SIPAnews winter 2000 / VOLUME XIiI NO.1 1 From the Dean Lisa Anderson takes stock of SIPA in the new millenium. 2 Economist Robert Mundell is Columbia’s latest Nobel Prize winner. 3 Professor Kathleen Molz takes a critical look at Internet filters. 4 Dear SIPA ’99 grad Jun Choi tells us about life on the campaign trail. 5 Alumni Profile: John Neuffer Cold pizza leads to 15 minutes of fame for SIPA grad. 6 Alumni Forum: Cecelia Caruso Alumna fights for textbooks for New York children of color. 8 Executive MPA Program makes SIPA debut.

7 Schoolwide News 10 13 MPA Program News Six SIPA students bring love and laughter to Kosovo refugees. 14 MIA Program News 15 Urban Affairs 12 17 Faculty News SIPA student groups offer something for everyone. 20 Staff News 21 Class Notes

SIPA news 1 Our more recent alumni- should we call you the ‘ele- vator classes?’-continue to remember the faculty as having a profound impact on their lives and careers. From the Dean: Lisa Anderson Raise a Glass to SIPA As Clock Strikes Midnight

ebrate them. We and the economics energy and other resources to conduct department bask in the reflected glory their own research and policy analysis. of Professor Robert Mundell’s Nobel We at SIPA have enjoyed and profited Prize, of course, but also enjoy the from their dedication to teaching and honors and awards a number of other to strengthening our institution, and at faculty are collecting, including long last we are in a position to recip- Robert Lieberman’s Trilling Prize for rocate what they have done for us. his book, Shifting the Color Line, With generous support from the Richard Nelson’s invitation to deliver University Provost’s Office as well as the prestigious Tinbergen Lecture in help from several private donors, we the Netherlands, and John Ruggie’s are establishing an Office of Sponsored Distinguished Scholar Award from Research, to be directed by an Associ- the International Studies Association. ate Dean for Research and staffed by All of you who have spent time several professional grant writers and at SIPA know the extraordinary talent administrators. This initiative is s the last semester of the of our faculty. From the reminiscences designed to assist the faculty and millennium draws to of what we are coming to call the research associates of the School in an end at SIPA, we “brownstone classes”— those who obtaining financial support for their have ample reason to went to school here before we moved research, in developing local and inter- celebrate. As the books into the tallest building on the cam- national collaborative research net- closed on the fiscal year pus — we know that Andrew Cordier, works, and in disseminating the results Alast June, we recorded one of our most Istvan Deák, Henry Graff, Lou of the research done under the auspices successful years at fund-raising — Henkin, J.C. Hurewitz, Charles Issawi, of the School more widely and more thanks in no small measure to the work Jim Morley, Philip Mosely, Marshall effectively to both academic and pol- of our dedicated class chair volunteers Shulman and many, many other icy audiences. We want to develop and the chair of the Annual Fund, remarkable faculty changed peoples our working papers series, to put Ralph Hellmold (MIA ’64). Over the lives decades ago. Our more recent more of the faculty’s research on our summer we secured funding for a new alumni — should we call you the “ele- Web site, to make it easier for our fac- Center on Energy, Marine Transporta- vator classes?” — continue to remem- ulty to travel to conduct research or tion and Public Policy, and in Septem- ber the faculty as having a profound provide policy advice. After all, our ber we welcomed a new director for impact on their lives and careers. As I students are only with us for two the African Institute, Professor Mah- travel to meet alumni, people ask after years, and our faculty continue to mood Mamdani, one of Africa’s most Dick Betts, Jagdish Bhagwati, Coralie have wonderful ideas, serious policy distinguished social scientists. The Bryant, Doug Chalmers, Steve Cohen, insights, important empirical findings students who joined us this fall make Gerry Curtis, Bob Jervis, Paul Martin, from which we think our alumni and up one of the most selective classes in Katharine Morgan, Madeleine Zelin other policy makers would benefit, our history, a credit both to the and many other denizens of this build- no matter where they are. attractions of living in New York and ing. Let us hope that with this initia- to the persuasive recruiting of Associ- All of these faculty have made tive we will be greeting the 21st cen- ate Dean Robin Lewis and his team names for themselves while they tury better prepared for the challenges in the Office of Student Affairs. worked hard for their students, design- and opportunities it will bring. Cer- All these achievements also reflect ing curricula, directing institutes, con- tainly, I am more confident knowing the intrinsic merit of the School and of centrations and programs, teaching that the students we have sent out to the faculty who are at its heart, so it is courses. They taught us well, but too make our world more secure, more particularly gratifying to be able to cel- often they have had to sacrifice time, just and more prosperous have been

SIPA news 1 Columbia economist lauded for research on common

Crossroads currencies, capital flows Mundell Wins Nobel Prize

markets.” shoulders, and his wife, standing on The Nobel citation underscores, either side of President Reagan, who in particular, work done by Mundell is smiling broadly. in the late 1960’s which illuminated Mundell described with relish the relationship between floating his upstart beginnings as a young exchange rates and monetary policy. economist in the early 1960s. Mundell, who suggested the creation “My work was very controver- of what he then called the “europa” as sial,” he recalled. “The first example early as 1969, dismisses suggestions of that was a paper I wrote at the that he is the father of the euro. International Monetary Fund which “Maybe a godfather,” he concedes. advocated a completely different Seth Weissman, who teaches monetary and fiscal policy mix than international economics at SIPA, is what the United States and the IMF less restrained. “The European Union were advocating. It was a recommen- exists because of him,” Weissman dation that the United States shift said.“Except for Keynes, there’s no from a policy of easy money and high one else this century who’s had that taxes to a tax cut and tight money — kind of impact.” tight money to correct the balance of Robert Mundell with Mundell, 67, has been a faculty payments, and tax cuts to spur the wife, Valerie, and son By Kareem Fahim member at Columbia since 1974, and economy. Then, of course, President Nicholas, 2. n his 1949 high school year- is currently the C. Lowell Harriss Kennedy, when the economy kept book photograph, Columbia’s Professor of Economics. He was getting worse under (the old) policy newest Nobel Prize winner, attending a conference in Sweden mix, did shift course and he shifted to Robert Mundell, is staring into when the award was announced on exactly my policy mix. the middle distance, seemingly Oct. 13, but returned to New York “That change — well it didn’t lost in thought. Was he worried for his SIPA class on international exactly make my position at the Fund aboutI finding a date for the spring monetary theory and policy the fol- any better. Being wrong is one thing, fling? Troubled by teen angst? Proba- lowing Monday. As Mundell entered but being right is even worse,” he bly not. As young as age 17, Mundell the classroom, clutching a cup of cof- said, laughing at the memory. was preoccupied with exchange rates fee and smiling sheepishly, his stu- The Nobel committee made little and monetary policy. dents rose and applauded. mention in its citation of Mundell’s “I became intrigued with the The prize carries with it a cash work on supply side economics. He devaluation of the sterling area cur- award of $975,000. Mundell said he said he understands that decision, even rencies in 1949. I couldn’t find a plans to buy a pony for his son though he believes that his supply-side good answer for the meaning of Nicholas, 2, and complete renovations work paved the way for the current those devaluations; my teachers on his second home, Santa Colomba, a economic boom. “I think they were weren’t much of a help, the newspa- 500-year-old villa in Tuscany, where wise, in a way, not to mention this, pers were not much of a help.” Mundell and his second wife, Valerie, because this is a big political issue, and So, Mundell taught himself. Last host lavish luncheons for friends, many will be for a long time.” October, a lifetime of hard work and of them artists and actors. Mundell is The tax cuts he prescribed, and academic brilliance paid off when he also an accomplished and prolific the subsequent expansion of the was awarded the Nobel Prize in Eco- painter, and has three grown children economy, in his estimation, “left a nomics. The Royal Swedish Academy from a previous marriage. legacy that made President Clinton’s of Sciences praised the Canada-born At home in his comfortable, job a lot easier, and also Alan economist for choosing his problems cluttered apartment a few blocks Greenspan’s job a lot easier.” with “uncommon — almost prophetic from Columbia, Mundell stepped — accuracy in terms of predicting the over Nicholas’s toys and sat down on Kareem Fahim (MIA ’01) is studying future development of international the sofa. On a table sat a picture of journalism and the Middle East. He monetary arrangements and capital the economist, his hair down to his has worked in TV and film produc-

2 SIPA news “Censorship in a box”casts shadow over bright promise of electronic revo-

Faculty Forum: Kathleen Molz Filtering the Internet

tion record in the nation, which ever, is the embraces people of more than one issue of com- hundred national origins within its puter filtering to curtail service area. Purchasing materials in viewing by minors of Web sites that 49 languages, the Library also spon- display pornographic images, advo- sors English as a Second Language cate racial and ethnic hatred, promote (ESL) classes, which provoked such a violence, and demonstrate the manu- huge demand that a lottery for regis- facture of pipe bombs. A number of trants had to be implemented in bills, in both houses of Congress and order to eliminate the lines of appli- in several states, have been intro- cants appearing at dawn long before duced or are being implemented to library buildings were opened. At the impel schools and libraries, receiving same time as the Library advances the E-rate funds or other governmental English-language literacy of its con- subventions, to install filtering or stituents, it has taken the lead in cre- blocking technologies designed to ating WorldLinQ, an innovative mul- eliminate access to inappropriate Web tilingual electronic system, accessible sites, “the red light districts in cyber- n spite of dire predictions that on the Internet, which uses language space,” as they are sometimes the public library was rapidly modules in Chinese, Korean, Spanish described by legislators and govern- becoming a civic dinosaur or a and Russian, with those for French ment officials. However well-inten- bibliographical mausoleum, the and Hebrew in the offing. tioned this effort to clean up the more than 1 billion annual vis- Although Internet access for the its to the nation’s public public is now available in 73 percent Filtering technology, based on keyword scanning, Ilibraries far exceed the yearly atten- of the nation’s libraries (including dance at all sporting events, concerts, central buildings as well as branches), wipes out the Web site for the Mars Exploration and museums combined. “It turns the Internet, unfortunately, is proving endeavor because the URL “Marsex” contains out,” the author of a recent article in a mixed blessing. With $400 million U.S. News & World Report com- pledged by the Gates Library Foun- Internet may be, it often results in the ments, “that the very electronic revo- dation (established by Microsoft blockage of nonpornographic mater- lution that was supposed to make founder William H. Gates III, and his ial, including Web sites dealing with libraries obsolete has made them wife Melinda) to furnish public the treatment of breast cancer, mat- indispensable.” libraries in the United States and ters relating to health, such as the With the by-now ubiquitous Canada with computer/telecommuni- transmission of AIDS, the pro-choice computer sitting atop the reading cations equipment, the formidable or pro-life issues affecting abortion, room table, public libraries are sur- cost of assisting institutions, formerly and many others. Interestingly viving quite well in an informational based almost exclusively on printed enough, the latest Web site to be environment in which print and non- text, to embrace electronically pro- excoriated by conservative groups is print media peacefully coexist. duced information is being consider- none other than “Go Ask Alice,” the Although problems still remain, ably lessened. And with the 1996 pas- interactive health information site including insufficient funding, the sage of federal legislation authorizing maintained by Columbia University’s inability to recruit personnel owing the E-rate (E = education) program, Health Education Program. This site to low salary scales, and a sometime in which $2.25 billion in universal (http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu) lack of political recognition, public service funds are annually mandated answers questions from young people libraries, by and large, are serving as to provide affordable telecommunica- about many aspects of health, includ- educational opportunities for a multi- tions rates for schools and libraries, the ing sexual behavior. An incensed Dr. tude of self-learners, whether child or goal of 100 percent access to the Inter- Laura Schlessinger, the radio talk- adult. One jewel in the public library net for public library users seemed to show host, vehemently criticized the crown is the Queens Borough Public be within reach. Library, holding the highest circula- The fly in the ointment, how- CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

SIPA news 3 It’s humbling to think that a group of people not much bigger than a start-up Internet company can influ- ence the process in such a significant way. Jun Choi Writes: Dear SIPA... I’m writing to you from the campaign - trail of Bill Bradley for president.

