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CAMPUS TALK COMMENCEMENT SUMMER CAMP Gateway to Gateway Words of Minors hit the National Park| 3 wisdom | 4–5 Ivy League | 7 VOL. 32, NO. 14 NEWS AND IDEAS FOR THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY JUNE 11, 2007 B-school Diversity’s Enters The SUMMER IN Uncertain “Zone” Future By Amelia Kahaney THE CITY By Fred A. Bernstein olumbia Business School s a professor of Constitu- will collaborate with the tional law, Columbia nationally known Harlem President Lee C. Bollinger Children’s Zone (HCZ) in often recounts the history Ca two-year partnership in which Aof the Supreme Court’s decisions the two institutions will, in effect, on segregation and affirmative help train each other’s students action. But when he told the story and staff. last month to an audience in Beginning in the next academic Harlem attending a discussion of term, some of the nonprofit’s staff the future of diversity, his account members will attend the school’s seemed particularly heartfelt: For management education offerings. the last decade, Bollinger has been At the same time, business school part of that history, as the defen- students will be able to intern at dant in two Supreme Court cases the social service, education and challenging affirmative action. community programs run by HCZ. The uncertain future of affirma- This is HCZ’s second collaboration tive action was the subject of a with Columbia, the first being an lively discussion among three ongoing partnership with the prominent legal experts on May 24 Mailman School of Public Health’s at the Schomburg Center for Harlem Health Promotion Center, which began five years ago as part of HCZ’s Asthma Initiative. “This collaboration provides our students and faculty the opportunity to be involved in, to learn from and to contribute to one of the most dynamic and important social service organiza- CHRIS TAGGART tions of our day,” said Ray Horton, Panelists discuss affirmative action. director of the school’s Social Research in Black Culture, a Enterprise Program and its Frank branch of the New York Public R. Lautenberg Professor of Ethics Library on Malcolm X Boulevard. and Corporate governance. Sponsored by Columbia in part- Founded in 1970, HCZ has 15 nership with the NAACP Legal centers serving more than 12,500 Defense and Educational Fund, the 90-minute conversatation featured A collaboration in provocative exchanges between Harvard Law School Professor Lani which both institutions Guinier, Ted Shaw of the NAACP learn from each other. Legal Defense Fund and Bollinger. In 2003, the Supreme Court children and adults, including over upheld the constitutionality of 8,600 at-risk children. It empha- affirmative action in one of the sizes not just education, social serv- EILEEN BARROSO cases in which Bollinger is a ice and recreation, but rebuilding By Dan Rivero the World: Oral History, Struggles for Justice and named defendant by a 5-4 the fabric of community life, and Human Rights Dialogues” will explore how oral history majority. But with opponents of focuses on areas where there are olumbia’s various campuses have grown qui- theories and methods relate to issues of human rights. affirmative action mounting new few other programs. The “zone” in eter since the end of classes, but faculty, staff For a trip to the gardens of Morocco or Brazil or a offensives, its future is in doubt. its name encompasses a 60-block and community members still have plenty to walk through Paris’ parks without leaving Morningside, “We are at a moment of crisis,” area in central Harlem, where a do besides catching a tan on Low Plaza. join landscape architects to explore those verdant Bollinger told the crowd. majority of children live below the CCafé Science doesn’t take the summer off. On June areas in several on-campus talks. On June 11, the topic “Affirmative action is under siege.” poverty line. 11, behavioral neuroscientist Sarah Woolley discusses will be Brazilian gardens and a South African lodge. The The discussion, moderated by “Given the extraordinary need in “Singing in the Brain: What Songbirds Teach Us about subject turns to historic and contemporary Moroccan former New York City Mayor David Harlem, we are committed to the Brain and Communication.” gardens and Parisian parks on July 9. On both dates, Dinkins, a professor at Columbia’s expanding our services to as many Hamilton Lawn will turn into a dance floor for the talks take place at 6:30 p.m. in Havemeyer Hall, School of International and Public children and families as possible,” Columbia’s first-ever “Shall We Dance” summer movie room 309. Affairs, focused on ways to maintain said Geoffrey Canada, president and