6 C olumbia U niversity RECORD December 14, 2001

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EVENTS AT COLUMBIA — DEC. 14, 2001 - DEC. 22, 2001

Admission: $6. (800) 649- 7:30 P.M. Prokofiev ington Heights. Call sponsors THRU FEB. 22ND for details. TALKS 0279. Lerner. Marathon. Alexander Toradze, "Shakespeare and the Book.” George Vatchnadze, and Alexan- Rare Book and Manuscript 15TH, SAT. TH MON 17TH, MON. der Korsantia, piano, accompa- 17 , . Library, 6th fl, Butler. 12:00 P.M. “TRP-PLIK, a 11:00 A.M. “The Problems of 9:00 A.M. (All day.) Holiday nied by the Toradze Piano Stu- Bifunctional Protein With Induction, Statistical Analysis Crafts New York. See Dec. dio. Performing the complete 14th listing for details. Kinase and Ion Channel Activ- and Computer Learning.” piano sonatas of Prokofiev. ities.” Loren Runnels. Pharma- ATHLETICS Vladimir Vapnik, AT&T Labs. Hosted by Joseph Horowitz 4:00 P.M. Open Studio. cology. 305-8778. 724 BB. 939-7023. Interschool Lab, with the participation of Valery Columbia MFA candidates of Tickets: 854-2546. Results: 854- 715 CESPR. Gergiev. 854-7799. Tickets: 20TH, THURS. 3030. Unless otherwise noted, the SoA Visual Arts Division. 4:00 P.M. “Integrated Signals $20. Miller Theatre. all listings are at Dodge Physi- Featuring painting, printmak- in Olfactory Behavior.” Cori cal Fitness Ctr on the Morning- SPECIAL ing, sculpting and digital 18TH, TUES. Bargmann, UCSF. Biochemistry side Heights campus. media. 854-4065. Watson & Molecular Biophysics. 305- 6:00 P.M . Concert. Bach 3885. 301 HHSC. EVENTS Hall, Prentis Hall, and Stude- Society Orchestra and Chorus, 21ST, FRI. baker Hall. featuring Alisa Weilerstein, 6:00 P.M. W Basketball v Wagner. 14TH, FRI. cello. 854-0480. St. Paul’s EXHIBITS 3:00 P.M. (All day.) Holiday 16TH, SUN. Chapel. Crafts New York. Featuring 11:00 A.M. (All day.) Holiday blown glass, jewelry, wood, Crafts New York. See Dec. 19TH, WED. ABBREVIATIONS GSAS Graduate School of Arts ceramics and wearable art. 14th listing for details. & Sciences 12:05 P.M. Annual Christmas Architecture School of Architecture, HHSC Hammer Health Sciences Planning & Preservation Building Concert. The Interchurch BB Black Building HI Harriman Institute BC Barnard College IAB International Affairs Gospel Choir. ‘Wednesday CCLS Center for Comparative Building Literature & Society ILAS Institute of Latin American Important Dates for Fall 2001: Noonday Concerts.’ 870-2231. CCNMTL Columbia Center for New Studies Media Teaching & Learning IRWG Columbia Institute for Chapel, Interchurch Center. CDS Center for the Decision Research on Women & Sciences Gender CEEM Civil Engineering & ISERP Institute for Social and Friday Dec. 14th – Friday Dec. 21st: Engineering Mechanics Economic Research & CEPSR Schapiro Center for Policy Engineering & Physical Law Columbia Law School Final Exams HEALTH Science Research LDEO Lamont-Doherty Earth CJEB Center on Japanese Observatory Economy & Business P& S College of Physicians Saturday Dec. 22th – CROW Barnard Center for & Surgeons SCIENCES Research on Women SILPIA Society of International Monday, Jan 21st: CSSR Center for the Study of Law & Politics in Science & Religion International Affairs CU Columbia University SIPA School of International & Unless otherwise noted, all list- EALAC Public Affairs Winter Holiday East Asian Languages & SoA Graduate School of the Arts ings are at Columbia University’s Cultures TC Teacher’s College Health Sciences campus in Wash- Documentary Profiling Pioneering Women in the Newsroom to Air Dec. 18 on PBS and James L. Knight a former UPI reporter The documentary also BY JO KADLECEK Foundation and the and the first woman to shows the personal lives of Whitehead Founda- be accepted into the women who have had to Only 40 years ago, jour- tion, and is a presen- White House Press learn how to balance their nalism was a man’s world. tation of six televi- Corps where she’s careers in journalism with Rare was the woman who sion stations, all covered over seven their family responsibilities. could endure the macho headed by women. presidential adminis- It follows the life of CNN arena of investigative report- "These women trations. anchor Judy Woodruff as she ing or hard news. But some are heroes—smart, "There is accep- cares for her handicapped did, and, as a result, they insightful, funny, tance now, but every son, as well as the difficult created the opportunities