My life has been moving at a frenzied morning and go for a jog (if I have the long ago called it a day, we head for pace since I joined the campaign after energy), shower, review the morning home, driving past the empty, dark- graduating from SIPA in May. It’s news and campaign briefing on my ened Gore and Bush campaign offices. dizzying to think how quickly politics laptop, selectively respond to my We do stop and reflect on the big is played out and how much the cam- backlogged e-mail, grab some break- picture once in a while. There’s a sense paign has grown in such a short period fast at a bagel shop, and eat on my in the campaign that we are a part of of time — both organizationally and 20-minute drive to work. something greater than the sum of our in terms of national media exposure. Work this morning happens to be individual lives, a part of history being Given Bradley’s personal strengths and at two New Hampshire towns. I meet written, a part of a force for good. policies, and the favorable political cli- some local supporters and officials Even if we don’t win, we have the abil- mate, I fully expected that we would who help me “advance” Bradley ity to influence the national agenda to play a major role in the presidential appearances at a diner, a bookstore, address important issues that deserve race. But when it actually happens, it’s the town dump, city hall and a town more attention — healthcare reform, hard to believe that it’s for real. square. We talk about logistics — children in poverty, and race relations. I had always been told that work- timing, lighting, media shots, walk The presidential race is a great organiz- ing on a presidential campaign is one steps (that’s campaign-speak for the ing force, and it’s humbling to think thing that everybody should experi- candidate’s exact route), contingency that a group of people not much big- ence. It’s an opportunity to participate plans, and legal issues. By the time I ger than a start-up Internet company — mind, body and soul — in the leave for the office, I have a pretty can influence the process in such a democratic process, and to actually feel good mental picture of how the significant way. that you are making a real difference in events will go. Every now and then, I get to wit- society. Well, all that is true. But for Back in the office, I work the ness events that I’ll tell my grandchil- me, the experience has mostly been phones, attend meetings with the deci- dren about. We had an amazing, about three other things: information sion-makers, lay out a detailed sched- once-in-a-lifetime fund-raiser at Madi- and experience overload, change, and ule for the Senator, and prepare brief- son Square Garden last November. pushing the envelope of my emo- ing notes for headquarters to assem- More than two dozen of the biggest tional highs and lows. ble. Of course everything — and I names in basketball were there: I’ll tell you what I mean by mean everything — can change at a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving, describing my day. I get up early in the moment’s notice as the political winds Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Phil shift, so we always have to be ready to Jackson, Bill Walton, John Havlicek, switch gears. If we have time, and no and Moses Malone joined Bill Bradley crisis is breaking, the staff takes a din- to reminisce about his glory days and ner/social break to wind down and raise nearly $1.5 million for the cam- catch up with each other. We talk pol- paign. It was truly memorable! itics, personalities, and sports. (I’m Well, I can’t give away too much embarrassed to admit on this cam- of my memoirs right now. And paign that I don’t know the Knicks’ besides, I’ve babbled for entirely too starting line-up since the 1960s.) long. Take care and I hope all is well And, of course, we have a laugh over at SIPA. the latest Gore joke that somebody Best Regards, heard on the street that day. Jun Afterwards, we finish up that day’s work and organize details for the Jun Choi (MPA ’99) is a field coordinator next day. At 1 a.m., when all of New and special assistant to the New Hampshire (except for the overnight Hamphshire director on the Bill Bradley patrol officer we’ve befriended) has for president campaign.

4 SIPA news Alumni Profile: John Neuffer

Pizza Put-Down Leads John Neuffer (MIA ’86), in his Tokyo office, with Time Asia cold- to 15 Minutes of Fame pizza covers.

By Paula Kling Neuffer has a new tale and bland. That’s But Neuffer has carved out a niche for guage program,” he recalled. “It was a cold pizza after a night himself as a political analyst, writing real killer but excellent.” opinion of the in the refrigerator. about Japanese politics and policy in Graduating in 1986 with a con- prime minister Who would have an Institute newsletter called Behind centration in East Asian politics and thought that leftover the Screen, which can found on the economics, Neuffer went to work as today: “more fuzzy, Italian pie would cata- Internet at an assistant to the New York bureau pultS a SIPA grad to instant celebrity? www.behindthescreen.com. chief of Tokyo Shimbun, a daily new- lovable and... Certainly not John Neuffer (MIA He remains one of Japan’s most paper in Japan. The pay was lousy, but ’86). popular political pundits. Besides the it taught Neuffer how to hustle. “The politically appetiz- Neuffer, a political analyst at a New York Times, Neuffer is fre- bureau chief was a swell guy, but his ing.” Japanese think tank, was giving an quently quoted in the Washington English wasn’t quite up to par, so that interview to the New York Times in Post and Time magazine. His policy gave me plenty of opportunities to get July 1998 when he made a tart- views appear as op-ed pieces in the the story and do the reporting,” he tongued reference to Japanese prime- Asian Wall Street Journal, World said. From 1987 to 1990, Neuffer minister-in-waiting Keizo Obuchi as Affairs Weekly, Newsweek Japan and worked as press adviser at the Con- having “all the political pizazz of cold on TheStreet.com. sulate General of Japan in New York. pizza.” Neuffer grew up in Montana and In that job, which he got with a little With an upper-house election graduated from Whitman College in help from his Columbia connections, around the corner and campaign sea- Washington State. His fascination Neuffer also wrote policy speeches on son in full swing, the phrase became with Asia began when he participated trade, economics and security issues something of a national obsession. in a study-abroad program in Nepal for the Japanese ambassador posted at References to Obuchi’s “cold-pizza” while a college junior. the Consulate. In 1991, he started pizazz cropped up everywhere — on After college, he spent eight working for Mitsui Kaijyo Research Japanese television and radio, and in months backpacking through India, Institute. the pages of the country’s leading Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore Neuffer is married to Gloria Pan, dailies. Soon, “cold pizza” spread and Hong Kong — all on $2,000. “I a communications consultant for non- overseas. Before long, it was hard to did little jobs. I worked as an extra in profits and international organiza- find a news report anywhere on a film in Bombay for three to four tions. The couple’s 5-year-old daugh- Japanese politics that did not contain days. This was not a good film, but I ter, Cole, is bilingual in Japanese and Neuffer’s “cold-pizza” put-down. desperately needed the money,” he English and feels comfortable in east- “It was fun, crazy, wacky,” Neuf- said. ern and western cultures. fer recalled in a phone interview. For- Neuffer returned to Washington If Obuchi was ever offended by tunately, Obuchi was a good sport. State and worked in a law office, but Neuffer’s comment, there don’t During the height of cold-pizza he couldn’t get Asia off his mind. He appear to be any hard feelings. In fact, mania, the prime minister made light packed his bags and moved to Tokyo Neuffer said, he and the prime minis- of the whole affair and had pizza to teach high school English. “I got ter have “kissed and made up.” delivered to a crowd of journalists in addicted to this hemisphere,” he said. As Obuchi told Time Asia last front of his home. “All is new and challenging, and so April: “Mr. John Neuffer recently The hubbub died down after a much has to do with economics, poli- came to see me and told me I am not few months. Now, more than one year tics and foreign affairs.” cold pizza anymore.” Indeed, Neuffer later, it’s back to the grindstone at the In 1984, inspired by his older has a new opinion of the prime minis- think tank. The Tokyo-based Mitsui brother, Garth, a SIPA graduate, ter today: “more fuzzy, lovable and . . . Kaijyo Research Institute, funded by a Neuffer decided it was time to “buckle politically appetizing.” major Japanese insurance company, down” and earn a master’s in interna- conducts mostly economic research. tional affairs. “I did the Japanese lan- Paula Kling (MIA ’01) is concentrating in Economic and Political Development, with a

SIPA news 5 Alumni Forum: Cecelia Caruso Let’s Give Textbooks to All Our Children

iss C.C., why am I “Why do the law want me to go to here. Three thousands miles apart, smart when I’m with school if I can’t learn nothing?” It both cities had identical conditions in “ you and dumb when was painful and had been a painful their public schools! I’m in school?” How pursuit for nearly 10 years — ever Since those early days, I have could I answer this since 1989 when I had decided to watched child after child fall between second grader’s become a professional tutor. My first the cracks, drop out of school, or, in Mquestion? I knew it was because I student was the eighth-grade daugh- the case of three of my former stu- used workbooks and textbooks with ter of a professor at the University of dents, end up in prison. Such has her, while her teacher used only the California, Berkeley, where I was tak- been the case with my Latino and infamous “folders.” ing postgraduate courses. She was a African-American students. Not one I searched for a plausible, strong B average student whose of my public school students of color though not truthful, answer. “Well, dream was to make the honor roll just has ever had the necessary textbooks once before entering high school the and workbooks. These children following year. After working with When I learned the student me for two semesters, she not only made the honor roll but received the had no biology textbook and highest grades in her class and was the winner of more awards than any had never had a biology text- child in the school’s history. book throughout Her father was so pleased he asked me to tutor a little boy he’d two semesters of biology, I been mentoring who was failing all his subjects. Since the professor’s was outraged. daughter had all the necessary text- receive only mimeographs or photo- books, I was shocked to learn the boy copies known as rexographs (“rexoes” had none. Obviously, this was the to the children) which contain little main reason he was failing. And or no explanatory information. The while both children attended the children show up for tutoring ses- Oakland public schools, the girl, who sions proffering nothing more than was white, lived in the Oakland Hills; their “folders,” as if it’s the most nor- Cecelia Caruso founded when you’re with me, you are my the boy, who was black, lived in the mal thing in the world. To make mat- FEAT (Fighting for only student. When you are in City of Oakland. ters worse, in every case, the children Equality in Allocation of school, there are 35 other children in The problem of unequal text- are failing miserably, and I have been Textbooks). your class, so your teacher can’t give book distribution is found in every called in by their parents to “save” you as much attention as I do.” It was major urban area in the United them. I am expected to perform mira- a feeble attempt and the child saw States, but it is most acute in schools cles with no supporting resources. right through it. “Then why can’t I dominated by Latino and African- Nor is my pain alleviated when just study with you all the time?” she American children. Yet, in those same I work with white or Asian-American asked. “Because the law says you have cities, schools dominated by white students who always have all the nec- to attend school until you are 16 and Asian-American children have essary materials. These children are years old. Since I am not a school, sufficient numbers of textbooks. generally B average students with you can’t come to me every day When I returned to New York parents who want them to become A instead of going to school,” I said in 1992, I decided to continue tutor- TEXTBOOKS: weakly. ing for a while; but it became a life- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 I had to field such questions all long passion when I discovered that the time: “Who is the law?” and the conditions in Oakland also existed CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

6 SIPA news SCHOOLWIDEnews

SIPA Hosts World Leaders

By Mitra Malek freely and democratically from the ne of the best parts party in power to the opposition, of studying at SIPA something that “would have been is being able to hear unthinkable a few decades back,” major policy Quiroga added. speeches from world Quiroga promised that Bolivia leaders without leav- will become the “first drug-free coun- Oing the building. try in the hemisphere” by 2002. He Last fall, SIPA hosted visits from said the promise will be fulfilled Vaira Vike-Freiberga Surin Pitsuwan foreign dignitaries, including Latvian through aggressive eradication and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Boli- interdiction, but also “community- vian Vice President Jorge Quiroga based compensation,” such as sewer Ramirez, and foreign ministers from and water systems for those who quit Poland, Thailand and Estonia. cultivating coca. In fact, world leaders eagerly seek Polish Foreign Minister Bronis- out opportunities to speak at SIPA, law Geremek said that his country said Vice Dean Steven Cohen. “A hopes to become a member of the non-political environment in which to European Union within two years, make a policy speech is a rarity,” he despite declining popularity for the said. “They know they’ll be treated idea at home. “We will have to explain respectfully regardless of their views.” that European integration isn’t against Speaking to a room crowded with the interest of farmers, coal miners students and members of New York’s and those in heavy industry,” he said. Jorge Quiroga Ramirez Bronislaw Geremek diplomatic community, Vike-Freiberga In contrast, NATO membership said she felt a deep commitment to enjoyed 85 percent approval among dle this issue with great care because Latvia’s progress toward democracy. Poles, he added. we don’t want the impression that the “I am happy to say that scholars in the Estonian Foreign Minister government is being forced from the West contributed greatly to filling the Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a 1976 outside to do certain things,” he said. vacuum during the period of Soviet Columbia College graduate, said that “This will undermine the confidence occupancy,” she added. joining the E.U. for his country is less in the Quiroga boasted that Bolivia is a foreign policy objective than “some- government.” Elanjelian Venugopat (MIA ’01) “Bolivia is shaking its ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ left Pitsuwan’s lecture impressed by what he heard. “He doesn’t have a image in favor of that of a governable democracy with an dogmatic mindset, and he considered himself pragmatic in how he answered shaking its “Butch Cassidy and the thing the entire nation is involved in.” things. “I think he is one of the guys Sundance Kid” image in favor of that He anticipates Estonia’s role in NATO with new ideas.” of a governable democracy with an will include military policing activity open, stable economy. Inflation, about and software development. 4.3 percent in 1998, has dropped Thai Foreign Minister H.E. Surin below the growth rate of 4.7 percent, Pitsuwan gently criticized the West for Mitra Malek (MIA ’00) is concentrat- and foreign direct investment in the pressuring Indonesia to accept a ing in International Media and Com- year 2000 is expected to rise to $6 bil- multinational peacekeeping force for munications. Before coming to SIPA, lion, the vice president said. Moreover, East Timor. “We in Southeast Asia she was a newspaper reporter and free- control of the government passes have felt, and still feel, we have to han- lance writer.

