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Erison Hurtault (CC’07) captured record title at Ivy League Heptagonals.

VOL. 32, NO. 13 NEWS AND IDEAS FOR THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY MAY 14, 2007 Columbia’s RECORD- Most Senior BREAKING Graduate SHAKE, GRADUATION By Bridget O’Brian By Dan Rivero any graduate students RATTLE his year’s Columbia com- know what it feels like mencement ceremony to be ABD—all-but- will confer degrees on dissertation. Few know nearly 12,000 students, theM feeling as well as Max Horlick. makingT this the largest group of Horlick, 89, will receive his doc- students to graduate from the torate in French literature this AND TOSS University’s 18 schools in its 253- spring, more than a half century year history. after defending his dissertation. Over the past weeks, the center Horlick’s academic career was of Columbia’s campus has been interrupted several times, first turned into an arena that will seat when he was drafted into the a total of 40,000 graduates, their Army during World War II. Later, families and guests. Students from after his wife became ill and with 200 countries will receive degrees children to support, he abandoned in disciplines ranging from applied his quest for a doctorate. Last year, mathematics to Yiddish studies. hoping to get him an honorary In addition to celebrating the Ph.D., his children appealed to the accomplishments and promise of University to accept the disserta- this year’s graduates, the University tion, “The Literary Judgment of also will honor distinguished Michel de Montaigne.” leaders who have shaped the Instead, University officials world, expanded the frontiers of asked to see the original work to research and teaching, and assess whether to grant the actual supported the University’s growth degree. Horlick, who hadn’t and development. known about his children’s plan, Following Columbia tradition, was “astounded,” he said. “I wished President Lee C. Bollinger will them luck, but actually I was not deliver the commencement sanguine about it.” address and bestow honorary In March, Pierre Force, chair of the Department of French, emailed the good news to Horlick’s chil- 12,000 Graduates, dren and the dean of the Graduate Eight Honorary School of Arts and Sciences. “It’s a International Affairs Degrees, One Speech. fine piece of work on an interest- graduates wave flags at Commencement 2006 degrees on eight recipients, It took 50 years, referred to as ‘honorands’ at but Max Horlick, Columbia and some other schools. They include the former president 89, gets his Ph.D. of the Israeli Supreme Court, a

EILEEN BARROSO pediatric neurosurgeon, a fellow ing topic,” wrote Force, who was university president, as well as his- on the committee that read By Candace Taylor miniature flags representing graduates’ nationalities, and torians, scientists, and profession- Horlick’s 180-page paper. “Our rec- the architecture school will measure up with plastic pro- als who stand out in their fields. ommendation to Dean Pinkham is Don’t be surprised to see an apple core whizzing tractors. Future lawyers will brandish rubber gavels. “The Five faculty members will be rec- that Max Horlick be retroactively through the air during commencement ceremonies. It’s law school doesn’t throw things—that might hit some- ognized for excellence in teaching granted a 1954 Ph.D.” no sign of disrespect or of boredom. Indeed, it’s a long- one and be a liability,” said a school spokeswoman. and 10 alumni medals will be When Columbia grants 11,706 standing Columbia ritual. The College of Dental Medicine will likely elicit the bestowed on graduates who have degrees at this year’s commence- At the University’s 253rd commencement on May biggest smiles as graduates carry five-foot-tall plastic worked hard on behalf of their ment, Horlick, class of 1954, will 16, each school’s blue-robed graduates will liven up the toothbrushes in the commencement procession. When respective schools. (A complete list certainly be the oldest. The regis- two-hour-long proceedings with fervent shaking and it comes time to throw, however, they will hurl regular- of honorands and honorees are on trar’s office wasn’t certain if he is tossing of objects representing their respective aca- sized toothbrushes and floss “since we’re all about pre- pages six and seven.) Columbia’s oldest graduate ever. demic programs. The apple vention of disease,” said Dr. Of this year’s graduating class, Growing up in a tiny New Jersey cores, hurled by Columbia Martin Davis, associate dean Graduates toss newspapers, dental 1,227 come from outside the farming community of immigrants, College graduates who have for student and alumni United States. has the most Horlick quickly discovered an ear chomped through the floss, apple cores, and money affairs at the dental school. of any foreign nation with 110, for languages—he eventually apples they bring to the cer- At Columbia Business and isn’t far behind learned 10 of them. After getting a emony, represent the Core School, M.B.A. students typi- with 104. Albania, Bangladesh, degree in French from Rutgers, he Curriculum, which requires all of the college’s students cally wave Monopoly money or fistfuls of cash. That Bosnia, Cyprus, Ecuador, the Ivory married and started graduate work to take a battery of courses in art, literature, philosophy, didn’t go over well last year, as the crowd unleashed a Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Norway, at Columbia, only to be drafted. His history, music and science. chorus of boos, said Rob Torti, president of the Rwanda, and the Ukraine each can language skills got him into mili- Such graduation-day hijinks are “definitely a Graduate Business Association. This year, B-schoolers claim at least one 2007 graduate. tary intelligence, and he served in Columbia tradition,” said Karma Lowe, assistant direc- hatched a plan to use copies of The Wall Street Journal, Giant television screens broad- the Battle of the Bulge, questioning tor of student services at the School of Social Work and but Journalism School class officers quickly emailed to casting the procession, the speech- captured German officers. a Columbia College graduate. let the business students know they’d be infringing on es and everything in between will After the war, Horlick taught at This year, nursing students will shake Columbia blue- that school’s longstanding tradition of lobbing shred- tower over the guests. For those St. Lawrence University, spending and-white pompoms, confetti and gold stars. Soon-to-be ded newspapers. It will most likely come down to cold, who can’t be there, the ceremony summers working on his doctor- doctors will let surgical gloves fly. Students from the hard cash. “There was nothing we could point to that will be streamed live on the uni- ate. He wrote his dissertation and School of International and Public Affairs will wave represented commerce more than money,” Torti said. versity’s Web site. continued on page 8 continued on page 8

