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LL 2013 / 7 / LL 2013 NYU / FA In 2012, the United States de- Several “generations” of stu- offense, offense, they are being as drug treated traffickers—and risk being kicked out of the country for something that would otherwise warrant little more than on a the wrist slap for a citizen. “The law in practice is totally different sound a as like sounds it what from bite,” Morawetz says. “The sim- person’s a put can conviction plest jeopardy.” in life entire ported a record number of people and spent nearly $18 billion on immigration enforcement, more than was spent on the FBI, DEA, and ATF combined. Following 9/11, enforcement became a major government funding priority, but in just his first three years in office, President Obama deported more people than President Bush did during his entire tenure. Das says that the Obama - administra current pushing be to appears tion laws to an extreme as a hard-liners way anti-immigration show to in enforcement, on tough he’s that order to create a political opening reform. for dents have represented brother, Clara’s Erick, since his immigration initial hearings—all way through the ICE’s decision not to pursue removal and proceedings to seek closure of his which occurred case, in August. It’s a reminder of the patience required in these efforts. In fact, Das’s first during week teaching at the clinic, in 2008, a case that she first finally was student a as on worked resolved, the end of an eight-year battle. “It was incredibly reward- ing for the students and our client,” she says, “but you have to fight so long and so hard for it.”

The law clinic fights back on Das says one of the most com- In just his first three years in years three first his just In deported Obama President office, Bush President than people more tenure. entire his during did tors. The reform, she says, turned it into a “one strike and system. you’re out” two fronts, assigning its two dozen students both individual legal cases and larger advocacy Rather year. the of course issues the over bono pro with partner simply than attorneys, or handle only discrete pieces of a case, the students are the main drivers, and their journeys through the system can lead from immigration courts all the way to the drafted they brief amicus an where Supreme Court— major- a convince helped recently ity of justices that lawful permanent residents with minor convic- tions in their past could leave and reenter the United States without risking their immigration cas- status. the of difficulty sheer the “Just es and having the students understand what it means to represent a Das Alina says important,” is client (LAW ’05), who co-directs the Morawetz. with clinic mon issues they see is a marijua- na conviction that results in the threat of deportation. The “Se- cure Communities” launched under George W. initiative, Bush in 2008 but under President greatly Obama, was de- expanded scribed to the public as targeting - depor for felons convicted serious tation. It’s the kind of policy that may sound like common sense. But in practice, the initiative un- fairly preys on a broad swath of people with low-level offenses, Morawetz says. policies Stop-and-frisk that target communities of color often net young people they when that, idea no have who possession low-level a of out plead

g uling line. co-director of Yale Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Advocacy Rights Clinic, founded clinic following a the 1996 immigration reform bill that drastically altered the legal framework for im- both States, United the in migrants legal and undocumented. bill’s most significant The change was to lower the bar on fairness hearings, Morawetz says. Previously, almost all deportations had to be approved in a fairness at hearing, which an immigration judge would review the individual case and any potential mitigating fac- l i llega of net drag mass Sender”—a ight—had crossed a crossed night—had g at at urring to to Return Erick’s is one of dozens of r ntial precede a n wo udents st Law NYU of team a year, Last n “Operatio said that occ n ofte nts immigra time first the for clarify helped sion when ICE officials’ conduct may constitute the kind of “egregious violations” that would them prevent from detaining and deport- ing individuals they picked up in mass dragnets, a panel of Circuit said. judges Court high-profile cases taken up in recent years by the clinic, which has gained a reputa- immigration tion for digging in on particularly challenging legal questions. NYU (LAW Morawetz Nancy professor ’81) and Michael Wishnie, now

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That March 2007 arrest trig- gered a Fourth Amendment legal battle over Erick’s potential major a de- saw case the But portation. turning point in September 2012, more than five yearsraid, when after Nikki the Reisch (LAW ’12) and a team from the NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic won a precedential ruling from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The ICE officers—and “Operation Return to Sender,” the wide-reaching sweep of ille- gal immigrants they were carrying deci- The line. a crossed out—had ained ’03 S she could prevent the entry, even officers’ though Maria wasn’t there. Shining their around the flashlights darkened apartment, members several found officers the of Clara’s extended family, cluding her brother, Erick. When in- they couldn’t produce documents showing that they were in legally the United States, the officers handcuffed and herded them into a van. They drove Clara’s family around Englewood, New Jersey, as the officers made another raid, and then another, before taking center. detention a to them A GS

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sq uareTHE thousands of scientists analyzed different pieces of psychiatry the puzzle that led to the Higgs boson’s discovery. THAT OLD FEAR FACTOR Are some hardwired, natural anxieties mislabeled as psychiatric disorders?

physics CER N t is often cited that public seemingly “excessive” anxieties witz believe can lead to overtreat- on the fears of babies. For exam- speaking is the No. 1 fear may actually be perfectly normal. ment. Reuters recently reported ple, as soon as these ostensibly anx- of most adults. Not cancer, We’re a naturally vigilant species, that diagnosed anxiety disorders iety-free creatures start exploring CERN, the European Organi- Once the teams have analyzed which kills 20,000 people a he says, instilled with err-on-the- have increased by more than 1,200 the wild world of stairs, counters, Higgs Hunting zation for Nuclear Research, in their data, they must combine day worldwide. Not plane side-of-caution triggers that were percent since 1980, and studies and many other height hazards, Switzerland. their results into one analysis. “It’s Icrashes, which—although statis- necessary for the many dangers claim that more than half the pop- they sense danger and do their best The colossal international quest The LHC works by sending a fairly intricate puzzle,” Cran- tically rare—make for an awfully early human beings encountered. ulation suffers from such disorders. to avoid falling. Moreover, chil- two beams of protons in opposite mer says. This is where he made grisly death. If one is a medio- But inside our relatively safe mod- In light of these numbers, it dren commonly have intense fears for the “God particle” directions around a 17-mile ring his most central contribution, by cre or even bad public speaker, it ern existence, with its low toler- wouldn’t be outlandish for the of wild animals they have never underground. The protons col- developing what he calls a collab- might result in embarrassment but seen except in pictures but were by Matthew Hutson lide at nearly the speed of light orative statistical modeling frame- not physical peril. So why do peo- genuine sources of danger in an- inside giant detectors, including work. ATLAS and CMS each ple experience such anxiety about Diagnosed anxiety disorders cient environments. To this point, f you’re going to claim dis- with the Higgs field, which pur- ATLAS and Compact Muon So- have 3,000 people, and everyone something that, in reality, has such Wakefield and Horwitz’s work has covery of a new particle— portedly gives all fundamental par- lenoid, or CMS, where they create has a different piece of that data low comparative stakes? have increased by more than been favorably reviewed in The especially one nicknamed the ticles their mass. (François Englert new particles. In a nuclear explo- puzzle. Cranmer found ways to University Professor Jerome 1,200 percent since 1980, American Journal of Psychiatry and “God particle”—you want to and Peter W. Higgs were jointly sion, E=mc2 dictates that a small integrate their individual findings C. Wakefield, who teaches in the The Lancet, among others. be sure of your results. Really awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize amount of mass is converted into a so that overall progress toward Silver School of Social Work, has and an estimated one-in-five It’s important to note that Isure. That’s why, in the search for in Physics for this “theoretical large amount of energy, because c, that 5-sigma goal could be clearly an explanation with implications Wakefield and Horwitz don’t ar- adults now takes at least one the Higgs boson, the threshold of discovery.”) The boson fits into the speed of light, is a big number. assessed. “It’s statistical analysis at far broader than the much-feared psychiatric drug. gue that all anxiety is hardwired. statistical significance was set not what’s called the Standard Model “Here we do the reverse process,” a level that I don’t think has ever spotlight. In his recent book, All They well understand the need at 95 percent confidence, as it of particle physics, a theory lay- Cranmer explains. “We take an been done before,” he says. We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Trans- for some people to turn to anti- is in some scientific fields, but at ing out the fundamental forces enormous amount of energy, and The Higgs has been found, but formation of Natural Anxieties Into ance for human foibles, our nor- authors themselves to fear mak- anxiety medication; indeed, an “5-sigma”: There had to be less and particles thought to exist. By with these collisions, we hope to there are more blanks to fill. Now Mental Disorders (Oxford Universi- mal fears are mistakenly classified ing such a controversial argument. estimated one-in-five adults now than a one-in-3.5-million chance 2000, everything on the chart had produce a very small amount of physicists must nail down property Press), co-authored with sociol- as psychiatric disorders and treated “What we’re saying could have takes at least one psychiatric drug, the findings were a fluke. been discovered except the Higgs mass, enough for something like a ties other than its mass and its spin, ogist Allan V. Horwitz of Rutgers accordingly. rather dramatic implications for the such as antidepressants, antipsy- Late on the night of June 24, boson, the lynchpin of the whole Higgs boson.” such as how often it decays or how University, he argues that pub- Not surprising to Wakefield, current approach to anxiety disor- chotics, and antianxiety medi- 2012, Sven Kreiss (GSAS ’14), a structure. If it did not exist, physi- While producing the Higgs is strongly it interacts with other lic speaking and other common this notion failed to appear in the ders,” Wakefield admits. “We are cations. But one might also try physics graduate student at NYU, cists would have to find some new hard, detecting it is harder. Ap- particles. fears—such as heights, snakes, DSM-5—the fifth version of the prepared to be excoriated and re- cognitive behavioral therapy or pooled two sets of fresh evidence explanation for decades of experi- proximately one in a billion col- The character of this boson and darkness—“are living fossils Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of jected by some of our peers.” Most increasingly popular mindfulness from the ongoing research. He mental results. lisions will create the particle, and may signal how to extend the within our own minds, vestiges of Mental Disorders, published by the notably, Andrew Scull, head of the practices to counter those fears, and 3,000 other scientists were The problem is, it takes a huge the detectors must be programmed Standard Model, which cannot what we were more appropriate- American Psychiatric Association sociology department at the Uni- which, in Wakefield’s view, are collaborating on the A Toroidal jolt to get the Higgs field to cough to record only the collisions that offer a complete picture of the ly, biologically designed to feel in in May 2013, which provides a versity of California, San Diego, natural, if sometimes (but not al- LHC Apparatus, or ATLAS, one up a Higgs boson, a particle that look promising. ATLAS keeps world. Scientists hope the Higgs long-past eras.” common language and standard critiqued Wakefield and Horwitz’s ways) outdated. Studies show, for of the main detectors at the Large hasn’t roamed freely since shortly about 300 of the 20 million that will offer clues to theories of As the argument goes, human criteria for those in the field. The work in the Los Angeles Review of example, that those with more Hadron Collider in Europe. On after the Big Bang. So physicists occur each second. Then the colli- supersymmetry or dark matter, beings once feared pubic speak- DSM-5 contained revisions with Books, writing: “The alleged fea- intense fear of heights from youth that night, he was the first to see had to build a machine capable of sions must be analyzed. If a Higgs is answering big questions about the ing because they risked alienating potentially far-reaching conse- tures of normal human nature and actually have fewer injurious falls the collective data cross the 5- providing that jolt. The Tevatron produced, it decays almost imme- structure of the universe. others within their small, deeply quences for anyone seeking psy- the supposed hold our genes have during their lifetimes. By simply sigma finish line. The next day, particle accelerator at Fermilab diately into smaller particles, such In college, Cranmer was torn interdependent communities. To- chiatric treatment, from those over our behavior are as specula- exploring the biological roots of he emailed his adviser, NYU As- in Illinois had enough power but as two photons or four electrons, between studying the physics of day, if you flub a client presenta- on the autism spectrum to those tive as most neuro-maniacal ac- our reactions, Wakefield says, “It sociate Professor of Physics Kyle could not produce enough particle which are what the machine de- the very big or the very small. He tion, you might lose an account; struggling with depression. How- counts of modern man.” opens up a larger space of possible Cranmer, to share the good news. collisions to make a reliable Higgs tects. Cranmer says that there are went small, but he notes that in in Mesopotamia, you could have ever, like the DSM-IV, published But Wakefield and Horwitz, in responses and suggests why, in the His reply, by email: “Holy shit.” discovery before it shut down in 10 to 20 decay possibilities, with high-energy physics, “There’s this lost respect, food, protection from in 1994, it made no reference to rebuttal, can point to an exhaustive face of our natural anxieties, cour- The existence of the Higgs bo- 2011. It passed the baton to the teams of 50 to 100 people around funny way in which the two ex- predators, and, in time, your life. so-called natural anxieties, an list of studies, the most obvious age has always been considered son was proposed in 1964, along Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the world focusing on each. tremes tie back into each other.” Wakefield posits that many omission that Wakefield and Hor- and convincing of which focuses a central virtue of humankind.”

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campus More than 450 student clubs NYU was were registered ranked fourth by in 2012. the Princeton Review on its 2013 “Dream 450 There’s No College” list. Place 4! Like Home How NYU reinvented its student experience

n the not-so-distant past (also known as the there 1990s), an incoming freshman might show are more than up at NYU to meet an overwhelmed RA, 1 million visits to NYU athletic sample some greasy cafeteria food, and take in a facilities every year. random dorm party. Now freshmen are ushered Iinto their new chapter of life by a cosmopolitan 1m welcome wagon, including curbside greetings on Move-In Day, organic vegan menu options, and a full week of icebreakers that include a group hypnosis session and a social media scavenger hunt. It’s no wonder that the Division of Student Affairs, the department responsible for this transformation, has captured 21 Excellence Awards Welcome Week Residence Halls Meals Wellness Off-Campus Jobs

from the National Association of Student Personnel That’s entertainment: An orientation It all starts with a place to rest your After pondering the expanding When that first flu away from home As good as things are on campus, It pays to have the right school Administrators in the past eight years—more than extravaganza packed with more head. Between 2002 and 2011, universe or a passage by Camus, hits, never fear. Some 24,300 New York City always beckons. on your résumé. For the Class of any college in the history of the program. “We have than 400 activities NYU invested $628 young scholars may unwind students were seen More than 91 percent of 2012, the Wasserman Center for now attracts 40,000 million in student with a quinoa salad and carrot in 130,486 visits at students hold a part- Career Development reports that worked to create a robust and vibrant campus life attendees each August. housing and student juice using the CampusDish the Student Health time job or internship, an average of 92.5 percent that supports the academic enterprise—in and out Even the Presidential Welcome and services to reimagine the nutrition app. The dining Center in 2012. And when with 24 percent holding of graduating seniors of the classroom,” says Marc Wais, vice president the annual Reality Show: NYU—the residential experience. Many dorms halls provide gluten- there are problems that may seem both. In the past decade, more were employed full-time highly comic, unblushing student- now offer academic-themed floors to free and vegetarian overwhelming, students can reach than 85 percent of undergrads or attending graduate for global student affairs. produced musical that introduces help students connect with those of options alongside out to the nationally recognized participated in community service— or professional school Getting there took more than a decade of self- freshmen to college life and all its similar interests under the tutelage college classics such Wellness Exchange. The trained landing NYU on the President’s by late fall of the following year. examination. In the process, NYU discovered pimples—are staged at landmark of faculty. Within a given residence as burgers and fries. health professionals who staff the Higher Education Community Starting full-time salaries for NYU that it could indeed be both things to students— venues, including Radio City Music hall, students may live next door to The halls have also partnered with 24/7 hotline received more than Service Honor Roll with Distinction undergrads have increased to Hall and the Beacon Theatre. an international professor, a writer- sustainable seafood, filtered water, 12,000 phone calls in 2012—a 253 for five of the past seven years. $51,385, about $800 higher than an urban adventure where undergrads gain in-residence, or even an imam or and composting programs to ensure percent increase from 2005. in 2011. unprecedented independence, and also a close- rabbi—making NYU the most faculty- their green cred. And dining hours knit, nurturing community. embedded residential-life program range from 7 am to midnight, so Here’s a look at some of the perks and highlights photo © Nick joh n so n in the country. there’s always something cooking. of campus life today: + m hours % K 10 / FALL 2013 / NYU 400 $628 17 24/7 91 $51 NYU / FALL 2013 / 11 In Brief

Glied Appointed New Dean of health care. “The nice thing D.C.-based government lawyer- ary 2014, to the university’s new of Wagner about health care is that it never ing clinic, as well as expand loan School of Engineering. Sreeni- When Sherry Glied was training stays still,” Glied says. “It’s always repayment assistance. “These are vasan, a distinguished experi- as an economist, she never would changing and if anything, the pace challenging times for legal edu- mental physicist whose research have predicted that she’d end up a has only picked up.” cation, when some of the basic focuses on the behavior of fluids health-care policy expert, or that —Morgan Ribera premises of our mission and ap- and turbulence, joined NYU as a she’d be sitting in the dean’s chair proach are being reexamined,” professor of engineering and phys- at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate Morrison Named he says. “But part of what makes ics in 2009, after more than two School of Public Service, a role she Law School Dean NYU so special is its capacity to decades at Yale University and an assumed in early August. Glied, Last April, NYU School of Law equip students to succeed in to- appointment as director of the In- who formerly served as chair of received a new captain at the day’s marketplace while holding ternational Centre for Theoretical the department of health poli- helm: renowned constitution- fast to the core values that have Physics in Trieste, Italy. cy and management at Columbia al law scholar Trevor Morrison. long made it a distinctive, and dis- Sreenivasan views the merg- University’s Mailman School of He succeeds Richard Revesz, who tinctively valuable, leader in legal er as a chance to concentrate the Public Health, has published nu- stepped down from the position education.” university’s efforts in urban engi- merous works on health-care re- after 11 years. Morrison previously —Boryana Dzhambazova neering, bioengineering, and inform and mental-health policy, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court formation technology for the good and has held multiple government Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has Sreenivasan Heads of all. “The resulting combination advisory positions, including most taught at Cornell and Columbia NYU-Poly will enhance our collective op- recently the role of assistant secre- universities, and spent 2009 serv- The Polytechnic Institute of NYU portunities in education, research, tary for planning and evaluation ing as President Barack Obama’s has a new chief. Katepalli R. and economic development, ben- in the U.S. Department of Health associate counsel. Sreenivasan was appointed pres- efiting Brooklyn, New York City, and Human Services. She looks As dean, Morrison plans to ident of NYU-Poly and will lead and the State of New York, along forward to mentoring Wagner enhance the school’s curriculum, the affiliated institution through with our nation and the world,” students, especially during a peri- launch new study-abroad pro- the final stages of its merger with he says. od of such vast change in the realm grams, and establish a Washington, NYU and its transition, in Janu- —B.D.