highly profession- door had to be broken choices Washington Post that young women reporters al—who have suc- down," Thomas said. Writers Group Syndicated today often take for granted. ceeded in the busi- "We weren’t allowed Columnist Geneva Over- These pioneering women ness while remain- to become members holser made. When she was are the focus of a one-hour ing real people with of the National Press editor of the Des Moines documentary, "She Says/ real lives," Konner Club until 1971. Register, she ran a series of Women in News," to be aired said. "We have That’s a long way stories that included the on PBS Dec. 18. The film attempted to show from 1920 when name of a rape victim. The spotlights ten women who how they’ve trans- women got the vote. series won the newspaper a climbed the newsroom lad- formed and expand- It’s been a struggle." Pulitzer Prize. der through their award-win- ed the agenda of These ten women, Despite the gains made by ning reporting and today news while bringing along with others, women in positions of influ- enjoy positions of influence an element of helped change the ence in journalism, "She and power as editors, colum- humanity to news landscape of news Says/Women in News" also nists, general managers and and the newsroom throughout the past points out the challenges anchors in newsrooms across environment." four decades. that lay. the country. The documentary "What’s news in "I once got a Peabody "She Says/Women in follows the lives of this business is what’s Award and when I looked News" is the collaborative women like Judy on the front page," out over the room, I was effort of Joan Konner, pro- Crichton, who start- said Narda Zacchino, amazed (after years in which ducer and former dean of the ed her career in 1948 Former Journalism School Dean Joan Konner senior editor of the I was the only woman) to see Graduate School of Journal- and was the first San Francisco Chron- hundreds of women in this ism, and Barbara Rick, a woman producer, writer and Anna Quindlen, the first icle. "And when you change banquet room," recalled Peabody and Emmy Award director for the acclaimed woman Op-Ed columnist for the kind of stories that go on NPR’s Totenberg. "Then I winning journalist and film- "CBS Reports" documentary the New York Times who the front page and have looked up to the network maker. The co-production of unit; Nina Totenberg, the won a Pulitzer Prize for her them more family-oriented, executives who were giving Rick’s company, Out of the legal affairs correspondent columns; Carole Simpson, more health-oriented and the award and I pointed to Blue Productions, and Joan for National Public Radio the first woman anchor for more education-oriented, them and said, ‘Maybe Konner Productions, Inc. who broke the Anita ABC World News Tonight then you’re changing the someday, there will be a was funded by the John S. Hill/Clarence Thomas story; Sunday, and Helen Thomas, definition of news." skirt up there, too.’" C olumbia U niversity RECORD Dacember 14, 2001 7 Industry Expert Seymour Melman Seeks an Economic Revival in Manufacturing book, he describes parallels BY SUZANNE TRIMEL between the corrosive milita- rized economic system that col- or more than 40 years, lapsed in the Soviet Union and through economic our own management-dominat- Fdownturns and boom ed “state capitalism” with its times alike, Seymour Melman, emphasis on decision-process one of the country’s leading activity. “Russia has suffered experts on industrial production the consequences of exactly and a Columbia faculty member those processes that we have for more than half a century, seen at work in the U.S. econo- has warned about the conse- my,” writes Melman in “After quences of industrial decline Capitalism.” “The difference is through the export of manufac- merely of degree, not of kind. turing jobs abroad. Now, he is There is no law of nature or man attempting to reverse the trend that exempts the United States in his own backyard, New York from the devastating effects of City. the processes that ultimately ran Melman, who turns 84 this the Soviet Union into the month and is professor emeritus ground.” of industrial engineering at the “After Capitalism” is Mel- Fu Foundation School of Engi- man’s ninth book and in it he neering and Applied Science, explores many of the excesses remembers when much of Man- of American industrial manage- hattan below 34th Street was