VOL. 23, NO. 10	NOVEMBER 21, 1997

Kaufman. Record Photo by Eileen Barroso.

• Sandy Kaufman has joined Columbia as the new head of Columbia's Office of Publications and Advertising. He comes to Columbia from N.Y.U., where he was associate director of publications and creative director. He has a national reputation for his work in print design and use of new media. In his 21 years at N.Y.U. he won more than 20 CASE awards, including 10 gold, for excellence in communications. He has experience in student recruitment publications and advertising, and, during the last three years, he also served as art director and editor of the N.Y.U. web site.

    "Sandy is the ideal person to lead the expansion and improvement of our office's standard services in publications and advertising, and to explore the possible development of new services such as Internet home pages and CD-ROM design," said Virgil Renzulli, associate vice president for public affairs, to whom Kaufman will report.

• History Professor Alan Brinkley adds his voice to the growing controversy over Seymour Hersh's new book on John Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot. Writing in Time magazine last week under the headline "One Historian's View: Shoddy Work," Brinkley said the book "fails most conspicuously" in its attempt to show how Kennedy's private life and character affected the affairs of the nation and its foreign policy. Brinkley said the book recycles "virtually every accusation ever leveled at Kennedy, adds very little of consequence to what we already know, and presents it all with a heavy-handed sensationalism that the contents ... fail to justify."

• Dan Kleinman has been named associate dean for academic and student affairs in the School of the Arts, effective Jan. 1, 1998. A member of the Film Division faculty, he previously was associate chair of N.Y.U.'s graduate film program. Barbara Batcheler has been promoted to associate dean for administration. Leaving Columbia is Grafton Nunes, who has been at the School of the Arts for 22 years, since 1990 as associate dean. He will become founding dean of the newly-created Emerson College School of the Arts in Boston.

  Melendez. Record Photo by Amy Callahan.

• History Professor Manning Marable is to be honored for his activism and commitment to social change at a gala event Thursday night, Nov. 20, to benefit the North Star Fund, which raises money for community organizations in New York City. Marable, a columnist, author and director of Columbia's Institute for Research in African-American Studies, is to receive the North Star Fund's Frederick Douglass Award.

• Finishing his 16th marathon, Arnaldo Melendez, a utility mechanic in Facilities Management, completed the New York Marathon in the top 400, with a time of 2:53.47. The W. 119th Street resident is a masters runner with the West Side Runners Club.