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I LLU STRATIO N © a surgeon, he took that a step fur- time one of the researchers sliced chemistry ther and conceived a product that into a liver or punctured an artery, could help medical professionals at the gel put the organ or pathway JESSE L EFKOWIT all stages of crises. back together in seconds—and To move forward, the fresh- saved the animal’s life. Coolness man reconsidered some work from Now, Landolina and Miller, Z his past. In high school, Landolina whom he met during the Stern had conducted informal experi- competition (they currently op- ments with polymers—the mol- erate under the company name Factor ecules that make up our DNA Suneris, Inc.), are working to and proteins as well as other sub- formally produce the product, by Kyla Marshell stances in the universe—learning which they believe will especially how to turn them into solids. So benefit veterinarians, the military, his could spell the end of freezer-burned waf- he figured if he could invent a and surgeons, but also the general polymer that could act like skin, it public. Of course, this will require fles and more:B uilding on the known behavior just might close wounds and stop rigorous testing, so the first step is of antifreeze proteins found in fish and am- bleeding. He went to work read- to attract backers who can finance phibians living in subzero climates, NYU chem- ing as many books and papers on more experiments and make plans T ists Kent Kirshenbaum and Michael Ward—along with the subject as possible and traveling for distribution. However, Veti- home on weekends to experiment Gel is already being manufactured grad students Mia Huang (GSAS ’09, ’12), David Ehre, Qi with polymers in his grandfather’s for veterinarians; more than 300 Jiang (GSAS ’13), and Chunhua Hu—have synthesized wine labs. Just two weeks later, have expressed interest in it when protein-like molecules called peptoids that allowed them he had derived a beige gel from it is ready for clinical evaluations to lower the temperature of water significantlybelow its a plant that could reassemble to later this fall. freezing point of 32° Fahrenheit—while keeping it liquid. mimic whatever surface it was ap- Not only does Veti-Gel have a plied to—including human skin. solid business plan, says Kurt Beck- we all know too well that crystals form on month-old bioengineering Veti-Gel was born. er, a professor at NYU-Poly, but ice cream, but they also provide the framework for ev- At the time of the Stern compe- it also has some advantages that erything from silicon—an essential component of our tition, the judges viewed Veti-Gel similar products don’t: It’s signifi- most beloved gadgets—to kidney stones and gout. “We as a glorified Band-Aid, something cantly faster in closing wounds, is that could only cover a wound and much less expensive, and is easy to want to find out how crystals form, how we can predict facilitate healing (he took second use (other products require apply- the arrangement of individual molecules,” Kirshenbaum Bloody Brilliant place). But Landolina had a hunch ing pressure, something that isn’t explains. “And then we can start to think about how we that it could do much more. So always easy to do in surgery or on a can alter those events to produce crystalline materials he went to a local butcher shop battlefield). Undergrad Joe Landolina may taneously, a master’s in biomedical doctors and research organizations in Brooklyn, bought a juicy, fresh Landolina says that the sub- that will be useful to us.” The possibilities range from revolutionize healing engineering and biomaterials at across the country. All it took to pork loin, and sliced it down the stance may also be used for other disease prevention to a new kind of freezing process. NYU, Landolina recently went put this in motion was some good middle, producing a great gush medical tasks. Because it takes on Such an innovation would be invaluable for cryo-pres- public with an astonishing inven- old-fashioned competition. of blood. After applying the gel, the characteristics of skin and in- by Alyson Krueger / GSAS ’12 ervation (the storage of stem cells, biological materials, tion. Called Veti-Gel, the sub- When Landolina arrived at the rampant bleeding stopped be- tegrates seamlessly into the body, s a kid, Joe Lando- Landolina (POLY ’14) explains. stance stops uncontrollable bleed- NYU in 2010, he was dazzled by fore Landolina’s eyes, and the cut Veti-Gel may be able to deliver and other tissues), which currently employs antifreeze lina loved to invent “Under my grandfather’s tute- ing cold—something that could the $175,000 prize he saw adver- closed within seconds. medicine to a particular spot or solvents that can damage the tissue. things. Growing lage, [I] learned how to manipulate benefit everyone from patients tised for the winner of the Leonard He knew he was on to some- heal burns and other irritations. might this technology be used to freeze the dead in up on his grandfa- biochemistry.” He even tried to in surgery to soldiers on a battle- N. Stern School of Business Entre- thing. After that experiment And the gel is designed to be ab- hopes that we could wake them in the future? “It’s not ther’s vineyard in create aspirin once but admits: “I field. Publications such as The preneurs Challenge. So he decid- Landolina reached out to Herbert sorbed into the body, so it never APine Bush, New York, he exper- don’t know how well that went.” Huffington Post, USA Today, and ed to invent something. He called Dardik, former chief of surgery at has to be removed (the full effects typically what I contemplate as an application for what imented with new wine varieties Those early trials, however, the New York Daily News have to discuss ideas with his father, Englewood Hospital in New Jer- of the substance on the human we’re doing,” Kirshenbaum says. But he adds: “If some- in the two labs on the property. set the stage for one very big feat. written about Veti-Gel, singing a police lieutenant, who suggested sey, who agreed to test Veti-Gel body still need to be tested). “Ever body popped off my head after I passed away, and they “It actually takes quite a bit of Now working toward his bache- its praises. Landolina and business he try to help EMS workers save on rats in his lab. Together they since I made the material, it really were thinking about reanimating it later, I would hope chemistry to make sure that every- lor’s degree in chemical and bio- partner Issac Miller (STERN ’12) more lives. Being that Landoli- performed a 12-animal study over does surprise me every single day,” thing is balanced in a good wine,” molecular engineering and, simul- have brokered partnerships with na once had dreams of becoming the course of two months. Every Landolina says. that they care a lot about how it’s being stored.”

14 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 15 urban design of Real Estate at the School of impact D Continuing and Professional AN Y Studies. They weren’t there to

S R O hand out supplies, or even to lis- E SANDY N T E A ten to residents reminisce about L Lesson Plan Y E A R easier days. Instead they’d gath- STATS ered with more than three dozen students sketch a strategy for Coney Island residents—from the owner of the local bodega to Storm Surge at rebuilding coney island A sketch of Cone y Island’s students from a high school social infrastructure and potential studies class—to lead a weeklong Battery Park NYC improvements following workshop on practical steps for IN by Alyson Krueger / GSAS ’12 hurricane Sandy’s upheaval. City: 14 Feet rebuilding. Residents lamented the lack of express trains to Manhattan and how their water supply was vulnerable to contamination. (In January, they were still drinking bottled water.) They also longed for the return of businesses on the boardwalk and more free recre- ational activities for their bored teenagers. The NYU students took these issues and designed a plan that not only galvanized an anxious community but offered concrete steps for how the neigh- Cost to NJ: borhood could be improved in the long run—something gov- $29 Billion ernment officials didn’t have the luxury to consider so soon after Cost to NY: the disaster. “The city was still Students from the Schack Institute of Real Estate lead a workshop with coney island locals on pr actical steps for rebuilding their $32 Billion really focused on what they had coastal neighborhood. to do right [then], which was to get the street cleared, get the cars strengthened and become an asset need, as opposed to just learning out that were completely flood- to the community.” how to build, you know, office ed,” notes Richard Barga (SCPS Fresh out of classes on con- buildings in midtown Manhat- 40,000 ’13), a student who participated struction management, real es- tan,” Packard explains. in the workshop. tate development, and real estate After the success of the winter NYC Residents To its credit, the city listened. finance, the students had the workshop, Packard paired stu- Displaced “This was one of the first docu- skills and knowledge to imagine dents with members of NYC’s ments of its kind out there in one how the neighborhood could be Special Initiative for Rebuilding 161,000 of the impacted neighborhoods,” built better. And they had the and Resiliency, the task force says Nate Bliss (SCPS ’09, ’11), right guidance in Corinne Pack- that Mayor Michael Bloomberg New Jerseyans a representative from the city’s ard, who had previously worked appointed in December 2012 to Displaced Economic Development Corpo- on large redevelopment proj- prepare the city for natural di- P ho

t ration. “And it’s been among the ects for the city and, for the past sasters in the future. Some of the o s c

o u r documents that are influencing three years, has taught a course students’ ideas—such as lowering

t e the conversation that is ongoing at Schack on post-catastrophe the cost of insurance if build- sy NYU S about how to repair the [area].” reconstruction, where students ings complied with resiliency

n a wintry Saturday were out at Coney Island distrib- outsiders: government officials c h ac k I nstitut e o f Bliss was struck by students’ ideas worked on the ground in other measures in flood-prone areas— mere months after uting hot dogs and hamburgers. carrying FEMA forms and vol- on what to do with Coney Island distressed places, such as Haiti appeared in the final report Hurricane Sandy, The hurricane had washed out unteers passing out blankets and Creek, an underdeveloped inlet and Sri Lanka. released in mid-June. when businesses the neighborhood’s homes, play- bottles of water. But this dreary prone to massive flooding: “[This] “[Students] take this class Though the class is long over, were still shuttered grounds, and shoreline, and soon Saturday had also drawn another R e al led to a conversation about what because they realize they are student Barga says, only half jok-

Oand homes uninhabitable, repre- after, the community had been group of do-gooders—students Estat e Coney Island Creek is used for, its learning a set of skills that can be ingly: “We’re here if [the city] sentatives from the mayor’s office inundated with well-intentioned from NYU’s Schack Institute vulnerability, and how it might be applied to real communities in needs more ideas!”

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River campus to more than seven Enn e ad Ar feet above Sandy’s record surge.

vation is complete in early 2014; in c h it e

the meantime, the medical center cts Austin Taylor Kaylia Gilphilin has opened an urgent-care center — 2015 — — 2016 — to serve the public.) The buildings, which include a new co-generation power plant, were already designed with an eye toward rising sea levels and the more viru- lent storms predicted with climate facilities change by locating all critical systems above the 500-year flood lev- NYU IS el. Here was an opportunity to go even further. The goal now is to THANK YOU FOR protect the campus to two feet be- You the phoenix on first yond that—and critical infrastruc- YOUR SUPPORT ture to at least six feet higher—to not even a historic storm could shutter a level seven to 11 feet higher than D Sandy. Buildings surrounding the nyu LANGONE medical center for long AN Y main campus will also be outfit-

S R ted with barriers that can flip into O

E by Nicole Pezold / GSAS ’04 N place and act as bulwarks. T NYU Alumni are the secret to E A L There’s good news for Sandy’s Y E A R tiniest survivors, too. Some 54 cag- n the October night “It felt like a movie set,” he says. It was, perhaps, its lowest point in es of mice were rescued and have our success — thank you! that Hurricane San- All the world (or at least those nearly two centuries, which makes been outfitted with a new abo- dy rushed into New with power) watched what hap- its breakneck rebound all the more veground colony, which is only a York City, Paul pened next: An orderly, if surreal, astounding. recent innovation for these types Schwabacher, the evacuation of patients to 14 area Immediately, the medical cen- of facilities. “Traditional wisdom We hope we can count on your support this year and every year. Osenior vice president of facilities hospitals on higher ground, inter got to work, with the aid of dictates that you put colonies in management for NYU Langone cluding the delicate transfer of 20 $150 million from FEMA and the basement,” explains neurosci- Medical Center, was hunkered infants from the Neonatal Inten- around-the-clock crews, who for entist, physiologist, and cell biolo- When you participate in alumni giving, you help provide much-needed scholarships for our down with his team in a makeshift sive Care Unit by a team of hero- a time only stopped for meals and gist Gordon Fishell, because of the exceptional students—like Austin and Kaylia—and help maintain the excellence of NYU. command center on First Avenue ic nurses. More than 300 patients sleep. A week after the storm, the heavy machinery and copious flow and 30th Street. In the preceding were safely evacuated over the outpatient facilities were back in of water required to keep the space You also help to increase the value of your degree, as participation in days, the facilities team had pre- course of 13 hours. business. Another two weeks lat- pathogen free, among other factors. alumni giving impacts NYU’s ranking. Please make a gift to support NYU students today! pared for the storm much like they In the light of the next days, er, they opened one of the main So the mice, which are genetically did for Hurricane Irene, bringing in NYU Langone surveyed the de- buildings, Skirball Institute, and a altered to help doctors better un- water pumps and additional fuel oil, struction. Its mechanical, plumb- month after that, Tisch Hospital it- derstand everything from cancer to www.nyu.edu/giving and sealing up low-lying areas with ing, and electrical systems had self. By mid-January, a mere two- heart disease, are making their own plywood, plastic, and sandbags. As a suffered extensive damage; some and-a-half months after the storm, rebound, alongside the students, 1-800-698-4144 14-foot surge pushed its way up the state-of-the-art equipment—such the campus was essentially fully post-docs, and colleagues who East River, Schwabacher was mon- as MRIs, a gamma knife used for operational. “That was the goal,” study them. itoring the campus’s perimeter and brain surgery, and a linear accel- Schwabacher says, “to reopen the Fishell’s lab focuses on seizures, basements via security cameras. erator used for the treatment of doors, reopen for business again as and he says their work never truly “First thing that happened, I saw cancer—was also destroyed. But fast as possible.” slowed, and predicts the same for the video go out,” he remembers. more than just equipment was When Sandy hit, NYU Lan- the university. “If you look at NYU Some of the lights and power sys- lost. Thousands of laboratory gone’s complex was already in Langone’s output and performance tems began to shut off. Schwabach- mice perished; refrigerated tissue the midst of a major capital de- in five years, by any measures, er ran down to the basement. Wa- samples and other temperature- velopment program to construct you’d be hard-pressed to know this ter was pouring in—eventually 15 sensitive materials spoiled. Class and new energy, hospital, and science hit us,” Fishell explains. “And that million gallons would fill the build- research spaces were damaged. A buildings, as well as an overhaul of really speaks to the strength of the ings just on the superblock that runs premier academic medical center the Emergency Department. (The comeback, the dedication of every- along First Avenue in the low 30s. was bowed before Mother Nature. ED remains closed until the reno- one here.” NYUAlumni

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study music with the local priests. had fueled the movement for the honor of the NYU professor who

UT E CULT By the age of 9, he’d landed the unification of Italy, which was founded the institute and began the first of several posts as a church achieved in 1861. “Va, pensiero” painstaking work of acquiring ma- organist, and at 18 he moved to had become an unofficial national terials for the archive. And in early Milan to continue his studies. Ver- anthem. 2014, Izzo will curate “Giuseppe di’s first opera premiered in 1839, It might come as a surprise to Verdi: An American Tribute,” an with more than two dozen to some that one of the world’s larg- exhibition of treasures from the VIVA LA Trav iata come in the decades that followed. est collections of Verdi parapher- archive to be displayed in the lob- two hundred years later, composer Giuseppe Verdi piece for the world’s great tenors, A month after Verdi died, in 1901, nalia is housed at NYU, in a small by of Bobst Library. but the catchy tune has windowless So why does Verdi’s music is still contemporary also been recorded by room inside endure? Izzo has several theories. Bobst Li- One has to do with the compos- by Eileen Reynolds / GSAS ’11 brary. Since er’s knack for emotional realism: 1976, when For his 1847 Macbeth, for exam- ou might remem- when she meets a loving man of that delighted and scandalized the AIVS ple, he read Shakespeare, studying ber the movie in means. 19th-century audiences have con- was found- the psychology of the characters which Julia Rob- This year, as opera houses tinued to enthrall operagoers long ed, it has and at times “really bullying” the erts, dressed in el- across the world mounted Ver- after his death. The centerpiece of poet writing his libretto egant white gloves di classics such as Rigoletto, Aida, the celebration was “Verdi’s Third into shaping his vision. Yand a fetching red gown, is moved and, of course, La traviata in hon- Century: Italian Opera Today,” a The result is a unity of to tears as the swelling strains of or of the bicentennial of the Ital- four-day conference—presented words and music, Izzo an aria float up to the glittering ian composer’s birth, Francesco in partnership with NYU’s Casa says, that flies in the face opera box where she sits next to Izzo (GSAS ’98, ’03), co-director Italiana and Humanities Initiative of those who call opera her date, the tuxedo-clad Rich- “quintessentially im- ard Gere. That iconic scene is, of plausible.” course, from Pretty Woman. But “People know Verdi without And as Vivian dis- can you name the opera? The covered in Pretty Wom- 1990 film makes no direct refer- even knowing that they know an, Verdi operas also ence to Giuseppe Verdi, but the him—there are certain tunes have a way of foreshad- music is from his most common- that one has heard.” owing contemporary ly performed work, La traviata— events. Izzo points to a UR and our protagonist’s weeping is scene in I lombardi alla no wonder: The “fallen woman” of NYU’s American Institute for and timed to coincide with the prima crociata in which a of the opera’s title, like Roberts’ Verdi Studies (AIVS), has geared composer’s 200th birthday on Oc- Christian woman who character, Vivian, is a prostitute up for a series of events that ex- tober 10—that brought together has fallen in love with whose life changes drastically plore how the very same works not only scholars and musicolo- a Muslim accuses an in- gists, but also dramaturges, direc- vading band of crusad- The Metropolitan Opera’s 2013 production of Verdi’s Rigoletto transportS tors, performers, and critics. ers of sacking a Muslim the original story from 16th-century Mantua to 1960s La s Vegas. “What interests us today is how palace not out of reli- his music has infiltrated a number gious piety, but out of a of contexts in really unexpect- lust for gold. Izzo hears ed ways, from film to television in her cry—“No, no!

commercials,” Izzo says. “And it Nineteenth-Century Verdi Librettos from the Collection of It is not the just cause is absolutely true that people know John Mazzarella, recently bequeathed to NYU’s American Institute been home to a growing archive of God to soak the earth with hu- Verdi without even knowing that for Verdi Studies. of some 25,000 Verdi letters, con- man blood”—something of a pre- they know him—that there are tracts, and librettos, along with cursor to the “no blood for oil”

certain tunes that one has heard. P hoto © Ke n the likes of Alvin and the Chip- thousands of mourners singing about 80 precious microfilm reels slogan adopted in the early 2000s They’re just out there.” Chief munks and put to use as a taunting the soaring unison strains of “Va, that were filmed by researchers at by Americans who opposed the among those is “La donna è mo- chant in soccer stadiums. Stephen pensiero,” the chorus of Hebrew the composer’s home in Sant’Aga- Iraq War. H ow

bile,” a bouncy, triple-meter aria a rd/ M etropo l it Colbert even sang it with opera slaves from his opera Nabucco, ta, a site not generally open to the “Of course Verdi had no idea to the fickleness of women orig- legend Placido Domingo on his walked with his remains through public. At this year’s conference, that certain things were going to inally sung by the playboy Duke show in 2012. the streets of Milan. Celebrated the AIVS announced Gundula happen in today’s world,” Izzo of Mantua character in Rigoletto. Born in 1813 in a small village as national treasures, Verdi’s early Kreuzer as the first-ever recipient says, “but we are able to draw con- an

With a couple of well-placed high O per near Parma, Verdi was encouraged operas had come to be viewed by of the Martin Chusid Award for nections, and that brings us closer

notes, it remains a favorite show- a by his father, an innkeeper, to some as revolutionary works that Verdi Studies, a prize named in to his operas.”

