promoted to associate professor in 1989. He received the Ph.D. and M.A. in history from Stanford University, the M.A. in Slavic languages and literatures from Indiana University, and the B.S. summa cum laude from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He has been visiting professor at Stanford and Yale Universities and the Free University of Berlin. He was a Fulbright scholar under the auspices of the International Research and Exchanges Board and a research fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

He is the author of Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, numerous articles and book chapters on the Soviet military, nationality issues, and Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet history, and a contributor to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History and The Dictionary of the Russian Revolution. He is currently completing work on two new books--Empire and Nation in Russian and Soviet History and Ukraine between Empire and Union: Military and Nationality Politics, 1914-1941. Two major research projects under way are on Russian-Ukrainian relations and the human rights movement in the Sakharov period, for which he was awarded grants from the NEH-Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Ford Foundation, respectively.

Professor von Hagen takes the helm at the Harriman Institute at a critical moment in the post-Soviet era.

While threats to global security will continue to emerge from the former Soviet bloc, he said recently in discussing the current situation, they will no longer focus on the nuclear superpower rivalry of old, but will be the result of ethnic conflicts, environmental disasters, economic destabilization, and the uncontrolled flow of weapons, capital, resources and populations from the region.

"It is essential that studies of the region overcome their past insularity and become integrated with a great variety of disciplines and expertise on other areas of the world," he said. "Current and future generations of scholars must be trained in such crucial but previously neglected fields as science, technology and environmental studies, and area specialists have to extend their focus far beyond Moscow to the Russian peripheries, as well as to the many new states and alignments that have arisen from the disintegration of the USSR. Accordingly, we plan to significantly broaden the teaching curriculum and research programs of the institute and to establish a variety of new collaborations to steer it in the direction necessary to meet the needs of the future."

Columbia's Russian Institute, founded in 1946, was renamed the Harriman Institute in 1982 in honor of W. Averell Harriman, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Governor of New York.

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Anne Canty, Director of Communications
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Caribbean Carnival at Columbia

The 125-piece award-winning Neal & Massy Trinidad All-Star Steel Orchestra will perform in front of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library on Thursday, August 31, from 12 to 2 P.M. (Enter the Columbia University campus at West 116th St. from Broadway or Amsterdam Ave.; Low Library is in the center of the campus.).

Admission is free and there will be dancing and refreshments. The event is sponsored by Columbia's Office of Government Relations and Community Affairs.

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at Stanford and Yale Universities and the Free University of Berlin. He was a Fulbright scholar under the auspices of th18703.html 770 56634 7660 13351 6031524612 5632 Press Release: Legal Scholar Rosenberg Is Dead at 75 

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Tuesday, August 25, 1995

Legal Scholar Rosenberg Is Dead at 75

Maurice Rosenberg, a pathbreaking legal scholar whose career was dedicated to promoting judicial reform in the United States and a faculty member at Columbia University School of Law for 39 years, died today (Friday, Aug. 25) at his home in White Plains, N.Y. He was 75.

The cause was a progressive neurological disease, said Dr. Richard Rosenberg, his son.

Professor Rosenberg, the Harold R. Medina Professor of Procedural Jurisprudence Emeritus, engaged throughout his career in a variety of public enterprises to improve the administration of justice, particularly by upgrading the quality of the personnel and processes available to the courts, and he wrote and lectured extensively for that purpose. He pioneered empirical studies on the workings of legal rules and institutions that greatly broadened the parameters of legal scholarship. His studies on pre-trial discovery and the pre-trial conference helped shape and determine their role and function.

He served as head of the Advisory Council on Appellate Justice (1971-75), seeking ways to deal with the rising tide of cases inundating the appellate courts, and on the Council on the Role of the Courts (1978-80). He was a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in 1976-77 and, by appointment of President Carter, was Assistant Attorney General from 1979 to 1981, heading the Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice. He was appointed in 1980 by Chief Justice Warren Burger to the Federal Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure and served in that capacity until 1987. He was a member of the Mayor of New York City's Committee on the Judiciary from 1962 to 1977.

A native of Oswego, N.Y., Maurice Rosenberg was born Sept. 3, 1919. He received the B.A. from Syracuse University in 1940 and entered Columbia Law School. He volunteered for the Army in 1941 and served in Europe until 1945, assigned to a variety of duties. With the military government in occupied Germany, he helped repatriate millions of slave laborers conscripted by the Germans from their conquered territories--Italy, Yugoslavia, Belgium, France and Poland. When he returned to Columbia in 1946, he completed his studies in one year in an accelerated post-war program, graduating with honors. He was editor in chief of Columbia Law Review.

Following law school, he clerked for two years for Judge Stanley H. Fuld of the New York Court of Appeals. He then spent nearly six years in practice in New York City, mainly on federal trials and appeals, with Cravath, Swaine and Moore and Austrian, Lance and Stewart.

Appointed to the Columbia law faculty as associate professor in 1956 and promoted to professor with tenure in 1958, he was named Nash Professor of Law in 1970 and to the newly created Medina chair in 1973. He was designated Medina Professor Emeritus in 1990 upon his retirement. He was a special lecturer in law through 1993.

Professor Rosenberg was director for eight years, until 1964, of the Columbia University Project for Effective Justice, which performed research to improve the administration of civil justice, and he was executive director of the Walter E. Meyer Institute of Law at Columbia from 1965 to 1970.

The Project for Effective Justice undertook several important studies. Among the largest was a study of the effectiveness of the pretrial conference in New Jersey court procedure, the first, official controlled test of procedure ever attempted in American courts. The study had far-reaching influence in court procedure throughout the country, and its findings were published by Professor Rosenberg (with Paul Carrington and Daniel Meador) in book form in 1964 by Columbia University Press as "The Pretrial Conference and Effective Justice." A grant from the American Bar Association aided in its distribution to judges of Federal courts of the United States and the judges of major state trial courts throughout the nation.

He was the author of some 70 articles on problems of the courts, civil procedure and conflict of laws and author, co-author or editor of eight books, among them "Elements of Civil Procedure" (with Harold Korn and Hans Smit, 4th edition 1985), "Conflict of Laws" (with William Reese; 8th edition 1984), and "Appellate Justice in New York."

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Institute of Judicial Administration and of the American Bar Foundation, and a trustee of the Practicing Law Institute. He served as president of the Association of American Law Schools and vice president and director of the American Judicature Society. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 1969-70, a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1978-79, and a lecturer at numerous institutions in this country and abroad. He was a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government.

Among awards he received are the Justice Award of the American Judicature Society, the Award for Outstanding Research in Law and Government from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, and the Medal for Excellence from Columbia Law School.

Professor Rosenberg is survived by his wife, Gloria; two sons, David of Pittsburgh and Richard of Morristown, N.J.; Jason, child of their late daughter, Joan; and four other grandchildren.

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Columbia's Russian Institute, founded in 1946, was renamed the Harriman Institute in 1982 in honor of W. Averell Harriman, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Governor of New York.

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Fred Knubel, Director
August 28, 1995

Columbia Forum to Address Global Refugee Crisis

Leading international figures, including the Nobel Peace Prize peace laureate Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, will meet at Columbia University September. 28 to discuss the growing world refugee crisis.

The plight of escapees from ethnic and regional conflict in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti and elsewhere in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti and elsewhere will be discussed in the all-day conference, Refugee Crisis Forum: Reporting on the Refugee Migrations of the Post-Cold War Era. Other speakers will include Phyllis E. Oakley, Assistant Secretary of State for population, refugees and migrations,, Robert P. DeVecchi, president of the International Rescue Committee, Soren Jessen-Petersen, director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and refugees from Bosnia, Liberia and Burma.

The forum conference is sponsored by the Sanpaolo Professorship Chair in International Journalism of the Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia. the University.

Seymour Topping, the Sanpaolo Professor, is chairman of the forum, which is a calendar event of the United Nations 50th anniversary observance and the only such one to address the plight of the 40 million refugees around the world. It is undertaken with the cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Association.

Forum discussions will consider the implications for global stability of the increasing number of refugees in Africa, Europe and Asia; their need for protection and resettlement; the problems faced by countries granting asylum; the role of the UN in combating forced migration, and the challenges in achieving balance between national sovereignty and human rights intervention.

"We expect this event to heighten public and media awareness of the swelling tide of forced migration and its implications for global stability," said Mr. Topping, the former managing editor and foreign editor of The New York Times who is also administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia.

Columbia University President George Rupp will open the forum with welcoming remarks at 9:30 A.M. in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the University's Morningside Heights campus at Broadway and 116th Street. The forum events in the Rotunda are free and open to the public. Reservations and payment of $25 are required for a noon luncheon in Faculty House. Ms. Oakley , will speak there on Refugees and Migration: A New National Security Challenge. (For information and registration call (212) 854-4437.)

September 28 will be designated as UN Refugee Day at Columbia, with relief organizations invited to set up information tables on Low Plaza describing their work.

Panel discussions will be devoted to refugee problems stemming from ethnic and regional conflict in the republics of the former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti and elsewhere.

Mr. Topping, who has traveled with the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia, Croatia and Macedonia and teaches a course on reporting on regional and ethnic conflicts, said is a former executive editor of The New York Times and administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia, said:

"We look to national leaders, media executives with responsibility for news coverage together with journalists with on-site experience, specialists of government, the United Nations and refugee organizations to document and discuss the dimensions of the migrations, the adequacy of relief and resettlement programs and ways to deter forced migrations."

Three refugees will describe their experience in a session introduced by Mr. DeVecchi beginning at 9:45 A.M. They are Semir Tanovic, who fled Bosnia in 1993 with his parents, wife and infant; Marjorie Mitchell, a businesswoman from Liberia who now works for the Soros Foundation, and Kin Sann Myint, the first Burmese woman to be trained in international administration, who sought asylum in the United States after the 1988 coup.

Mr. Topping will moderate a panel on Curbing Forced Migration beginning at 10:30 with Arthur C. Helton, director of forced migration projects for the Open Society Institute; Robert B. Oakley, former presidential envoy to Somalia now with the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University; Catherine O'Neill, co-founder of the Women's Commission for Women Refugee Women and Children;, Sir Brian Urquhart,former UN Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs, now scholar in residence at the International Affairs Program of the Ford Foundation, and Mr. Jessen-Petersen.

Elie Wiesel will speak be introduced at 2:15 P.M. He will be introduced by Joan Konner, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

Marlene Sanders, former network television correspondent and the now director of program development at the Journalism School, will moderate a panel on Media Coverage of Refugee Issues at 3:15. Participants will be Betsy Aaron, former foreign correspondent with CBS News; Mark Fritz of the Associated Press, winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his Rwanda coverage; Edward Giradet, editor of Crosslines - Global Report;, Alex Jones, author, former New York Times reporter and host of WNYC's On the Media , and Tom Kent, international editor of the A.P.

An exhibition of photographs of refugees selected culled from submissions to the Pulitzer Prizes will be on view in the Faculty Room of Low beginning at 8:45 A.M., as will a video of a documentary film produced by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, A Global View `95.

Serving as rapporteur will be Sichan Siv, senior vice president for policy and programs at the United Nations Association, who will sum up the proceedings at 5 P.M. Mr. Siv, a survivor of Cambodia's killing fields, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Deputy Assistant to President Bush.

Following the forum, at 5:30 Prof. Maristella Lorch, director of the Italian Academy, will host a reception in the Faculty Room at 5:30 to celebrate the publication of the book Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of the International Media in Wars and Humanitarian Crises, based on a 1994 media workshop at Columbia organized by the academy.

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ations and payment of $25 are required for a noon luncheon in Faculty House. Ms. Oakley , will speak there on Refugees and Migration: A New National Security Challenge. (For information and registration call (212) 854-4437.)

September 28 will be 18707.html 770 56634 7660 7233 6031524616 5624 Press Release: Elster Named First Merton Professor 

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Elster Named First Merton Professor

Jon Elster, the influential political theorist, has joined the faculty of Columbia University as Robert K. Merton Professor of the Social Sciences.

The apppointment was made by the Columbia Trustees and announced by President George Rupp.

A leading interpreter of rational choice theory, Professor Elster, 55, is the first incumbent of the Merton chair, named for the eminent social scientist and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia, now 85, who founded the sociological study of science, originated the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy and initiated traditions of research on bureacracy, anomie and the history of ideas. The chair was established by the Columbia trustees in 1990.

Professor Elster has been the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago since 1989. In nine widely translated books and more than 100 articles and reviews, the Norwegian-born scholar has drawn from multiple disciplines, including economics and psychology, to explain political behavior. He has explained political actions by studying the way individuals make choices and how groups of individuals interact, going beyond traditional examinations of behavior by social class and political category. His work has been translated into eight languages.

A formative influence on a new generation of political scholars, Professor Elster has received support from the Norwegian and French governments and the Russell Sage Foundation for wide-ranging research on democracy and social planning, rationality, Marxism, intertemporal choice, the distributive consequences of unemployment, the allocation of children in divorce and child welfare cases, strategic aspects of collective wage bargaining, and addiction.

Jon Elster was born in 1940 in Oslo and received the M.A. in philosophy in 1966 from the University of Oslo and the Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1972. Later, he taught at both institutions and has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the California Institute of Technology and a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University.

He has lectured worldwide and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academia Europaea and a fellow of the British Academy. He is research director of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo and director of the Center for Ethics, Rationality and Society at the University of Chicago.

His books include "Local Justice" (1992), "Political Psychology" (1990), "Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences" (1989), "Solomonic Judgements" (1989), "The Cement of Society" (1989), "An Introduction to Karl Marx" (1986), "Making Sense of Marx" (1985), "Sour Grapes" (1983), "Explaining Technical Change" (1983), "Ulysses and the Sirens" (1979) and "Leibniz et la Formation de l'Esprit Capitaliste (1975).

He is co-editor of "Studies in Rationality and Social Change" and "Studies in Marxism and Social Theory," published by Cambridge University Press. He is a member of the editorial board of 12 journals.

This fall, Professor Elster will teach courses on rational choice theory and the constitution-making process.

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xecutives with responsibility for news coverage together with journalists with on-site experience, specialists of government, the United Nations and refugee organizations to document and discuss the dimensions of the migrations, the adequacy of relief and resettlement programs and ways to deter forced migrations."

Three refugees will describe their ex18708.html 770 56634 7660 2200 6031524617 5613 Press Release: Robert Coles Film and Discussion at Columbia University 

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Anne Canty, Director of Communications
September 6, 1995

Robert Coles Film and Discussion at Columbia University

"Listening To Children: A Moral Journey with Robert Coles," a documentary film about six families coping with violence, poverty and alcoholism, will have its New York debut at 6:30 P.M.,Friday, September 15 at the Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre, Columbia University, Broadway and 116th Street, followed by a discussion with Dr. Coles, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and child psychiatrist, filmmaker Buddy Squires and Dr. David Shaffer, Columbia professor and director of child psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Sponsored by Columbia's Documentary Center and the Department of Psychiatry. Admission, $7; students and seniors, $5. Information: (212) 854-9579.

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ished Service Professor at the University of Chicago since 1989. In nine widely translated books and more than 100 articles and reviews, the Norwegian-born scholar has drawn from multiple disciplines, including economics and psychology, to explain political behavior. He has explained political actions by studying the way individuals make choices and how groups of individuals intera18709.html 770 56634 7660 2156 6031524620 5620 Press Release: Film and Discussion on Atomic Bombings at Columbia University 

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Anne Canty, Director of Communications
September 6, 1995

Film and Discussion on Atomic Bombings at Columbia University

"Rain of Ruin: The Bombing of Nagasaki," a new documentary by Stephen Segaller, will be shown with Erik Barnouw's classics "Hiroshima-Nagasaki, 1945" and "The Case of the A-Bomb Footage" at 7 P.M., Thursday, September 28 in Schermerhorn Auditorium, Columbia University, Broadway and 116th Street. A discussion will follow with the filmmakers and Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist, and Greg Mitchill, co-authors of "Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial." Sponsored by the Documentary Center at Columbia and the International Center of Photography. Admission, $7; students and ICP members, $5. Reservations: (212) 854-9579.

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> ished Service Professor at the University of Chicago since 1989. In nine widely translated books and more than 100 articles and reviews, the Norwegian-born scholar has drawn from multiple disciplines, including economics and psychology, to explain political behavior. He has explained political actions by studying the way individuals make choices and how groups of individuals intera18711.html 770 56634 7660 5734 6031524623 5621 Press Release: Spinak Named Aranow Clinical Professor of Law 

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Fred Knubel, Director
For Use upon Receipt, September 8, 1995

Spinak Named Aranow Clinical Professor of Law

Jane M. Spinak, an authority on children's legal rights and clinical legal education and attorney-in-charge of the Juvenile Rights Division of The Legal Aid Society, has been named Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia University.

The appointment was made by the University Trustees and announced by Columbia President George Rupp.

Professor Spinak, 43, joined the Columbia faculty as a lecturer in 1982 and was named clinical professor of law in 1989. She teaches a seminar on children and the law and is a co-founder of the Family Advocacy Clinic at Morningside Heights Legal Services, in which students from Columbia's Law and Social Work schools assist families involved with the child welfare system. She is currently on leave from Columbia to serve as attorney-in-charge of the Juvenile Rights Division, where she oversees attorneys and social workers who represent children in Family Court proceedings in New York City.

A 1974 graduate of Smith College, she earned a law degree in 1979 at New York University.

Professor Spinak has conducted training sessions for social services attorneys, law guardians and judges for the American Bar Association and has received national recognition as a teacher. She was on the planning committee for the 1994 Clinical Teachers' Conference and has been a featured speaker at several other national conferences. Her forthcoming article, Reflections on a Case (of Motherhood), will be published in the December issue of the Columbia Law Review. She is the author of two books, "Child Welfare Legal Manual," and "Permanency Planning Judicial Benchbook," which is used by Family Court practitioners and judges throughout New York State.

Professor Spinak recently was named to the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children. She is a member of the New York State Office of Court Administration's Family Court Advisory Council for New York City, and of the New York State Task Force on Permanency Planning for Foster Children, where she is chair of the Court Extension of Placement and Foster Care Review Proceedings Committee. She was for many years the co-director of the Project on Children and War in the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia; has served on the Board of Directors of the New York City Court Appointed Special Advocates; has been a member of the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Children's Rights.

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990), "Nuts and Bolts for the Social18714a.html 775 56634 7660 14151 6031524626 6006 Press Release: Fifty Years of Documentary 

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All screenings at Miller Theatre (W. 116th St. & Broadway)
for ticket and box office information: 854-7799

Fifty Years of Documentary

presented by

The Documentary Center at Columbia University

and the

Miller Theatre

in cooperation with

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Thursday, October 12, at 7:00pm

Program One: The 1940s--The War Years

The True Glory (1945)--85 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Feature

Directed by Garson Kanin and Carol Reed

A classic by two renowned filmmakers, The True Glory recounts in brilliant detail the story of the Normandy Landing and the events leading to the collapse of Hitler's Germany. It is a stirring tribute to the courage and perseverance of all our fighting men, and the dominating spirit of teamwork. This rarely screened masterpiece uses the talent of hundreds of cameramen who filmed the immense drama from the air, sea and land and has a terse and compelling narration recorded by soldiers from all levels of society.

Seeds of Destiny (1946)--21 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Short Subject

Directed by David Miller

Seeds of Destiny documents the plight of people who lived in countries near Germany and who were nearly annihilated by the Germans through systematic starvation. An important film about the legacy of World War II.

Opening Reception On October 12

Immediately follows post-screening discussion

Wednesday, October 18, at 7:30pm

Program Two: The 1950s--The Post-War Years

The Vanishing Prairie (1954)--70 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Feature

Directed by James Algar

A timeless Disney favorite and a pioneering nature documentary, The Vanishing Prairie is a remarkable pictorial examination of wildlife in the wide open spaces of the Great Plains region of the United States. A study of the everyday behavior and fight for survival among prairie dogs, bison, cranes, coyotes, mountain lions and birds.