www.columbia.edu/news 2 MAY 14, 2007 TheRecord A Grandmother Inspires Generations of Columbians

By Dan Rivero In the sea of proud parents and grandparents attending commencement this spring, surely Magda Hanus will stand out. The 83-year-old Holocaust survivor has four grandchildren graduating from Columbia this year, three of them this month. Hanus, a mother of four, grandmother of 13 and great- grandmother of two, plans to attend the May 16 commence- ment ceremonies. She will travel from Skokie, Ill., where she still runs the clothing store Rich’s Britches, which she started with her late husband. “I am very proud of my grandchildren,” Hanus said. “They are very smart and ambitious and have received a wonderful educa- tion at Columbia. They have made brilliant accomplishments.” Talk to her grandchildren and they will tell you she is the most important influence in their lives. They credit her with teaching them by her example to respect life, value education and give back to society. Hanus had just completed her high school education when her life took a grim turn. It was 1941 and Hitler’s storm troop- ers had marched into Batyu, Hungary. Sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Hanus came face to face with the horror of the Holocaust: her parents, grandparents and three broth- ers were all killed. After the war, Hanus and her youngest sister, Erica—the only other surviving member of the family—moved to Humene, Slovakia, where an aunt took care of them. She met her hus- band, John, another Auschwitz survivor, in late 1945, and they married after a three-month courtship. They moved to Prague and in 1951 found their way to Skokie to start life anew. Hanus’ oldest granddaughter, Edythe Hanus (BC’00,

SIPA’02) will receive her doctorate from the School of Public THE HANUS FAMILY COURTESY OF Health and will serve as class speaker; younger sister Rebecca Standing: Jonathan Hanus, Rebecca Hanus, Magda Hanus, Barbara Hanus (Mother) and George Hanus (Father) Sitting: Julie Hanus, Edy Hanus Kupietzky Hanus will get her Master of Science from the School of Social and Jacob Kupietzky holding their 2 year old children, Joshua and Kayla. Work. Julie Hanus, the youngest of the sisters, will be graduat- ing from Barnard. A fourth grandchild, Jonathan, is scheduled Edythe has made Columbia something of a second home, degree in social work. Edythe says her siblings’ accomplish- to receive his Master of Science in real estate development spending the last 12 years at the Morningside and medical ments belong to their grandmother as well. from the School of Architecture in October. Together with school campuses, studying urban affairs and public health. Rebecca thanks Edythe and Magda for inspiring her and Edythe’s husband, Jacob Kupietzky (CC’99, SIPA ’00), the fam- Her enthusiasm drew her siblings to Columbia—Rebecca did calls Magda the rock that holds the family together. “She makes ily will hold eight degrees from Columbia. not apply anywhere else when she decided to get a master’s people want to become better just by knowing her,” she said. Pomp and Circumstance on Low Plaza USPS 090-710 ISSN 0747-4504 Vol. 32, No. 13, May 14, 2007

