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“I was in Kabul [for] the inauguration “This country makes it of President Karzai.There were no seem like it’s just about traffic lights, no electricity,no army. being a celebrity, but We started from scratch. Sometimes when people blame the Afghan being an actor is about government for not doing enough, being a storyteller, they should remind themselves that we and society needs started from a very chaotic situation.” storytellers.”

—ZAHIR TANIN, AMBASSADOR OF AFGHANISTAN TO THE UNITED —TWO-TIME ACADEMY-AWARD–WINNER AND NYU PARENT NATIONS, IN THE FORUM “GLOBAL LEADERS: CONVERSATIONS WITH SALLY FIELD DURING A LECTURE “LIFE, LEARNING, AND AN ALON BEN-MEIR,” HOSTED BY THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS IN EVOLVING CAREER,” SPONSORED BY THE GALLATIN SCHOOL THE SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY

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reen is in the air. owners in New York City, NYU MATTHEW SEPTIMUS PHOTO © Issue #9 / Fall 2007 One cannot pass a shares this burden and last spring ac- JASON HOLLANDER (GAL ’07) newsstand, radio, or cepted the mayor’s challenge to re- Editor-in-Chief TV without catch- duce the university’s greenhouse gas NICOLE PEZOLD (GSAS ’04) ing the latest report emissions by 30 percent—a feat we Associate Editor G REN´EE ALFUSO (CAS ’06) on global climate change.Even rock intend to accomplish by 2017.While Editorial Assistant stars helped spread awareness last there’s much work to do,NYU is al- JOHN KLOTNIA / OPTO DESIGN summer with a day of Live Earth ready the largest purchaser of wind Creative Director concerts across the world. On the energy in the city and among uni- political stage,169 nations have rat- versities nationally,and our recently Articles JOSEPH MANGHISE ified the Kyoto Protocol and, de- created Green Action Plan has stu- Copy Chief spite a lack of participation by the dents, alumni, employees, friends, DAVID COHEN (CHIEF) United States, a few courageous and neighbors joining forces to im- MICHAEL MATASSA leaders in this country have already prove our sustainability.We also hope Researchers set agendas to confront the chal- to position NYU on the front line of ANDREW FLYNN SABINE HEINLEIN (GSAS ’07) lenges of global warming. innovative research and ideas that Editorial Interns Among them is New York City will help assuage our planet’s im- circles—the state of free speech on Mayor Michael Bloomberg (HON pending climate and energy crises. American campuses (“Civil Wars?” Art / Opto Design ’03), who acknowledges that the Climate change is so central to page 48)—and offers an in-depth RON LOUIE issue requires not only talk but ac- the university’s future—indeed the conversation with one of our most Art Director BRIAN MAGNER tion. This year, he announced planet’s—that we have dedicated a celebrated and visionary alums, Associate Art Director PlaNYC 2030, which maps a double feature to it (“The Heat Is filmmaker Ang Lee (“The Tao of JACQUIE LANE (TSOA ’03) course for how the city will absorb On,”page 36), in which we outline Ang,” page 54), director of Crouch- Photo Research Director one million new residents over the the evidence that our planet is ing Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Broke- Advertising next two decades, modernize its changing, our slow acceptance of back Mountain,among others.I hope DEBORAH BRODERICK aging infrastructure, reduce global the problem, what New York City these stories, and others in our Fall Associate Vice President of Marketing warming emissions, improve pol- and NYU are doing about it—and 2007 issue, will inspire you to con- Communications, NYU luted air and brownfields, and pre- what you can do, too. This maga- tinue these vital social, environ- Alumni News Editor pare for rising sea levels. zine tackles another issue being dis- mental, intellectual, and artistic JENNIFER BOSCIA SMITH (SCPS ’04) JOHN SEXTON As one of the largest property cussed in higher education conversations. Director of Development and Alumni Communications, NYU

New York University MARTIN LIPTON (LAW ’55) CONTRIBUTORS Board of Trustees, Chairman JOHN SEXTON CHRISTIAN DEBENEDETTI is a Chronicle, and other publications. Yorker,Vogue, and Vanity Fair. His President Brooklyn-based freelance writer cov- work is also in the permanent col- LYNNE P. BROWN ering adventure and the environment. JAMES JUNG is an editor at lection of the National Portrait Senior Vice President for University Relations and Public Affairs His writing has appeared in The New Maxim.com and covers music for Gallery in London. DEBRA A. LAMORTE York Times, Esquire, National Geographic Blender.com. His freelance writing Senior Vice President for University Adventure, and Outside, among others. has appeared in Time Out New York AMY ROSENBERG is a contributing Development and Alumni Relations and Slate, among other publications. editor at Poets & Writers.She has writ- REGINA L. SYQUIA (WAG ’01) Manager, Special Projects AMY FRANCESCHINI is an artist ten for Newsday,Travel + Leisure, Psy- and founder of Futurefarmers col- JANELLE NANOS (GSAS ’05) is a chology Today, and other publications. New York University lective, a San Francisco design stu- reporter at New York magazine. She Alumni Association dio that has worked with Nike, has also written for The New York ERIK MARK SANDBERG is a Los JONATHAN HERMAN (ARTS ’69, LAW ’73) Levi’s, and Greenpeace. Times,The Village Voice, and Newsday. Angeles–based illustrator whose President work has been featured in Spin,The STEVEN S. MILLER (LAW ’70) SARA IVRY is the senior editor and DAN PAGE is an award-winning il- New York Times,and The Village Voice. JOHN CALVO (STERN ’91, LAW ’95) podcast host for the online Jewish lustrator who lives outside of Toron- MICHAEL DENKENSOHN (STERN ’73) culture magazine Nextbook.org. to with his wife and three daughters. SHARON TREGASKIS is a freelance BEVERLY HYMAN (STEINHARDT ’80) GERALD KLACZANY (DEN ’86) She has also written about media, reporter based in Ithaca, New York. Vice Presidents art, education, and books for The DUDLEY REED’s portrait photog- She covers politics,health,higher ed- MELANIE SMITH (WAG ’99) New York Times, the San Francisco raphy frequently appears in The New ucation, and the environment. Secretary

4 / FALL 2007 / NYU Creating a platform for excellence. NYUPlans2031

NYU has embarked upon an important undertaking: planning involved. For more information on this important initia- for the next 25 years of the University’s physical development. tive, materials from previous open houses, and for the This new undertaking is referred to as NYUPlans2031. most up-to-date news regarding future open houses, To guide the planning effort, NYU has formed the please visit www.nyu.edu/space.planning. Office of Strategic Assessment, Planning, and Design and To learn more about the Office of Strategic has selected a team of consultants, led by the award-winning Assessment, Planning, and Design and the in-house firm SMWM in association with Grimshaw Architects, team leading this effort, please visit www.nyu.edu/sapd. Toshiko Mori Architect, and the Olin Partnership. This Web site will also provide the opportunity for you to We want the entire NYU community—faculty, give us feedback on our space planning initiative, students, administrators, staff, and alums to be which we would very much value. mailbag We Hear From You

Thanks to all the alumni who responded to our eighth issue (Spring 2007). We are thrilled that NYU Alumni Magazine continues to stir so many of you to write and share your thoughts. Please keep the letters coming!

offering to the world….”] People risk only timely and socially important, it Center of the Brain,”regarding neuro- their lives and the lives of their chil- is a piece of journalism at its best. surgery, refers to “northern Maine’s dren to get to the United States. There’s truth in your research, and craggy coast.”This state indeed has a I doubt that their image of the Unit- your encouraging delivery caused beautiful and often craggy coast in its ed States is one of a shiny,new prison. me to share your article with fellow southern and eastern regions, but Andrew Laviano baby boomers.“Wake up,and harvest northern Maine (where my wife was LAW ’65 the coffee! We’re not dead yet!” born and raised) is far from the ocean. Charlestown, Rhode Island Kathryn Ferrin-Robinson In northern Maine, you will find NYU parent acres of potato fields and some star- Editors’ note:While the quotes featured Anaheim Hills, California tling scenery,but no salt water. in “Heard on Campus” do not represent Peter Bickerman the opinions of NYU Alumni Maga- GEOGRAPHY LESSON LAW ’76 zine, we do aim to provide readers with Thanks for sending me a copy of the Readfield, Maine ROUSING CONVERSATION a taste of the provocative, timely dialogue Spring issue, with its many thought- NYU Alumni Magazine is a great pub- happening on campus, and we take the provoking articles. A small quibble Editors’note:Thanks for clarification on the lication, and I always look forward to fact that Mr. Laviano was motivated to from one who has lived in Maine for Pine Tree State! Our obsession with Maine reading it in detail. I was disappoint- send us his thoughts as evidence that we 30 years:The article “Journey to the lobster must have skewed our perception. ed, however, to read the Angela Davis are succeeding. quote in “Heard on Campus” that Please send your comments and opinions to: Readers’ Letters, NYU Alumni was so absurd that at first I thought it BOOMERS BOOMING Magazine, 25 West Fourth Street, Fourth Floor, New York, NY, 10012; or to be satire. [It starts:“The institution Samme Chittum’s article outlining e-mail us at [email protected]. Please include your mailing of the prison has become a kind of the baby boomer’s reinvention of life, address, phone number, and school and year. Letters become the property symbol of the democracy the U.S. is “The Longevity Revolution,” is not of NYU and may be edited for length and clarity.

THE FOLLOWING ARE ABBREVIATIONS FOR NYU SCHOOLS YOUR GUIDE TO THE SCHOOL CODES AND COLLEGES, PAST AND PRESENT

ARTS - University College of formerly Gallatin Division SCPS - School of Continuing TSOA - Tisch School of the Arts, Arts and Science (“The Heights”); and Professional Studies formerly School of the Arts used for alumni through 1974 GSAS - Graduate School of Arts and Science SSW - School of Social Work WAG - Robert F.Wagner Graduate CAS - College of Arts and School of Public Service, formerly Science (“The College”); refers GSP - The General Studies Program STEINHARDT - The Steinhardt Graduate School of Public Admin- to undergraduate school in arts School of Culture, Education, and istration and science, from 1994 on HON - Honorary Degree Human Development WSC - Washington Square College, CIMS - Courant Institute of IFA - Institute of Fine Arts STERN - Leonard N. Stern now College of Arts and Science; Mathematical Sciences School of Business Graduate refers to arts and science under- LAW - School of Law Division, formerly the Graduate graduates who studied at Washing- DEN - College of Dentistry School of Business Administra- ton Square Campus through 1974 MED - School of Medicine, tion; Leonard N. Stern School ENG - School of Engineering and formerly College of Medicine of Business Undergraduate WSUC - Washington Square Science (“The Heights”); no College, formerly School of University College, now College longer exists but is used to refer NUR - College of Nursing, Commerce; and College of Busi- of Arts and Science; refers to to its alumni through 1974 now part of College of Dentistry ness and Public Administration alumni of the undergraduate school in arts and science from GAL - Gallatin School of 1974 to 1994 Individualized Study,

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: NONPAREIL JAZZ TRUMPETER WYNTON MARSALIS PLAYS A FEW LICKS AT COMMENCEMENT, WHERE HE RECEIVED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE; MARY TYLER MOORE SMILES AFTER SPEAKING TO THE NEWLY MINTED CLASS OF DENTAL SCHOOL GRADUATES; DEBBIE HARRY, OF BLONDIE FAME, INTERVIEWS BILLBOARD’S EXECUTIVE EDITOR AND ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER TAMARA CONNIFF AS PART OF STEINHARDT’S CEOS IN THE ARTS SPEAKER SERIES.

STARTOP-DRAW ALUMNI AND FRIENDS PUT ON THE GLITZ FOR NYU POWER BELOW: FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NEWT GINGRICH (R-GA) DEBATES GOVERNMENT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SENATOR AND 2004 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN KERRY (D-MA) AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY THE JOHN BRADEMAS CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CONGRESS IN THE ROBERT F. WAGNER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE.

ABOVE: CHEF-RESTAURATEUR EMERIL LAGASSE OFFERS ADVICE AT THE INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY INVESTMENT CONFERENCE; SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER (D-NY) SPEAKS ABOUT HIS RECENT BOOK, POSITIVELY AMERICAN.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 7 PHOTO BY ALEX WONG/NEWSMAKERS/GETTY IMAGES SHRUM WAS DUBBED “THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER CONSULTANT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY” BY THE ATLANTIC.

QUARE SQ tier of candidates. Nominating ei- ther Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama would signal historic change and present America with a test of conscience. For that mat- ter, the Republicans may very well offer the country the chance to elect the first Mormon or Italian- American president. However, the 2008 election won’t be like 1920 in one critical respect. It won’t be a runaway un- less the Republicans lose their heads and nominate a fringe candidate, say Texas Representative Ron Paul, whose libertarian ideology has led THE him to introduce legislation that would outlaw the Federal Reserve, insider pov or one of the other minor candi- dates who are paladins of the far right. In the polls, Democrats hold a substantial lead over Republicans in a generic race for president. It’s ANYBODY’S much closer, however, when the pollsters offer names instead of par- ty labels.While the Bush years have devalued the Republican brand,it’s GAME possible that next year America could still vote pretty much like a WAGNER SENIOR FELLOW 50–50 country.Bet on the Democ- ROBERT M. SHRUM SIZES UP THE rats, but don’t bet it all.

2008 PRESIDENTIAL PLAYERS THE LINEUP Early in 2007, the Republi- he 2008 presidential War I, which had just been won, can nominee to be was Ari- election, it’s been ob- but with the peace treaty that De- zona Senator JOHN McCAIN. But served, is a nearly mocrat Woodrow Wilson had ne- the maverick decided to rerun the unique event in mod- gotiated and the Senate had expensive, buttoned-down Bush Tern political history repudiated. The Democratic can- campaign that wrested the nomi- because it’s the first campaign since didate, James M. Cox, lost in a his- nation from him eight years be- 1952 where no incumbent presi- toric landslide with only 34 percent fore. He’s the face of the surge in dent or vice-president is running. of the popular vote to Warren G. Iraq, and while he deserves credit But that really isn’t true. In 1952, Harding’s 60 percent. for standing by his beliefs, the Harry Truman, the incumbent, This year it’s the Republicans conservative base still doesn’t trust was a yet unannounced candidate who are under such stress. Plagued him.He’s struggling to raise mon- when Tennessee Senator Estes Ke- by an increasingly unpopular war ey and is now a long shot. fauver, the pioneering investigator in Iraq and scarred by Hurricane of the mob,trounced the president Katrina and a slew of ethics ques- Former New York City in the New Hampshire primary. tions,they are on the verge of frac- Mayor RUDOLPH GIULIANI Truman promptly withdrew. turing their age-old habit of (LAW ’68), who’s running a 9/11 It’s the 1920 election that in a nominating the front-runner, the campaign, rode into a lead in the real sense mirrors 2008.The cam- next person “in line,” even if he’s polls, despite his stance on gay paign was waged amid deep popu- lost before. The Democrats have rights and abortion,but his margin lar dissatisfaction—not with World higher hopes and a compelling top seems to diminish each month. PHOTO © ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT/ABBY BRACK; WWW.JOHNEDWARDS.COM; RUDY GIULIANI PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE; HIL HISTORICAL OFFIC CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: PHOTO © JOHN MCCAIN 2008; WWW.BARACKOBAMA.COM; FRED THOMPSON US SENATE scorecard

Think Global, Spend Local

It goes without saying that New York is a different sort of college town than South Bend, Indiana, or Hanover, New Hampshire. But while Man- hattan doesn’t run on NYU alone, it certainly benefits from the university’s more than 16,000 employees and more than 40,000 students. WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT? (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): SENATOR JOHN McCAIN; SENATOR BARACK OBAMA; During the 2005–06 academic FORMER SENATOR FRED THOMPSON; FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE; FORMER GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY; FORMER year, the university pumped SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS; FORMER MAYOR RUDOLPH GIULIANI; AND SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON. more than $405 million into Only a Republican party in a state monism may give credence to the Former North Carolina the area through its central pur- of terminal desperation will nom- notion that he believes what he’s Senator JOHN EDWARDS’ chasing department. inate someone who disagrees with saying now: the flop not the flip. best hope is that the skirmish that Here’s the breakdown: fundamental conservative views flared this summer between Clin- on social issues. New York Senator HILLARY ton and Obama will escalate into CLINTON’s problem is that full-scale negative ad war, which $28 Enter stage right: FRED she looks like the establishment risks pushing Democratic pri- MILLION IN THOMPSON

LARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE , actor turned choice in a year of change, so the mary voters to look for another GREENWICH ;A OEPOO©U EAEHSOIA OFFICE; HISTORICAL E; AL GORE PHOTO © US SENATE Tennessee senator, then actor former First Lady is trying to re- choice. Fair or unfair, the 2004 VILLAGE again.Trotted out as a paler clone define change as nostalgia for the vice-presidential nominee now of Ronald Reagan, Thompson 1990s. As Bill Clinton said when appears the only likely alternative $198 experienced a slow nonstart to he was speaking on her behalf and because none of the second-tier MILLION his campaign;he may end up hav- responding to the suggestion that candidates as yet have the finan- IN THE REST OF MANHATTAN ing to run for reelection for his the Clintons were old news,“Yes- cial resources or a powerful dif- old job as DA on Law & Order. terday’s news was pretty good.” ferentiating message that would let them break through. $61 MILLION Nominating Hillary Clinton or IN NEW YORK The least likely develop- STATE Barack Obama would signal ment is the late entry of for- mer Vice President AL GORE. historic change. For that matter, The politician has become a the Republicans may very well prophet, and the prophet shows no sign of coming down from offer the country the chance to the mountaintop. $405 elect the first Mormon or MILLION Over his three decade career, Robert TOTAL Italian-American president. M. Shrum has served as senior ad- viser for the Kerry campaign in 2004 Former Massachusetts Gov- BARACK OBAMA embodies and for Gore in 2000, as well as ernor MITT ROMNEY may change,but the Illinois Sen- strategist for more than 30 winning $34 secure the nomination by process ator will have to satisfy primary U.S. Senate campaigns, among other MILLION IN of elimination. He has reengi- voters that there’s substance to go major races, which he details in his NEW JERSEY neered his political persona to fit with the sizzle. If he does—and 2007 book No Excuses: Confes- $6 the ideological predisposition of there’s plenty of time because sions of a Serial Campaigner (Si- MILLION $78 IN the Republican primary electorate, voters in Iowa and New Hamp- mon & Schuster). He is currently on MILLION CONNECTICUT IN OTHER renouncing the pro-choice stand shire tend to rethink their choic- leave from his role as a senior fellow LOCATIONS that helped him win in the bluest es after the first of the year—he at the Robert F.Wagner Graduate of blue states. Ironically, his Mor- could lap Clinton. School of Public Service. SOURCE: NYU’S PURCHASING SERVICES

NYU / FALL 2007 / 9 IN BRIEF committee’s liaison at the Office of With programs ranging from Math’s Abel Thinker Development and Alumni Rela- applied psychology to studio art, tions. It’s completely voluntary, no and from music technology to nu- Rare is the moment that Srinivasa “Raghu”Varadhan of the Courant amount is too small, nor cause too trition and food studies, Steinhardt Institute of Mathematical Sciences is not ruminating on intricate prob- obscure—from study-abroad stu- had long ago outgrown its purely ability formulas.“Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night dent stipends to the Nursing Mo- educational identity, which started and you think of it,”he says.“You take a shower or you travel in a plane bile Health Van—and especially for at its founding in 1890 as the School and you think of it. Often you don’t even need paper and pencil.” those on campus, it’s easy to see the of Pedagogy.To correct this, Dean Varadhan,whose relentless pondering distinguished him in his na- difference a donation can make. Mary Brabeck spent more than a tive India, where he studied with renowned statistician C.R. Rao, was year consulting with recently recognized with an Abel Prize, or the “Mathematicians’ No- MOGULS IN TRAINING Steinhardt faculty, staff, bel”—the second for a Courant scholar in the five years since the What do you get when and students to find a mix award’s inception. In May 2007, the Norwegian Academy of Science you mix Hollywood talent that incorporates the and Letters honored Varadhan with the nearly $1 million prize “for his with Wall Street savvy? No, school’s vast offerings.“We fundamental contributions to probability theory”—in particular for not Harvey Weinstein—but love our diversity, and we developing a system that would calculate the probability of rare events the new joint MBA/MFA believe our new name cap- that evolve randomly in time and could be applied to fields such as the degree for producers.The tures it better,”Brabeck says. financial market and the insurance industry,among others.“In our days, three-year graduate pro- Along with the new it has become important to estimate the probability of risk,”he says. gram, which will launch moniker, Steinhardt has un- But the Frank J. Gould Professor of Science and professor of math- in fall 2008, combines dergone a comprehensive ematics, who came to NYU as a Fellow in 1963, admits that the spe- degrees from the Tisch visual makeover, choosing a cific application of his work is generally less important to him than School of the Arts and the Leonard sleek logo and branding scheme that creating models that could have universal implications.While some N. Stern School of Business, so stu- reflect the school’s academic spec- prefer to explore a mountain range on foot, he likens his approach to dents can simultaneously study the trum and downtown spirit. the wider view of a satellite image. “You see the whole mountain creative and business sides of film- range,”he explains.“That’s the difference between solving a particular making—something every aspiring SERVICE, IN MEMORIAM problem and having a whole theory.” –Sabine Heinlein producer needs in order to navigate Eugene Marshalik—the 19-year- PHOTO © TERJE BENDIKSBY/SCANPIX this increasingly complex trade. old CAS sophomore who was shot “The industry and financing of and killed last March while on duty deals have gotten much more com- as an auxiliary police officer in plicated over the past few years be- Greenwich Village—will be com- cause the film studios now are all memorated by a new scholarship, part of large media conglomerates,” thanks to the anonymous gift of says C.Samuel Craig,director of the $100,000 from an NYU alum.The entertainment, media, and technol- Yevgeniy (Eugene) Marshalik ogy program at Stern, who co- Memorial Fund will be used to an- created the new degree with Tisch nually support two undergraduates professor John Tintori. who demonstrate a devotion to In addition to the core require- public service. A hardworking stu- ments for both degrees,students ac- dent and volunteer, Marshalik emi- cepted into the program can tailor grated with his family from Russia their studies by choosing from about to the United States in 1993, and 20 specialty courses on topics such hoped to one day work as a prose- as movie marketing and how to cutor. “The [donor’s] decision to fund a deal. remain nameless is very much in NYU COMMUNITY GIVING committee of faculty and staff keeping with Eugene’s own mod- More than 3,000 faculty, adminis- kicked off Building Our Commu- A SCHOOL BY ANY OTHER NAME… est, self-effacing, and generous ap- trators, and staff have donated funds nity Together,NYU’s first-ever peer Shakespeare’s Juliet once asked, proach to serving the public good,” to NYU since the beginning of the fund-raising campaign.“They want- “What’s in a name?”For the recent- said Matthew Santirocco, dean of Campaign for NYU in 2001, con- ed to offer their colleagues a formal ly designated Steinhardt School of the College of Arts and Science. tributing generously to personal opportunity to give money to the Culture, Education, and Human The fund will remain open to the passions and interests.In recognition things that are most important to Development, the answer is simple: contributions of others who wish of this commitment, this summer a them,” explains Stan Sheppard, the everything. to memorialize Marshalik.

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A NEW STUDY FINDS THAT EVEN WHEN SOCCER FANS DON’T ATTACK REFEREES, sports SUCH AS AT THIS RECENT MATCH BETWEEN DENMARK AND SWEDEN, THEY MAY INFLUENCE CALLS ON THE FIELD.

Sports Sciences, and while not sur- boisterous crowds: “I don’t like Good Call? prising, the results were clear-cut: when the atmosphere is like in a Not only did home teams score church or a concert hall.” REFEREES MAY NOT more goals, but more penalties Boyko admits other critics have BE ABOVE THE FRAY were awarded to visitors, suggest- had similar reactions. “Nobody ing that referees favor one over thinks that they are being influ- by Andrew Flynn the other, perhaps because of the enced by the crowd,” he says, roaring fans. By controlling for “which is why we think that this is s a longtime soc- To find out,Boyko,while work- other factors and tallying the a subconscious, almost biological cer referee, Mark ing on an LLM at the School of penalty calls of individual referees, thing.”In fact, researchers have re- Boyko (LAW ’05) Law, teamed up with his brothers the Boykos also discovered that cently noted higher levels of testos- is well acquainted and fellow soccer referees—Adam, some may be more biased than terone in home team athletes, and Awith home field a postdoc in biological statistics others, or have different “bias lev- Boyko predicts future studies might advantage:The home team simply and computational biology at Cor- els,” but that this decreases with explore the psychology and bio- wins more often.The reasons for nell, and Ryan, a research assistant experience. chemistry of individual referees for this, however, are less clear. Do in the psychology department at For Arnold Klein, however, the all sports. ultra-rowdy crowds, for which Harvard—to analyze data from study has little to do with his calls Regardless, Boyko hopes that European soccer is famous, serve the English Premier League’s on the field.A 34-year veteran of officials will consider referees’ to rally the home team or intimi- games. Of all sports, soccer is one refereeing,who has officiated both bias, especially when they assign date the opposition? Boyko had of the best poised for such a study NCAA Division I and interna- them to key matches.“If you have a hunch that he, as referee, might because most of the subjective de- tional matches, Klein insists he a competition where you are only actually be most affected by the cisions are made by a single refer- feels neither pressure from specta- going to play one championship cheering. “I thought,” he says, “if ee, allowing one individual’s tors nor partiality for either side. game, and it’s going to be at one the referees are being influenced, judgment to hold ultimate weight “When I go out on the field, I see of the teams’ home stadiums,” he then there’s a good chance that over a match. The brothers pub- two colors,”he says.“I don’t know says, “maybe you wouldn’t want some are prone to influence more lished their findings in the Sep- who’s the home and who’s the to be using the referee with the than others.” tember 2007 issue of Journal of visiting team.” And Klein prefers highest home field advantage.”