SIPA news 7 New Executive MPA Program Attracts Full House

reflects a broad mix of professionals the ability to affect change in their from the public, private and not-for- organizations,” she added. profit sectors. “They’re directors of Students must fulfill the same departments, directors of programs, core requirements as their counter- senior vice presidents — people with a parts in the full-time MPA program. In lot of experience who are well-placed addition, they take a series of concen- within their organizations,” she said. tration and context courses. Concen- “We’re looking for students with a tration courses help students increase diversity of backgrounds and experi- their depth of knowledge in manage- ences to broaden perspectives and ment and analytic techniques, while challenge ideas.” context offerings provide perspectives Students can choose to complete on policies and the environments in the program in two or three years, which they are affected. depending on how many classes they The Executive MPA program was take each semester. “Currently, they’ll first conceived about a decade ago, EMPA students be graduating with a concentration in and was approved in 1998 by Dean Julius Chang and advanced management and finance, Lisa Anderson. Planning began in Edgar Moya but we may develop other concentra- earnest in January 1999, when former tions” down the line, Poueymirou Dean Harvey Picker gave a $2 million said. The program emphasizes practi- gift to SIPA. $1.5 million of the gift By Mitra Malek cal applications over theoretical ide- was allocated to renovating the he popularity of SIPA’s ologies. “The program is designed to ground floor space that will house the new Executive MPA pro- bring real issues into the classroom in Center by September 2000, while the gram has far exceeded order to help solve them,” remainder went toward designing and expectations. Enrollment Poueymirou said. The skills and publicizing the program. this year is 31 students — knowledge that students gain in the more than twice as many classroom are immediately useful on asT expected by school administrators. the job. “These are people who have “Reaction was really amazing,” said Vice Dean Steven Cohen. “We decided to expand the class as much as EMPA student we could.” Patricia Jennings The program, offered through SIPA’s Picker Center for Executive Education, is geared toward mid- career professionals who want to earn a Master of Public Administration, but need to continue working. During the school year, students attend classes for a full day on Saturdays; summer ses- sion classes are held on weekday evenings. Most students are motivated by a desire to acquire advanced skills so that they continue to grow in their careers and satisfy personal and profes- sional goals, said Melissa Poueymirou, assistant director of the Picker Center. The class that entered this year Vice Dean Steven Cohen teaches EMPA’s Public Management course.

8 SIPA news “The professors really listen to us.” hrough her work with a with governments. The project aimed to get asylum seekers nonprofit that helps asylum out of detention and into community-service programs while seekers, Executive MPA stu- they wait for their cases to be decided. When the project dent Hema Sareen knows a ended, Sareen moved into another job, senior planning ana- thingT or two about what it’s like to lyst, at the Institute. deal with a big government bureau- Sareen said the EMPA program strikes a good balance cracy. between lecturing by instructors and debate and discussion “It’s frustrating,” said Sareen, among classmates. “The professors really listen to us and whose work involved extensive deal- want to hear about our jobs — that’s when we have the ings with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. opportunity to hear about what other people do. People in “That’s where I got the incentive to get into this program. the class are genuinely interested in each other’s jobs,” she I wanted to understand better how government works.” said. Until recently, Sareen, 25, was a director for a pilot pro- Sareen earned a bachelor’s degree in political science ject run by the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York-based from Hunter College. nonprofit that undertakes innovative projects in partnership — M.M.

“If you don’t understand how dollars flow, you can’t manage the deals.” he first day David Tsui munities by lending to not-for-profit social service agencies stepped into his public man- that deal with AIDS victims, the homeless, and the physi- agement class he discovered cally and mentally disabled, among others. “It’s very excit- that he and two of his class- ing to see things happen that bring about social change and matesT had dealt with many of the benefit,” he says. “But part of the problem in lending is same clients: he on the business side, understanding government policy, how dollars flow. If you they on the public policy and philan- don’t understand how dollars flow, you can’t manage the thropic sides. “They knew the same deals.” customers and the same problems; Through the Executive MPA program, Tsui hopes to and we were all working from the same perspective of gain skills that are specifically applicable to his job: how to improving that one organization,” said Tsui, whose bache- manage effectively, how to analyze and shape public policy, lor’s degree is from New York University. and how to deal with the various organizational mecha- As a vice president for Chase Manhattan Bank’s Com- nisms that are critical to moving issues through institutions. munity Development Program, Tsui works to rebuild com- — M.M.

“I can immediately test out theories learned in enise Faingar sees the countries.” Executive MPA program Faingar expects the EMPA program will fine-tune her as the perfect complement financial and quantitative skills, and she has already applied to her experience as a management tools learned in class to her job. “I can imme- supervisoryD import specialist with diately test out theories learned in class, like negotiation the U.S. Customs Service. “I really skills, in my work environment,” she said. want to utilize my government Faingar particularly likes the sense of camaraderie in knowledge in a different area,” said the EMPA program. “Everyone is pulling for each other, Faingar. “The MPA will further my looking out for each other,” she said. knowledge about public affairs and allow me to reach my Faingar earned a bachelor of science degree in market- goal to help people and really make an impact on society, ing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. maybe with the United Nations, working with developing — M.M.

SIPA news 9 Students Bring Love and Laughter to Refugees

as a public health manager for the the latrines were properly used. That’s International Relief Committee at the a delicate task, particularly for an out- sprawling Stenkovek camps in north- sider like Munzer, who did not know ern Macedonia. Mindy Prager (MIA the culture well. Her solution was to ’00), a psychiatrist, comforted the recruit refugees — especially children scared and soothed the sorrowful as a and teen-agers who were only happy psycho-social coordinator for Relief to do something useful — to help out International at a refugee camp in with a public education campaign to Korca, Albania. promote good hygiene. In the Albanian capital of Tirana, “We did a lot of visual stuff. The Jennifer Kouvant (MIA ’00) helped refugees would draw images that coordinate relief efforts as an external would best exemplify, in their own cul- relations officer for the United ture, how to change behavior and pro- Nations High Commissioner for mote hygiene. We put up little posters Refugees (UNHCR), the lead agency in the latrines and did tent-to-tent dis- for humanitarian efforts during the tributions of leaflets that had helpful Christina Munzer and refugee crisis. messages,” said Munzer, who had By Anne Burke, SIPA News editor coworkers Dragan Pen- Comic relief came in the form of worked with public health issues as a doyski, left, and Dzaner hristine Kuhn still Ed Beason (MPA ’01). Beason dressed Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. Music, after conducting a winces when she talks up as Elvis and staged karaoke sing- “Fortunately, there were no epi- sanitation inspection at a about the refugee alongs at five Albanian camps, sending demics, which I think was partly due refugee camp in Macedo- nia. Behind them are camp in southern the refugees — especially the children to our efforts, but also to the good latrines, left, and tents. Albania where she — into howls of laughter. “It was such health of most of the refugees and worked as a SIPA a big relief for the parents to be able to sheer luck.” Cintern last summer. The camp had see their kids enjoying themselves,” Kuhn arrived at her camp to find been hastily erected in the back of an said Beason, known in the camps as that the women’s center she had army base, alongside a bubbling tar “Mr. Karaoke.” expected to take over did not yet exist. pit, rusted machinery parts, aban- Since refugees couldn’t go to the With no support staff and no experi- doned trucks and stagnant pools of movies, Laura Ballman (MIA ’00) ence working at a refugee camp, Kuhn water. The camp was littered with land brought movies to the refugees. As a was daunted by the prospect of under- mines, presumably inert, but poten- field director with FilmAid, an ad hoc taking the project herself. She forged tially dangerous nonetheless. partnership between the movie indus- ahead anyway. In about two weeks, At this camp, it seemed, common try and the UNHCR, Ballman trav- the tent flaps opened on the women’s sense did not prevail. “One family eled from camp to camp showing center. It wasn’t much, just a few used a land mine to hold their tent Hollywood films on a big screen wooden palettes on the floor in place down,” Kuhn (MIA ’00) sighed. under the stars. “We ended up produc- of chairs, but the refugees seemed “Before that, they had been using it as ing 30 shows in 47 days. We were like pleased. The first meeting attracted a footstool.” the circus coming to town,” she said. about 80 women. The mines were eventually Kuhn, Munzer and Prager had “A lot of the women mentioned removed, but Kuhn will carry around studied forced migration and refugee that since their husbands and fathers forever the memories of her Balkan issues through Columbia University’s weren’t around, they felt their voices summer, as will her five SIPA class- School of Public Health, and knew weren’t being heard. We just let them mates who worked in Albania and that camp work would be difficult, the vent for a while,” said Kuhn. Macedonia during the height of the hours long, and the frustrations great. Beason’s first show coincided Kosovo refugee crisis in the late spring They were not disappointed. with an unfortunately timed case of and summer of 1999. With the threat of infectious dis- food poisoning. Though he was nearly Christina Munzer (MIA ’00) ease a big worry at all camps, part of doubled over in pain, the show went helped keep illness and disease at bay Munzer’s job was to make sure that on. It took place at Korca camp, in a

