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THE GREAT UNRAVELING Is the US Electoral System Coming Apart at the Seams? FALL 2018 COLUMBIA MAGAZINE COLUMBIA COLUMBIAMAGAZINE FALL 2018 FALL THE GREAT UNRAVELING Is the US electoral system coming apart at the seams? 3.18_Cover_F.indd 1 8/20/18 5:50 PM ELLEN WEINSTEIN 3.18_Contents.indd 1 8/20/18 5:51 PM FALL 2018 PAGE 28 CONTENTS FEATURES 12 URBAN DESIGN’S NEW WAVE Kate Or is exploring ways to harness the power of nature By Justin Davidson ’90GSAS, ’94SOA 18 IN THE LION’S DEN A private tour of the collection of Roaree enthusiast Michael Garrett ’66CC, ’69LAW, ’70BUS By Julia Rothman 22 INNOVATORS WITH IMPACT Meet four social entrepreneurs who are taking on injustice and inequality across New York City By Julia Joy 28 BALLOT BREAKDOWN With the voting system under stress — and with crucial elections looming — we asked Columbia professors for a status report on the central mechanism of US democracy By Paul Hond 36 P. ROY VAGELOS The man who’s changing the future of medical education in America shares stories over a slice of pie By Paul Hond ELLEN WEINSTEIN COVER: ELLEN WEINSTEIN COLUMBIA FALL 2018 1 3.18_Contents.indd 2 8/20/18 5:51 PM COLUMBIA CONTENTS MAGAZINE DEPARTMENTS Executive Vice President, 3 University Development & Alumni Relations FEEDBACK Amelia Alverson Deputy Vice President for Strategic Communications 6 Jerry Kisslinger ’79CC, ’82GSAS COLLEGE WALK A Bookish Birthday \ The Short List \ School Spirits \ Kubrick’s Columbia \ Editor in Chief Sally Lee Great Excavations \ Voices from Campus Art Director 42 Len Small EXPLORATIONS Managing Editor What gorilla poop reveals about our Rebecca Shapiro PAGE messed-up diet \ Another weird thing you 22 Senior Editors probably didn’t know about the Milky Way \ David J. Craig, Paul Hond An invisible ink for non-spies \ Landscaping Copy Chief to save lives \ Why you didn’t get that raise \ Joshua J. Friedman ’08JRN Brainteaser \ School of rock \ Study Hall Associate Digital Director Julia Joy 48 NETWORK The Workers’ Warrior \ We Come in Peace \ Senior Director for Strategic Communications It’s Miller Time \ For Your Consideration \ Tracy Quinn ’14SPS Ask an Alum: Wine Wisdom \ A Career in Director for Marketing Research Caring \ Newsmakers Linda Ury Greenberg 54 BULLETIN PAGE University news and views 47 58 BOOKS How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan \ Lake Success, by Gary Shteyngart \ The Parking Lot Attendant, by Nafkote Subscriptions: Tamirat \ Plus, Zach Schonbrun discusses Address and subscription assistance [email protected] The Performance Cortex To update your address online, visit 64 alumni.columbia.edu/directory, or call 1-877-854-ALUM (2586). JULIA ROTHMAN KRAJICK, KEVIN MICHAEL ORENSTEIN, ALLISON TOP: FROM FINALS A Matter of Degrees Advertising: Take a quiz on some of Columbia’s famous [email protected] PAGE dropouts 18 Letters to the editor: [email protected] Columbia Magazine is published for alumni and friends of Columbia by the FOLLOW US Offi ce of Alumni and Development. © 2018 by the Trustees of Columbia University /ColumbiaMag @columbiamag in the City of New York @columbiamagazine 2 COLUMBIA FALL 2018 3.18_Contents.indd 3 8/20/18 5:51 PM FEEDBACK MEDICAL MYSTERY Columbia Magazine had a great cover illustration of a caduceus. But there was no information about the artist or process. Please tell us more. Frank Margolis ’64GSAS Baltimore, MD A GIFT KEEPS one-time explosion but has humankind discovers physics The image was created GIVING always been expanding and we have yet to even imagine. by Megan Berkheiser What a superb publication contracting (“Was the Big It is so exciting to live in this we received from you! The Bang Really a Big Bounce?,” age of research and discovery. of Pushart studio, in medical-data feature (“From Explorations, Spring/ G. Lynn Thorpe ’77LAW Savannah, Georgia. Code to Cure,” Spring/ Summer 2018). I am not a New Rochelle, NY The artist sourced Summer 2018) was brilliant, scientist, but I have always cables, motherboards, the Tracy K. Smith piece questioned those trying to POEMS, PLEASE and other computer (“Poet in Motion”) was also fi nd the answers to existence. While I am an appreciative parts and then wonderful, and so were sev- For the Big Bangers: where reader of your redesigned constructed them into eral of the short entries. did the tiny, intense speck magazine, I have been a three-dimensional Many years ago, my wife of matter come from? An lamenting that poems no sculpture. You can fi nd Marcia and I gave a small eternal waxing and waning longer seem to be part of more information at sum to fund a PhD program of the universe makes more the editorial