NYU / FALL 2007 / 11 PHOTO © TK ACTOR ANDY SERKIS DONNED A MOTION CAPTURE SUIT TO BRING THE The Syllabus: SQ UARE CREEPY, SCENE-STEALING CREATURE Introduction to GOLLUM TO LIFE IN LORD OF THE RINGS. Motion Capture THE to create the monstrous Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and to WEEK 1 make his scowling but sympathetic Introductions / Suit up to practice King Kong express himself without recording motions, such as a fight scene having to say a word. / First assignment: Write, rehearse, and Bregler actually consulted with shoot a motion scene in class George Lucas’s production com- pany before choosing the state-of- WEEK 2 the-art Vicon system for NYU’s Reconstruct in 3-D the previous week’s motion capture lab—the only one recorded data using Vicon iQ software / in New York City when it opened Compare how well on-screen record- in 2003. Students from all disci- ings match actual movements / Watch plines soon flocked to Bregler for and critique clips from The Polar the chance to use the equipment, Express (2004) and the computer-science course is now also open to undergradu- WEEK 3 ates from the dance, theater, film, Lecture on the history of motion cap- PHOTO © PIERRE VINET, COURTESY NEWLINE PRODUCTIONS, INC. and animation departments, ture: Invention of the film camera and among others. Each class is divid- the oldest human motion recordings / ed into teams where everyone per- Review early Disney film animation, in- forms rotating jobs—from cluding Snow White and the Seven directing to acting to working the Dwarfs (1937), which copied live motion cameras—to complete a final film from other films / Examine rotoscope project.“A lot of the students know machine, used to trace film recordings how to sit down and solve a com- onto a light table instead of drawing puter or math problem, but then from scratch / Watch the Beatles’ “Lucy what they’re learning to actually come up with a story in the Sky With Diamonds” from the an- and execute a film—that’s unusu- imated film Yellow Submarine (1968) al for them,”Bregler says. and scenes from Paul Verhoeven’s Total THE CLASS: Once fitted in a motion capture Recall (1990) PHOTO © TK suit, a full-body outfit covered with PHOTO © DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. small, reflective markers that light- Movers, shakers sensitive cameras pick up, students can record virtually anything—and they do. Break dancers, ballerinas, and…software? and a full rock band have been cap- tured in the lab, which boasts a by Renée Alfuso / CAS ’06 20-x-20-foot retractable dance floor.The recordings are then trans- n the first day of Capture isn’t your typical science ferred to a computer where stu- professor Chris class. It focuses on the process of dents can apply the movements and Bregler’s comput- recording human movement or other special effects to any three- er-science course in facial expressions—and then trans- dimensional character they create, the Courant Insti- ferring that information into a com- which this past semester ranged Otute of Mathematical Sciences, puter-simulated form.The result from sprinting Lego men to pirou- some students might be surprised can be seen in a slew of video games etting ninjas. by the complete absence of com- and animated films, such as the As the technology spreads, stu- puters, the fact that half of their blockbuster Monster House (2006), dents find they are in high de- classmates are from the Tisch in which characters appear star- mand.“In just the past two weeks, School of the Arts, and that their tlingly lifelike, thanks to the magic I’ve gotten calls from companies first day will be spent performing of this new technology.Motion cap- desperately looking for people IN 1937, SNOW WHITE ANIMATORS stage combat. ture has also crept into traditional who know motion capture here in LOOKED TO REAL PEOPLE FOR THEIR But Introduction to Motion films. Director Peter Jackson used it Manhattan,”Bregler says. ARTISTIC DEPICTIONS.

12 / FALL 2007 / NYU STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSAL WEEK 4 Sleep” (2003) / Third assignment: WEEK 12 Learn how to use MotionBuilder soft- Program special effects, such as Guest lecture by Jeff Han, a consulting ware to manipulate recorded move- supernatural jumps and fight moves, research scientist for the Department ments into different characters / Watch into recordings of Computer Science at Courant, in the French animated comedy short which students learn alternative mo- Cortex Academy (2004) / Second as- WEEK 7 tion capture techniques for new user signment: Apply characters to record- Learn advanced MotionBuilder tools interfaces, as well as the technology ings using MotionBuilder for combining different recorded mo- behind Nintendo’s Wii system tions into one film / Study research WEEK 5 projects that developed motion PETER JACKSON REPORTEDLY USED 132 WEEK 13 Discuss the emerging field of motion capture special effects used in video FACIAL MARKERS TO CAPTURE SERKIS’S Learn how to use techniques from dance SUBTLE EMOTIONS FOR KING KONG. capture–based gaming, such as Nin- games / Watch Nike commercials and movement experts in motion cap- tendo’s Wii system / Present final proj- WEEK 10 ture, such as motion languages like the ect proposals WEEK 8 Learn Maya, a 3-D modeling package to Laban Movement Analysis / Field trip In-class motion capture shoot for final create the appearance of characters to Curious Pictures for inside peek at WEEK 6 projects / Learn more advanced com- by constructing different face shapes, the industry, tour of soundstage, and to Introduce the 4,000-player game puter techniques to complete final films body types, and clothes learn about internship opportunities called “Squidball,” created by NYU in 2004 at the Los Angeles Convention WEEK 9 WEEK 11 WEEK 14 Center in a 190-x-190-foot room—the Discuss motion retargeting and facial Learn how to make facial animations Discuss artificial intelligence and mo- largest motion capture space ever motion capture / Watch behind-the- speak and appear more photo-realistic tion capture, including advanced built / Discuss the technology behind scenes motion capture recordings by animating footage of John F. techniques, such as how to simulate other games with large numbers of from the film King Kong (2005) and Kennedy / Guest lecture by Jean-Marc behavior / Learn the software pack- players and NYU’s plans for future in- research videos on changing anima- Gauthier, assistant arts professor at ages used for crowd animation, which teractive games / Watch additional tion techniques, such as the “super Tisch and interactive artist, on 3-D allow users to create vast armies motion capture clips, including punch” from the film The Matrix real-time animation and motion cap- without having to motion capture Radiohead’s music video “Go to (1999) ture art projects each individual / Present final films

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by Renée Alfuso / CAS ’06

HILE MANY CRITICS BEMOANED THE LATE 1990S REIGN OF WBRITNEY SPEARS, ’N SYNC, AND Backstreet Boys as a sign of a musi- ated,engineered,marketed,and dis- cal apocalypse, the period was truly tributed, and has democratized the a golden era—at least financially. industry so much that it now favors Teen fans consumed endless mer- those skilled in all facets. Rather chandise, packed concert arenas, than relying on talent alone, artists and helped to spike the combined are best served acting as triple sales of the top three albums to more threats—akin to rolling Elvis, the than 29 million copies in 1999. But Colonel, and Sam Phillips into one. fast-forward to the present—past Responding to this evolution, the emergence of inexpensive the Clive Davis Department of recording equipment, Napster, Recorded Music in the Tisch iTunes, MySpace, and streaming School of the Arts, which graduat- GRADUATING STUDENTS FACED THE MUSIC—AMERICAN IDOL STYLE—BY PERFORMING BEFORE A PANEL OF INDUSTRY VETERANS LAST MAY. mobile-phone music—where the ed its first class in spring 2007, is cial branding, ear training, sound key industry figures who offer real mixing, and publicity all in the world advice—and, in some cases, Rather than relying on talent same semester. “The shift had al- harsh criticism.Graduating seniors alone, artists are best served ready occurred in the industry,but in May 2007 presented Capstone not in [most] educational institu- Projects—the culmination of their acting as triple threats—akin to tions,” says department chair Jim creative, technical, and business rolling Elvis, the Colonel, and Anderson. “Because we started in ventures, ranging from album de- 2003, we’ve been able to keep up.” buts to plans for an innovative Sam Phillips into one. Named for legendary music- nightclub in Croatia—before a business CEO Clive Davis (WSC panel of major-label executives. top three albums had combined one of a few programs training all ’53), who helped steer Whitney Among the judges was Debbie sales of only about 10 million CDs students as musicians, technicians, Houston, Billy Joel, Bruce Spring- Southwood-Smith, who has in 2006.The tech revolution has ir- and entrepreneurs. Undergrads steen, and Alicia Keys to stardom, worked in the business for 20 revocably altered how music is cre- might pursue courses in commer- the program regularly entertains years, most recently as VP of A&R

14 / FALL 2007 / NYU Here’s a look at three students who presented Capstone Projects last May. Keep an eye out for them on MTV or at SQ UARE the Grammy Awards—or check out their Web sites today. THE

The Songstress The Producer The Rock Star JENNIFER NEWMAN, AGE 23 EVAN MOORE, AGE 22 TOM SCHECTER, AGE 22

Multitasking: Jennifer Newman Upstart: Evan Moore runs his pro- The pitch:Tom Schecter spent more than 300 hours in the duction company Thunder,Light- is the front man and bass player for studio working on her first full- ning & Lightning in the cramped, the hard rock power trio called length indie pop album,on which subterranean Lower East Side Dibble Edge, which, according to she wrote, produced, engineered, recording studio that he and his the band’s Web site, sounds like and played piano and guitar.“I’ve partners once used for their band’s “the musical equivalent of slam- always been interested in all the rehearsals—until they realized ming a bottle of different sides of music, so I never they enjoyed being in the studio whisky.” He really wanted to more than touring.“We’re a rock originally be just a singer,” band that records other rock formed the she says. bands,” he says. Since they started band as a senior in 2005, they’ve already produced in high school Musical influences: four full-length albums, in addi- and recently She grew up tion to audio work for commer- started the la- listening to jazz cials and films, and are constantly bel Freak City vocalists, such searching MySpace and local Records to as Ella Fitzger- shows for new talent. record their ald, and loves first album, singer-song- Working it: Moore and company which he

writer Regina produced a series of online com- also wrote and produced. JENNIFER NEWMAN PHOTO BY GARY HE; TOM SCHECTER © ALANA CUNDY Spektor. But she also listened to a mercials featuring live rock per- lot of hard rock in high school and formances for Garnier Fructis.The Musical influences: Alice in Chains, still ranks Tool as her favorite band. shampoo company loved them so Guns n’ Roses, Soundgarden. much that they ordered four times Web waves: Her album was released as many ads, which keeps Moore Album highlight: The band record- on iTunes and Amazon.com, busy filming every two months in ed their first single,“New Genera- among other sites, this past sum- Miami.“We use commercial work tion,” with legendary engineer- mer, and she’s pitching her songs to support us so we can keep do- producer Eddie Kramer, who’s out to more than 500 music blogs. ing the more creative stuff,”he says. worked with Led Zeppelin, Jimi She already has Hendrix, and The Beatles,after he more than 19,000 His vision: Moore selected their audition tape during hits on her My- wanted to create a visit to NYU.“He’s been the man Space Web page. a different kind for 40 years,so having his name at- at Interscope Records, and be- of production tached to anything is a huge deal,” lieves resolving issues such as On her own: New- company be- Schecter says. slumping sales and rampant il- man has more than cause he was “fed legal downloading is best left to 20 musicians in her up with studios where producers Serious drive: Though currently this next generation of industry family—including her Grammy- were really just glorified engineers working as a paralegal in New York players, who have grown up winning cousin Randy New- charging bands exorbitant hourly to pay the bills, Schecter is moving with the technology that has man—and her grandfather was rates.” Instead he charges a set pre- full steam ahead with his new al- rewritten music-business rules. president of Fox Music. “I’ve al- mium and considers bands equal bum: “We’re gonna play the hell “I don’t think it’s the adults ways tried to do things on my partners in the recording process. out of any place that will take us, who are going to figure out own,” she says. “And then, when and we’re gonna sell the hell out of these problems,” Southwood- I’m ready,I can reach out to them.” Winning taste: Two of Moore’s this thing online.” Smith says.“I think it’s going to bands recently won first and sec- be a bunch of 20-year-olds who Hear her music: ond place in the John Lennon Hear their music: solve it.” www.jennifernewman.net Songwriting Contest. www.myspace.com/dibbleedge

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cardiology

the need for many survivors to un- dergo a procedure that can cost from $10,000 to $15,000. CLOCK TICKS ON This news made national and in- ternational headlines—including a front-page article in The New York Times—last year following the re- HEART PROCEDURE port’s release in The New England Journal of Medicine.The OAT study by Samme Chittum was also number five on the Ameri- can Heart Association’s top 10 list of OR YEARS, ANGIOPLASTY HAS enrolled 2,166 patients at 217 hos- articles published in 2006.“Change BEEN A POPULAR TREATMENT pitals across the country and in practice is definitely happening,” abroad—half received drug thera- Hochman confirms, “although at FOR HEART ATTACK SURVIVORS— F py only; the others received drug this stage it is anecdotal.” regardless of when it’s performed. scription drugs to prevent further therapy and underwent angioplas- Hochman estimates that one- But a groundbreaking study now heart damage. ties three to 28 days after an attack. third of eligible patients who sur- shows that, with some exceptions, “We were surprised because we After tracking the health of both vive a heart attack do not receive the procedure saves lives in only the did expect angioplasty to benefit groups for an average of three years, angioplasty within the 12-hour first 12 hours after a heart attack all patients,”admits Hochman,who researchers found that the rates of treatment window, often because begins. Once that window has designed and led the Occluded heart attack,heart failure,and death they arrive at the hospital too late. closed,explains Judith S.Hochman, Artery Trial (OAT) study to re- were the same. “The main issue The problem is that many don’t director of the Cardiovascular solve a controversy in the field over here is that medical therapy”— recognize the subtle symptoms of a Clinical Research Center at the the effectiveness of the treatment, medications, such as statins, an- heart attack, such as shortness of NYU School of Medicine, many in which a balloon catheter is in- giotensin-converting enzyme in- breath, sudden fatigue, or tightness of the more than 50,000 Ameri- serted through the arm or groin to hibitors, and aggressive risk factor in the chest.Being attuned to these cans who receive this treatment unclog arteries that are then held modification—“has gotten bet- is essential—as Hochman notes, annually are just as safe using pre- open with stents. The OAT team ter,” Hochman says, eliminating time lost is heart muscle lost.

16 / FALL 2007 / NYU RESEARCH social psychology THE HOW AND WHY OF ATTRACTION

by Jason Hollander / GAL ’07

efore a big date,some hip ratio—and body motion,mixed women and men with preconditioned gender per- take pains sweating ceptions, provide the essential on the elliptical, launching points for all other in- B getting primped at gredients of attraction. the salon,or choosing the most flat- If it’s natural to judge people,re- tering outfit.And while this sounds searchers found that participants like practical preparation, the effort still had some unnatural expecta- dentistry might all be for naught if you’ve tions—especially for women. An- got the wrong wiggle or swagger.A other study found that when both new study reveals that a person’s sexes were asked to select the figure Heredity Hidden gait is just as important as his or her of a “typical”male,most got it right, appearance when others size up picking bodies in a normative in the Gums their gender, the first step to deter- range. But the majority believed mining attractiveness. For hetero- the “typical” female body is one by Janelle Nanos / GSAS ’05 sexual men,“a woman who moves more akin to an anatomically exag- in a feminine manner will have a gerated cartoon character—say,Jes- ur mouths might African Republic, China, Brazil, higher rating than a woman who’s sica Rabbit or a Barbie doll— seem an unlikely Australia, Sweden, and Guyana moving in a masculine manner,” something that “doesn’t exist in na- place to unravel for more. The resulting samples says Kerri Johnson, until recently a ture,” says Johnson, which has ma- the mystery of hu- span the evolutionary equiva- research scientist in the Department jor implications for how women O man evolution, but lent of up to 200,000 years. of Psychology. evaluate their own bodies. the bacteria hiding in them offers With the help of David H. Fitch, a While this may seem like a shal- But females aren’t the only vic- new evidence of how our species professor in the biology depart- low method of evaluation, sex cat- tims of perception.Johnson joking- spread from Africa to Asia to Eu- ment and co-author on the re- egorization is part of a natural, ly calls herself an aspiring “men’s rope, according to Page W. Cau- port, Caufield was able to locate obligatory foundation for judg- libber” because guys, she says, suf- field, a professor in the College of the DNA biomarkers that linked ing others, according to fer the most from social expec- Dentistry. “Every human wants to the samples together—all the Johnson and co-author tations on how they carry know where they came from,” way back to a single common Louis Tassinary of themselves. “We have much says Caufield, lead author of a re- ancestor, or “Ancestral Eve.” Texas A&M, who re- greater latitude for women to cent Journal of Bacteriology arti- Because oral bacteria is our cently published their behave in a masculine way,” cle that reports how the oral first line of defense—creating vi- findings in an article in says Johnson, noting that bacteria Streptococcus mutans tamins, digesting food, and fend- Proceedings of the National men must adhere to an has evolved alongside its human ing against pathogens—the Academy of Sciences. The alarmingly narrow hosts. “The pieces of that puzzle research sheds light on both the PHOTO © ETHAN MILLER/REUTERS/CORBIS two conducted studies in set of behaviors are scattered all over the place. susceptibility of some ethnic which participants rated deemed appropriate. We learn from genomes, from pa- groups to tooth decay, as well as computer-generated ani- “When they step beyond that, leontology”—and now dentistry. a greater story of human sur- mations and drawings on they receive harsh penalties for it. Since 1994, Caufield has vival. “DNA is DNA,” Fitch says, degrees of masculinity,fem- It begins early in life, and it gathered mouth-swab samples “and it contains information and ininity, and attractiveness. continues throughout.” from African-American, Cau- a historical record. The history is

The results indicated that SINGER BEYONCÉ’S GAIT casian, and Hispanic Americans, all there—you have to be smart body shape—one’s waist-to- TYPIFIES A FEMININE STRUT. and journeyed to the Central enough to find it.”

NYU / FALL 2007 / 17 law and security ber 11, 2006. “The [report card] charges,including fraud,racketeer- is meant to be a window onto the ing, and immigration violations. war on terror,” says Karen J. “Time and time again the ev- Greenberg, executive director of idence that the government Mistrials NYU’s Center on Law and Secu- claimed to have at the beginning rity and editor-in-chief of the re- of a case evaporates before you port card. So far, this window has get to the court record itself,”ex- A LEGAL STUDY INVESTIGATES revealed troubling flaws in both plains Greenberg about the lack THE WAR AT HOME the methods used to collect evi- of actual terrorism convictions. dence and interrogate suspects, as “We are trying so hard to live in well as the overall policy of rely- a risk-free environment that we by Sabine Heinlein / GSAS ’07 ing solely on law enforcement are indicting people as quickly as and the Department of Justice to we can, rather than at the end of n the past 15 months, the pipeline under John F. Kennedy prevent another attack. surveillance.” domestic war on terror International Airport in Queens. The study notes that of the 510 Nevertheless, supporters ar- seems to have taken a tri- “For the terrorists, life since 9/11 people deemed terrorist suspects at gue that prosecution on lesser umphant turn.In June 2006, has never been the same,” Presi- some point in the process, only charges may be our next best de- Iseven men were arrested for dent Bush assured the nation in four individuals—Zacarias Mous- fense, especially if the govern- conspiring to blow up Chicago’s his most recent State of the Union saoui, Richard Reid, Chao Tung ment has foreign intelligence that Sears Tower. A month later, a address. Wu, and Shahawar Matin Siraj— implicates a suspect, but cannot scheme to bomb train tunnels However, the judicial reality were convicted of attempting to be used in U.S. courts. “Often, under the Hudson River was of the past six years tells an alto- commit terrorism. (This past Au- people who come on your radar thwarted.Then last May, the FBI gether different story, according gust, Jose Padilla joined this list.) screen because of national secu- arrested six men for allegedly to the Terrorist Trial Report Card: Thirty-four cases were acquitted rity concerns end up being pros- plotting an armed assault on Fort U.S. Edition, a study of all terror- or dismissed and 169 cases are still ecuted as immigration cases,”says Dix in New Jersey,and only a few ist cases that passed through the pending. The remaining convic- Andrew C.McCarthy,director of weeks later, charged four men federal court system between tions—largely the result of plea the Center for Law & Countert- with planning to explode the fuel September 11, 2001 and Septem- bargains—cover a wide variety of errorism at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.“If you THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PAID EHAB ELMAGHRABY, AT LEFT WITH HIS PARENTS, A $300,000 SETTLEMENT AFTER HE WAS WRONGFULLY DETAINED, ABUSED, AND DEPORTED TO HIS NATIVE EGYPT FOLLOWING THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS. can’t prosecute them on terror- HT BARRY IVERSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX PHOTO ©

18 / FALL 2007 / NYU ism crimes, the next best thing DON POLLARD PHOTO © is that you have an immigra- SQ UARE tion hook that can get them kicked out of the country.” But this “scattershot THE method,”as Greenberg calls it, has sometimes spiraled out of control, as in the case of Ehab Elmaghraby, a permanent U.S. resident and native of Egypt. In September 2001, FBI offi- cials arrested Elmaghraby,who operated a deli near Times Square, when they came to question his landlord, who had applied for pilot training years earlier.After being held for al- most a year and abused in a Brooklyn detention center, he pleaded guilty to credit-card fraud—a crime he now says he didn’t commit—and was de- ported to Egypt. The United States has since paid El- maghraby a $300,000 settle- ment.“Every time they violate an individual this way,they are violating the system as well and, as a result, weaken it,” Greenberg says. To strengthen the system, Greenberg suggests a number of solutions, from actively en- gaging the Muslim public through schools, community centers, and interfaith groups to honing law-enforcement officers’ language skills. “The CIA and FBI are laughingly weak in fluent Arabic,” she notes, which impedes their ef- forts at gathering reliable in- telligence. But to truly restore trust in domestic counterter- rorism programs, she says, the government needs to “estab- lish a commission to consider how suspected terrorists VIOLET CITY should be tried, the nature of The first light to ever shine from the top of the Empire State Building the allowable evidence, and procedures for prosecution and was a single beacon to mark Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 presidential conviction that satisfy a broad victory. Today, the top 30 floors—and some 1,336 bulbs—are lit nightly array of the nation’s legal and to celebrate holidays and major events, including the 1964 New York law-enforcement experts— World’s Fair and the Yankees’ 2000 World Series win. For the past three not just tiny coteries of lawyers working behind closed doors years, the building has also cast a violet glow over Midtown each May, in Washington.” as pictured above, in honor of NYU’s commencement ceremonies.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 19 cooking TEST TUBE FOOD

