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Print 007-8205•RECORD CAMPUS TALK UPDATE SCRAPBOOK Columbia on the Woodbridge Hall Columbia Community high seas | 3 goes green | 7 Outreach | 8 VOL. 32, NO. 12 NEWS AND IDEAS FOR THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY APRIL 30, 2007 Seeking the Work-Life Balance A PERFECT By Dan Rivero arol Hoffman’s appoint- ment as Columbia’s first- MESS ever associate provost and director of work-life Csignals a new era for the University’s family friendly policies, programs, benefits and services. Hoffman, a trained clinical social worker and a native New Yorker, comes to the University from the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent 20 of her 35 years on the West Coast at UC Berkeley, initiating and administering the employee assistance program and work-life office. At Columbia, she will be using her expertise to help faculty and staff address the some- Professor Eric times conflicting responsibilities of Abrahamson, at career and family life. work in his office. She reports to both Provost Alan Brinkley and Vice President of Human Resources Cindy Durning, because her job will support the needs of faculty and staff alike. EILEEN BARROSO “Hiring Carol and opening our By Bridget O’Brian ior, there are very few about the lack of organi- up with an equation to represent mess, pictured first work-life office is such an zation, or mess. Abrahamson’s 2002 paper, above.) In layman’s terms, mess is “the failure to exciting and important step for Eric Abrahamson, a professor of management “Disorganization Theory and Disorganizational live up to one’s idealized conception of order,” Columbia,” said Durning, who at Columbia Business School whose specialty is Behavior: Towards an Etiology of Messes,” drew he says. This refers not merely to messy desks praised Hoffman as the best work- organizational theory and change, grew tired of and offices—the most obvious way most people life officer in the country. hearing the same refrain when visitors took in A TOUR OF confront mess—but to entire companies, organ- Hoffman is clear that her the sheer magnitude of the mess in his office: PROFESSORS’ OFFICES izations and even governments. Piles and piles of papers, books sliding across the “People say order is better; I don’t necessari- approach to work-life is to address pages 4–5 issues from birth to death. shelves, telephone messages stacked up. ly think so,” Abrahamson says, and not just “Shouldn’t you be more organized?” they asked. because mess may be his default mode. “In The question inspired him to write an aca- the counterintuitive conclusion that messy sys- terms of time, reorganizations are prone to fail- demic paper on mess. “It started as a bit of a tems are frequently more efficient than those ure and risk. There’s the question of ‘What ben- joke, and it turned out to be really fascinating,” that are highly organized. efit do I get?’” Some people, or companies, may he says. While there are hundreds of academic Abrahamson defined mess as “a disorderly spend all their time getting organized, but don’t studies about organizational theory and behav- accumulation of varied entities.” (He even came manage to accomplish the tasks that really are continued on page 6 Padma Desai’s Russian Retrospective By Adam Piore and widely read articles. In 1995, she served as a U.S. Treasury advisor to the Russian Finance At a time when the threat of nuclear Ministry. Armageddon loomed large, many young schol- On April 26 and 27, scholars from around the EILEEN BARROSO ars took up Soviet studies because they hoped to world gathered on campus for a scientific Carol Hoffman understand and help defeat the communist foe conference held in her honor. Guests included “What are some of the life Ronald Reagan would later dub “the Evil former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, events that affect your work? Empire.” Nobel Prize-winning economists, former Relationship formation, relation- But for Columbia economist Padma Desai, a finance minister and chair of Russia’s central ship dissolution, children, aging professor of comparative economic systems and bank Sergey Dubinin and Jack Matlock, former parents, disabilities and illness—I director of the Center of Transition Economics, U.S. ambassador to Russia. work to support the needs of indi- it was always about something more. Desai was The conference title, “Russia: Soviet Past, viduals who provide care for a precocious teenager, growing up on the West Present Performance and Future Prospects,” someone in their life,” she said. Coast of India, when she discovered seemed especially timely due to the recent death Columbia already has the infra- Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. of former President Boris