ment—particularly what he sees given over to small manufactur- as its chief offense, seeking ing lofts, many of them family- profit above all else—and of owned factories that turned out military budget planners that knitwear, leather goods and have absorbed the interests of other consumer products while this longtime nuclear disarma- supplying steady and substantial ment activist in previous works jobs for the New York working like “Profits without Produc- class. Melman counted himself tion;” “The Permanent War lucky to have landed a good- RECORD PHOTO BY JASON HOLLANDER Economy: American Capitalism paying summer job in one of Seymour Melman, professor emeritus of industrial engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engi- in Decline” and “Pentagon Cap- these knitwear factories when neering and Applied Sciences, at his desk in S.W. Mudd Hall. italism: The Political Economy he was a high school student of War.” during the Depression years. even though hourly compensa- be competititve today manufac- two product classes, represent- But Melman is heartened by a These Manhattan factory lofts tion for production workers in turers need workers able to ing capital goods and consumer new development on the factory disappeared decades ago – their Germany averaged $31.20 and operate highly-sophisticated goods – subway cars and floor that he believes can point goods now produced overseas, a in Japan, $21.00, compared to computer-based operating knitwear. Melman notes that the United States toward a story that is retold in former $17.70 in the United States. equipment. Melman gathered northern Italy has established a stronger, more resilient and manufacturing centers across Melman argues that deindus- together a group of 40 like- thriving knitwear manufacturing more equitable economy – what the nation. But Melman believes trialization is a dangerous minded academics in Novem- center, using computerized he describes as the movement passionately that factories can course that leaves the country ber—a second meeting is machines that require a techno- toward workplace democracy. be wooed back to New York much too dependent on imports, planned for early next year—to logically savvy workforce. Mel- Decision-making at General through the lure of a computer- notably for capital goods. He shape a strategy for reindustrial- man was distressed to discover Motors’ Saturn plant near literate population. says this danger is particularly ization, with New York City as some time ago that subway cars Nashville, Tenn. is a model of The classic argument for why evident now with layoffs occur- its main target. “We believe a are no longer made in the United this movement. Production is U.S. manufacturing declined— ring in many service-dominated highly educated, high-wage States and that when New York organized around work units of that union laborers priced them- industries since the Sept. 11 ter- labor force affords unmatched City invited bids for $1.5 billion eight to 10 members and the selves out of competition, lead- rorist attacks. opportunities for economic in new subway equipment, emphasis is on group effort ing industry to move to the “After Capitalism” lists growth. Deindustrialization can companies in Japan and Canada instead of individual perfor- developing world for cheaper dozens of industries that have be reversed,” says Melman. In responded but no U.S. firm mance. These teams are respon- labor—is dead wrong, says Mel- experienced a catastrophic drop addition to political scientists, sought the contract. Prospects sible for a range of tasks, man, who makes the case for in production in the second half urbanists and business experts, for hi-tech knitwear production including scheduling, budget reindustrialization in his latest of the 20th century, including some from the ranks of his for- will be examined in a Feb. 1 analysis, training and house- book, “After Capitalism: From machine tools, whose work mer students, the Melman group meeting at Columbia, open to keeping. This authority and Managerialism to Workplace force was cut by more than one also includes administrators the University community responsibility, which tradition- Democracy,” published this fall half from 1977 to 1996, office from the East New York Transit (RSVP to 854-2936 or sm279@ ally belongs to plant manage- by Alfred A. Knopf. Melman machines, ball and roller bear- Technology High School in