CUISINE MOVES OUT OF THE “It’s really important that the pub- KITCHEN AND INTO THE LAB lic understand what a trans fatty NYC IN acid is,” Kirshenbaum explains, by Sabine Heinlein / GSAS ’07 “and how the incorporation of these molecules in their foods have t a recent gather- trition, Food Studies, health consequences.” ing of NYU’s and Public Health at the The collective recently Experimental Steinhardt School of secured $10,000 from Cuisine Collec- Culture, Education, and NYU’s Humanities Ini- Ative, chemists, nu- Human Development. tiative and $14,000 from trition experts, cooks, and food Together, they regularly the University Research writers hesitantly poured a white conduct food experi- Challenge Fund for in- powdery substance onto their ments and gather indus- gredients and tools to test hands and licked it. The freeze- try figures ranging from a and produce new foods, dried coconut powder was a pleas- New York Times food such as a puffed onion ring ant twist on its commercially writer to a neuroscience created by famed molecu- popular, spray-dried counterpart professor from the lar gastronomist Wylie and, being organic, lacked the Mount Sinai School of Dufresne, who owns the chemical additives and soapy after- Medicine to investigate Lower East Side restaurant taste. It’s exactly the sort of prod- such questions as why wd~50. Dufresne’s snack uct that can evolve from molecular soufflés rise. “How can is firmer,with fewer artifi- gastronomy, a movement that we control the properties cial ingredients, and tastes draws on chemistry and physics to of food substances?” Kir- more like pure onion than better understand food prepara- shenbaum asks.“How can Frito-Lay’s Funyuns. tion—how to naturally transform we get something to taste While chefs have dab- what we eat, harness its nutrition- good?” bled in science for cen- turies,the term “molecular gastronomy” was coined With adult obesity rates by Hervé This, a physical soaring to almost 33 percent chemist at the French Na- tional Institute for Agri- in the United States, such cultural Research and the culinary tinkering could shed keynote speaker at the collective’s inaugural sym- new light on food processing posium. Over the past and how it affects health. quarter century,This has scientifically tested hun- al properties, and provide radical Apparently these dreds of old wives’ tales, alternatives to the standard fare queries interest more including how best to cen-

that lines supermarket shelves. than just foodies. With ter the yolk of a hard- ILLUSTRATION BY RICK’S IMAGEWORKS PHOTO Last April, chemistry professor adult obesity rates soar- boiled egg (the key is not Kent Kirshenbaum, creator of the ing to almost 33 percent to simply plunge it in al- coconut concoction, launched the in the United States, ac- ready boiling water, as collective along with chef Will cording to the Centers for most chefs believe, but to Goldfarb, renowned for his techni- Disease Control and Pre- keep the egg rolling around cal innovations at Soho’s Room 4 vention, such culinary tinkering the pot for 10 minutes). After Dessert, and Amy Bentley,associate could shed new light on food pro- two decades of waffling between professor in the Department of Nu- cessing and how it affects health. fringe movement and fad, molec- PHOTO © NBCU BANK poverty “high,”“medium,” and “low” hu- man development. Accordingly, within the medium category,Flush- ing registered a solid HDI of 0.5 out For Richer or of 1.0, while Stapleton scored a 0.3. Among the nine districts rated the highest were Manhattan’s Up- per East Side and Upper West Side. for Poorer East Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and nine other districts—almost all in the outer boroughs—fell into the NEW TOOLS REDEFINE WEALTH low human development category. AND WELL-BEING Each neighborhood was first ranked according to residents’ by Sabine Heinlein / GSAS ’07 longevity, education, and standard of living. After that, the study gauged secondary variables, such as n paper, Flushing, Queens, and health, demographics, income, and THE ART OF MOLECULAR GASTRONO- environment, and, finally,branched MY IS FIRING UP KITCHENS ACROSS Stapleton, Staten Island, appear to AMERICA, AS SEEN ON BRAVO’S TOP out into more detailed considera- CHEF WITH SECOND-PLACE FINISHER be in equal economic shape: Both O tions,including residents’immigra- MARCEL VIGNERON. New York City neighborhoods well-being and development in a tion status, literacy rates, race, ular gastronomy is infiltrating report per capita incomes of country—to rank NewYork City’s gender, educational achievements, more U.S. kitchens, most no- roughly $20,000 and poverty 59 community districts.“The goal and access to medical facilities, tably among experimental chefs rates of around 15 percent. In re- was to use international tools to parks, and public transportation. such as Daniel Patterson at Coi ality, though, they are worlds look at the UN’s own backyard,” Last year, Stafford presented the in San Francisco, Grant Achatz apart. Flushing residents enjoy a says Diana Salas (WAG ’03),an as- study’s preliminary results to Linda at Alinea in Chicago, and Gold- hodgepodge of notable interna- sistant research scientist with Wag- Gibbs, New York City’s deputy farb. But it also appeals to those tional cuisine—everything from ner’s Women of Color Policy mayor for health and human serv- who seek empowerment at Korean barbecue to Ecuadorian Network, which authored the ices,and continues to advocate that home.“When I cook I want to pastries—have run of the scenic four-year study. Stafford and Salas the government adopt the index as know why I’m doing what I’m 1,255-acre Flushing Meadows hope that the report not only re- an annual review to gauge social doing,” says Patricia Gadsby, a Corona Park and are just steps defines the concept of domestic and economic disparity, a measure contributing editor at Discover from the Queens Museum of Art, poverty but also offers a compre- Brazil and European Union mem- magazine, who attended one of New York Hall of Science, and hensive database to help local gov- bers have used for years. Stafford the collective’s recent events. Shea Stadium. Meanwhile, those ernment develop more informed and his team will bring their tools For now, however, most re- living in Stapleton have fewer intervention strategies. to the public in fall 2007 in a con- search takes place far away from food options and are more likely The study,which considers a va- ference with leaders of nonprofit trendy restaurants and homey to be unemployed and die from riety of indicators to establish a organizations.“We don’t only want kitchens because the work re- HIV,diabetes, or violent crime. community’s level of prosperity,di- a political discourse,” he says, “but quires more elaborate equip- “Income alone tells you very vides the districts into areas of also a civic one.” ment than a trusty frying pan. little about quality of life,” says PHOTO © CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR/GETTY IMAGES Kirshenbaum recently em- Walter W.Stafford,professor of ur- ployed a powerful freeze-drying ban planning and public policy at apparatus to develop a concen- the Robert F.Wagner Graduate trated port wine “gum.”“There School of Public Service.“You’ve are some very nice antioxidant got to put people in the context compounds in red wine,” he of their communities and the risks notes, “and we anticipate that and barriers they face.”In his new- those would be retained in these ly released study,“In the Shadow freeze-dried materials.” So far, of the UN:The Global North and the process has preserved the South in New York City,”Stafford wine’s powerful aroma and elim- added such context by applying inated its alcohol content, but the United Nations Development also robbed it of elasticity, leav- Programme’s Human Develop- ing a hard lump in the test tube. ment Index (HDI)—traditionally QUEENS RESIDENTS ENJOY THE WEALTH OF GREEN SPACE IN FLUSHING Port wine rock candy,anyone? used to determine the level of MEADOWS CORONA PARK.

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efore his death in efore 2003,artistFeel- Tom ings longed to exhib- it “Middle Passage: White Ships, Black museum Cargo,” and haunting charcoal his of the cap- pen-and-ink drawings ture, abuse, and deportation of African slaves, Brook- in his native lyn. to had traveled The works the United countless cities around States, found no host in the but the opening of the borough—until small, ambitious, yet Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), ded- one of few artists for black in icated venues City, and the firstYork in New Brooklyn.

BROOKLYN CANVAS ARTISTS BLACK FOR DESTINATION A NEW ’04 / GSAS Pezold Nicole by B

CULTUR E HT CHRISTOPHER QUESTEL/COURTESY MoCADA PHOTO © ed,or that it has nothing to do with a budget, or a Web site, or an exhi- Local Development Corporation, them,”Cumbo says. bition, I’d do it for the museum,” the museum moved to the center Rather, the 1,800-square-foot she remembers.“But it wasn’t with of BAM’s burgeoning cultural space often focuses viewers back the intention of starting an actual district in Ft. Greene—just one on the events of the day, as in the museum.”However,with prodding block from Atlantic Yards,the gar- case of Parisian Alexis Peskine’s from professors and a space donat- gantuan, controversial building “The French Evolution:Race,Pol- ed by the Bridge Street AWME project that will include an arena itics, & the French Riots,” which Church, MoCADA was born on for the New Jersey Nets and stacks debuted there in May 2007. the fourth floor of a Bedford- of sky-rise condos. “It’s better to Among the 15 mixed-media works Stuyvesant brownstone.Since then, be where the development and inspired by France’s 2005 riots and it has routinely drawn media atten- excitement is happening,” Cum- continuing racial tensions is “La tion,from the design magazine Me- bo reasons, envisioning that Révolution de Marianne (Mari- tropolis to The New York Times,for MoCADA will grow with down- am),” a latex-on-canvas portrait both its aesthetics and mission. The town Brooklyn and eventually depicting France’s Lady Liberty, Network Journal dubbed Cumbo a expand to offer concurrent exhi- Marianne, as an African woman in “keeper of the culture.” bitions. “The museum can be a a blood-red revolutionary bonnet. In 2006, in cooperation with marker that this community has “It’s important that this work be the Brooklyn Academy of Music a stake in this city.”

shown in Paris.The problem is that FRANK DUDEMAN/COURTESY STUDIO SUMO PHOTO © there are fewer opportunities there right now,”Peskine says,citing both a less vibrant art scene and lack of access for nonwhite French artists. For many years, a haven such as MoCADA was purely hypotheti- PHOTOGRAPHER TYRONE BROWN- OSBORNE IMAGINES THE MADONNA AS cal to Cumbo,who had been drawn ANY OF SEVERAL BLACK WOMEN ONE to visual arts since she scribbled in MIGHT PASS ON THE STREET IN THIS her first coloring book.As a grad- UNTITLED WOOD PANEL SERIES. uate student, Cumbo studied visu- Since its opening in 1999, al arts administration at the MoCADA has provided a visual Steinhardt School of Culture, Ed- and cultural crossroads for Brook- ucation, and Human Develop- lyn’s vast Diasporan communities— ment, where the idea for the ABOVE: IN 2006, THE MUSEUM MOVED FROM A BED-STUY BROWNSTONE TO DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN. BELOW: MOCADA DIRECTOR LAURIE A. CUMBO (CENTER) from Haitians to Nigerians to black museum started as a perpetual class WITH PARISIAN ARTIST ALEXIS PESKINE (RIGHT) AT THE DEBUT OF HIS Americans—with four exhibitions project.“If they asked us to create MIXED-MEDIA SHOW ON RACISM IN FRANCE. and 30 public programs annually MARC ASNIN/REDUX PICTURES PHOTO © featuring art-world stars such as Kenyan-born painter Wangechi Mutu, as well as new talent. Shows have ranged from painter Arturo Lindsay’s rumination on his Afro- Panamanian roots to last spring’s “The Post-Millennial Black Madonna,” a group show on vi- sions of the Virgin Mary by 24 artists, co-curated by Brooklyn painter and arts philanthropist Dan- ny Simmons (WSUC ’78)—broth- er of hip-hop magnate Russell Simmons—and event producer Brian Tate. MoCADA also sends artists into local schools and hosts an annual children’s film festival to mold the next generation of black artists and museumgoers. “It’s my goal to make sure that this is not a place where people feel intimidat-

NYU / FALL 2007 / 25 ABOVE AND ABOVE Village—which , WHICH CHRONICLED EARLY COVERS FROM COVERS EARLY PUNK THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE’S THE PHILIP GLASS While there is no definitive While there NEW YORK’S UNDERGROUND MUSIC SCENE UNDERGROUND YORK’S NEW 1979. TO 1976 FROM attracted a slew of painters,attracted a slew musi- LEFT: SOUND FIT NO UNIQUE DOWNTOWN CATEGORY. CLEAR-CUT RIGHT: BOTTOM THE FANZINE to experimental Youth Sonic Zorn—blended composer John the sounds of this era in different the passed through as they ways same milieu. says:“The Cherches time, more unifying factor was place, as opposed to culture and culminat- movement sound.”The ed with the composer collective, Bang on a Can, formed in 1987 School of Yale former three by Music classmates. Noticing the in communities music fractured City, off kicked they York New society with a 12-hour the new marathon performance in Soho, featuring composers 28 young various strains. musical playing this conver- explanation for why original- genres gence of musical ly occurred, and both Cherches in the point to cheap rents Taylor meccas— then–counter culture Soho and the East

PHOTO © PAULA COURT Nor did the new downtown Nor did the new prehensive guide to the music of guide to the music prehensive the period for the collection.“But ’80s, the by the distinctions be- got pretty genres different tween under- blurred.”With this new standing, Marvin Taylor, director of the collection, will pursue ma- range diverse terials a more from of “downtown” musicians, such Award–nominated as Academy composer Philip Glass. “There became something that was con- music,”Cherches downtown tinues, necessarily it wasn’t “but or classical or jazz.” rock mu- sound the same.The all music rockers alternative sicians—from small town of freaky artists of freaky within small town climate fostered the city.This collaborations among people in arts,”different writer says and performance Cherches. artist Peter “The East Village was like a mutant a mutant like Village was “The East “In the ’70s,you had these clear birth to some of the most original collaborations,musical according the Down- from research to new Collection,town Library’s Fales on the art scene eclectic archive that flourished 14th Street below decades ago. only a few genres— between breakdowns performed was music at the new Kitchen, punk at CBGB, and jazz in the artist-run lofts,” explains (GSAS ’97), Cherches Peter a writerprominent and perform- those heady days, ance artist from a com- produced who recently York’s 1970s and York’s

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CULT E 26 / NYU 2007 / FALL ’80s downtown music scene. music ’80s downtown But while bands such as the Ramones, Television, and Blondie grabbed headlines, the bohemian neigh- borhoods of Soho and the East with a complex alive Village were superfueled mix of sounds from punk,Wave, mini- somber New malist classical, and rock-infused popular jazz.Often by overlooked culture,this gave cross-pollination by James Jung James by

Symphony GLORY MUSIC’S DOWNTOWN MINGLING MUCH TO OWE DAYS Bohemian I cians, writers, and actors who were sick of the commoditiza- tion of their work and intent CREDITS on challenging artistic norms. According to Cherches, “The AN ALUMNI HIT PARADE—FROM THE MULTIPLEX East Village was like a mutant TO BROADWAY TO YOUR LIVING ROOM small town of freaky artists within the city.This climate After penning a series finale that length film. Now the directorial turns to his homeland after many fostered collaborations born of launched a thousand debates, ex- duo are turning their popular years to save a childhood friend… social interactions among peo- ecutive producer DAVID CHASE Geico Insurance ads into an ABC At this year’s Tony Awards, BILLY ple working in different arts.” (ARTS ’68) nabbed Emmy Awards sitcom called Cavemen…BEN CRUDUP (TSOA ’94) won Best Sadly, the period’s decline for Outstanding Drama Series for GARANT (nongrad alum) and Performance by a Featured Actor was sparked by the same factors HBO’s The Sopranos, as well as THOMAS LENNON (TSOA ’92), in a Play for Tom Stoppard’s epic that made it possible. Just as so- Outstanding Writing for a Drama popular for their roles as Deputy trilogy of prerevolutionary Rus- cioeconomics caused artists to Series for the show’s final episode, Junior and Lieutenant Dangle, re- sia, The Coast of Utopia, and gravitate downtown,by the end titled “Made in America”… DAVID spectively,from the Comedy Cen- MICHAEL MAYER (TSOA ’83) of the Reagan years, it began JAVERBAUM (TSOA ’95) also tral series Reno 911!, traded in took home Best Direction of a driving them out. “The stock won an Emmy for Outstanding their badges for Ping-Pong pad- Musical for Spring Awakening,a market crash of the late ’80s Variety, Music, or Comedy Series dles this summer to pen the com- tale of sexual discovery in 19th- killed off the East Village art as executive producer for Comedy edy Balls of Fury, which Garant century Germany.Tisch earned market, and AIDS decimated Central’s hit political satire The also directed and stars Christopher a total 15 nominations among the community,” Taylor ex- Daily Show With Jon Stewart… Walken, about the underground alumni, faculty, and Dean’s plains. The closing of seminal EILEEN HEISLER (TSOA ’88) and world of competitive Ping- Council members…ANDRE DE venues, such as 8BC because of DEANN HELINE (TSOA ’87) are Pong… Since directing Will Fer- SHIELDS (GAL ’91) scored an code violations, and the loss the women behind NBC’s new rell in Stranger Than Fiction,director Obie Award, off-Broadway’s top of some musicians to the dramedy Lipstick Jungle, starring MARC FORSTER (TSOA ’93) has honor,for Sustained Excellence of commercial mainstream, con- Brooke Shields and based on the taken a more serious turn with this Performance for such roles as King tributed to the change. book by CANDACE BUSHNELL fall’s The Kite Runner, based on Lear in a production by the Clas- Though there’s no telling (GAL ’81), whose racy newspaper Khaled Hosseini’s best-sellingnov- sical Theatre of Harlem. whether a similar scene will columns inspired HBO’s Sex and el about an Afghani man who re- —Renée Alfuso

resurface, Cherches doesn’t see the City… Renewed for a fourth GEMMA LA MANA PHOTO © it happening in New York’s now season on ABC,executive produc- BALLS OF FURY expensive downtown neighbor- er DAMON LINDELOF’s (TSOA hoods. And in our technology- ’95) hit show Lost, starring fellow infused age,he isn’t sure whether alumnus DANIEL DAE KIM (TSOA it could happen within any of ’96), continues to follow plane- the city’s boroughs.“The Inter- crash survivors as they try to es- net may have made the specifi- cape from a mysterious island… cations of place less important, Also returning this season are which is a shame,” he says, but NBC’s Heroes, directed by ALLAN adds,“You might say that it has ARKUSH (TSOA ’70), executive created the possibility of a dis- producer KATIE JACOBS’(TSOA tributed bohemianism.” ’87) House on Fox, and DANIEL PINO

(TSOA ’00) in CBS’s Cold 2007 DREAMWORKS PICTURES PHIL BRAY © Case… After stepping in to com- THE KITE RUNNER plete the comic book trilogy with last summer’s X-Men: The Last Stand, film director BRETT RAT- NER (TSOA ’90) returned with a third installment of Rush Hour, which rejoins Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker—this time tearing up Paris…WILLIAM SPECK (TSOA ’93) and JOSHUA GOR- DON (TSOA ’93) had audiences roaring with their hit comedy Blades of Glory, their first feature-

NYU / FALL 2007 / 27 AFTER A TEENAGE OBSESSION WITH HEAVY METAL, ADAM GADAHN, NOW THE AMERICAN FACE OF AL-QAEDA, TURNED TO ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM.

1999 logging e-mails,participating in group rituals, and pondering fundamental Islam.“I was hungry for answers,”he explains.A critical illness as a young adult, coupled with a “religiously ambiguous household,”where his Jewish par- ents drew inspiration from a vari- ety of spiritual persuasions,had left Gartenstein-Ross searching for God. “Islam seemed to offer an- HT INTELCENTER PHOTO © swers,” he says, but “in the process of sincerely searching,I got sucked religion into an extremist interpretation.” As Gartenstein-Ross yearned for what he calls “a kind of theo- adding that it becomes an easy tool logical certainty,”he grew a beard, for burying both personal and cul- removed his jewelry, threw away FUNDAMENTAL tural deficiencies. his rock albums, refused to shake Experts have long viewed fun- women’s hands,and broke up with damentalism as a response to the his Christian girlfriend. In return QUESTIONS confusion inspired by the chaos of for these sacrifices, the close-knit modern culture.“People are drawn group at Al Haramain offered safe- WHY SOME AMERICANS ARE to fundamentalism out of their ty and temporary relief from his SEDUCED BY EXTREME FAITH own inability to grapple, accept, nagging philosophical and emo- and live within the enormous com- tional questions. plexities and ambiguities that mod- This theme resonates with by Sabine Heinlein / GSAS ’07 ernism brings,” Strozier explains. many converts who seek a more Fundamentalism has also been in- rigorous or “authentic” religious hey were just kids tion of Arabs in the Middle East or terpreted as a reaction to gender experience, says Strozier, remem- from California who even in Europe, the lack of prece- insecurities—what Strozier calls a bering an Evangelical who dis- grew up in middle- dent and the unsettlingly familiar “deep confusion about sexuality dained “the easy beliefism of class homes, listening faces of these two young men, has and the fear of women.” He says, mainstream Christianity.” In fact, T to hip-hop and heavy experts scrambling to explain why “Growing a beard and walking Gartenstein-Ross’s story is part of metal. As teenagers they were lon- fundamentalist Islam is so attractive around in a different kind of uni- a greater tale of religious conver- ers, but bright students with futures to certain youth.“This is an incred- form marks you as being special sion,which has risen steadily dur- rich in opportunity—until they ibly complex question,”says Charles and holy in an unholy land.” ing the past century.According to found a radical alternative.Today the B.Strozier,director of the Center on images of Adam Gadahn,al-Qaeda’s Terrorism at the John Jay College of American spokesperson who is on Criminal Justice and author of Apoc- “Fundamentalism hijacks the religious the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists list, alypse: On the Psychology of Funda- experience,” says psychoanalyst and and John Walker Lindh, the Taliban mentalism in America (Wipf and fighter captured in Afghanistan in Stock). “There are no clear tem- author Charles B. Strozier. 2001 and now in a federal prison in plates.” But rather than blaming Colorado, embody a threat that hits something intrinsically evil within Daveed Gartenstein-Ross a 2007 study by the Pew Research close to home:They are the Ameri- the fundamentalist strain of Islam (LAW ’02) has tried to provide an Center, 23 percent of the estimat- can face of Islamic terrorism. practiced by both Gadahn and answer of his own in My Year Inside ed 2.35 million Muslims in the These highly publicized cases Lindh, Strozier points to a range of Radical Islam: A Memoir (Tarcher), United States are converts— give the impression that there may psychological factors, from mental which describes his time working a large portion of them African- be an emerging “fifth column” of illness to the pressures of modern in the U.S.headquarters of Al Hara- Americans, many of whom con- homegrown terrorists in the United society, which can drive such con- main Islamic Foundation,an inter- verted during incarceration. As a States.While it’s still a rare occur- versions. “Fundamentalism hijacks national Wahhabi charity linked to comparison, CUNY’s American rence compared to the radicaliza- the religious experience,” he says, al-Qaeda, where he spent much of Religious Identification Survey

28 / FALL 2007 / NYU of 2001 notes that 37 percent of the right to wage war. But, Haykel says. “In a counter-phobic re- 9/11, Gartenstein- one million Evangelicals are con- cautions, this does not mean all sponse, you construct the other as Ross contacted the FBI verts. “Religious switching,” the Wahhabis are violent or even dif- being evil.You experience yourself to share information survey says,may be “a reflection of ferent from other fundamentalists, in great danger.Therefore you have about his former E CULT a deeper cultural phenomenon in such as Christians who adopt liter- to attack to avoid being attacked.” friends. “The least I contemporary America.” al interpretations of the Bible. Over time, Gartenstein-Ross’s could do was try to In Islam, Wahhabism offers a “Think of it this way,”he explains. search for meaning led him away make the right choices “muscular interpretation” of faith, “You might have some very strict from radical Islam as he began ques- now,” he writes. “I felt says Bernard Haykel,associate pro- Catholics who are against abortion, tioning the authoritarian style of a great sense of relief.” UR fessor of Middle Eastern and Is- but that doesn’t make them people his peers at Al Haramain and their This led him to a new lamic studies at NYU. The who blow up abortion clinics.” enthusiasm for the Chechen mu- career, as a counterter- Wahhabis follow what they believe Those who do turn violent jahideen. He moved to New York, rorism consultant for the Founda- to be a pure version of Islam, as might be what Strozier, a psycho- reunited with his Christian girl- tion for Defense of Democracies, practiced by the prophet Muham- analyst, terms “counter-phobic.” friend,whom he later married,and and trainer of local law enforce- mad and the first Muslims. They People who are “vulnerable, lost, embraced Christianity himself, al- ment on Islam and Jihadist ideolo- consider less orthodox Muslims or divided, or traumatized,” he says, though he is less forthcoming gy.“I was obsessed with having a those of other persuasions to be sometimes project their worst about this second conversion. black-and-white answer,” he re- nonbelievers, barred from heaven. thoughts and feelings outward.“It’s After Al Haramain’s U.S. head- flects. “I’m more comfortable now From that, some extremists infer an act of self-defense,” Strozier quarters were raided following with shades of gray.”