NYU / FALL 2013 / 23 film CREDITS A Direct(ing) Descendant P hoto © Alumni Steal the Show Ma by Jason Hollander / GAL ’07 tthew At the 2013 Tony Awards, Kinky Boots, produced by Adam Mu rph y S. Gordon (TSOA ’89) and Ken Davenport (TSOA ’94), was named Best Musical, while producer Rose Crazy: A Five Film, which pre- and Meredith Wechter, who was P hoto © C Caiola’s (TSOA ’91) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? took miered to acclaim on Lifetime an assistant at a boutique agency, home Best Revival of a Play… ABC’s White House drama last April, she adds another credit saw it and then came up to me an o n U. S Scandal, starring Katie Lowes (TSOA ’04), returns to TV to her growing body of work be- and said, “I would like to be your this fall, while Ken Marino (TSOA ’91) can be seen on .A. hind the camera. It’s a move that agent.” I was 19 years old and was the final season of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down… worked out fairly well for her fa- like, “Oh, that’s cool!” So she Also returning to the alphabet network is suburban- ther, director Ron Howard, and became my agent, and she still is family sitcom The Middle, created by showrunners Eileen a creative process she enjoys be- today. Heisler (TSOA ’88) and DeAnn Heline (TSOA ’87)… cause, she says, “You don’t have Bethenny Frankel’s (WSUC ’92) self-titled daytime to be the smartest person in the What would you say to that talk show recently premiered on Fox… Executive producer room; you just have to be a really 19-year-old now? Brian K. Vaughan’s (TSOA ’98) Under the Dome, based good listener, and be discerning.” I would probably say: Chill! on the novel by Stephen King, just wrapped its debut sea- Howard—the Golden Globe– You’re working hard enough son on CBS. The network’s latest thriller is writer/producer nominated star whose roles in- [laughs]. Alon Aranya’s (TSOA ’06) Hostages, which stars Toni clude the vicious Hilly Holbrook Collette and Dylan McDermott. in The Help and the virtuous Ivy Were you nervous about —Renée Alfuso kinky boots Walker in The Village—recent- transitioning into ly sat down with NYU Alumni directing? Magazine inside the Cantor Film I think that so much about being Center. She was here to screen a creative is being able to tolerate short film she created for Canon’s your own frustrations, and embar- Project Imaginat10n—a directori- rassment, and sadness, and grief. al contest she’s judging along with I mean my dad says that every sin- WelcOMe NYU Al UMNi her dad, and which includes sub- gle movie will break your heart. missions from celebrity filmmakers Like, literally break your heart. So such as Eva Longoria and Jamie failure is not the thing that’s scar- J o i n th e nYU C lU b Foxx. iest for me because I know you t he P r i nCe to n C lU b o f n e w Y o r k have to go through that. It’s only Everything kind of going to inform everything else. One of the many alumni benefits available to all NYU alumni. started for you right here, didn’t it? So, what does scare you in Membership benefits privileges include: Oh, big time. It really is all con- this new role? nected back to NYU. I met my I think the thing to be afraid of is . Connect with over 500 NYU Alumni and those from peer institutions husband [actor Seth Gabel] here. not being realistic. Are you think- . Special rates for recent NYU graduates Dane Charbeneau, who wrote ing that someone is capable of do- . Cozy members’ lounge When You Find Me [a short that ing something that maybe they’re . State-of-the-art meeting rooms and banquet facilities, Howard directed in 2011], I met not? Are you vetting everything newly renovated accommodations and restaurants here. And Jason Lew (TSOA ’03), properly? Are you creating an . Fully-equipped business center and free WiFi access who wrote the Gus Van Sant environment where you’re em- . A 10,000-volume lending library . Access to more than 200 exclusive clubs worldwide, movie [Restless] that I produced, powering others to challenge you? including private golf clubs I met here. They were actually all Truly. Which is a scary thing to As an actress, Bryce Dallas Howard (TSOA roommates at one time. do. But if you don’t do that, then ’03) is used to being adorned in elaborate the movie comes out and you outfits and going through the ritual of hair And your acting career think it’s amazing and other peo- For questions about membership: just blossomed one night. ple think it sucks. And it’s because, Please contact the Membership Office at 212-596-1240 15 West 43rd St. New York, NY 10036 or [email protected] www.princetonclub.com/nyu and makeup for each role. But ferent kind of transformation. As a Yes. I did this show called Ham- well, you made everyone afraid to recently, she’s embarked on a dif- co-director of the drama Call Me letmachine my sophomore year tell you the truth.

NYU_ClubAd_SSƒ.indd 1 2/16/11 2:45 PM 24 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 25 crecy once recruits arrived in Oak ers, they were barred from bring- Though Kiernan found many Ridge. Each was given just the ing their children to Oak Ridge). letters of complaint addressed to sliver of information necessary to There was one camp for black men everyone from construction boss- do her job. The word uranium was and another for black women, es to President Roosevelt, many never spoken or written. Instead, it separated by a high fence, barbed black workers stayed on. The sim- was referred to as “tubealloy” and wire, and guards. They had a 10 ple truth was that African-Ameri- “product”—not that anyone but, pm curfew and little privacy, with cans’ experience in Oak Ridge was say, the chemists even knew what four people squeezed into a one- not so different from elsewhere uranium was or how its power room hut heated by a coal stove. in the South and beyond, but the might be harnessed for this newly Cooking in the huts was forbid- wages could not be matched.

PRINT discovered thing called fission. den. Instead, there was a special On the morning of August 6, IN Lest anyone start blabbing about blacks-only cafeteria, renowned 1945, the United States dropped work, residents were bombarded for serving up mystery meat and a bomb armed with uranium pro- with warnings. There were bill- “rocks, glass, or some danger- cessed at Oak Ridge on Hiroshi- boards, editorials, missives, and the ous piece of harmful trash.” After ma, and another three days later on occasional, sudden disappearance a particularly harrowing bout of Nagasaki. Just like that, the world of a loose-lipped colleague, and food poisoning, Strickland started ventured into a new age, the war these reminders mostly worked. to surreptitiously bake corn bread, ended, and a veil was lifted on the “Nobody wanted to be respon- biscuits, and other comfort foods true purpose of The Project. It sible for derailing the war effort,” in the huts on rumpled pans fash- would take some time to under- Kiernan explains. “If they said, ioned from scrap metal. stand the full scale of destruction in ‘Keep your mouth shut or you’re Life turned truly horrific for Japan. nonfiction going to screw things up,’ then it some African-Americans, such as In Oak Ridge, there was ju- was like, ‘Well, I’ll keep my mouth Ebb Cade, a healthy 53-year-old bilation. Everyone could return shut.’ ” construction worker. When both to faraway homes and know that By 1945, Oak Ridge was home of his legs were broken in a car ac- their brothers, husbands, and sons to 75,000 workers and their fam- cident, doctors at Oak Ridge were would soon join them. But a sur- Coming of Atomic Age ilies. The days were long, and the ordered not to set them imme- prising number also settled in right work never stopped for holidays. diately and to give him injections there, taking new jobs in the bur- Housing was scarce and shoddy. of plutonium to study its effect. geoning field of atomic energy. THE YOUNG WOMEN WHO (UNWITTINGLY) Single women were generally as- Thereafter he was known as HP- Today, the town has only 28,000 BUILT THE A-BOMB signed to dormitories, while fam- 12. Staff collected urine, feces, and residents but is home to the De- ilies scrunched into prefab hous- tissue samples, and removed 15 partment of Energy’s largest na- Inside a uranium-enrichment es and trailers. There were lines by Nicole Pezold / GSAS ’04 plant, young women were tr ained to operate these calutron for everything—food, cigarettes, monitors without ever knowing books. The mud was ubiquitous he only thing Celia night in the mountains of eastern in one of the processing plants, P hoto their purpose. and calf-deep. Despite the dis- Szapka knew as her Tennessee as part of the Manhattan and Leona Woods, a physicist who S © J comforts, these years marked a train rattled along in Project. Its singular purpose was to helped to create the first sustained a mes thor was approached by Holly- formative period for many of the

the August heat of enrich as much uranium as quick- nuclear reaction. “The most ambi- E dw wood when the book was merely young workers. It was the first 1943 was that they ly as possible for use in the War tious war project in military history a rd in proposal form, and continues to time they were on their own, W est Twere headed south. Szapka, a Department’s quest to develop a rested squarely on the shoulders of ride a wave of lectures, interviews, pockets flush with cash, and a c 24-year-old secretary working for nuclear bomb. tens of thousands of ordinary peo- ott, and book events, from Raleigh to lively social scene sprouted in- c the State Department in New York It was an arduous task, and as ple, many of them young wom- o u rtes Milwaukee—including a party in stantly. There were dances, reli-

City, had been picked up by limo, chronicled in journalist Denise Ki- en,” she writes. y o f the N a Nashville thrown by one of her gious services, a movie theater, taken to Newark Penn Station, and ernan’s book, The Girls of Atomic Kiernan resurrects this moment subjects, Colleen Rowan, where and all manner of clubs, from bas-

led aboard a berth with several oth- City: The Untold Story of the Wom- in history through hundreds of tio nal Ar all the ladies dressed in 1940s ketball to Girl Scouts. er young women all hired for “The en Who Helped Win World War II interviews with former workers, military garb and passed around You only had to be white to Billboards were a ubiquitous reminder to keep mum about the work happening at Oak Ridge.

Project.” She had not been told (Touchstone), much of this labor many now in their nineties, and c hives atomic-themed cocktails. partake in the fun. African-Amer- where the job was, whom she’d be fell to women like Szapka. Kier- extensive archival research. Since The Project sought out young icans, who were primarily hired to of his teeth. He died eight years tional laboratory and celebrates its working for, what she’d be doing, nan (WSUC ’91, STEINHARDT its release last spring, the book has women like Rowan and Jones, build or clean the town and plants, later, reportedly from heart fail- unusual origins each June with the or how long it would last—only ’02) presents her story, as a secre- landed on The New York Times from rural Tennessee and fresh faced all the indignities of segre- ure. In 1994, President Bill Clin- Secret City Festival. “[Oak Ridge] that it paid well and was in service tary at the town’s administrative best-seller list and has won the at- out of high school, because it was gation and more. When Kattie ton appointed a special committee may have been constructed by the to ending the war. headquarters, along with the narra- tention of critics. The Washington thought that they were easier to Strickland and her husband arrived to investigate this and thousands government,” Kiernan says, “but What waited at the end of this tives of women at all levels of this Post called it “fascinating,” noting instruct and asked fewer questions. from Alabama, they discovered of other human radiation experi- they had built that community by journey was Oak Ridge, a top- undertaking—including Dorothy that “Rosie, it turns out, did much These were important traits be- that they were not allowed to live ments that were conducted from staying there, eating there, marry- secret town raised almost over- Jones, a calutron cubicle operator more than drive rivets.” The au- cause there was no end to the se- together (and unlike white work- 1944 to 1974. ing there, having babies there.”

NYU / FALL 2013 / 27 nonfiction bibliofile

AMONG MURDERERS: Journalist Sabine Heinlein inter- JUNGLELAND: A MYSTERIOUS One steamy day in July 2009, LIFE AFTER PRISON viewed more than 50 prisoners LOST CITY, A WWII SPY, AND Christopher Stewart left the com-

IPRI N T N (UNIVERSITY OF before she found Angel, Bruce, and A TRUE STORY OF DEADLY fort of Brooklyn and embarked on Writing to the Beat CALIFORNIA PRESS) Adam—all convicted of murder— ADVENTURE a real-life Indiana Jones adven- SABINE HEINLEIN who are the protagonists in this (HARPER) ture to find the Ciudad Blanca, or Devon Powers recalls the dawn of rock criticism GSAS ’07 sobering, sensitive debut about CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART White City. A journalist at The Wall reentering society after serving GAL ’96 Street Journal, he had become by Kevin Fallon / CAS ’09 hard time. The author spent more obsessed with the mystical city— than two years documenting their believed to be hidden in the jungle return to a world they barely rec- of Honduras’s Mosquito Coast— ognized, where everyday chores while reporting on the Honduran hese days, a person “Goldstein has created his own they all partied with rock accomplish something in such as shopping, crossing the drug trade. Seventy years earli- can tweet a review of journalistic discipline—the ‘pop’ stars. Was it really like a field as purportedly street, riding the subway, or or- er, American explorer Theodore Justin Bieber’s new beat,” which allowed him to roam that? technical as journalism.” dering a meal could be daunting. Morde claimed to have located it, song and have his or the world of “miniskirts, under- I’d say yes and no. Yes, to the ex- That seems like déjà vu Heinlein’s in-depth reporting of- and Stewart’s narrative zigzags her 140-character ground filmmakers, LSD cultists, tent that rock musicians were a with blogs and micro music fers powerful insight into the reen- between this earlier account and Topinion taken (somewhat) seri- and rock ’n’ roll musicians.” Along lot more accessible then. I mean, sites doing rock criticism. try system, its shortcomings, and his own journey—replete with ven- ously. The reflex is so common the way, notes Powers (STEIN- Richard Goldstein has told me Is there a difference? good practices, and the book also omous snakes and pirates—until that it’s hard to remember it took a HARDT ’08), an assistant profes- stories about meeting Janis Joplin The concerns of the mid-1950s reveals these men’s struggles to- the lines between past and pres- revolution to get there. sor of culture and communication and Diana Ross and all these peo- are different. It is an era when ward freedom and redemption. As ent, legend and reality begin to Devon Powers’ book Writing at Drexel University, these writers ple. But music writers, they were people are obsessed with the word Jillian Steinhauer put it for the Los blur. The Daily Beast gushed: “The the Record: The Village Voice and the helped to legitimize the study of twentysomethings; they were conformity. It’s post–nuclear bomb. Angeles Review of Books, Hein- premise is so fantastic that if Jun- Birth of Rock Criticism (University popular culture itself. making really crappy money. It The oppressiveness that people of lein’s greatest “triumph” is “the gleland were a novel, you could be of Massachusetts Press) chronicles We spoke with Powers to dis- wasn’t wrapped in glamour and an alternative sensibility felt in the ability to turn ‘murderers’ […] into forgiven for worrying that it might the critical side of that revolution, cuss the birth of rock criticism, fashion. It was an amazing job, but ’50s is not the same as what people people.” be a bit pulpy or clichéd.” revisiting the work of a talented, pop culture in the digital age, and you were still living in a crappy felt at the rise of blogs and social —Boryana Dzhambazova —B.D. tenacious group of Village Voice whether the notion that “every- apartment and wondering what networking. You might be tak- journalists in the 1960s and ’70s. one is a critic” is actually true. you were doing with your life. ing down an establishment, but These early rock critics, including it’s not The Establishment, capital Richard Goldstein and Robert When a person thinks Village Voice founder Dan “T,” capital “E.” THE MAN WHO SEDUCED Greg Bautzer, the most ambitious TURNAROUND: THIRD WORLD In his latest work, Peter Blair Christgau, had a simple idea: to about music critics in Wolf said that the paper HOLLYWOOD: THE LIFE AND celebrity lawyer you’ve probably LESSONS FOR FIRST WORLD Henry follows the rocky econom- write about a cultural movement, the 1960s, they have a “was conceived to demolish Then what’s the LOVES OF GREG BAUTZER, never heard of, waltzed his way GROWTH ic trajectories of developing na- you actually have to be a part of romanticized, Almost the notion that one needs difference between TINSELTOWN’S MOST into Hollywood and dominated (BASIC BOOKS) tions—Brazil, Mexico, Barbados, it. Newsweek declared in 1966, Famous–inspired idea that to be a professional to the nonprofessionals POWERFUL LAWYER its social scene, and the tabloids, PETER BLAIR HENRY Chile, and China among them—and he was talking about (CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS) for more than three decades. In DEAN, LEONARD N. STERN assesses how, with policy reform P hoto Co u rtes and this notion that B. JAMES GLADSTONE 1936, the recent USC law school SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, AND and fiscal discipline, they gradual- “everyone is a critic,” TSOA ’85 graduate invested $5,000 in a WILLIAM R. BERKLEY PROFESSOR ly sowed paths toward prosperity. which sort of dismisses posh wardrobe and, with his legal OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE Through historical research and y NYU Ar the nonprofessional? prowess and natural good looks, data analysis, Henry examines the

c hives Part of the reason that mainstream soon landed a leading role among various policies, both damaging journalism was not paying atten- the cast of Tinseltown power play- (import substitution and nation- tion to what was going on in the ers. Between his celebrity clients alization in Jamaica) and benefi- Village is that they didn’t know. and confidants—Howard Hughes cial (trade liberalization in China), By getting people who were lo- and William Randolph Hearst pursued by leaders of the former cal and in the thick of things, [the among them—and his serial love Third World. He argues that First Voice] could speak more knowl- affairs with the likes of Lana Turn- World nations now facing rising edgably about what was happen- er and Ginger Rogers, Bautzer led poverty and economic dysfunc- ing. The one sort of problem that I a life as climactic as a blockbuster. tion have much to learn from their have when people say, “everyone Through meticulous archival re- less developed peers. Washington is a critic” is that yeah, everyone’s search and interviews with long- Monthly notes that the book is a a critic, but not everyone pays at- lived members of Bautzer’s inner “welcome addition to global devel- tention. I’m going to value what circle, B. James Gladstone con- opment literature” in that it can be my friend who knows a lot about structs a tantalizing portrait of “understood by readers who hav- Hollywood’s golden era. en’t passed advanced classes in Gerde’s Folk City w as just one of the Village venues where early rock critics rubbed elbows with their film says more than Mom—not soon-to-be star subjects. that my mom isn’t great. —Morgan Ribera statistics and algebra.” —M.R.