Neighbors (1952)--8 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Short Subject

Directed by Norman McLaren

Neighbors, a story of two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower, is a parable of greed and destruction.

Universe (1960)--26 minutes

Academy Awardreg. nomination--Documentary Short Subject

Directed by Roman Kroitor and Colin Low

Filmed at the dawn of the space age, Universe is a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space.

Wednesday, October 25, at 7:30pm

Program Three: The 1960s--Civil Rights and Counter Culture

A Time For Burning (1967)--61 minutes

Academy Awardreg. nomination--Documentary Feature

Directed by William Jersey

A Time For Burning was one of the first documentaries to deal effectively with racism. Considered very controversial in its time because of the subject matter, the film was also controversial in film circles because of the intervention of the filmmaker in the community. The film was an important factor in changing attitudes toward segregation in religious and social circles.

Why Man Creates (1968)--25 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Short Subject

Directed by Saul Bass

Why Man Creates is a series of explorations on creativity by a master of conceptual design. Filled with humor and satire, trenchant ideas and important truths, this famous film poses serious questions about the creative process.

Wednesday, November 29, at 7:30pm

Program Four: The 1970s--Vietnam

Hearts And Minds (1974)--112 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Feature

Directed by Peter Davis

Hearts and Minds is a provocative examination of United States involvement in Vietnam that chronicles the war from a psychological perspective. It portrays the U.S. role as a manifestation of misguided patriotism and ignorance buttressed by racism, self-righteousness and anti-Communist hysteria. A timeless document of the anti-war mood of the period.

Wednesday, December 6, at 7:30pm

Program Five: The 1980s--The Nuclear Threat

The Day After Trinity (1980)--88 minutes

Academy Awardreg. nomination--Documentary Feature

Directed by Jon Else

The Day After Trinity traces the life of renowned nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and details his work as scientific director of Los Alamos and the building of the world's first atomic bomb. The film includes Oppenheimer's subsequent efforts to limit the dissemination of bomb technology, his dismissal in 1954, and his death in 1967.

Close Harmony (1981)--28 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Short Subject

Directed by Nigel Noble

A class of fourth- and fifth-graders are brought together with a group of senior citizens in a unique intergenerational chorus that provides an opportunity to examine children's misconceptions of aging. The film concludes with an exhilarating and heartwarming choral performance.

Tuesday, December 12, at 7:30pm

Program Six: The 1990s--The Present and History Revisited

The Restless Conscience (1991)--113 minutes

Academy Awardreg. nomination--Documentary Feature

Directed by Hava Kohav Beller

The Restless Conscience presents an overview of the resistance movement in Germany from 1933 to 1945 that culminated in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. The efforts of various opponents of Hitler are depicted through interviews with former conspirators, as well as with relatives of those who were executed for their opposition to the Nazi regime. A timely reminder of man's need to make moral choices.

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nment must treat citizens as individuals, not as members of a racial or sexual class. Civil rights groups say the Supreme Court has in the past allowed the use of race as a factor in drawing electoral districts, so long as it is not done for the sole purpose of segregating voters.

Before states were compelled by the Voting Rights Act to construct such districts, no Southern state had sent a black to 18715.html 775 56634 7660 6532 6031524627 5633 Press Release: Kimberle Crenshaw Named Professor at Columbia Law 

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Kimberle Crenshaw Named Professor at Columbia Law

Kimberle W. Crenshaw, a specialist on race, gender and the law, has joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Law as full professor.

The appointment was announced by Dean Lance Liebman, who said: "Kimberle Crenshaw is one of the leading law scholars of her generation. Her invention of the concept of 'intersectionalities' has shed important light on central issues of civil rights law. She is a fine teacher whose work is discussed and respected throughout American law schools and abroad."

Professor Crenshaw, 36, is the founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Workshop and has been a principal contributor to that literature. This evolving field encompasses a wide range of scholarship about race and law, broadly linked by a common focus on the central role of law in both producing and contesting racial power in American society. Her concept of "intersectionality" denotes the various ways that race and gender interact in shaping employment experiences of women of color.

She has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles since 1986, where she was named Professor of the Year in 1991 and again in 1994. She was Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor at Columbia during the 1995 spring semester and in 1992. She has taught courses on criminal law, civil and voting rights, constitutional law and equal protection, and legal issues arising from race and gender.

She is a co-author of "Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment" (1993) and co-editor with Columbia Law Professor Kendall Thomas of "Critical Race Theory: Key Documents that Shaped the Movement," to be published this year by New Press.

Professor Crenshaw has lectured throughout the United States and Europe and written extensively on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. She facilitated a workshop on equality and constitutional interpretation for the Justices of the South American Constitutional Court, and gave the keynote address at a national conference on gender, justice and the law in Brazil.

In 1991 she assisted the legal team that represented Anita Hill in her accusations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas at the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for his Supreme Court nomination. She is a member of the Domestic Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute, co-chaired by Senator Bill Bradley and former Representative Vin Weber and is a member of the National Research Council panel on Research on Violence Against Women.

In recognition of her work on behalf of African American women, she received the Lucy Terry Prince Award from the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

A 1981 graduate of Cornell University, she earned the J.D. degree at Harvard Law School in 1984 and the LL.M. at the University of Wisconsin in 1985. She served as a law clerk to Judge Shirley S. Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1985-86.

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b> (1952)--8 minutes

Academy Awardreg.--Best Documentary Short Subject

Directed by Norman McLaren

Neighbors, a story of two people who come 18716.html 770 56634 7660 5415 6031524630 5620 Press Release: Gloria Steinem to Open Delacorte Series at Columbia 

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Fred Knubel, Director
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Gloria Steinem to Open Delacorte Series at Columbia

Leading editors of influential publications, including The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, will participate in the Delacorte Evening Lectures at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism this fall.

The 12-week series, a program of the George Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at the school, will be hosted by Suzanne Braun Levine, editor of the Columbia Journalism Review.

Gloria Steinem, writer, activist and founding editor of Ms. magazine, will open the 1995 series Tuesday, Sept. 19, with a talk titled "Stories That Do Not Get Covered." Among the other speakers will be John Leo, Jack Rosenthal, Victor Navasky, Hendrik Hertzberg, Graydon Carter, Carol Wallace, Jules Feiffer and Ellen Levine.

All lectures will begin at 7 P.M. in the World Room of the Journalism Building on the Columbia campus at Broadway and 116th Street and, except for the Oct. 5 talk, will be held on Tuesdays. The series is free and open to the public.

"The Delacorte Evening Lectures introduce our students to the individuals who are shaping magazines today and bring the professional world closer to the school," said Joan Konner, dean of the Journalism School. "In that way the Delacorte Center fulfills its mission--to bring the worlds of education and magazine publishing closer together for the benefit of both."

The lecture schedule:

Sept. 26, John Leo, senior editor, U.S. News and World Report, "The Magazine Columnist";

Thursday, Oct. 5, Jack Rosenthal, editor, The New York Times Magazine, "The Newspaper Magazine";

Oct. 10, Victor Navasky, publisher, The Nation, "The Journal of Opinion";

Oct. 17, Hendrik Hertzberg, executive editor, The New Yorker, "The Revised New Yorker";

Oct. 24, Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, "The General Interest Magazine";

Oct. 31, Carol Wallace, deputy managing editor, People, "The Celebrity Magazine";

Nov. 14, Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and writer, "I Give Up";

Nov. 21, Ellen Levine, editor-in-chief, Good Housekeeping, "The Women's Magazine";

Nov. 28, Bruce Porter, author and adjunct professor of journalism, Columbia, "The Master's Project," and

Dec. 5, Beth Nissen, correspondent, ABC News, "The Master's Project."

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f the subject matter, the film was also controversial in film circles because of the intervention of the filmmaker in the community. The film was an important factor in changing attitudes toward segregation in religious and social circles. Press Release: Cortines to Lecture on Future of Urban Education 

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Fred Knubel, Director
Media Alert

Cortines to Lecture on Future of Urban Education

New York City Schools Chancellor Ramon Cortines will speak to public affairs students at Columbia University Monday, September 18, on the future of urban education and its existing problems.

His talk will begin at 4:30 P.M. in the Kellogg Center on the 15th floor of the School of International and Public Affairs at 420 W. 118th St. at Amsterdam Avenue.

You are invited to cover.

Mr. Cortines will be the guest speaker at the Master of Public Administration Program's Practicum in Public Affairs, a weekly series bringing leaders from the public sector to the school to discuss current policy issues with graduate students, faculty and community members. He will be introduced by Steven Cohen, Associate Dean and Director of the MPA Program. Nancy Degnan, Assistant Dean, is instructor for the course. Additional information may be obtained by calling (212) 854-2167.

EVENT:
Ramon Cortines, New York City Schools Chancellor, will speak on urban education and current problems.

TIME:
Monday, Sept. 18, from 4:30 to 6 P.M.

PLACE:
Kellogg Center, 15th floor, Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs, 420 W. 118th St. at Amsterdam Avenue.

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. "In that way the Delacorte Center fulfills its mission--to bring the worlds of education and magazine publishing closer together for the benefit of both."

The lecture schedule:

Sept. 26, John Leo, senior editor, U.S. News and World Report, "The Magazine Columnist";

Thursday, Oct. 5, Jack Rosenthal, editor, The New York Times Magazine, <18719.html 770 56634 7660 7105 6031524633 5624 Press Release: Jacyk Gift to Fund Ukrainian Studies in Columbia's Harriman Institute 

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Fred Knubel, Director
For Use upon Receipt, September 18, 1995

Jacyk Gift to Fund Ukrainian Studies in Columbia's Harriman Institute

The Harriman Institute of Columbia University will receive $500,000 from the Canadian-Ukrainian philanthropist Petro Jacyk to endow its graduate program in Ukrainian studies, institute director Mark L. von Hagen has announced.

In appreciation of the gift, which will be received over five years, the program has been named the Petro Jacyk Ukrainian Studies Program.

"Mr. Jacyk's generosity will enable the Harriman Institute to develop a permanent commitment to Ukrainian studies," said Professor von Hagen, a historian of the Soviet period and a specialist on Russia and Ukraine. "We anticipate adding junior and senior specialists to assure continuity in course offerings in Ukrainian politics and economics, institute a variety of student fellowships, and create a publications program centered on policy-relevant studies of Ukraine."

The institute, based in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, is the country's oldest major university center for graduate study of the former Soviet Union and the Soviet successor states. One of its primary goals is to promote specialized knowledge of Ukraine among a critical constituency--graduate students preparing for professional careers in government, diplomacy, business, journalism and nongovernmental organizations.

"It is our firm belief," said the institute's associate director, Professor Alexander J. Motyl, a specialist in Soviet nationalities, "that these young scholars hold the key to public understanding of Ukraine and to Western policy toward Ukraine. We fully expect their growing presence in influential North American and European institutions to contribute significantly to greater Western understanding of Ukraine and faster Ukrainian integration into the West."

Professor von Hagen called Mr. Jacyk "one of the most generous and farsighted patrons of Ukrainian studies," noting his broad support for programs at Harvard University, at the Universities of Alberta and Toronto in Canada, and at the University of London in England.

A benefactor since 1993 of the Harriman Institute's fledgling Ukrainian studies program, Mr. Jacyk has previously donated gifts totaling $75,000, making possible the addition of new course offerings in Ukrainian language, literature, history, politics and culture, as well as in regional studies of the Black Sea area. The institute has hosted visiting scholars from Ukraine and supported research projects on the country's past and present.

Originally founded in 1946 as the first regional institute in international affairs, the Harriman Institute is today devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the former Soviet Union and the newly independent nations that emerged from the collapse of the USSR. Since then the Institute has endeavored to depart from the traditional russocentricism of Soviet studies and view Ukraine and Russia as the two linchpins in its area of study, said Professor von Hagen. "The strengthening of the Ukrainian program component has become a topmost priority," he said, "and we are determined to do our utmost to ensure the survival and continued growth of this crucial program."

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Hearts and Minds is a provocative examination of United States involvement in Vietnam that chronicles the war from a psychological perspective. It portrays the U.S. role as a manifestation of misguided patriotism and ignorance buttressed by racism, self-righteousness and anti-Communist hysteria. A timeless document of the anti-war mood of the period.

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Fred Knubel, Director
For Use upon Receipt, September 20, 1995

Victorian English Prints and Photographs Exhibited

"The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: Etching, Illustration, Reproductive Engraving and Photography in England in and around the 1860s"

October 10-December 16, Wed.-Sat. 1-5 P.M.; free admission

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, Broadway and 116th Street. Information: (212) 854-7288

Prints and photographs from Victorian England are the subject of a new exhibition at Columbia University opening October 10 and continuing through December 16.

Ninety etchings, wood-engraved illustrations, reproductive engravings and photographs from the 1860s will be on view in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, located in Schermerhorn Hall on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus at Broadway and 116th Street. The exhibition, titled The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: Etching, Illustration, Reproductive Engraving, and Photography in England in and around the 1860s, is open to the public from 1 to 5 P.M. Wednesday through Saturday; admission is free.

The period is regarded as a golden age of printmaking, said Allen Staley, a Columbia professor of art history and leading authority on British art of the 18th and 19th centuries. "The print industry literally exploded during this decade," he said.

Professor Staley and six of his graduate students assembled the exhibition, which includes loans from individuals and from the rich holdings of New York institutions, among them the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. While celebrating the diversity of visual effects expressed through the four major printing techniques of the era, the exhibition also brings to public attention a sense of the extraordinary wealth of holdings in New York collections, said Professor Staley, who noted that many of the prints have never been publicly displayed.

Included are works by John Everett Millais, James McNeill Whistler, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll, many of which cast new light on the evolution in English art from the naturalism of the Pre-Raphaelites during the 1850s to the quasi-abstract concerns of Aestheticism of the 1870s. The exhibition examines the distinctive roles and interconnections of the four different forms of graphic art, which usually are collected, exhibited and studied in isolation from one another.

"The point of the exhibition is primarily to demonstrate the beauty and visual interest of these prints, which date from a time when commercial reproduction blossomed," said Professor Staley. "Usually the different types are studied apart. Their juxtaposition in an exhibition of this sort is virtually without precedent."

Rich in visual, art historical and literary interest, the exhibition includes works as diverse as Ludwig Gruner's line engraving of John Everett Millais's painting "Christ in the House of His Parents," which was savagely criticized when first exhibited for its earthy depiction of the Holy Family; John Tenniel's much-loved illustration for Alice in Wonderland, cartoons from Punch, and a wood engraving of American Civil War battle scenes from The Illustrated London News.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue written by students Martha M. Evans, Pamela M. Fletcher, Yaël Ksander, Lisa R. Leavitt, Jason M. Rosenfeld and Paul Tabor, with an introduction by Professor Staley.

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Ninety etchings, wood-engraved illustrations, reproductive engravings and p18721.html 770 56634 7660 3641 6031524635 5620 Press Release: Refugee Crisis Forum 

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Fred Knubel, Director
Media Alert

Refugee Crisis Forum

Reporting on the Refugee Migration of the Post-Cold War Era
Columbia University
Thursday, September 28, 1995

Luncheon Speaker:

Phyllis E. Oakley, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migrations--12:45 P.M., Columbia Faculty House (entrance through gate east of Law School at Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street).

Keynote Speaker:

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace laureate--2 P.M., Rotunda of Low Memorial Library, Columbia University at Broadway and 116th Street.

Other key events (all in the Rotunda):

9:45 A.M.--Refugees Tell Their Stories, introduction by Robert P. DeVecchi, president, International Rescue Committee

10:30 A.M.--Curbing Forced Migration, panel with Arthur Helton of Open Society Institute; Robert Oakley, former envoy to Somalia; Catherine O'Neill of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Soren Jessen-Peterson, director in New York for UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and Sir Brian Urquhart, former UN Under Secretary General; moderator is Seymour Topping, Sanpaolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

3:15 P.M.--Media Coverage of Refugee Issues, panel with Betsy Aaron, former CBS correspondent; Mark Fritz and Tom Kent of the Associated Press; Edward Giradet, editor of Crosslines-Global Report, and Alex Jones of WNYC's On the Media.

Sponsored by the Sanpaolo Professorship and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia

To register or for additional information: (212) 854-4437 or 854-5573.

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olitan Museum of Art and Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. While celebrating the div18722.html 770 56634 7660 2416 6031524636 5621 Press Release: Statement by Columbia University on <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> ratings 

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Fred Knubel, Director
For Use upon Receipt, September 8, 1995

Statement by Columbia University on U.S. News & World Report ratings

The change in Columbia's placement this year in the list of America's best universities is largely the result of revisions U.S. News made in the interpretation of the results of its survey. Great research universities tend not to change abruptly from one year to the next; alterations in the survey methodology and shifts in the weight the magazine applied to some statistics are responsible. Specifically, student selectivity, in which Columbia improved, was given less weight, while graduation rates, in which Columbia did not improve, were given more. The University is pleased that its ratings rose in the categories of measurement considered the most significant: in academic reputation, in student application and matriculation rates and in alumni satisfaction.

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and Sir Brian Urquhart, former UN Under Secretary General; moderator is Seymour Topping, Sanpaolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

3:15 P.M.--Media Coverage of Refugee Issues, panel with 18725.html 770 56634 7660 3537 6057112402 5621 Press Release: Student Cyclists to Get All-Night History Lesson 

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Anne Canty, Director of Communications
For Use Upon Receipt September 25, 1995

Student Cyclists to Get All-Night History Lesson

More than 150 Columbia University students and Columbia President George Rupp will join Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia's eminent historian of New York City, for an all-night bicycle class trip beginning at 10:30 PM on Thursday, September 28th. The overnight tour will begin on the Columbia University campus in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan and conclude the next morning (September 29th) on the other side of the East River in Brooklyn after an early-dawn ride across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jackson, the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences and chairman of the history department at Columbia, edited The Encyclopedia of the City of New York, which will be published in mid-October. His class, History of the City of New York, is one of the University's most popular.

This is Professor Jackson's 21st annual New York City tour by night. He introduces students, many of whom have recently come to New York City for the first time, to the rich traditions and history of the City. Professor Jackson leads his tours at night because day-time traffic congestion makes it more difficult -- and more dangerous -- to get around.

In the past, stops on the trip have included the Fulton Fish Market and Battery Park City, and the historic Ear Inn in SoHo. Opportunities for coverage are available throughout the trip.

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olitan Museum of Art and Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. While celebrating the div18728.html 770 56634 7660 7154 6036565151 5635 Press Release: Got an Earth Science Question? Find the Answer at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Open House 

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Fred Knubel, Director
For Use upon Receipt, September 29, 1995

Got an Earth Science Question? Find the Answer at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Open House

How deep are the oceans? What was the largest earthquake? How does El Niño affect the world's weather? And how do tree rings and corals reveal climates of the past?

The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, N.Y., will provide the answers to these and other questions brought by curious minds to its open house on Saturday, Oct. 14.

Once a year, Lamont-Doherty invites students of all ages, from kindergarteners to grandparents, to explore the world-famous earth sciences research center. In exhibits, demonstrations and lectures in laboratory buildings and under large canopy tents throughout the campus scientists and staff will explain the observatory's cutting-edge research, display the equipment and instruments they use, and answer questions on earthquakes, volcanoes, the seafloor, climate, oceans, rocks, ice sheets, hydrothermal vents and other earth phenomena.

Visitors will have opportunities to examine tree rings, corals, deep-sea sediments and other clues to earth's past climate. They will be able to make their own "earthquake" and see how seismic waves are recorded and interpreted. They can catch a ground-penetrating radar in action, get a three-dimensional view of earth from space, cruise the Internet and examine images from the microworld. In one "feets-on" demonstration, they will learn how the earth's surface behaves sometimes like a solid and sometimes like a liquid.

Scheduled lectures include: "Dinosaurs," "Fire and Ice: Active Volcanoes Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheets," "Big Rocks that Fall from the Sky," "In the Belly of the Beast: Science Aboard a Nuclear Submarine," "Predicting El Niño," and "The Lore of Diamonds."