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home at the bottom of the ocean when a nuclear missile is mistaken- ly fired from a U.S. Navy subma- rine.In Paranoid Park (Viking),set in Nelson’s native Portland, Oregon, an unnamed protagonist with skater-dude aspirations accidental-

PRINT ly, without witnesses, kills a securi- IN ty guard and must choose between turning himself in or living with guilt and anxiety.The movie ver- sion, directed by Gus Van Sant, was an official selection at this year’s HT BETH ROSENBERG PHOTO © Cannes Film Festival ahead of its worldwide release in September. “I have never accidentally killed young-adult fiction anyone,” Nelson says, laughing, “and I’ve never run into aliens on the beach.” Nevertheless, after years of writing about everyday is- sues, he felt it was time to branch WEIRD, DUDE out.“Prom Anonymous was a study of social worlds,”he explains.“Af- ter you write something like that, BLAKE NELSON MAKES THE TEEN you have to do stuff that radically YEARS EVEN MORE COMPLICATED shifts your brain.” Even in his more conventional by Amy Rosenberg tales, Nelson manages to dig be- neath his characters’seemingly su- ovelist Blake Nel- who has it all—the grades, the perficial concerns to explore the son (WSUC ’84) friends, the girl—until he’s not sure ways in which adolescents learn remembers high he wants it,to Chloe in Prom Anony- real-life lessons, such as navigating school: curfews, mous (both Viking), a Sylvia peer groups and moral ambiguity. N cliques, zits, prom Plath–idolizing outsider who, sur- These themes first appeared in his dates,virginity—and the loss there- prising even herself, decides to go 1994 debut novel, Girl, a coming- of. For years, the award-winning to the prom. of-age tale about the fearful—and young-adult author has garnered But recently, Nelson has forced sometimes joyful—high school critical praise for his humorous rep- his typical adolescent characters realities of sex, self-confidence, resentations of ordinary, middle- into rather atypical scenarios— and peer pressure. Erotic scenes class teenagers, from Max, ranging from life-threatening to and imagery,however, relegated it protagonist of The New Rules of just plain bizarre. In They Came to an adult-only market. Praised High School, From Below (Tor), his most recent by reviewers, the book was made book, two friends summering with into a film and, this October, their families on Cape Cod meet a Simon Pulse is re-launching it—as couple of cute boys—who turn out a young-adult novel. to be aliens displaced from their “When I was first getting pub- Nelson forces typical adolescent characters into rather atypical scenarios—ranging from life- threatening to just plain bizarre. lished,I didn’t want to be a young- thing that could happen to peo- bibliofile adult writer,” says Nelson, who ple. And I’ve always known I was got his start in the underground good with kids.” I’JAAM: AN IRAQI RHAPSODY Amidst the flurry of nonfiction New York arts scene, performing This talent has also been not- (CITY LIGHTS) about contemporary Iraq comes short stories, manifestos, and po- ed in many a starred review by SINAN ANTOON the English translation of poet and etry on open-mike nights at the the arbiters of young-adult fic- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR essayist Sinan Antoon’s novella- renowned art collective ABC No tion: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Re- GALLATIN SCHOOL OF length meditation on autocracy Rio after he graduated from NYU views, and School Library Journal. INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war. with a degree in European histo- With nine published books un- Baghdad native Antoon presents ry.“At the time, young-adult fic- der his belt, Nelson is hard at his tale through the unearthed, tion was a ghetto. But then it work on the next one. About? written recollections of an impris- became a good avenue for story- A boy who returns from a camp- oned student. The titular “I’jaam,” telling,and that’s what I wanted to ing trip to find himself the last which means “elucidating” and do, write about every possible person on Earth—of course. refers to the accent-like marks that dot written Arabic, serves as the plot’s metaphorical center— alluding both to the student’s book club attempts to make sense of a bleak world and, quite literally, a govern- ment official’s marking up of the WHAT I’M READING: mysterious manuscript with dots and notes. Evoking both Elie Wiesel and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in its PHILLIP MARGOLIN exposition of political oppression, I’jaam was praised by the pan-Arab e never intended to be a writer. But newspaper Al-Hayat as “[o]ne of in 1978, while a successful criminal the most important Iraqi and Arab defense attorney practicing in novels to be published in recent H times.” —Andrew Flynn Portland, Oregon, DO YOU INEVITABLY Phillip Margolin COMPARE YOUR- (LAW ’70) penned the SELF TO OTHER SING MY WHOLE LIFE LONG: Playing her trademark accordion, mystery novel Heart- MYSTERY WRITERS JENNY VINCENT’S LIFE IN Jenny Vincent has shared the stone—just for fun. LIKE BURKE? FOLK MUSIC AND ACTIVISM stage with legends such as Pete It became a New York The thing I do great is (UNIVERSITY OF Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Paul Times best-seller, as plotlines. My plotlines NEW MEXICO PRESS) Robeson through the years, using have all 12 of his are really compelling. CRAIG SMITH folk music to communicate the books, including his latest, Proof But no one is ever going to read me GSAS ’86 struggles of the powerless. The Positive (HarperCollins). for the literary quality of my work. former Midwestern child of privi- I’m a problem-solver. I love the lege and Vassar College graduate WHAT ARE YOU READING puzzle aspect. I like to write books began performing for local unions RIGHT NOW? where, hopefully, you don’t know and human-rights groups in her The last book I read was Pegasus who did it until the end. I’m not as adopted home of New Mexico, Descending (Simon & Schuster) into developing the characters. eventually building a national fol- by James Lee Burke, who’s a ter- lowing—and an FBI file due to her rific writer and an interesting WHAT MAKES YOU SO ADDICT- brief membership in the Commu- guy. It took him nearly 10 years ED TO READING? nist party—as a champion for Na- to get his first crime book pub- I like escaping. I used to handle a tive American and Hispanic lished, and then it was nominat- lot of death-penalty cases, and it cultures. First-time author Craig ed for a Pulitzer prize. It goes to was nice to go home and read about Smith traveled the West conduct- show you how screwy the pub- others who had it worse. So my ing dozens of interviews and dig- lishing industry is. He’s probably method of writing is to help peo- ging through government the best mystery writer there is ple escape. My goal is for someone documents to piece together Vin- right now. I also just finished to get on a plane in Portland and cent’s 94-year (so far!) music and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow (Knopf).I’d fly to New York without realizing social justice journey. been meaning to read that one the flight took place. —Jason Hollander for a while. — Jason Hollander

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INPRINT Terror in the Aisles

WORKS OF HORROR NOVELIST PETER STRAUB TO HAUNT FALES COLLECTION by Jason Hollander / GAL ’07

n his first tour of called “the scariest book I’ve ever NYU’s Fales Col- read,”and later became a film star- lection, best-sell- ring Fred Astaire. ing novelist Peter So when the time came for O Straub shuffled Straub to choose among the uni- through the narrow stacks, mar- versities in line to purchase his veling at the obscure, vintage pulp archives, Fales appeared a logical fiction on the shelves, alongside choice.“Peter liked our collecting materials from H.P. Lovecraft and style and our attitude because we’re James Beard. The eclectic library, not precious about it,” explains complete with a graffiti mural on Mike Kelly, curator of books for the wall, assured him this wasn’t a Fales and a friend who often talks place that snubbed its nose at pop- comic books and indie rock with ular culture—an important per- the author. “We’re not just Dick- sonal point for Straub. Despite ens—we cast a really wide net.” HT DUDLEY REED PHOTO © numerous writing awards, he still Last winter, a moving truck pulled ABOVE: AN ETHEREAL PETER STRAUB IN THE STUDY OF HIS UPPER WEST SIDE BROWNSTONE. LEFT: STRAUB PASTED EERIE IMAGES ON THIS TABLET, IN WHICH finds that scholars and critics tag away from Straub’s ivy-covered HE HANDWROTE THE AWARD-WINNING NOVEL KOKO (1988). him as a genre writer because of Upper West Side brownstone, his success with horror novels such heading for Bobst Library with tive was nearing the end of the new child’s evil streak.The creepy as Ghost Story (1979), which a more than 65,000 pages of his man- grace period in which his wife,Su- tone proved a perfect fit. “Right Chicago Sun-Times critic once uscripts, 4,500 of his letters, and san (SSW ’87), would support him away I saw that I was writing as numerous other diaries, note- so he could concentrate on his well as I ever had, or better,” ex- books, drawings, and personal work,and decided to take a chance. plains Straub,who happily watched memorabilia, including a series of After some early struggles, Straub Julia (1975) become a hit in the collages fashioned by Straub for finally came up with an idea that United States and Great Britain. the covers of the ledger books he uses to write in longhand. The archive reveals both the After some early struggles, dedication and evolution of a the fledgling writer finally writer who battled the depression of watching his early works fail to came up with an idea that resonate. After publishing some scared even himself. poetry and an unheralded main- stream novel by 1974, Straub took scared even himself: A young Straub has since made a literary the advice of his agent,who cham- woman moves alone into a house mark with his intricate plots and pioned the newly popular Gothic on a spooky London street and experimental styles, which some- genre and “suggested I try to write meets a little ghost-like girl who times reveal unreliable narrators something that would actually reminds her of her recently de- and shifting realities. The author make money.”The Milwaukee na- ceased daughter—except for the collaborated with good friend

32 / FALL 2007 / NYU HT TV EAI/ET IMAGES STEVE DECANIO/GETTY PHOTO © Stephen King on the supernat- bibliofile ural works The Talisman (1984) and Black House (2001), which FLY ME TO THE MOON: Will spaceships someday glide to follow protagonist Jack Sawyer AN INSIDER’S GUIDE the moon the way a surfer rides a into a parallel universe. He re- TO THE NEW SCIENCE wave to shore? In Fly Me to the ceived World Fantasy Awards OF SPACE TRAVEL Moon, mathematician, NASA con- for his 1988 post–Vietnam War (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY sultant, and painter Edward Bel- thriller Koko and for his 1993 PRESS) bruno explains how to harness novella The Ghost Village, owns EDWARD BELBRUNO the laws of chaos to travel to seven Bram Stoker Awards, and ARTS ’73, GSAS ’75, CIMS ’79 Earth’s only satellite. He propos- recently received a lifetime es that spacecraft use “the sub- achievement award from the tle intermingling of gravity’s pulls Horror Writers Association. and tugs” to surf on balanced In fall 2008, Fales will host gravitational fields, rather than an exhibition of Straub’s relying on fuel-hogging rocket archives—including many let- engines. The only downside is ters from King, complete with that the journey can take months, corny jokes—as well as a sym- poetry instead of days. But Belbruno sug- posium on his 17 novels and gests that this method, once used other works. to rescue an errant lunar mission Though comfortable now WINTRY from Japan, may be ideal for with the label of horror or fan- transporting supplies or even tasy writer, it still bothers knocking an asteroid off a danger- Straub—whose favorite author MIX ous course. For science-chal- is Henry James—that most seri- lenged readers, Belbruno spices ous critics and English profes- The 6 A.M. January up the discourse with anecdotes, sors don’t include these genres encaustic clouds everyday analogies, and scores more in conversation. Horror are built of illustrations and photographs. novels, he says, can be of the in a waxy gray putty —Sabine Heinlein highest literary merit, and also whizzing by with spots contain a subtle philosophy of of luminous silvery existence just by nature of their crack-o’-the-world light SELLING WOMEN SHORT: The infamous “boom-boom rooms” magical inventions. “If you in- coming through, an eerie GENDER AND MONEY may be gone, but University of Ari- voke the supernatural, you are end-o’-the-world feeling ON WALL STREET zona sociologist Louise Marie Roth instantly moving toward a reli- yet reassuring (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY reveals that a culture of discrimi- gious viewpoint,” Straub says. like an old movie. PRESS) nation against women lingers in “Once you start suspending the Do I really have to go out there? LOUISE MARIE ROTH the financial world. In her debut laws of physics, you are getting Now a hint of muted GSAS ’99, ’00 book, Roth examines a group of near to Jesus raising Lazarus salmon tones breaking elite men and women who rode the from the tomb.” a warmish band 1990s bull market, when opportu- But do the slippery and of welcoming pinkish light. nities should have been at their twisted realities he forges in his Is it like this every morning? most optimal—and equal. Despite works tend to affect his real- My head still in the dark. corporate practices and market life perceptions? Perhaps a lit- Worry, eck! But the brightening forces that generally reward high tle when he first steps away russet tipped cloud ballet performers regardless of sex, Roth from the typewriter, he says, reminds me of something found that women remained at a but Straub always returns to in Pliny, yea, Pliny. disadvantage because of the “un- the common ground he shares Can’t imagine opening conscious and invisible assump- with readers.“I sort of want to the door today in a toga. tions about gender” that play out think that there is another Work and more, in annual reviews and other sub- realm, and sometimes I think yes, work jective career measures. Still, that there almost has to be,”the sends us into the draft. almost one-third of the women she author muses. “But that is for interviewed managed to prove— exploration and pleasure in —PETER GIZZI (GAL ’86) through sky-high bonuses and pro- books.You can’t spend your FROM THE OUTERNATIONALE motions—that gender is not always life trying to look for it in the (WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY destiny, even if it continues to tug. world.” PRESS) —Nicole Pezold

NYU / FALL 2007 / 33 HT ELENA SEIBERT PHOTO © twins—dressed the same and yet still so individual. What they uncover is a tale of a mentally ill mother of twin baby INPRINT girls, separated because of an ethi- cally questionable study on nature versus nurture, so controversial it has been sealed until 2066.The sis- ters interrogate the lead scientist of the secret study and, with the help of a private investigator, discover the truth about their mother’s fate. Yet even as they worked togeth- er, they had to confront the fact that,DNA aside,they were still vir- tual strangers. While Schein de- scribed Bernstein, a married mother of two in Brooklyn, as “ ‘the we of me’that I had been un- consciously searching for all my life,” Bernstein, worried that her new sister—unmarried and un- nonfiction moored—would want too much from her. “Writing about some of AFTER DISCOVERING EACH OTHER IN the difficult aspects of our relation- THEIR THIRTIES, TWINS ELYSE SCHEIN (LEFT) AND PAULA BERNSTEIN HAD ship wasn’t easy,” Bernstein con- A Tale of TO LEARN HOW TO BE SISTERS. cedes. “I was definitely afraid of hurting her feelings.” Schein adds: newspapers and passionate about “Communication is always diffi- Two Sisters avant-garde film. cult, but in this case, it was some- The twins soon decided to doc- times like speaking a foreign ument their discovery in writing, language.You’re not sure if the oth- AN INTIMATE PROJECT HELPS TWINS agreeing it would be an ideal way er person really understands you.” BRIDGE DECADES OF SEPARATION to get to know each other and It’s a strange dilemma for iden- make sense of their newfound sis- tical twins, known for sometimes by Courtney E. Martin / GAL ’04 terhood; Identical Strangers:A Mem- inventing their own language oir of Twins Separated when raised together, n an ordinary April Bernstein and her sister,Paris-based and Reunited (Ran- but Bernstein’s hesi- morning in 2004, filmmaker Elyse Schein, who had dom House) was pub- tancy melted away as Paula Bernstein’s contacted the agency in search of lished in October the journalist in her (TSOA ’92) past her birth mother, reunited at Café 2007.The book reads took over. The hon- O and future collided Mogador, an East Village haunt like a mystery as it fol- esty and intensity they in a phone call from Louise Wise Bernstein frequented as a graduate lows the sisters in their both bring make the Services, the agency that arranged student in cinema studies. They quest to understand book—structured her adoption in 1969. A freelance reveled in a love-at-first-sight eu- who their mother chronologically, with writer, she had published an essay phoria, comparing knees, noses, was, why they were each sister’s take on in Redbook in 2000 titled, “Why I and what once seemed anomalous separated, and how various significant Don’t Want to Find My Birth quirks.“Even when I’m not in front this information has moments—gripping Mother”—and had long ago made of a keyboard, I find myself mock changed them. To find these an- as the twins negotiate and eventu- that clear to the agency, suspecting typing while I speak,” Bernstein swers,they interview twin experts, ally embrace their bond.These days that to discover another family admitted. “I do that too!” Schein dig through birth records, and an- they see each other about once a might end in heartbreak. But it exclaimed.They shared childhood alyze the science and cultural lore week (Schein has relocated to wasn’t her birth mother they were histories—Bernstein’s idyllic up- of identical twins, including direc- Brooklyn), take walks in Prospect calling about.“I hate to dump this bringing in Westchester and tor Stanley Kubrick’s study of du- Park, and delight in the antics of on you,”a woman told her over the Schein’s early loss of her adoptive ality and identity in The Shining Bernstein’s two young daughters— phone,“but you’ve got a twin!” mother in Oklahoma. Both were (1980) and Diane Arbus’s 1967 who have the great fortune to grow After recovering from the shock, editor-in-chief of their high school photograph of identical girl up side by side.

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BELIEF: A MEMOIR For N. John Hall, nagging doubts DEDICATION After Kate Hollis’s high school (FREDERIC C. BEIL) about the existence of God start- (ATRIA–SIMON & SCHUSTER) sweetheart left for California with- N. JOHN HALL ed as a divinity student in 1951 EMMA MCLAUGHLIN out even a goodbye, she tried to GSAS ’70 and continued throughout his GAL ’96 focus on college and forget about nearly two decades in service to AND NICOLA KRAUS him—until he became a huge rock the Catholic church. Eventually, a GAL ’95 star and she discovered that all his crisis of faith—and newfound songs were about her. Now 13 years love—forced Hall to leave the later, she finally gets the chance to priesthood behind for marriage confront him when he returns and a different calling: English lit- home to tape a Christmas special erature. Now a noted Anthony but loses her steam once she real- Trollope and Max Beerbohm izes that they might still be in love. scholar at the City University of The New York Times calls this lat- New York, Hall recounts his spiri- est novel by Emma McLaughlin tual evolution in precise detail— and Nicola Kraus, authors of the from a childhood enchantment 2002 best-seller The Nanny Di- with Catholicism to intellectual aries, “diabolically funny.” Narrat- frustrations with seminary life to ed alternately by 30-year-old Kate the fulfillment of working in tight- and Katie, her alter ego from ele- knit parish communities—culmi- mentary and high school, Dedica- nating with the unexpected tion transports readers back to romance that drove him to the early 1990s, giving the book an choose between his religious innocence and nostalgia that make commitment and emerging it stand out from other chick lit. personal desires. —A.F. —Renée Alfuso

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NYU / SPRING 2007 / 35 In August of 2003, a heat wave enveloped Europe, killing some 35,000 people—more deaths than any single nation suffered in the Invasion of Normandy. With temperatures hovering over 100 degrees for several weeks, it was probably that continent’s hottest summer in 500 years — and just one deadly example of how Earth is steadily, and dangerously, warming. In fact, the planet’s hottest 12 years on record—since reliable measurements began in 1861—have occurred over the past 17 years, according to a 2007 report by the Intergov- ernmental Panel on Climate Change. But that’s just the start. Scientists predict that Earth’s average temperature could increase up to 11.5°F by 2100—a rate more than 10 times greater than the warming witnessed in the 20th century, and possibly unprecedented in the past 10,000 years. Even conser- vative estimates predict the globe will heat by 2°F over the next century, possibly triggering a spiral of natural disasters far surpassing Hurricane Katrina or this summer’s wildfires in the western United States. Who’s to blame? Mostly us, it appears, and our galloping consumption of fossil fuels. But, more important, people are now asking: Is there a fix? The following pages examine the issue and reveal answers that our great-grandchildren will likely debate as the climate continues to transfigure their world. THE EVIDENCE IS IN ON GLOBAL WARMING AND, MORE THAN EVER, THE PLANET’S FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS. SO WHAT CAN NEW YORK, NYU—AND YOU—DO…BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE?

38 FACTS AND 42 RESIZING YOUR FORECASTS FOOTPRINT The proof at hand and Conservation tips within predictions for the future reach of almost all budgets

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GLOBAL HARMING A glance at the damage already done from pole to pole— and what scientists say is still to come.

WARM WATER RISING TIDE PERFECT STORMS NOT SO PERMANENT 2 Oceans have absorbed 4For the past two millen- 6 Tropical sea surface 8 The top layer of per- FACTS 80 percent of the heat we’ve nia, the sea level has risen temperatures during the mafrost has increased in added to the climate, between 0.1 and 0.2 mil- hurricane season have temperature by 5.4°F since POISON IN THE AIR increasing average water limeters per year. Rates increased 1°F since 1970, the 1980s, causing some to 1 Greenhouse gases— temperatures even at depths have averaged 10 times that possibly boosting the inten- thaw for the first time in caused by burning fossil of almost 10,000 feet. in the past century, and 30 sity of North Atlantic more than 125,000 years. fuels such as oil, coal, and times that since 1993. storms. The number of cat- As it melts, permafrost re- gas—can stay in the atmos- ON THIN ICE egory four and five hurri- leases concentrated vol- phere for centuries, trapping 3 The Arctic warmed OH-NO-ZONE canes—registering winds of umes of the greenhouse gas heat from the Earth’s surface twice as fast as the rest of 5 First observed in the more than 131 mph—has methane. and warming the planet. the planet over the past early 1980s, the hole in the nearly doubled worldwide Greenhouse gas emissions 100 years. Its cap of sea ice Antarctic ozone—the since then. GOODBYE, GLACIERS jumped 70 percent between has shrunk by an average stratospheric gas that pro- 9 The 11,000-year-old 1970 and 2004. Ice cores of 8.4 percent each decade tects Earth from ultraviolet ACRES ABLAZE ice caps of Mount Kiliman- suggest that the current at- since the 1970s, and this light—now grows to an area 7 Significant drought af- jaro in Tanzania have melt- mospheric concentration of year reached a record low. larger than Antarctica most fected 52 percent of the ed by about 82 percent over carbon dioxide—the green- The less Arctic ice there is years. At the South Pole United States in 2006 and the past century—and could house gas most produced by to reflect sunlight, the itself, ozone depletion contributed to a record wild- be gone altogether by 2020. humans—far exceeds the more heat the sea absorbs. reached 99 percent in early fire season in which almost natural range of the past October 2006. 10 million acres burned. 650,000 years.

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NYU / FALL 2007 / 39 WHY WE PUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL TIME BOMB ON THE BACK BURNER by Sharon Tregaskis with Jason Hollander / GAL ’07 / and Nicole Pezold / GSAS ’04

IMAGINE A MAMMOTH METEOR blazing toward Earth. When it will arrive and whether it will hit directly is debatable, but scientists are NYU social psychologist John unanimous on one thing—it’s coming. And Jost, who calls this phenomenon they’re trying desperately to motivate every- “system justification theory.” one to take action before it’s too late. Last spring, Jost collaborated with graduate student Irina While this scenario is science effects is complicated, and so far Feygina (GSAS ’10) and Mount fiction, a similar danger—just as most evidence comes from dis- Sinai Hospital psychologist daunting and apocalyptic—is on tant, barely habited places. We, Rachel Goldsmith to investigate the horizon. Researchers now and our leaders, are easily dis- how system justification theory almost universally believe that tracted by closer issues—war, interacts with environmental catastrophic climate change, terrorism, disease, race rela- attitudes. Among their findings: caused primarily by carbon tions, economic distress. Most people who believe that dioxide emissions, is more a “People get motivated with society is generally fair are also matter of “when,” rather than near-term dangers, but this is skeptical about the forecasted “if.” NASA climate scientist different,” says Tyler Volk climate crisis. “There are psy- James Hansen predicts that we (GSAS ’82, ’84), a biologist and chological obstacles to creating have perhaps a decade to halt core faculty member in NYU’s real, lasting change,” Jost says, our runaway greenhouse gases, new environmental studies pro- “in addition to all of the scientif- otherwise we will guarantee for gram. “It’s not like the Hudson ic, technical, economic, and our children a fundamentally River is suddenly full of mercury political obstacles.” Because of different planet—one where sea and everyone is threatened.” this, he notes, denial is far easier ice no longer blankets the Arctic, As individuals, we may not and more convenient than sup- where storms relentlessly buffet deny the mounting evidence of porting a carbon tax, paying coastal communities, and con- global climate change, but we do more for high-efficiency tech- flicts over scarce fresh water harbor an inherent desire to nology, or giving up cheap goods and shifting climactic zones keep our minds on other things. shipped through elaborate, fuel- our future. “There’s no question rock international relations. And In his 1974 Pulitzer prize–win- guzzling supply chains. sea levels will rise,” says David yet global carbon emissions are ning book The Denial of Death, Even so, denial is getting hard- Holland, a mathematician and rising at unprecedented rates, social scientist Ernest Becker er, as scientists gain an increas- director of the Center for and Americans are expected to argued that “the essence of nor- ingly nuanced understanding of Atmosphere Ocean Science in produce ever-greater volumes of mality is the refusal of reality,” the mechanics—and the conse- the Courant Institute of carbon dioxide in coming years. echoing Freud who believed quences—of climate change. In Mathematical Sciences. “What’s Our inaction, in part, boils repression to be our natural self- February, the UN’s Intergovern- not clear is how long it will take.” down to how we think. As with protection. In order to tolerate mental Panel on Climate Change Holland has dedicated his career the meteor hurtling in our direc- all sorts of inequities, we will issued its most strongly worded to understanding the implica- tion from millions of miles away, often support or rationalize the report yet on the extent to which tions of changing weather pat- the science for measuring cli- status quo even when it contra- humans have already altered the terns, traveling to Greenland to mate change and its future dicts our own self-interest, says climate and how this will change study the deterioration of ice

40 / FALL 2007 / NYU “THERE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSTACLES TO CREATING REAL, LASTING CHANGE,” SAYS PROFESSOR JOHN JOST, “IN ADDITION TO ALL THE SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL OBSTACLES.”

mate change will affect the enforcement. (See “The Green average sports fan. Apple,” page 44.) This public conversation is But without federal support, slowly trickling up to policy it’s an uphill battle, says Richard makers. In April, a cadre of B. Stewart, director of NYU’s retired U.S. generals and admi- Center on Environmental & rals offered the chilling state- Land Use Law. “[Current U.S. ment that climate change was law] is totally inadequate,” says “a threat multiplier” for global the professor, who from 1989–91 security and the fight against headed the Exxon Valdez oil terrorism, as it will further spill prosecution as assistant destabilize desperate regions in attorney general in charge of the the Middle East, Africa, and Environment and Natural Asia. Even George W. Bush, Resources Division of the U.S. who rejected the Kyoto climate Department of Justice. “There accord in 2001, for the first time are no statutes that specifically acknowledged global climate address the causes or conse- change in last winter’s State of quences of climate change.” the Union address. “The prob- Statutes may not exist yet, but lem is, among other things, ide- the momentum seems to be ological,” Jost says, “and it growing, says philosopher and

ILLUSTRATION BY DAN PAGE needs to be addressed at that director of environmental stud- level, as well as at other, more ies Dale Jamieson, who sees a technological levels.” parallel between the climate Within the United States, a campaign and the Civil Rights schism has grown between com- Movement or widespread munities that favor ambitious efforts to enact smoking bans, sheets, and is especially con- ever, information on the sci- carbon reduction strategies and where over time, a moral and cerned with the vulnerable ence—and prospective hor- those in which change seems personal imperative emerged. coastlines on every continent rors—abounds. Pop culture has remote. More than 400 cities “There’s no way of addressing that will eventually be sub- gone green, from Al Gore’s and several states, including this unless people come to see it merged. “We’re going to have to Oscar-winning 2006 documen- New York, California, and as an ethical issue that changes move cities,” he says. “If it’s tary An Inconvenient Truth to Massachusetts, have decided what they see as right and going to flood in 1,000 years, we the Weather Channel’s regular that they can’t wait for the feder- wrong, how they live, and what can take a breather. If it’s within program Forecast Earth. Every al government to craft effective kind of world they’re going to 100 years, that’s a problem.” major magazine—Time, Vanity policies, and have themselves leave to their children,” says As scientists like Holland Fair, Rolling Stone to name a initiated efforts to reduce green- Jamieson, adding, “The ques- puncture many of our excuses few—has produced a “green” house gas emissions and hold tion [remains] whether we’re for doing nothing, the status issue, and even Sports the Environmental Protection going to act, and whether it will quo itself is shifting. More than Illustrated reported on how cli- Agency to more vigorous be meaningful.”