28 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 29 Cities are the way of the future. Illustrations by Robert Samuel Hanson Can we make them better for everyone? EARTH GOES

URBANHOW’S THIS FOR A SHIFTING LANDSCAPE: Only 13 percent of people were urban dwellers at the dawn of the 20th century, but by 2050, 70 percent of the global population will reside in cities. In 1970, the world had two “megacities”—New York and Tokyo—with populations over 10 million, while today there are 23; by 2025, there are expected to be 37. The world’s anticipated population growth in the next few decades, from 7 billion now to around 9 billion in 2050, will take place largely in cities throughout the developing world. Because the vast majority of humanity will soon be urban, the quality of life in our cities is becoming more critical than ever.

30 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 31 Some governments are rushing to harness the benefits of modernity The rise of the city ric of each city’s municipal leadership right veloping countries. These so-called “charter cities” would be guided by prin- what enormous benefits it will have in the future, officials are willing to take and redefine themselves. In China, the modest fishing town of Shenzhen has is being viewed under their mayors, the goal was to expedi- ciples of reform that allow a country to use a new city to experiment with these steps.” transformed in just three decades to become an international industrial be- as a moment of tiously target top policy issues. A partner- approaches to improving economic and social life. The idea has not been Romer is bringing this same emphasis on broad foresight to the new hemoth, and in Brazil, the positioning of Sao Paulo as a center of global trade, ship was forged with the Wagner Innovation without critics: Some question the ability of capacity-constrained govern- Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment, of which he became finance, and technology has spurred the country’s middle class to grow by enormous promise, Labs, headed by Neil Kleiman at the Wagner ments to successfully launch new cities. Others feel that too much foreign the interim director earlier this year. The institute, which was launched last 50 percent since 2003. At the same time, many cities are buckling under the an opportunity to School, to provide technical assistance and involvement in the governance of charter cities would border on neocolo- winter with a $40 million gift from Donald Marron, chairman of Lightyear weight of more people than they can sustain, reflecting the natural course usher in an era of real-time assessments for the initiative. nialism. Romer counters that the idea is not about advocating any particular Capital, is gearing up to become a leading-edge interdisciplinary vehicle for of fertility as well as an unprecedented level of rural migration. In Nigeria, sustainable, smart “I don’t think there’s any precedent style of governance but rather is a process that provides new strategies to exploring what makes cities livable and successful. the rough-and-tumble commercial and industrial hub of Lagos has by some for this amount of money directly funding frustrated governments in rapidly urbanizing countries. By helping to connect scholars at the university and beyond, the insti- growth. estimates seen its population double over the past decade and a half to 21 mayors just to be innovative,” Kleiman says. Although these two ideas—of guiding sprawl and creating new cit- tute intends to push the discussion about cities forward, to initiate its own million, and in Bangladesh, about 115,000 people are crammed into every “When you’re elected mayor, it’s like being ies wholesale—may seem divergent, they’re linked by a common interest in contributions, and to link researchers with public-policy makers to advance square mile of Dhaka, making it the densest city in the world, with thousands in a shooting gallery. There are so many problems coming so fast, you don’t thinking ahead about what our overwhelmingly urban world will look like in new ideas. With global urbanization rapidly under way, the timing for such an of slums. have the bandwidth to be strategic and plan out major government reinven- the decades and even centuries to come, and considering the consequences initiative could not be better, according to Romer. The massive strains upon these cities often trigger doomsday sce- tions and reforms. So the idea here was to actually build innovation into the if we don’t. “Urbanization is something that has a beginning and an end,” he says. narios of scarce food, dwindling water, insufficient sanitation, substandard infrastructure, and it’s led to an incredible array of concrete changes in every “What could happen is we miss the opportunity to speed up progress “What’s important is to use the window we’ve got right now to influence how housing, rising poverty, and civil strife, which are all valid fears. But in every city.” and make life so much better far into the future,” Romer says. “People in most it takes place, because we’re going to live forever with the cities we’ve built.” corner of the globe, the rise of the city is also being viewed as a moment of In Memphis, it’s meant a revival of three economically flagging neigh- government positions rarely have a chance to step back and say, ‘What can we —Jennifer Bleyer enormous promise, an opportunity to actually spread the blessings of mo- borhoods, which the city’s innovation delivery team tackled by convening do today that will make a difference in 20 or 50 years?’ But once you outline dernity while ushering in an era of sustainable, smart growth. At this critical conversations among stakeholders to envision changes and catalyze plans juncture, scholars across disciplines at NYU are at the forefront of deter- to make them happen. In Chicago, it’s meant an effort to cut red tape for mining what makes cities succeed and how they can be equipped to flourish small businesses, which led to a prototype for a restaurant start-up program far into the future. that simplified the bureaucratic requirements for opening a small eatery. And there’s no better place to start than at home, in New York City. And in New Orleans, it’s meant a multipronged onslaught to reduce the city’s murder rate, which is nearly 10 times the national average. The response has lthough New York was the epicenter of the been “startling,” according to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. financial crash, even I’ve been surprised by “The innovation delivery teams are designed to be like Navy Seal teams HOW “ how well it’s rebounded,” says Richard Florida, that move into all the areas of government and have the authority of the may- a world-renowned voice on cities and urban af- or to change everything and anything,” Landrieu said in an interview on his fairs. “The diversity of its economy, its people, YouTube channel. “One question that’s always asked of me is: Would I recom- WE’LL and its overall resilience made it come out in mend this to other mayors? And I would absolutely recommend it, but they better shape than it went in.” should not do it if they’re not going to give the teams the authority to break a The author of The Rise of the Creative lot of glass.” GET Class (Basic Books) and co-founder of the As Kleiman notes, the initiative is less about the brilliance of the par- Atlantic Cities website, Florida was appointed Global Research Professor at ticular ideas than the way they’re implemented. the School of Continuing and Professional Studies last year, and he dove into “Innovation is not some big eureka moment,” he says. “It’s not like, ‘Wow, AROUND hisA new role by helping initiate a major study of New York’s economic resil- we never thought to help small businesses by cutting red tape.’ But the idea iency in the challenging early years of the 21st century. Launched in conjunc- is: Can we cut red tape, do it in six months, do it in a way that all the agencies tion with Rosemary Scanlon and Hugh Kelly of NYU’s Schack Institute of Real are working tighter and taking the best advantage of technology, and we’re ne recent rainy weekday afternoon, Estate and Mitchell Moss of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public simultaneously tapping input from businesses, communities, and various John Falcocchio, a veteran professor of Service, the study aims to comprehensively analyze the unique factors that levels of the bureaucracy? The infrastructure to do that doesn’t mean 400 transportation planning and engineering have enabled the city to weather major challenges, including 9/11, the 2008 people. It means three or four people who work at the highest levels of mu- at NYU-Poly, found himself among a snarl global financial crisis, and Hurricane Sandy. nicipal government being strategic, knowing the data, and building in owner- of cars inching down Lexington Avenue. Much of New York’s durability has been credited to its shift from an ship and commitment from all the relevant agencies. What we’ve learned is Because the right lane was reserved for economy deeply dependent on finance, insurance, and real estate to one that having that innovation infrastructure is hugely beneficial.” buses, and the left curb was packed with increasingly rooted in creative-class and technology jobs, Florida notes. But parked cars, commercial vehicles stopping in addition to appraising these thriving components of the New York econ- aul Romer likes to speak of a city itself as a “unit of to unload had brought traffic in the moving omy, he and his collaborators are also scrutinizing the city’s growing class analysis,” an entity deserving of its own unique field lane to a halt. While a jaded New Yorker might dismiss this as inevitable, divide and analyzing how to reverse it. of study. Romer, an economist at the Leonard N. and an idealist dream of a future in which cars and trucks would be banned “This study is not just about expanding New York’s fabulous creative Stern School of Business, directs the Urbanization fromO the avenue, Falcocchio, who has decades of experience managing city economy,” Florida says. “It’s about making sure the benefits of the knowl- Project, whose aim is to advance forward-thinking transportation systems, imagined a subtler solution: “Is it really a good edge-based creative and tech economies are extended to include a much policies to guide the rapid growth of cities. policy to allow people to park at rush hour on the curb?” he asked. broader segment, especially those who work in the low-wage service econ- One of the project’s initiatives, Urban Expan- Mundane municipal matters, like parking policy, might not always fig- The success of even an apparently low-tech strategy like congestion omy. We’ll be looking at new mechanisms of job creation, upgrading services, sion, is an idea pioneered by Romer’s colleague, ure into ambitious plans for the transportation of the future, but Falcocchio pricing in New York, Falcocchio says, would depend on advanced statistical transit accessibility. It’s incredibly meaningful to me as a student of global Shlomo Angel, an adjunct professor at the Wagner insists that minute adjustments can enable more efficient use of our existing modeling to predict the behavior of commuters who’d be priced out of their cities, as I see New York as an example for other cities around the world as School, who argues that what cities need is a kind of carefully calculated roads and rails—and this will be essential as we prepare an already stressed cars. “What happens to them? Are they going to the transit system?” he asks. they try to make themselves more competitive, thriving, better places for all sprawl, not unlike the Manhattan Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, which laid out transit system for continued population growth. New technologies that col- “Is there room to handle that?” residents.” Pthe city’s street grid when most of the island was still farmland. Whereas lect data from particular bottlenecks and congestion areas will point the One researcher poised to help address these kinds of questions is Implementation is finally taking center stage alongside innovation. much urban planning is currently concerned with containing cities, Angel in- way to solutions: Falcocchio mentions the Spanish port city of Santander, Claudio Silva, who’s been working with the New York City Taxi and Limousine That notion spurred Bloomberg Philanthropies to grant $24 million in 2011 sists that growth is inevitable, and the smarter approach is to prepare for it which has been outfitted with 12,000 sensors on everything from its buses Commission’s records of the 540 million taxi trips taken during 2009, 2011, for what it dubbed Innovation Delivery Teams in five U.S. cities: Atlanta, Chi- instead of letting it happen haphazardly. to its parking spaces. Digital street signs indicate to drivers the number of and 2012. Silva, a computer scientist at the new Center for Urban Science and cago, Louisville, Memphis, and New Orleans. By hiring and funding dedicated The other prong of the Urbanization Project is an idea cultivated by available parking spots on each block, preventing the speculative circling Progress, a public-private research center launched jointly by New York City, professionals focused on urban innovation and weaving them into the fab- Romer to create what are essentially start-up cities on vacant land in de- that would otherwise clog side streets. NYU, and a consortium of universities and enterprises, envisions a not-too-

32 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 33 distant future in which such a trove of information could be put to work not Collecting this data from the various companies and agencies that “The developing world cities,” Thurston says, “are now facing what New itation Workers of New York City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). “As we think just for cab drivers and city planners, but individual urban dwellers as well. own it and putting it to work in user-friendly programs will be an “immense York City faced just 50 to 100 years ago with respect to air and water pol- about how to change the system, we have to think about the labor and the “In cities, one of the big challenges is finding the optimal way to use amount of work” for computer scientists and transportation officials alike, lution.” And with its waterways and air cleaner than they have been in ages, people who will do it,” she says. multiple modes of transportation,” Silva says. He imagines a smartphone Silva says. Another obstacle is a very real concern about privacy. When it New York may serve as an example that “these can be achieved at the same The goal is to make those loads lighter, for everyone’s sake. Recy- app that, like a much more advanced Google Maps, could judge how fast you comes to data about people’s whereabouts, it will take time to reach consen- time that economic growth occurs. We are a species good at adapting things,” clable plastics, electronics, and automobile parts are just some of the walked, use real-time MTA logs to get you to a subway station just as a train sus about what “should be available and what should not be available.” In the Thurston says. “But knowledge, in this case, is power.” products that cities need to pressure manufacturers to consider. It’s cities arrived, and have a cab waiting for you when you got out. Much of the data meantime, as computer scientists work to develop reliable methods for “an- Awareness is crucial to keeping our cities clean, too, says Robin that can bring market pressure to bear, argues Nagle, who also speaks of needed to create such an app, Silva says, already exists—housed in city re- onymizing” data, they might rely upon volunteers who “donate” their personal Nagle, clinical associate professor and director of NYU’s John W. Draper “reuse” or “repurposing” centers for items that, formerly, would have been cords and in the GPS-enabled mobile phones and digital pedometers we car- information for research. Program. With each American generating, on average, between 4.5 and 8 “discards.” ry. Bikes outfitted with accelerometers could tell city officials about road “Nobody actually wants to own data about particular people moving pounds of garbage a day, personal responsibility represents the start of City-wide composting is also part of her vision of an environ- conditions. Your GPS device, if allowed to communicate with those around around,” Silva says. Ideally, the transportation planners of the future would great strides in areas such as recycling. But that’s hardly enough. “Even if mental “utopia”—a onetime fantasy that’s turning real since Mayor it, could direct you to avoid crowded sidewalks—or, Silva suggests, lead you know “where you are” without needing to know “who you are.” I lived a zero-waste life and didn’t generate discards of any kind,” she says, Michael Bloomberg announced an ambitious plan in June to start col- away from danger in an emergency. —Eileen Reynolds “it’d be like trying to turn the ocean pink by using an eyedropper.” lecting food scraps across the five boroughs. Even better, the early pi- With that in mind, Nagle implores the public to acknowledge the valu- lot programs have shown an unexpectedly high level of participation. able work of the people who help keep our cities clean, which she explores “If we have the political will,” she says, “we could recalibrate the whole in her book, Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks With the San- system.” —Roy Hoffman HOW hen Tae Hong Park takes his 4-year-old twins on an outing in WE’LL New York City, he checks a liv- HOW ing, shifting sonic diagram to see where the quietest spots are. As BREATHE a pioneer in mapping sound—he WE’LL is associate professor of music technology and composition at EASY NYU’s Steinhardt School of Cul- MAKE ture, Education, and Human Development—Park sees the city of the future as one in which we can seek out, or avoid, aural landscapes. “In extreme cases, Whigh levels of noise can lead to hearing loss,” Park says, “and studies have also ENDS shown noise affecting hypertension and stress levels.” Measuring noise and archiving it for patterns are at the heart of Park’s new venture, Citygram, a partnership between the Steinhardt School and MEET the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) that allows the public to see the acoustic energy of cities on digital maps. The project’s first iteration, “City- gram One: Visualizing Urban Acoustic Ecology,” received a $59,000 Google f you’re creative, young, and energetic, you come to New York,” Research Award. NYU and CalArts campuses are the test models. says Mitchell Moss, director of NYU Wagner’s Rudin Center In Park’s vision, city dwellers will carry personal sensors to take stock “ for Transportation Policy and Management. “You don’t go to of noise concerns and meet them head-on, at the community level, too. Noise Schenectady.” It’s an axiom almost as old as the Big Apple itself, is just a start. “I am quite confident that if we can measure it, visualize, store which has long lured strivers seeking lucrative career opportu- its data, we will be able to better address not just noise levels but all types nities. And yet research by Moss and master of urban planning of pollution, including electromagnetic, smell, humidity, and light pollution,” candidate Carson Qing (WAG ’13) suggests that you may no Park says. longer need to live in New York City—or even in its storied sub- In the future, that knowledge will come in a highly individual way, urbs—to work here. through personal monitoring—the ability to use smartphones or inexpensive The Rudin team has discovered the rise of “supercommuting”—living monitors to detect environmental hazards, says George Thurston, director in one county and traveling more than 90 miles to work in another. Studying of the Program in Exposure Assessment and Human Health Effects at the censusI data, they observed the trend in 10 of the nation’s largest metropoli- Department of Environmental Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. tan areas. If the phenomenon continues, our future coworkers will be more These devices are central to what Thurston calls “crowd-sourcing” of envi- likely to live in Dallas and work in Houston, or to make money in New York and ronmental awareness. “As people start learning how bad pollution is, using spend it on a house in the affordable suburbs of Philadelphia. information, operations, and management sciences at the Leonard N. Stern the Internet to spread the knowledge, it precipitates action,” he explains. At the same time, Moss has observed the opposite: people making an School of Business, whose research interests include peer economies and “People can make more efficient and better decisions.” effort to live very close to where they work—a migration that has fueled the the digital technologies that shape them. A case in point, he says, is London’s famous “pea soup fog.” Once peo- revitalization of once-abandoned neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Hoboken, and “The fraction of people who are going to call themselves freelancers, ple learned that it was particles of coal surrounded by condensation, they Jersey City. But he sees both trends as evidence of the same broad cultural or who will be doing what we traditionally would have called freelancing, has moved toward cleaner fuels, from coal burning to heating oil to natural gas. shift: “The traditional organization of work, in which you commute from the been expanding rapidly,” he says, thanks in part to online marketplaces, such There’s no more London fog. Auto fuels have seen a similar evolution, moving suburbs to a central city, is no longer the only way in which people function,” as the arts-and-crafts hub Etsy and TaskRabbit, a virtual staffing agency of from leaded to unleaded gasoline, and now to hybrids and even electric cars. he says. 11,000 carefully vetted would-be personal assistants for hire for individual (Thanks in part to research conducted at NYU about the dangers of leaded That reorganization includes not just where we’re working, but what errands, including dog walking and furniture assembly. gasoline on children’s health.) we’re doing to make money, according to Arun Sundararajan, a professor of Income needn’t stop at odd jobs, either. With Airbnb, you can turn your