Young explorers can participate in a scavenger hunt for knowledge by searching for answers to earth science questions among the exhibits. A workshop for teachers will focus on current instructional software.

Highlighting this year's open house will be an exhibit on Lamont's pioneering and continuing research in seismology--the study of seismic waves to understand earthquakes, underground nuclear weapons tests and the planet's interior. Historical photographs and equipment showing Lamont's integral role in developing global seismic networks and instruments, including one deployed in 1969 by Apollo astronauts to record "moonquakes," will be on view.

The event is free and open to the public from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Visitors may park at the IBM Executive Conference Center, 1.4 miles north of the observatory on Route 9W in Palisades, N.Y., where free shuttle service to Lamont will be provided. Food and beverages may be purchased at the open house. For further information, including access instructions for persons with disabilities, telephone (914) 359-2900.

Free bus service to Lamont-Doherty from Columbia'a Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan will be available. Buses will depart from 116th and Broadway at 9, 10 and 11 A.M. and from the observatory at 1, 2 and 3 P.M. Reservations are required and may be made by calling the Department of Geological Sciences at (914) 365-8550 by 3 P.M. Friday, Oct. 13.

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ocative examination of United States involvement in Vietnam that chronicles the war from a psychological perspective. It portrays the U.S. role as a manifestation of misguided patriotism and ignorance buttressed by racism, self-righteousness and anti-Communist hysteria. A timeless document of the anti-war mood of the period.

Wednesday, December 6, at 7:30pm

Program Five: The 1980s--The 18729.html 775 56634 7660 13530 6036564677 5672 Press Release: Picker Gives $1M to Columbia to Train Leaders in International and Public Affairs 

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Fred Knubel, Director
For Use upon Receipt, October 2, 1995

Picker Gives $1M to Columbia to Train Leaders in International and Public Affairs

Harvey Picker, dean emeritus of the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), has given $1 million to the school to help train a new leadership core with technical, managerial and policy skills and develop mid-career education programs.

Mr. Picker, who was a business executive and government adviser before becoming dean at Columbia in 1972, stepped down in 1983 to devote himself to foundation projects and public service activities.

Columbia University President George Rupp said in announcing the gift: "This new generosity from Harvey Picker continues his devoted service to the School of International and Public Affairs, which achieved new heights of excellence under his stewardship. His organizational foresight and knowledge of the intersections of science, technology and government have continued to be invaluable in helping the school remain a leader in its fields."

John Ruggie, dean of the school since 1991, said in a tribute to his predecessor: "Harvey Picker was a pioneering dean. Now, as dean emeritus, he continues to help the school for which he cares so deeply to adapt to a very different marketplace. Organizational leaders with combined technical, managerial and policy training are already at a premium. Thanks to this gift, we will be able to help meet the demand for graduates with these crucial skills."

Several initiatives to strengthen the school are planned. Of high priority are the recruitment of students with undergraduate degrees in engineering, computer science and environmental sciences and the establishment of fellowships for them in the two degree programs offered by the school, the Master of International Affairs and the Master of Public Affairs, the latter founded during Mr. Picker's tenure as dean. To provide more sophisticated interactive teaching in statistics and economics, the school will expand the capacity of its computer laboratory classroom. Cutting-edge, computer-based case studies on contemporary international economic, business and government management and policy issues will be developed, using data from the World Bank, the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to support analytic and simulation exercises.

In its international affairs program, the school plans to expand its recruitment of students from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in conjunction with the highly competitive U.S. government-sponsored Muskie Fellowship program. The development of a mid-career program will be an essential part of SIPA's future mission, Dean Ruggie said, which will serve leadership professionals in the United Nations and New York City-based consulates, as well as private sector non-profit organizations. Further plans call for additional degree programs, non-credit mini-courses, distance learning and the use of self-teaching interactive software.

Mr. Picker, whose gift was made by his family's Branta Foundation, said: "SIPA is the best. But even the best must keep changing. I have great confidence in the ability of Dean John Ruggie to keep the school at the forefront of educating future leaders in international and public affairs. I hope that this gift helps him do that."

Mr. Picker's past gifts to Columbia have created the Jean Picker Fellowship for Women in International Affairs, named in honor of his late wife, a former U.S. delegate to the U.N. and director of the U.N. Association, and the James Picker Professorship in Radiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

After Mr. Picker's retirement, he moved from his long-time residence in Mamaroneck, N.Y., to Maine, where he began the Camden Conference, a yearly forum on international topics. He also founded the Maine Health Care Conference and is a commissioner of the Maine Health Care Finance Commission. He is the owner and operator of Wayfarer Marine Corp. in Camden. His current affiliations include membership on the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Political Science Association.

Mr. Picker, 79, is an honorary Fellow of the American College of Radiologists. He was chief executive officer of the Picker Corporation, manufacturers of X-ray and nuclear instruments, from 1946 until 1968. He remained chairman of the board of the company, which was founded by his father, James, until 1982. He served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Founded in 1946, the School of International and Public Affairs offers two-year interdisciplinary graduate programs in international affairs and public administration with broad curricular offerings. For international affairs students, regional concentrations are available in the economics, politics and history of Africa, East Asia, East Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Western Europe. Concentrations spanning regional boundaries include International Finance and Business, Environmental Policy Studies, Economic and Political Development, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, International Media and Communications, International Economic Policy, and International Security Policy.

Public Affairs students complete rigorous core requirements to prepare them for management positions in the public sector before choosing from policy concentrations in areas such as the environment, health care, education or technology policy.

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with the highly competitive U.S. government-sponsored Muskie Fellowship program. The development of a mid-career program will be an essential part of SIPA's future miss18730.html 770 56634 7660 4763 6036564701 5631 Press Release: India's Finance Minister to Lecture at Columbia 

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Fred Knubel, Director
For Use upon Receipt, October 2, 1995

India's Finance Minister to Lecture at Columbia

Manmohan Singh, India's Minister of Finance, will deliver the 1995 Gabriel Silver Lecture at Columbia University Monday, October 9.

He will speak on "Development Challenges in the Post Cold War Era" at 5 P.M. in Altschul Auditorium in the International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street at Amsterdam Avenue.

Taking office in Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's government in 1991 in the midst of a monetary crisis, Dr. Singh won political support for a series of crucial reforms that have led to a dramatic improvement in the Indian economy and earned him the respect of economic leaders worldwide. Through his initiatives, which include loosening controls on business and monetary policy, foreign investment has risen in India and inflation and the country's deficit have been reduced.

Educated at Punjab University and at Oxford and Cambridge, Dr. Singh had served as a top-level economic adviser in the Indian government for two decades. He has also been a professor at the Delhi School of Economics of Delhi University and Punjab University, a governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission.

The Gabriel Silver Lectures were established in 1949 by the late Leo Silver, a New Jersey industrialist, in memory of his father to stimulate public interest "to lead the way over the present barriers of suspicion and distrust between men and nations." Previous lecturers have included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Helmut Schmidt, Teddy Kollek, Bronislaw Geremek, Rajiv Gandhi, Abba Eban and Willy Brandt.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and may be made by calling JoAnn Crawford at the School of International and Public Affairs, (212) 854-8598.

Dr. Singh will also speak that evening at a reception and dinner in his honor hosted by Columbia and the Indian-American community in New York at the Plaza Hotel. Ticket information may be obtained by telephoning the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia, (212) 854-3616. Press are invited to cover his talk at about 8 P.M. at the dinner.

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International18732.html 770 56634 7660 7676 6036564702 5642 Press Release: International Scholars to Gather at Columbia to Discuss Richard Wagner's Impact on Modern Culture 

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For Use upon Receipt, October 2, 1995

International Scholars to Gather at Columbia to Discuss Richard Wagner's Impact on Modern Culture

Richard Wagner, one this century's most controversial cultural figures, will be the focus of discussion at Columbia University this weekend when international scholars gather on the Morningside campus for a three-day symposium beginning Friday titled "Wagner and the Consequences."

Participants will include the conductor Daniel Barenboim, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the State Opera of Berlin, and Columbia Professor Edward Said, the renowned scholar of modern literature and theory and a noted music critic, in a public discussion on the symposium topic in Miller Theatre Saturday, October 7, from 4 to 6 P.M. (Ticket information: (212) 854-7799.)

Among speakers at other sessions, which will all be held in the Kellogg Center, 15th floor, of the International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St. at Amsterdam Avenue, will be Joseph Horowitz, executive director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, and Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra. Distinguished scholars from around the world will address a variety of topics, including the composer's musical legacy, his role in the development of anti-Semitism in Germany, and the reception of his works during the Nazi era.

Conference participants and members of the Wagner Society of New York will view an exhibition in Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Butler Library Friday evening of 52 items related to Richard Wagner, all from the University's holdings. The exhibition, on public view through November 3, features selections from the library's major collections of the papers of Anton Seidl, musical secretary to Wagner and later conductor at Bayreuth and the New York Metropolitan Opera; artist and illustrator Arthur Rackham; architect and stage designer Joseph Urban and theatrical artist Robert Wilson. It will be open this Saturday from 1 to 3 P.M. Regular hours are Monday from 12 to 7:45 P.M. and Tuesday through Friday from 9 A.M. to 4:45 P.M.

Professor Mark M. Anderson of Columbia's Department of Germanic Languages, will welcome symposium participants at the opening session at 9:15 Friday. Some of the speakers and their topics over the three-day event: Michael P. Steinberg of Cornell University on "Music Drama and the End of History," Christina von Braun of Humboldt University, Berlin, on "Richard Wagner as Precursor of Modern Mass Media: Sexual Phantasies in Secular Religion," Elisabeth Bronfen of the University of Zurich on "Wagner's Hysteria," Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon of the University of Toronto on "'Parsifal'/Parsyphilization," Ernst Piper, a Munich publisher, on "Bayreuth-the 'Perfection of the Aryan Mystery': Wagner in Nazi Cultural Politics" and Andreas Huyssen of Columbia on "Monumental Seductions."

Attendance at the symposium is by registration, which may be made at the Kellogg Center, and payment of a $30 fee for all three days, $15 per day (half price for members of the Wagner Society of New York). There will be a separate charge for the Barenboim-Said discussion.

Organizers of the conference are Professor Anderson and David J. Levin of the Department of Germanic Languages, Professor Said, Professor Walter Frisch of the Department of Music, Deutsches House at Columbia, and the German Academic Exchange Service. The Barenboim-Said discussion is co-sponsored by Goethe House-New York, Deutsches Haus and the Miller Theatre.

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International18733.html 770 56634 7660 6462 6036564700 5631 Press Release: Mullen Named Musher Professor of Social Work at Columbia 

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Mullen Named Musher Professor of Social Work at Columbia

Professor Edward J. Mullen, a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social Work since 1987, has been appointed the first Willma and Albert Musher Professor of Social Work.

The appointment was made by the University Trustees and announced by Columbia President George Rupp.

Experienced in social work practice, analysis and research, he is director of the Center for the Study of Social Work Practice, a joint program of Columbia and the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. Since 1989, he has been director of the National Institute of Mental Health Doctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services Research and HIV/AIDS. He is a co-author of 10 books and has written 40 articles on chronic dependency, strategies for social intervention, social welfare administration policies, minority recruitment and clinical practice. In addition, his research has focused on social intervention, evaluation, expert systems applications to social welfare, mental health service systems and minority leadership development.

Before joining Columbia, he was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1987, where he was a founding director of the NIMH Doctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services Research. He was a faculty member at Fordham University from 1967 to 1976.

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Catholic University of America and the Doctorate in Social Welfare at Columbia in 1968. Early in his career he was a social worker in Washington, D.C. and a family counselor for Jewish Family Services in New York. He was director from 1969 to 1973 of the Institute of Welfare Research for the Community Service Society of New York.

At Columbia, he served as associate dean of social work from 1987 to 1992 and was acting dean during the fall 1991 term. He directed the Minority Leadership Development Project from 1988 to 1994 and has been director of the Center for the Study of Social Work Practice since 1992.

He is a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Social Service Research and a director of the U.S. Committee of the International Conference on Social Welfare and the Martha Selig Educational Institute of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. He has been a consulting editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and was a member of the editorial board of research of the journal Social Work Research and Abstracts.

The Musher Professorship was established by the University Trustees this year for life betterment through science and technology with an endowment from Mr. Musher, a benefactor of the school for a number of years and a director of Stiefel Laboratories. As president of Avino Pharmaceuticals Inc., now merged with S.C. Johnson Co., from 1948 to 1969 he was responsible for inventions that led to 50 U.S. and foreign patents on pharmaceutical and food products.

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anhattan will be available. Buses will depart from 116th and Broadway at 9, 10 and 11 A.M. and from the observatory at 1, 2 and 3 P.M. Reservations are required and may be made by calling the Department of 18734.html 770 56634 7660 17756 6043172027 5655 Press Release: Columbia's Ditson Award Won by Gustav Meier 

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Columbia's Ditson Award Won by Gustav Meier

The 1995 Ditson Conductor's Award for the advancement of American music will be awarded by Columbia University to Gustav Meier, music director of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony and the Greater Lansing Symphony, the University has announced.

Mr. Meier, who heads the Conductors Seminar at Tanglewood Music Center, will receive the award Saturday, Oct. 21, at an 8:30 P.M. concert opening the Greater Bridgeport Symphony's 50th season at Klein Memorial Auditorium in Bridgeport, Conn. Symphony French hornist Stewart Schuele has composed a special "Fanfare" to mark the occasion.

The Ditson Conductor's Award was established 50 years ago in 1945 by the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia and is the oldest award honoring conductors for their support of American music. Previous recipients have included Christopher Keene, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leopold Stowkowski, Leonard Bernstein and Eugene Ormandy.

Columbia Professor of Music George Edwards, the Secretary of the Ditson Fund Advisory Committee, will present the 51st annual award and $1,000 to Mr. Meier. He will read a citation from Columbia University President George Rupp praising Maestro Meier as a "revered teacher of conducting" whose "extraordinary skill and uncanny ability to intuit the composer's intentions lead to performances notable for their rhythmic life, clarity and sense of the whole."

Noted for a special devotion to American music, Mr. Meier, 66, has conducted hundreds of performances of nearly 200 compositions by American composers, including more than 50 first performances of works by such composers as Robert Carl, Elliott Carter, Kurt Weill, Hugo Weisgall, James Drew and Thomas Fay.

Acclaimed as an outstanding conductor and gifted teacher, Mr. Meier since 1980 has spent summers overseeing the prestigious Conductors Seminar at Tanglewood Music Center, whose guests have included Andre Previn, Kurt Mazur and Colin Davis. His association with Tanglewood dates to 1957 and 1958, when he himself won a conducting fellowship and was a member of a remarkable class that included Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta and David Zinman.

Head of the orchestra conducting program at the University of Michigan, director of orchestras and a full professor from 1976 until this year, he has been music director of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony since 1972 and music director of the Michigan's Greater Lansing Symphony since 1979. He appears regularly as a guest conductor in Europe, South and Central America and throughout the United States.

After graduating from the Zurich Conservatory, the Swiss-born conductor continued his studies at the Academia Chigiana Siena. He began his career as a conductor of the Lucerne Opera, followed by several seasons at the Vienna Chamber Opera and the Zurich Opera. He has been a regular conductor at operas in New York City, Santa Fe and San Francisco.

He served as professor of music at Yale University from 1960 to 1973, the youngest full professor ever at the school, and at the Eastman School of Music from 1973 to 1976.

Mr. Meier has won critical praise for his innovative artistic direction. In 1982 he conducted Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress with film director Robert Altman directing at the University of Michigan. In 1986, he premiered the multi-media production of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and Experience at the University of Michigan and Grant Park in Chicago.

Following is the text of a citation from Columbia University President George Rupp to Gustav Meier, the recipient of the University's 1995 Ditson Conductor's Award for the advancement of American music, to be presented Oct. 21, 1995, at the opening concert of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony's 50th season at 8:30 P.M. in Klein Memorial Auditorium, Bridgeport, Conn.

Gustav Meier

Born and educated in Switzerland, you held positions as an operatic conductor in Vienna and Zurich before continuing your conducting studies at Tanglewood in the summers of 1957 and 1958. Since then, you have appeared frequently as a guest conductor of major orchestras and opera companies in Europe and the Americas and have served for many years as Music Director of the Greater Lansing and Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras. Perhaps the country's most revered teacher of conducting, you have been Professor of Conducting at Yale University, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan, and you have headed the prestigious conducting program at Tanglewood since 1980.

But you are known for educating orchestras and audiences, as well as conductors. An important element in your innovative programming has been your special devotion to American music. You have conducted hundreds of performances of nearly 200 compositions by American composers, including over 50 first performances. Your extraordinary skill and uncanny ability to intuit the composer's intentions lead to performances notable for their rhythmic life, clarity, and sense of the whole.

For your inspired dedication to the performance of American music for over 35 years, Columbia University is delighted to honor you with the Ditson Conductor's Award for 1995.

Ditson Conductor's Award Winners

1945Howard Hanson
1946Leon Barzin
1947Alfred Wallenstein
1948Dean Dixon
1949Thor Johnson
1950Izler Solomon
1951Robert Whitney
1952Leopold Stokowski
1953Walter Hendl
1954David Broekman
1955Robert Shaw
1956Victor Alessandro
1957Howard Mitchell
1958Leonard Bernstein
1959Julius Rudel
1960Richard Bales
1961Richard Franko Goldman
1962Guy Fraser Harrison
1963Milton Katims
1964Emerson Buckley
1965Jacob Avshalomov
1966William Strickland
1967Igor Buketoff
1968Alan Carter
1969Frederick Fennell
1970Gunther Schuller
1971Maurice Abravanel
1972Louis Lane
1973Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
1974Lukas Foss
1975Antal Dorati
1976Jose Serebrier
1977Eugene Ormandy
1978Gregg Smith
1979Sergiu Commissiona
1980James A. Dixon
1981Michael Charry
1982Russell Patterson
1983Julius Hegyi
1984Leonard Slatkin
1985Jorge Mester
1986Efrain Guigui
1987Dennis Russell Davies
1988Lawrence Leighton Smith
1989Gerard Schwarz
1990Mstislav Rostropovich
1991Christopher Keene
1992Herbert Blomstedt
1993Michael Tilson Thomas
1994Gerhard Samuel
1995Gustav Meier

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fessors of politic18735.html 775 56634 7660 6706 6043172030 5626 Press Release: Nomura Securities to Give $2M to Columbia Business School to Endow Professorship in International Finance 

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Contact: Lori Dykeman (212) 854-2747

Nomura Securities to Give $2M to Columbia Business School to Endow Professorship in International Finance

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. has pledged $2 million to Columbia Business School to endow the Nomura Professorship of International Finance, Columbia University has announced.

Mr. Hideo Sakamaki, Nomura president and chief executive officer, visited New York Thursday, Oct. 5, to formalize the agreement in a signing ceremony at the Business School attended by Columbia President George Rupp, Columbia Business School Dean Meyer Feldberg and faculty and students.

"This generous gift cements one of our most important global relationships," said Dean Feldberg. "Columbia Business School's strength in international business and finance is a distinguishing feature of its research and teaching programs. The prestigious Nomura Chair in international finance will enable the school to recruit a stellar academic."

Columbia Business School will launch a worldwide search for a scholar of international stature with expertise in the areas of security analysis, investment banking and the globalization of financial markets. The professor will teach courses across the M.B.A., Ph.D. and Executive Programs and will build upon existing relationships with executives of the firm to discuss research or other issues of interest to Nomura.

"As the role and importance of Japan in the world economy continues to grow, students who study at Columbia Business School benefit from Columbia's international preeminence, its vast resources in Asian studies and its distinction in business and finance," said Mr. Sakamaki. "We feel that the establishment of the Nomura Professorship of International Finance adds another dimension, enabling Columbia and Nomura to work together to promote knowledge and excellence, to foster contacts and exchanges on many levels and to contribute to the development of management expertise."