screenings and dance tutorials. On June 21, attendees Those looking to leave the Morningside classrooms diversity on campus, whether or not CEO of HCZ, who was honored by can participate in ballroom dance instruction from but still eager to participate in a discussion with one of affirmative action survives. The Columbia earlier this year for his 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., followed by a screening of the Columbia’s brightest can take a trip down to the audience included leaders of the continued on page 8 dance-themed documentary Mad Hot Ballroom. Latin Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New city’s black community such as dance instruction from members of Ballet Hispanico York (9 E. 91st St.) on July 21, where Catharine Percy Sutton, Eugene Webb, Hazel will be held on July 12 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., fol- Theimer Nepomnyashchy, director of Columbia’s Dukes and Paul Robeson Jr. lowed by a screening of Take the Lead, starring Antonio Harriman Institute and professor of Slavic languages at Guinier, a leading race relations Banderas. Both events will culminate with an open Barnard College, will moderate a panel on aspects of scholar, said she worried that even dance hour following the films. Further “Shall We Russian culture and the development of the Kirov Ring well-intentioned affirmative action Dance” dates will be announced over the summer. Cycle under the direction of its music director, Maestro “can be used to reinforce stereotypes The Libraries’ Oral History Research Office holds its Valery Gergiev. The panel will include Lynn Garafola, rather than to dismantle them.” summer institute on June 11 and 22. This year, “Telling dance professor at Barnard College. HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE continued on page 8 www.columbia.edu/news 2 JUNE 11, 2007 TheRecord RECENT SIGHTING MILESTONES LEE GOLDMAN, M.D., executive vice president of the University and dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, was awarded the 2007 John Phillips Memorial Award by the American College of Physicians. The award is given for outstanding work in clinical medicine. Goldman also was honored by the American Heart Association, receiving its AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Outstanding Achievement Award. AKEEL BILGRAMI and NICHOLAS DIRKS received a $350,000 Mellon Foundation award for a four-year project to assess the state of core academic disciplines and evaluate and compare long-standing disciplinary divisions. Their “Consortial Disciplines” project, to be conducted from fall 2007 through spring 2011, will include a series of seminars and annual meetings at Columbia and three other universities that received Mellon grants for their own such projects. Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Dirks is vice president for the Arts and Sciences, professor of histo- ry and the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences for 2006 to WALLACE S. BROECKER, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences. SUZANNE CARBOTTE, a geophysicist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, was named the Bruce C. Heezen EILEEN BARROSO Senior Research Scientist, the first to hold that position. LORNA ROLE, a professor of anatomy and cell biology at THIS YEAR’S OLDEST GRADUATE the New York State Psychiatric Institute and at the Max Horlick was the only graduate at last month’s commencement to receive a degree dated 1954, well before most of his fellow College of Physicians and Surgeons, received the Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD: The 12,000 or so graduates (and perhaps their parents) were born. In May, the 89-year-old officially received his doctorate in French lit- Mental Health Research Association. This is her second erature—more than a half century after defending his dissertation. Abandoning revisions to his 180-page thesis, “The Literary such grant from NARSAD, which funds research on psy- Judgment of Michel de Montaigne,”after his wife fell ill, Horlick’s scholarly pursuits finally reached fruition at this year’s commence- chiatric disorders. Last fall, she also received the organi- ment, where he joined other newly minted Ph.D.s (pictured above) from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in celebration of zation’s 2007 Baer Prize for Schizophrenia Research. a job well done. It was Horlick’s children who resubmitted his dissertation to the University. Horlick wrote “a fine piece of work on an interesting topic,” said the professor who accepted his dissertation earlier this year, and thus another Columbia Ph.D. was born. WILLIAM B. 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