content. I was Pushart.com. — Ed. in the art-history depart- sense: no beginning, no end. therefore pleased to see ment. Some of its graduates We humans, confi ned to a the feature article on poet still remain our friends time-space existence, cannot Tracy K. Smith in your today. That was our only comprehend either infi nity or most recent issue (“Poet in connection to Columbia, eternity. The universe has no Motion,” Spring/Summer and because of it we have boundaries, for if it did, what 2018). I hope this may initi- received your excellent mag- would be beyond the edge? ate a return of poetry to your azine all these many years. For those seeking answers, pages. Columbia has a large Our gift has been repaid keep trying! and distinguished group of many times over. Helen Cornell Koenig alumni who are published John A. Friede ’43BUS and teaching poets, as well Peterborough, NH Bernardsville, NJ as notable faculty poets, past and present. One way of hon- BEYOND THE The article about Anna Ijjas’s oring that tradition would UNIVERSE research surely exemplifi es be to publish a poem in each I agree with Columbia that mixture of math and issue of Columbia Magazine. research scientist Anna Ijjas imagination that leads to new Jeanne Marie Beaumont when she suggests that our realms of understanding. ’90SOA universe wasn’t born in a What a wonder it will be when New York, NY COLUMBIA FALL 2018 3 3.18_Feedback_F.indd 3 8/20/18 1:17 PM FEEDBACK “There’s something special about TWO RUTHS provide the band with money, The marvelous Ruth Bader recruiting, and practice facil- being part of one unifying day Ginsburg is indeed succinct, ities. But that support is not direct, and appropriate going to come any time soon, in thoughts and language and, frankly, it would detract when alumni from all parts of the (“Supremely Quotable,” from the band’s uniqueness. College Walk, Spring/ The band is the most Summer 2018). inclusive group on campus, world and all stages of life come Early in their long taking in anyone who has the acquaintance, my wife, Ruth spirit to participate, includ- Lubic, a nurse-midwife and ing students from Barnard, together. Stand with me on holder of three Teachers General Studies, Columbia College degrees, provided the Engineering, Columbia Ginsburgs with instruction College, and members of October 24 to build a better future in participatory childbirth. every race, political bent, It was reported as follows and ethnic group. The band in the Washington Post does not discriminate against for students and a better world.” Magazine of May 27, 2007: anyone, including those who DID YOU SEE US AT COMIC-CON? “On Ruth [Lubic]’s can’t actually play an instru- In a fi rst for a university magazine, Columbia Magazine’s advice, Ginsburg delivered ment. The band supports all story “A Life in Comics,” published in the Summer 2017 her second child without the teams — not just football issue, took home the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award medication. Of the 1965 and not just when they are for best short story at the annual Comic-Con convention birth of her son, Ginsburg winning. Its routines and in San Diego. The winning work, by Nick Sousanis ’14TC, Rita says, ‘I felt so satisfi ed, even chants are often politi- tells how Butler librarian Karen Green ’97GSAS became Pietropinto Kitt triumphant.’ Ginsburg, just cal, biting, and crafty, and Columbia’s fi rst curator for comics and cartoons. '93CC, '96SOA the second woman to sit on sometimes crass, sexually the high court, marvels at suggestive, and self-depre- Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) Ruth’s accomplishments and cating. The band’s signature Those who wish that .@columbiamag always board chair how hard she is willing to “scramble band” format was the band would be more does a bang up job with fi ght for her cause. ‘I could developed precisely because traditional must remember each issue. I really dig this never do what she does,’ the members lacked the that the admissions o¢ ce season’s interview with Ginsburg says. ‘She could time and resources to march strives to admit a class @Freakonomics host probably do what I do if she in perfect formation while of nonconformists, and (and Columbia alum) PHOTO BY: BARBARA ALPER goes to law school.’” playing traditional band the band refl ects this Stephen Dubner. Well done! So we add to the RBG tunes. Instead, they exercise perfectly. We should be #columbiauniversity persona warmth and an their own style, which is proud of that. engaging modesty. precisely what Columbia Kevin G. Chapman ’83CC Alley Lyles ’13GSAPP William Lubic ’49CC is all about. 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