10 SIPA news Ed Beason and young refugee sing karaoke at a camp in Korca, Alba- nia.

big tent where Beason had set up the donated karaoke equipment that had accompanied him on his flight to Tirana. From what Beason could gather, the refugees had never sung karaoke Ed Beason and had no idea how to do it. Though not much of a singer, he gamely showed them how it was done. Wear- ing “cheesy, Elvis-in-Vegas glasses” and red, marching band pants from a thrift store, he queued up his first song. “I started off with ‘Can’t Help Christine Munzer Falling in Love’ and then there was sort of a dead silence. Then I did another song, ‘All of Me.’ They didn’t really know how to react, so I just sort Karaoke gave the refugee children something fun to do. “They were so bored that if you had a of clapped and laughed and pointed at box of crayons, you could start a riot,” said Ed Beason. myself. They caught on that it was all in fun. All of a sudden, everybody A few weeks later, her boss, the show “Titanic” because of its tragic wanted to come up and sing,” he said. office’s executive assistant to the ending, but it turned out to be the The most popular songs included UNHCR representative in charge of hands-down crowd pleaser. Elton John’s “Don’t Go Breaking My the office, was called home to Italy. “Whenever Leonardo and Kate Christine Kuhn Heart,” John Denver’s “Country He suggested that Kouvant take over would kiss, they would go crazy — Roads,” and “You’re the One That I in his absence. Kouvant was excited hooting and hollering and shouting,” Want” by Olivia Newton-John. But but scared; the UNHCR was respon- she said. the song that everybody seemed to sible for the repatriation of nearly Ballman and her crew of seven know was Roy Orbison’s “Pretty 500,000 refugees, and she knew the transported their equipment — two Woman.” “If I got in a jam, that was representative to whom she would 675-pound generators, 16 X 20 my go-to song,” Beason recalled. report had exacting standards. screens, and two projectors — in a While he was in Albania, Beason “But things worked out really canvass-sided truck that traveled from e-mailed fund-raising letters to friends well. He came to rely on me a lot, camp to camp in Macedonia, and Jennifer Kouvant and supporters in the United States. mostly for writing, drafting, liaison later, after refugees were repatriated, His efforts raised $20,000 for Relief with the staff, and public relations,” to towns and villages in southwest International. The money went to she added. “It was a classic right- Kosovo. Crowds swelled to the thou- buy toolbelts to help the refugees start place, right-time situation.” sands in some locations. rebuilding their homes and communi- The rewards of the work came in The best part of working with ties in Kosovo, and disposable cam- ways the students never would have refugees is the “instant gratification,” eras so that the children would have predicted. Prager and Munzer said the Kuhn said. “If you do something photographic records of the time they refugees, especially the women, good, you can see that it helps some- spent in the camp. treated them with so much warmth body right away.” Kouvant’s internship evolved and generosity that they started to Ballman agreed. “The results Laura Ballman into something she had never wonder who was helping whom. were very tangible. You show up, you expected and wasn’t sure she could “They were giving to me just as show a movie, you see people laugh, handle. Her first assignments much as I was giving to them,” Prager you know that, no matter how briefly, involved putting together information said. “Who would have expected you’ve helped them go to a happier packets that were handed out to for- that?” place in their heads. I really liked eign delegations visiting the UNHCR FilmAid’s repertoire for the that.” office, scheduling VIP visits, and refugee camps included “Mrs. Doubt- writing updates on the refugee fire,” “Dr. Doolittle,” and “Titanic.” agency’s activities. Ballman was initially reluctant to

SIPA news 11 SCHOOLWIDEnews

Student Groups Offer Activism, Fun, Friendship

Like many others involved in ’00), who served in São Tome and SIPA’s approximately 30 student Principe, an archipelago off Africa’s groups, the members of RPCV get west coast, recalled how worried she together as often as they can to share was when her father came to visit experiences, build professional and because of the local custom of grab- social relationships, debate social bing a man’s crotch to authenticate his problems, and explore the city. manhood. Jessica Farmer (MIA ’00), SIPA’s student groups span a the group’s co-president, talked of the staggering spectrum of interests. time she nearly drowned in a swollen Some, like the Latin American Stu- river during monsoon season in Mau- dent’s Association (LASA), one of the ritania. largest and most influential of student Like members of many other stu- groups, are based on shared cultural dent groups, the returned volunteers heritage or an appreciation for a par- share a sense of kinship and cama- ticular region. Others address issues of raderie that makes it a little easier to be gender and sexual orientation. They a long way from friends and loved include Women in Public and Interna- ones at home. SIPA’s French Club mem- tional Affairs (WPIA), and Queers in Once each semester, the French bers share a meal and con- By Raffi Khatchadourian International and Public Affairs Stu- Club gathers at Maison Française, versation. Standing are n a fall evening at a dent Association (QUIPASA). Columbia University’s French cultural co-presidents Rafael Cer- busy African restau- There are also groups that focus house. There, club members cook vantes, center, and Jo Dut- rant, about 20 SIPA on humanitarian issues, such as the crêpes, fondue and other continental ton, right. students are seated SIPA chapter of Amnesty Interna- cuisine. And as Rafael Cervantes, co- together, talking ani- tional or the Conflict Resolution president of the club, puts it: “We’re matedly and laugh- Working Group. Still others unite stu- enjoying ourselves and we’re cooking, Oing. The restaurant is a little slice of dents with common professional aims, and we’re speaking French. You Senegal in Harlem: a gazelle head among them the Nonprofit Student know,” he added, “we’re a group.” hangs on one wall while a poster of a Association, which helps students gain Yet, the goals of student groups midair Michael Jackson decorates work experience and make connec- extend far beyond fun and food. another. A music video of the Sene- tions in the nonprofit sector. Indeed, many student groups come galese pop star Baaba Maal blares from One important reason that stu- into existence because students feel the television. dents join and even initiate these deeply about certain social issues and The students are members of a groups is that they come to SIPA with problems, such as the Kosovo refugee SIPA student group called the passionate personal and professional crisis or repression in East Timor. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers interests that they don’t want to give Others come about so students can (RPCV), and they are holding their up while pursuing a degree. However, establish contacts that will help them monthly meeting here. Struggling to as the meeting of the RPCV students get ahead professionally. Often, it is be heard over the din of the music, at the African restaurant illustrates, through these groups that students they reminisce about the event that student groups have as much to do establish and strengthen links between brings them together: the two years with shared experiences as the conver- SIPA and outside communities. “over there” — the almost magical gence of current goals and interests. The South Asian Graduate Asso- place that includes countries as diverse In the dark, den-like restaurant, ciation (SAGA), for example, works as Nepal, Mauritania, and Latvia and the stories spill forth as the RPCV stu- with other South Asian community unites jobs as different as agro-forestry dents sip beer and nibble on Sene- and English instruction. galese food. Laura McHale (MIA CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

12 SIPA news M PAPROGRAMnews

Students Expect the Unexpected At MPA Practicum Lectures

By Rachel Cardone ou can get speakers “ here, but you can never control what they’re going to say,” said Rebecca Needler, a stu- dent co-coordinator forY the Practicum in Public Policy and Management, the MPA program’s yearlong series of lectures by guest practitioners. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, for example, tossed aside his prepared remarks in favor of a freewheeling question-and-answer session that touched on everything from alternative energy to nuclear schools. Kamali helped launch a stu- arms talks. Near the end, he made a dent-run arts and fashion business at curious remark, considering the fact her alma mater, Manhattan’s Washing- that he was speaking to a roomful of ton Irving High School. people already committed to pursuing Students also got a taste of bare careers in public policy. knuckles politics — New York style. “He urged everybody to go out Mark Green, New York City’s public and get jobs in public policy,” said advocate, came out swinging against Needler (MPA ’00). “I think he forgot his political rival, Mayor Rudolph we were students of public policy.” Guiliani, and called for an end to The practicum, now in its 15th “machine” politics in the Big Apple. year as a required MPA core course, Former Clinton adviser Dick Morris brings the entire MPA class into one traded predictions about November’s room for two hours each Monday U.S. presidential election with a panel afternoon to hear speakers discuss and of political pundits. debate issues of concern to public pol- Another afternoon featured pan- icy practitioners. Students can expect elists who explored the darker side of the unexpected. welfare reform: an increase in family Three-term Denver Mayor homelessness, growing shelter popu- Cohen. “They’re looking for Clockwise from top left: New York City public Wellington Webb ignored one of his lations and indications that more chil- informed audiences.” advocate Mark Green, pet issues — tighter gun control legis- dren are being put into foster care. “Practicum gives us great expo- fashion designer Norma lation — and talked instead about The panel was led by Ralph Nunez, a sure to people,” said Abbie Holcombe Kamali, Denver Mayor urban sprawl, his city’s three sports SIPA adjunct professor and president (MPA ’01). Wellington Webb, and stadiums, and Denver’s efforts to pro- and chief executive officer of the Insti- Secretary of Energy Bill mote trade with Africa. tute for Children and Poverty. Richardson. Fashion designer Norma Kamali The Monday afternoon lecture Rachel Cardone (MPA ’01) is studying said nothing about the catwalks of series has few problems attracting top environmental policy, with a focus on New York and Paris, focusing instead caliber speakers. Policy makers “are water issues. Before coming to SIPA, she on the need for private enterprise to attracted to the idea of speaking to traveled through the Mediterranean, play a greater role in the public our students,” said Vice Dean Steven Middle East and Africa.

SIPA news 13 MIAPROGRAMnews

Lecturer Brings Economics Alive

rom the you-don’t-hear- than what they did. Neither section political development, human rights that-from-many-professors opted to buy, sell or trade points on the and humanitarian affairs, environmen- department: SIPA lecturer open market. One section opted to dis- tal and security policy, and media and Seth Weissman says that the tribute the points among students with communications, so Weissman most instructive part of his borderline grades. The other decided designed the curriculum with their Finternational economics class occurred to pass out seven points each to the needs in mind. That means that he when he wasn’t even in the room. five students with the worst grades, emphasizes the applications of eco- Seth Weissman uses stories Before alerting the dean’s office, listen but later decided that was a bad idea, nomic theories, using stories plucked plucked from the headlines to teach students how to to Weissman’s explanation. so they switched to a borderline distri- from the newspaper headlines to get apply economic theories. On the first day of class, Weiss- bution method. students to think through problems. man announced to both sections that “The point of the process was that For example, Weissman illus- at the end of the semester he would they realized that economics is about trated supply and demand with a dis- hand out bonus points equivalent to scarce resources,” Weissman said. cussion about how a public debate one half point per student. The stu- “There’s nothing I could have possibly over gun control legislation can result dents, Weissman explained, could dis- done with them that would have in an increase in the number of guns tribute the points any way they pleased taught them more about economics on the streets. In a homework assign- (they could even buy and sell points than that half hour discussion they had ment, he challenged students to come among themselves), as long as they fol- when I was out of the room.” up with ways to solve food shortages lowed two rules: no half points could International Economics is a new in earthquake-ravaged Taiwan, famine- be distributed and Weissman could not offering at SIPA, part of the reconfig- plagued North Korea, and war-torn profit monetarily. Weissman then left ured core requirements for the MIA Somalia. the room for half an hour so the stu- program. The yearlong course replaces Weissman, who holds a Ph.D. dents could talk about what they separate, one-semester microeconom- from Columbia, did something else wanted to do. ics and macroeconomics courses. unusual on the first day of class. One The results were more interesting The class is a requirement for stu- of the first things he told his students for what the students didn’t choose dents concentrating in economic and was: “Call me Seth.”— A.B

Mamdani Takes Helm at African Institute

ahmood Mamdani is “This post-Apartheid context Harvard and a master’s from the settling into his new invites a reconfiguring of Africa, Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- job as director of whereby Africa takes on continental macy. Before coming to SIPA, he was SIPA’s Institute of proportions. We need to think of director of the Center for African African Studies at a North Africa as part of Africa,” he Studies at the University of Cape Mparticularly appropriate time. The said, “and understand boundaries as Town, South Africa. He is the author Uganda-born scholar will help the porous, depending on the themes of of Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Institute chart a new course reflective study.” Africa and the Legacy of Late Colo- of Africa’s post-Apartheid “reconfigu- Mamdani, who stepped into his nialism (Princeton University Press.) ration.” new job last fall, said that Africa’s Mamdani is Columbia’s Herbert “In the colonial and Cold War reconfiguration will be reflected not Lehman Professor of Government. context, Africa meant the land between only in the broader geographical con- His teaching duties include courses in Mahmood Mamdani the Sahara and the Limpopo. North text, but in greater collaboration the Anthropology and Political Sci- will take a more thematic approach to Africa was considered, therefore, part among SIPA’s regional institutes. “It ence departments. African studies. of the Middle East, and South Africa means much more of a thematic Mamdani, who is married to the was considered an exception because exploration, rather than an area-based film director Mira Nair, replaces of its white population,” Mamdani exploration,” he said. George Bond, who has returned to said. Mamdani holds a Ph.D. from teaching and research after heading