34 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 35 home into a property that generates revenue while you’re on vacation. Peer- will have to catch up. son notes. Even prosperous cities—such as Seattle and San Francisco—are As a result, many “magnet” cities find themselves becoming economi- to-peer car-sharing sites like Sidecar can earn pocket change for drivers who That’s not to say that in the future we’ll all get rich renting out vacuum actively losing families despite continuing to top lists of the most desirable cally bifurcated between those who can afford even modest urban real es- give rides to their car-less peers. A site called SnapGoods allows you to rent cleaners and spare bedrooms. Sundararajan notes that peer marketplaces places to live. “The city has to evolve to retain families who don’t want to tate and all the city’s benefits, and those who cannot. San Francisco recent- out useful possessions—a chainsaw, say, or a tennis racquet—to neighbors are likely to remain most valuable to part-time workers looking to supple- move to the suburbs,” says Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute professor ly began offering universal preschool and after-school programs, as well as who don’t own them. Because of the logistics of sharing, densely populated ment more traditional sources of income. But the new ability to piece to- Suketu Mehta. A native of Bombay but raised in Jackson Heights (his current a working-family tax credit to help stanch the outflow of its middle-class areas are perfect markets for such services, so expect them to take off as gether a living may be changing fundamental assumptions about work life. subject of study), Mehta (WSUC ’84) says that humans can stand to have a lit- families. But it’s an effort that more cities will have to make in the coming cities grow. “In a city, you don’t have 10,000 square feet to fill with everything The old idea about retirement, for example—“I’m going to work for 10 hours tle less space than the mid-20th-century American ideal. “I know immigrants decades. As Mehta says: “A city without children is like a forest without you could ever possibly need, so the idea of getting something only when you a day until I’m a certain age, and then I’m going to stop”—stands to become to the city will continue to have large families—they’re not afraid of density,” songbirds.” need it is appealing,” Sundararajan explains. obsolete. Mehta explains. —John Bringardner But peer marketplaces face some legal hurdles: Sidecar recently came But will virtual marketplaces, ever-growing commutes, and technolo- under fire by New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, and a panel re- gies that allow us to work remotely spell the death of the office building? cently ruled Airbnb does not violate NYC’s hotel law. “It will be a painful pro- Moss says not to count on it, pointing to the fleet of buses that shuttle work- cess,” Sundararajan says, but he predicts that as increasing numbers of city ers to Google’s Mountain View, California, campus each day. “People want to dwellers express their desire to make use of such services, regulatory policy be near people,” he says—and that’s not likely to change. —E.R. HOW WE’LL GET ifty years ago,The Jetsons introduced Americans to a model version of family EQUAL life in 2063, a future in which dad’s workday was only an hour long and mom’s chores were t’s no secret that cities generate wealth and opportunity. handled by a robotic As Patrick Lamson-Hall, a research scholar at NYU Stern’s maid. While this techno- Urbanization Project, puts it, “Nobody really gets poorer when utopia—with meals prepared at the press of a a society is urbanized.” Building a new city is a tremendous button and quick trips to distant planets—hasn’t economic project, with jobs and whole industries created quiteF materialized (yet), many of its gadgets are to support the construction of essentials such as roads and within technological reach. It’s the show’s social housing. And compared to their rural counterparts, city dwellers structure that now looks quaint. enjoy greater access to health care and education, significantly The nuclear family exemplified by George, higher incomes, and even longer life expectancies. But what can Jane, Judy, and Elroy is eroding. The Organisation happen, when governments and city officials fail to invest that newfound for Economic Co-operation and Development wealth in the future, Lamson-Hall (WAG ’13) cautions, is that the poor get recently completed a study examining how this poorerI relative to the rich. “Urbanization is a great force for improving lives,” unit has transformed since the 1960s, and how he says. “But it doesn’t do that equally across the board.” it might continue to evolve over the next genera- The poorest workers in China’s most rapidly urbanizing areas are tion. An aging population, lower birth rates, and currently seeing their incomes double every two to three years. That’s an Sharkey explains. He calculates that 72 percent of African-American adults rising divorce rates have dramatically shrunk the impressive windfall, until you consider that incomes for the highest earners living in the poorest, most segregated urban neighborhoods were raised by size of the average household and increased the in those societies are doubling every two to three months. And in cities with parents who grew up in similar neighborhoods a generation earlier. If the pat- number of single-parent homes. breakneck population growth such as Mumbai and Lagos, residents packed terns do not change, the same families who lived in the ghetto in 1970 will still This transition has, in turn, undermined the justification for the tra- into informal settlements with no access to water, sewer, or ambulance be there in 2070. ditional urban/suburban split, sociology professor Kathleen Gerson says. services contend with pollution caused by the unceasing snarl of traffic. “It’s the cumulative exposure to neighborhoods with low-quality insti- HOW Proximity to work was less important when it was just dad shuttling back and Because the cost of providing basic infrastructure to an area that tutions, high stressors, fewer public spaces, and more pollution that seems forth, but with both parents—or the only parent—working, some now find it wasn’t planned is nine times higher than the cost of providing it to an area to have substantial consequences on kids’ developmental trajectories,” more important to live close to the office in a family-friendly urban setting. that was, a city that fails to spend at the start risks creating isolated urban Sharkey says. Breaking the cycle will require what he calls a “durable policy “It makes no sense to separate home and work the way suburbs were once pockets doomed to long-term cycles of poverty. of investment” in neighborhoods that have suffered decades of governmen- WE’LL designed to do,” Gerson says. “That’s why even the suburbs will start to look But you don’t have to look to the developing world to find such pockets, tal neglect—an effort that would involve federal efforts to end exclusionary more like cities.” NYU sociologist Patrick Sharkey argues. The author of Stuck in Place: Urban zoning, expand affordable public housing, and strengthen connections be- Families, of course, are not the only ones settling in cities. Many retir- Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality (University of tween police and community groups. COHABIT ees are also choosing to forgo shuffleboard in the Sunbelt for the cultural Chicago Press), he has studied the informal strategies and institutional It’s an investment worth making, as true integration—with people of all attractions and conveniences of city life. Add to them the regular injection mechanisms that have kept African-Americans isolated in the most disad- races and income levels living together in close quarters—is the essential of young people in search of work and a mate (or two), as well as immigrants vantaged sections of America’s cities, decades after the passage of the Fair democratic promise of urban life. “When we’re in close contact with each from pretty much everywhere, and the stresses on housing, schools, and Housing Act in 1968, at the height of the civil rights era. other,” Lamson-Hall says, “there’s more turmoil, more churn, and people are infrastructure mount quickly. His findings are startling: “The families we see in very disadvantaged more aware of inequality and of the possibilities of what life can look like.” But most American cities are not equipped to handle this change, Ger- neighborhoods are the same ones we’ve seen over multiple generations,” —E.R. and R.H.

36 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 37 “ EAR SISTER, I cannot but apprehend your silence these 20 months past. D It’s true that you can’t find an Signed, opportunity so often, but […] I am in great confusion about your health and welfare, not knowing whether you are dead or alive.”

Sealed, WHEN HE WROTE this letter from France in the collection is that they’re not writing for ef- 1757, William Cunningham was one of the fect,” Truxes explains. “It isn’t the social elite many Irish expatriates cut off from his home- carefully studying their words and putting on land by the Seven Years’ War. He couldn’t airs. This all has an absolutely authentic, inti- check his sister’s Facebook status or send her mate voice.” a quick text—he couldn’t even reach her by Historical letters usually come in highly rotary telephone or telegraph. The only way structured collections because the families Undelivered to bridge the 600-mile gap separating his fam- who keep them edit out anything that’s too ily was to find a ship captain willing to trans- personal or embarrassing. But because this port his urgent message and pray for its safe mailbag was never delivered, its contents delivery. weren’t arranged or prettied up for posterity. But the letter never reached its destination. Rather, the random sampling of voices echoes Instead, the Irish trading vessel was captured the sounds of 18th-century streets. “It’s very off the coast of France in the Bay of Biscay rare to find a collection that has this cross sec- by an overzealous British privateer who ig- tion of humanity,” says Truxes, clinical as- nored the ship’s passports, which should have sociate professor of Irish studies and history. allowed it to cross enemy lines during the war. “Archivists can find all the letters of Abigail Everything on board was seized as evidence Adams to her husband—but we don’t get the for the court and brought to London, under servant, we don’t get the guy who drives the the wrongful suspicion that the ship was trad- carriage, or the man working in the field.” ing with the enemy. The mailbag filled with Earlier this month the letters were put birth announcements, news of deaths, and on display at Bobst Library for an exhibition anxious pleas to relatives sat untouched for celebrating the 20th anniversary of NYU’s centuries. Glucksman Ireland House, and Oxford Uni- That is until an equally overzealous his- versity Press published The Bordeaux-Dublin tory professor discovered the letters in 2011. Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Com- Amidst the millions of documents in the Brit- munity Abroad, which Truxes co-edited with ish National Archives, Thomas Truxes was Trinity College Dublin professor emeritus busy researching a book he was writing on the Louis Cullen and NYU’s John Shovlin, an overseas trade of colonial America. He always associate professor of early modern European

l etter photos © relishes exploring its collection of uncataloged history. The letters were reproduced without boxes, so he set aside some time and randomly imposing a 21st-century syntax so that they requested a few to sift through for fun. “But reflect the period in which the definitive rules when I found the Irish letters—everything of spelling and punctuation were only just T hom a stopped,” he recalls. “I really had to sit and just beginning. Truxes says that what’s striking is catch my breath because I knew instantly that how familiar they sound despite the antique s T r

u I found a very rare thing.” writing style and varying levels of literacy: We xes; p The bundle of 125 letters, most with their find students writing home to ask their parents

a i n ti g © N a wax seals still unbroken, were written largely for money and new clothes, as well as fathers by members of the Irish community living in chastising their children for being disobedient France’s Bordeaux region to family, friends, or lazy. “They reinforce a common human- A lost mailbag from the 18th century tio nal and business associates back in Dublin. As a ity across time [because] the people we see time capsule from 1757, their discovery offers in these letters are no different from today,” Ma ritime binds the past to our present a uniquely candid glimpse into the lives of or- Truxes says. “Their conversations are very dinary people who never imagined that any- similar, so once you get beyond the handwrit- By Renée Alfuso / CAS ’06 Mu se u m, one else would ever read them. “What makes ing, 250 years just melts away.” G ree n wich, Lo n do

38 / FALL 2013 / NYU 39 / FALL 2013 / NYU Excerpt from Richard Exham, Bayonne Prison, The 1757 Bordeaux-Dublin Letters exhibit is currently to Mrs Richard Exham, Georges Street, Cork running at Bobst Library through March, but here’s a sneak peek, along with some expert insight from Thomas Truxes:

Excerpt from “Mary Dennis, Dublin, to Mr Jon Dennis, Comander of the too Sisters, Truxes: “We think of women Excerpt from “Richard Exham, Bayonne Prison, to Mrs Richard Exham, Truxes: “This guy is an Irishman to be left at Mr Christopher Gernons, Merchant in Bordeaux, France” of the era as being absolutely Georges Street, Cork” in prison in the notorious Bay- voiceless, but that’s not true. onne Castle, and he writes this They just have a very muted voice bitter letter to his wife that is so because we don’t have a lot of mean-spirited. He comes across My dear life, them speaking. One of the very Dear Betty, as a colossal jerk because he’s best letters was written by the angry with her, saying, ‘You get d r I take this opertunyty to let you know I am in good health & I hope this may find you ship captain’s wife. It’s a touching Your Remissness in not writeing to me Since the 22 Nov past is a very great Crime to sleep in your nice warm bed in e e in y same it is y greatest blessing I Desire if I cold hear you were safe & well I have love letter in the most gorgeous and a barefaced Couldness, and is unprecedentd in this Castle Except by one. […] Dublin and I get to suffer here.’ bean very uneasey this past bad Wether but I trust in god for a happy Sight of you as English, but in the midst of it she Thus you see what a Just Reason I have to Condem you Whom I was never willing And in the same prison is a there is an imbargo I think it Wold be proper to bring What you can to sell in ye shop is also reminding him that when young man who’s writing a love he’s in Bordeaux, don’t forget to to bleame and in this my great Affliction being shut up from all Communication letter to a woman in Ireland he’s as to reasons & paper fine & Corse & nuts & evry thing as befor ollivfs & peper if cheap buy olives because [they] can get Except our fellow Sufferers whose Number are upwards of 500. I am now thank courting, saying to her, ‘Every day for it is 2s per [ream] hear it is better have a Stock & you may Remit C munny for them a good price for them, and also to god on the mending hand from A Violent Sickness which brought me very Low and I think about you and we will be at yr Return […] bring back prunes. It’s just so real; am at present very weake and wholly liveing by Grule. […] I should not be in this together soon, I am so hopeful.’ it’s the wife saying, be sure you So the first one is saying, ‘I’m nev- My Dr I beg you will not omit Riting as it is ye onely Pleasure I Can have in yr ab- bring home the loaf of bread and prison now had you duly advised me of Such steps taken in my favour to procure my er gonna get out of here and it’s stance I beg you may take care of your self & I beg of the Allmyty God to Preserve the quart of milk.” Liberty but […] now all Opertunities is shut up and without any hopes for relife must your fault because you didn’t find a way to get me out, you’re letting e heare Continue in this filthy Castle […] on this Occeason You thought a Creditt you from all Eavill & grant me a hapy sight Wich is y Fervent prayers of me rot in this hellhole.’ And the for 300 livers was of the greatest Searvice but in that Maddame Give me liberty to other one is, ‘Don’t worry about your loving affectunate Wife Whillst undeceive you. I could have gout 1000 livers in this pleace without your Assistance. me; I’ll be there soon,’ and they’re MARY DENNIS in the same place at exactly the Your Indured & Aflicted Husband same time—it’s so cool.” P.S. My Dr I have had a bad Custom of yr sweet Company wich makes it worse to RICH D EXHAM beare but I hope ye allmyty will grant me yt blesing onst more if I had but one line from you I shold think my self happy P.S. You have your easey bead by night and your warm house and Searvants at Command, Whils I am Confined within this dark Castle where is nothing by beare Walls and a Could flowr to Ly on Except boards under us for which we pay Extravigently. You night and day have Ease and pleasure Whilst I have nothing but Bitterness and Affliction.

40 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 41 Excerpt from “Mary Flynn, Bordeaux, to Mrs Catrin Norris, Liveing Feaceing the Truxes: “This one is just about Excerpt from “Bourbon, at Chartrons, to Monsieur Jacques Bourbon Restan Chez Truxes: “This is a Frenchman blackelying in [Facing the Black Lyon Inn], Temple bare, Dubllin” impossible to read because she Mr John Pearl, Dublin” [translated from the French] whose son is an apprentice in is barely literate and probably a Dublin, and he’s basically telling teenager. It’s entirely phonetic, the kid to shape up and not waste but it makes perfect sense if you his time. He’s refusing to send My dear sister, just sound it out with an Irish My son, any French reading material accent. It’s a letter from a servant and tells him to concentrate on I receivrd you Leter and mr Broks by Captin deny whin he was heare before I sint your girl to her sister in Dublin, and I received your letter. It gave me much pleasure since I learned from it that you are developing his English-language Leter to my uncel by gantelman who Lodgis att my uncel he nevr sint me anw wan she’s just gossiping about the doing well. But also I had the displeasure to see that you write no better than last year. skills instead. word bout it I did not knoo what to say to you be Case thy never spook to me my ant house and the guys who come Doubtless it is the same with your figures. Besides I learned that you are a great libertine there’s also a letter in which and geny has being heare very afon and Stephen but thy never seen me nor did I go to in and flirt with her, like little a father’s writing to his daughter backstairs stories, but you can and that you pay no attention to what Mr. Pearl tells you. Watch out what you do. I am because she wants something, see thim but mrs Beab gose very afon to my uncel shee never met with anny budy since just picture this very young girl writing to him that if you do not return to your duty to give you some good strokes of and he’s telling her that he can’t shee com to france shee Likes more than my uncel frank shee brings him to the house chitchatting away to her sister. the rod. So, change your way of doing things & apply yourself well. You have very little quite afford it now but he’ll get it very afon shee keepes him to sup An to dine […] the next nite there was muskc and So you get a sense of people time remaining where you are, and so that on your arrival here I might not be heartsick for her later. [She] wants some coming and going, but she’s silk to make a gown, and the fa- hear he was danssing till midnit Mr Beab mead him sleep hear what he never don before always stuck in the house. She’s to see you an ignoramus, and then besides you will not be well received. [...] ther is basically saying, ‘You know thy kepth wontin them heare to dine with them hear this next munday […] literate in the sense that she can this French silk is only fashion, it’s get her ideas across, but she’s I am not sending you the book you ask me for. I want you to apply yourself to reading only for show—you should have My Dr Sister I hafe meas in to pray for you for I am as hapy as anny gireal that ever leaft not polished. It has the voice of English well and to writing it. As for French, you will have time enough when you something more substantial than irland but that I am confind because I haf the ceare af the house for whin thy ear with the Irish countryside, but it’s all are here. that.’ What dad doesn’t say that to thin I am bleaght to be within an whin Thy ear out I am bliaght to be within so I am stream of consciousness.” his daughter, right? The message BOURBON that comes through is that we’re confind and whin thy dyne brad I head thyr teable an whin thys with in I sit long with all part of one thing. We have thim in […] mr beab gave me 12 lyons of preasint for my vooyeaug giufte he tould my P.S. I am sending you via Captain Dennis an écu of six livres to buy yourself English different knowledge and so we uncle frank that night he suped heur wee had pankceaks that hed did not leave to hafe see the world differently, but our books because I want you to devote yourself above all to reading. his super will don wans I had hand in it I say mr beab I bleave my uncel frank is glad I emotional structure and our basic humanity is really the same.” am come becouse mr beab is so fund of me fou he was very bad sick since I com heare and I toke great cear of him that mealke him to be so fund of me I concloud

YOUR EVER LOVING SISTER MARY FLYNN

42 / FALL 2013 / NYU Our surroundings shape the way we behave—for better or worse by Jennifer Bleyer

Photograph by Peter Gregoire

magine walking through the neat grid of apartment buildings and national retail chains on Manhattan’s Upper East Side when a researcher approaches to ask if you’ll completeI a short questionnaire. You’re asked to predict how the stock market will perform in the next six months, as well as what you think the weather will be like after a string of sunny or rainy days. Your answers reveal that you expect stocks that have performed well in the past to continue blazing upward, and that the weather will hold steady. Now imagine walking through the warren of winding streets in Chinatown, lined with dim sum shops where Buddha statues sit by the entrances and stores peddle souvenirs emblazoned with yin-yang, the Taoist symbol of perfect balance. You’re asked the same set of questions about the stock market and the weather, but your answers show that you expect appreciating stocks to take a dive, and consistently sunny or rainy weather to pivot to their opposites.