Among Columbia Business School's many prominent alumni are a number of senior executives and board members at Nomura, including Mr. Hitoshi Tonomura ('64), executive vice president, Mr. Katsuya Takanashi ('69), executive managing director, and Mr. Max C. Chapman, Jr. ('69), co-chairman and co-CEO of Nomura Holding America Inc.

"Given the pace and scope of business today, comprehensive knowledge about international business and the financial climate in which it operates is an imperative tool," said Mr. Chapman. "The Nomura Professorship will enhance the value of Columbia Business School graduates immeasurably. I'm proud to be a part of two organizations which continually demonstrate a commitment to furthering the quality of management education."

Nomura is one of the world's largest brokerage and investment banks. Through its worldwide network, it advises companies, governments and global financial institutions on a wide range of financial and strategic issues including banking, asset management, leveraged leasing, real estate and mergers and acquisitions.

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music, to be presented Oct. 21, 1995, at the opening conc18736.html 770 56634 7660 12534 6043172031 5637 Press Release: "Journeys in Microspace: The Art of the Scanning Electron Microscope," An Exhibit of Images from the Microworld 

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"Journeys in Microspace: The Art of the Scanning Electron Microscope," An Exhibit of Images from the Microworld.

Oct. 17-Nov. 10, 1995, Mon.-Fri. 9 A.M.-5:30 P.M.; free admission. Information: (914) 365-8747.

Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, Broadway and 116th Street.

Like Alice, Dee Breger journeyed through a looking glass and unexpectedly found herself in a wonderland.

For nearly 30 years, Ms. Breger has operated scanning electron microscopes at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia's earth sciences research center in Palisades, N.Y. The instrument can magnify objects up to 300,000 times their actual size, revealing a hidden domain filled with strange curiosities and unimaginable beauty.

In this infinitesimal realm, arterial blood clots look like UFO's caught in an extraterrestrial traffic jam. Microminerals give the appearance of vast landscapes dotted with buttes and canyons. Synthetic kidney stone crystals seem like falling snowflakes and the shells of microscopic plants stand out like spiked, medieval maces or Christmas tree ornaments.

Ms. Breger, 52, has applied Lamont's scanning electron microscope, or SEM, to a wide range of scientific studies, but trained as an artist, she recognized a good picture when she saw one. Now, 50 of the SEM images will be on public view from Oct. 17 to Nov. 10 in an exhibition in Low Memorial Library on

Columbia's Morningside Heights campus titled Journeys in Microspace: The Art of the Scanning Electron Microscope, offering viewers an opportunity to explore a complex, elegant and sometimes startling universe on the scale of a grain of sand. (Hours are Monday to Friday from 9 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Admission is free.)

In a book of the same title being published this fall by Columbia University Press, nearly 200 SEM images taken by Ms. Breger will be reproduced.

Ms. Breger will also show the SEM images at Lamont-Doherty's open house, Saturday, Oct. 14, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. at its Palisades, N.Y., campus. (Call 914/359-2900 for information.)

Armed with a fine arts degree, Ms. Breger took a summer job in 1964 drawing pictures of microscopic animal life for a scientist at Lamont. But the electron microscope's ability to produce magnified images of microplankton with great depth and clarity soon put her out of business. Instead, she took over operation of the instrument, occasionally bending it to her artistic sensibilities.

Conventional microscopes use particles of light, or photons, to look directly at small objects, employing glass lenses to magnify things several thousand times. The SEM opens the door to an even tinier level by using electrons, which are much smaller. "Trying to see very small things with photons would be like trying to play marbles with cannon balls," Ms. Breger said.

In the SEM, a beam of electrons hits a sample, knocking off electrons from the sample's surface. These "secondary" electrons, carrying information about the sample's three-dimensional topography, are collected by a detector, electronically processed and reassembled in their original configuration to produce a picture of the sample's surface.

The SEM can "see" features as small as 40 angstroms, or .000000177 of an inch across. "At that scale, your fingernail would be as wide as Manhattan," Ms. Breger said. "Or put another way, if Manhattan were only half an inch wide, we could use the SEM to read the license plates of cars parked on Broadway."

Scientists at Lamont-Doherty have used the SEM over the years to identify microplankton in ocean sediments; the fossilized remains incorporated into chalk lining underwater canyons; and the microscopic teeth of prehistoric creatures. They have used it to investigate the structure of earthquake-induced microfractures in rocks and microminerals from the earth's upper mantle.

Other Columbia researchers have also made use of the Lamont-Doherty SEM. Scientists at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have explored the microstructure of wires in the Williamsburg Bridge and have taken a close look at the architecture of industrial filters. Dental researchers have examined dental implants to see why some fail. Researchers at Columbia's School of Physicians and Surgeons and elsewhere have sought images of staph infections and of the cells that repair the human heart muscle.

Using the SEM, Ms. Breger has also provided an extraordinary perspective on some ordinary things. Magnified by the SEM, nylon looks like a plate of spaghetti. A tungsten wire filament, when burned, creates a still life of crystals and bubbles. Bugs are monstrosities. And just by looking at its structure, one can understand how Velcro works.

"At the heart of all these images is the astonishment, respect and aesthetic pleasure we get as we marvel at the variety of forms existence itself takes and its enormous range of scales," Ms. Breger said.

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For nearly 30 years, Ms. Breger has operated scanning electron microscopes at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia's earth sciences18737.html 770 56634 7660 7132 6043172032 5617 Press Release: Zelin Named East Asian Institute Director 

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Zelin Named East Asian Institute Director

Madeleine Zelin, a professor at Columbia University, historian of modern China and authority on Chinese economic and legal history, has been named director of the East Asian Institute at Columbia.

Based in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, the institute is the oldest major university center providing interdisciplinary training to graduate students specializing in the East Asian region. Professor Zelin succeeds Andrew Nathan, professor of political science, who has returned to full-time teaching after three years as director.

She takes over the institute's leadership at a time of dramatic change in East Asia, with its burgeoning economy, passing of the old guard in China and North Korea, repatriation of Hong Kong, development of civil society in the Republic of Korea and end of one-party dominance in Japan and Taiwan.

"An understanding of East Asia in its largest context, both as part of a complex of economic and political relationships within the Pacific region as a whole, and as a major force in world affairs will be essential as we enter the 21st century," she said. "The East Asian Institute community of scholars is well situated to take the lead in educating researchers, teachers, diplomats and members of the legal and business communities to meet this challenge."

Professor Zelin, a graduate of Cornell University who earned the Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, joined the Columbia faculty in 1979 and was promoted to full professor in 1989. She has been director of Columbia's East Asian Title VI National Resource Center since 1987 and served as acting director of the East Asian Institute in 1992-93. She has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Committee for Scholarly Communication with China and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. She has been a visiting scholar at Beijing and Sichuan National Universities and is a pioneer in the development of archival research in China.

She has written numerous articles on China's economic development and business, legal and social history and is the author of The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century China and translator of Rainbow by Mao Dun. She is completing work on two new books, The Merchants of Zigong and The Development of Underdevelopment in China.

Professor Zelin's current research, supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, deals with Chinese contract law and its role in the development of the Chinese economy and jurisprudence.

She said the institute is planning new initiatives to strengthen its commitment and expertise in the region and in such fields as human rights, post-Socialist reform, multilateral diplomacy, post-Cold War security arrangements and technology and environmental studies. In addition, it plans to enhance teaching and research on the Pacific Basin and regional organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. "As we near the 50th anniversary of the East Asian Institute in 1999, we look forward to the beginning of what promises to be the Pacific Century," she said.

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can "see" features as small as 40 angstroms, or .000000177 of an inch across. "At that scale, your fingernail would be as wide as Manhattan," Ms. Breger said. "Or put another way, if Manhattan were only half an inch wide, we could use the SEM to read the license plates of cars parked on Broadway."

Scientists at Lamont-Doherty have used the SEM over the years to identify microplankton in ocean sediments; the fossili18740.html 770 56634 7660 7252 6043172035 5617 Press Release: Architect's Columbia Lecture to Review America's Efforts to Create 'Compelling Sense of Place' 

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Architect's Columbia Lecture to Review America's Efforts to Create 'Compelling Sense of Place'

Address by Robert A.M. Stern Is First in Series

Architect and Columbia University professor Robert A.M. Stern, who sees architecture as the embodiment of the values and culture of society, will discuss the topic "Place, Time and Architecture" in a slide lecture at the University Monday, October 30.

Professor Stern, founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York and a noted scholar and author, will deliver the first University Lecture of the academic year at 8 P.M. in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus at Broadway and 116th Street. It is free and open to the public.

A faculty member at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation since 1970, he is co-author of the recently published New York 1960, the third volume in his landmark series on New York City architecture and urbanism.

In his talk, Professor Stern said he will "examine American efforts, both historic and contemporary, to create a compelling sense of place." Using historical examples and his own work, he will discuss "the particular challenges of making buildings in the United States, a self-invented culture continually in search of a usable past."

Mr. Stern's work includes award-winning shingle-style residences and notable commercial and civic buildings worldwide, including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., the new Brooklyn Law School Building, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, the Ohrstrom Library at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., hotels at Euro Disneyland and Walt Disney World and the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University.

Educated at Columbia and Yale Universities, he was the first director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at the University (1984-88). In 1986, he hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream," an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series on PBS.

His books include New Directions in American Architecture, George Howe: Toward a Modern American Architecture and Modern Classicism. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial," co-authored with Thomas Mellins and David Fishman, is an examination of three decades that reshaped New York and the concept of what cities and city life ought to be. The earlier volumes in the series are New York 1900, co-authored with John Massengale and Gregory Gilmartin, and New York 1930, with Mr. Mellins and Mr. Gilmartin.

Seven books on Mr. Stern's own architectural work have been published. His designs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and universities and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, the Denver Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. A fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he was awarded the New York Chapter's Medal of Honor in 1984.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company.

The University Lectures annually bring before the Columbia community and the public addresses by outstanding Columbia faculty members.

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Mr. Stern's work includes award-winning shingle-style residences and notable commercial and civic buildings worldwide, including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., the new Brooklyn Law School Building, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, the Ohrstrom Library at18741.html 775 56634 7660 13241 6043172036 5641 Press Release: Columbia Study on Accountability of Colleges and Universities Urges Strengthening of Internal Reviews 

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Columbia Study on Accountability of Colleges and Universities Urges Strengthening of Internal Reviews

"Higher education does not lack accountability, rather, it lacks enough of the proper kind and is burdened with too much of an unproductive kind," states a report issued this week at Columbia University by three nationally prominent scholars.

The report, in the form of an essay, provides a new framework for understanding how colleges and universities should properly account to themselves and to their many stakeholders--students and parents, governments and taxpayers, donors, private accreditors, and the general public. Critics have challenged the accountability of higher education. Federal and state laws and regulations in this domain are being reconsidered. Public debate on new national forms of governance of private, voluntary accreditation is garnering the attention of educators, government officials and the agencies which accredit colleges and universities.

The essay recommends that colleges and universities strengthen their internal reviews and that outside accrediting agencies, instead of assessing an institution's overall quality, judge how well those internal reviews were done. It states that "the serious and candid internal reviews that we propose simply will not emerge from the current process that asks that an institution show its best face to skeptical outsiders."

The national study, titled Accountability of Colleges and Universities, an Essay, was authored by Patricia Albjerg Graham, President of the Spencer Foundation and the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University; Richard W. Lyman, President Emeritus and J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford University, and Martin Trow, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. It was directed by Gregory Fusco, Vice President for Government Relations and Community Affairs at Columbia, where the report was prepared and published. It was funded principally by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the Spencer Foundation and Columbia.

Teaching and learning must become once again the central focus of institutions of higher education, the scholars state. Most colleges and universities need to pay greater attention to this basic mission, making it the heart of accountability. New forms of faculty-led internal review are needed, as are institution-wide self-evaluations by presidents, provosts and senior academic leaders. With these internal reforms, the process of review by external accrediting bodies "would shift from an assessment of the quality of an institution to an audit of internal quality-control mechanisms of the institution," the report states. The focus would then be on how the institution itself identifies weaknesses in teaching and learning and on the effectiveness of actions to address those weaknesses.

Despite criticisms of higher education, public confidence in colleges and universities remains high. The authors named this phenomenon "the paradox of public esteem." They go on to say "In some sense, both the cheers and jeers are justified. Across America, we see a sprawling array of colleges and universities with great merits; we also see serious but curable problems that need attention. We undertook this study to contribute to the public debate about accountability and to urge greater attention to teaching and learning."

The authors concluded that "argument about the proper amount and types of accountability in American colleges and universities has become shrill, and mistrust has grown on all sides. It is time to turn down the volume and to exercise restraint in dealing with an enterprise that is so complex and so important to the nation's well-being. Strengthening accountability is a task that begins at home. Internal accountability can provide a strong foundation for the reformed external accountability we propose." Five principles of accountability of colleges and universities are proposed, to guide future public discourse. They are: External accountability must reinforce internal accountability; "Do no harm"; Respect diversity; Academic responsibility is central; and Accountability is a forward-looking responsibility.

The authors and director interviewed dozens of experts on the subject across the country, reviewed written materials and consulted with national education associations, private accreditation agencies and government officials in their deliberations. The authors have designated the study director as principal spokesman for their results.

The report is being distributed directly to college and university presidents across the country, as well as to others interested in the subject. A number of national higher education associations are also cooperating in the distribution. Single copies of the report are available free of charge by writing to: The Accountability Study, Room 301 Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. The text of the full document, including the essay, preface, executive summary and appendices, will be available soon on the Worldwide Web under "Accountability Study" at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/provost/

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"'The Tall Swift Shadow of a Ship at Night': Stephen and Cora Crane," an exhibition of manuscripts, photographs and memorabilia on the occasion of the centennial of The Red Badge of Courage.

Nov. 2 - Feb. 16, 1996, Mon., 12-7:45 P.M., Tues.-Fri., 9-4:45 P.M.; (Closed Nov. 7, 23, 24;, Dec. 25, 26 ;and Jan. 1, 2, 15). Call to confirm hours: (212) 854-5153. Free admission.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library, Columbia University, Broadway and 116th Street.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane's classic novel of the Civil War, the exhibition examines the literary career and life of the author, who died of tuberculosis in 1900 at age 28, as well as the colorful life of his common-law wife, Cora. Stephen and Cora Crane covered the Greco-Turkish war as journalists and then settled in England, where they socialized with such luminaries as Joseph Conrad, Henry James and H. G. Wells. The 120 items on view from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library's Crane Collection include signed letters from Conrad, James, Wells and William Dean Howells, first editions of The Red Badge and Crane's New York slum novel, Maggie, original literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs and memorabilia. Columbia's Crane collection is among the largest in the nation, consisting mainly of materials owned by Cora Crane at her death in 1910.

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sities, an Essay, was authored by Patricia Albjerg Graham, President of the Spencer Foundation and the Charles Warren Professor of the History of 18743.html 775 56634 7660 10375 6057114472 5655 Press Release: Students' Winning Solar-Powered Boat 0n Exhibit at Columbia Engineering School 

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Students' Winning Solar-Powered Boat on Exhibit at Columbia Engineering School

People say, "It's a very New York boat."

The 17-foot solar-powered boat painted taxicab yellow with a real fare card on the side is on display at Columbia University through October 31.

Twelve engineering students built the slender craft last spring and took it to Milwaukee this summer, where it won a race in the annual Solar Splash collegiate competition and got plenty of attention.

"People were impressed with the quality of the boat, the electronics and the craftsmanship, considering what was available to us," said Bob Stark, mechanical engineering's lab supervisor. "They also commented on the color scheme. It is very much a New York boat."

The Associated Press moved a color news photo of it nationwide on its wires, and two Columbia student builders appeared on Milwaukee television.

Now you can see the boat, dubbed "Ziptie Love" by the students for the plastic strips that hold its wiring in place, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering offices in 220 Mudd, 9 to 5 weekdays. (Telephone (212) 854-4465 for further information.) The exhibit in the department's newly renovated reception area includes Solar Splash memorabilia and photos and text describing the project.

The enthusiasm generated by Columbia's showing has spread throughout the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the school's new dean, Zvi Galil, the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor.

"That a dozen students were able to design and build a working solar boat speaks volumes about their skills, what they knew and what they learned," Dean Galil said. "This is the kind of team spirit that engineers need and that Columbia fosters."

The craft competed in June against entries from 18 other colleges and universities in the United States and Japan. It was fifth in the 300-meter sprint competition, seventh in the two-hour endurance race, and beat out the only other competitor in the tandem endurance division, with crews of two instead of one.

"Ziptie Love" attained speeds of about 5 mph in the endurance race, in which the boats are powered both by solar electric panels and car batteries, and about 20 mph in the sprint race, which uses car batteries only. Though the Columbia entry was about to pass the third boat in the last minutes of the sprint race, it veered off course because of a steering problem and dropped to fifth place.

Students raised $3,300 in cash and about $11,500 in contributions of goods and services for the project. The advanced, pancake-shaped electronic motor, the object of much curiosity at the solar regatta, was donated by Lynch Industries of Britain. Other sponsors included Columbia's Office of the Provost and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Students are already planning a repeat appearance next June, with possibly two entries, a modified "Ziptie" and a much smaller fiberglass microhull. The race is sponsored by the Solar Energy Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Several seniors used the project to satisfy their engineering design project requirement, a four-credit course. The skills they gained will serve them well in their careers, several of the students said.

"The project encouraged the unique mindset engineers need on a project, the ability to find solutions that may not be obvious," said Brian Leibowitz, now a sophomore, who handled much of the boat's electronics.

"The kind of team spirit we generated in building the boat was definitely a quality my employer wanted to see," said Greg Zimmerman, SEAS '95, who now works for Affiliated Engineers Inc. in Madison, Wisc. "I'd love to be there to see how the Columbia team does next year."

"We built a really solid boat," said Bridget Cooley, SEAS '95, now a management consultant for Mentor Co. in New York. "And we had a lot of fun."

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de a strong foundation for the reformed external accountability we propose." Five principles of accountability of colleges and universities are proposed, to guide future public discourse. They are: External accountability must reinforce internal accountabilit18746.html 775 56634 7660 26525 6057112365 5663 Press Release: Four Journalists Win Columbia University's Cabot Prizes For Coverage of Latin America 

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Fred Knubel, Director
For use upon receipt, October 26, 1995

Four Journalists Win Columbia University's Cabot Prizes For Coverage of Latin America

Journalists who defy dictatorial regimes and risk their lives covering Central and South America are among the winners of Columbia University's 1995 Maria Moors Cabot Prizes.

Receiving awards for the advancement of press freedom and inter-American understanding in ceremonies at Columbia tonight (Thursday) will be:

Douglas C. Farah, Central America and Caribbean correspondent for The Washington Post;
Canute W. James, Caribbean correspondent for the Financial Times of London;
Geri L. Smith, Mexico City bureau chief for Business Week magazine; and
José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, president, general manager and general editor of the daily newspaper Siglo Veintiuno of Guatemala.

A Cabot special citation will be presented to I. Roberto Eisenmann, Jr., founding editor and publisher of the daily newspaper La Prensa in Panama.

The awards, now in their 57th year, are the oldest in international journalism and are administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. They will be presented in formal ceremonies beginning at 8:15 P.M. in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the University's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Journalism Dean Joan Konner will present the winners to University Vice Provost Michael Crow, who will confer the prizes. Winners receive Cabot Gold Medals and a $l,000 honorarium each.

Dean Konner will also introduce the Cabot Scholars in the Journalism Class of `96: Edgardo Martinez of New York City and Diana Rubio of San Antonio, Texas.

The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes have been awarded annually by Columbia since 1939 to journalists of the Western hemisphere for distinguished contributions to inter-American understanding and freedom of information. They were established by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife. With this year's awards, 210 prizes and 46 special citations will have been conferred on journalists from 31 countries.

The prizes are awarded by the Trustees of Columbia University on the recommendation of the dean of the Journalism School. An advisory committee of journalists and educators concerned with hemisphere affairs assists the dean in making recommendations. Advice is also sought from consultants, including Latin and North American editors. Director of the advisory committee is Dr. James Nelson Goodsell, who holds the James L. Knight Chair of International Reporting at the University of Miami and is a former Latin America correspondent and editor with The Christian Science Monitor. He is a 1967 Cabot medalist.