14 SIPA news urbanaffairs

New Nonprofit Lab To Boost Harlem Tourism

By Akiko Oi IPA students are prepar- ment (HCCI), a consortium of more ing to launch and manage than 90 congregations. their own nonprofit orga- “SIPA students have a great deal nization as part of a new that can benefit us. It’s great to see course in the Master of SIPA’s interest in the community,” SPublic Administration program. said Paul H. Dunn, the HCCI’s vice The Nonprofit Management president for human services. Lab is designed to give students The Harlem project is expected to hands-on experience in running a real get under way during the spring semes- nonprofit, and is part of a broader ter. The fall semester was devoted to SIPA effort to expand course offer- research, under the guidance of two ings for students interested in study- instructors, associate professors Mark ing policy and administration within Gordon and Paula Wilson. the nonprofit sector. Students divided themselves into This spring semester, students six teams. They hit the books and the expect to file for 501(c)(3) status to streets and investigated the current register the class as a nonprofit corpo- status of tourism in Harlem, fund- ration. In the meantime, the course’s raising possibilities, the legal require- 17 students have settled on the non- ments for incorporation, different profit’s first project — tourism types of tourism models, and other promotion at Harlem churches. facets of the project. Students also Harlem churches already are interviewed Harlem ministers indi- wildly popular tourist destinations. vidually to learn about each church’s On Sunday mornings, visitors from specific needs. Brazil to Japan arrive by the busload The churches, for their part, to hear Harlem’s world renowned have several ideas of their own to gospel choirs. boost tourism. They include made-in- But because most of the bus Harlem products, Harlem “gospel companies and tourism ventures are tours” and “gospel nights,” and not locally owned, the profits don’t church Web sites. stay in Harlem. The aim of the non- SIPA students could help with profit is to help the churches keep those ventures by providing assis- revenues in the community and gen- tance with research, development and erate additional profits through marketing, Metzgar said. tourism-related products and activi- But the Harlem tourism initia- ties, said Johanna Metzgar, the Lab’s tive is not just about making money, student manager. she added. “A lot of these ministers “SIPA students Students Johanna Metz- Students said the course offers want to have more contact with gar and Tarece L. John- son outside the Mt. valuable, hands-on experience that tourists — they want it to be a real Moriah Baptist Church they’ll be able to put to good use after cultural exchange,” she said. have a great deal in Harlem. graduation. “This is the most impor- The Nonprofit Lab is evolving tant course I take here at SIPA. It with each new semester, Metzgar that can actually impacts people and makes a said. If the Harlem initiative becomes difference,” said class member Tarece self-sustaining, students may move L. Johnson (MPA ’00), who hopes to on to another project. benefit us. It’s great start her own nonprofit after gradua- tion. Akiko Oi (MIA ’00) is studying media to see SIPA’s inter- The Harlem tourist initiative is a and human rights. She is from Yonago, joint effort with the Harlem Congre- Japan and has worked for the Japanese est in the commu- gations for Community Improve- wire service Jiji Press.

SIPA news 15 Center Probes Impact of Candidates’ Agendas

By Tammy Allen oters interested in “The National Urban League which are not often addressed learning how a presi- applauds Columbia University’s directly in presidential campaigns. dential candidate’s efforts to educate the public about “The problems of cities have political agenda would the impact of candidates’ platforms not received much attention by affect America’s cities and positions on citizens in urban national candidates, so the Urban may take advantage of areas,” said Price. Impact Statements will alert people Va new service provided by SIPA’s Cen- Compiled by a working group of of these issues. They will help make ter for Urban Research and Policy. about 30 Columbia faculty members, urban problems more visible to vot- The Center will begin publishing the statements will analyze candidates’ ers,” said Alan Brinkley, a Columbia a series of “Urban Impact State- positions on crime, gun control, history professor and working group ments” examining the political and health care, taxes, education, poverty member. social agendas of U.S. presidential and other issues, said Gordon. The reports also will help voters candidates from the perspective of the The analyses will be conducted “protect themselves from manipula- needs and concerns of urban areas. without regard to a candidate’s tion by candidates and the media,” The project, which is partially political party and will not include said Robert Shapiro, a political sci- funded by Columbia’s Institute for ratings or endorsements. Working ence professor and member of the Social and Economic Theory and group members will draw on their working group. Research, is intended to help educate expertise in economics, race, poli- Eileen Nadelson, president of voters and stimulate policy discussion tics, and health and welfare policy. the League of Women Voters of the in anticipation of upcoming primary The first statement was City of New York, said the statements elections and the November 2000 expected to be issued in late 1999. will assist voters as they sort through general election, said Mark Gordon, The Center then will issue regular the field of primary candidates. acting director of the Center and an updates as the candidates’ positions associate professor at SIPA. evolve, said Gordon. Reports will be Tammy Allen is studying media and Hugh B. Price, president of the available at the Center’s Web site: communications at SIPA. Previously, National Urban League, the New www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/CURP. she was director of Columbia’s Institute York-based social service and civil The Center decided to under- for Medieval Japanese Studies. rights organization, said the reports take the project as a way to bring are an important service to voters. greater prominence to urban issues,

SIPA Helps Solve City’s Trash Troubles

By Mitra Malek IPA’s Center for “It’s a real opportunity to have garbage to incineration plants in Urban Research and academic expertise help shape what New Jersey and landfills in Virginia. Policy has joined direction the city moves,” said Mark But that still leaves half of the forces with Colum- Gordon, acting director of the Cen- city’s garbage with nowhere to go. bia’s Earth Engineer- ter for Urban Research and Policy. The new destinations also are ing Center to help Fresh Kills, the world’s largest unpopular with local officials in NewS York City find a new destina- trash dump, will close permanently New Jersey, who don’t want New tion for its trash. on Dec. 31, 2001. The Staten Island York City trash trucks clogging Gar- The Task Force on Integrated facility was the sole destination for den State roadways. Waste Management will offer techni- the 13,000 tons of residential waste The Task Force was initiated by cal advice and suggest public policy generated each day in the city’s five Vice Dean Steven Cohen and Nick- strategies to the City of New York as boroughs. But under a temporary olas Themelis, director of the Earth it searches for a solution to its trash plan, the city in October 1999 Engineering Center at the Columbia crisis. began diverting about half its Earth Institute.

16 SIPA news American Library Association the evidence of recent violence in the students who always have all the nec- Late last spring semester, an African- (ALA) nation’s public schools, which might essary materials. These children are American tenth grader from the have been shaped by exposure to generally B average students with High School for the Humanities FILTERING: depictions of hate and violence, either parents who want them to become A asked me to help her study for her CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 on film, TV, or the Internet. students, if not the “number one” final exam and her Regents exam in This fall, I am using as the topic students in their classes. In all such biology. When I learned the student during her April 15 syndicated of my Workshop in Public Manage- cases, I have been able to fulfill the had no biology textbook, and had broadcast for recommending “Go ment course at SIPA the implementa- parents’s wishes. Consequently, my never had a biology textbook Ask Alice” to teenagers. In further tion of S. 97, asking my students not reputation has grown and I have throughout two semesters of biology castigating the ALA for its linkages to only to design a program to carry out become known as the teacher who I was outraged. I immediately noti- questionable sites, Dr. Laura wrote to the legislative intent as it is now con- can produce A students. While such fied Chancellor Rudy Crew, Com- Association officials: “ . . . by advo- stituted but also to develop a contin- successes enable me to pay the rent missioner of Education Richard cating open access to hard-core smut, gency plan in the event that litiga- and inflate my ego, they also remind Mills, ABC News, NBC News, and the ALA has constructed a protected tion, involving the rights of minors me of what I am not doing, but City Comptroller Alan Hevesi. haven to corrupt our innocent.” under the First Amendment, ensues could do with children of color if Within 48 hours, the student was A very heavy-handed approach after the bill is enacted. As the stu- only they had equal access to text- given a biology textbook. toward the issue is Senate bill 97 (S. dents work through the semester, books and other resources. Unfortunately, for my student, 97), the Children’s Internet Protec- they are becoming increasingly aware Providing students with text- it was too late. She had only three tion Act, introduced by Senator John that the technological solution pro- books is not just a good idea; in New weeks before her final and four weeks McCain (R-Arizona), chairman of posed by Senator McCain may only York State, it’s the law. According to before her Regents exam to prep for the Senate Commerce Committee, in exacerbate the problem without solv- the New York State Education Law: two semesters of biology. She failed January 1999. Although some of the ing it. Filtering technology, based on both exams. She has since dropped filtering initiatives proposed by Con- keyword scanning, wipes out the In the several cities and school dis- out of school. Biology was not the gress merely require that schools and Web site for the Mars Exploration tricts of the state, boards of educa- only class for which she had no text- libraries receiving federal funds adopt endeavor because the URL “Marsex” tion, trustees or such body or offi- book. She also had no books for an Acceptable Use Policy that gov- contains the word “sex.” Blocking cers as perform the function of such math or Spanish, both of which she erns access to the Internet by minors, technology, based on the selections of boards shall have the power and also failed. the McCain bill goes beyond the staff who screen the sites themselves, duty to purchase and to loan upon I believe that textbooks are requirement of a policy by mandating eliminates the National Organization individual request, textbooks, to all available somewhere. I have been that schools and libraries must pur- for Women, because its Web pages (italics added) children residing in told that books are often stored in chase technology to filter or block deal with a woman’s right to choose such district who are enrolled in a school basements, closets, cabinets sites depicting obscenity and child an abortion. In both of these cases, public school . (Article 15, Sec- and warehouses, rather than placed in pornography. The bill also allows, but the market mechanisms to either fil- tion 701) the hands of children who need does not mandate, local authorities to ter or block offensive Internet sites them. FEAT’S mission is to address use these mechanisms in restricting not only inhibit the transmission of I had complained for several this problem of unequal textbook dis- access to additional sites deemed constitutionally protected speech, but years about the unequal distribution tribution. We’re a struggling entity, inappropriate for minors. Although also serve to illustrate that no mecha- of textbooks in public schools, but no fighting battles against social injus- E-rate funds can be used to pay for nism can ever serve as a surrogate for one ever acknowledged my com- tice, and we’re always looking for the acquisition of these blocking the rightful role of parents, teachers, plaints. I wrote scores of letters about support from like-minded individuals devices, the General Accounting and librarians in addressing the issue this problem to teachers, principals, and organizations. Office estimates that the funds of children’s access to the Internet. district superintendents, the chancel- required for their purchase could At a recent hearing on S. 97, lor, mayor, governor, congressional Cecelia Caruso (MIA ‘80) taught political amount to a nationwide expenditure Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-South representatives, senators and even the science at Long Island University and served of tens of millions of dollars. Espe- Carolina), a co-sponsor of the president. I wrote to newspapers, as a drug rehabilitation administrator. Cur- cially hard hit will be the largest of McCain bill, wearily commented that magazines, TV stations and organiza- rently, she is executive director of FEAT, Inc., U.S. cities having sizeable numbers “after 30 years and billions of dollars tions concerned about education. and a member of the local advisory board of of school classrooms and many fighting drugs, we are back to the Except for a letter to the editor, WBAI FM 99.5. She lives in New York City. branch public libraries. In anticipa- task of education. Why shouldn’t we which appeared in New York News- tion of the bill’s passage, vendors of start with education here?” Wearily, day in 1994, none of the other recipi- filtering technology are already offer- the three national educational associ- ents ever responded. ing discounts to schools and libraries. ations reiterate the same point: That is, not until I decided to Organizations opposed to the “Indeed, why not start with educa- take the problem of textbooks to the McCain bill include almost all of the tion here?” The S. 97 workshop stu- public. I started a petition, which major civil libertarian groups, includ- dents may not find an answer to that demanded that all children in the ing the American Civil Liberties question, but during the semester public schools receive a full comple- Union, which has coined the phrase, they are being exposed to the thorny ment of textbooks. I stood on the “censorship in a box,” to describe the problems of legislating a new tech- streets and in the malls of all five bor- use of filters on computer terminals. nology, which is neither print, nor oughs in the City of New York col- Regarding the McCain bill as a broadcast, nor film, and to the ever- lecting signatures and making the flawed “one-size-fits-all” solution, compelling issue of federal interven- public aware of the unequal distribu- three major organizations most tion in the conduct of schools and tion of textbooks. It was while col- affected by the bill, the American public libraries, historically a matter lecting signatures (more than 5,500) Library Association, the National left up almost entirely to local author- that numerous people urged me to Education Association (NEA), and ity and state oversight. form an organization committed to the National Parent Teachers Associa- the cause of equal distribution of tion, all oppose the bill. In the words R. Kathleen Molz retires this January as pro- textbooks. of the NEA, the McCain bill and oth- fessor of public affairs at SIPA, where she has In July 1998 I formed FEAT ers of like ilk “would strip decision- taught since 1993. With Phyllis Dain, profes- (Fighting for Equality in Allocation making on Internet usage from local sor emerita in Columbia’s School of Library of Textbooks), a nonprofit, 501 (c) school boards, foist new and untried Service, Dr. Molz co-authored Civic (3), tax-deductible organization. technology on schools, and force Space/Cyberspace: The American Public During the 1998-99 school year, schools to purchase and upgrade soft- Library in the Information Age, published by FEAT was responsible for getting ware and train staff.” Equally vehe- The MIT Press in February, 1999. textbooks distributed at seven public ment, however, are the bill’s support- schools in Manhattan and the Bronx. ers, including conservatives and rep- Among them was Bayard Rustin resentatives of the Religious Right, High School for the Humanities in who buttress their arguments with Manhattan. However, the problem persists.

