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Winter 2019–20 CRADLE OF (CONTEMPORARY) CIVILIZATION THE CORE CURRICULUM’S ORIGIN STORY GREENER CLEANERS AN AMBITIOUS NEW VENTURE FROM ECO-ENTREPRENEUR Columbia JOHN A. MASCARI ’08 College SHE SAID HOW JODI KANTOR ’96 EXPOSED Today THE WEINSTEIN SCANDAL Ann Kim ’95 is bringing fire power to the Twin Cities TOPCHEF Do you know? What is the longest-running book(s) on the Lit Hum syllabus? Take the Core Quiz at core100.columbia.edu and share your results with #corecelebration. Then, check out the events, stories and more to celebrate the Core Centennial year! Contents Columbia College CCT Today VOLUME 47 NUMBER 2 WINTER 2019–20 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alexis Boncy SOA’11 EXECUTIVE EDITOR Lisa Palladino 14 20 26 DEPUTY EDITOR Jill C. Shomer ASSOCIATE EDITOR Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09 FORUM EDITOR features Rose Kernochan BC’82 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Thomas Vinciguerra ’85 14 ART DIRECTOR Eson Chan Fire Power Published quarterly by the James Beard Award winner Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and Development Ann Kim ’95 is bringing the heat for alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends of Columbia College. to the Twin Cities. ASSOCIATE DEAN, COLUMBIA COLLEGE By Alexis Boncy SOA’11 ALUMNI RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS Bernice Tsai ’96 20 ADDRESS Columbia College Today First Class Columbia Alumni Center 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 4th Fl. How Contemporary Civilization laid the New York, NY 10025 foundation for the Core Curriculum. PHONE 212-851-7852 By the Editors of CCT EMAIL [email protected] WEB 26 college.columbia.edu/cct ISSN 0572-7820 The Eco Entrepreneur Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect John A. Mascari ’08 aims official positions of Columbia College to make your cleaners greener. or Columbia University. © 2019 Columbia College Today By Yelena Shuster ’09 All rights reserved. Cover: The Restaurant Project; Insert Card /Alma Mater: Alyssa Carvara Contents departments alumninews 3 Message from Dean James J. Valentini 34 A Familiar Face in the Storm Reflecting on Columbia College experiences. 35 Message from CCAA President 4 School of Thought Michael Behringer ’89 Let’s hear it for alumni volunteers! 7 Around the Quads A feminist banner hangs at Butler, this year’s 36 Lions faculty MacArthur “genius” and more. Jack Stuppin ’55; Jacquelyn Schneider ’05 12 Roar, Lion, Roar 38 Bookshelf Lions won big at Homecoming 2019, and F**k, Now There Are Two of You we’ve got loads of joyful photos. by Adam Mansbach ’98, SOA’00 31 Columbia Forum: She Said: Breaking 40 Class Notes the Sexual Harassment Story Alumni Sons and Daughters; Just Married! That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor ’96 and Megan Twohey 78 Obituaries How two New York Times journalists Immanuel M. Wallerstein ’51, GSAS’59; John Giorno ’58 blasted open the Weinstein scandal. 80 Core Corner Our Core Centennial cartoon caption contest continues with an illustration by R.J. Matson ’85. Now on CCT Online CCT PRINT EXTRAS • Homecoming 2019 Facebook album • Art by Jack Stuppin ’55 Like Columbia College Alumni facebook.com/alumnicc View Columbia College alumni photos instagram.com/alumniofcolumbiacollege EDWARD KOREN ’57 KOREN EDWARD Follow @Columbia_CCAA “Enough warm-ups, already! When are we Join the Columbia College alumni network going to roll boulders with Sisyphus?” college.columbia.edu/alumni/linkedin The winner of our first Core Centennial cartoon caption contest is William A. Teichner ’86! Thank you for all your submissions. college.columbia.edu/cct This issue’s cartoon is on page 80. Message from the Dean The Foundation of the College Experience olumbia College students live and learn in a uniquely rich environment, with the opportunities that our college, the many C other schools of our university and the City of New York offer. Approaching that experience with Beginner’s Mind, they expand their knowledge and understanding of themselves and their world as they encounter new concepts, discover perspectives unfamil- iar to them, and engage with their professors and peers in and out of the classroom. The Core Curriculum is the foundation of this experi- ence, expressing a conscious and deliberate institutional commitment to a curriculum taken by every student, specially constructed to prepare each of them to be ana- lytical and imaginative, empathetic and active, and col- laborative and visionary, as well as leaders in advancing their communities, society and the world. It achieves that through small classes in which instructors guide genuine discussions about how societies have been conceptual- ized and developed; how new knowledge has reshaped the concepts and reformed the development; how indi- vidual rights and responsibilities have been balanced; and how the joys and challenges of that human existence have been expressed in literature, music and art. In the Core’s centennial year, we celebrate not only