Yeltsin. structure of a robust work-life pro- “When you are only 13 years of age and read Desai knew Yeltsin personally, as well as gram to address these problems, its themes of sin and redemption, suffering and many of the others involved in post-Soviet Hoffman said, but it needs coordi- murder, it touches you to the core,” she said. “I Russia as it shifted to a freer market. Her latest nation to attract and retain faculty, a was so bowled over, I said ‘I have got to read this book, Conversations on Russia: Reform from top priority for the provost’s office. in the original Russian.’” Yeltsin to Putin, provides interviews with many In order to achieve this, the Desai plunged into Russian (and economics) of them. University is looking at ways to as soon as she arrived at Harvard in 1955, and Yeltsin’s legacy, she says, “on the whole is today is a leading authority on the former Soviet positive. [He] planted the liberal idea in the land continued on page 8 Union and Russia, penning a number of books EILEEN BARROSO of Lenin and Stalin. And in my view, history continued on page 8 www.columbia.edu/news 2 APRIL 30, 2007 TheRecord RECENT SIGHTINGS MILESTONES LILA ABU-LUGHOD, professor of anthropology, has been named a 2007 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Abu-Lughod is among 21 recipients this year to receive grants of up to $100,000 to research the ethics and politics of Muslim women’s rights in an international field. All scholars will focus on research themes relating to Islam and the modern world over the next two years. DAVID MAGIER has been appointed director of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research (CHRDR) at Columbia University Libraries, an interna- tional documentation center for the global human rights movement. In addition to this new role, Magier will continue as director of area studies at the Libraries, a position he has held since 1990. Since 1987, he has also been Columbia’s South and Southeast Asia THE IVY LEAGUE Librarian and has served as an adjunct professor. TRIUMPH ON THE GREEN SAMUEL MOYN, associate professor of history, has received the 46th Annual Mark Van Doren Award for Since the inaugural Ivy League Women’s Golf Championship in 1997, the title has been passed between the same two teams— teaching. The award was established in 1962 in cele- the powerhouses of Princeton and Yale. But on April 22, the Lions pulled off a long-awaited upset and defeated second-place bration of Mark Van Doren, a renowned scholar of the Princeton by 10 strokes for the win. In just its fourth season as a varsity team, Columbia posted a three-day winning total of 933 art of writing literature. SHELDON POLLOCK, the William B. strokes. The Lions earned three of the top five spots, including an individual title for Sara Ovadia (CC’09), who edged out team- Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, is the mate Stevy Loy (CC’10) by four strokes. Carly Nathanson (CC’09) finished fifth. By virtue of their top-seven finishes, Ovadia, Loy winner of the 32nd Annual Lionel Trilling Book Award and Nathanson each earned All-Ivy League distinction. for The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India. This award is given to a professor whose book published in the previous year best exhibits the standards of schol- Neither Here Nor There. arship found in the work of Lionel Trilling, an author and longtime Columbia faculty member. The two awards are bestowed annually by the Academic Awards Committee of the Columbia College Student Council. Dear Alma’s Owl, USPS 090-710 ISSN 0747-4504 Recently a friend suggested we meet Vol. 32, No. 12, April 30, 2007 at the Van Am. Not knowing where that GRANTS & GIFTS was, I suggested in front of Hamilton Published by the Hall. But where is the Van Am? Office of Communications — Hiding Behind Hamilton HIV Prevention Training Program and Public Affairs for Minority Researchers Dear Hamilton Hugger, WHO GAVE IT: National Institute of Mental Health The Van Am Quadrangle is the area HOW MUCH: $800,000 TheRecord Staff: in front of Hamilton Hall stretching to WHO GOT IT: Dr. Nabila El-Bassel, professor, and Dr. Elwin John Jay Hall and bordered by Hartley Interim Editor: Bridget O’Brian Wu, assistant professor at the School of Social Work. Graphic Designer: Scott Hug and Wallach (née Livingston) to the east WHAT FOR: A training program aimed at increasing the Staff Writer: Dan Rivero and South Field to the west. I suspect, University Photographer: Eileen Barroso growth of racial ethnic minority (REM) investigators however, that your friend meant the Van focused on HIV prevention science. Am Memorial for which the quad is Contact The Record: HOW IT WILL BE USED: Dr. El-Bassel and Dr. Wu have t: 212-854-3282 named.
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