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organizations in New York. The group’s co-founder is Sharmila Rao (MPA ’00). Rao, who is also co-president of WPIA, is among students who split their time between two or more groups. She was involved in community ser- vice projects before coming to SIPA, and was determined to continue doing similar work while pursuing her mas- ter’s degree. Even RPCV, which is primarily a social club, works Professor Richard Betts was the end of the Cold War Lionel Trilling Prize for best each year to raise money for Peace Corps-related projects. recently appointed by Senate through an examination of book by a Columbia profes- Last year members raised $1,000 in humanitarian aid for Minority Leader Tom experiences in Bosnia, sor for Shifting the Color Honduras and Thailand. Daschle to the National Lebanon, Somalia, Line: Race and the Ameri- But if student groups span a wide range of interests Commission on Terrorism. Afghanistan, Panama, Haiti, can Welfare State. The book and objectives, they also vary greatly in endurance. Some The 10-member panel, the Persian Gulf and South examined the influence of become fixtures of extracurricular life. The oldest student chaired by former U.S. Korea. race on American social poli- group is Nihon Benko Kai, a Japanese study group, which Ambassador-at-Large for The volume of essays cy since the New Deal. has been around for more than 40 years. Others start off Counterterrorism, L. Paul includes a reassessment of with a bang and then fizzle out once the active members Bremer III, will develop rec- the casualties theory, arguing Assistant Professor David graduate or lose interest. ommendations on ways to that Americans will support Downie has published sever- New or old, though, all groups must register with combat terrorism. interventions that risk life al environmental pieces this the SIPA Student Affairs Office. SIPASA, SIPA’s student Betts knows a fair and limb of U.S. fighting year, none more important, association, manages and allocates money for student amount about terrorism, forces if they are persuaded he says, than his United groups. New groups generally receive $50 to $100; older based on his scholarly work that the cause is a deserving Nations document for the groups receive substantially more. in U.S. defense policy and one. Caraley notes that the global negotiations on creat- However, some student groups operate somewhat military strategy, not to essay might have been useful ing a treaty to control persis- outside the official system. Among them are working mention 14 years in Wash- to Saddam Hussein, who tent organic pollutants groups, which address specific problems or issues. The ington, D.C. working with “was made to believe we (POPS). Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs concentration the Brookings Institution. would not use ground forces The treaty would ban or especially encourages these groups, which are more flexible He also worked for the on the basis of the casualties severely restrict DDT, diox- and loosely structured than traditional student clubs. National Security Council hypothesis.” ins, PCBs and nine other “We are basically an energy-based group,” said Laila and the Senate Select Com- The volume, published agricultural or pesticide Mehta, co-coordinator and co-founder of the Women’s mittee on Intelligence. in September by Columbia chemicals. “These things are Rights Working Group (WRWG). “If someone has an Still, Betts concedes, University Press, contains an really nasty. They could be idea to do something — whether it’s a brown bag, or he’s no expert. So, what does introduction by Professor linked with all sorts of huge fund-raising, or a panel or outreach — we’re basically an he have to offer the Com- Robert Jervis. Caraley is edi- health problems,” Downie infrastructure to give support to those ideas.” mission? “Great wisdom and tor of Political Science Quar- said. Downie also wrote a Dr. Paul Martin, director of the Center for the Study sober judgment,” he terly, where the essays first piece in the fall 1999 Earth of Human Rights at SIPA, said that these working groups answered. appeared. This spring, he Matters and has contributed help students profit from one another’s experiences and Betts directs the Insti- will teach a section of the chapters this year to two make contacts in particular professions. The groups also tute of War and Peace Stud- MPA workshop. books: The United Nations perform an important function for the school by identify- ies and the International and the Global Environment ing gaps in the curriculum and lobbying for new courses. Security Policy program at The forthcoming Presiden- in the 21st Century: From Members of the Women’s Rights Working Group did SIPA. He is a senior fellow at tial Power: Forging the Pres- Common Challenges to just that last year. A new course, Feminist Theory in Inter- the Council on Foreign idency for the 21st Century Shared Responsibilities, and national Affairs, was added to the curriculum this year Relations. will include a chapter by Anarchy and the Environ- through members’ efforts. Associate Professor Robert ment: The International The New American Inter- Lieberman titled Relations of Common Pool Raffi Khatchadourian (MIA ‘00) is concentrating in Interna- ventionism: Lessons from “Political Time and Policy Resources. tional Media and Communications at SIPA. Last semester, he Successes and Failures, Coalitions: Structure and interned at the United Nations bureau of the BBC. edited by Professor Agency in Presidential Assistant Professor Arvid Demetrios James Caraley, Power.” Lukauskas takes a critical paints a portrait of American Last year, Lieberman look at scholarly work in military intervention since won the University’s 1998 international finance and

18 SIPA news lems with academia today is evaluation and effectiveness ed in the region will be to the fragmentation of knowl- of ethics programs. She is a help preserve dwellers find edge. People are too highly public-sector ethics adviser new and better ways to make specialized and don’t see the for the Division of Public a living in harmony with general context within Economics and Public their natural environment. which their more focused Administration in the Unit- The key will be local involve- research fits.” ed Nations Secretariat’s ment in the decision-making Foltz got the idea for Department of Economic process, he said. Religions of the Silk Road: and Social Affairs. “Often, the problem Overland Trade and Cultural During the fall semester, with international develop- monetary policy in the sum- projects. Adjunct Professor Exchange from Antiquity to Armstrong taught a mini- ment is that it’s the outsiders mer 1999 issue of Review of Joseph Mehan’s class on the Fifteenth Century while course on corruption and who determine what locals International Political Econ- communications and the watching a slide show sever- development. should do. Our approach is omy. United Nations is in its al years ago on art from the to strengthen local people’s In “Managing Mobile eighth year, while Preventive historic Asian trade route. Adjunct Professor Bill capacity to identify how to Capital: Recent Scholarship Diplomacy and Conflict “What you can see from Berkeley’s new book, The better use resources and to on the International Political Resolution in the U.N. is this art is that it was a bizarre Color of Darkness: Portraits prioritize what they need,” Economy of Finance,” being offered this spring for amalgamation of religious of Race, Tribe and Power, Gurung said. Lukauskas argues that schol- the fourth time. SIPA’s annu- and cultural iconography, draws from his experiences Gurung is a program ars are not paying enough al U.N. Day is one of the where all these different tra- during a decade of reporting director for capacity devel- attention to the private- and school’s most popular ditions are thrown together. in Liberia, Zaire, South opment initiatives at the public-sector actors making events. I just wanted to explore how Africa, Sudan, Uganda and Trace Foundation, which financial policy today. Bartoli replaces Stephen this came to be,” Foltz said. Rwanda for The Atlantic has been supporting com- “By not understanding P. Marks at the helm of the The Silk Road will be Monthly, The New Republic munity-based projects in the who these actors are, what U.N. Studies Program. Last the topic of a class taught by and other publications. The northwest and southwest their preferences are, you get fall, Marks became a profes- Foltz this spring. book, which probes ethnici- regions of China since 1995. a very inaccurate picture of sor of health and human ty and conflict in Africa, was At SIPA, Gurung teach- what is really driving the rights at Harvard University, Adjunct Professor Elia Yi due for publication late this es the Applied Workshop in whole process,” Lukauskas but continued to teach inter- Armstrong was pleasantly year. International Development. said. national law at SIPA. surprised by the turnout at the Ninth International When Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor Daniel Senior Research Scholar When it comes to scholarly Anti-Corruption Confer- Ashok Gurung talks about Klooster’s Ph.D. disserta- Andrea Bartoli is the new interests, Visiting Professor ence in Durban, South scaling new heights, he’s not tion dealt with community director of SIPA’s U.N. Richard Foltz is all over the Africa, Oct. 10-15. kidding. Gurung was in the forestry in Mexico, and he Studies Program. Bartoli map. His latest book, pub- “The organizers antici- Himalayas in late October hasn’t stopped writing about takes over as the school seeks lished in September, is about pated 1,000 and 1,600 for the signing of a memo- it since. Klooster has recent- to integrate the program religions of the Silk Road in showed up. I think there’s a randum of understanding ly published three articles on more fully into other areas of Central Asia. Currently, he’s real interest in government, between the New York- the subject, among them one study, among them human writing about the wilderness civil society, and the private based Trace Foundation and in which he contrasts suc- rights and humanitarian debate in the American West. sector in the effects of cor- the Qomolangma (Everest) cessful community-based affairs, conflict resolution, “I suppose I’m a cultural ruption on the development National Preserve Working forest management systems and security policy. historian and environmental process,” said Armstrong, a Commission. in the southern state of Oax- “There’s a great interest ethicist. But I’m interested panelist at the conference. The memorandum sup- aca, with systems in the same in the United Nations in everything,” Foltz said. “I Armstrong spoke on the ports ongoing sustainable area that have not worked among students. We had think one of the major prob- development in the 27,000- out well. more than 100 students sign acre Qomolangma Nature “What’s happening in up this year for U.N.-related Preserve. The preserve, Oaxaca is that some 80 to 90 activities such as courses, which takes in Mount Ever- percent of forests are owned internships, and discussion est, is home to about 80,000 by village communities, and groups,” Bartoli said. people, mostly nomads and a number of these communi- SIPA’s already strong subsistence farmers who eke ties have been able to estab- relationship with the U.N. is out a meager living, aided by lish community-based forest reflected in an array of cur- government subsidies. management doing logging, rent course offerings, pro- The challenge faced by and, in some cases, they even grams, lectures and joint Gurung and others interest- have sawmills. Some of these

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projects are doing well, but “When moderate A number of new employees during winter 1999, on some of them need a lot of politicians go to the voters have joined the staff at SIPA. assignment from the Univer- help.” and say, ‘We have to do these sity Office of Development Some of that help will things to one day join the Tom Lansner (MIA ’91) is a and Alumni Relations. Dial be coming from SIPA stu- European Union,’ they have new assistant dean of student is involved in solicitation of dents. As part of the Eco- to have something to show affairs, assigned to the individual donors and nomic and Political Devel- in return,” Vachudova said. human rights and humani- administers the volunteer opment Workshop in “The two intermediate tarian affairs, international class chair program for the Applied International rewards which mean the media and communications, Annual Fund. Development this spring, most are visa-free travel for and economic and political Dial has had a long students will devise an eval- people and market access development concentrations. association with Columbia uation strategy to help the for agricultural and indus- Lansner will continue teach- University. From 1991 to World Bank assess its Com- trial goods,” ing Perceptions and Politics 1997, he worked in a num- munity Forestry Project in Vachudova’s specialties, of Global News each spring ber of capacities, among Oaxaca. The project aims to the EU and NATO expan- Lansner, who holds a them development officer help create social capital in sion, will take her from bachelor’s degree from and associate director for the Oaxacan indigenous com- Stanford to Harvard to Hobart College, has been a Columbia University Office munities. Prague Castle for speaking consultant for the United of Annual Giving and direc- Klooster will be the facul- engagements this winter. Nations Development Pro- tor of Annual Giving at tysupervisor for the project. At SIPA, she taught his- gram and the Ford Founda- Columbia Law School. tory and development of the tion. He reported on Africa Melissa Poueymirou Adjunct Professor Milada EU during the fall semester. and Asia as a freelance writer came to SIPA to help launch Vachudova’s Aug. 12 piece — Anne Burke for 10 years. the new Executive MPA in the International Herald SIPA’s new assistant program at the Picker Center Tribune argues that the dean for student life, Sara for Executive Education. As European Union can help Mason, is responsible for assistant director for the stabilize the Balkans by giv- overseeing student groups, Center, she is responsible for ing its people and goods coordinating orientation and administration of the EMPA access to Western Europe. handling the annual spring program, student recruit- open house for prospective ment, faculty coordination students. and new program develop- Dean Lisa Anderson, right, with James Rubin (MIA ‘84), assistant secretary of state for public Mason has more than ment. affairs, and his wife, Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, who shared the podium at SIPA’s 1999 commencement ceremonies. Both urged graduates to reject cynicism in 10 years of experience in stu- Before coming to SIPA, favor of passion and courage in their jobs. dent services. She was assis- Poueymirou was an account tant director of professional manager at Columbia Busi- programs and external rela- ness School. She graduated tions at City College, New from SUNY Binghamton York, and worked on educa- with a bachelor’s degree in tional programming for a comparative literature. number of nongovernmental Karen Fairclough is in a organizations. Mason holds a newly created position at master’s degree in cinema SIPA—financial aid officer. studies from New York Uni- She joined SIPA in 1998 versity. after six years as a financial Student Affairs Officer aid officer at Georgia Insti- Anne Doherty stepped into tute of Technology. her new role after three years Fairclough doesn’t just with SIPA’s Office of Devel- spend her work days at SIPA. opment and Alumni Rela- On Saturdays, she attends tions. She is a student liaison the new Executive MPA pro- for the MPA program, in gram. She is a graduate of charge of program assistants, Amherst College and was an special events and academic elementary school teacher in records. Boston. She also has studied Rodrick Dial joined at Teachers College. SIPA’s development team A 1999 graduate of