NYU / FALL 2007 / 41 THE INCREDIBLE 1 SHRINKING FOOTPRINT You don’t have to go broke on gadgets or move to a commune to go green. Here are a few easy tips for saving the planet—and lots of cash.

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ILLUSTRATION BY FUTUREFARMERS/AMY FRANCESCHINI utility bills. • Hybrid cars can reduce this Earth one that will smog by 90 percent and benefit it, reserve a plot at 9 To get your eight significantly cut down a green burial ground, 4 glasses a day you how much you pay at the where your biodegradable could buy three bottles of pump. A 40-mile round- wooden or cardboard water at your local Kwik- trip commute to work in a casket helps reduce after- E-Mart—or just attach a hybrid will average $500 life pollution. At roughly filter directly to your in gas each year but can $2,500, a green funeral faucet. A filter lasts four cost three times that in a also costs about half that months and costs about standard SUV. An added of a conventional one. $20 to replace, which bonus: For a limited time, equals an annual savings newly purchased hybrids To learn more about of up to $3,000—and a can earn more than green funerals, visit whole lot of plastic. $3,000 in tax credits. www.naturalburial.org.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 43 WITH LOOMING CLIMATE CHANGE, A SWELLING POPULATION, AND CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE, THE CONCRETE JUNGLE AIMS FOR A SUSTAINABLE MAKEOVER

by Sharon Tregaskis

WHEN THE TIME CAME for Jonah “Cecil” Scheib to leave Dancing Rabbit, the 280-acre Missouri eco-village he co-founded in 1997, one destina- tion, and an aging infrastructure our ability to respond to some of tion rose immediately to the top of his reloca- already operating at near-peak the projected consequences of tion list: New York City. A self-described capacity. Stir in concerns about global climate change.” “ecological activist” and civil engineer, Scheib global climate change and the While not yet an overhaul, had installed solar energy systems on six capacity of unpredictable weather change appears on the horizon. patterns to transform the city’s Last fall, Mayor Michael homes in his decade on the land The Big Apple may boast more low-lying areas into wetlands, and Bloomberg (HON ‘03) created an before becoming NYU’s first green credibility than most urban the mandate for action becomes Office of Long-Term Planning director of energy and sustain- centers in the United States, crystal clear. “We need a cultural and Sustainability to tackle pre- ability in late April. “New York thanks to its high density and change on the part of our infra- cisely such issues, and on Earth ILLUSTRATION BY DAN PAGE offered the possibility to have a extensive mass-transit system, structure and planning agencies,” Day, April 22, 2007, announced low impact,” he says, “because of but with a million new residents warns Rae Zimmerman, professor PlaNYC 2030, which aims to, the shared walls, the tall build- expected to call New York City of planning and public adminis- among other things: reduce the ings, the dense population, and home by 2030, it also faces a stark tration in the Robert F. Wagner city’s global warming emissions access to locally and organically imperative to avert the dangerous Graduate School of Public by more than 30 percent over two grown food through the city’s synergy of rapid population Service. Without such an over- decades; repair the city’s outdat- farmer’s markets.” growth, soaring energy consump- haul, she’s “not optimistic about ed water and electrical systems;

44 / FALL 2007 / NYU ensure that all New Yorkers live within a 10-minute walk of a park; and implement a controversial pricing scheme to reduce vehicle With a million new residents traffic and emissions in Manhattan. The estimated $32 billion, 127-point plan—which expected to call New York City even puts invertebrates to work, with mussels serving as river- cleaning bio filters—is slated to home by 2030, the Big Apple receive funds from a mix of city, state, and federal sources over the faces a stark imperative to avert next two decades. “I don’t think any [city] has attempted to deal with [sustainability] in as compre- the dangerous synergy of rapid hensive a fashion as this,” says Daniel Doctoroff, deputy mayor for economic development and population growth, soaring rebuilding. But PlaNYC isn’t the only green energy consumption, and an game in town. In May 2007, the Clinton Climate Initiative, a proj- ect of former president Bill aging infrastructure already Clinton, engineered a several- billion-dollar loan fund to finance green retrofits of existing build- operating at near-peak capacity. ings in 16 cities, including New York, and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer recently de Cerreño, director of the NYU- certification by the U.S. Green Action Plan with the formation of launched Go Green East Harlem, Wagner Rudin Center for Building Council. But the tallest, a 40-plus-member Sustainability an initiative aimed to make the Transportation Policy and greenest of them all will be the Task Force of faculty, students, neighborhood a model green Management. “But if you don’t Bank of America Tower at One and administrators to inventory community. put in the appropriate investment Bryant Park, slated to open in the university’s ecological impact Not that New York had much to maintain good repair, then in 2008 with USGBC’s top honor, a and suggest improvements. Other choice. Brownfields cover 7,600 the long term it can’t be sustain- platinum certification, for its features of the plan include a acres of New York City, about able.” That logic became star- high energy efficiency, extensive $400,000 purchase of wind ener- nine times the size of Central tlingly clear this summer when a use of natural daylight, storm gy credits to mitigate the energy Park, and in central Harlem, one steam pipe dating to 1924 burst water runoff controls, and use of purchases the university makes in four kids has asthma, one of the under a Midtown Manhattan local materials for construction. from Con Edison—garnering highest rates ever documented for street, sending a geyser of water, “We need to look at buildings kudos from the EPA as the largest a neighborhood in the United asbestos, and asphalt into the air. that create no new CO2, that are bulk-wind-power buyer in higher States. Throughout the city, levels A few weeks later, much of the using materials that are renew- education and in New York City— of asthma-causing soot currently transit system was paralyzed fol- able resources,” says Bank of and a new state-of-the-art co-gen- exceed Environmental Protection lowing a brief, but violent rain America Tower architect Robert eration plant, which will Agency (EPA) limits. And then storm. Fox, a member of the mayor’s significantly reduce pollutants there’s the infrastructure: By Perhaps the most critical sustainability advisory board and and emissions in the area and will 2030, 70 percent of the city’s change, however, must come in the founding chairman of allow NYU to take an additional power plants will have passed the design and construction, because USGBC’s New York chapter. 23 buildings, for a total of 30, off half-century mark and much of buildings generate close to 80 NYU faces many of the same of the overtaxed Manhattan the city’s water and subway sys- percent of the city’s carbon out- challenges confronting the city— power grid. The university also tems—only about 40 percent of put and, by 2030, the city will from aging infrastructure to a launched an environmental stud- which are considered in good need 265,000 more housing projected student body growth of ies major this fall that offers class- repair—will turn 100. “Even in units. Manhattan boasts a sky- 13 percent by 2032—and over the es taught by experts from various the shape NYC transit is in, it’s rocketing green building indus- past year, its approach to tackling NYU schools. still better than places where it try, including such efforts as 7 them has gone from piecemeal to “The sleeping giant is waking,” doesn’t exist,” says assistant World Trade Center and the high priority. In October 2006, says Jeremy Friedman (GAL ’07), research professor Allison L. C. Hearst Tower, both awarded gold the university launched a Green who as a senior co-authored the

46 / FALL 2007 / NYU Perhaps the most critical improvements. Other features helped select the winners of of the plan include a 15 grants for NYU’s change must come in design $400,000 purchase of wind $250,000 Sustainability energy credits to mitigate the Fund, which subsidizes proj- and construction because energy purchases the univer- ects including a feasibility sity makes from Con Edison— study of wind and solar instal - buildings generate close to garnering kudos from the EPA lations on campus, a bicycle as the largest bulk-wind- salvage effort, and promotion 80 percent of the city’s power buyer in higher educa- of the green renovation of carbon output. tion and in New York the Gallatin School of City—and a new state-of-the- Individualized Study, which art co-generation plant, which will feature recycled furniture on to the ambitious American greenhouse gas emissions by will significantly reduce pollu - and special heating and cool- College & University Presidents 30 percent within the next tants and emissions in the ing systems. Among the most Climate Commitment, a pledge decade—13 years ahead of area and will allow NYU to take visible changes will be NYU by campus heads to go carbon PlaNYC’s 2030 target. “We an additional 23 buildings, for gardener George Reis’s trans- neutral—completely eliminating have a long way to go,” says a total of 30, off of the over - formation of a 3,000-square- their greenhouse gas emis- Executive Vice President taxed Manhattan power grid. foot plot behind the Coles sions—and to bolster teaching Michael C. Alfano, who formed The university also launched Sports Center into a chemi- and research on sustainability. the Sustainability Task Force. an environmental studies cal-free display bed planted Already, more than 300 college “But my hope is that 10 years major this fall that offers with native species and main- and university presidents have out, we’re acknowledged as a classes taught by experts tained using organic princi - joined the effort, toward a goal leader, not only in talking and from various NYU schools. ples. Says Reis: “My intention of 1,000 signatories by planning, but in implementa- “The sleeping giant is wak- is to make NYU number one in December 2008. tion.” ing,” says Jeremy Friedman the U.S. for sustainable gar - Building on this collabora - Transforming an institution (GAL ’07), who as a senior dening in an urban campus.” tive spirit, last June, NYU the size of NYU won’t come co-authored the 115-page The moves all mark a nation- became a PlaNYC Challenge cheap, though many of the report “Greening the Urban al trend in higher education as Partner along with eight other green initiatives already Campus, A Sustainability leaders respond to the environ- campuses, each of which under way promise signifi- Assessment of New York mental pleas that many stu- pledged to reduce their cant long-term financial ben- University,” and now serves dent activists have been GREEN ROOFS, SUCH AS THIS ONE IN THE WEST VILLAGE, CAN REDUCE AIR POLLU- as project administrator for making for years. In March, NYU TION BY ABSORBING CARBON DIOXIDE, OFFSET THE HEAT TRAPPED BY CITY STREETS the Task Force. Friedman President John Sexton signed AND BUILDINGS, AND LOWER HEATING AND COOLING COSTS. PHOTO © JOHN LEI/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX

NYU / FALL 2007 / 47 ININ THE THE FREE FREE SPEECH SPEECH BATTLES BATTLES OF OF TODAY, TODAY, IT’S IT’S NOT NOT JUST JUST STUDENTS STUDENTS V VERSUS THE ESTABLISHMENT, BUT PEER AGAINST PEER BY SARA IVRY PHOTO BY KEY NGUYEN ast February, scores of news cameras and PREVIOUS SPREAD: © KEN NGUYEN; PHOTOS BELOW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: DANIELLA ZALCMAN; WILL DAVIS; ©ABC NEWS.COM/ASHLEY PHILLIPS reporters planted themselves in front of NYU’s of NYU’s Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, ready for a show ready for a showdown between two camps of enraged stu- dents. At issue was a so-called game, Find the Illegal Immigrant, organized by the College Republicans and vehemently College Republicans and vehemently protested by the College Democrats, the ACLU, and various other parties who maintained the hyped speech on immigration by pulling a fire community members have protested events event was, at its core, racist. alarm.A similar tactic was used to silence a organized by the Muslim Student Union, Though its rules were simple—one speaker at Georgetown. Those incidents with titles that link Israel to apartheid and student would wear a name tag reading came on the heels of the now-famous a new Holocaust. “illegal immigrant,” while others, pre- video footage of Columbia students rush- As angry debates on immigration, the tending to be border patrol agents, would ing the stage to shut down a talk by Jim war in Iraq, and other topics wrack the hunt him down in Washington Square Gilchrist, the provocative founder of the population at large,students likewise wres- Park—its dimensions were decidedly Minuteman Project, a volunteer group tle with these incendiary issues in a land- complex.The savvy cat-and-mouse oper- that patrols the U.S.border with Mexico in scape of activism that less and less resembles ation aimed at drawing broad public scruti- pursuit of illegal immigrants.The evening the 1960s and ’70s.Then,students enraged ny both to illegal immigration and the ended with some throwing jabs and up- by the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion ; ©PHOTO BY DANIELLA ZALCMAN bounds of free expression on campus. percuts.Tensions have also been patrols the of Cambodia occupied administration It was not an isolated event. Last No- U.S. border with Mexico in pursuit of il- buildings across the country; antagonism vember, at Michigan State’s law school, legal immigrants.The evening ended with reached a tragic apex at Kent State, when protesters tried to prevent Colorado Con- some throwing jabs and uppercuts. Ten- the Ohio National Guard killed several gressman and Republican presidential sions have also been at a boil at the Uni- students,sparking campus strikes coast-to- hopeful Tom Tancredo from delivering a versity of California, Irvine, where Jewish coast.These days, there is no obvious gen-

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50 / FALL 2007 / NYU erational rift,no muscular national student censorship and rates schools on their free- NEW FACES, movement taking on government policy speech records. Most fare poorly by the NEW VOICES and the “establishment.” Instead, campus group’s standards. A 2006 FIRE report activism more often mirrors the political stated that of 334 schools surveyed, 229— The expanding presence of conduct and sparring on cable television and the Inter- including NYU, Columbia, Harvard, and harassment policies is in part an outgrowth net, where peers provoke one another Emory—received the worst possible rat- of a visible development on college cam- with sound bites and attempt to silence ing, a red light. At the other end of the puses: diversity. In the past three decades, the opposition. spectrum, only eight schools nationwide the share of minorities enrolled in college Amidst these episodes, university ad- got a green light. has doubled, from roughly 15 percent in ministrators have become more mediators FIRE’s ratings reflected, in part, events the mid-1970s to 30 percent,according to than foes,as they negotiate how to balance where expression may have been curbed. the National Center for Education Statis- the principles of free speech, to which However, the institutions were graded tics, a division of the Department of Ed- they pay credence, with students’ safety largely on the number of written policies ucation a division of the Department of and well-being. Administrators’ varying that,cobbled together,form a speech code Education. More specifically, the propor- positions—whether to allow a game such of sorts governing student conduct and tion of Hispanic students has jumped from as Find the Illegal Immigrant to go for- harassment, and which most universities 3.5 to 10.5 percent; African-American ward, as NYU did, or to shut it down, as forged out of a desire to promote toler- students from 9.5 to 12.5 percent; and both Michigan State and Penn State opt- ance and respect, rather than repression, Asian and Pacific Island students from 0.8 ed to in 2006—indicate how precarious on campus. To Samantha Harris, FIRE’s to 6.4 percent.At the same time,the num- and cloudy the issue of free speech has be- director of legal and public advocacy, this ber of students from foreign countries has come. While some observers laud a new is an insidious development that shields almost doubled, from 2 percent of under- era of outspokenness, others worry stu- young people from real world realities. graduates nationwide to nearly 3.5. dent voices are being increasingly stifled. “There is this genuine belief that has “You don’t have to censor people when “Free speech and academic freedom grown on campuses that students have a they all go to the same country club,”ex- are in very serious trouble,” says lawyer young people from real world realities. plains Stephen Duncombe, a professor at Harvey A.Silverglate,co-author with Alan “There is this genuine belief that has the Gallatin School of Individualized Charles Kors of the 1998 book The Shad- grown on campuses that students have a Study who’s written extensively on cul- ow University:The Betrayal of Liberty on right to not be offended,”she says.“If your tural resistance movements. “When you America’s Campuses (The Free Press). In child graduated from high school and got get people from different cultures, you 1999,the pair co-founded the Foundation a job or went to war or all the other things have different ideas of what is appropriate for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) you can do at 18,they wouldn’t have these to say. The tensions that go with free in response to what they see as a suffocat- kinds of protections; they’d be out in the speech increase when you have a multi- ing climate of suppression.The watchdog world where they’d be getting their feel- cultural university, but that’s all the more group monitors incidents of what it deems ings hurt regularly.” reason you need it.”

CAMPUS ACTIVISM MORE OFTEN MIRRORS THE POLITICAL SPAR- RING ON CABLE TELEVISION AND THE INTERNET, WHERE PEERS PROVOKE ONE ANOTHER WITH SOUND BITES AND ATTEMPT TO SILENCE THE OPPOSITION.

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2. MINUTEMAN PROJECT FOUNDER JIM GILCHRIST BEFORE THE NOW INFAMOUS COLUMBIA MELEE.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 51 PHOTO BY ARIEL ROSNER FOR IMMIGRATION

WHEN MINUTEMAN CIVIL DEFENSE CORPS FOUNDER CHRIS SIMCOX ROSE TO SPEAK AT AN NYU PANEL ON IMMIGRATION LAST SPRING, HE WAS SHOUTED DOWN AND HALF THE AUDIENCE TURNED THEIR a conservative Danish newspaper,the im- BACKS. SIMCOX TOLD FOX NEWS IT WAS THE “MOST UNRULY” CAMPUS EVENT HE EVER EXPERIENCED. ages violated the Islamic law prohibiting the display of images of the prophet, ig- What, though, has led some students tension. If somebody came to campus niting an international wildfire on the to expect that they should not be offend- who was pro-war, they’d get booed.” Web and riots across the Muslim world. ed or that they have the right to silence Now,he adds, there is less discourse gen- NYU’s Objectivist Club, which an- another’s freedom of expression? The an- erally about political issues on campus, chors itself to the ideology of Ayn Rand, swer lies in the 1960s, says Robert Co- even though arguments over reproduc- had planned a forum on how various hen,a professor of social studies education tive rights, immigration, and the war in publications seemed the ideology of au- at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Ed- Iraq dominate the news cycle. Instead, thor Ayn Rand, had planned a forum on ucation, and Human Development and there is a proliferation of stunts, such as how various publications seemed to have co-editor of The Free Speech Movement: illegal immigrant hunts, masquerading as silenced themselves by not including the Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (Uni- debate. images in their reportage of the contro- versity of California Press). In that era of versy.When NYU’s Muslim communi- radicalism, students were seen as adoles- BALANCING ACT ty—and Muslims from around the cents in need of guidance,unable perhaps world—got wind of the club’s intention to defend against ideas they found objec- Sometimes universities find themselves to display the cartoons, they vehemently tionable.To help protect them, then, uni- on the front line of veritable conflicts, protested to school administrators. The versities restricted free speech. not stunts, which epitomize the com- Bengali Students Association even urged “There was less free speech than there plexities of safeguarding speech. In 2006, its members in an e-mail to “go to Tick- is today,” Cohen says. “Later the issue is NYU was awkwardly placed at the cen- et Central, get two tickets for this event, once the students got empowered, what ter of the clash over cartoons that depict- and rip them up.” According to John about people who didn’t agree with the ed, among other things, the prophet Beckman,NYU’s vice president for pub- left, and that’s where there was a lot of Muhammad as a terrorist. Cooked up by lic affairs, because of the university’s

52 / FALL 2007 / NYU concern for what was brewing to be a se- ly selective and misleading version of this for incoming students:“We don’t have in- verely contentious affair, they enacted story to give the media.” Furthermore, tensive two-day seminars, but it is articu- one of the university’s commonly em- Beckman believes that the heat the univer- lated from the president on down.” ployed policies, declaring that the Ob- sity took detracted from the ultimate goals Notwithstanding presidential requests jectivists must restrict the event to of intellectual conversation. “Everyone for tolerance, folks such as FIRE founder students, faculty, and staff in order to would be well-served by approaching de- Silverglate say free speech is in a constant show the images.The forum’s organizers, bates,particularly on charged issues,with an state of peril. “Today the threat is much facing the possibility that attendance attitude that a thoughtful discourse is the more pernicious because it comes dis- would be sabotaged if limited to the uni- best outcome rather than a shouting match.” guised in the cloak of what we roughly versity, reluctantly decided to open the he adds. notion that civility conflicts with free event to the public—and not display the Part of the issue at play in these episodes speech and academic freedom,”Silverglate cartoons. is that some students have never properly says. “No college wants trouble on

“IF YOUR CHILD GOT A JOB OR WENT TO WAR OR ALL THE OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO AT 18, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE THESE PROTECTIONS; THEY’D BE OUT IN THE WORLD GETTING THEIR FEELINGS HURT REGULARLY.”

—SAMANTHA HARRIS, FIRE’S DIRECTOR OF LEGAL AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY

A roar of discontent rose up, both on learned how to engage with ideas that are can call civility, and more specifically the and off campus. During the event, held anathema to them. Cohen cites an e-mail notion that civility conflicts with free under tight security with metal detec- he received from a student group organ- speech and academic freedom,” Silverglate tors, campus and city police officers, the izing a protest intended to interrupt a says.“No college wants trouble on its watch. Objectivists left empty easels on the stage speech by a representative of the Minute- It’s geared to avoid problems,and when you as a reminder of the missing cartoons. In man Civil Defense Corps as evidence. “I opt for safety over anything else,you can’t short order, the New York Post,The New wrote back and said that’s not a logical po- possibly have a vibrant institution.” York Sun, and USA Today condemned the sition,” he explains. “You don’t like their But if Silverglate seems a cynic, Dun- university’s decision, and FIRE’s presi- views, allow them here and protest their combe is an optimist who thinks that dent, Greg Lukianoff, who spoke at the views,but I won’t support disrupting their there’s something “precious” about using forum, wrote an open letter to members right to speak. Not only is that a problem a word like censorship in relation to of NYU’s board of trustees, president, for the university as a free forum of ideas, American universities, given the state of and other administrators stating, “One but also the issue won’t be about their profound repression in China and else- cannot claim to value free speech but views on immigration, but right to speak. where.If anything,he’s encouraged by the then take the side of angry censors.” Not only is that a problem for the uni- proliferation of informal channels, such as Beckman says that FIRE’s claims that versity as a free forum of ideas, but also Facebook and Wikipedia, that facilitate NYU acquiesced in the face of pressure the issue won’t be about their views on students’ freedom of expression. “At no were false.“Universities start from the prem- immigration, but about your reaction to point in the entire course of history has it ise that their students, in fact the entire free speech.”The university,he says,should been easier to access facts and knowledge, community, should be exposed to ideas be more emphatic in teaching students because of the Internet,” he says. “There other than the ones that they already be- how to challenge offensive ideas. Marc are always those who will stand up and lieve,” he says, noting that opening up the Wais, vice president for student affairs, shout down other peoples’ ideas…but by event to a university community of 60,000 says such instruction does already take and large what I’ve seen is a lot more dis- was hardly restrictive.“FIRE chose a high- place in broad terms during orientation cussion than clamping down.”

NYU / FALL 2007 / 53 A Cinematic master reveals the spirit that drives him to follow roads not taken

By JASON HOLLANDER / GAL ’07 Illustration by ERIK MARK SANDBERG

54 / FALL 2007 / NYU

was accepted into the BFA theater program ting the business after that movie. Sensing TUCKED at the University of Illinois at Urbana- his son’s depression and disillusionment, Champaign, his father happily supported Lee’s father actually encouraged him, for him, hoping he’d come to his senses after the very first time, to get back behind the INSIDE A earning his degree.That didn’t happen. camera. Upon graduation, Lee, who found film a While accepting the Academy Award SCREENING more flexible medium than theater because for Best Achievement in Directing for the of his limited English, applied to all the top film, Lee said that Brokeback was about “not American graduate schools—only gaining just all the gay men and women whose love ROOM IN acceptance to NYU. is denied by society, but just as important, It’s safe to say that those other admis- the greatness of love itself.” He also made sions officers are still kicking themselves. a special dedication to his father, who died THE MIDDLE After 10 acclaimed films and 59 interna- tional awards—including two Golden Globes, two BAFTAs, and two Independent OF TIMES Spirit Awards—Lee is lauded as perhaps the most versatile director from Hollywood to Bollywood. He wrote his first two scripts SQUARE, while working as a stay-at-home dad, even- tually sending Pushing Hands (1992) and Ang Lee (TSOA’84, HON ’01) watches a The Wedding Banquet (1993), both examina- scene from his latest film, Lust, Caution, tions of Chinese cultural and generational a racy spy thriller set in Shanghai during divides, to a Taiwanese government writing World War II.When the lights come up, the competition, in which he placed first and sound editor asks Lee what he thought, and second, respectively.This success earned him the soft-spoken 53-year-old furrows his a chance to direct both films, which were brow. Finally, he says,“Maybe the music was hits in Taiwan and the West. The Wedding a little too loud against the dialogue.”This Banquet and the subsequent Taiwanese fami- tendency to process, to meditate rather than ly drama Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) react immediately, is part of what makes the both garnered Oscar nominations for best just as the movie began production:“More Academy Award–winning director one of foreign film, which opened the door to than any other, I made this film for him.” film’s most eclectic and exacting artists. more diverse directing gigs, such as the Ironically, it was an early, profound adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and NYU Alumni Magazine recently spoke to experience with failure that originally set Sensibility (1995), the angst-ridden suburban Lee at Sound One Studios in New York him on the course to filmmaking. Lee’s meditation The Ice Storm (1997), and the while he put the finishing touches on Lust, inability to pass Taiwan’s college entrance Civil War tale Ride With the Devil (1999). Caution, which recently took the top prize exam—twice—steered him to art school in In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the Venice Film Festival and opened in 1972 at age 18. At the National Taiwan (2000), Lee crafted a sweeping martial arts theaters in September. University of Arts, he became enamored epic with an art house sensibility.The pic- with music, dance, and theater, and made ture earned 10 Oscar nominations, with his first short on Super 8 film. And then four wins, and became the highest-grossing YOUR ENGLISH WAS QUITE LIMITED WHEN one night, while walking in the rain after foreign film of all time. His split-screened, YOU STARTED FILM SCHOOL, BUT PEOPLE play rehearsal, he had an epiphany: He emotionally nuanced interpretation of Hulk TOOK NOTICE OF YOU RIGHT AWAY.FELLOW realized that he was different than others (2003) also blazed trails in the conventional STUDENT SPIKE LEE EVEN USED YOU AS and had no choice but to devote himself comic-book film tradition, but it was AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON HIS THESIS to being an artist.“It was enlightening,” Brokeback Mountain (2005), a story of for- PROJECT.HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO Lee explains.“I felt this chill in my bones. bidden love between two cowboys, that ATTRACT EVERYONE’S ATTENTION? I was lifted.” created the biggest stir. Infused with the I’m normally a quiet person but when I The decision didn’t necessarily make glory of the most stunning Westerns, Lee direct, people tend to listen to me.You life easy. His father was an old-fashioned dis- staged a tale that had American critics and know, it’s like gang members. It doesn’t ciplinarian, principal of one of Taiwan’s best audiences talking all year. But the film matter if someone is big or small. If you tell high schools, who put no value in artistic almost didn’t happen. Haunted by guilt for people what to do, and those people survive, ventures. Having fled China with his wife in his negative depiction of the Hulk’s father they tend to listen to you. Same thing.After 1949 after the civil war, he stressed educa- and frustrated by his uncharacteristically school I was doing little jobs for a Chinese tion and the Chinese classics. But when Lee hot temper on the set, he flirted with quit- TV crew. I would start out in the morning

56 / FALL 2007 / NYU as the lighting person, and by the afternoon, the director would be listening to me [laughs].