44 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 45 hy the difference? As Adam Alter explains in his really a freethinking “you” operating underneath all the input and in 2009. In addition to teaching at New York Times best-seller, Drunk Tank Pink: And Other stimulus the mind absorbs. Colors, symbols, sounds, weather, environment, Stern and toying with the idea of a Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Be- A lively compendium of Alter’s own work as well as psychological and the perceived presence of other people all possible follow-up to Drunk Tank Pink, have (Penguin Press), people perceive the world differ- studies that date back to the turn of the 20th century, the book has he’s now active in a broad slate of in- ently based on subconscious exposure to various cul- often surprising revelations of the many forces that buffet our behav- influence us—challenging the very notion that terdisciplinary research that extends tural values, or primes. Alter helped devise this study ior. One study, for instance, suggests that the ease of pronouncing far beyond traditional marketing to asW part of a broad research project to examine the influence of these a person’s name impacts his or her success in the real world: In an everything from education policy to there’s really a freethinking “you.” primes on perception, while controlling for extraneous factors like examination of mid-career lawyers, 12 percent of those with easy-to- medical decision-making, with a con- race, gender, age, and socioeconomic status. His conclusion: Simply pronounce names made partner, compared to only 4 percent of those stant eye on how to harness the lessons being in a Chinese neighborhood, surrounded by its iconography with harder-to-pronounce names at a similar point in their careers. of social psychology so that people can and symbols, the control group adopted a more Chinese outlook. But the book is not just a collection of gee-whiz head-scratchers. improve themselves and the world. In other words, whereas Americans are typically surprised by change, Many of its anecdotes point to deeply disturbing patterns that bur- ioral science in simple, entertaining terms, Alter says that his interest In one of his current areas of research, on charitable giving, Alter most Chinese believe that it’s inevitable, as expressed in the philoso- ble below conscious awareness. Consider a study of murder trials in in the hidden forces was sparked during his undergraduate years at has compiled evidence that people donate more money for hurri- phies of Taoism and Buddhism. which the defendant was black and the victim white: Black defen- the University of New South Wales. A few influential professors there cane relief if the hurricane shares their name’s first initial. Seeking “The study was designed to show that we’re all multicultural,” dants were found to be more likely to receive the death penalty the inspired him to pursue social psychology, and he was particularly some real-world impact with that information, he’s had conversa- Alter says. “We’ve been exposed to so many different cultures across more “stereotypically black” they looked. Besides simply revealing intrigued by the classic studies that followed World War II, such as tions with the National Weather Service about naming hurricanes to time that we can be primed to adopt those foreign worldviews, even if the troubling depth of racism, Alter says, research like this is critical Stanley Milgram’s work on conformity and obedience. “Those ex- tether more often with the most popular American first initials, like we haven’t lived within those cultures.” because it suggests how we might tweak our institutions to be more periments suggested that we certainly are prone to obeying author- J and M. It’s not just a neighborhood that can have such a profound ef- just and fair. “By exposing how pervasive biases are and how they ity,” Alter says. “But culture plays a big role, which suggests that the With such practical intents, Alter demands that his work hew to fect. In Drunk Tank Pink, Alter, an assistant professor of marketing at shape institutional outcomes, you give people tools for dealing with effects are not biological or ingrained. The silver lining there is that the highest standard of proof and rigorous scientific method pre- the Leonard N. Stern School of Business with an affiliated appoint- them,” Alter says. “The material can be negative, but by showing if culture has the ability to shape how likely it is you are to conform, cisely because the notions can be so hard to believe. “We have to be ment in NYU’s psychology department, explains how colors, sym- the effects, you’re giving people the information they need to bring then there’s room for movement.” very careful that results are real,” he says. “The public is right to be bols, sounds, weather, environment, and the perceived presence of about change.” Alter came to the United States in 2004 to pursue graduate skeptical because a lot of this stuff isn’t consistent with our intuitions other people all influence us, challenging the very notion that there’s A broad-grinning Australian with a knack for explaining behav- studies at Princeton University, after which he was hired by NYU about how the world works. It’s interesting for that reason.”

Students who were identified early on as “academic bloomers” outscored their peers by at least 10 IQ points after one year, despite having no actual IQ advantage at the beginning of the experiment. The outcome suggests that teachers devoted extra time and effort to those students, subconsciously seeking to justify their labels.

Researchers asked American and Japanese When Opower, the Virginia-based energy The title of Adam Alter’s book, Drunk Researchers paid an assistant to sit students to gauge the emotions of a cartoon information company, started sending Tank Pink, refers to a study in the late in her car in a single-lane intersec- figure standing in front of four other figures. a report to customers that rated their 1970s that proved exposure to bright tion in Phoenix on a series of Saturday Seventy-two percent of Japanese students relative conservation of energy to their pink decreased male aggression and afternoons, timing how long it took the were unable to ignore the emotions of the neighbors’ with smiley faces, consump- physical strength. Soon, all kinds of drivers piling up behind her to honk people in the background, while only 28 tion fell an average of 2.5 percent per places were painted pink, from visiting their horns. The temperatures on those percent of American students were affected customer. This saved nearly a billion team’s locker rooms at football stadi- days ranged from 84 to 108 degrees; by them. The study revealed the impact kilowatt-hours across 22 states. It also ums to jail cells, aka “drunk tanks.” the researchers found that the hotter of American culture, which emphasizes showed that seemingly inconsequential the day, the more urgent, frequent, individualism, compared to Asian culture, symbols (smiley faces) and our aware- Illustrations by Grant Snider and persistent the honks grew. which emphasizes collectivism. ness of others both shape how we act.

46 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 47 P HOTO C 1920s 1940s OURTESY NYU ARCHIVES/A.F. S CLASS LILLIAN S. MARKS / WSC HANS J. BEHM / WSC STANLEY TURKEL / during the mid-1950s. ’28 / taught at Richmond ’40, GSAS ’53 / was STERN ’47 / published Professionally, Phifer Hill High School in Queens, instrumental in the found- his fourth book, Built to traveled extensively in his OZ

NY, in 1929; Evelina de ing, and later served as Last: 100+ Year-Old Hotels work with the International IO Rothschild School in president, of the American East of the Mississippi Executive Service Corps. Jerusalem, Palestine, in Astronautical Society. His (AuthorHouse). He is At age 89, he still loves 1931; Andrew Jackson résumé includes work at one of the most widely NYU and hopes to recon- High School in Queens, NY, the Staten Island Insti- published hotel consul- nect with his classmates. from 1931–72; and the New tute of Arts and Sciences, tants in the United States. School from 1972–79. She Grumman Aerospace, Turkel serves as a friend GERALD A. TURER is the author of Touch Typ- Grumman Ecosystems of the NYU Tisch Center / ARTS ’48 / and his ing Made Simple (Double- Corp., Inc., and the Amer- for Hospitality, Tourism, brother, ROBERT TURER day), originally published ican Museum of Natural and Sports Management, / STERN ’47 /, both in 1985, which has sold History. Behm has taught where he also lectures. attended NYU, as did their millions of copies. In March at Wagner College, the uncle, HERMAN TURER / 2013, Marks turned 106, College of Staten Island, SAM PHIFER / WSC ’48, STERN ’26. making her the oldest and Trinity School. GSAS ’49 / left NYU in living NYU graduate. 1943 to serve in WWII but SOPHIE HEYMANN / LEONARD R. SUSSMAN returned in 1946 to com- STERN ’49 / is in her / WSC ’40 / has published plete his degree under the second four-year term as Reconciliation: Victor to GI Bill. He went on to serve mayor of Closter, located Victim, Victim to Victor: as vice president of the in New Jersey’s Bergen One Person’s Guide to WSC Alumni Association County. History (Viewpoint). It is his and as chairman of several fourth book in three years. “Alumni Saturday” events

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SHELDON WINKLER / of Dentistry. Winkler is cur- in 2006 as a secondary EUGENE MILLER / WSC ’53, DEN ’56 / has rently senior editor of the teacher of English and STERN ’59 / was honored published his seventh book, Journal of Oral Implantol- ESL in St. Paul, MN. She with the Society of Amer- The Music of World War ogy and executive director now sings with and is on ican Business Editors and NOTES II: War Songs and Their of the American Academy the board of directors of Writers’ (SABEW) Presi- Stories (Merriam). He pre- of Implant Prosthodontics. Eagan Women of Note, a dent’s Award at the group’s viously served as professor He was on the faculty of the community choir. The choir 50th-annual spring confer- and chairperson of the NYU School of Dentistry has performed at the Mall ence. A founding member department of prosthodon- from 1958–61 and 1966–68. of America, the St. Paul of SABEW, Miller helped to tics and dean of research, Winter Carnival, and the organize the group’s ﬁrst advanced education, and ROSEMARY O’CONNOR Minneapolis Holidazzle conference in New York continuing education at TOSCANO DOSCH / Parade, as well as at City 50 years ago. Temple University School STEINHARDT ’59 / retired Minnesota Twins games.

We want to hear from you! Let us know what is happening in your career and life. A CALL TO ARMS Submit your news items, personal milestones, or an obituary of a loved one to: In April 1943, some 500 NYU students—all members Africa, the Pacific, and beyond. A war-time issue of of the U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps—were called the NYU yearbook, The Violet, boasted: “Each man NYU Class Notes, 25 West Fourth Street, Fourth Floor, New York, New York, 10012 to active duty. They were joined by many cadets sent who finishes this nine- to ten-month course emerges or via email to [email protected]. You can also share Class Notes online to the university for training in meteorology and as a well-trained weatherman ready for service at by logging on to alumni.nyu.edu/classnotes. engineering before being shipped to Europe, North camps and airfields anywhere.”

NYU / FALL 2013 / 49 alumni profile lectures on handling star- While Sanders still most enduring influence dom—including media, ranks among the all-time on the sport may be the money, drugs, fans, and winners in NBA history, thousands of athletes he’s 1960s THOMAS “SATCH” SANDERS / STERN ’60 life after basketball. For 18 it’s his work off the court helped to lead more pro- years, Sanders led the NBA that finally got him in- ductive lives. Ever hum- KEVIN SHEEHAN / ENG MARILYN Player Programs. In that ducted into the Naismith ble, Sanders says that his ’60 / has authored his GOTTLIEB time, every other major Memorial Basketball Hall goal was simple: “I wanted first novel, The Abber- / STEIN- sports league replicated his of Fame as a contributor in to give them an opportuni- ation (North Country), HARDT workshops. 2011. It confirmed that his ty to grow.” which comes at the end of ’64, ’68 / an enjoyable engineering published PASSING THE BALL career testing and report- Life With by Brian Dalek / GSAS ’10 ing on automobiles for an Accent (Crescendo Consumers Union. Group), available on P N THE 1950S, THE BASKETBALL COURT AT on as associate director the younger generation.” HOTOS Amazon.com. As the in 1985. A few years later, NBA : N LEFT © ROBERT PHILIP LISAK synopsis says, “Finding MOUNT MORRIS PARK IN HARLEM WAS A Lapchick believed that commissioner David Stern / ARTS ’61 / has been freedom after WWII is SECOND CLASSROOM FOR TOM SANDERS. Sanders could help him took notice of Sanders’ B ATHANIEL S. chosen by Columbia just the beginning of I focus on developing the work at Northeastern and University’s College of Frank Levy’s journey from Physicians and Surgeons Berlin to the Middle East Harlem Renaissance ball- relationships with mentors the best defensive player of amateur athlete and con- spoke with him about cre- UTLER/NBAE VIA G players such as William such as Roscoe Brown his generation,” says Cal vincing the NCAA to ating a Rookie Transition Alumni Association to America. By the time “Pop” Gates and John Jr.—the WWII fighter pi- Ramsey, former college better balance sports with Program. “I looked at the to receive the gold he is 13, Frank is a pro at Isaacs eagerly dispensed lot who taught at NYU teammate and now an as- education. “He appreciat- program on paper, and medal for outstanding starting over, shifting ETTY I critiques to the teenag- and was founding director sistant coach for NYU. ed those who came before it had a lot of shrinks in- achievements in medical languages and cultures, er: You think you can play? of the school’s Institute Sanders’ professional ca- him and often talked about volved,” Sanders says, but MAGES; RIGHT C research. even changing his name Can’t cross your feet on de- for Afro-American Affairs. reer is almost unmatched: how they helped him in his not enough lessons in day- in a life molded by events fense. Lay some body on him, When Sanders finally took eight titles in 13 seasons own development,” Lap- to-day activity. So he start- STUART KESSLER / beyond his control.” OURTESY NYU ARCHIVES son. I can come in there at my the court for NYU, his with Boston—the third- chick says. “It was natural ed a symposium for newly LAW ’62 / was named as age and steal the ball from you! 6-foot-6 frame and long most championships of any for Satch to do the same for drafted NBA players with one of 125 people who has ROBERT S. ROBER- Instead of scoffing at them arms shut down opponents player in NBA history. made a significant impact SON / STERN ’64 / of like some other kids, Sand- and helped him master a That may seem hard DECADES AFTER HIS STAR TURN AT NYU AND EIGHT NATIONAL on the accounting profes- Williamsburg, VA, is a TITLES WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS, SANDERS WAS INDUCTED sion since 1887 as part of founding trustee of the ers took the advice serious- deft low-post hook shot. to top, but when Sanders INTO THE BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME FOR HIS WORK HELPING ly. “Always the message Over his college career, he retired in 1973, some of YOUNG NBA PLAYERS MANAGE THE PRESSURES OF CELEBRITY. the American Institute of newly established Mus- was hard,” he says, “but it scored 1,191 career points his greatest accomplish- Certified Public Accoun- carelle Museum of Art was to make you better.” and led NYU’s 1960 team ments were still ahead of tants’ 125th-anniversary Foundation. He continues The discipline he learned to the NCAA Final Four. him. Times were chang- celebration. to serve as a member of there carved a path toward Celtics coach Red Au- ing, and Sanders noticed the board of directors of 13 seasons with the Boston erbach liked what he saw, that young players needed HOWARD W. SILBER- the museum, where there Celtics, a pioneering ca- and drafted Sanders as the guidance because, often, SHER / DEN ’63 / will be an exhibition of 25 reer in mentoring athletes, eighth overall NBA pick “their learning experi- practiced dentistry in works of Michelangelo. and eventually, the Hall of in 1960. His new job de- ence was ending in high New York City and Bucks The collection will be on Fame in Springfield, Mas- scription was simple, yet school.” After becoming County, PA, for more than loan from Casa Buonar- sachusetts. certainly not easy: shut the first black Ivy League 45 years. In 2009, he sold roti, Michelangelo’s Sanders, now 74, was down the likes of Elgin coach at Harvard Univer- his Bucks County practice home, in Florence, Italy. nicknamed for his favorite Baylor and Bob Pettit. sity and later, briefly, the and retired. Silbersher Until recently, Roberson pitcher—Satchel Paige— But he soon flourished head coach of the Celtics, continues to teach dental served as a commissioner but this “Satch” was always as a defensive specialist he received a call from residents at Newark Beth and vice-chairman of built for basketball. His alongside legends such as Richard Lapchick—son Israel Medical Center, the Williamsburg Area game continued to mature, Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, of Original Celtics great which he finds inspir- Arts Commission. As an and when colleges started and John Havlicek. Sand- Joe Lapchick—who was ing. In February 2013, undergrad, Roberson courting him, he found a ers says his style matched renowned for his work Silbersher and two of his was elected to the NYU perfect fit in a program just that of current Los Angeles studying race and gender residents volunteered Honorary Society. down the street (Broad- Laker Metta World Peace inequalities in athletics. to treat patients with way, that is). Because (formerly Ron Artest) as Lapchick had started a new Remote Area Medical in PAUL WERNER / WSC players were red-shirted an in-your-face forward Center for the Study of Knoxville, TN. He and 40 ’65 / is now professor as freshman back then, who could also rebound Sport in Society at North- other volunteer dentists emeritus after 32 years Sanders initially focused and knock down an open eastern University and treated more than 800 on the faculty of the

on school and developing shot. “To me, [Satch] was asked Sanders to come patients. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 53)

50 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 51 P HOTOS alumni proﬁle determine whether the (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 51) as other restaurants. Centre C PhD program in clinical County venture was a success. OURTESY P DANA SPETT / WSUC ’88 “The beneﬁt was imme- psychology of California GAIL LEVINE / WSC Gazette, and

diate,” Spett says. “Riding ONY P School of Professional ’68, STEINHARDT ’70, his article Psychology, Alliant ’93 / was awarded the “Loss of