columbia.edu). ment, empowers workers and notes that Germany and Japan ings and construction, mining Brooklyn, who are interested in The disturbing implications of represents the best hope for by 1996 had combined mer- and textile machinery. the possibility of a revival in deindustrialization, Melman reversing a sense of powerless- chandise exports of $935 bil- The factories of today, says light rail manufacturing in the warns, is the prospect that ness and threats of unemploy- lion, compared to $625 billion Melman, are not so much metropolitann area. America will become a third- ment and displacement among by the United States. But their dependent on the sweat of their The group began to explore rate economy unable to repair American workers, Melman higher exports were achieved workers but on their brains. To the prospects for reinvigorating the damaged parts. In his new says. School of the Arts Professor and Alumna Team Up to Produce “Ball in the House” family seems to be doing every- ing as a mentor.” York-based digital film and new fessors and graduate school BY KRISTIN STERLING thing they can to prevent him. “Working with Tanya and media production company. programs offer students a gen- Wexler describes the film as a Stephen [Dyer of Chimera Formerly, Deutchman was tle nudging to help them devel- Ira Deutchman, associate “dark, absurd drama with Films] on ‘Finding North’ has the founder and president of op—to help them take that professor and supervisor of the comedic aspects.” been a great pleasure,” Deutch- Fine Line Features and senior extra step on their own. Colum- producing concentration in the During her time at Columbia, man said in making the produc- vice president of parent compa- bia offers excellent mentors School of the Arts Graduate Wexler only took one class with tion announcement for ‘Ball in ny New Line Cinema. He through professors like Ira Film Division, has teamed up Deutchman. Their professional the House,’ “and we were serves on the advisory boards of [Deutchman] and Zipora Trope, with alumna Tanya Wexler relationship began when thrilled when they came to us the Sundance Film Festival and an Israeli film director,” said (MFA 1995, Directing) to pro- Wexler’s business partner, with this terrific, well-written the Los Angeles Independent Wexler. duce the film “Ball in the Stephen Dyer, was working with screenplay. We jumped at the Film Festival. “Film school allows you to House,” which screened at the Deutchman’s partner on “Find- chance to become involved.” While at Columbia Wexler have a transitional moment, Toronto Film Festival in Sep- ing North.” Deutchman and his Throughout his 27-year directed the short films “The where you are pre-professional tember. partner, Paul Newman, were career, Deutchman has worked Dance” and “Cool Shoes.” “The and post-graduate… a time to The film was produced by pleased with Wexler’s work on on over 130 films. His screen Dance” played at the Telluride cook a little bit. It gives you the Redeemable Features, of which that film and were interested in credits include: associate pro- Film Festival, The Seattle Film opportunity to hone your skills Deutchman is a founding part- her next project. ducer of John Sayles’ “Mate- Festival and the First Look and ultimately come out further ner, and Chimera Films, co- “It was actually good the way wan,” executive producer of Series. ahead,” she said. founded by Wexler. “Ball in the we became connected,” said Jonathan Demme’s “Swimming Wexler likens her time at In 1998, she and Stephen House” was directed by Wexler Wexler. “It was round-about, but to Cambodia,” Gary Sinise’s Columbia to her role as a moth- Dyer formed Chimera films and is a dark comedy about a it lent more credibility to my “Miles from Home” and Paul er of children ages one and after they produced her debut likeable “screw-up” who des- work. Ira is incredibly support- Bartel’s “Scenes from the Class two—“When my children try to film, "Finding North," which perately wants to “stay clean” ive of young filmmakers. He Struggle in Beverly Hills.” He climb the stairs, I spot them, premiered to sold-out audiences from drugs and alcohol, but gives freedom to the filmmaker is currently the president and and help them do it on it their at the 1998 Palm Springs Inter- whose highly dysfunctional while staying involved and serv- CEO of StudioNext, a New own, much the same way pro- national Film Festival.