WHAT DID YOU SAY THAT MADE THESE PEOPLE LISTEN? PHOTOS FROM LEFT: I don’t know. Up to directing Sense and

DESPITE THE CONTROVERSY SUR- USING COMPUTER-GENERATED THE RITUALS OF FOOD AND Sensibility, I could hardly finish a fluent ROUNDING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, IMAGERY, LEE TRANSFORMED LOVE SPICE THE LIFE OF A CON- sentence in English. And this was Jane THE TALE OF TWO STAR-CROSSED ACTOR ERIC BANA INTO THE TEMPORARY TAIWANESE FAMILY Austen, with a top-of-the-line English cast COWBOYS, PLAYED BY JAKE NOT-SO-JOLLY GREEN GIANT IN IN EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN, GYLLENHAAL AND HEATH LEDGER, HULK, THE FIRST BIG-SCREEN WHICH LEE CO-WROTE WITH and crew. How did I do that? It’s hard to EARNED LEE HIS FIRST OSCAR FOR ADAPTATION OF THE MARVEL LONGTIME COLLABORATOR explain. But that gave me faith in DIRECTING. COMIC-BOOK HERO. JAMES SCHAMUS. moviemaking, that it’s a universal experi- © SAMUEL GOLDWYN/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION, /COURTESY COLLECTION FROM LEFT: © FOCUS FILMS/EVERETT COLLECTION; ILM; ence. It can penetrate cultural barriers, lan- “Making movies is not guage barriers.There’s something universal about sight and sound. It made me feel about a statement, but anything was doable. And like I belonged. SO HOW DID THINGS CHANGE AFTER MAKING raising interesting SENSE AND SENSIBILITY? After that, in terms of filmmaking, I was questions to stir up pretty well-grounded. I could face my father and say,‘I have a job.’ I could sound like I the [audience’s] mind…. knew what I was doing. But then I had to make The Ice Storm. I had to break that. It’s like the Taoist saying:‘You have to change.’ If Movies these days, you don’t change, you’re dead, you get stiff. That’s a sign of decline and a big fear for especially studio me. I had fans who liked my movies, but you sort of have to break that contract with movies, they don’t them.You have to remind yourself that mak- ing movies is about looking for freedom. It’s allow people to think. risky, it’s scary. Somebody will say,‘I loved Sense and Sensibility,’ and then you pitch them The Ice Storm and they’re like,‘What To me, that’s a crime.” are you doing to me?’ But if I don’t do that, if I make Sense and Sensibility, and then —DIRECTOR ANG LEE [director John Madden’s] Shakespeare in Love next, I feel it gets stiff.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 57 HOW MUCH DOES TAOISM INFLUENCE THE temper.You know there’s no escape, and was…I don’t know how to describe it. It FILMS YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE? now I have to repress that a little bit. was beyond nice. Being Chinese, I just naturally grapple with You don’t want to just go barking at Taoist thoughts and self-doubt because there’s people to make them afraid of you.That’s IS THERE SOMETHING YOU’RE TRYING TO always something three feet above your not me.You make people listen to you by GIVE TO YOUR AUDIENCE, JUST LIKE head—there’s something watching, something reasoning. I think it takes greater confi- BERGMAN GAVE TO YOU? ARE YOU TRYING bigger than you. So you’re never sure about dence in yourself to tell people,‘Give me TO MAKE THEM LEAVE THE THEATER WITH A yourself because you’re the little human, and a moment’ or ‘I changed my mind’ or ‘I CERTAIN FEELING? what are we compared to the big natural don’t know what I’m gonna do yet.Wait With doubt. I think it’s embodied in me, laws? People think Taoism is pessimistic, that a little bit and let me just sort it out.’ and each movie. Making movies is not about you just follow whatever, flow with the wave a statement, but raising interesting questions and do nothing. But nature takes its own YOU WERE A HUGE ADMIRER OF THE LATE to stir up the [audience’s] mind. I think course.You live, you die.You know, it never INGMAR BERGMAN.HOW DID WATCHING HIS that’s what movies should do. Movies these puts humanity first. Humanity is about how FILM THE VIRGIN SPRING CHANGE YOUR days, especially studio movies, they don’t we fit in; it’s not about conquering. LIFE, AS YOU’VE SAID? allow people to think.To me, that’s a crime. That film put the doubt of God in me. YOU’RE KNOWN AS A GREAT BUT GENTLE I was 18 when I saw it, and it’s brutal. It SO YOU USUALLY LOOK FOR THOUGHT- LEADER ON SETS.DID YOUR FATHER, WHO took away my innocence, so to speak. PROVOKING SCRIPTS?

PHOTOS FROM LEFT: LEE HAD NEVER READ JANE AUSTEN’S LEE CROSSED CULTURES WITH CLASSIC NOVEL SENSE AND THE WEDDING BANQUET, WHICH TO CREATE THE LYRICAL SWORD- SENSIBILITY UNTIL HE WAS SENT AN HE CO-WROTE WITH SCHAMUS AND FIGHTING SCENES—SOME OF WHICH ADAPTATION BY BRITISH ACTRESS NEIL PENG, ABOUT A MANHATTAN TAKE PLACE ATOP SWAYING BAMBOO— EMMA THOMPSON (ABOVE WITH HUGH MAN WHO STAGES AN ELABORATE IN CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN GRANT), WHO TOOK HOME AN ACADE- MARRIAGE IN ORDER TO CONCEAL DRAGON, LEE SUSPENDED ACTORS MY AWARD FOR HER SCREENPLAY OF HIS HOMOSEXUALITY FROM HIS IN FLYING HARNESSES. THE 1995 FILM. TRADITIONAL CHINESE PARENTS.

WAS A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, HAVE AN I can’t make a Bergman movie, but I real- Most scripts are built like battleships, AFFECT ON HOW YOU MANAGE OTHERS? ized then that movies could have that spirit unsinkable.They’re for producers, for Starting with Hulk, when I would lose my in them. And just last summer [2006] I got investors.They give you a lot of security, patience, I [realized I] could have a big tem- to meet him. It was like a pilgrimage. He like,‘How can we go wrong with this? per like my father [laughs]. He was a very gave me a hug, and his hug was so moth- How big a schmuck can you be if you stately man, very decisive. I didn’t like how erly. It was very soft.… Thirty-five years fuck that up?’ [laughs] Most scripts he would treat my mother sometimes. He ago this man took away my innocence, and I get are like that.You can go to war was tough, very traditional. My wife, she now he’s giving me a very motherly hug. with them, but that’s not for me.They’re dominates me [laughs]. She makes the rules, It was like…life is okay. not interesting.They should be simple, and she’s smart and very independent. But but a lot of writers, they don’t do somehow, like during Hulk, you realize the YOU MET HIM AS A FAN, BUT HE WAS that.That’s why I work with James family genes are so strong.You’ve got the PROBABLY A FAN OF YOURS, TOO. Schamus a lot, because his [scripts] same physical problems; you get the same He loved quite a few of my movies, so that are underwritten.

58 / FALL 2007 / NYU YOU’RE KNOWN AS A SHY PERSON IN SOCIAL BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YOU TAP INTO SOME- Everybody comes in with a dream, and I feel SITUATIONS AND HAVE CALLED FILMMAKING THING ELSE THAT RESONATES ACROSS ALL responsible to make everybody happy. So I AN ESCAPE.WHAT ARE YOU HIDING FROM? AUDIENCES, A SENSE OF LONGING OR still go as far as I can. Well, I’m just good at filmmaking. I’m not SEARCHING. very good at, you know, being social [laughs] Maybe it’s because I drift around. My par- HOW HAS BEING TAIWAN-BORN AFFECTED or a lot of other things. So, just naturally, if ents drifted from China to Taiwan, and YOUR EXPERIENCE IN HOLLYWOOD? I’m making a film, it’s positive reinforce- then I came to the States, and now I go I thought, being Chinese, I had to be twice ment, and other things can be a negative back to China, where things are changing. as good to get half as much. I just told reinforcement. I’m a daydreamer. I think a Taiwan’s also changed.Things are constant- myself that’s probably what it’s gonna be. It lot of creative people are like that. I don’t ly changed. turns out it’s not as hard [to be a Chinese know why I’m shy at parties. Maybe I was always on a losing side. It’s easy director]. In some ways I feel lucky because because I don’t have enough knowledge to for me to identify with losers because I’ve I got help from the Taiwanese govern- carry on an interesting conversation—unless always had to adapt, I’ve always had to ment—and my classmates from America, it’s related to filmmaking [laughs]. blend, and that’s just my life. It’s not like I’m they didn’t get help from the American American or Japanese or German, where government [laughs]. I’M SURE A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD DISAGREE you have very strong defining roots. I don’t. WITH THAT. My root is the tradition of Chinese culture, ALIENATION AND REGRET ARE CENTRAL I don’t know. But when it relates to film- which [as a child] I never saw, I was only THEMES IN THE LIVES OF YOUR CHARACTERS. told. WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO LEARN FROM THIS? IS IT THIS THEME OF BEING ON THE LOSING They have to deal with it.They have to face SIDE THAT’S MOST RELATABLE FOR PEOPLE? it. I think that’s what [my] films suggest, There is something universal about that. because nothing is reliable, nothing stands I think through movies we try to discover still. My movies are all about certain sys- truths about life.We use different materials, tems, certain beliefs, certain relationships— different channels to think about essential the things that people try to hang on to, questions, deeper questions.This search for especially.They get disappointed in the end. truth should be universal. It’s like Brokeback [Mountain]; you never real- There’s another thing that’s universal ly get back to it, you just try. about the film world today, which is differ- ent from when I was a student.There’s more DO YOU CONSCIOUSLY TRY TO PUT THOSE film consistency now; there’s a crust of uni- SENTIMENTS INTO YOUR STORIES? versality among the global art house lines. They’re just my feelings about life. I think the There’s a certain standard taste you have to phrase that puts it best was by Jane Austen in meet that is not a whole lot different from Sense and Sensibility: It’s personal free will ver-

ALL OTHER IMAGES COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION CROUCHING TIGER © SONY PICTURES CLASSICS/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION; making, I get crazy. I get really fanatic about Japan to Brazil to China. sus social obligations.You have to fulfill obli- [film] research, and then I sound smart.That’s gations to be grounded, to relate to people, to a pleasure for me. I like making movies, and WHAT DO YOU THINK CAUSED THAT? live with other people, to feel their company the rest of my life is rather boring. It’s true. Well, we all learn from the same things. so you’re not lonely. But at the same time, There’s a global village, the information flows you want to break from it because that’s not YOU’RE A UNIQUELY INTERNATIONAL so fast now.The taste is less local I think at freedom. In all my films, at the end of the FILMMAKER.WHAT DO YOU DO THAT MAKES the film festival level, at the art house level. day, it’s like religion:You always look for YOUR STORIES APPEAL TO SUCH BROAD the answer, for the ultimate freedom.What is AUDIENCES? AFTER FLEEING CHINA,YOUR PARENTS the ultimate freedom? For me, it’s making Whatever it takes to make a movie interest- WERE NEVER SECURE, EVEN ONCE THEY movies.With art, we try to break free, but ing, I’ll do it. [For Lust, Caution] I have a PROSPERED IN TAIWAN.IN THE FICKLE there’s no such thing [laughs]. Unless you French composer, a Mexican cinematograph- WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT, DO YOU STILL choose to die, there’s no freedom. er, whatever works.And if the script doesn’t GET THE FEELING THAT AT ANY MOMENT go well, then James [Schamus], the American, YOUR SUCCESS COULD COME TO A HALT? YOU’VE SAID THAT YOU HOPE TO LIVE TO will help out through translation. If you just I’ve had a lot of goodwill, so I’m quite satis- 300, SO YOU CAN KEEP MAKING MOVIES. make a film for a Chinese audience, you don’t fied.Whatever happens, I’m just trying not to ARE THERE ANY PARTICULAR STORIES have to worry about who doesn’t know the mess it up. I cherish it. But sometimes, when YOU’RE ANXIOUS TO TELL? background. But if you think it’s going out to it comes to the Academy, I cannot say I don’t I don’t have a checklist. I like making the world, you have to think twice about it, really care [about success] because when you movies, and I think I have a good appetite you have to make adjustments.That I do. make a movie, you lead many people. for it. I just want to keep learning.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 59 THIS 1880S ANATOMY LECTURE AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL BELLEVUE AT LECTURE ANATOMY THIS 1880S BILL” THE “BONE BEFORE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE HAVE WOULD OF NEW STATE IN THE AUTOPSIES LEGALIZED OF 1854 WHICH KNOWLEDGE ONE MEANS BY “[T]HERE IS BUT YORK. OF THE DISSECTION IS BY OBTAINED—IT BE PERFECTLY CAN OF THE PRESIDENT DRAPER, JOHN W. ARGUED THE DEAD,” SPEECH. IN AN 1853 FACULTY, COLLEGE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY WERE AMONG THE NYU PROFESSORS AND OTHER DRAPER BAN. IN LIFTING THE INSTRUMENTAL REFORMERS BRINGING OUT THE DEAD THE OUT BRINGING

CLASS NOTES 1930s

SHIRLEY KAUFMAN WOLFORD / WSC ’35 / is proud to be “going on strong” after publishing her 20th book, The Voice of the Turtledove (Wings ePress).

ROBERT SCHULMAN / ARTS ’36 / has been a reporter and feature writer in St. Louis, a staff correspondent in Chicago for Time, Life, and Sports Illustrated magazines, and director of a prize-winning TV documentary. 1940s

RALPH BRANCA / STEINHARDT ’44, ’48 /, the former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, was fea- tured in Joshua Prager’s book The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bob- by Thomson, Ralph Bran- ca and the Shot Heard Round the World (Pan- theon), which relates how New York Giants batter Thomson stole the signs for Branca’s fastball, con- sequently winning the 1951 National League pennant.

HARRIET KUPFERBERG / STEINHARDT ’45 / recently made a gift to name the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holo- caust Resource Center and Archives at Queensbor- ough Community College.

MYRON GABLE / STERN ’47, STEINHARDT ’70 / delivered the plenary ad-

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NYU / FALL 2007 / 61 alumni profile

JAKE BURTON CARPENTER / WSUC ’77 KING OF THE MOUNTAIN by Christian DeBenedetti

f any doubts lin- the finish line to relish it which controls an esti- fore transferring to study ry, Vermont, after gradua- gered that snow- all was Jake Burton Car- mated 40 to 50 percent economics at NYU. While tion and started experi- boarding had penter, one of the sport’s of the $400 million snow- there, he interned for a menting in the back of progressed from progenitors. He had good boarding industry. New York hedge fund man- a barn with a Snurfer, a Ifringe sport to reason to smile: The en- It’s been a wild ride ager who spurred him to snowboard-like toy with center stage, they were tire U.S. team—including steering such an iconic think about launching a a rope attached to the erased during last year’s then-19-year-old gold brand, but Burton still op- snowboard business—and nose for maneuvering. “I XX Olympic Winter Games medalist Shaun White— erates with the laid-back even threw in some early jigsawed it, I urethaned it,” in Torino, Italy. There, was outfitted head to toe attitude considered typical financial assistance. Bur- says Burton of his pointy, before crowds of 10,000 in white pin-striped uni- of the sport. A former ton moved to Londonder- bindingless fiberglass 1977 per day, American snow- forms made by his Ver- competitive skier, he start- SNOWBOARD MOGUL BURTON, WHO’S BOARDED ON EVERY boarders dominated the mont-based company, ed out at the University of CONTINENT BUT ANTARCTICA, LITERALLY SITS ON TOP OF THE events, and standing at Burton Snowboards, Colorado at Boulder be- WORLD DURING A RECENT TRIP TO THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. PHOTO © JEFF CURTES PHOTO © 2007 BURTON SNOWBOARDS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 61) PAUL CLASS AFTER PLAYING WITH KELLER / A SNURFER IN COLLEGE, dress at the meeting of BURTON ADAPTED THE EARLY the Academy of Market- WSC ’48 / SNOWBOARD-LIKE TOY FOR ing Science and the was included HIS FIRST PROTOTYPE. American Collegiate in the Marquis Retailing Association in 2006 edition 2006. He is one of eight of Who’s Who NOTES members of the ACRA in the World. Hall of Fame. NICHOLAS A. THELMA LEVY HENNER CLEMENTE / / WSC ’47 / is now a WSC ’49, LAW ’56 / was member of the Harvard a justice of the New York Institute for Learning in State Supreme Court for Retirement. She lives more than 25 years, as in Cambridge, MA, and is well as a senior partner at writing her memoirs, titled law firms in Brooklyn. He From Jewish American lives in upstate New York. Princess to Cambridge Bag Lady. SIROON SHAHINIAN / GSAS ’49, ’57 / is the ROBERT F. BRODSKY / chairperson of the NGO ENG ’48 / has published Health Committee, design- his first nontechnical ing revolutionary programs book, On the Cutting on health at the United Edge: Tales of a Cold Nations. War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, HELEN TORRES / STERN Guided Missile, ’49 / has been a successful prototype. “The quality sport exploded in popu- ed States—continues to Computer and Space business owner and real es- was good.” And despite larity around the country, surprise the Long Island Ages (Gordian Knot tate broker for more than not selling any in the rankling the ski world. native. “I never saw it Books), which 22 years. She is a strong first year, he had moved “The people who had hitting the mainstream,” describes his 60-year supporter of the arts in the more than 700 by 1979, been ski bums when they he admits. “It was always career in engineering, Tampa Bay area and is when one of his boards were kids wouldn’t ac- an alternative.” spacecraft design, sponsoring a free opera was used to win the cept it, didn’t want this Today, Burton snow- and astronautics concert at Vinoy Park in St. World Snurfing Champi- youth culture back on boards a dependable education. Petersburg, FL, this fall. onship, bringing instant their mountains,” Burton 100 days a year and exposure and credibility. explains. “The process of shares this love with his

employees, giving them CELEBRATE THE REUNION season passes to the re- 1950s CLASSES OF 1953 AND 1958! Burton Snowboards sort at Stowe Mountain. controls an estimated He constantly tests new LENA GIBBONS / WSC of Wisconsin-River Falls. gear, and recently man- ’50, GSAS ’52 / was rec- He recently completed his 40 to 50 percent of aged to take off an en- ognized for her noble mil- 15th book on literary cen- the $400 million tire year with his wife itary service during World sorship. For more infor- and three boys to travel War II by Congresswoman mation, visit www.uwrf snowboarding industry. the globe, snowboarding DIANA DEGETTE / LAW .edu/pa/2006/0610/ and surfing. “I was just ’82 /. A psychiatric social 1009065.htm. By the mid-1980s, getting snowboarding up in the Canadian worker, Gibbons attended snowboarding had be- into resorts was really Rockies with friends,” he to the emotional wounds JESSIE COLSON / come a bona fide coun- tough, and there’s still recalls, “and I was think- of military personnel. STEINHARDT ’53, ’62 / tercultural phenomenon, four that don’t even al- ing, ‘It just doesn’t get wants his fellow alumni to fueled by the bad-boy low it.” Still, the eventual any better.’ But none of NICHOLAS KAROLIDES / know that he is currently image of many early rid- success—by 2002, there this would have hap- STEINHARDT ’50, ’51, happy and in a rewarding ers. But Burton still were more than seven pened if I wasn’t really ’63 / is a professor of period in his life.

faced obstacles as the million riders in the Unit- in love with the sport.” English at the University (CONTINUED ON PAGE 65)

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alumni profile

RUTH BARCAN MARCUS / WSC ’41 Champion Logician

by Nicole Pezold / GSAS ’04

UTH BARCAN MARCUS HAS NEVER PAID the field of quantified man,” while modal logic MUCH ATTENTION TO THE CONFINES OF GEN- modal logic.” deals with propositions For those in need of a that ascribe possibility or DER—NOT AS A STICKBALL-PLAYING TOMBOY R primer, nonmodal logic is necessity: “It is possible during the Depression in Rather, the quick- all,” notes Don Garrett, limited to propositions that Socrates is human.” the Bronx, nor as a cham- witted 86-year-old scaled NYU professor of philoso- concerning what is actual, “It was generally believed pion fencer who might life’s hurdles with disci- phy and Marcus’s former such as “Socrates is hu- that if you extended modal have competed in the 1940 plined reasoning and, student. Her many honors Olympics had it not been through her work in along the way have in- canceled because of war, modal logic and moral cluded head of the Ameri- “Not only did Marcus and certainly not as a rare dilemmas, among other can Philosophical break into philosophy, revered woman philoso- areas, extended the Association Board of Offi- pher. “I never worried bounds of analytical phi- cers, fellowship in the which was then a nearly about making my way,” losophy—and the place of American Academy of all-male preserve, but into Marcus muses one after- women in that field. “Not Arts & Sciences, and re- noon in her New Haven, only did she break into cently recipient of the logic, which was perhaps Connecticut, home. “And I philosophy, which was prestigious 2008 Lauener the most male-dominated think that’s what made it then a nearly all-male Prize for an Outstanding easy for me. That started preserve, but into logic, Oeuvre in Analytical Phi- of all,” notes philosopher when I was playing stick- which was perhaps the losophy. Garrett says: Don Garrett. ball and never changed.” most male-dominated of “She basically invented

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 63) chairman of the Physi- CECILY BARTH cian Consortium for FIRESTEIN / STEIN- Performance Improve- HARDT ’55 / recently ment in the North Shore- showed her artwork at the Long Island Jewish Joseph Wahl Arts Gallery Health System in New in Woodland Hills, CA, and York. He is also the chair- at the Mona Lisa Gallery man emeritus of the in Maplewood, NJ. To view Board of Regents of the her work, visit www.cecily American College of barthfirestein.com. Physicians and the past president of the Ameri- BERNARD M. ROSOF / can Society of Internal MED ’57 / was elected Medicine.

CELEBRATE THE REUNION 1960s CLASSES OF 1963 AND 1968!