20 SIPA news Columbia College, Edward Deb Carter began as Kim is the new systems coor- Vice Dean Steven Cohen’s notes dinator for the SIPA Com- administrative assistant in Class puting Center. He is respon- May. Previously, she was a sible for supervising com- program coordinator at the puter lab consultants and American Assembly, a public overseeing the day-to-day policy forum at Columbia. operations of the Center. He Carol Banks is the new also trains SIPA’s computer project coordinator for Pro- consultants and audio-visual fessor David N. Dinkins, the technicians. former New York City Awilda Medina, the mayor. Banks handles media 1957 1965 @aol.com new administrative assistant relations, research and writ- PETER D. EHRENHAFT, MEL GURTOV, MIA, is a to Assistant Dean Barbara ing, and special events. She MIA, was recently Gombach, came to SIPA in has been an assistant vice appointed the American 1978 June, after working as a president at New York Uni- Bar Association’s represen- development assistant with versity, an executive assistant tative to the Department CAROLE GRUNBERG, MIA, the Foreign Policy Associa- to the president of Bronx of Commerce-U.S. Trade is legislative director to tion. She is a full-time stu- Community College and a Representative Industry Senator Ron Wyden (D- dent at Lehman College in freelance editor. Sector Advisory Commit- Or.). She assists the senator the Bronx, working toward The new administrative tee for Trade in Services, with issues before the Sen- a bachelor’s degree in social assistant for the Department and served as an ABA dele- ate Commerce Committee, work. of International Affairs, gate to the WTO Minister- particularly information Maria Barrios, provides sup- ial Meeting in Seattle in professor of political sci- technology, e-commerce, port for 90 faculty and December. PEHREN- ence and international aviation and international adjunct faculty members. [email protected] studies at Portland State trade. Stress relief includes m University. He recently training for the Marine published two books: Corps marathon and China’s Security: The New national squash competi- The unique single-topic journal with Roles of the Military [email protected] multiple perspectives (Lynne Rienner, 1998) ate.gov and Global Politics in the JOURNAL OF Human Interest (Lynne Rienner, 1999). mgur- 1980 INTERNATIONAL [email protected] JOE COLLINS, MIA, for- LAWRENCE ZIRING, MIA, merly chief speechwriter AFFAIRS is the Arnold E. Schneider 1966 for the Chairman of the Professor of Political Sci- Joint Chiefs, has retired C OLUMBIA U NIVERSITY ence at Western Michigan TED D’AFFLISIO, MIA, is from the Army after 28 SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS University. He is in his the financial desk editor for years of service. Now a 33rd year of teaching at Reuters. 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SIPA news 21 and survived unscathed years, testifying before 1981 after a black-bear nosed committees of the U.S. GARY GAMER, MIA, directs around his tent. kmans- Congress and appearing on the International Programs [email protected]. numerous radio and TV Department for Holt Inter- programs. She is married national Children’s Services, LAWRENCE C. REARDON, and has three children. which helps children and MIA, received tenure at the [email protected] families around the world University of New Hamp- with adoption and family shire, where he has been REBECCA M. LOEW, MPA, reunification. He lives in teaching Asian politics and earned her Ph.D. in social Eugene, Oregon with his policy studies at The Cato international relations since PEGGY TURBETT, MIA, welfare policy from Bran- wife and their three children Institute, a lecturer at the 1991. His book on Chinese completed an M.S. degree deis University in 1992; and would like to hear from School of International Ser- foreign economic policy will from Ohio University’s from 1993-1998 she taught his old friends at Columbia. vice at American University, be published by the Univer- E.W. Scripps School of graduate courses in social [email protected] and the Washington corre- sity of Washington Press. Journalism in June 1999. policy and administration at spondent for the Singapore He’s currently on sabbatical An assistant photo director the School of Social Work MARGO BERCH MATZDORF, Business Times. He has writing a book on China’s at the Cincinnati Enquirer, of Adelphi University. She MPA, is the coordinator of published a book entitled coastal development strategy. she previously worked as a and her husband, Paul the Women and Children’s Quagmire: America in the [email protected] photographer and editor at Carmichael, have two chil- Services Unit, in the Bureau Middle East and articles in As a senior business adviser American Banker. She plans dren. In addition to caring of Treatment Policy and the New York Times and at the U.S. Agency for to celebrate the new millen- for Zachariah (almost 3) Resource Development, for Foreign Affairs. He has also nium with a month-long and Lilian (1 ), Rebecca the New York State Office appeared on CNN, BBC and tour of Southeast Asia. works part-time as a consul- of Alcoholism and Sub- CBC. LeonHadar@aol. com tant. [email protected] stance Abuse Services. Based in Albany, she travels ROCHELLE A. FORTIER 1985 across the state assisting NWADIBIA, MIA, has opened 1987 women’s treatment ALEX KAPLAN, MIA, a man- providers on issues such as aging principal for K-12 WELLINGTON CHU, MIA, welfare reform and foster Services for IBM Education returned to the States after care laws. for North America, is working in Taipei, Hong [email protected] International Development, responsible for all IBM’s Kong, and Beijing from CHARLES SANTANGELO, consulting and services, 1988 to 1996. He held MICHAEL PETTIS, MIA, a MPA, has started an Inter- involving the integration of positions in marketing managing director in the net-based trade network to technology in the classroom. research and marketing at Capital Markets Group at facilitate commerce and As a break from his hectic AC Nielsen in Beijing, Bear Stearns, is currently goodwill among five Balkan work schedule, he traveled Unilever in Hong Kong, writing a book on the his- countries. Charles co-edited to Europe with his family. and Saatchi and Saatchi. tory of sovereign debt and a law practice in San Fran- a biography of his father, He lives in Albuquerque, He’s currently the marketing debt crisis over the past 180 cisco and serves on the Lucky Corner: The Biogra- NM. [email protected] plans and brand develop- years. He is an adjunct pro- board of the African Immi- phy of Congressman Alfred ment manager for the Ford fessor at SIPA and also grant and Refugee Resource E. Santangelo and the Rise JOHN WYSHAM, MIA, Econoline van. He and his teaches at the Columbia Center. Rochelle specializes of Italian-Americans in Poli- recently began a two-year wife, Wakami Shimizu, Business School. Mpet- in immigration law. She is tics. He is also pursuing an assignment as a refugee reside in Ann Arbor, MI. [email protected] married with three children. Executive MBA at George- coordinator in Sarajevo, [email protected] [email protected] town University. Bosnia and Herzegovina. He previously served as a ANN TUCKER HACKETT 1982 FRANK WONG, MIA, was foreign service officer in (FORMERLY ELLINGHAUS), recently appointed general 1984 China, Trinidad and MIA, is a senior credit offi- MICHELLE MILLER-ADAMS, manager of Frito Lay in Tobago, Washington, D.C., cer in the Power Group at MIA, received her Ph.D. in China. He and his wife, CLAIRE MCLEVEIGHN, and Kazakhstan. Moody’s Investors Service in political science from Cindy, and their 5-year old MPA, has been promoted to [email protected]. New York, where she assigns Columbia in 1997. She and daughter, Jennifer, will be assistant county manager of bond ratings to electric utili- her husband, Richard based in Shanghai. Fulton County, Georgia. ties. She was recently inter- Adams, a composer, live in [email protected]. She also serves as state 1986 viewed on CNBC on the Michigan, where she is a public policy chair for the credit implications of a com- writer and editor and American Association of CATHERINE O’NEILL, MIA, teaches at Western Michi- 1983 University Women of was appointed director of gan University. Her book, Georgia. Claire is married the U.N. Information Cen- The World Bank: A New Paul B. Christensen, MIA, and has two sons, ages eight tre in Washington, D.C. Agenda in a Changing recently spent a week and ten. Founder of the Women’s World (Routledge UK) was canoeing and fishing in [email protected] Commission for Refugee published in 1999. Northern Minnesota. He Women and Children, she [email protected] caught walleyed pike and has been a public advocate LEON HADAR, MIA, is a northern pike, saw a timber on international humanitar- research fellow in foreign wolf and three bald eagles, ian issues for the past 20