its MICHAEL EDMONSON ’20 value, but also its spirit, and we celebrate it by examining it critically and analytically. We are revisiting its creation; (college.columbia.edu/journey), a strategic planning guide examining its evolution and adaptation to a continually that directs each student to maintain a unique, individual, changing world; assessing its present success, challenges personal attention to developing the attitudes, abilities, and limitations; and charting a future in which it will skills, perspectives and understanding that will empower continue to achieve its ambitious goals. That examina- success in their personal and professional lives, no matter tion, assessment and planning will be most successful if what their path. We express that through 13 Core Com- opinions, perspectives and ideas are contributed by the petencies, which provide the structure for Journey. This thousands of faculty and students who have participated guide encourages each student to approach with Begin- in the Core during its long history. ner’s Mind all parts of their individual College experience, In particular, we seek recollections from you, our and to recognize all of those seemingly discrete parts as alumni, about how it felt to be in Core classroom dis- connected in a self-guided and self-aware approach to cussions, to struggle to understand Kant or Plato, to building the Core Competencies. analyze the complex dynamic of composer and librettist As we continue our centennial celebration and reflect in Le Nozze di Figaro, to explain the many-dimensional on its past, present and future, and as the College con- aesthetic of the works of Bernini. We want to hear how tinues to expand the importance of Journey, I hope that the Core has informed, guided and enlightened your you will join me in taking a moment to reflect on your life journey, so, we invite you to share your personal own past, present and future — wherever your journey history of the Core through our Core Stories project has taken you. (core100.columbia.edu/core-stories), which will run through the end of the centennial year ( June 2020). In 2018, we made a conscious and deliberate deci- sion to focus student attention on that life journey, James J. Valentini through a vehicle we call My Columbia College Journey Dean Winter 2019–20 CCT 3 SCHOOL OF THOUGHT Saluting Contemporary Civilization for sparking a century of ideas and inspiration 4 CCT Winter 2019–20 Illustration by John Roman Winter 2019–20 CCT 5 The Columbia College Fund supports the work of the College Every gift to the Columbia College Fund strengthens the undergraduate experience and helps build community for College students by providing vital resources in support of: ✓✓Student life experiences ✓✓Internship opportunities ✓✓Financial aid and scholarships ✓✓The Core Curriculum Make your gift today college.givenow.columbia.edu Around Quadsthe KILLIAN YOUNG / COLUMBIA COLLEGE / COLUMBIA KILLIAN YOUNG A BANNER BEARING THE NAMES OF EIGHT FEMALE-IDENTIFYING AUTHORS AND VISIONARIES — Maya Angelou; Gloria E. Anzaldúa; Diana Chang BC’49; Zora Neale Hurston BC 1928, GSAS 1935; Toni Morrison; A. Revathi; Ntozake Shange; and Leslie Marmon Silko — is now hanging above the names of the male writers on the facade of Butler Library. The banner will be on display through December 16. Learn how the names were selected, about the first female-focused banner (hung in 1989) and more at butlerbanner.com. Hartman Named Sherwin Service Award Hockley ’05, Captain Marvel director MacArthur Fellow Anna Boden ’02, and documentary The Gerald E. Sherwin Young Alumni filmmakers Ric Burns ’78 and James Professor of English and Comparative Service Award, which honors individuals Sanders ’76, Literature Saidiya Hartman is one of who have demonstrated exceptional service GSAPP’82. 26 recipients to the College’s young alumni community, The annual of the 2019 was presented to Matthew Lemle Amster- Eddie & Ozzie MacArthur dam ’10, LAW’13 at the Columbia College Awards honor fellowship, Alumni Association’s Board of Directors excellence in given out meeting on October 19. Amsterdam was editorial and on the Senior Fund Executive Commit- design across ARTHUR FOUNDATION ARTHUR annually by ac the John D. tee, was a member of his fifth Reunion all sectors of and Catherine Committee and is co-chairing his 10th. He the magazine T. MacArthur is a member of the Columbia Law School industry, and COURTESY M COURTESY Foundation. Association’s Board of Directors and a have been Hartman chair of the Loyal Blue Society, which rec- presented by Folio: for more than two earned a $625,000 “genius grant” to be ognizes continued donor support toward decades. This year, 400 winners were chosen distributed over the next five years. “I am the University. from a field of more than 2,500 entries. delighted to receive the MacArthur. It The award is named in honor of CCAA means the world to me,” she said. “It gives president emeritus Gerald Sherwin ’55. me the time I need to write and think.” Hartman is a scholar of African- $3.64 Million American literature and cultural history.