PETER HUTT / LAW ’60 / ELLEN-JOAN WAGNER / has joined the Life Line STEINHARDT ’62 / is the Screening board of direc- author of The Science of tors, a leading provider of Sherlock Holmes (Wiley). preventive mobile health In 2007, she was also a screenings, which has featured speaker at the screened nearly five million American Academy of people and helped to save Forensic Sciences. ABOVE: IN HER 1941 YEARBOOK, RUTH BARCAN MARCUS, THEN thousands of lives over the A COMPETITIVE FENCER AND ASPIRING PHILOSOPHER, WAS FLORENCE GURLAND / VOTED “MOST BRILLIANT GIRL” BY NYU CLASSMATES. LEFT: THE past decade. NOW 86-YEAR-OLD SCHOLAR BLAZED A TRAIL IN MODAL LOGIC. STEINHARDT ’63 / is a GERALD “JERRY” FREED- jewelry maker who special- modal propositions. The returned to Yale in 1973— MAN / STEINHARDT ’61, izes in one-of-a-kind pieces. work laid the foundation only four years after the ’64 / has been the chair of for later theories on the university opened its the social studies depart- DAVID BELLA / ENG ’64 / meaning of names and undergraduate college ment at the Los Angeles has contributed a chapter the nature of necessity to women—where she County High School for the to Salmon 2100: The Future systems to quantifica- itself. remains as a senior Arts for the past 21 years. of Wild Pacific Salmon tion, it would end in gib- For the next 18 years, research scholar. He is the recipient of nu- (American Fisheries Soci- berish,” explains Marcus Marcus continued to pon- While the number merous teaching awards ety), an anthology on how of the prevailing theory der and publish as she of female philosophers and honors. to save wild salmon. in 1941, when at the age worked mostly independ- has crept up since she of 19, she left NYU with ently of any university so entered the academy, NEAL P. GILLEN / STERN LOU DE LUCA / STEIN- a BA in mathematics she could tend to four it remains markedly ’61 / is the executive vice HARDT ’64 / is CEO of and philosophy and en- young children with her low—around 21 percent president and general coun- United Activities Unlimit- tered graduate school at husband, physicist Jules of full-time faculty— sel of the American Cotton ed, a drug-prevention Yale University. “There’s Alexander Marcus. In according to a 2006 Shippers Association, and agency providing services usually a challenge,” she 1964, the University of report for the APA’s the author of Dinner in for 16,000 youths in 27 says, “such as ‘that Illinois at Chicago ap- Committee on the Sta- Bordeaux (AuthorHouse), public schools on Staten can’t be done,’ ‘this will pointed her to her “first tus of Women. And yet, a thriller that takes place Island. He is also an ad- lead to contradictions’— serious job”: “chairman” Marcus’s sex has never in France in the weeks junct professor of educa- and that’s a catalyst for of their nascent philoso- colored her work’s re- following 9/11. tion at Wagner College and me.” In her dissertation, phy department, which ception by peers. “My currently completing his she devised a theorem, she built from two to 20 work didn’t lend itself to PETER A. HOWLEY / ENG EdD. now called the Barcan members in the space of free interpretation,” she ’62, STERN ’70 / joined Formula (for her maiden six years. “I never looked says. “I proved theo- his 2007 NYU Reunion JAMES B. HOFRENNING / name), which facilitates for a job,” she notes— rems, and in a field that Committee. He lives in STEINHARDT ’64 / is the the use of quantifiers in they came to her. Marcus had been untouched.” California. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 66)

NYU / FALL 2007 / 65 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 65) FELISSA LASHLEY / managing partner of Nixon rently employed part-time HARDT ’67 / is the CEO of distinguished religion and NUR ’65 / is dean and Peabody LLP in Boston as a parish nurse in Illinois Hanger Orthopedic Group ethics professor emeritus professor at the College after a 37-year tenure at through a grant from the in Bethesda, MD. His at Concordia College in of Nursing at Rutgers the firm. He is currently Deaconess Foundation. daughters recently gradu- Moorhead, MN, where he University in New Jersey. general counsel at the ated from the Steinhardt has been awarded the She has authored Boston Capital Corp. EMIL C. HERKERT / ENG School of Culture, Educa- Alumni Achievement Essentials of Clinical ’67 / is a New Jersey phi- tion, and Human Develop- Award. Genetics in Nursing Prac- NAN BAUER-MAGLIN / lanthropist and engineer ment and the School of tice (Springer Publishing GSAS ’67 / is a professor who has recently joined Social Work at NYU. MARILYN MOFFAT / Co.), the first book of its at the City University of New the board of directors for STEINHARDT '64, '73 /, kind to promote inclusion York, who recently published the children’s charity Kids ROBERT F. SCHLEGEL a professor of physical of genetic content in Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Peace, an organization JR. / ENG ’67 / is now therapy at NYU, was elect- nursing curricula and Women Talk About the End that helps children over- serving as master of his ed president of the World in individual health-care of (Mostly) Long-term come traumas and the Masonic lodge and is active Confederation for Physical service divisions. Relationships and Women crises of growing up. in many retiree activities. Therapy during the WCPT Confronting Retirement: Congress held last spring BONNE AUGUST / GSAS A Nontraditional Guide (both MAURICE KAUFMAN / ABIGAIL BRENNER / in Vancouver, Canada. ’66, ’78 / has been ap- Rutgers University Press). STEINHARDT ’67 / is the WSC ’68 / is a psychiatrist pointed provost and vice author of The Literacy in private practice in PHYLLIS G. BROCKMYER president for academic VINCENT J. CASTANZA / Tutor’s Handbook: A Guide New York City. She wrote / STEINHARDT ’65, ’67 / affairs at New York City ENG ’67 / is retired and for Planning, Assessment, Women’s Rites of Passage: would like to hear from oth- College of Technology working with retiree groups and Instruction (Christo- How to Embrace Change er art majors who she re- (City Tech) at the City on New York State Legisla- pher-Gordon) and profes- and Celebrate Life (Row- members from her time at University of New York. tion for Teachers. sor of education emeritus man & Littlefield). Washington Square, specifi- at Northeastern University. cally Peggy Linn, Barbara NESTOR M. NICHOLAS / ANNA UNGER GABRIEL / HENRY GRINBERG / Brown, and Linda Sampson. LAW ’66 / retired as co- STEINHARDT ’67 / is cur- IVAN SABEL / STEIN- GSAS ’68 / published his first novel, Variations on the Beast (The Dragon Press), which chronicles Want to Hear More About Alumni the life of a genius orches- tral conductor in Nazi Ger- Activities? Contact Us! many. After 42 years as a college teacher, he is COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF LAW embarking on a new career HEIGHTS COLLEGES ARTS AND SCIENCE 212-998-6400 as a psychoanalyst. 212-998-4639 212-998-4639 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] NEAL HIRSCHFELD / SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ARTS ’68 / authored De- COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS 212-263-5390 tective: The Inspirational 212-998-9739 212-992-5804 [email protected] Story of the Trailblazing [email protected] [email protected] Woman Cop Who Wouldn’t SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Quit (Scribner), a nonfiction COLLEGE OF NURSING LEONARD N. STERN 212-998-9189 book inspired by his wife. 212-992-9427 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS [email protected] [email protected] 212-998-4040 AMY C. BARKIN / ARTS [email protected] THE STEINHARDT SCHOOL ’69 / received the 2006 COURANT INSTITUTE OF OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, Excellence in Healthcare MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES ROBERT F. WAGNER GRADUATE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Leadership Award and was 212-998-6775 SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE 212-998-6942 selected as the 2006 Social [email protected] 212-998-7537 [email protected] Worker of the Year for her [email protected] “exemplary leadership and GALLATIN SCHOOL OF TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS outstanding accomplish- INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY SCHOOL OF CONTINUING 212-998-6954 ments in improving the 212-992-9825 AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES [email protected] health and well-being of un- [email protected] 212-998-7003 derserved and special pop- [email protected] ulations across the nation.”

66 / FALL 2007 / NYU CLASS CELEBRATE THE REUNION 1970s CLASSES OF 1973 AND 1978!

LEE EDWARD KOPPEL- MARK GESCHWER / Presidential Commission MILTON E. POLSKY / PBS television MAN / WAG ’70 / recently STEINHARDT ’71 / prac- for the University of the STEINHARDT ’73 / is the show, and took part in a State tices law in New Jersey. Philippines Centennial. co-chair of the United Fed- launched her NOTES University of New York at A former NYU basketball She is the president of the eration of Teachers. He au- own brand of Stony Brook symposium player, he recently partici- UPAA New York Chapter. thored several books and cake mix. that examined “Leaders in pated in the annual alumni received the Rod Marriott Government.” golf tournament. ROBERT HOLZBERG / Award for outstanding life- MARY JANE STEINHARDT ’72 / is a time achievement in the- HORTON / WSC ’74 / is SHEILA LUKINS / STEIN- SAMUEL RABINO / happily retired professor ater education. the editor of Plum maga- HARDT ’70 / is a former STERN ’71, ’72, ’78 / is emeritus from Chicago zine. She has written for art teacher and is current- currently a professor of State University. The au- ROSE LEVY BERANBAUM Ms. and Fit Pregnancy, and ly an author and the editor marketing at Northeastern thor of two books on spe- / STEINHARDT ’74 / is most recently contributed of the food column in University in Boston. cial education, he lives the author of numerous to Hometown Pasadena:

Parade magazine. with his wife, DR. BETTE cookbooks, has her own (CONTINUED ON PAGE 68) DAVID J. BECKER / HOLZBERG / STEIN- EDWARD MAPP / STEIN- STEINHARDT ’72 / pub- HARDT ’54, ’64 / in HARDT ’70 / was elected lished his illustrated book, Augusta, GA. alumni online chairman of the board of The Phlatts (RoseDog the Friends of Thirteen, Books), about dimensional- CANDACE LEEDS / Inc., a public broadcasting ly challenged stick figures STEINHARDT ’72 / is the VIOLETNET station. He also authored trying to get by in a multi- vice president for public GROWS ONLINE the children’s book dimensional world. For affairs at Loews Corp. and Wednesday at Weeksville more information, visit continues to serve NYU The fast pace of everyday life can make keeping (Airleaf Publishing). www.rosedogbooks.com. as a member of the SCPS in touch a challenge. But with the newly revamped board. VioletNet—NYU’s online alumni community,com- JUDITH UMLAS / ARTS MIGUELINA CUEVAS- plete with a directory of SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS © ALAN KIKUCHI ’70 / together with her POST / ARTS ’72, STEIN- CYNTHIA T. LOWNEY / all graduates—staying fellow alumna MICHELLE HARDT ’74 / is the STEINHARDT ’72 / has connected and involved BLACKLEY / STEIN- principal at Owasco Ele- served as a lawyer, judge, is easier than ever be- HARDT ’02 / has been mentary in Auburn, NY. and federal law clerk fore.Whether you want building a publishing divi- She has three children, (SDNY), as well as an to reach out to old sion at the International the youngest of whom adjunct professor at vari- friends,make new Institute for Learning, Inc. graduated from Wellesley ous local colleges. contacts, or just Blackley also recently College. let people know helped Umlas publish her KARON M. MARCUS / what you’ve been book, The Power of Acknow- DORIAN DODSON / WSC STEINHARDT ’72 / is a up to,VioletNet is your link to other NYU alumni. ledgment (IIL Publishing). ’72 / is currently cabinet licensed real estate sales- Since 2001,VioletNet users have logged on to secretary of the New Mexi- person and a graduate update addresses, share profiles, post résumés, join MARY L. WALSH / WAG co Children, Youth, and gemologist. She is involved networks and clubs across the country, and much ’70 / is director of the Cli- Families Department. in real estate development more. But with the enhanced site, alumni can now mate Change Learning and and deals privately in gems customize their profile information, post personal Information Center. Her JAMES V. FIASCONARO / and fine art. pictures, and keep contact lists of other alumni. publications include Climate GSAS ’72 / works as a Users can also sign up to receive e-mail notifications Change for Local Govern- school administrator in ALAN MENKEN / ARTS when friends update their profiles. “Even if you’ve ments, Sustainable Energy Monmouth County, NJ, and ’72 / has won more Acade- previously registered, come back and try all of the Solutions, Crisis Communi- an adjunct professor at my Awards than any other new features,” says John Calvo (STERN ’91, LAW cations, and Managing Com- Kean University in Union, living composer. The cre- ’95), NYU Alumni Association vice president. munity-Wide Trauma. NJ. He is married with two ator of many of the classic “VioletNet has the latest tools to help your NYU daughters. Disney scores, Menken re- network thrive.” MICHAEL BONDANZA / cently wrote Sister Act, Registration is free and easy:Visit violetnet STEINHARDT ’71 / is CARMENCITA Q. FULGA- the musical, which played .nyu.edu and in a matter of minutes users can search an award-winning jewelry DO / STEINHARDT ’72 / at the Pasadena Play- for old friends and post updates. Now there’s no designer. has been appointed to the house. excuse for being out of touch.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 67 CLASS (CONTINUED FROM president of the Board of nonfiction, Bomb Squad Mommy Years: How to Live Three Decades of Dance PAGE 67) Trustees of the Bowne (Hyperion), a behind-the- Happily Ever After…After Writing (University of Wis- The Insider’s House Historical Society, scenes look at the work of the Kids Leave Home consin Press). She is the Guide which is the oldest house bomb experts, co-written (Springboard Press). Marian Hannah Winter pro- (Prospect in Queens and is presently with Ted Gerstein. A Rubenstein will embark on fessor emerita of theater Park Books). undergoing a major reporter for ABC News, a publicity tour and pre- history and dance studies renovation. Esposito won the George pare a series of parent at the University of NOTES KAREN Polk Award for Television workshops at many East Wisconsin-Madison. QUEALLY / CAROL THOMPSON COLE Reporting in 2005. Coast schools. STEINHARDT / WAG ’75 / was named CARMELO TABONE / ’74 / is the president and CEO of Ven- MICHAEL H. FORMAN / ROCCO SISTO / TSOA ’77 / STEINHARDT ’78 / is the director of musculoskeletal ture Philanthropy Partners LAW ’76 / of Mountain is a two-time Obie director of the Jersey services at Kaiser Perma- in Washington, DC. Lakes, NJ, was named Award–winning actor. City–based Educational nente in San Francisco. by Worth magazine as Arts Team and an adjunct RICHARD ESPOSITO / among the top 100 lawyers PAMELA J. SMITH / WAG faculty member at NYU in ROSEMARY S. VIETOR / WSUC ’75 / has just com- in the U.S. attending to ’77 / is the only African- the Program in Educational STEINHARDT ’74 / is the pleted his second work of affluent families. American woman in At- Theater. lanta who owns her own CAROLE KOENIG / TSOA multimillion-dollar com- ALLEN P. ADAMSON / alumni benefit ’76 / has been a licensed mercial real estate compa- STERN ’79 / is the manag- massage therapist for ny, Smith Real Estate ing director at Landor more than 20 years. Services. Associates in New York SEARCH THE NYU and author of BrandSimple: LIBRARIES—FROM HOME MICHAEL NASH / TSOA CECILE CYRUL SPECTOR How the Best Brands Keep ’76 / was awarded the / STEINHARDT ’77 / is It Simple and Succeed Research has never been Bronze Medal for Investi- the author of Between the (Palgrave Macmillan). easier—now that alum- gation by the U.S. Inspec- Lines: Enhancing Inferenc- ni can peruse online tor General for the ing Skills (Thinking Publi- J. KEITH FELL / LAW ’79 / newspapers, maga- Department of Commerce cations), which, along with was elected the new presi- zines, and journals in Washington, DC, in May her other three books, fo- dent of the board of direc- through the NYU to honor his outstanding cuses on various aspects tors for Little Flower Libraries E-access accomplishments in recent of abstract language. Children and Family Ser- Project. The new fraud investigations. vices of New York. In his last benefit, the legacy JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL / role as chair of the major- gift of the Senior Class ESSIE D. OWENS / STEIN- WSUC ’77 / recently pub- gifts program, he raised of 2006,allows alumni remote access to four databas- HARDT ’77 / has served lished Secrets Can Be Mur- significant funds used to es—the Research Library, ABI/Inform, ProQuest as an educator, community der (Touchstone), which deliver services to children, Health Management, and ProQuest Newspapers. activist, and is now a visual explores how following families, and developmen- The databases cover a wide range of subject areas. artist. In 2006, her art- killers of sensational tally disabled adults. The Research Library is a diverse mix of scholarly work was exhibited on crimes has become a na- journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspa- Roosevelt Island and in tional pastime. She has re- JOHN A. GORMAN / pers.ABI/Inform provides access to management and Florida. ceived numerous awards, STEINHARDT ’79 / has re- business literature, as well as articles from academic, including two Emmys. tired from the County Col- trade, and popular press journals. It also covers more STEWART J. PEARCE / lege of Morris in Randolph, than 60,000 companies and includes executive pro- STEINHARDT ’77 / cele- IRIS WEINSHALL / WAG NJ, where he was chairman files, reports on market conditions, and case studies of brated his 30th anniver- ’77 / left her post as New of the music department. global business trends.The ProQuest Health Manage- sary working at the York City’s transportation He still teaches piano at ment database supplies literature in health administra- Metropolitan Opera this commissioner to become home in Madison, NJ. tion, from insurance and ethics to economics and year. Currently the assis- vice chancellor for facilities public health administration.The ProQuest Newspa- tant manager for opera- planning, construction, and JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY / pers database contains the full text of approximately tions, Stewart interned at management at the City STEINHARDT ’79 / was 27 national, financial, and regional newspapers from the Met while still a stu- University of New York. recently honored at the the past 25 years, including The New York Times, the dent at NYU. regional meeting of Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. SALLY R. BANES / TSOA the College Board with CARIN RUBENSTEIN / ’78, STEINHARDT ’80 / the 2007 Advanced To access these free library resources, log on to GSAS ’77, ’79 / recently recently published Before, Placement Outstanding violetnet.nyu.edu. published Beyond the Between, and Beyond: Teacher Award.

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START-UP RESTAURATEUR CLASS KENNY LAO ROLLED HIS COLLEGE DUMPLING PARTIES INTO A BONA FIDE BUSINESS.

my mouth waters when I smell dumplings cooking.” For Rickshaw, Lao lured NOTES Anita Lo, a chef whose work at Annisa earned her a Michelin star, to help create six kinds of dumplings, ranging from the classic pork and Chi- nese chive—what he calls “the vanilla ice cream of dumplings”—to a locally raised Hudson Valley duck and scallion version. The most popular is chicken and Thai basil, and all dumplings can be rounded into a full meal with a sal- ad or noodle soup. To complement this updated alumni profile fare, the bars’ styles are clean and spare with Jasper Morrison Air KENNY LAO / STERN ’04 Chairs, creating Asian symmetry with a modern twist. Critics have taken Not Your note, from New York mag- azine to Martha Stewart, who featured Lao on her Grandfather’s cooking show. Even MTV followed him around for a

PHOTO © LUCY SCHAEFFER year, chronicling the life Shumai of a start-up restaura- teur. Rickshaw’s boom earned him a spot on by Sarah Portlock / CAS ’07 both Crain’s New York Business “40 Under 40” fter work- full-fledged entrepreneur, Chelsea. “I realized I loved back to childhood memo- list in 2007 and Inc. mag- ing for a Lao enrolled in the MBA food, but I had never ries of “dumpling days,” azine’s “30 Under 30” year in program at the Leonard N. thought about it as a po- when his parents would list in 2006. But to the finance in Stern School of Business, tential career,” explains invite over neighbors businessman in Lao, true A Boston, where he placed second in Lao, who recently opened in Pasadena, California, success is still to come as Kenny Lao quit to devote a business plan competi- his second location on to partake in their prepa- he plans to open five himself to his true passion: tion for his idea to open Eighth Street near cam- ration, a tradition he more locations in two food. He moved to New a casual, high-design pus. “It’s hard to make continued in college. years, with possible ex- York, got a job with Myriad dumpling (shumai) bar— that step, but then I was “I remember very specific pansions to Philadelphia Restaurant Group, and in offering creative, yet that guy dumb enough to things—the fresh chive and Washington, D.C. “I four years, went from quickly prepared food. take the risk.” smell of the filling, the feel like I’m on the path,” pouring wine at Montra- He had investors lined up Less risky was his feeling of flour on the he says, though he’s not chet to opening restau- before graduation and, in choice to work with wrappers,” Lao says. “The patting himself on the rants for them nationwide. February 2004, launched dumplings: They’re his fa- smell of them cooking back yet. “Success is still To make his next leap, as a Rickshaw Dumpling Bar in vorite food, and hearken was very powerful—still, coming.”

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JOANNE ABBOT GREEN recently appointed direc- biz with her twin sister ROSEMARY ROTONDI / JULIANNE M. CROTTY- / STEINHARDT ’80 / is tor of executive communi- and fellow alumna, YVON- TSOA ’86 / is currently GUILE / GAL ’87 / loves the executive director of cations for IMS Health NA FARROW / GAL ’83. conducting research on a her job teaching piano and the CMJ Music Festival. Inc., in Norwalk, CT. documentary on the Berri- voice lessons at Notewor- She provided 500 passes MARCUS ROME / SSW gan brothers titled Ameri- thy Music in Omaha, NE. for Steinhardt students to PAMELA L. MALVEAUX / ’84 / is a distinguished ca Is Hard to Find, and attend the 2006 festival TSOA ’82 / is the author psychoanalyst in New a documentary on Grove MADONNA DE ANNE for free. of Souls of My Sisters and York City. He has pub- Press publisher, Fightin’ GRIMES / STEINHARDT Peanut Butter and Bologna lished five volumes of Words: The Barney Rosset ’87 / was recently hon- STATON A. RABIN / Sandwiches (both Lindsey poetry, the most recent Story. Her Web site is ored with the Best Chore- TSOA ’80 / wrote The Publishing, Inc). She is titled Confessions of a http://www.archivalfilm ographer award from the Curse of the Romanovs also a TV producer at the Rational Lunatic (Birch research.com. NAACP Theatre Awards. (Margaret K. McElderry). cable network BET. Brook Press). She is the owner of a As reported in Variety, his MARIA R. BURGIO / dance studio in Hollywood. previous novel, Betsy and DAVID S. WEINSTOCK / RABBI DENNIS S. ROSS STEINHARDT ’87 / has the Emperor (Margaret K. LAW ’82 / was recently / SSW ’84 / is the direc- completed her first nonfic- GEORGE KAZACOFF / McElderry), is being devel- promoted to director, tor of Concerned Clergy tion book, Is My Child Nor- TSOA ’87 / joined his oped into a film starring senior regulatory counsel for Choice, a project of mal? When Behavior is OK, 2007 Reunion Committee. Al Pacino and directed by for Boehringer Ingelheim the Education Fund of When It’s Not, How to Tell Patrice Chéreau. pharmaceuticals, a human Family Planning Advo- the Difference and What to DAVID YIN / STERN ’87 / and veterinary prescrip- cates of New York State. Do Next. Her next book starred as Duke of Mantua AMY L. VICKERS / WSUC tion and over-the-counter The project has released will be a study of children in Champagne and Candle- ’80 / has been appointed pharmaceutical manufac- the educational manual who kill. light, Opera di Camera’s to the charter board of turer/distributor. Wein- Stem Cell Research: production of Verdi’s Rigo- directors of the Alliance stock was also elected as A Study and Advocacy PATRICIA A. CHOLEWKA letto, performed at the for Water Efficiency in chairperson of the New Toolkit for Clergy. / WAG ’87 / was granted a Brooklyn Heights Public Chicago. An engineer, she York State Bar Association Fulbright Award to Lithua- Library in June. wrote the award-winning Food, Drug, and Cosmetic EMILY PRESSMAN / nia. She is the president of Handbook of Water Use Law Section. STEINHARDT ’85 / is the health-care consulting DANILO H. FIGUEREDO / and Conservation: Homes, currently a music teacher firm MAP Associates and GSAS ’89 / is the director Landscapes, Businesses, LORRAINE CORTES- at Trinity School on the assistant professor of of the Bloomfield College Industries, Farms (Water- VAZQUEZ / WAG ’83 / Upper West Side of nursing at the City Univer- Library and the author of Plow Press). was appointed Secretary Manhattan. sity of New York. Latino Chronology (Green- of State of New York, serv- wood Press), which is KEVIN BULGER / SSW ing in the cabinet of Gov- HUMAYAN J. CHAUDHRY ROSE MARY A. COL- aimed at Latino students ’81 / was honored with ernor Eliot Spitzer. / WSUC ’86, GSAS ’89 / ORAFI / STEINHARDT who want to know about the Sloan Public Service has been nominated to be ’87 / received her New their heritage and the role Award, the highest inde- YVETTE HEYLIGER / Suffolk’s commissioner of York state license as a their ancestors have pendent honor for New GAL ’83, ’87 / owns the the Department of Health mental-health counselor played in shaping Ameri- York City employees. As production company Twin- Services. in 2006. can society. director of the NYC Em- ployee Assistance Pro- gram, Bulger consolidated 43 different agencies We want to hear from you! Let us know what is into one centralized and responsive office. happening in your career and life. Submit your

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NOTES

EDITH SHAIN (ABOVE), NOW 89, WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY WORLD WAR II ENDED—OR THE SURPRISE KISS FROM AN UNKNOWN SAILOR IMMORTALIZED ON A LIFE MAGAZINE COVER (LEFT).