Mat did great things for OWER T [the children’s] bodies and International University, Doris Berryman Lifetime Words, a Visit their emotions. It ground- HERAPIES in San Francisco. Achievement Award by to William ed Sydney so that she was the Metropolitan New Carlos Wil- The Horse able to process better.” In- HELEN DUNN FRAME / York Recreation & Park liams” was deed, research shows that GSAS ’67 / has published Society on May 22, published in participants gain physical Retiring in Costa Rica: Or 2013, in recognition of Poetrybay. and mental alertness by Doctors, Dogs and Pura her contributions to the riding. When an individual Vida (CreateSpace). profession of therapeu- HENRY SILBERBERG / Healer sits on the animal correct- tic recreation over her LAW ’68 / left law-firm ly, the movement of the JOSEPH CAHALAN / 45-year career. She was life in 2008 and became by Jo Kadlecek horse replicates a human’s GSAS ’68 / has been an associate professor of a full-time arbitrator gait, resulting in core mus- appointed the first-ever therapeutic recreation at and mediator in resolv- cle development, as well as full-time CEO of Concern Kingsborough Commu- ing complex business, improved motor and bal- Worldwide U.S., an inter- nity College (CUNY) from partnership, real estate, ance control. Drawing on national humanitarian 1994–2012. Doris Berry- entertainment, insurance, SOCIAL WORKER DANA SPETT (PICTURED ABOVE WITH A YOUNG this and further research, PATIENT) SET UP SHOP ON A FARM (LEFT) IN M AHWAH, NEW organization working in man was Levine’s mentor and intellectual property Spett founded Pony Power JERSEY, AFTER SHE REALIZED RIDING HORSES COULD HAVE 25 of the world’s poorest and professor at NYU. disputes. Recently, he was Therapies in 2000. A POWERFUL THERAPEUTIC EFFECT FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS countries. Previously, invited to become a Fellow WITH DISABILITIES. The next step was to he was president of the ROBERT LIMA / GSAS of the College of Commer- find a facility that offered ages 2 to 79, from the tri- completed an MSW at Ye- Xerox Foundation. ’68 / has authored cial Arbitrators. guests an experience that state region now ride there shiva University prior to his eighth book, SELF went beyond just riding. regularly. The programs getting Pony Power off the MAX LEIFER / STERN (Orlando). Lima’s articles BARBARA KENT LAW- So when Spett and her are tailored according to ground. ’68 / is an attorney “The Roots of Christmas RENCE / GSAS ’69 / husband found a working the participant’s needs, The enterprise has al- and part owner of Grow Deep” and “Gift published her sixth book three-and-a-half-acre farm whether teens with ad- ways been a family affair Brandy Library in Bearers of the Epiphany” and first novel, Islands of in the Ramapo Mountains dictions, foster children, for the Spetts, who named New York City, as well were published in the Time (Just Write). of Mahwah, New Jersey, seniors with Alzheimer’s, the facility Three Sisters the couple sold everything injured veterans, or stu- Farms, after their three to buy it. They moved in dents with special disabili- daughters who grew up 2003, and by 2005, Pony ties. “Not long ago we had on the property. The old- Power Therapies became a group where each child est, Emma, is now a sec- 1970s a fully operating nonprof- was in a wheelchair,” Spett ond-year student studying it. Today, it’s grown to says. “To see their joy global human rights in 22 horses and ponies (all when they got on a horse, NYU’s Gallatin School of HOWARD S. FRIEDMAN ’70, STEINHARDT ’71 / Levant (University of of which are donated and well, it’s a privilege to do Individualized Study. The / WSC ’70, GSAS ’72, has authored her second Chicago). He is the author screened for quality of this work.” youngest, Zoe, is a high ’76 / was elected vice novel, Danny’s Mom of four books of poetry, movement and tempera- This work, howev- school sophomore who president and joined the (Arcade). She received most recently To These ment), 13 employees, and er, wasn’t exactly what volunteers at Pony Power. board of directors of the the 2013 Community Dark Steps (Anvil Press 120 volunteers—includ- Spett had in mind while And Sydney? She gradu- Chemical Users Coalition, Upstander Award pre- Poetry), and has pub- ing students from NYU an undergraduate studying ated from high school as a group of companies sented by the Holocaust lished several collections and area high schools. The Russian and political sci- a junior to study premed that uses chemicals in the Memorial and Tolerance in translation. facility became a Profes- ence at NYU in the mid- and still rides every day, production of a wide array Center of Nassau County sional Association of Ther- 1980s. In between classes, even working as a riding of industrial, commercial, for her mission to create ANITA MOSKOWITZ / IFA T BEGAN WITH A HORSE NAMED MAT, FOUR KIDS, sey, and a lifelong equestri- apeutic Horsemanship she founded NYU’s first instructor in the program. and consumer products kinder, gentler camp and ’71, ’78 / recently retired an, Dana Spett wondered International Premier Ac- equestrian team and went “Her strengths were that are critical to the school environments after teaching art history AND A RENTED BARN STALL IN PARAMUS, NEW whether riding Mat might credited Center in 2012, on to compete interna- realized here,” Spett ex- United States economy. in which bullying is not for 30 years at Stony JERSE Y. MAT HAD BEEN A SHOW HORSE WHEN offer an alternative sort of and currently works with tionally. After graduation, plains. “Her therapy was He is the TSCA compli- the norm. Brook University. She just I therapy to her patients. corporate event partners Spett worked for the He- being in the barn.” ance manager for the published her sixth book, an injury sidelined him. disorder, another boy with tegration dysfunction. Her curiosity was person- such as Goldman Sachs, brew Immigrant Aid So- Hewlett-Packard Co. and GABRIEL LEVIN / WSC Forging Authenticity: The kids included a teen- autism, and a 4-year-old As a social worker for al as well: Sydney is Spett’s KPMG, and many local ciety, helping refugees and For more information on lives in Corvallis, OR. ’71 / has authored a new Giovanni Bastianini and age girl with autism, a girl named Sydney who’d special-needs children in middle child. businesses. political asylees. She felt Pony Power Therapies, visit book, The Dune’s Twisted the Neo-Renaissance

younger boy with a seizure shown signs of sensory in- Bergen County, New Jer- It didn’t take long to About 150 participants, drawn to social work and ponypowernj.org. ELAINE WOLF / WSC Edge: Journeys in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 55)

52 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 53 AN ETHIOPIAN FEAST ATOP (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 53) Accountants’ Excellence STEIN- FRESH INJERA BREAD in Nineteenth-Century in Financial Journalism HARDT (LOWER RIGHT) IS JUST Florence (Olschki), and Awards Committee. He is ’75 / has ONE EXAMPLE OF THE COM- MUNAL MEALS PREPARED continues to research the founding tax partner, been named AT GLOBAL KITCHEN’S Italian Renaissance and and now partner emeri- president of IMMIGRANT-LED COOKING 19th-century art and the tus, at Holtz Rubenstein the National CLASSES, WHICH TEND TO ATTRACT TWENTY- TO art market. Moskowitz Reminick, LLP. Catholic FORTYSOMETHINGS WITH and her husband have Educational ADVENTUROUS TASTES been married for 54 GARY APFEL / ARTS Association, IN FOOD AND TRAVEL. years, and have two ’73 / has been named to the largest children and four grand- the Southern California private Ethiopia and hoped to children. Super Lawyers list as a professional education connect to their children’s top attorney in the state association in the world. homeland. “That was nev- ARTHUR KERNS / for 2013. Each year, no alumni profile er something that we envi- STERN ’72 / has pub- more than 5 percent of RICHARD GORDON sioned,” Brown says. “But lished his debut novel, the lawyers in California / LAW ’75 / recently we’re finding that people The Riviera Contract receive this honor. He returned from the Peo- are coming to the classes for (Diversion). He is now is partner-in-charge of ple’s Republic of China, a lot of different reasons.” working on the sequel, the Los Angeles office of where he once again FOOD CHAIN There are unique ben- The African Contract. Pepper Hamilton, LLP and lectured on U.S. environ- efits for the instructors, co-chair of the firm’s Con- mental law at both Peking A NEW FORUM HELPS NEW YORKERS PREPARE too, many of whom are BARRY STEWART sumer Financial Services University Law School referred to Global Kitch- LEVY / TSOA ’72 / Practice Group. and the relatively new CUISINES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE en by organizations— self-published his book, Law School at Beijing such as Harlem’s Hot European Son: A Novella ALAN GROSS / ARTS Normal University. On by Eileen Reynolds / GSAS ’11 Bread Kitchen—that of- (CreateSpace). The book ’73 / is a professor of this trip, Gordon gave a fer support to immigrants has received a favorable psychology and director series of lectures titled starting food businesses. Kirkus Indie review. of clinical training at “U.S. Environmental Law P s any kitch- served up in the restaurants pass on their expertise to Brown (WAG ’12) were instructor and 12 to 15 HOTOS ard N. Stern School of “They face certain barri- the University of Missis- Meets U.S. Insurance Law:

en novice of New York City’s eth- adventurous home cooks students in the Robert F. students gathered around C Business’s Social Venture ers,” Freeman explains, RISA M. MANDELL / sippi, where he recently Who Pays? A Practical LOCKWISE who has nically diverse neighbor- hankering for cuisine from Wagner Graduate School a common table to chat Competition. The two- “and one of our goals is to WSC ’72 / has submitted received the inaugural Analysis.” Excellence in Graduate attempted hoods. But a trio of food- Guyana to Egypt and far of Public Service, offers and enjoy the meal they’ve FROM man team later added Leah help them break [those] her proposal, WeBePlay, a favorite and travel-loving friends beyond. for integrating infant and Teaching and Mentoring BENOIT COUET / GSAS cooking classes led by food prepared together. LEFT Selim (STEINHARDT down.” This happens, in

Apaella or paneer knows, recently set out to change Global Kitchen, which industry professionals who “Our social impact is M © : ’13), who holds a master’s part, by using social media early-childhood mental Award. ’76 / has been elected a

it can be difﬁcult to re- that by founding a forum began as a project for a share authentic recipes and derived from giving our ARISSA B in food systems from the to market chef-instructors’ health care into obstetric Fellow of the Society for create the culinary delights for immigrant chefs to spring 2012 Foundations memories of their native instructors a platform to Steinhardt School of Cul- businesses and help them and early-childhood pedi- ANDY ROSE / STEIN- Industrial and Applied of Social Entrepreneurship countries. Each three-hour share their cuisine,” Brown ROWN ture, Education, and Hu- reach new customers. And atric care to the Thomas HARDT ’73, ’82 / Mathematics. course while Pete Free- class begins with a demon- says of the business, which ; © L ISA man Development, as well by publishing on Global Scattergood Behavioral recently published

CHICKEN YASSA (SENEGAL) man (WAG ’13) and Ryan stration and ends with the was a ﬁnalist in the Leon- A as sommelier and author Kitchen’s website, cooks Health Foundation. his debut novel, Lily’s ROGER BULTOT / STEIN- ; © L © NDERSON ; FROM CHEF NAFISSA CAMARA Alexis Herschkowitsch. have an opportunity to Payback (CreateSpace), a HARDT ’77 / has been Since the launch of preserve recipes that have WILLIAM A. STOEVER / romantic thriller honoring chosen for induction into

INGREDIENTS INSTRUCTIONS EAH S Global Kitchen, following been passed down orally STERN ’72, ’78 / is the educators as heroes. the Mount Saint Charles

• 3 cups freshly squeezed • 1/4 cup peanut oil or olive oil Prepare marinade by mixing lime juice, onions, pepper, minced chile, ELIM a crowd-funding campaign for generations. author of Hitchhike the Academy Fine Arts Hall lime juice • 1 tablespoon garlic powder and soy sauce. Place the chicken in the marinade. Cover with plastic that raised nearly $8,000 The next step, the World: Book 1: America, SANDRA LANGER / of Fame. The academy is • 8 large yellow onions, in the fall of 2012, each of owners say, will be to cre- Europe, Africa (Create- STEINHARDT ’74 / has located in Woonsocket, RI. • 1/4 cup Dijon-style mustard, wrap and allow chicken to marinate for at least four hours in the refrig- thinly sliced or American brown mustard erator. Preheat the broiler or oven to 450°F. Remove the chicken pieces the cooking courses has ate a smartphone app that Space), in which he written All or Nothing: The • 1 tablespoon freshly ground sold out—suggesting that presents cooking lessons recounts the triumphs, Many Masks of Romaine THOMAS W. MEAGHER • 3 dried bay leaves and place in a shallow pan or on a baking sheet. Broil the chicken until black peppercorns browned on both sides (about five minutes per side). In a large sauté pan New Yorkers are eager to in miniature—each fea- discomforts, and adven- Brooks (1874–1970) / WSUC ’77 / is a partner • 1 habanero chile, whole • 1 teaspoon minced fresh over high heat, combine oil, garlic powder, and mustard. Add chicken learn the secrets to, say, turing, perhaps, a single tures he experienced (University of Wisconsin and practice leader of Aon habanero chile, or to taste • 1/2 cup pimento-stuffed or pieces and stir thoroughly. Add the marinade and bay leaves; lower the Senegalese fish fatayas or recipe accompanied by a while hitchhiking 50,000 Press)—her seventh book Hewitt’s Legal Consulting plain pitted olives (optional) • 3 tablespoons soy sauce, heat and cover the pan tightly. Cook slowly without stirring, until the Japanese daikon sunomono demonstration video and a miles in 86 countries. on Cassandra Langer, the and Compliance Practice, or 3 Maggi bouillon cubes • Salt, to taste onions are just tender and translucent. Add habanero chile and olives. from cooks with decades of story from the chef. Until expatriate lesbian painter and recently co-authored • 1 whole chicken (3 to 4 • White rice, for serving Remove the chile after five minutes (or not, according to the level of experience preparing these then, here’s some food for ALAN E. WEINER / LAW and longtime lover of an article titled “De-Risking pounds), cut into 8–10 pieces heat you desire). Stir, then bring the mixture slowly to a boil, lower the dishes. thought (at left). ’72 / has been appointed Natalie Barney Beatrice Pension Plans—Legal and heat, and simmer, covered, without stirring for 30 minutes, or until the Recent participants in- to a fifth term as a judge Romaine Goddard Brooks. Financial Strategies for chicken is cooked through. Season with salt. Serve over plain white rice. cluded couples who had For additional recipes, visit on the New York State Employers” for

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54 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 55 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 55) frequently published in The the Bureau of National Litchfield County Times. Affairs’ Pension and Bene- She and her husband, Ray- 1980s fits Daily. mond, co-founded the Earth A Legacy of Learning Shoe Co. in 1970. Jacobs MICHAEL GREENE / Couple, 1943–1945 (Full (Balboa). PATRICIA A. FARRELL / later worked at Sotheby’s WSUC ’80 / is the founder Court), a book about the GSAS ’78, STEINHARDT and the Hirschl & Adler of Labor Resolutions, LLC. letters that her parents PAUL ’90 / has published her Galleries before retiring He is a former investiga- wrote to each other while LUNDEEN fourth book. The Kindle in 1993. Her daughters, tor for the New York State separated during WW II. / WSUC e-book, titled A Social SUSAN JACOBS / GAL Department of Labor, with Her parents, LESTER ’81 / was A Bequest That Security Disability Psycho- ’84 / and LAURA JACOBS years of experience in HALBREICH / DEN ’42 unanimously logical Claims Handbook, PAVLICK / GAL ’84 /, are both the unemployment / and Shirley Scheller elected chair of the Makes a Difference is in keeping with Farrell’s both NYU alumnae. insurance and wage and Halbreich, both attended Colorado State Board of intention to provide con- hour fields. NYU, as did her brother, Education. He is a Repub- As thousands of students do each year, Essie Barry came to sumer-friendly information JONATHAN RIKOON / Jeffrey Halbreich. lican who represents the in health care. LAW ’79 / joined the New 5th District. New York in 1959 to pursue her dream of a college education. TERRI HALBREICH York office of law firm Loeb DAVID / STEINHARDT MAE LOUIS / NUR ’81 ELEANOR JACOBS / & Loeb, LLP as a partner ’81, ’86 / published Mail / has authored new spir- MICHAEL NEWMAN / Born on a former slave plantation in Mississippi, Essie was 46 years GAL ’79 / enjoys writing in the trusts and estates Call: The Wartime Corre- itually-themed book on TSOA ’82 / is a U.S.

old and a widowed mother of three when she came to New York humorous articles and is department. spondence of an American titled The Meaning of Life (CONTINUED ON PAGE 58) City without friends, family, money, or a ticket home. She left her youngest daughter Carlita, then 10 years old, with her older married daughter.

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NYU_AlumniSpring2012_Bequests_SSƒ.indd 1 2/21/12 6:27 PM Want to Hear (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 57) the soprano soloist for from the University of the Health Medical Group. More About magistrate judge serving performances of Mozart’s West Indies, St. Augustine entrepreneurship Alumni Activities? on the U.S. District Court “Requiem” on Orcas Campus with his PhD in JOHN BABCOCK / LAW Contact Us! for the Southern District Island and at Saint Mark’s cultural studies. Wilkin- ’87 / has been named of Ohio. He is a member of Cathedral in Seattle, son’s dissertation was legal elite by Business SILICON SQUARE ALUMNI RELATIONS 212-998-6912 the Federal Bar Associa- Washington. She has also titled “Public Policy and North Carolina magazine, [email protected] tion’s National Board of released a new CD titled Management for Culture a distinction that went to For many, Washington Square conjures images of beatniks strum- a decade and licensing agreements have tripled. All together,

COLLEGE OF ARTS Directors and recently Miracle Jingles: This Holy and the Arts in Post- approximately 3 percent ming guitars or poets reading aloud. But recently, a different kind NYU students, faculty, and alumni have launched more than 100 AND SCIENCE, HEIGHTS completed a three-year Instant. Abreu recently Independence Trinidad of more than 20,000 of creative revolution has been on the rise in the neighborhood: start-ups. Here’s some you might know: COLLEGES 212-998-6880 term as statewide chair of became certiﬁed to teach and Tobago: A Crisis of North Carolina attorneys. Faculty inventions have more than doubled each year for nearly [email protected] the Ohio State Bar Asso- the BePeace Foundations Concept, Value, and Incre- He is a partner at the law ﬁrm of Wall Esleeck Bab- COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY ciation’s Federal Courts Course, a 36-hour training mental Indifference.” 212-992-7125 and Practice Committee. that provides skills in cock, LLP. [email protected] Newman and his wife, feeling, speaking, and MICHAEL BARR / MED COLLEGE OF NURSING Rachel, just celebrated teaching peace. ’86 / has been elected GREGG CHADWICK / 212-992-8580 the sixth birthday of their president of the board STEINHARDT ’87 / was [email protected] triplet daughters, Anna, STEVEN M. COHEN / of directors of Baltimore featured in a solo exhibi- COURANT INSTITUTE Brigid, and Clare. WSUC ’85 / is part of Medical System, the larg- tion, The Time Between, 212-998-3321 [email protected] a multigeneration NYU est primary-health-care at the Sandra Lee Gallery, PETER GERARDO / legacy family. His mother, provider to medically in San Francisco. GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY WSUC ’83 / is the author ELLEN EISENSTADT underserved communities 212-992-9868 of Life Between the Tigers: COHEN / WSC ’60 / , throughout Maryland. JAMES HANKINS / [email protected] Zen Wisdom in Every- and father, HERBERT A. TSOA ’87 / recently pub- GRADUATE SCHOOL OF day English (Zen Books COHEN / WSC ’57, LAW MARGOT MIFFLIN / lished three thrillers as ARTS AND SCIENCE 212-998-6880 Worldwide), a collection ’60 / , both attended GSAS ’86 / is the author e-books, Jack of Spades, [email protected] of Buddhist parables and NYU, and his daughter, of Bodies of Subversion: Drawn, and Brothers and

INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS Zen koans, edited for the MADELINE COHEN / A Secret History of Women Bones. 212-992-5804 modern Western reader. GAL ’16 / , is a current and Tattoo, 3rd Edition [email protected] student. Cohen’s wife, (PowerHouse), which sold PETER LOWITT / LAW LEONARD N. STERN DAVID BRUCE SMITH / LISA MELMED / TSOA out its first print run in ’87 / and his wife, DEON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS GSAS ’83 / received the ’84, STERN ’92 / , two months. The book has SPELLEN-LOWITT / 212-998-4040 [email protected] honorary fellowship award is also an alumna. been covered in The New SSSW ’11 / , are both from the Hebrew Univer- Yorker, The Atlantic, New alumni of NYU. LIBERAL STUDIES PROGRAM For a complete list, visit MadeByNYU.org. For more information or to support entrepreneurship 212-998-6880 sity in June 2013. He is WILLIAM W. KING / York magazine’s fashion at NYU, go to nyu.edu/entrepreneur. [email protected] extremely active in the STERN ’85 / was listed on blog The Cut, and many RICHARD E. MAR- ROBERT F. WAGNER Washington, D.C., Jewish Barron’s ranking of Amer- other publications. RANCA / GSAS ’87, GRADUATE SCHOOL community and recently ica’s Top 1,000 Advisors: STEINHARDT ’96 / has 212-998-7537 [email protected] received the 2013 Hymen State by State. ROSEMARY ROTONDI / authored a novel, Dragon DIANA K. LLOYD / GSAS Goldman Humanitarian TSOA ’86 / is an archival Sutra (Oak Tree). ’89, LAW ’89 / was named SCHOOL OF CONTINUING 1990s AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Award from Hebrew Home WENDY SHREVE / film, photo, and network to the Top Massachusetts 212-998-7003 of Greater Washington STEINHARDT ’85 / news researcher for doc- ELIZABETH LOEB / LAW Super Lawyers list for [email protected] and the 2012 Joseph published her novel, Shad- umentary filmmakers and ’88 / is senior counsel 2012. She was also listed JAMES KETTERER / MONICA ORBE / WSUC KARINEH KHACHA- menced her term in July SCHOOL OF LAW Ottenstein Award from owwater (Green Wave), writers. She contributed for the U.S. Department among the Top 50 Women GSAS ’90 / is Egypt Coun- ’90 / has been promoted TOURIAN / WSUC ’91 / 2013 and will take over as 212-998-6410 [email protected] the Jewish Social Service through Amazon.com. research to three docu- of Justice Environmental in Massachusetts. Lloyd try Director for Amid- to director, corporate has joined Duane Morris, president of the 5,000+ Agency. She is a freelance publicist mentaries that appeared Enforcement Section. co-chairs the Government east, a U.S. organization affairs, at Alcoa. LLP as managing partner member organization in SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 212-263-5390 and copywriter who has in the 2013 Tribeca Film Enforcement & Compliance focused on international of the firm’s new Palo Alto, July 2014. [email protected] BARBARA ROSENBAUM written pieces for theater, Festival. PEDRO REINA- Practice Group at Choate, education and cultural JAMES HERETH / TSOA CA, office. / WSUC ’84 / co-authored including the Cape Play- PEREZ / WSUC ’88 / was MIRNA MARTINEZ SILVER SCHOOL OF Hall & Stewart, LLP. affairs. He is based in ’91 / is currently writing SOCIAL WORK the November 2012 article house in Dennis, MA, and ANTHONY SLONIM / appointed 2013–14 Wilbur Cairo. on Marathon Media’s HOLLY MOHLER RIC- SANTIAGO / WSUC ’92 / 212-998-9189 in New Jersey Munici- Payomet Performing Arts WSUC ’86 / was elected Marvin Visiting Scholar STEVEN LOWY / STERN animated series LoliRock, CIO / WSUC ’92 / has is co-host of The Opinion, [email protected] palities magazine titled Center in Truro, MA. to the board of directors in the David Rockefeller ’89 / was featured in Jetset PAUL J. MCCARREN set to debut on the Disney recently been elected vice a talk show that tackles THE STEINHARDT SCHOOL “Introducing the ‘Shop of the American College of Center for Latin American Magazine in an article titled / STEINHARDT ’90 / Channel in France. He president/president-elect relevant social issues in OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Marlboro’ Property Tax LESTER EFEBO WILKIN- Physician Executives. He Studies at Harvard Uni- “A Patron’s Saint.” He is has published a series of also recently produced of the American Associa- a debate format. 212-998-6942 Reward Program.” SON / STEINHARDT ’85 is executive vice president versity. While there, he will the owner and president of books titled Simple Guides and edited the Web series tion of Law Libraries, the [email protected] / is a former ambassador and chief medical officer of complete his third book Portico New York, Inc., and to the Gospels (Rowman & pilot Shining City, which nation’s oldest profes- SUNA SENMAN / SSSW TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS SHARON ABREU / for Trinidad and Tobago Barnabas Health, as well as on the late cellist Pablo the former curator of the Littlefield). has garnered more than sional organization for ’92 / is launching a 212-998-6954 [email protected] STEINHARDT ’85 / was to Cuba. He graduated president of the Barnabas Casals. Rudolf Bauer Estate. 18,000 views. law librarians. She com- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 61)

58 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 59 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 59) Institute of Technology. The New York Times, Real as an honoree at the MGH versity School national tour for her new Simple, Salon, Parents, One Hundred for 2013, of Medicine NYU GIFT BOX book, Peace: Discovering WARREN CHAO / STERN Family Circle, The Rumpus, an annual event that and attending A N INSIDE LOOK AT RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY Life’s Harmony Through ’94, LAW ’94 / is the Brain, Child, and other recognizes 100 people neurologist Relationships (Author- co-founder of Wingdate, a publications. Sanders lives from across the country at Winthrop- House). She is a Huffington new online dating website. in Portland, OR, with her who have made signif- University • The Marron Institute on research, develop curricu- health, education, and to shed light on criti- Through this support— Post blogger and licensed He is also a founder of My husband and daughter. icant contributions to Hospital. Cities and the Urban En- lar initiatives, provide a vi- government while serving cal challenges, graduates believed to be the largest mental-health professional. Damn Channel, an online cancer care, treatment, Shelat has vironment is an ambitious brant academic communi- as centers of job creation, trained to immediately private gift for research on studio and distribution GERALD V. THOMAS II prevention, research, and been accepted new initiative made pos- ty for scholars and students, cultural change, and a tackle real-world prob- war zone–related PTSD NAIKANG TSAO / LAW company that was named / STERN ’94, LAW ’97, philanthropy. Bloom, who to Harvard Uni- sible by a generous gift of and help cities around the home to millions,” Mar- lems, and a central forum and TBI—Charles Mar- ’92 / has been appointed one of Time magazine’s ’98 / has joined the firm of is also an attorney, has also versity, and will $40 million by Donald B. world become more liv- ron says. “Yet for all [that] to foster critical thinking mar, MD, the Lucius N. Madison (WI) Office Litiga- best 50 websites of 2011. Morris, Manning & Martin, received the University of graduate from the Harvard Marron, an entrepreneur, able, sustainable, and eq- cities offer our global soci- and collaborative work.” Littauer Professor of Psy- tion Chair in Foley & Lard- LLP as a partner in the Miami Law Alumni Associa- School of Public Health businessman, and philan- uitable. Paul Romer, pro- ety, much can be done to chiatry and chair of the ner, LLP’s litigation depart- JASON LOBELL / CAS Atlanta office, where he tion Outstanding Achieve- with an MS in health-care thropist who was previous- fessor of economics at the improve how these urban • With a generous gift of department of psychiatry, ment. Tsao is a partner in ’94 / has had a section works in the tax, corpo- ment Award for her work in management in May 2015. ly chairman of Paine Web- Leonard N. Stern School centers function and pro- $17 million, the Steven A. will lead a team of experts both the business litigation of his novel, Etta Clay, rate, funds and alternative health-care administration. ber and is the founder and of Business and director of vide for their residents. and Alexandra M. Cohen from psychiatry, rehabil- and dispute resolution and excerpted in Redivider: A investments, M&A, and MARY TURCHINSKY current chairman of Light- Stern’s Urbanization Proj- This is what has me so ex- Foundation established the itation medicine, radiol- intellectual property litiga- Journal of New Literature real estate capital markets GEORGE TANG / STERN / STEINHARDT ’97 / year Capital. The Marron ect, will lead the institute. cited about the opportuni- Steven and Alexandra Co- ogy, and neurosurgery in tion practices. and Art (Emerson). practices. ’96 / has been selected to was recently promoted Institute will be the hub “Cities are fundamen- ty for this institute and the hen Veterans Center for a landmark five-year re- join the Texas Lyceum Class to senior manager of for work on cities and tally places of opportunity, role it can play in shaping the Study of Post-Trau- search project aimed at de- CARYN KOPP / STERN ’93 CARRIE ANN (BEMIS) ARTHUR VINCIE / TSOA of 2013 as a director. digital learning and senior the urban environment attracting and cultivating cities over the next mil- matic Stress and Traumatic veloping objective, reliable / received the Enterprising QUINN / TSOA ’94 / ’94 / is an independent media producer for digital at NYU. It will sponsor some of the most talent- lennium and beyond. Our Brain Injury at the NYU tests for PTSD and TBI. Women of the Year Award is starring in the world filmmaker and writer, DAVID THALHAMER media at the Metropolitan significant interdisciplinary ed people in business, art, goal is to produce research Langone Medical Center. for 2013 from Enterprising premiere of Possessions, and director of the sci-fi / SCPS ’96 / has been Museum of Art. Women magazine. She is a traveling show that independent film Found appointed managing direc- among just 21 women in her opened in Boston on June in Time. He has just had tor in the New York office of HEIDI WEBER / GSAS ’97 category globally to receive 20 of this year before his first nonfiction book Ferguson Partners Ltd. / has joined Berkshire Com- the award, and is founder beginning an international published, Preparing for munity College as public and chief door opener at tour. She is a deviser, writer, Takeoff: Preproduction for JESUS CASTAGNETTO / relations manager. Kopp Consulting, LLC. and lead actor in the play. the Independent Filmmaker GSAS ’97 / is co-author of (Focal Press), which dives Professional PHP Pro- ROBIN REYNOLDS / WAG CHRISTINE J. WALLEY / SUE SANDERS / STEIN- into that critical phase of gramming (Wrox), a book ’98 / has been appointed GSAS ’93, ’95, ’99 / is the HARDT ’94 / is the author filmmaking: preproduction. on the Web programming university budget director author of Exit Zero: Family of Mom, I’m Not a Kid language. at Santa Clara University. ALUMNI CLUBS KEEP YOU CONNECTED TO NYU and Class in Postindustrial Anymore: Navigating 25 MARA G. BLOOM / WAG Reynolds has been at SCU Chicago (University of Chi- Inevitable Conversations ’95 / , executive director AMIT M. SHELAT / CAS since 2000 and will lead Alumni clubs throughout the US and cago Press). She is associ- That Arrive Before You of the Cancer Center at ’97, WAG ’02 / is assistant the university budget office BOSTON SEATTLE CHICAGO across the globe keep you connected ate professor of anthropol- Know It (Experiment). Her Massachusetts General professor of clinical neu- as it increases its focus on to NYU. Alumni clubs provide ongoing ogy at the Massachusetts essays have appeared in Hospital, has been named rology at Stony Brook Uni- strategic financial planning. LI/QUEENS COLORADO opportunities to share experiences and traditions, and to network with fellow NEW JERSEY local alumni. SAN FRANCISCO ATLANTA WASHINGTON, DC For a full list of NYU alumni clubs 2000s and information on upcoming events LOS ANGELES NORTHNORTH CAROLINACAROLINA and programs in your area, visit nyualumni.com/clubs. Also, be sure JACOB M. APPEL / GSAS Playwriting, and others. JAMES MCKISSIC / tival. The film stars GINA private practice in New to update your contact information at ’00 / is the author of a new WAG ’01 / was recently RODRIGUEZ / TSOA ’06. York City. CENTRAL FLORIDA SOUTHSOUTH FLORIDA FLORIDA nyualumni.com/address-change to novel, The Biology of Luck ERIK MORTENSON / GAL appointed as director of receive invitations to events in your area. HAWAII (Elephant Rock). He has ’00 / is donating the pro- the Office of Multicultural BEN MICHAELIS / GSAS LINDSAY SARAH more than 200 publication ceeds from his new poetry Affairs for the City of ’01, ’04 / has authored his KRASNOFF / GSAS ’02 Don’t see your region? credits, and is the recipient chapbook, The Fifteenth Chattanooga. first book, Your Next Big / published her first book, Visit nyualumni.com/clubs to learn how to start an alumni club. of the Dundee International Station (Accents Publish- Thing: 10 Small Steps to The Making of Les Bleus: Book Prize U.K., the Tobias ing), to Partners in Health, AARON MEYERS / TSOA Get Moving and Get Happy Sport in France, 1958–2010 Wolff Award, the Walker an organization that serves ’01 / has a new film, Sleep- (Adams Media). He was for- (Lexington), a historical Percy Prize, the Kurt Von- women and children with ing With the Fishes, which merly an adjunct professor examination of the Fifth negut Prize, the Zarkower AIDS in Africa. was an official selection of at NYU and is currently Republic’s sports policies

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60 / FALL 2013 / NYU NYU / FALL 2013 / 61 (CONTINUED FROM JENNIFER LOVALLO ROBERT MORGAN 2013 at the Peabody Essex academic success. completing her MA last MELANIE EHRLICH PAGE 61) numbers / CAS ’06 / recently RALPH / CAS ’07 / has Museum in Salem, MA. spring at the University / GAL ’10 / starred and the public- visited Washington, D.C., to been hired as a security CAITLIN ELIZABETH of Maryland’s School as both female leads SPECIAL TAX BREAK FOR private part- lobby for pediatric global analyst by FinArc, LLC. HONOR ROLL STEFANIE WEISMAN / BROWN / CAS ’10 / has of Music. Brown is also in Purim, her debut nerships in vaccination promotion IFA ’09 / published her been awarded the Indi- one of three finalists for performance with 24/6, CHARITABLE GIVING FROM youth sports through the United Nations DESHAUN DAVIS / GAL From the Pulitzer to the Grammy, when major prizes first book, The Secrets ana University Jacobs the American Musico- a professional Jew- YOUR IRA programs Foundation’s Shot@Life ’08 / aka Daví, is an artist, are announced, NYU alumni are often in the mix. of Top Students (Source- School of Music Doctoral logical Society Capital ish theater company. that produced Campaign. DJ, and choreographer These numbers represent our totals (at least) so far: books), a guide for the Fellowship. She began Chapter’s Irving Lowens Ehrlich has more than “wins” at the who has been featured high school and college work on her PhD in Award for Student 200 voice-over credits turn of the DANIELLE REGRUTO / on an array of blogs. set on how to achieve musicology this fall after Research. to her name. NOW EXTENDED century. GAL ’06 / married STE- Most recently, Daví was FOR 2013 PHEN HULT / SCPS ’08. featured in the UK’s Jocks DEBORAH B. VILAS / & Nerds magazine and SSSW ’02 / is serving as DANA BUCKLEY / GAL choreographed the cast the project leader on the ’07 / has released her sec- of the feature film Peeples Child Life Council’s survey ond fine-art photography (Lionsgate). on fundamentals and book, Dana Buckley: Living 6 Obituaries innovative practices in play. Desert (Graphis). Buckley is MELISSA DE LA RAMA / National Medal of She is a faculty adviser a six-time recipient of the STERN ’08 / and her wife, Science Recipients New York University mourns the recent passing of our alumni, staff, USE YOUR IRA TO MAKE A and instructor at the Bank excellence in photography Rabbi Heather Miller, were and friends, including: TAX-FREE GIFT TO NYU Street College of Education award from Art Direction honored by the Liberty Hill Now you can enjoy a in New York City. magazine. Foundation as two of their THOMAS W. BALDWIN / WSC ’36 LAWRENCE H. JACOBSON / MED ’57 tax-effective strategy for five 2013 Leaders to Watch. GRACE TANISH FISHER / WSC ’36, LAW ’39 WILLIAM ROBERT MURPHY / ENG ’57 IRA distributions in 2013. Congress extended the tax ROSS FRIEDMAN / SSSW LILY GUTNIK / CAS ’07 WALTER FELDESMAN / ARTS ’37 MICHAEL ROSE / WSC ’57 advantages for individuals ’04 / published his first / was recently accepted MARC GALINDO / STERN WALTER SCHRAETER / STERN ’38 GILBERT M. ZALMAN / ENG ’58 who make charitable gifts novel, Apotheosis (Xlibris). to the competitive Cabot ’08 / and his wife, Amy LEO FLEUR / ARTS ’40 MARC FRANCIS / MED ’59 from an IRA account. Fellowship at the Center for Galindo are proud to MAX KAMPELMAN / ARTS ’40, LAW ’45, HON ’88 McWILLIAM BOLLMAN / WSC ’60 ROBIN GORET / STEIN- Surgery and Public Health announce the arrival of THOMAS J. KANE / ARTS ’42 DONALD BUZINKAI / GSAS ’61 HARDT ’05 / has at Harvard/Brigham and their first child, Isabel 9 JOSEPH ALFENITO / ARTS ’43 CHARLES J. BALL / MED ’62 co-written a chapter in Women’s Hospital. Gutnik Jenna Galindo, born on Nobel Prize Winners (in the SHELDON G. COHEN / MED ’43 FREDRIC CUBA / STERN ’62 YOUR GIFT SUPPORTS NYU’S FUTURE the forthcoming textbook will spend one year in Bos- March 12, 2013. Galindo fields of physiology/medicine, KATHARINE SAMS TILSON MURRAY / MED ’43 MATTHEW THORNTON ADAMS / LAW ’63 physics, or economics) Use your IRA charitable Theories and Models of ton earning her master of recently joined the asset- STANLEY OSTRAU / ARTS ’43 PETER R. HAMMOND / STERN ’63 distribution to make your Communication (DeGruyter public health and one year based and structured JOHN J. IMARISIO / ARTS ’44, MED ’50 HARRIS A. LAPPIN / WSC ’64 annual gift, pay or prepay your current pledge, or establish Mouton). Goret is also the in Rwanda measuring out- finance team at HSBC BERTHA SCHWELLER / STERN ’44 MARVIN LEINER / STEINHARDT ’64 a scholarship fund at NYU. communication director for comes of various models Bank USA, N.A. as a vice LEONARD L. ROSS / ARTS ’46, GSAS ’49, ’54 MARTHA GLASER / GSAS ’66 Corner of the Sky Commu- of surgical care delivery. president of business BERTRAM MOLL / ARTS ’47 MICHAEL GARLICK / LAW ’69 nication Group, LLC and development. STANLEY B. 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WHO ACTIVIST AND PLAINTIFF EDITH WINDSOR (GSAS ’57) WAVES TO THE CLASS OF 2013 JUST WEEKS BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DECIDED IN HER FAVOR, STRIKING DOWN THE FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT AS A “DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY.”

WHERE NYU’S 181st COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY AT A ROARING YANKEE STADIUM IN THE BRONX.

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64 / FALL 2013 / NYU Students, alumni, parents, and staff helped fund NYU dreams by creating scholarships for 70 THANK YOU incoming freshmen and transfer students. When we come together as an NYU community, we TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS OF THE 1831 can make a collective difference in the lives FUND AND THE CATALYST CAMPAIGN! of our students. Thank you for your support!

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