Information on the 1995 prizewinners follows:

Douglas C. Farah, Central America and Caribbean correspondent for The Washington Post.

The son of American missionaries in Bolivia, Mr. Farah brings the experience of a lifetime in Latin America to his reporting. After a childhood in the Bolivian Amazon and teen years in La Paz, he graduated with honors in both journalism and Latin American studies from the University of Kansas in 1985. He was immediately hired by UPI as bureau chief in El Salvador. As a wire service reporter and later as a free-lancer for The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Boston Globe and others, he covered the civil war in El Salvador and the Contras in Honduras. He courageously broke new journalistic ground with an investigative series on right-wing death squads, which won him the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondence in 1988. Moving on to Bogota at the height of the cocaine trade, he established himself as a leading authority on drug-trafficking and money-laundering in the region. As a reporter for The Post since 1992, he has distinguished himself with dramatic stories from Haiti, producing some of the most insightful and significant reporting on the U.S. invasion of Haiti and the restoration of President Aristide last fall.

Canute W. James, Caribbean correspondent for the Financial Times of London.

One of the Caribbean's best-known contemporary journalists, Mr. James has helped a worldwide audience to understand an undercovered part of the hemisphere, the Caribbean. A colleague has called him a "transnational" for his depth of understanding of the individual nations within the region he covers. Born in St. Ann, Jamaica, Mr. James was educated at Manchester School in Mandeville, Jamaica, and at the University of the West Indies (Mona campus), where he earned the B.A. degree. He began his journalism career as a sub-editor with The Gleaner in Jamaica. He went on to become a radio reporter, producer and news reader in London with the BBC from 1971 to 1973, when he returned to Jamaica to head current affairs programming for the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. Later that year he became a senior reporter for the Jamaica Daily News. He was named editor in 1976, a position he held until he joined the Financial Times in 1980. He has been a contributor to The Journal of Commerce, Time magazine, The Miami Herald and other U.S. publications. He is past president of the Press Association of Jamaica and an occasional lecturer on print journalism and radio news writing at the Caribbean Institute of Mass Communications of the University of the West Indies.

Geri L. Smith, Mexico City bureau chief for Business Week magazine.

As Mexico City bureau chief for Business Week since 1992, Ms. Smith was well positioned to report on one of the most far-reaching financial stories of recent years -- the Mexican peso crisis of 1994. Her reports on the impact of the crisis on Mexico's new government, the country's once rapidly growing economy and the working men and women in the nation of 90 million people kept Business Week readers fully informed. Her reporting, on that story and on the Indian rebellion in the Mexican south, benefited from her more than 15 years as a journalist covering the length and breadth of Latin America. Ms. Smith began planning her career as a journalist in junior high school in Central Florida, where she edited the school newspaper. A later experience as an exchange student in Chile during the last year of the Allende government increased her determination to become a foreign correspondent. She learned what it was like to stand in line to buy bread, witness street demonstrations and live in a polarized society.

After graduating from Northwestern University with a B.S. in journalism in 1978, she was an Inter-American Press Association fellow in Buenos Aires. She served as UPI's bureau chief in Chile and Argentina, reporting on other countries as well as the war over the Falkland Islands, Argentina's return to democracy, human rights trials and economic crises. In 1985 she moved to Brazil and began reporting for UPI from Rio de Janeiro, and three years later became a free lance journalist and stringer for four U.S. newspapers, The St. Petersburg Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, as well as for U.S. News & World Report. She added Business Week to her credits in 1991, and the next year became a staff correspondent and chief of its Mexico City bureau, where she supervises the magazine's stringers throughout South America.

José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, president, general manager and general editor of the newspaper Siglo Veintiuno in Guatemala.

Mr. Zamora has courageously led in establishing a new standard of independent journalism in a country where the top editor of a competing daily was murdered two years ago and ten journalists killed in the last six years. Scores of other professionals have met with violent deaths in three decades of civil war. His newspaper, Siglo Veintiuno, Spanish for 21st Century, now five years old, is unique among Guatemala's long-terrorized daily newspapers in testing the limits of a free press--with objective reporting of government, well-reasoned editorials and a full spectrum of views on its opinion pages. Mr. Zamora has tackled previously taboo subjects such as government corruption and official complicity in drug-trafficking. His calls for more equitable taxation have angered business leaders. His support of judicial reform has challenged entrenched lawyers and judges. His decision to run articles about corruption in high military circles resulted in threats against his life. Siglo Veintiuno's reporters have endured physical assault. Its distribution centers have been attacked during the night and the publication has been repeatedly burned. Mr. Zamora refused to publish under censorship in 1993, doing so only under a new name for the paper: Siglo Catorce--Era de Oscurantismo, meaning 14th Century--The Dark Ages.

I. Roberto Eisenmann, Jr., founder of the newspaper La Prensa of Panama.

For the past 15 years, Mr. Eisenmann has led Panama's internationally respected daily newspaper of record, La Prensa, as founding editor and publisher. His plan for an independent newspaper was conceived on a flight back to Panama in 1979 after several years of forced exile under Panama's long military dictatorship. A successful businessman and banker before he entered journalism, Mr. Eisenmann created a newspaper with ownership so broad that no individual could be singled out for reprisal. More than 700 Panamanians came forward as stockholders, with none owning more than one-half of one percent.

La Prensa has led with investigative stories about Panamanian drug and corruption scandals, a diversity of views and biting editorial cartoons. Mr. Eisenmann has lived under constant threat and harassment. Considered a public enemy and condemned as a traitor, he was forced into exile once more by death threats, but continued to manage the newspaper and write his column. La Prensa's reporters were shot at, jailed and sued, and the newspaper itself was repeatedly vandalized by government forces, censored, and closed down in 1988. Democracy returned to Panama in 1990, and since then La Prensa has continued to be the nation's conscience of reform. Although Mr. Eisenmann is leaving the newspaper as editor and publisher, he will continue to write a syndicated column that appears in more than 50 Spanish language newspapers in Europe, Latin America and the United States as well as Op-Ed pieces for such dailies as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Mr. Eisenmann is a fifth-generation Panamanian who was a successful businessman and banker before he became a journalist. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard in 1986.

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oke new journalistic ground with an investigative series on right-wing death squads, which won him the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Corresponden18747.html 770 56634 7660 3351 6057112403 5620 Press Release: Documentary Maker to Discuss Race Relations 

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Documentary Maker to Discuss Race Relations

On Wednesday, October 25, William Jersey, Academy Award-winning director of "A Time for Burning," will be at Columbia University's Miller Theatre to discuss his controversial film about race relations, which won the 1967 Oscar for Best Documentary. A discussion about race relations past and present will follow the 60-minute film, and will feature Jersey, Robert E.A. Lee, executive producer, and Manning Marable, Columbia historian and director of its Institute for Research in African-American Studies. The film will begin at 7:30 P.M. and the discussion will follow. Miller Theatre is on Broadway at West 116th.

Date: Wednesday, October 25
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Place: Miller Theatre (116th & Broadway)
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"A Time for Burning" is the story of how a Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska took a progressive stand on race relations that led to internal strife. Fred Friendly called it one of the best civil rights films ever made. Henry Hampton, director of "Eyes on the Prize," cites "A Time for Burning" as the film that made him want to become a filmmaker.

"A Time for Burning" is part of an on-going series sponsored by the Documentary Center at Columbia and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Director William Jersey will be available for interviews pre- and post-screening.

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18,747 nder a new name for the paper: Siglo Catorce--Era de Oscurantismo, meaning 14th Century--The Dark Ages.

I. Roberto Eisenmann, Jr., founder of the newspaper La Prensa of Panama.

For the past 15 years, Mr. Eisenmann has led Panama's inter18748.html 775 56634 7660 10007 6057112356 5651 Press Release: Columbia Computer Scientists Develop Fast, Less Risky Method to Price Financial Derivatives 

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Columbia Computer Scientists Develop Fast, Less Risky Method to Price Financial Derivatives

Computer scientists at Columbia University have developed a technique that will allow market traders to set prices for complex financial instruments more quickly, accurately and with greater confidence than the standard now in use.

The technique, embodied in software created at the University, can solve highly complex problems that involve as many as 360 variables. Called deterministic low-discrepancy sampling, it is described for the first time by Joseph Traub, the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia, and Spassimir Paskov, a Columbia Ph.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of Portfolio Management. Issues of the journal are being mailed this week.

The software, named FINDER for "financial derivatives," can be used to more rapidly determine the value of derivatives, which include options, futures and mortgage-backed securities. Software licenses for FINDER are available through Columbia Innovation Enterprise, the University's technology transfer and licensing organization.

Faster and more accurate pricing for derivatives would boost a trading firm's confidence in the prices it sets, permitting it to sell the complex instruments with lower risk. The value of a derivative is based on its assets -- stocks, bonds or loans with periodic interest or dividend payments. For example, in pricing a mortgage-backed security, a trader must consider each monthly payment a separate variable. A derivative based on a basket of 30-year mortgages requires analysis of 360 variables.

Such problems suffer from what mathematicians call the "curse of dimensionality," in which complexity increases exponentially with the number of variables. Even with fast computers, a solution used to take weeks.

Wall Street has long used the Monte Carlo method, which averages the values of a random sample of points, to speed the computation. The Columbia researchers instead chose another method of sampling points, one far more likely to deliver a correct answer, the deterministic low-discrepancy approach.

The Columbia researchers applied the technique to a difficult problem supplied to them by Goldman Sachs, the New York investment house: valuing a 30-year mortgage-backed security divided into 10 shares, or tranches. Because the Goldman Sachs model permitted monthly changes in interest rates and prepayment percentages, the problem to be solved has 360 dimensions.

Professor Traub and his graduate student expected that low-discrepancy methods and the Monte Carlo technique would prove equally adept at solving the problem, but found to their amazement that low-discrepancy consistently beat Monte Carlo for accuracy, confidence and speed.

The Columbia team first became interested in the approach after Henryk Wozniakowski, professor of computer science at Columbia, in 1991 published a solution to a 20-year-old problem on optimal choices of sample points in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

A software product based on the deterministic low-discrepancy approach was recently announced by IBM. At a Sept. 27 press conference in New York, the company described its Deterministic Simulation Blaster, which IBM said would allow securities firms to refine their mathematical projections of derivatives' values and determine a price that would put traders at lower risk.

The Columbia computer scientists pioneered the application of deterministic sampling to the pricing of financial derivatives. The Journal of Portfolio Management article is the first published research on the subject.

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tself was repeatedly vandalized by government forces, censored, and closed down in 1988. Democracy returned to Panama in 1990, and since then La Prensa has continued to be the nation's conscience of reform. Although Mr. Eisenmann is leaving the newspaper as editor and publisher, he will continue to write a syndicated column that appears in more than 50 Spanish language newspapers in Europe, Latin America and the United States as well as Op-Ed pieces for such dailies as The New York Times<18751.html 775 56634 7660 7701 6057112347 5632 Press Release: `The Tall Swift Shadow of a Ship at Night': Stephen and Cora Crane 

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" `The Tall Swift Shadow of a Ship at Night': Stephen and Cora Crane," an exhibition of manuscripts, photographs and memorabilia to mark the centennial of The Red Badge of Courage.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library, Columbia University at Broadway and 116th Street. Free admission.

Nov. 2 - Feb, 16, 1996, Mon., 12-7:45 P.M., Tues.-Fri., 9 A.M.-4:45 P.M. (Closed Nov. 7, 20-24; Dec. 25, 26; Jan. 1, 2). Call to confirm hours: (212) 854-5153.

The life and literary career of novelist Stephen Crane and his unconventional common-law wife, Cora, are chronicled in a new exhibition at Columbia University to celebrate the centennial of The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of the Civil War.

The 120 items on view in Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library November 2 through February, 16, 1996, include signed letters from Joseph Conrad, Henry James, H.G.Wells and William Dean Howells, first editions of The Red Badge and Crane's New York slum novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, original manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs and memorabilia, including Crane's pocket watch. Located in Butler Library on Columbia's campus at Broadway and 116th Street, the exhibition is open to the public Monday from 12 to 7:45 P.M. and Tuesday through Friday from 9 A.M. to 4:45 P.M.; admission is free. Columbia's Crane Collection, among the largest in the nation, consists mainly of materials owned by Cora Crane at her death in 1910.

Professor Stanley Wertheim of William Paterson College, a leading Crane scholar and collector, will give a gallery talk on Crane at 6 P.M. December 7 in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It is open to the public. First editions, signed manuscripts and letters from Professor Wertheim's personal Crane collection will be on display in another exhibition celebrating the Red Badge centennial at the Grolier Club, 47 E. 60th St., November 30 through January 12.

Crane died of tuberculosis in 1900 at age 28, having achieved celebrity four and a half years earlier with the publication of Red Badge. A pioneering realist, he had convincingly portrayed New York City tenement life in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in 1892 and had written compelling short stories based on his own adventures and on small town life, many of which depict race relations in the North at the turn of the century.

Born in 1871 in Newark, N.J., Crane was the son of a prominent Methodist minister. He attended Lafayette College and Syracuse University, worked as a reporter in New Jersey, and moved to New York, where he lived a bohemian life and wrote Red Badge, a psychological novel about the Civil War.

Cora Taylor met the young writer when he arrived in Jacksonville, Fla., on his way to cover the Cuban war for independence and maintained a tumultuous relationship with him until his death. The madam of an elegant brothel called the Hotel de Dream, she took his name as his common-law wife and travelled with him to Greece, to cover the Greco-Turkish war for the New York press. Billed as the first female war correspondent, she wrote under the pen name Imogene Carter. After the war ended, the Cranes settled in England, where they socialized with literary luminaries including Conrad, James and Wells.

Following his death, Cora unsuccessfully attempted a literary career of her own and then opened another bordello in Jacksonville. Columbia purchased many Crane papers from her estate. In 1974 the state of Florida presented Columbia with the contents of her safe deposit box.

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18,751 Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Corresponden18752.html 775 56634 7660 4520 6057112371 5624 Press Release: Hacklin Named LeRoy Neiman Professor 

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Hacklin Named LeRoy Neiman Professor

Allan Hacklin, professor and chairman of the Division of Visual Arts of the School of the Arts of Columbia University, has been appointed the first LeRoy Neiman Professor of Visual Arts and director of the school's new LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies.

The appointment was made by the University Trustees and announced by President George Rupp.

The center, established with a recent $6 million gift to the school from the celebrated American artist, will have state-of-the-art studios in intaglio, lithography, silkscreening, photography and computer art in Dodge Hall on Columbia's campus. It will accommodate up to 200 students a year in graduate and undergraduate work, promote advanced research in printmaking and draw outstanding artists to campus.

Professor Hacklin joined the Columbia faculty in 1989 after serving as director of the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston since 1982. At Columbia, he restored the Master of Fine Arts program and established a rigorous program in visual arts for undergraduates.

A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of Pratt Institute and taught there and at the California Institute of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Union and the Rhode Island School of Design, where he headed the Painting Department. At Glassell, he developed a highly selective residency program for gifted emerging artists.

His paintings, sculpture and drawings are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Allen Museum of Oberlin College, the Aldrich Museum of American Art in Connecticut, the North Carolina Museum of Fine Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Currier Museum in New Hampshire. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in this country and Europe and featured in articles in The New York Times, Art News, Art Forum, Arts Magazine, Art International and Vogue.

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Historian Harris Named Shepherd Professor

William V. Harris, a Columbia University faculty member and a scholar of ancient Rome, has been appointed William R. Shepherd Professor of History by the University Trustees.

Professor Harris is the author of Ancient Literacy (1989) and editor of Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, a monograph series of which 22 volumes have been published, and associate editor of American National Biography. He has taught at Columbia since 1965 and lectured at universities throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and in Japan and Israel.

He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London), a member of the Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome, Academia Europaea, the Finnish Society of Sciences and a Foreign Member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici (Florence).

At Columbia, he was chairman of the History Department from 1988-94 and has been chairman of the University Seminar on Classical Civilization and the Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Classical Studies. He is chairman of the Committee on Admissions of Columbia College and serves on the University Senate Commission on the Status of Women and the Housing Policy Committee.

He was educated at Oxford University and was a lecturer at Queen's University (Belfast) before joining the Columbia faculty as an instructor in 1965. He was named professor with tenure in 1976.

The Shepherd chair was established in 1960 to honor the distinguished Columbia historian who was a faculty member from 1896 until his death in 1934.

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18,753 the Allen Museum of Oberlin College, the Aldrich Museum of American Art in Connecticut, the North18754.html 775 56634 7660 6141 6057112350 5624 Press Release: Ottman Gift of $1M Creates Centennial Chair in Social Work 

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Ottman Gift of $1M Creates Centennial Chair in Social Work

Ruth Harris Ottman, an alumna and benefactor of the Columbia University School of Social Work, has donated $1 million to create an endowed professorship to celebrate the school's forthcoming centennial in 1998. to advance social work education.

The new chair, tThe Ruth Harris Ottman Centennial Professorship for the Advancement of Social Work Education, will be held by the dean of the school. It was established by the Columbia Trustees at their October meeting, and. Dean Ronald Feldman was named its first incumbent., a preeminent scholar in social work today, immediately assumes the new position.

Ms. Ottman is the only donor in the history of the school whose generosity has helped endow allowed for the creation of two named professorships. In 1991, she established the Ruth Harris Ottman Professorship in Family and Child Welfare. , now held by Professor Sheila Akabas. A 1945 graduate of the school, Ms. Ottman has been a practicing social worker in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 30 years.

Dean of the School of Social Work since 1986, Ronald Feldman is known nationally as a leading scholar in the field of adolescent mental health and as a pioneer in developing research on the effectiveness of group treatment for children.

A former administrator of Father Flanagan's Boys Home, he gained national media attention in the last year as his opinion was sought in the political controversy over the value of orphanages. Dean Feldman , which he views orphanages as a costly alternative to community-based social work programs for at-risk youngsters.

Dean Feldman came to Columbia from Washington University,(St. Louis), where he was professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, a recipient of the University's Distinguished Faculty Award, and founding director of the Center for Adolescent Mental Health. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley (1966-68), a Fulbright Lecturer in Ankara, Turkey (1968-69) and deputy director of Father Flanagan's Boys Home in Boys Town, Neb. (1974-78). He has been a consultant to government agencies and private youth service agencies and has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals. He is co-author of nine books, including Volumes I and II of Advances in Adolescent Mental Health. He is senior author of Contemporary Approaches to Group Treatment; The St. Louis Conundrum: The Effective Treatment of Antisocial Youths and Children at Risk: In the Web of Parental Mental Illness.

He is a 1960 graduate of the University of Buffalo and earned the Ph.D. in social work and sociology at the University of Michigan in 1966.

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f two named professorships. In 1991, she established the Ruth Harris Ottman Professorship in Family and Child Welfare. , now held by Professor Sheila Akabas. A 1945 graduate of the school, Ms. Ottman has been a practicing social worker in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 30 years.

Dean of the School of Social Work since 1986, Ronald Feldman is known nationally as a leading scholar in the field 18755.html 775 56634 7660 6257 6057112352 5637 Press Release: Columbia's East Central Europe Institute Receives $2M in New Funding for Warsaw Programs 

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Columbia's East Central Europe Institute Receives $2M in New Funding for Warsaw Programs

Columbia University is helping Poland develop a new corps of economists who can assist post-communist European nations establish free-market systems.

With $2 million in new funding added to $1 million in founding grants previously received, Columbia's Institute on East Central Europe has established two cooperative programs at the University of Warsaw.

One, the Warsaw University/Columbia University Cooperative Program in Economics, was launched in 1992 to develop and implement a modern curriculum of university-level education in economics. A corollary program, created this year, is the Central and East European Economic Research Center, designed to encourage research and re-establish economics as an academic discipline in post-communist countries of the region.