22 SIPA news pleted merger. Ann and her and Asian Survey. Victor ated by the U.S. Govern- Academy for International MIA/MBA, is a group husband live in Greenwich, frequently comments on ment to address the declin- and Area Studies and product manager in the Ct.; she would enjoy hearing East Asian security for ing state of science and received her Ph.D. from Consumer and Online from colleagues in the area. radio engineering in the FSU by Columbia University last Solutions group at Adobe [email protected] and television and consults fostering collaborative pro- May. She’s currently an assis- Systems Inc., managing the for various branches of the jects between FSU and U.S. tant professor of Political definition and marketing of JOANNE HORWOOD U.S. government. researchers. [email protected] Science at Emory University, online software applications HEYMAN, MIA, was pro- teaching courses on Chinese for worldwide distribution. moted to managing director GINA EICHNER CINALI, politics and foreign policy. She and her husband, Paul of the Financial Services Vol- MIA, is director of the 1990 [email protected] Bickford, have a son, Sebas- unteer Corps, an interna- Transnational MBA pro- tian, born in August. tional organization based in gram at Fordham Univer- RANDOLPH W. B AXTER, [email protected] New York that provides sity’s Graduate School of MIA, received his Ph.D. in 1991 technical assistance to coun- Business. She also teaches History from the University ROBERT JYSTAD, MIA, tries in Central Eastern courses on the Middle East of California at Irvine in GREGORY VISCUSI, MIA, Europe, the former Soviet and on world affairs at September, after complet- is a reporter at Bloomberg Union and Asia seeking to Fordham, Ignatius College, ing his dissertation on News. He set up the Milan develop market economies. NYU, and in the SUNY “Eradicating This Menace: bureau in 1992 and since She lives in Hastings-on- system. Although regularly Homophobia and Anti- 1997 has been based in Hudson with her husband, working 70-hour weeks, Communism in Congress, Paris as a pan-European fea- Lewis (SIPA’86), and she still finds time to garden 1947-1954.” He is cur- tures writer. their daughters, Hannah and be with her children rently a visiting professor of [email protected] and Emmanuelle. Alex, 14, and Mikala, 12. History at UCI and wel- [email protected] [email protected] comes contact from former SIPA colleagues. rwbax- 1992 a Telecom regulatory offi- CHRIS WARSHAW, MPA, is a ALISON B. HOOKER, MIA, [email protected] cer, was the principal author principal in the firm of was promoted to partner at JAMES LONERGAN, MPA, is of the Los Angeles IT PHB Hagler Bailly, where Ernst & Young this sum- LUCY CRAFT, MIA, assistant director/user ser- Agency Broadband Access he advises corporations on mer. She serves as the Mid- founded Friends of the vices coordinator at the Eric Report. The report, which their environmental pro- Atlantic director of eco- Kurilsky Nature Reserve, an Clearinghouse on Urban analyzed the need to require grams and consults to law nomics, based out of Wash- NGO whose mission is to Education at Teachers Col- cable companies’ high speed firms on a wide range of ington, D.C. The division educate the Japanese about lege. He received an M.S. in Internet platforms to be environmental-related liti- focuses on benchmarking, the Northern Territories. Library and Information opened to unaffiliated gation. He lives near the econometric modeling and The non-partisan group Service from the University Internet Service Providers, beach with his wife, Susan, other analysis for tax, real aims to create a con- of Illinois in 1996. James is considered and their two daughters, estate and management stituency for joint Japanese- had worked as a senior assis- the best work by any local Kate (5) and Johanna (3), consulting purposes. ali- Russian conservation. Cur- tant manager at the New government on the issue. and would enjoy hearing [email protected] rently seeking grants and York Public Library and as [email protected] from his former classmates. volunteers, she welcomes an assistant librarian for [email protected] After three years as a corre- the advice and help of SIPA Rand in Washington, D.C. YALMAN ONARAN, MIA, m spondent for NBC, alums. [email protected] [email protected] has been Bloomberg News DONATELLA LORCH, MIA, mbia.edu bureau chief in Istanbul for is now based in Washing- JOSHUA FARLEY, MIA, over a year. He is trying to 1988 ton, D.C. as a staff reporter received his Ph.D. in Agri- resume a normal life after for Newsweek, covering the cultural, Resource and 1993 covering last summer’s Department of Justice and Managerial Economics devastating earthquake. the FBI. “I’m going back to from Cornell in January, LAURA CASTAÑEDA, MIA, 74521.573@compuserve. print because I missed in- and recently became execu- relocated from San Fran- com depth reporting,” she tive director of the Univer- cisco to Philadelphia last writes. Having spent eight sity of Maryland’s Institute year. She freelances for vari- After two years at Viacom of the past 10 years over- of Ecological Economics. ous publications including as VP, Planning and Devel- seas, her new lifestyle He previously worked at the New York Times opment, JOHN PENNEY, includes a car and a “house the School for Field Studies’ and BusinessWeek Online MIA, has moved to Scient, on a very, very leafy street.” Centre for Rainforest Stud- and published her first an eBusiness consulting [email protected] ies in Yungaburra, Far book, The Latino Guide to firm, where he is a media VICTOR CHA, MIA, teaches North Queensland, Aus- Personal Money Manage- and entertainment strate- in the Government Depart- JOHN J. MODZELEWSKI, tralia. Joshua and his wife, ment, in May. She has a gist. [email protected] ment at Georgetown Uni- MIA, is program director Andrea, have a toddler, one-year appointment to versity. He recently pub- for Non-Proliferation and Liam. SIPA students/grads teach journalism at Temple lished a book, Alignment Institution Building at the interested in talking about University and invites SIPA 1994 Despite Antagonism: US- U.S. Civilian Research and careers can contact him. far- grads working in media to Korea-Japan Security, Development Foundation [email protected] speak to her students. JASON ABRAMS, MIA, a (Stanford Univ. Press) and for the Independent States [email protected] legal officer at the U.N. in has written on international of the Former Soviet KELLEE S. TSAI, MIA, spent New York, is working on relations and East Asia for Union, a private, non-profit the last two years as an Acad- private international law Survival, Security Dialogue, charitable organization cre- emy Scholar at the Harvard REBECCA GROSS, matters in support of the

SIPA news 23 UNOPS as special assistant based in New York. CIET second ceremony in Lon- to the executive director. assignments have taken her MALA NARAIN, MIA, is don two weeks later. She focuses on U.N. collab- to Pakistan, Bangladesh, currently in Hong Kong In between they enjoyed an oration with the private sec- Canada and the Philippines. managing training for GS escapist scuba diving hon- tor and is currently working She is also pursuing a Ph.D. Asia. “If anyone is passing eymoon in the Maldives. on a two-day conference on in applied epidemiology at through, do call (2978- [email protected] U.N.-business partnerships the Universidad Autonoma 0664) and say hello.” that will take place next year de Guerrero in Acapulco, CARLA AVNI, MIA, has in New York. Mexico. BOB PITULEJ, MPA, a 1999- joined the Center for U.N., its peacekeeping mis- [email protected] 110167.2120@com- 2000 Council for Excellence Reproductive Law and Pol- sions, and the Iraq “Oil-for- puserve.com in Government Fellow, is a icy’s International Program Food” program. A book he HIRO UGAYA, MIA, is back program analyst at the U.S. as a fellowship attorney, co-authored, Accountability in Tokyo working as a staff ALINA PASTIU, MIA, is a Department of Labor, focusing on women’s rights for Human Rights Atroci- first-year law student at OSHA, Office of Reinven- in Latin America. She pre- ties in International Law: Duke University. She previ- tion. He married Donna viously worked at the U.N. Beyond the Nuremberg ously worked as a democra- Harris, in 1997 at the Development Fund for Legacy, (Oxford University tization officer for the Cadet Chapel at West Point. Women. She earned her law Press) was awarded the OSCE Mission to Bosnia- They’re enjoying life in degree in 1992 from the 1997 annual prize of the Herzegovina and, most Reston, Va. and invite MPA Universidad Católica American Society of Inter- recently, with the ILO Liai- alumni to visit. robert.pit- Andrés Bello in Caracas, national Law. abrams@un. son Office to the U.N. [email protected] Venezuela and her L.L.M. org from Columbia University CARLOS SANTISO, MIA, JILL SIMON, MPA, a senior School of Law. DUKE DELUCA, MIA, was a writer for the Japanese a senior program officer at consultant at KPMG, assists senior fellow at the George weekly news magazine, the International Institute government, not-for profit YOSHIKO KUWAHARA, MIA, C. Marshall Center for Aera, (He had been a for- for Democracy and Electoral and higher education clients recently began working at European Security Studies eign correspondent for Aera Assistance, is working on to become more efficient Goldman Sachs in Tokyo as in Garmisch, Germany from in New York). Hiro also international development and cost effective. Currently a junior securities analyst, 1993-94. From 1994-95 he writes rock reviews for cooperation and managing working on a waterfront covering specialty finance, attended the U.S. Army Japanese music magazines programs in Central America redevelopment project in non-life insurance and secu- Command and General Staff and plays bass guitar. and West Africa. He lives in Buffalo, she would enjoy rities firms. College. He and his wife, [email protected] Sweden and is engaged to a speaking to other SIPA Tracie, have a son Nicholas Swedish woman. Carlossan- grads about opportunities LAWRENCE LEWITINN, 1 (4 /2). Now that his academic [email protected] or organizations that need MIA/MBA, was the Repub- life has ended, the real 1995 assistance. lican candidate for the Fort (Army) world has begun. [email protected]. Lee, N.J. Borough Council. MARK P. B ARRETT, MPA, is 1996 Although he lost the RUDY MINAR, MIA, is start- a utilities analyst in the THOMAS D. ZWEIFEL, MIA, November election, he ing his third year at CIBC Rates and Revenue Divi- ANDY BLACKADAR, MIA, is is CEO of the Swiss Con- thanks fellow alums for World Markets (formerly sion of the Massachusetts the project manager for the sulting Group, a company their support. He’s cur- Oppenheimer & Co.), Department of Telecommu- Humanitarianism and War based in New York City rently a business develop- where he is a director in the nications and Energy. His Project, an independent that specializes in strategic ment strategist at Technology Investment current position involves policy research initiative change management, lead- TheStreet.com, an online Banking Group. He advises approval of electric utilities’ based at Brown University’s ership coaching and global financial news site and also Internet and other technol- divestiture plans, resulting Watson Institute for Inter- integration. He has pub- manages TheStreet.com ogy companies on financing from the Restructuring Act national Studies. Andy lives lished on these topics (most Internet Sector Index. Lle- and on mergers and acquisi- instituted in 1997. He with his wife, Laura, and recently in the Christian [email protected] tions. resides in the Boston area. their two children, Adrian Science Monitor and in Fast [email protected] and Natasha, in Warwick, Company magazine). Last KATHERINE METRES, MIA, KAORUKO SEKI, MIA, was RI and would like to hear August he lectured at a a former Javits Fellow in on assignment in the Since receiving her law from SIPA classmates. worldwide videoconference the foreign policy office of Balkans, working in the degree in 1998, JULIE MIN Andrew_Blackadar@Brown with 250 participants in 60 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, office of the Deputy Special CHAYET, MPA, has been a .edu locations. tdz@swisscon- joined the Foreign Service Representative of the Secre- trust and estates associate sultinggroup.com in May 1988 tary-General for Humani- with the New York law firm JOE HEAPHY, MPA, is the as a political officer and was tarian Affairs in Kosovo. of Whitman Breed Abbott & executive director of the posted to Nouakchott, Currently on special leave Morgan, LLP. She recently New York State Tenants 1997 Mauritania. She loves diplo- from the U.N., he is doing moved to Westport, Ct., and Neighbors Coalition, a matic life and has been research at Oxford Univer- where she is enjoying mar- statewide organization that WENDY (HANNIBAL) enjoying the quiet and sand sity as a New Century ried life and sailing excur- educates tenants to advo- ASTELL, MIA/MBA, works of Mauritania. Scholar and would like to sions on Long Island Sound. cate for the preservation of in the New York project METRESKM@nouak- get together with SIPA [email protected] affordable housing. Joe finance group of Dresdner chotb.us-state.gov grads in the area. recently moved to Wood- Kleinwort Benson, focusing H.K. PARK, MIA, was [email protected] JUNKO ONISHI, MIA, is a side, Queens and will marry on infrastructure finance. named special assistant to SANDRINE TESNER, MIA, research associate at CIET Anne Osmer next May. She married Nigel Astell in Defense Secretary William has joined the U.N. agency International, an INGO [email protected] May in New York, with a Cohen’s chief of staff. He

24 SIPA news handles White House liaison the Balkans. with a focus on domestic [email protected] parents terrorism involving weapons sipa of mass destruction. In his JOHN PFEIFFER, MPA, direc- spare time, he plays in a local tor of operations for the Former OCS Director Nina Segal and Will Kennedy soccer league and “longs for Department of Homeless (MPA ’90). Their first child, a daughter, Isabel Sage, the days of good New York Services’ Adult Services born Aug. 25, 1999. pizza on 125th Street.” Division, is involved in Satako Nakajima and Oleg Svistunov (both MIA ’98). [email protected] efforts to contract out pro- Their first child, Lena, born July 9, 1999. N TAKYO, MIA, a pro- grams, improve services and AOKI Lisa Tarantino (MIA ’94) and Stephen Pirozzi (MPA MOLLY SPENCER PARKER, gram officer with UNDP’s enhance management infor- ’93). Their first child, a daughter, Sophia Carmen, born MPA, works for KPMG Nepal Country Office, acted mation systems. He writes, July 1999. Consulting based in Min- as a focal point for the office “SIPA prepared me well for neapolis, where she imple- in the May 1999 “Coordina- the challenges that land on Domenica (MPA ’94) and Lorenzo Dominguez (MIA ments financial software for tion and Assistance of Inter- my desk everyday.” ’94). Their first child, a son, Enzo, born April 5, 1999. government agencies. She national Electoral Caroline Paulus Schreder (MIA ’92) and Kurt Schreder moved to Orlando with her Observers” for JAMIE PRIJATEL,MPA, is (MIA ’93). A daughter, Julia Paulus, born Jan. 18, 1999. husband Dave last June (yes, the third national election assistant for programs and SIPA News welcomes contributions to SIPAparents. she is commuting to Min- since the reintroduction contracts at the Association Both parents must be SIPA graduates or affiliates. Please neapolis every week, collect- of democracy to Nepal to Benefit Children, work- e-mail submissions to: [email protected]. ing lots of frequent flier in 1990. ing with fellow MPA alum- miles). [email protected]

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