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NYU Alumni Magazine Issue 10 IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME FROM 1919 TO 1966, THE STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SENT MORE THAN 10,000 STUDENTS OFF TO SUMMER CAMP TO GAIN EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH YOUNGSTERS AND TO BE C EXPOSED TO THE “NATURAL EDUCATION THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE OUT OF DOORS.” IN THIS 1943 PHOTOGRAPH, TEACHERS-IN-TRAINING PRACTICE LIFE- SAVING TECHNIQUES ALONG THE BANKS OF LAKE SEBAGO IN SLOATSBURG, NEW YORK—ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF WASHINGTON SQUARE. L A S S NOTES NYU / SPRING 2008 / 63 alumni profile KHALID LATIF / CAS ’04 AN IMAM, ON THE BEAT by Ted Boscia t first Muslim chaplain, he does- them non-Muslims. Last morning. “I don’t see my- at NYPD and far beyond. glance, in n’t carry a gun and, in year, for example, he re- self as the ‘Muslim chap- At 25, and although still his blue place of a police hat, he sponded to an emergency lain,’ so to speak,” Latif studying at the Hartford A inspec- wears a skullcap. “There’s call after a Russian offi- says. “I’m just there to Seminary—the nation’s tor’s uni- really nobody else in the cer had been shot during help individuals regard- first accredited Muslim form with brass eagles on department who looks a traffic stop. The offi- less of their faith.” chaplaincy program—he the shoulders, Khalid like me,” concedes Latif, cer’s family was Russian It’s this mind-set of is one of the New York Latif resembles a typical who provides counsel to Orthodox and spoke little compassion and respect metro area’s leading voic- cop on the beat. But as the NYPD’s 53,000 uni- English, but Latif kept that has allowed Latif to es for mainstream Islam the New York Police De- formed and civilian em- vigil with them until the dissolve many religious and the face of major ef- partment’s second-ever ployees—the majority of man died the following and ideological barriers forts to refute negative 64 / SPRING 2008 / NYU LATIF, AT 25, IS THE NYPD’S MUSLIM CHAPLAIN AND A RISING C STAR AMONG A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICAN IMAMS. L P 1940s H O “We must collectively take precedence over T O A © engage the outside other things for me,” he M A T VERA MATTLIN JIJI / Trafford.com. S T world—by no means says. “I didn’t see it as H E W STEINHARDT ’49, GSAS It comes with S proselytize the masses— my calling then.” His S E P T ’65 / served as a professor a play-along I M but combat the fringe faith emerged as an U S NOTES elements that have NYU freshman once he in the department of Eng- CD by Erik dominated the conver- interacted with other lish at Brooklyn College Friedlander sation for too long.” Muslims. Even so, he for more than 20 years and a self- And he is spreading remains mindful of the and has just published a teaching this message however lessons of his youth, book called Cello Playing “how to” for he can. Latif podcasts when he was estranged for Music Lovers, available adult learners. his Friday sermons on from religion by the re- at Amazon.com and his NYU Web site, strictive orthodoxy that www.icnyu.org, which re- pervaded his local “I don’t see myself as 1950s the ‘Muslim chaplain.’ CECILY BARTH ANN CHERNOW / FIRESTEIN / STEIN- STEINHARDT ’57 / I’m just there to help HARDT ’55 / was recently exhibited her paintings, individuals regardless blessed with another drawings, and prints at granddaughter. An artist, the Uptown Gallery in –KHALID LATIF of their faith.” she recently exhibited her New York in a show titled paintings at the Joseph “Situations.” ceives 10,000 hits per mosques. By contrast, Wahl Arts Gallery in Wood- month, and blogged his he describes his faith land Hills, CA. Last month, MARTIN SELTZER / ENG hajj to Mecca in 2005. today as “inclusive the Maryland Federation of ’58 / is an attorney in the Newsweek put him on its without compromising Art awarded Firestein an Columbus, OH, office of cover last summer for established traditions honorable mention for her Porter Wright Morris & its “Islam in America” of the religion.” In that works on paper. Firestein Arthur LLP and was re- feature. He has spoken way, he’s become a has had more than 40 one- cently selected by peers at national interfaith bridge for young Mus- person exhibitions in the for inclusion in Ohio Su- conferences with hip- lims reconciling their U.S. and abroad. Her per Lawyers® 2008. He hop mogul Russell American upbringings work can be viewed at practices in the area of Simmons and other and their personal de- cecilybarthfirestein.com. environmental law. luminaries. votions to Islam. Latif’s