Grants for both were made by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Open Society Institute's Higher Education Support Program. The research center received additional support from the Ford Foundation.

John Micgiel, director of the Institute on East Central Europe and adjunct professor of international affairs, said in announcing the $2 million in new awards: "Columbia's outstanding faculty with its strength in two fields of special interest to Warsaw University, microeconomics and international economics, and expertise in the economic transition from socialist to free market economies, made the university the natural choice to lead these initiatives."

Now entering its fourth year, the Cooperative Program in Economics operates as an honors program for undergraduates, admitting 25 Warsaw University students annually. Emphasis is placed on developing skills that are essential for practical, applied economics, such as economic analysis, quantitative methods and the application of theories to empirical inquiry. Teaching staff for the Cooperative Program in Economics is recruited competitively under the guidance of Stanislaw Wellisz, the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Economics at Columbia.

The Central and East European Economic Research Center will focus on problems that arise in connection with the political and economic changes occurring in the region and its reintegration into the European and world economic systems. A fellowship competition is under way for pre- and post-doctoral grants and research fellowships to university faculty members from post-communist countries in the region. The aim of the fellowship program is to improve the skills of current and prospective faculty in the region, encourage the return of expatriate scholars and help retain newly trained scholars, and strengthen the various English-language economics programs operating in the Warsaw region.

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tuous relationship with him until his death. The madam of an elegant brothel called the Hotel de Dream, she took his name as his common-law wife and travelled with him to Greece, to cover the Greco-Turkish war for the New York press. Billed as the first female war correspondent, she wrote under the pen name Imogene Carter. After the18757.html 770 56634 7660 5064 6057112346 5632 Press Release: Peer-Review Team to Examine Columbia-Barnard Athletics 

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Peer-Review Team to Examine Columbia-Barnard Athletics

A peer-review team from the National Collegiate Athletic Association will visit Columbia University November 12-15 to examine athletics at Columbia and Barnard College as part of the certification process for intercollegiate athletics.

Introduced by the association in 1993 as a requirement for Division I institutions, the certification process is designed to open athletics affairs to the University community and maintain standards for athletics programs. Columbia is the first Ivy League school to undergo certification.

Members of the University community are invited to attend an open interview with the peer-review team to discuss issues relating to intercollegiate athletics on Tuesday, November 14, from 1 to 2 P.M. in the Trustees Room in Low Memorial Library.

Robert L. Carothers, president of the University of Rhode Island, chairs the team. He will be joined by J. Robert Knott, faculty athletics representative at the University of Evansville; Joseph Sterrett, director of athletics at Lehigh University; and Patricia Thomas, senior woman administrator for athletics at Georgetown University. During their visit, the team will examine all facets of Columbia's and Barnard's athletics program and talk with students, faculty and administrators.

The first stage of the certification process was completed earlier this fall with the publication of a self-study report on athletics. The study examines governance and rules compliance, academic integrity, fiscal integrity and commitment to equity. Four University committees composed of faculty, administrators and students worked for more than a year to complete the report, which describes all facets of intercollegiate athletics at Columbia and Barnard. The peer-review team visit is one of the last stages of athletics certification.

Further information about the NCAA peer-review team's visit may be obtained from the Department of Physical Education and Intercollegiate Athletics in Dodge Fitness Center. Individuals may also sign-up for the open interview session with the peer-review team in the department office, although advance registration is not necessary for attendance.

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18,757 cation process for intercollegiate athletics.

Introduced by the association in 1993 as a requirement for Division I institutions, the certification process is designed to open athletics affairs to the University community and maintain standards for athletics programs. Columbia is the first Ivy League school to undergo certification.

Members of the University community are invited to attend an open interview with the peer-review team to discu18761.html 775 56634 7660 10116 6057112360 5640 Press Release: Five Nobelists Win Columbia's Hamilton Medal 

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Five Nobelists Win Columbia's Hamilton Medal

Columbia College, which has graduated more Nobel laureates in science than any other American college, will present to five of them its highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Medal, this Thursday (Nov. 16) at Columbia University.

"These are humanist-scientists, at home with Hamlet and the atom, whose shared experience of Columbia's famed core curriculum sets them apart," said University President George Rupp. They are:

Leon N. Cooper `51, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.

Roald Hoffmann `58, winner of the Nobel in Chemistry in 1981.

Norman F. Ramsey, Jr. `35, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1989.

Melvin Schwartz `53, who won the Nobel in Physics in 1988.

Julian S. Schwinger `36, posthumously, winner of the Nobel in Physics in 1965. Clarice Schwinger, his widow, will accept the award.

A total of nine Nobel Prize winners in science (physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine) are graduates of the College, the record for undergraduate degrees earned at any one school. The other four received the Hamilton Medal in a similar celebration 34 years ago, in 1961. Generally, the medal is awarded to only one individual each year.

The medal has been given since 1947 to honor faculty, former faculty or alumni for "distinguished service and accomplishment in any field of human endeavor." Previous winners also include Columbia President Dwight D. Eisenhower and alumni Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The medal is named for the statesman of the Revolutionary period, who attended King's College, as Columbia was then known. The presentation will be made at a formal dinner in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the Morningside Heights campus. Speakers joining Dr. Rupp will include Austin Quigley, dean of the College, Martin S. Kaplan, president of the school's alumni association, and the medalists.

Columbia College is the traditional undergraduate liberal arts college of the University. Its distinction as an educator of Nobelists lies largely in physics, where five of the nine laureate graduates did their winning work. This year, a physicist, Martin Perl, won the Nobel for work begun as a graduate student under Columbia's I. I. Rabi in the 1950s. It was a time when Columbia professors were winning so many Nobels that junior faculty members wore lapel buttons reading "Not Yet."

This year's five honorees earned their Bachelor of Arts degree at the College in the past 60 years:

Dr. Cooper, who also received his master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia, shared the Nobel for developing the theory of superconductivity, which explained the ability of certain materials at extremely low temperatures to sustain electric currents indefinitely. He is Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science at Brown University.

Dr. Hoffmann shared the Nobel for his mathematical theories explaining the behavior of atoms and molecules. He is John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science at Cornell University.

Dr. Ramsey, who also earned his Ph.D. at Columbia, shared the Nobel for devising measurement techniques that led to the use of the cesium atomic clock as the international time standard. He is Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus at Harvard University.

Dr. Schwartz, also holder of a Columbia Ph.D., shared the Nobel with two Columbia colleagues for studies at the University of neutrinos that led to the now accepted view that elementary particles are grouped in pairs. He is I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics at Columbia.

Dr. Schwinger, who also earned the Ph.D. at Columbia, shared the Nobel for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics. University Professor of Physics at UCLA, he died August 16, 1994.

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18,761 ished himself as a leading authority on drug-trafficking and money-laundering in the region. As a reporter for The Post since 1992, he has distinguished himself with dramatic stories from Haiti, producing some of the most insightful and significant reporting on the U.S. invasion of Haiti and the restoration of President Aristide last fall.

Canute W. James, Caribbean correspondent for the Financial Times Press Release: Columbia President Warns Against Diversion from Basic Research 

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Columbia President Warns Against Diversion from Basic Research

The president of Columbia University tonight said that great universities should resist pressure to perform applied research at the expense of pure science.

"Universities must not be construed as simply job shops for industry, just as college teams should not be considered a farm league for professional football," said George Rupp at a convocation on the Columbia campus.

"It is crucial to our very identity as a great research university that we resist pressures to become preoccupied with short-term economic payoffs at the cost of the disciplined, long-term, fundamental inquiry that is our irreplaceable contribution. A failure to resist those pressures would endanger both research and education."

Speaking at a ceremony to award Columbia College's highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Medal, to five Nobel laureates in science who graduated from the school, Dr. Rupp said:

"Today there are potent pressures on universities to produce research that is more and more applied: that promises economic benefits in relatively short order, that will support, or even initiate, a resurgence of American capacity to capture market share." These are important national goals, he said, and Columbia's scientists and engineers play a major role in such research, maintaining "solid working relationships with industrial partners." But, he said, "we must resist pressure that deflects us from our central purpose."

The Hamilton Medal was awarded by Dr. Rupp to:

Leon N. Cooper `51, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.
Roald Hoffmann `58, winner of the Nobel in Chemistry in 1981.
Norman F. Ramsey, Jr. `35, Nobel laureate in Physics in1989.
Melvin Schwartz `53, who won the Nobel in Physics in 1988.
Julian S. Schwinger `36, posthumously, winner of the Nobel in Physics in 1965. Clarice Schwinger, his widow, accepted the award.

Columbia College has conferred undergraduate degrees on nine Nobel laureates in science, more than any other American college. The other four Nobelists received the Hamilton Medal in a similar celebration in 1961.

Dr. Rupp noted that all of the five honorees "devoted their careers to the quest for truth, the beauty of the search, the journey of discovery" and won their Nobel Prizes for basic research "that has created whole new worlds." Among their findings from pure science that had benefits in the long-term was Dr. Ramsey's development of measuring techniques that led to the use of the cesium atomic clock as the international time standard.

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Columbia Heads Consortium for Undergraduate Study in Berlin

Columbia University is leading a select group of American universities in a partnership with the Free University of Berlin to promote academic exchange between the United States and Germany at the undergraduate level.

The newly established Berlin Consortium for German Studies, which will begin its first semester next spring (1996), is a joint project of Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Yale Universities and the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania. It is open to students of all majors with two years of college German at the six universities and to qualified students from other universities on a space-available basis. After a period of intensive language study, participants enroll directly in courses with German students at the Free University and study for one semester or for an entire academic year.

Twenty-three students, seven of them from Columbia and Barnard College, have been accepted into the program for the spring semester. After a six-week language program beginning in February, they will start classes at the Free University in April, concluding their studies in mid-July.

The program, administered by Columbia, was established to give American undergraduates from leading colleges an opportunity to study firsthand the emerging impact of a united Germany, said Professor Mark Anderson, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia. He will serve as the first academic director of the Consortium during the 1996 spring semester. Under the agreement, the Consortium institutions will enroll a limited number of students from the Free University on their campuses.

American students may pursue studies in a wide range of disciplines offered at the Free University, including medicine, the natural and social sciences, the humanities, music and the arts. It is Columbia's first study abroad program in Germany. Columbia has administered a program at its Reid Hall campus in Paris, France, since 1964. Columbia students also may apply to spend a year abroad at the Kyoto Center in Japan and at Oxford or Cambridge Universities in England.

"The Consortium offers students an intellectually challenging and diverse program of study meeting the highest academic standards of its member institutions," said Professor Anderson. "Participants will attend regular courses at the Free University side by side with German students."

Frank Wolf, dean of the Division of Special Programs at Columbia and administrative director of the Consortium, said: "The enthusiasm generated by Professor Anderson's initiative in creating the program is palpable, both at Columbia and Barnard, and at other member institutions. I am delighted to play a part in the process of expanding international study opportunities for undergraduates."

Students in the full-year program may elect to participate in internships during vacation periods in private or public institutions. Students from Consortium institutions will pay tuition and fees to their home institution.

Founded in 1948, the Free University of Berlin is the largest university in Germany's capital city. It provides academic training for some 6,000 foreign students and has partnership agreements with nearly 150 foreign institutions.

Further information and applications for the Berlin Consortium Program may be obtained in Room 303, Lewisohn Hall, Columbia University; Tel.: (212) 854-2559; Fax: (212) 854-5861. The e-mail address is: berlin@columbia.edu

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Columbia University's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) will host an all-day conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday, December 6th. After 25 years of successful environmental policy development, which has resulted in cleaner air and water, the EPA is at a crossroads. Support for the agency is lagging in some quarters, and in the United States Congress, some lawmakers are taking steps to limit the agency's scope, mission and effectiveness. CERC was created at Columbia in the fall of 1994 to bring scientists and policymakers together to develop a common frame of reference for advancing solutions to environmental problems.

"Progress and Promise: 25 Years of Environmental Protection" will begin with remarks from Don Melnick, the director of CERC and professor of anthropology and biological sciences at Columbia, and Jeanne Fox, Regional Administrator of EPA Region II. The closing session will include remarks from George Rupp, President of Columbia University, Kathleen A. McGinty, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, James Florio, former New Jersey Governor, and Marilyn Gelber, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. They will address the challenges of assuring environmental quality on a national, state and local level.

Andrew Revkin of The New York Times; Paul Raeburn, science editor of the Associated Press; William Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News; and Steven Ross, associate professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, will participate in a panel on environmental journalism. Twelve sessions will be held throughout the day on topics ranging from "Regional Environmental Policy Priorities" and "Sustainable Development" to "The Rise of Partnerships: Business, Government, Academic" (complete conference program attached). The conference will foster discussion among members of governmental and non-governmental agencies, research and educational institutions, and private sector organizations about the state of environmental policy nationally and locally.

According to Professor Melnick: "We have an opportunity in this conference to consider the achievements of the past 25 years in their proper scientific and societal contexts, in order to address the future of environmental policies and conservation initiatives into the next century. CERC was founded to carry out just this type of informed inquiry."

The conference, to be held at Columbia's Ferris Booth Hall, will begin at 9:30 AM. Registration begins at 8:30 AM.

The Center for Environmental Research and Conservation is an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional center that unites scientific research with social and economic study. It is a consortium of five educational and research institutions: Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, the Wildlife Conservation Society (formerly the New York Zoological Society), and the Wildlife Preservation Trust International.

CERC is based at Columbia, where it benefits from the University's existing network of first-rate scientific research institutions, including the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, one of the world's finest centers for the study of earth science, and the newest addition to the network, Biosphere 2, a unique laboratory for the study of global climate change, biodiversity and sustainable agriculture, located in the Arizona desert. The University is also linked to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a key research institution for tracing global climate change. CERC is part of Columbia's Global Systems Initiative (GSI), which cuts across the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines to address issues of importance to society, such as the future challenges presented by global change.

CERC also integrates the expertise of other departments and schools at Columbia, including Columbia Business School, the School of International and Public Affairs, the Harriman Institute, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the School of Public Health, and Barnard College.

Information on registering for the conference is available through the World Wide Web at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cerc/conference/ or by calling CERC at (212) 854-8186.

The conference is presented in cooperation with EPA Region II.

Note to Editors: Reporters interested in covering the conference may call the Office of Public Information and Communications at (212) 854-5573 to reserve a space.

Please see separate advisory on a 12:30 press conference with Humphrey Taylor, president and CEO of Louis Harris Associates, announcing the results of a national survey on American attitudes toward the environment.

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y be obtained in Room 303, Lewisohn Hall, Columbia University; Tel.: (212) 854-2559; Fax: (212) 854-5861. The e-mail address is: berlin@columbia.edu

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at Columbia on December 6th

Humphrey Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer of Louis Harris & Associates, will announce the results of a recent national poll on American attitudes toward the environment on Wednesday, December 6th at 12:30 PM in the World Room of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, at Broadway and 116th Street. The recent poll surveyed the environmental attitudes of more than 1,000 Americans.

The December 6th release of the poll coincides with a day-long conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sponsored by Columbia's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation. The conference will be held at Ferris Booth Hall on Columbia's campus.

For more information on the press conference or to reserve a space at the conference call Anne Canty at (212) 854-5573.

Directions to the World Room: enter the Columbia campus at 116th and Broadway, Journalism building is on Broadway at right, entrance is on the building's south side. The World Room is on the 3rd floor.

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ental Research and Conservation is an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional center that unites scientific research with social and economic study. It is a consortium of five educational and research institutions: Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, the Wildlife Conservation Society (formerly the New York Zoological Society), and the Wildlife Preservation Trust International.

CERC is based at Columbia, where it benefits from the Univ18770.html 770 56634 7660 10632 6077735511 5651 Press Release: Vagelos to Receive Columbia's Pupin Medal 

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P. Roy Vagelos, M.D., former chairman and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., Inc., will receive the Pupin Medal December 5 from Columbia University, the School of Engineering and Applied Science and its Alumni Association.

Dr. Vagelos, who received his M.D. from Columbia in 1954, was cited by the Pupin committee "for his leadership in the pharmaceutical industry; for his many contributions to biological science and pharmaceutical research; for his role in helping to discover and produce medicines that extend and enhance life; for his tireless efforts to promote global health as a public service; and for his outstanding work as a teacher." Since January of this year, he has served as chairman of the board of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

As a young researcher at the federal government's National Heart Institute, and later at Washington University, he made important contributions to understanding, at the molecular level, how the human body manufactures fats.

At Merck, he served as chief executive officer from 1985 to 1994 and as chairman of the board from 1986 to 1994. During his tenure, the corporation expanded its philanthropic efforts, responding to medical needs and disaster relief around the world with more than $150 million in gifts and product donations. Since 1988, Merck has donated Mectizan, a once-a-year antiparasitic medication developed by Merck scientists, to 34 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America to help prevent river blindness. The company has said it will provide the drug without charge as long as necessary. Columbia awarded the Lawrence A. Wien Prize in Corporate Social Responsibility to Merck in 1993.

Born in Westfield, N.J., he received the A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, he was named to Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society. After his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, from 1954 to 1956, he joined the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., first as senior surgeon and then as head of the Section of Comparative Biology in the Laboratory of Biochemistry, at NIH's National Heart Institute. It was there that he completed his significant early research.

At the age of 37, he was appointed chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, a notable achievement for one so young. From 1973 to 1975, he also served as the university's Director of the Division of Biology and Biomedical Science.

Dr. Vagelos joined Merck as senior vice president of research in 1975, and became president of its research division the following year. In 1982, he was appointed senior vice president of the corporation with responsibility for strategic planning. He continued to hold both positions until 1984, when he was elected executive vice president.

The author of more than 100 scientific papers, Dr. Vagelos is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He received an honorary Doctor of Science from Columbia in 1990, and has received numerous honorary degrees from universities across the country. He accepted the post of chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, having served as a trustee since 1988.

Dr. Vagelos will receive the Pupin Medal at a reception beginning at 4 P.M. in the Dag Hammarskjold Lounge on the sixth floor of the International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street.

The Pupin Medal was created by the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association in 1958, the centennial year of the birth of Michael I. Pupin (1858-1935), physicist, inventor and professor of electro-mechanics at Columbia from 1901 to 1931. Among his many inventions is the Pupin coil, which greatly lengthened the range of telephone communications. Previous recipients of the Pupin include Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, William James McGill, I.I. Rabi and Chien-Shiung Wu.

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Celebrates Success and Announces On-Line Future

Columbia University's Double Discovery Center (DDC), an academic enrichment program that helps New York City students graduate from high school and college at a rate significantly higher than the national average, will celebrate 30 years of success on Thursday evening, December 7th, in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library. Nearly all the students who participate in DDC are African American or Latino. The four-year college graduation rates for African Americans and Latinos are 48 percent and 44 percent respectively and the rate for people of all races is 58 percent. But, DDC students far surpass those figures: 66 percent graduate from college in four years.

On December 7th, DDC will also announce plans to carry its mission into the 21st century by bringing more college preparation services to the Harlem community through a network of on-line college information centers to be located in churches and community centers.

George Rupp, President of Columbia University, said: "I am extremely proud that Columbia is home to Double Discovery. It is a great program that nourishes the potential of thousands of New York City schoolchildren. The Columbia College students who founded Double Discovery believed that high school students and their college tutors had something to learn from each other, hence the name Double Discovery. That is still true today."

Project Double Discovery (PDD), as it was originally called, was started by Columbia College students advised by History Professor James Shenton. Columbia's program was one of the 18 original Upward Bound pilots nationwide, announced in a June 16, 1965 press release from the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), headed by Sargent Shriver, who stated: "America's greatest waste is the loss of skill and exceptional minds of those young people who are capable of going to college, but cannot do so because of the psychological, social and physical conditions of poverty."

Project Double Discovery began that summer at Columbia with one program, Upward Bound. In 1977, it expanded to include a second federally-funded program, Talent Search. Over its history, DDC has developed a successful model that helps students graduate from high school, gain acceptance to college, and subsequently to graduate. DDC also helps intermediate school students apply to high school.