WHAT WAS TIMES SQUARE they were very excited and LIKE THAT DAY? very pleased because It was mad, just crazy. Eisenstaedt had been won- Everybody was hugging and dering who I was. jumping for joy and scream- ing and laughing because it WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING was a marvelous thing— PART OF SUCH AN that the end of the war had HISTORIC IMAGE? come. The sailors were out It feels miraculous because kissing everybody because people react to it and it alumni q&a they were so happy to be makes them remember. home and they wouldn’t Many people have that pho-

Q&A have to go back. So [the tograph and they don’t crowd celebrating V-J Day kiss] didn’t seem strange know what it represents, to identify the couple, and because of the circum- aside from being a roman- A Kiss for there is still uncertainty stances. tic picture. It was the be- about the sailor. ginning of a new life. It was But Shain revealed her HOW DID YOU REACT the end of fighting and won- the Ages identity in 1980—to the WHEN YOU FIRST SAW dering if your loved one surprise of her three sons, THE LIFE MAGAZINE would come home. dith Shain Times Square, where, in who never knew that their COVER? (STEIN- the flash of a camera now 89-year-old mother I was embarrassed. I didn’t IF YOU HAD IT ALL TO HARDT ’47) bulb on the afternoon of was the woman so widely tell anybody about it be- DO OVER AGAIN, WOULD was working August 14, 1945, Shain associated with romantic cause even though every- YOU CHANGE ANYTHING? E as a nurse at was unexpectedly cap- spontaneity. The former body was hugging and Well, I guess I’d take a look Doctors Hospital in New tured in one of history’s elementary school kissing, I didn’t want people at the guy [laughs]. I never York City when she heard most iconographic teacher, who moved to to know that a stranger had looked at him—you know on the radio that the images. California after graduating kissed me. I didn’t contact you close your eyes when Japanese had surren- Photographer Alfred from NYU, has been con- the magazine until 1980 you get kissed, at least I dered and World War II Eisenstaedt, who snapped tacted through the years because at that time I felt I did—and then I turned was officially over. After the famous kiss (above) by a couple dozen men, all was old enough that I around and walked away. her shift, she and a friend for Life magazine, was too claiming to be her mys- wouldn’t be embarrassed And I guess he went on to hopped on the subway to overwhelmed by the tery sailor. —Renée Alfuso by it. When I wrote to them, kiss more girls.

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For more than 40 years, South Carolinian artist LEO TWIGGS (STEINHARDT ’64) has harnessed the an- cient, labor-intensive method of batik to interpret both the sorrowful and empowering stories of African-American his- tory. Twiggs, who has had more than 75 one-man shows and has exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the American Craft Museum, likens batik, in which the artist applies layers of wax and dye on fabric, to jazz because of its improvisational, unpredictable character. “Wax runs,” he explains, and can create multiple glowing shades and an “overall crackle effect” where the dye seeps through. “You can’t control the medium completely. You have to let the spirit lead you.” An early interest in art led Twiggs to study at the Art In- stitute of Chicago and then to New York during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism. At NYU, he met celebrated painter Hale Aspacio Woodruff, under whose guidance he started a lifelong search for visual symbols of the African- American experience. In his continuing series on the Con- federate flag, Twiggs, at turns, transforms this icon of Southern white pride into a ragged, blood-soaked bandage, or drains it almost entirely of color. “[W]ith gentle but unswerving irony, [he] takes the flag and claims it as part of his Southern heritage,” notes William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, in the catalog for the 2004 show “Myths and Metaphors: The Art of Leo Twiggs.” In 2001, the artist was commissioned to create a six- and-a-half-inch-wide ornament for the White House Christ- mas tree. His piece, a miniature replica of the boyhood home of Benjamin E. Mays, Martin Luther King Jr.’s mentor, brought attention to the “dilapidated shack,” as Twiggs described it, which has since been restored and moved to a heritage complex in Greenwood, South Carolina.

TOP: EVENING OF THE ROOSTER, BATIK ON COTTON (2007). BOTTOM: ANCESTRAL FLAG, BATIK ON COTTON (2004), IS PART OF A SERIES BY THE ARTIST DEPICTING THE CONFEDERATE FLAG. To view his work, visit http://leotwiggs.com.

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TINA AXELRAD / WAG ’91 Schwartz and Cohn LLP was awarded a second Edwards Angell Palmer & zation that / is a principal at Clarion as a partner in the firm’s Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Dodge LLP. helps Ameri- Associates, a national land- corporate and securities University Award for his cans living NOTES use planning and policy law department. ABC News coverage of NICK / TSOA ’94 / and abroad regis- consulting firm in Denver. the death of Pope John ALEX / TSOA ’94 / ter to vote. ANDREA DAMITA MARIA Paul II. KARVOUNIS, owners of KRISTIN CARNEY / ARNOLD / STEINHARDT Showmark Entertainment JENNIFER TSOA ’91 / skates under ’92 / graduated from the PETER TRIPPI / STEIN- Group, a booking agency KOLINSKI MILLIS / the name Ana Bollocks Institute of Children’s Lit- HARDT ’92 / has been specializing in variety TSOA ’95 / was an acting with Gotham Girls Roller erature in 2005 and is appointed editor of Fine acts, recently performed major while at NYU. Millis Derby and recently re- now writing for children Art Connoisseur maga- on The Tonight Show With has joined the law firm of tired as their bout pro- and teenagers. She has zine, in New York City. Jay Leno. Nick and Alex Peek, Cobb & Edwards, PA duction director after loved the switch from just finished a two-and-a- in Jacksonville, FL. more than two years of teaching adults to teach- CAPTAIN VLADIMIR half-year run in Jubilee!, service. ing kindergartners. VIZNER / WSUC ’92 / the classic Las Vegas SOFIA MURASHKOVSKY recently released the first spectacular. They also / TSOA ’95, ’97 / has CLAUDIA HOWARD IVAN BORODIN / TSOA official album with his publish the Vegas Report been writing poetry since QUEEN / TSOA ’91 / was ’92 / recently published band Beer Vampire. “Live Newswire and own graduation and is current- selected for a Fulbright the critically acclaimed Free or Die” has become www.VegasAuditions.com, ly working on dramatic Senior Specialists proj- play, Play Rough, which is the theme song to the a Las Vegas casting writing for theater. ect in Taiwan at Taipei available at www.Bakers weekly Libertarian TV service. National University of Plays.com. show Hardfire. For DAWN SCIBILIA / TSOA the Arts, where she will more information, visit LISA SHER / WSUC ’94 / ’95 / produced and provide music for dance CHRISTOPHER DESAN- www.BeerVampire.com. has been elected partner directed Home, which classes and conduct TIS / GAL ’92, GSAS ’95 at the national law firm chronicles the journey of seminars. / has published Clocks of CHRISTOPHER J. Drinker Biddle & Reath an Irish immigrant as he New York: An Illustrated SPATARO / WSUC ’93 / LLP. She is a member of finds his way through New WHITNEY ROSENBERG / History (McFarland & Co.), was one of nine associate the Berwyn, PA, firm’s York City. The film was STEINHARDT ’91 / spent a comprehensive work attorneys elected partner real estate practice screened at BAMciné- 15 years at Sotheby’s and that chronicles the at Baker & Daniels LLP in group. matek last spring. is now running the mem- history of public clocks Indiana. bership program at the in New York City. CELIA STEWART / RICARDO SOLANO / Bruce Museum in Green- LOUIS VLAHOS / LAW STEINHARDT ’94 / is the CAS ’95 / has joined the wich, CT. She recently had CHRISTINE L. DRAYER / ’93 / is a partner in the chair of the Department New York metropolitan her second child, a boy. TSOA ’92 / joined her tax department at the of Speech-Language area–based Gibbons law NYU Reunion Committee firm Farrell Fritz, PC and Pathology and Audiology firm in its criminal de- GERARDO SANTIAGO / and looks forward to any serves on the board of at NYU’s Steinhardt fense department as a DEN ’91 / was recently opportunity to reconnect directors of the Queens School of Culture, Educa- director in the Newark recognized by N Media with fellow alumni. Chamber of Commerce, tion, and Human Develop- office. A former federal Group for his volunteer the Long Island City ment. She is doing prosecutor, Solano han- efforts and was chosen as WILLIAM F. FELICE / YMCA, and Queens The- research on the effects dled several high-profile the 2007 N Good Hearted GSAS ’92 / was named atre in the Park. Vlahos of weight loss on Hunting- cases, including the pros- Man. He has provided the 2006 Florida Profes- has extensive experience ton’s disease. ecution of former New specialty dental treat- sor of the Year by the in corporate, individual, Jersey State Senator ment to approximately Carnegie Foundation for and partnership income JODI EKELCHIK / WAG John A. Lynch. 3,000 underserved and the Advancement of taxation, and in estate ’95 / lives in London and disadvantaged children of Teaching and was honored and gift taxation. is currently contracting CYNTHIA YOUNG COLE / Collier County in Florida. in Washington, DC. He is with the University of STEINHARDT ’96 / lives a professor of political sci- BENJAMIN FERRUCCI / Oxford as a business and in Adawehi, a community RONALD E. WHITNEY / ence at Eckerd College. LAW ’94 / has been IT systems consultant. in western North Carolina LAW ’91 / has joined the named a partner in the She also serves as a vol- dedicated to alternative Detroit-based law firm CHRISTOPHER A. business law department unteer on the executive healing. Cole teaches

Honigman Miller GIANETTI / TSOA ’92 / of the Boston law firm committee of an organi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 76)

NYU / FALL 2007 / 75 CLASS (CONTINUED FROM recently accepted a creatively through food Screenplays, which deliv- ness studio in Manhattan. PAGE 75) position as the senior and field trips. ers insight into the craft For more information, photography, prospect research ana- of screenwriting. visit www.kinespirit.com. Web design, lyst in the Office of ERIC MARIN / CAS ’97 / graphic de- Advancement at East was a sports reporter for SAIMIR KADIU / WAG SUSAN DROMSKY-REED sign, semi- Stroudsburg University the New York Daily News, ’98 / works in the Min- / LAW ’99 / has recently otics, and of Pennsylvania. then spent nearly four istry of Health of Albania, authored a chapter on in- NOTES visual culture years as a sales coordina- where he is the director heritance and estate tax at Presbyter- ESTHER DAVIES / GSP tor for Fox Cable Net- of the economic depart- for the 2007 edition of ian College ’97, GAL ’99 / received works. He is currently a ment and the implemen- the New Jersey Tax Hand- and is a her MFA from Brooklyn copywriter for the New tation director of a World book (American Lawyer photo-based artist. College in 2002. She has Jersey Devils hockey Bank project. Media). Concentrating her been working as a grant team. practice in estate plan- NELLIE GUENCHEVA writer for a New York MICHELLE MADISON / ning, she is a partner in GIPSON / STEINHARDT City–based nonprofit MICHAEL C. MAZUR / CAS ’98 / has been WolfBlock’s Private Client ’96 / has generously organization for the TSOA ’97 / is a professor named the publicity and Services Group. given a scholarship to past three years. of musical theater at Cali- marketing manager at enable a foreign student fornia State University, Inkwater Press in Port- PAULA RESSLER / to study visual-arts ad- RENE SNUGGS FRANCIS Chico. land, OR. She and her STEINHARDT ’99 / is ministration at the Stein- / GSP ’97 / has started husband, Sean, are the 2007 recipient of the hardt School of Culture, Ramp Up, Inc., a corpora- MATIA S. NIKOLOVIENIS raising a family of cats David Strand Diversity Education, and Human tion dedicated to retro- / STERN ’97 / was ad- near Portland. Achievement Award at Development. fitting real estate to mitted to the New York ISU. Ressler is a profes- accommodate wheel- Bar in 2000. She was MOTO OSADA / STEIN- sor of English education MATTHEW SAPOLIN / chairs. married in Greece in HARDT ’98 / is a com- at Illinois State Universi- WAG ’96 / was profiled 2002 and gave birth to poser who was a 2006 ty and the author of Dra- last fall on NY1’s One on 1 WENDYBETH “WENS- her first child earlier S&R Washington Award matic Changes: Talking With Budd Mishkin. He is DAY” GREENBAUM / this year. recipient. He has written About Sexual Orientation New York City’s first ever TSOA ’97 / has an- works for full orchestra, and Gender Identity With commissioner of the May- nounced the release DAVE RIFKIN / LAW ’97 as well as chamber and High School Students or’s Office for People with of her first full-length / has been appointed an solo works. Through Drama (Heine- Disabilities. CD Torch Rock (Desert adjunct professor of law mann Drama). Dreams), produced and at Georgetown University CALAYA M. REID / CAS MICHAEL TYRELL / CAS co-written by legendary Law Center in Washing- ’98 / published her MICHAEL RICHTER / ’96 / edited the poetry guitarist and songwriter ton, DC. first novel, Take Her Man STEINHARDT ’99 / just anthology Broken Land: Dick Wagner. For more (Kensington Books), a received his MBA from Poems of Brooklyn (NYU information, visit MARC S. SHAW / SSW contemporary story about Baruch College and is cur- Press) with fellow NYU www.wensdaymusic.com. ’97 / is grateful to his in- love, loss, and finding out rently living in New York alumnus JULIA SPICHER structors and colleagues what truly matters in life. City as a Web site manag- KASDORF / WSUC ’85, NATALIE HOLDER- in the School of Social er for Microsoft Corp. GSAS ’89, STEINHARDT WINFIELD / STEIN- Work for helping him to ROBIN REYNOLDS / ’97 /. Tyrell’s poems have HARDT ’97 / is a lawyer see the world. WAG ’98 / is the assis- KEN SCHNECK / CAS appeared in many maga- with a nonprofit that tant vice provost at Santa ’99, STEINHARDT ’01 / zines, including The Paris teaches people about JAMES COOKE / STERN Clara University. She was accepted the position of Review and The Yale Re- workplace discrimination ’98 / married Amy E. recently certified as a dean of students at Marl- view. A recipient of the and diversity training. For Noble in 2006 at the senior professional in boro College in Vermont James Merrill Writer’s more information, visit Episcopal Church of the human resources by the in August 2007. Fellowship, he teaches www.qeinitiatives.org/ Holy Trinity in Manhattan. Society for Human Re- in the Expository Writing index.html. The couple now lives in source Management. PAUL A. SPAGNOLETTI Program at NYU. Mineola, NY. / SCPS ’99 / is president ELLYN A. LEM / GSAS JENNIFER MCCASLAND for the northeast division STEPHANIE J. ADAMS / ’97 / was named an JASON GREIFF / TSOA DALY / STEINHARDT of DynaServ, where his STERN ’97 / received her Arthur M. Kaplan Fellow ’98 / contributed to ’99, ’00 / who performed responsibilities include MS in library science by the University of Wis- Gotham Writers’ Work- and taught dance in the business development, from the University of consin. 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TONY LAING / WAG ’00 TSOA ’00 / is the tion-Year Fellowship to mation, visit www.post rently working on “Gar- / is a diversity and pro- vice president of the continue his work study- partum.net. den in Transit,” a large- gram-exchanges adviser Stuyvesant Fuel Service ing the history of South- scale public-art therapy for the Massachusetts Corp. and was recently ern filmmaking from the ANNE COFONE / SSW project in New York City College of Art. He coun- presented with the Emma silent era to World War II. ’02 / is beginning her in which thousands of sels students on study- Lazarus award by the second year in Adelphi children in hospitals, abroad programs and Associated Builders and VIKKI KARAN / SCPS University’s PhD program schools, and community scholarships, serves as Owners of Greater New ’01 / has been promoted in social work. institutions paint vibrant an academic adviser, and York. to client services and flowers to be applied to plans and executes diver- contract administrator DEBORAH G. DAMAST / thousands of New York sity programming for stu- ROBERT A. JACKSON / in the Endeavor Talent STEINHARDT ’02 / is a City taxis. For more infor- dents, faculty, and staff. GSAS ’01 / received a Agency’s business de- faculty member in the mation and sponsorship University of Virginia partment. Karan joined Dance Education Program opportunities, visit CRAIG M. ROSENMAN / Faculty Senate Disserta- the talent agency in at NYU. www.portraitsofhope.org/ 2003 while still a student git/index.php. at Pepperdine University REED DAVIS / CAS ’02, School of Law. LAW ’05 / was named an JAY LEE ELLIS / GSAS alumni mentors associate in the national ’03 / has completed his LARIENA D. (BELL) law firm of Baker & latest publication, No PASS THE TORCH MATTHEWS / SCPS ’01 / Hostetler LLP in its New Place for Home: Spatial has been appointed lead- York office. Davis served Constraint and Character Your most fulfilling donation to your alma mater ership fund-raising offi- as articles and notes Flight in the Novels of could be your time—as a mentor to current stu- cer for the American Red editor for the Journal of Cormac McCarthy (Rout- dents. The Wasserman Center for Career Develop- Cross headquartered in International Law and ledge). The University of ment’s Mentor Network Program is looking for Washington, DC. In Octo- Politics. Tennessee asked Ellis to alumni to assist students with career decision-mak- ber 2006, she married R. give the keynote address ing, improving interviewing and observational skills, Chuck Matthews, a soft- REBECCA FICHTER at its 2007 conference and learning the art of networking. ware engineer for Booz HALE / STEINHARDT on McCarthy. No matter what your occupation,there are NYU Allen Hamilton. ’02 / published The Soul students hungry for the professional guidance of of the City: Le Petit JAMIE PATTERSON an alum. Mentors choose the BRIAN H. SEIDMAN / Théâtre Du Vieux Carré HERNANDEZ / GSAS level of involvement most CAS ’01 / has had a of New Orleans (Rock ’03, STEINHARDT ’06 / comfortable for them, from short story accepted for Press), about one of started a Web business inviting a student to shadow publication in the fiction America’s oldest commu- with her husband called them for a day on the anthology Star Trek: nity theaters. www.EducationRegistry job to holding an in- Strange New Worlds 10 .com—a wedding and baby formational meeting (Pocket Books). His Web SINEM VAROGLU / registry site for student to explain a profession. site is www.brian STEINHARDT ’02 / was loans and future educa- Mentors may meet just seidman.com. the 2006 grand prize tional savings. once with a student—for 20 minutes to an hour— winner for her song or may develop a long-term mentoring relationship, SUSAN DOWD STONE / “Boom Sheke Nana” in DARRYL JORDAN / depending on the student’s needs and the mentor’s SSW ’01 / has published the world-music category STEINHARDT ’03 / availability. several articles and con- of the international John teaches and directs mu- Mentors can also reach out to whole clubs,organ- tributed chapters to a Lennon Songwriting Con- sic at the Gilman School izations, and majors through the NYU Alumni As- graduate textbook on test. She is currently in Baltimore. A music sociation Links Program, which invites alumni to treatment of perinatal recording her debut al- minister at New Song interact with more than 400 campus groups or con- mood disorders. She has bum with French produc- Community Church, he nects them with programs tailored to graduates of a also been appointed er Henri Scars-Struck. directs a gospel hip-hop particular school or college. president of Postpartum Her Web site is teen choir under New Support International, www.sinem.net. Song Arts and Ministry. For more information about the wide array of mentoring the world’s largest organ- Jordan also performs opportunities at NYU, visit the alumni Web site at ization for resources on MARISA ZELDOW / GSP with the Brooklyn Arts http://alumni.nyu.edu/groups/mentor.shtml. this topic. For more infor- ’02, CAS ’04 / is cur- Ensemble and is complet-

78 / FALL 2007 / NYU ing his Masters of Divinity on her PhD in American worked with UNICEF in 25 entrepreneurs under film industry. CLASS degree at Reformed The- studies at the University Azerbaijan, where he was 25 by BusinessWeek. ological Seminary. at Buffalo while serving responsible for nation- AMMARA as an associate minister wide HIV/AIDS and immu- NATASHA L.O. BANNAN KHALID / MELISSA MENDEZ- in Niagara Falls, NY. She nization programs. / WAG ’06 / is the man- CAS ’06 / GARCIA / WAG ’03 / was has also published her ager of multicultural is pursuing a appointed by New York City first collection of poetry, PATRICKS MBALA / initiatives for Girl Scouts doctorate NOTES Mayor Michael Bloomberg titled Crying Out Loud. WAG ’05 / is the manag- of the USA. In this role, from the Illi- to the City’s Commission Her Web site is www.erika er of the University Cen- Bannan works at the na- nois School of on Women’s Issues, where haygoodpoetry.com. tral Consultancy Bureau tional office and manages Professional she will work to ensure that at the University of the organization’s His- Psychology at New York women can fulfill JIMMY WONG / WAG ’04 Namibia, where he is re- panic initiative. Argosy University in personal and professional / works with the United sponsible for coordinat- Chicago. aspirations. Nations Assistance Mis- ing both consultancy CHRISTY CAREW / sion in Afghanistan as a projects and short train- STEINHARDT ’06 / is ELLEN LICHTENSTEIN / ANITA GILL / GSP ’04, human rights officer un- ing programs. approaching the first an- STEINHARDT ’06 / is CAS ’06 / has been work- der the auspices of the niversary of living in Los working in Miami as an ing in the editorial depart- UN Department of Peace- TOM PATTERSON / Angeles and working as associate producer for ment of Nature Publishing keeping Operations and TSOA ’05 / recently a film music composer. the TLC reality show Group, the science publish- Office of the High Com- joined Actors’ Equity and Open House, a film she Miami Ink. ing company that produces missioner of Human is currently working on recently scored, won the Nature magazine. She is Rights. the national tour of The Best of Fest Award for JOSHUA J. SHAYNE / currently pursuing a mas- Color of Justice for the student division in the TSOA ’06 / directed ter’s degree in literature FARID AGHAMALIYEV / TheatreworksUSA. Reel Women International Le Voyeur, a short at American University. WAG ’05 / is now a Film Festival. She is inter- film that was shown health policy officer with MICHAEL SIMMONS / ested in connecting with on IFC as part of the ERIKA HAYGOOD / GAL ABT Associates in Baku, STERN ’05 / was named other NYU alumni in LA presentation Media ’04 / is currently working Azerbaijan. He previously one of the country’s top who are working in the Shorts Uploaded. Obituaries New York University mourns the recent passing of our alumni, staff and friends, including:

ABRAHAM D. MOLLIN / DEN ’23 WALTER L. MEJO / STERN ’54 ROBERTA NACMIAS / WSC ’66 ALBERT M. SCHWARTZ / ARTS ’28, MED ’31 AVIS J. PITMAN / NUR ’54 RAFAEL BUENAVENTURA / STERN ’67 HELEN SCHULZE WEBB / LAW ’33 EUGENE W. SCHULTE / STERN ’55 MANNY FINK / ARTS ’67 ALLAN N. ARVINS / DEN ’36 MARINO BEVILACQUA / STEINHARDT ’57 BETTY BERRY / STEINHARDT ’68 GERALD CANTOR / STERN ’38 YOLAN HARSANYI / STEINHARDT ’57 HELEN SHERWOOD BIRD / WSC ’72, STELLA CHESS / MED ’39 RUTH MCKENZIE / STERN ’57 STEINHARDT ’73 MARSHALL NEVIN / ARTS ’39, MED ’43 WILLIAM STOREY / ENG ’58 RESTITUTO RUIZ / DEN ’74 EDWARD J. SCHEIDER / STERN ’39, ’41 EDWIN BOLZ / WAG ’59 TATEKI YAMAMOTO / STERN ’74 ARTHUR GOLOMB / STEINHARDT ’42, ’50, ’62 SATISHCHANDRA BALWANTRAI PAREKH / WILLIAM SCHMIDT / STEINHARDT ’76 EDWARD IANELLI / ENG ’42 GSAS ’59, ’63 CLAIRE E. WUESTER / NUR ’78 ALBERT RABINOWE / WSC ’42, LAW ’50 ARNOLD ANDERSON / STERN ’60, ’68 JOSE COLON / MED ’80 LILLIAN MEADE GLASER / NUR ’43 EDWARD BLACK / STERN ’60 JOSEPH LIPP / STEINHARDT ’84 ELEANOR SANTANGELO / STEINHARDT ’43 LISTER CHATMAN / STERN ’61 GEORGE A. RAPANOS / GSAS ’90 WYONA RODRIGUEZ / NUR ’44 MICHAEL SCHRADER / WSC ’61, GSAS ’63 NARISSA S. ALI / CAS ’00 EDITH WALDEMAR / STEINHARDT ’46 BARBARA MEDINA / GSAS ’63 JACKIE PILLICIOTTI / SCPS ’00 THEODORE BOUTIS / STERN ’47, ’54 RICHARD TURER / STEINHARDT ’63 ALVIN CHEUNG / STERN ’04 RICHARD WARREN COHEN / ARTS ’47 RINA CHAGY / ARTS ’65 ERIC NG / CAS ’06 GLENFORD TETLEY, JR. / WSC ’48 FREDERIC CHIN / ARTS ’65 YEVGENIY “EUGENE” MARSHALIK / CAS ’09 HARRY DUNBAR / STEINHARDT ’49, ’51, ’61 FRED HAVENICK / ARTS ’65 BROOKE ASTOR / NYU TRUSTEE SYLVAN J. HERSHEY / MED ’49 BONNIE MONCHER / WSC ’65, STEINHARDT ’68 MALCOLM HARRISON / CIMS FACULTY ABRAHAM KRASNOFF / STERN ’50 VIVIAN AUFHAUSER / WSC ’66 ABRAHAM SUNSHINE / MED FACULTY OTTO STROBINO / STEINHARDT ’52 ELIZABETH R. ISBISTER / SSW ’66 PHYLLIS CERF WAGNER / NYU TRUSTEE

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WHEN MOVE-IN DAY

WHERE THIRD NORTH RESIDENCE HALL

WHAT’S HAPPENING AS FRESHMEN ARRIVED AT THEIR NEW HOME AWAY FROM HOME ON A STEAMY DAY IN LATE AUGUST, INSIDE IT WAS ALL SMILES, SAYS PHOTOGRAPHER JOY MEE KEH (GSAS ’08), WHO SNAPPED THIS SHOT OF TWO SISTERS FROM LOS ANGELES. “THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY HANGERS,” SAYS KEH, “SO THEY WERE JUST THROWING THESE BEAUTIFUL PATTERNED DRESSES ALL OVER THE PLACE.”

—Renée Alfuso

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