CHRIS KIMBALL ‘73 JONATHAN COLE ‘64 SPECIAL INSERT: COOKS UP RECIPES SAYS UNIVERSITIES ALUMNI REUNION THAT WORK FUEL INNOVATION WEEKEND 2010 PAGE 20 PAGE 26 Columbia College July/August 2010 TODAY Congratulations, Class of 2010! ’ll meet you for a I drink at the club...” Meet. Dine. Play. Take a seat at the newly renovated bar grill or fine dining room. See how membership in the Columbia Club could fit into your life. For more information or to apply, visit www.columbiaclub.org or call (212) 719-0380. The Columbia University Club of New York 15 West 43 St. New York, N Y 10036 Columbia’s SocialIntellectualCulturalRecreationalProfessional Resource in Midtown. Columbia College Today Contents 24 16 34 53 8 20 COVER STORY ALUMNI NEWS DEPARTMENTS PE C IAL NSE R T 2 ETTE R S TO THE LASS OF OINS THE S I : L C 2010 J ALUMNI REUNION EDITO R 16 ANKS OF LUMNI R A WEEKEND 2010 3 Class Day and Commencement marked a rite of Eight pages of photos, WITHIN THE FAMIL Y including class photos, from passage for the Class of 2010. 4 R OUND THE UADS the June celebration. A Q By Ethan Rouen ’04J and Alex Sachare ’71 4 Senior Dinner 5 33 OOKSHELF Van Doren, Trilling Photos by Char Smullyan and Eileen Barroso B Awards Featured: Apostolos Doxiadis 6 ’72’s graphic novel Logicomix: Academic Awards and Prizes An Epic Search for Truth, and 7 FEATURES its hero, Bertrand Russell. Smith To Coach Men’s Basketball 8 35 BITUA R IES “99 Columbians” COOKING 101 O 10 35 5 Minutes with … 20 Chris Kimball ’73, head of the America’s Test Kitchen Arthur S. Weinstock ’41 Susan Boynton 11 Alumni in the News empire, showcases recipes that work. 37 C LASS NOTES 12 Student Spotlight: By Claire Lui ’00 A LUMNI UPDATES Sun ’11 53 Thomas Kline ’68 13 Campus News YOUNG LIONS IN WASHINGTON 65 Michael Goldwasser ’93 14 Roar Lion Roar 24 Three young alumni are making their mark in 15 Transitions D.C. politics. By Lydia DePillis ’09 Web Exclusives at www.college.columbia.edu/cct COOKING W ITH KIMBALL 26 COLUMBIA FO R UM View highlights of Chris Kimball ’73 on America’s Test Kitchen. Jonathan Cole ’64, ’69 GSAS explains how universities JEALOUS AT CLASS DA Y fuel innovation in this excerpt from The Great Ameri- Hear Benjamin Jealous ’94’s inspirational speech. can University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable THE MAKING OF LOGICOMIX See how Apostolos Doxiadis ’72 made his graphic novel. National Role, Why It Must Be Protected. FIVE MO R E MINUTES Listen to more from Professor Susan Boynton. LASTING IMAGE 72 DR OP THE BEAT Listen to one of Michael Goldwasser ’93’s reggae songs. CLASS OF ’60 CELEB R ATION Enjoy Nathan Gross ’60’s singing and piano performance. FRONT COVER: CHAR SMULLYAN; BACK COVER: EILEEN BARROSO COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Letters to the Editor Freefall actually it was Socrates who made this fa- Volume 37 Number 6 University Professor Joseph Stiglitz’s art- mous utterance in the Apology of Plato, a July/August 2010 i cle in the May/June CCT [Columbia Fo- Contemporary Civilization mainstay. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Brian Overland ’04 Alex Sachare ’71 rum] is right on the money, and I look SAN FRAN C I sc O MANAGING EDITOR forward to reading his book. However, he leaves out (at least in your excerpt) anoth- Lisa Palladino [Editor’s note: The error was made not by Stiles ASSOCIATE EDITOR er important factor in the ongoing decline but by the editor, who heard it incorrectly and Ethan Rouen ’04J and fall of our economy, one that has a se- did not catch the mistake in print.] ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVERTISING riously inflating effect on the GDP. Taren Cowan For decades, the late Columbia profes- FORUM EDITOR Harriss Remembered sor Seymour Melman ’49 GSAS criticized Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard I am a three-degree Columbian, starting the effects of Pentagon capitalism and the CONTRIBUTING WRITER with the College. As a student, I was fortu- Shira Boss-Bicak ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA military/war economy on the nation’s nate to take several courses with C. Lowell EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS overall economic situation. Military pro- Harriss ’40 GSAS, and as a professor and Grace Laidlaw ’11 duction and the maintenance of the war Jesse Thiessen ’11 Arts dean, to have worked with him on curri- economy contribute significantly to GDP DESIGN CONSULTANT cula and other academic projects. Jean-Claude Suarès numbers but they provide nothing to ei- What a truly fine man! A scholar, he ART DIRECTOR ther the general well-being of the popu- cared more for what you learned than Gates Sisters Studio lation or to the real productivity of the how learned you found him to be. WEBMASTER economy. Thomas MacLean After completing a Ph.D., I joined the Since the end of WWII, the Pentagon CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS faculty of the Graduate School of Business has monopolized an ever-greater portion Eileen Barroso and had the opportunity to work with Tina Gao ’10 Barnard of an ever-growing federal budget (to- Lowell on a number of University com- Char Smullyan tal yearly defense-related expenditures, mittees. When the Business School dean including servicing the military fraction Published six times a year by the resigned in a dispute with the Provost of the national debt, is now around a tril- Columbia College Office of over a tenure case, it was Lowell who con- Alumni Affairs and Development. lion dollars), which has made it the single vinced me to accept the job of acting dean. DEAN OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS greatest economic entity in the American AND DEVELOPMENT “I know that you would rather teach than Derek A. Wittner ’65 economy. Professor Melman pointed out dean,” he said, “and you can return to For alumni, students, faculty, parents and that as military production dominated friends of Columbia College, founded in 1754, an ever-greater proportion of industrial teaching when the President’s Committee the undergraduate liberal arts college of finds a new dean. Right now, the school Columbia University in the City of New York. research and development and precision needs you to hold things together and pro- Address all correspondence to: manufacturing, the United States lost the Columbia College Today ability to compete in essential areas of ci- vide a sense of calm and continuity. It may Columbia Alumni Center not be fun, Kirby, but it is necessary!” 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 vilian manufacturing to overseas competi- New York, NY 10025 tors. When New York City modernizes its Lowell always put the “necessary” first. 212-851-7852 I admired him greatly. E-mail (editorial): [email protected]; subway system or California begins build- (advertising): [email protected] ing a high-speed rail system, the only bids E.K. (Kirby) Warren ’56, ’57 Business, www.college.columbia.edu/cct for equipment or technical expertise come ’61 GSAS ISSN 0572-7820 TUXEDO , N.Y. Opinions expressed are those of the from foreign corporations. 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Some have maintained their T Columbia’s younger, lower- Parade of Classes, come back to campus relationship with the College across a key traditions. It lacks the historical and show your support for the next crop half-century or more and continue to gravitas of the Varsity Show or the “stu- of Columbia alumni. contribute their time, money or exper- dents being students” nature of Orgo Alas, one other Columbia tradition tise to support the College. Night or Primal Scream (if unfamiliar, seems to have quietly gone by the way- One such man was Arthur S.