Most DDC students either live or attend school in Harlem, DDC's target area. To qualify for the largely federally-funded program, students must be either low-income or first generation college-bound.

Roger Lehecka, Dean of Students at Columbia College and one of the program's founders, said: "When Steve Weinberg and I got together in 1965 to write the grant for PDD, we never thought that we were building a framework that would span three decades. In the optimism of youth, I don't think any of us felt that there would still be a need for this program as we prepare to enter the 21st century. But since the need clearly still exists, I am thankful that we have the program and I am proud of my continuing association with it."

Kevin Matthews, DDC Executive Director, said: "Though we are very proud of the Center's successes, we have not lost sight of the educational barriers that low-income youngsters and youth of color face. We are heartened by the large number of volunteers and friends who continue to pledge their services and resources toward the Center's mission of a college education for all youth."

In addition to academic tutoring and counseling, DDC offers its students access to information about colleges, both electronically and in print. DDC has software to assist students with studying for SATs, selecting colleges and locating scholarships. This year, Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers Inc. donated 850 SAT preparation books and its new media division, Kaplan Interactive, donated software and will train volunteers and paid staff to use it for tutoring students. The materials donated by Kaplan will be used in DDC's Computer Lab, sponsored by Apple and Citibank.

Over the course of 30 years, some 15,000 students have attended DDC; currently about 1,000 students in grades 7-12 are served each year.

Each spring, counselors tour colleges with DDC students who go on to attend a wide range of post secondary institutions, including Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Georgetown and Howard universities, and Boston and Wesleyan colleges. DDC alumni have pursued careers as doctors, lawyers, teachers and bank executives, among other professions.

On December 7th, University President George Rupp and a 1968 DDC graduate, Professor Clifford Jernigan of Pennsylvania State University, will speak and former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins, now Columbia Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, will be honored for his contributions to the youth of New York City. Mark McEwen of CBS This Morning will serve as Master of Ceremonies. The reception in Low Memorial Library's rotunda begins at 6:30 PM.

For ticket information, call 854-3897.

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hat Columbia is home to Double Discovery. It is a grea18773.html 775 56634 7660 6012 6077732407 5637 Press Release: Prives Named Da Costa Professor at Columbia 

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Carol L. Prives, a virologist who has made major contributions to understanding the molecular biology of cancer, has been named Da Costa Professor of Biology at Columbia University, where she has taught since 1979.

Professor Prives strives to understand the process that results in disordered cell growth, now thought to begin as a result of changes in a cell's DNA. Such mutations are caused by factors such as chemical carcinogens, irradiation and viruses. In the last half-dozen years, scientists have discovered that a particular human gene, p53, suppresses tumors by preventing the stabilization of damaged DNA. About half of all cancer patients show mutations in this important gene, and biomedical researchers believe such mutations both remove a mechanism that protects the body against cancer and add a cancer-causing one. Science magazine noted the advances by naming p53 its "Molecule of the Year" for 1993.

Professor Prives considers research on the protein manufactured by the p53 gene, in both its normal and mutant variants, vital to understanding the process that results in disordered cell growth. She and others have demonstrated that the p53 protein binds to DNA and can activate that blueprint molecule's crucial transcription function, in which messenger RNA molecules carry information on genetic traits from a cell's nucleus to its cytoplasm.

The Columbia virologist is examining how DNA binding in the mutant p53 protein differs from the normal protein and whether normal binding could be restored to mutant proteins. Her research team is also testing the important hypothesis that p53 is directly involved in repairing damaged DNA. Professor Prives also studies the molecular biology of the cell cycle and DNA replication.

Born in Montreal, Professor Prives received both the B.Sc. degree, first class honors, and the Ph.D., both in biochemistry, from McGill University. In 1968, she accepted a postdoctoral appointment at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and followed that work in 1971 with a senior postdoctoral appointment in biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. She served as assistant professor, then associate professor, at the institute from 1974 to 1982, the last two years on a leave of absence.

She was appointed associate professor at Columbia in 1979 and professor in 1987. Professor Prives sits on several research review panels, among them the NIH's Experimental Virology Study Section, of which she is chairman-elect. She has served on the editorial boards of several journals in the life sciences and is editor of the Journal on Virology. She lists 94 publications in refereed journals.

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nd one of the program's founders, said: "When Steve Weinberg and I got together in 1965 to write the grant for PDD, we never thought that we were building a framework that would span three decades. In the optimism of youth, I don't think any of us felt that there would still be a need for this program as we prepare to enter the 21st century. But since the need clearly still exists, I am thankful that we have the program and I am proud of my continuing association with it."

Kevin Matthews, D18774.html 775 56634 7660 5531 6077737247 5654 Press Release: Manley Named Levi Professor 

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James L. Manley, a molecular biologist who is bringing to light the intricate ways genetic information is expressed to create living tissue, has been named Julian Clarence Levi Professor of the Life Sciences at Columbia University. He is Chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences.

He has researched how genetic information is transmitted from DNA, which tells the cell how to form, to RNA, which takes that information to the cell. The RNA molecules, known as messenger RNA or mRNA, are created when chains of nucleotides are copied from one unzipped half of the DNA double helix. They carry the genetic code in their pattern of nucleotides from the cell's nucleus to cellular structures known as ribosomes, where the proteins that are cellular building blocks are synthesized. This transfer of genetic information from DNA to mRNA is called transcription, but the entire process, in which inherited traits carried by genes are replicated in new living tissue, is known as gene expression.

Professor Manley has studied several aspects of the process, including how and why mRNA molecules are created at certain times and not others, and how introns, portions of the RNA chains that code no known genetic information, are spliced out during production of the mRNA. These activities in the nucleus of the cell require a number of complex proteins, such as the enzyme RNA polymerase, which assembles the nucleotide chains from the right spot on the DNA template. Professor Manley's goal has been to identify and isolate these factors and then to understand how they can be controlled to regulate gene expression.

Born in Minneapolis, Professor Manley received the B.S. degree in biology from Columbia and the Ph.D. in molecular biology from from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Manley conducted his doctoral research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1977 to 1980.

He joined the Columbia faculty in 1980 as assistant professor of biological sciences and was named professor in 1987. He was a member of the American Cancer Society's Microbiology and Virology Committee from 1988 to 1991 and of the National Institutes of Health's Molecular Biology Study Section from 1989 to 1993. The Columbia biologist has served on the editorial boards of a number of refereed journals and since 1991 has been associate editor of Gene Expression. He lists 140 journal publications.

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otides are copied from one unzipped half of the DNA double helix. They carry the genetic code in their pattern of nucleotides from the cell's nucleus to cellular stru18775.html 775 56634 7660 23165 6077737537 5702 Press Release:Columbia celebrates 250th birthday of John Jay 

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Conference, Exhibits Mark Contributions of a Founder

Columbia University will hail the first Chief Justice of the United States, its illustrious alumnus John Jay, in a celebration marking the 250th anniversary of his birth December 12 with a conference on his life and legacy and three exhibitions.

Jay's lineal descendant John Jay Iselin, the President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science and former public broadcasting executive, will join the salute to his great-great-great-great-grandfather at a birthday party at 5 P.M. Tuesday capping the day-long conference in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus. It was from the estate of Dr. Iselin's grandmother, Eleanor Jay Iselin, great-great-granddaughter of John Jay, that Columbia acquired its exceptional collection of John Jay Papers, which includes the original draft of The Federalist No. 5 and three unpublished letters from George Washington.

Concurrent related exhibitions on this pre-eminent figure in the founding of the American republic are on view in the Rotunda and in Butler Library. Sharing the same title and space as the scholarly conference is an exhibit in the Rotunda titled The Life and Legacy of John Jay (1745-1829), drawing on manuscripts, books and pamphlets, artworks, newspapers and maps to trace the life and work of Jay, who was graduated in 1764 from King's College, as Columbia was known before the American Revolution, and served from 1789 to 1795 as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Columbia President George Rupp will address the conference, which is free and open to the public, at its opening at 10 A.M. Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor in History and Social Sciences at Columbia, will open the afternoon session at 2:45 P.M. In four panels focusing on the major themes of Jay's career - the personal and humanitarian, political, diplomatic and legal - 12 nationally known historians and legal scholars will present papers on themes ranging from "John Jay and Revolution" to "John Jay and International Law."

Ene Sirvet of Columbia, editor of The Papers of John Jay, will moderate the two morning panels, and Leonardo Tar‡n, Jay Professor of Greek and Latin Languages at Columbia, will moderate the afternoon sessions. Columbia Law School Dean Lance Liebman will preside at the conference closing, and Provost Jonathan Cole will introduce John Jay Iselin at the reception immediately following in the Faculty Room. (The full conference schedule is appended.)

"The goals of the Jay commemorative program," said Sirvet, who organized the birthday tribute and curated the exhibitions, "are to confirm Jay's membership in the ranks of pre-eminent American statesmen and to encourage renewed public discussion of the ideas and principles to which Jay devoted his life: civility, liberty and constitutional government, the rule of law, and diplomacy." The Gino Speranza Lecture Fund of Columbia is supporting the conference, and the proceedings will later be published.

John Jay, one of the nation's "Founding Fathers," was a reluctant rebel. He was a lawyer (his M.A. from King's College in 1767 recognized his mastery of law) and had embarked on what was assured to be a brilliant legal career when he took up the American cause of independence and became one of the leading public figures of the nascent republic.

He began his political career in 1774 as a New York delegate to the First Continental Congress. A moderate in the dispute between the colonists and Great Britain, he endorsed the Declaration of Independence and helped lead his state and nation in the American Revolution. In 1777, he chaired the committee that framed New York's first constitution, becoming the state's first chief justice. In 1778 he was elected President of the Continental Congress, which in 1779 sent him on his first diplomatic mission - to secure an alliance with Spain. In 1782-83 he, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin negotiated the Treaty of Paris, by which Britain formally recognized American independence.

Jay was the Confederation's Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1784 to 1789. An advocate of national constitutional reform, in 1787-88 he championed the proposed Constitution, writing The Federalist, the preeminent American contribution to political thought, with Alexander Hamilton (also a Columbia alumnus) and James Madison. Serving from 1789 to 1795 as the nation's first Chief Justice, he also negotiated the 1794 Jay Treaty that averted war with Britain for a generation. He resigned from the Court in 1795 to accept election as governor of New York, retiring from public life in 1801.

The three Jay exhibitions, which also commemorate the bicentennials of the Jay Treaty and his election as New York's Governor, may be seen as follows:

The Life and Legacy of John Jay (1745-1829) is on view in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library through January 4, 1996. Hours are 9-5:30, Mon.-Fri.

John Jay (1745-1829): An Exhibition from the Collections of Columbia University is on display in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Butler Library through March 15. Hours are Mon., 12-7:45 P.M., Tues.-Fri., 9 A.M.-4:45 P.M. (Call 212/854-5153 to confirm.) Among the items are Jay's original draft of The Federalist No. 5, confidential diaries and reports documenting his critical missions to secure American independence in the 1780s and avert war with Britain in the 1790s, maps by the American artist John Trumbull, Jay's secretary, drawn for the 1794 peace mission to Britain, Washington's 1789 letter notifying Jay of his appointment as the Chief Justice, Jay's Circuit Court diary of his travels through the United States in the early 1790s to launch the first federal courts under the Constitution, and Jay's draft of his 1795 letter to Washington explaining his decision to resign as Chief Justice.

John Jay and the Columbia Connection, on the second and third floors of Butler Library through January 5, traces the many links between Jay and his family, King's College and Columbia University and the contributions of Columbia alumni and faculty to scholarship and public service. Open during library hours. Call (212) 854-3533 for information. Entrance to the Columbia campus is at Broadway and West 116th Street.

The name of John Jay still resounds at Columbia. An undergraduate student residence bears his name, and Columbia College's John Jay Scholars and John Jay Awards program honor outstanding students and alumni, respectively.

The acquisition in 1957 of the core of the Jay Papers, more than 2,000 documents, and subsequent gifts and purchases led to the publication of The Papers of John Jay. This leading project in historical documentary editing was founded by the late Richard B. Morris, the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia, and is being completed by his colleague, Ene Sirvet.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

The Life and Legacy of John Jay

Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, December 12, 1995

MORNING PANELS, 10 A.M.-12 P.M.

Welcome: George Rupp, President and Professor of Religion, Columbia University

Moderator: Ene Sirvet, Editor, The Papers of John Jay, Columbia University

POLITICAL

"John Jay and Revolution," Milton M. Klein, University Historian, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

"John Jay and New York," Mary-Jo Kline, scholar, author, editor

"John Jay and the United States," John P. Kaminski, Director, Center for the Study of the American Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PERSONAL AND HUMANITARIAN

"John Jay and the Family," Carol R. Berkin, Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY

"John Jay and Slavery," Daniel C. Littlefield, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"John Jay and Religion," Patricia U. Bonomi, New York University

AFTERNOON PANELS, 2:45-5 P.M.

Welcome: Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor in History and Social Sciences, and Chairman of the History Department, Columbia University

Moderator: Leonardo Tar‡n, Jay Professor of Greek and Latin Languages, Columbia University

DIPLOMACY

"John Jay and Diplomacy Abroad," Robert H. Ferrell, Professor Emeritus of History, Indiana University-Bloomington

"John Jay and Diplomacy at Home," Ene Sirvet, Editor, The Papers of John Jay Columbia University

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"John Jay and Publius," Robert A. Ferguson, George Edward Woodberry Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature and the School of Law, Columbia University

"John Jay and the United States Supreme Court," Herbert A. Johnson, Hollings Professor of Constitutional Law, University of South Carolina

"John Jay and the Circuit Courts," R.B. Bernstein, Assistant Editor, The Papers of John Jay; Adjunct Professor, New York Law School

"John Jay and International Law," Louis Henkin, Columbia University Professor Emeritus; Chairman, Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Human Rights; Special Service Professor, School Law School

Closing: Lance Liebman, Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

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e ranks of pre-eminent American statesmen and to encourage renewed public discussion of the ideas and principles to which Jay devoted his life: civility, liberty and constitutional government, the rule of law, and diplomacy." The Gino Speranza Lecture Fund of Columbia is supporting the conference, and the proceedings will later be published.

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The Compton Foundation, Inc. has awarded $1 million to Columbia University to establish an endowed professorship in the School of Social Work to celebrate the school's forthcoming centennial in 1998. The Compton Foundation Centennial Professorship for the Prevention of Chldren's and Youth Problems will address the critical problems of at-risk young people and particularly the prevention of teen pregnancy, said Social Work Dean Ronald A. Feldman in announcing the new chair.

Dean Feldman said the professorship "will directly address one of our nation's most pressing social problems at the same time that it significantly advances the School and its leadership capacity throughout the world."

The Foundation's president, James R. Compton, and its Vice President, Ann Compton Stephens, a 1946 graduate of the School, said in a joint statement that the gift recognizes "the outstanding reputation and accomplishments of the School of Social Work and our shared perception that the critical problems of at-risk young people, and especially those who are likely to become pregnant, are deserving of our greatest attention and support at this time."

A successor to the Compton Trust, the Foundation was established in 1973 to address community, national, and international concerns in the areas of peace and world order, population, and the environment. Its previous gifts to the University include the Dorothy D. Compton Fellowship Fund for minority financial aid and other funding for student scholarships.

The Compton Professorship is the second endowed chair created for the School's 100th anniversary. The Ruth Harris Ottman Centennial Professorship for the Advancement of Social Work Education was also established this fall.

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Jay and Diplomacy at Home," Ene Sirvet, Editor, The Papers of John Jay Columbia University

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"John Jay and Publius," Robert A. Ferguson, George Edward Woodberry Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature and the School of Law, Columbia University

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Dec. 6 Conference Looks at 25 Years of EPA;

Results of Harris Poll to be Released

Results of the latest Harris Poll on the environment and a keynote address by Kathleen McGinty, President Clinton's senior advisor on the environment and natural resources, are among the highlights of "Progress and Promise: 25 Years of Environmental Protection," a day-long conference sponsored by Columbia's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) on Wednesday, December 6.

The conference, marking a quarter century of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will begin at 9:30 AM in Ferris Booth Hall on the campus of Columbia University. It comes at a particularly crucial time, when forces in Congress are attempting to limit the EPA's power to enforce the country's environmental regulations.

Twelve panels will be held throughout the day with topics ranging from "Watershed Issues" to "Environmental Justice." The closing session will be held at 2:45 PM, and in addition to McGinty, who serves as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will feature former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Marilyn Gelber, and Jeanne Fox, Regional Administrator of EPA Region II.

At 12:30 PM, Humphrey Taylor, CEO and President of Louis Harris and Associates, will release the results of the latest Harris poll on the environmental attitudes of Americans. The press announcement will be held in the World Room, located on the third floor of the Journalism Building. Sandwiches will be served.

(A complete conference program is available on request. Enter Ferris Booth Hall via campus entrance on the east side of Broadway at 115th Street.)

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city throughout the world."

The Foundation's president, James R. Compton, and its Vice President, Ann Compton Stephens, a 1946 graduate of the School, said in a joint statement that the gift recognizes "the outstanding reputation and accomplishments of the School of Social Work and our shared perception that the critical problems of at-risk young people, and especially those who are likely to become pre18781.html 770 56634 7660 5115 6100717563 5625 Press Release: Robert Maguire to receive MLA Award 

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The Modern Language Association of America will award its first Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures to Robert A. Maguire, professor of Russian at Columbia University, for his book Exploring Gogol, published by Stanford University Press. The biennial prize recognizes outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the languages. Dr. Maguire will receive $1,000 and a certificate December 28 at the association's annual convention, in Chicago.

Members of the prize selection committee are Caryl Emerson (Princeton University), chair; Peter Steiner (University of Pennsylvania); and William Mills Todd III (Harvard University). Their citation follows:

"Rather than link Gogol's particular genius to a single critical aesthetic-romantic, realist, symbolist, modernist-Robert Maguire's study adopts the more challenging approach of thick description and close reading from the bottom up in a search for the vision and texture that constitute Gogol's weird magic. Why is Gogol at first so funny, then so scary, finally so real? His vision, Maguire argues, is governed by several constants-all informed by folk belief-that move from the eye to the word: the inviolability of bounded space, the necessity of knowing one's place, the value of 'distanced height' to the artist, and the word as incantation. The book is full-bodied, non-reductive literary scholarship at its illuminating best."

Dr. Maguire is Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian Studies at Columbia, where he has taught since 1962. Before then he taught at Duke University and Dartmouth College. He has held visiting appointments at Indiana University, Oxford, the University of Illinois, and Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Universities. He has had grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

In addition to the prizewinning book, he has published Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920's (1968, 1987)and Gogol from the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays (1976), as well as several edited volumes and translations, some 40 articles, 20 shorter translations from Russian and Polish, and 50 reviews.

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"John Jay and the Circuit Courts," R.B. Bernstein, Assistant Editor, The Papers of John Jay; Adjunct Professor, New York Law School

"John Jay and International Law," Louis Henkin, Columbia University Professor Emeritus; Chairman, Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Human Rights; Special Service Professor, School Law School

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College-Prep Program for Inner City Youth Celebrates 30 Years;

Announces New On-line Program

On Thursday, December 7, Columbia University's Double Discovery program will celebrate 30 years of success in helping inner-city high school students attain college educations as it announces plans to establish on-line college information centers in churches in Harlem.

Ninety-eight percent of all DDC students finish high school and enter college, and within four years, 66 percent graduate from college. To qualify for DDC, students must be either low-income or first generation college-bound; most DDC students either live or attend school in Harlem. DDC college graduation rates exceed the national combined rate for all racial groups (58 percent) and the rates for African Americans and Latinos (48 and 44 percent, respectively).

Started in 1965 by Columbia College students, including the current Dean of Students, Roger Lehecka, DDC was one of the 18 original Upward Bound pilots funded by the federal Office of Economic Development as part of the nation's war on poverty.

More than 300 current and former students, parents and friends of DDC will attend the program, which begins at 7:30 PM in the rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the campus of Columbia University. Speakers will include George Rupp, President of Columbia University, 1968 DDC graduate Clifford Jernigan, and former Mayor David N. Dinkins. Current and former students will be available for interviews.