understated A college campus can sermons and conciliato- be the ultimate battle- ry nature may be part ground for these two of his appeal, but equal- identities—a place where 1960s ly important is his own lax attitudes about alco- history. The son of Pak- hol and premarital sex OTTO A. BERLINER / WSC MARIA MAZZIOTTI istani immigrants, he collide with the tenets ’61 / is a researcher for GILLIAN / GSAS ’63 / grew up in a Muslim en- of Islam. But where Allied Intelligence Missions published her third work, perceptions of the faith. clave of Edison, New more traditional of World War II and a sur- a book of poetry, titled “What 9/11 taught me is Jersey, captained his mosques might ostra- vivor of the war. He is also All That Lies Between Us that Muslims can’t be so high school football cize someone who professor emeritus at State (Guernica Editions), which passive when we see in- team, and drove a strays from the flock, University of New York, focuses on her life and accuracies in the por- Lexus that his friends Latif sees opportunity— Alfred State College, where home experiences. trayal of Islam,” says labeled the babe mo- with limits. “I wouldn’t he taught psychology for Latif, who took his bile. He was into the rap push away a Muslim who 38 years. His first novel, STEPHEN AIELLO / WSC NYPD post last April group Bone Thugs-N- drinks,” he says, “but I The Cobbler of Normandy ’64 / is the senior coun- and has served as Harmony and working also wouldn’t hold a (BookSurge), is based selor for public affairs at NYU’s inaugural Muslim out. “When I was young, prayer service with an on his personal experience Hill & Knowlton and has chaplain since 2005. religion didn’t really open bar.” of war. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 66) NYU / SPRING 2008 / 65 C proved the Initial Environ- ROBERT S. BRESSLER / ly associate professor of (CONTINUED the World Confederation FROM PAGE 65) mental Examination for GSAS ’67, ’70 / recently be- mathematics at North- L for Physical Therapy dur- been appoint- ing its recent congress in the USAID-funded confer- came a professor and chair- wood University. He and A ed to serve as Vancouver. She is current- ence, Crossing Jordan: man of the department of his wife, Cheryl, recently S chair of NYC’s ly a distinguished faculty 10th International Confer- biology at the Lander Col- celebrated their 32nd ence on the History and lege of Arts and Sciences of wedding anniversary. They S new Commis- member of the depart- sion on School ment of physical therapy Archaeology of Jordan, Touro College, Flatbush divi- have two children, Keith NOTES Governance. at the Steinhardt School at George Washington Uni- sion. He remains a lecturer and Tara. of Culture, Education, and versity last May. There, in the anatomy department MARILYN Human Development. he participated with others of the Mount Sinai School JAMES R. MILLER / WSC MOFFAT / on the issues challenging of Medicine and an adjunct ’69 / is president, CEO, and STEINHARDT ’64, ’73 / BARNEY POPKIN / WSC archaeologists working professor at the New York chairman of the board of was elected president of ’64 / reviewed and ap- in Jordan. College of Podiatric Medi- the Pittsburgh-based law cine. He lives in Brooklyn firm Dickie, McCamey & FELISSA R. LASHLEY / with his wife, Erma. Chilcote. He is one of just STEINHARDT ’65 / is 5 percent of Pennsylvania alumni leadership dean and professor at TOM O’BRIEN / STEIN- lawyers to receive recogni- Rutgers College of Nurs- HARDT ’67 / is well known tion as a “Pennsylvania Su- ing. She is co-editor of for his children’s software per Lawyer,” in the category the award-winning book from Sunburst Communica- of civil litigation defense. He EXPAND YOUR Emerging Infectious Dis- tions, and had a late May was also included in a “Best eases: Trends and Issues rollout of his latest work, Lawyers in America” list in A NG LUM (Springer), now out in a Spy Wear, on the the category of personal CIRCLE U N O I Y second edition, which pro- games Web site Shock- injury litigation. vides new information on wave. The games are logi- You’re out, a fresh emerging, reemerging, and cal challenges ranging RICHAHD POCH / ENG graduate on the career antibiotic-resistant infec- from easy to complex ’69 / is a master certified tious diseases that contin- and can be found at flight instructor at TAS Inc. scene—oh, but would- L E A E ue to increase at alarming spywear.shockwave.com. Flight School, a Cessna pi- n’t it be nice to have more D L E RC friends in high places? And RSHIP CI rates. lot center at West Chester, maybe see some old faces? Such MELVIN BILLIK / WSC ’68 PA’s Brandywine Airport.
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