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ies at Columbia, where he has taught since 1962. Before then he taught at Duke University and Dartmouth College. He has held visiting appointments at Indiana University18783.html 770 56634 7660 5012 6100720171 5610 Alert: John Jay birthday conference 

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John Jay's namesake, his great-great-great-great-grandson John Jay Iselin, president of Cooper Union in New York City, will cut the cake for the 250th birthday of the nation's first Chief Justice at a celebration at Columbia University Tuesday, December 12.

The birthday party will conclude a day-long conference on the life and legacy of Dr. Iselin's distinguished ancestor, one of the American republic's founders, who graduated in 1764 from Columbia, then known as King's College. The reception will begin at 5:15 P.M. in the Faculty Room of Low Memorial Library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus at Broadway and 116th Street. Columbia College students in the garb of soldiers of the American Revolution will be the birthday cake bearers. Several hundred Columbians, including the student recipients of prestigious John Jay Scholarships in Columbia College, and historians and legal scholars are expected to join in the "Happy Birthday" chorus.

You are invited to cover.

John Jay, born December 12, 1745, in New York City, statesman, diplomat and lawyer, fulfilled many roles in the American struggle for independence and in its birth as a nation. He helped draft New York's first constitution and later the U.S. Constitution, was the state's first chief justice, president of the Continental Congress and ambassador to Spain. With John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, he negotiated the Treaty of Paris that sealed Britain's recognition of American independence. President Washington appointed him in 1789 the new nation's first Chief Justice of the first Supreme Court of the United States, a post he held until he resigned in 1795 to become Governor of New York. He retired from public life in 1801 and died in 1829.

Three exhibitions at Columbia chronicling John Jay's achievements draw on the University's massive Jay collection, acquired from the estate of Dr. Iselin's grandmother, Eleanor Jay Iselin, great-great-granddaughter of John Jay.

EVENT: 250th Birthday Party for John Jay

TIME: 5:15 P.M. Tuesday, December 12

PLACE: Rotunda and Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, entrance at Broadway and 116th Street

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and 50 reviews.

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"John Jay and the Circuit Courts," R.B. Bernstein, Assistant Editor, The Papers of John Jay; Adjunct Professor, New York Law School

"John Jay and International Law," Louis Henkin, Columbia University Professor Emeritus; Chairman, Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Human Rights; Special Service Professor, School Law School

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Ted Koppel to Host duPont-Columbia Awards

Nightline anchor Ted Koppel will host the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in television and radio journalism Thursday, January 25, 1996, the University has announced.

Journalists Lesley Stahl, Charlie Rose, Tim Russert, Ralph Begleiter and Daniel Schorr and Columbia University President George Rupp will present the awards - Silver Batons and the Gold Baton - in a ceremony aired nationally by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Joan Konner, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and chair of the awards jury, will comment on the broadcast year.

The 90-minute broadcast of the 1994-95 awards for excellence in television and radio journalism is the 18th co-production of Thirteen/WNET in New York and the Journalism School. The ceremonies from the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library at Columbia in New York City will air at 10 P.M. (E.T.). (Check local listings.) The awards, established in 1942, have been administered by the Graduate School of Journalism since 1968.

The Alfred I. duPont Forum, an annual conference on vital issues in broadcasting held on the day of the awards, will consider the topic Democracy and the News: Citizens, Journalists and Contemporary Politics.

Mr. Koppel has reported and anchored for ABC News for more than 30 years. Anchor of Nightline since its inception in 1980, he is its principal on-air reporter and interviewer and the program's managing editor. He has received eight duPont-Columbia Awards, including the first Gold Baton, awarded in 1985 for Nightline's week-long series from South Africa.

Ms. Stahl of CBS News is co-editor of 60 Minutes, which she joined in 1991 after covering the White House for CBS during three administrations. Mr. Rose is the Emmy Award-winning host of Charlie Rose, a nightly hour-long interview program seen nationally on PBS affiliates. Mr. Russert is senior vice president, Washington bureau chief and the moderator of Meet the Press for NBC News. Mr. Begleiter is CNN's world affairs correspondent based in Washington and host of Global View, a weekly interview program. Mr. Schorr, a veteran reporter and commentator, interprets national and international events as senior news analyst for National Public Radio.

The 1994-95 awards recognize programs aired between July 1, 1994, and June 30, 1995. The jury considered the best of 540 entries from small-, medium- and major-market television stations, network television, cable, independent productions and radio. All entries were reviewed by a board of screeners, many of them past duPont-Columbia Award winners. A special prize, the Gold Baton, will be awarded for an exceptional contribution to television and radio journalism.

The awards honoring excellence in television and radio journalism were established by the late Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her husband, Alfred I. duPont. Serving on the jury with Dean Konner are Philip S. Balboni, president of New England Cable News; Henry Hampton, president of Blackside, Inc., and executive producer of the television series The Great Depression and Eyes on the Prize I and II; Bernard Kalb, moderator of the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources, which monitors media performance; Eric Mink, television columnist for New York's Daily News, Marlene Sanders, anchor of Prime Life Network, and Sally Bedell Smith, biographer and former cultural affairs reporter.

The duPont-Columbia batons were designed by Louis I. Kahn and are inscribed with this comment about television by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow: "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." (From an address to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Chicago, October 15, 1958.)

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f the Continental Congress, which in 1779 sent him on his first diplomatic mission - to secure an alliance with Spain. In 1782-83 he, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin negotiated the Treaty of Paris, by which Britain formally recognized American independence.

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Anchors Brokaw, MacNeil Head Panel on Journalism's Future

Robert MacNeil, Tom Brokaw, Helen Gurley Brown, Alex Jones, Jim Kinsella, and Lynn Sherr will discuss the current and future state of journalism tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 11, at Columbia University.

Titled "Anchors Away: Will the Old Journalism Survive the New?" the discussion will begin at 7:30 P.M. in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the University's Morningside Heights campus at Broadway and 116th Street. It is sponsored by the Alumni Association of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia and is free and open to the public.

Mr. MacNeil, anchor of the former MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS, will moderate the discussion by Mr. Brokaw, anchor of NBC's Nightly News; Ms. Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Mr. Jones, media analyst and host of NPR's On the Media; Mr. Kinsella, editor of Pathfinder, Time Warner's electronic editorial products unit; and Ms. Sherr, correspondent on ABC News's 20/20.

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of Journalism since 1968.

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'Democracy and the News' Is Subject of duPont Forum

What does democratic life mean today and what is the role of the press in it? Lani Guinier, Jeff Greenfield, E.J. Dionne and others will discuss these questions at Democracy and the News: Citizens, Journalists and Contemporary Politics at the annual Alfred I. duPont Forum of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Thursday, January 25.

Professor James W. Carey of the Journalism School, an organizer of the event, said the topic was chosen "to try to assess what, during the forthcoming season of primaries and campaigns, we can hope to expect from journalists for a better informed citizenry." Widespread disenchantment with campaigns and press coverage in the past, he said, "have created a decline in citizen participation and voting that many feel is very dangerous in a democratic society. We need to find ways to develop a more satisfactory relationship between citizens, the press, and the political process."

Mr. Greenfield, ABC News political and media analyst, will deliver the keynote address for the day-long forum after welcoming remarks by Joan Konner, dean of the Journalism School, at 9 A.M. in the Kellogg Conference Center on the 15th floor of the International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St. at Amsterdam Avenue.

In addition to Ms. Guinier, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and Mr. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post, other speakers will be Jean Bethke Elshtain, who is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School; Tom Rosenstiel, Congressional correspondent for Newsweek, David Mathews, president of the Kettering Foundation, and Benjamin Barber, Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Dean Konner and Professor Carey will be moderators.

Reservations are required for attendance and may be made by calling (212) 854-5047.

The forum, an annual conference on vital issues in broadcasting, is held in conjunction with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in television and radio journalism, which will be presented that evening in ceremonies televised from the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. The ceremonies are open to ticket-holders only, but will be broadcast nationally on PBS stations and on Thirteen/WNET beginning at 10 P.M., E.T. (check local listings).

The following day, Friday, in a program titled The Winners' Circle, several duPont-Columbia Award winners will show excerpts and discuss their programs. Marlene Sanders, public affairs anchor of Prime Life Network and a member of the duPont-Columbia Awards Jury, will preside at this session, which will begin at 10 A.M. in the World Room on the third floor of the Graduate School of Journalism at Broadway and 116th Street.

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g on the jury with Dean Konner are Philip S. Balboni, president of New England Cable News; Henry Hampton, president of Blackside, Inc., and executive producer of the television series The Great Depression and Eyes on the Prize I and II; Bernard Kalb, moderator of the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources, which moni18796.html 770 56634 7660 4444 6100722174 5631 MEDIA ALERT 

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Nightline anchor Ted Koppel will be the host of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in television and radio journalism, which will be presented in ceremonies beginning at 8 P.M. Thursday, January 25, in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City. (Doors to the Rotunda close at 7:30 P.M.)

Presenting Silver Batons will be journalists Roberta Baskin, correspondent for the CBS news program 48 Hours (substituting for Lesley Stahl); Charlie Rose, host of the nightly interview show Charlie Rose on PBS stations; Tim Russert, moderator of NBC News's Meet the Press, Ralph Begleiter, CNN's world affairs correspondent, and Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for National Public Radio. President George Rupp of Columbia University will present the Gold Baton.

Thirteen/WNET, New York, will broadcast the ceremonies beginning at 10 P.M., E.T., for use nationwide over PBS stations. The ceremony will be available by satellite on Telstar 401 Transponder 7 Lower (a PBS transponder) downlink frequency 11.895 vertical. The feed will begin at 10 P.M., E.T.

You are invited to cover. Please call this office at (212) 854-5573 to make arrangements. The awards presentation will follow a reception at 6:30 P.M. in Low Library. Flash photography is prohibited during the ceremonies.

Winners of duPont-Columbia Silver Batons and the Gold Baton will be announced during the ceremonies; their names will be embargoed for use in print and electronic media until after 9 P.M., E.T. Press information will be provided by this office. A presidential mult box will be available.

EVENT: Presentation of the annual Alfred I. duPont- Columbia University Awards in television and radio journalism.

TIME: Thursday, January 25, at 8 P.M. Doors close at 7:30. (Reception at 6:30.)

PLACE: Rotunda of Low Memorial Library, Columbia University; enter campus at Broadway and 116th Street.

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host of the nightly interview show Charlie Rose on PBS stations; Tim Russert, moderator of NBC News's Meet the Press, Ralph Begleiter, CNN's world affairs correspondent, and Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for Nation18808.html 775 56634 7660 3655 6106413077 5640 Press Release: Carol Burten, GS Alumni Dierector, Dies 

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Carol Burton, General Studies Alumni Director, Dies

Carol Burton, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs at the School of General Studies of Columbia University, died Sunday, February 4, in Lenox Hill Hospital after suffering a stroke. She was 54 and lived in Manhattan.

Mrs. Burton had worked for Columbia since 1973, when she joined the staff of General Studies as a development officer. She was named director of development and alumni affairs in 1981. She had been on long-term disability leave since March 1994.

Mrs. Burton served under four deans during her 23 years at General Studies, said Frank Wolf, formerly Associate Dean and then Acting Dean of General Studies, now Dean of Special Programs. "She is the person who really sustained the school's two major support groups, the Advisory Council and the Friends of General Studies," said Dean Wolf. "She organized the annual dinner of the Friends and initiated the annual giving program of the school, which has now grown to significant proportions. She was very much loved by everyone who worked with her."

She was born Carol Ann Broderick on December 11, 1941, and graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1963. She is survived by her husband, Dr. Carl Burton, president of the Graduate Faculties Alumni Association of Columbia; her mother, Evelyn Broderick of Guilford, Conn., and two brothers, William Broderick, also of Guilford, and Michael Broderick of Roanoke, Va.

A memorial service will be held this Thursday (February 8) at 3 P.M. in St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia.

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onal correspondent for Newsweek, David Mathews, president of the Kettering Foundati18811.html 775 56634 7660 15125 6106725625 5652 Press Release: Fred Keller Dies 

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Fred S. Keller, Experimental Psychologist, Dies At 97

Fred Simmons Keller, a pioneer in experimental psychology who taught at Columbia University for 26 years and who devised training methods for Morse Code operators in World War II, died Friday (Feb. 2) at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 97 and had suffered from bladder cancer in recent years, said his son, John V. Keller.

The path-breaking psychologist gave his name to the Keller Plan, also known as the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), an individually paced, mastery-oriented teaching method that has had a significant impact on college-level science education.

In the early 1940s, based on his research in behavior, he developed a new technique for teaching Morse Code to military personnel that the U.S. Army Signal Corps adopted officially in 1943.

Professor Keller was a Harvard University classmate and lifelong friend of the behaviorial psychologist B. F. Skinner and was, with him, among the first American proponents of behaviorism, which emphasizes the role of environmental events in the shaping of human behavior. Skinner dedicated his autobiography, "The Shaping of a Behaviorist" (1979), to Professor Keller.

In 1947 Professor Keller, with his colleague William Schoenfeld, instituted at Columbia College the first undergraduate psychology course to use Skinner's experimental methods. Students taught white laboratory rats to respond to stimuli through rewards. In one experiment, rats received a pellet of food only if they pressed a bar when a light was on; they soon stopped pressing the bar when the light was off. The point of the experiments was to demonstrate the idea that broad principles of behavior could be discovered experimentally, and that such principles had important applications to human society. Many colleges now offer courses in experimental psychology using laboratory animals.

Professors Keller and Schoenfeld assembled much of what was known about behavioral psychology in the widely used textbook "Principles of Psychology" (1950). Behavior theory held tremendous potential to help educate people better, the two authors believed. They wrote in their conclusion: "We are on the frontier of an enormous power: the power to manipulate our own behavior scientifically, deliberately, rationally. How this power will be used - whether for good or ill - no one of us can tell."

During World War II, Professor Keller used the power for good, developing the "code-voice method" of teaching Morse Code to radio operators. Rather than dictating long bursts of code to students, instructors using his method told students after each signal whether they had correctely decoded it. That approach gave students instant feedback, allowed them to correct mistakes immediately and was far more effective in teaching the code than previous methods. He based the approach on the behaviorist theory of reinforcement, which predicts that behavior can be learned rapidly if the subject is rewarded after producing the correct response. Dr. Keller was director of the radio code research project of the National Defense Research Committee, and his method was adopted by the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

In 1948 Professor Keller received the Certificate of Merit from President Truman for the Morse Code work, and he used the method to teach the code to Columbia College undergraduates preparing for military service.

He was a prolific author and published, in addition to research papers and "Principles of Psychology," an early text, "The Definition of Psychology" (1937, 1973); "Collected Writings, 1934-1950"; and "Learning Reinforcement Theory" (1954, 1969).

After retiring from Columbia in 1964, Professor Keller went to the University of Brasilia in Brazil, where he helped found the psychology department and offered the first course using his personalized instruction method. Students received a printed study guide for the first unit of the course and could work anywhere - including the classroom - to achieve the objectives it outlined. Before moving on to the next unit, the student had to demonstrate mastery of the material by passing a short examination. The method uses optional lectures primarily to motivate students rather than transmit information. Student tutors also provide individual attention and encouragement.

Though other proponents of self-paced education had tested some of its elements in primary and secondary schools, Professor Keller brought all elements of the plan to the college level. With the publication of his paper "Good-bye, Teacher!" in 1968, the Keller plan received national recognition and college instructors began to experiment with it. Students have responded positively to the plan, and, in published studies, their final examination performance equals and usually exceeds performance in lecture sessions.

Professor Keller was born Jan. 2, 1899, on a farm near Rural Grove, N.Y. and left school at an early age to become a Western Union telegrapher. He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I and served with the American Expeditionary Force on an ammunition train, attaining the rank of sergeant. He earned a B.S. from Tufts in 1926 and an M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in 1931, both in psychology, from Harvard. Professor Keller taught at Colgate University from 1931 to 1938 and joined the Columbia faculty as an instructor of psychology in 1938. He was named assistant professor in 1942, associate professor in 1946 and professor of psychology in 1950. He served as chairman of the department from 1959 to 1962 and became professor emeritus of psychology in 1964.

He taught experimental psychology at the University of S‹o Paulo in Brazil on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1961. After retiring from Columbia other institutions he taught at were Arizona State University and Western Michigan, Texas Christian and Georgetown Universities.

He was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Psychological Foundation in 1970.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Frances Scholl; a daughter, Anne S. Cline of Kalamazoo, Mich.; a son, John V. Keller (Columbia College '64) of Charlotte, N.C.; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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y. How this power will be used - whether for good or ill - no one of us can tell."

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February 12, 1996

ALERT TO EDITORS:

Andrei Sinyavsky, one of Russia's major writers and cultural figures, will deliver the first of three lectures on "The Intelligentsia and Authority" at Columbia University Tuesday, February 13. His talks on the role of the Russian intelligentsia today and in the context of history are the sixth annual W. Averell Harriman Lectures. All lectures will begin at 5:30 P.M. in the theater at Casa Italiana on Amsterdam Avenue near West 118th Street. The second and third lectures will be held Thursday, February 15, and Monday, February 19. Admission is free and the public is invited. Mr. Sinyavsky will speak in Russian and simultaneous translation into English will be provided.

The Harriman Lectures are sponsored by Columbia's Harriman Institute, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia, and Columbia University Press, which will publish them.

Mr. Sinyavsky, who writes fiction, essays and criticism under the pseudonym Abram Tertz, came to world attention in 1966 when he was placed on trial with Yuly Daniel for having published his works abroad. He was sentenced to seven years at hard labor. Despite strong protests from the West, he was not released until 1971. He emigrated to France in 1973 with his family and taught Russian literature at the Sorbonne until his retirement in 1994. He has continued to write under both his name and his pseudonym. Among his best-known works are On Socialist Realism, A Voice from the Chorus, Goodnight!, Strolls with Pushkin, Soviet Civilization, The Makepeace Experiment and Unguarded Thoughts.

EVENT: Three lectures by leading Russian writer Andrei Sinyavsky

TIME: 5:30 P.M. February 13, 15 and 19

PLACE: Il Teatro of Casa Italiana, Amsterdam Avenue at West 118th Street.

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He was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Psychological Foundation in 1970.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Frances Scholl; a daughter, Anne S. Cline of Kalamazoo, Mich.; a son, John V. Keller (Columbia College '64) of Charlotte, N.C.; fi18818.html 775 56634 7660 4023 6115065425 5627 Media Alert: Civilian Oversight Forum 

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Fred Knubel, Director of Public Information
February 20, 1996

MEDIA ALERT:

Judge Milton Mollen and former New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly will take part in a discussion on "Civilian Oversight of the Police" at a public forum at Columbia University Monday, February 26. Other panelists will be Judge George Daniels of the New York State Supreme Court, and Peter Johnson Jr., partner in the law firm of Leahy and Johnson. David N. Dinkins, Mayor of New York from 1990 to 1994 and professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, will be the moderator.

The panel is the second 1996 Urban Issues Symposium of Columbia's Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration and the Barnard-Columbia Urban Policy Center. It will be held from 4:30 to 6 P.M. in the Kellogg Center on the 15th floor of the International Affairs Building at 420 W. 118th St. at Amsterdam Avenue. Admission is free and the public is invited.

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Judge Mollen was chairman of the Mollen Commission that was created in 1992 to investigate police corruption and is former presiding justice of the New York State Appellate Division for the Second Department. Judge Daniels was counsel to Mayor Dinkins from 1990 to 1993. Mr. Johnson was an adviser to the Mayor.

    EVENT:
      Panel on "Civilian Oversight of the Police" with Milton Mollen, Raymond Kelly, George Daniels, Peter Johnson Jr. and David Dinkins
    TIME:
      4:30 to 6 P.M. Monday, February 26
    PLACE:
      Kellogg Center, 15th floor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, 420 W. 118th St. at Amsterdam Avenue

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