Published by the Dear Alma’s Owl, awarded four honorary degrees in St. Office of Communications and Public Affairs I’ve been watching Low Plaza and South George’s Chapel on Beekman Place. There Lawn get set up for commencement, and I have even been years in which there was no marvel at the number of seats. Has the cere- commencement at all. mony always been held there? The class of 1759 had only one graduate; TheRecord Staff: — Curious About Commencement he didn’t get a ceremony. Since classes were Interim Editor: Bridget O’Brian suspended during the Revolutionary War, Graphic Designer: Scott Hug Dear Graduation Groupie, there were no commencements from 1775 ASK ALMA’S OWL Staff Writer: Dan Rivero University Photographer: Eileen Barroso I love commencement; after all, I have to 1785. And the War of 1812 was the reason one of the best views—at least when the cer- for the lack of ceremony that year. Disease and Carnegie Music Hall found themselves Contact The Record: emony is held on South Lawn. The gor- took its toll too—the cholera epidemic in t: 212-854-3282 geously landscaped Morningside campus 1832 required another cancellation. host to Columbia’s graduation exercises, f: 212-678-4817 including Class Day. e: [email protected] Some people confuse Class Day and com- The Record is published twice a month during mencement. It’s an understandable mistake. the academic year, except for holiday and Once the College became the University, vacation periods. Permission is given to use there was a need for each school to recog- Record material in other media. nize its own students, so Class Day was cre- ated. Tradition dictates that on Class Day, David M. Stone each graduating senior walk across the stage Executive Vice President to receive an empty envelope. Each of the 16 for Communications schools calls the names of its degree candi- dates on Class Day, but diplomas are only Correspondence/Subscriptions handed out after commencement. This year Anyone may subscribe to The Record for $27 per year. The amount is payable in advance to marks the first time that the School of Columbia University, at the address below. General Studies will hold its Class Day on Allow 6 to 8 weeks for address changes. South Lawn along with Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Postmaster/Address Changes Engineering and Applied Sciences. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send Here on the Morningside campus, com- address changes to The Record, 535 W. mencement was originally held in the gym- 116th St., 402 Low Library, Mail Code 4321, New York, NY 10027. nasium. In the past few decades, however, that location has proven too small. This year’s 11,706 degree candidates, along with Dr. Butler’s Last Commencement, by Professor Frank Calcott, professor of Spanish, June 5, 1945. an estimated 28,000 guests, will take part in commencement festivities on Low Plaza and lays out a welcome mat of spring blooms to There have been several changes in venue the South Lawn come rain or shine, under dazzle thousands of attendees—I counted over Columbia’s history. Before the campus my watchful gaze. 40,000 of them last year. However, com- moved to 49th Street, commencement was Columbians sometimes ask Alma Mater for guid- TheRecord welcomes your input for news mencement hasn’t always been such a big usually held in chapels or on one of the items, calendar entries and staff profiles. ance, but to whom does she turn when she needs production. properties of Trinity Church. But the 49th information? Minerva’s familiar is the wise owl, You can submit your suggestions to: In its first commencement ceremony on Street campus was also without facilities [email protected] hidden within the folds of her gown. Send your ques- June 21, 1758, King’s College granted just appropriate for commencement, so venues tions for the owl to [email protected]. seven students bachelor’s degrees and such as the old Metropolitan Opera House Authors of letters we publish receive a Record mug. TheRecord MAY 14, 2007 3

2006–2007 The Year at COLUMBIA wo Nobel prizes. Life-saving scientific discoveries. Athletic records set, artistic breakthroughs, scholarly advances, groundbreaking research and munifi- Tcent donations. In short, it was a year like any other at Columbia, yet utterly unique. Here is a summary of some of the most notable events at the University in its 2006–2007 academic year.

TWO NOBELS Two members of Columbia’s faculty received Nobel Prizes in Stockholm last year, bringing to 75 the number of Columbia alumni and fac- ulty who have won the world’s most prestigious award. Professor Edmund Phelps, McVickar Professor of Political Economy and director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at the Earth Institute, won in economics. Phelps first joined Columbia in 1971 and is best known for his research exploring the relationship between inflation and unemployment. Phelps challenged what had long been the conven- GIFT OF A tional wisdom in economics—that inflation CITIZEN would always follow a dip in unemployment— LIFETIME and argued for a more complex view. Phelps ARTIST “recognized that inflation does not only John W. Kluge knows the value of financial depend on unemployment, but also on the Columbia’s 21st century undergrads were aid. In 1933, he got it from Columbia—with- expectations of firms and employees about toddlers when the Wall fell in 1989, out it, he says, he never would have gone to price and wage increases,” the Swedish ushering in the end of the Cold War. But after college. In April, the man whom the Forbes Academy stated in announcing the award. spending seven weeks on campus with for- 400 listed last year as the 25th wealthiest “[Phelps] has deepened our understanding of mer Czech president and renowned play- American wanted to return the favor. Kluge the relation between short-run and long-run wright Václav Havel, they won’t wonder who (CC’37) pledged $400 million to Columbia, effects of economic policy.”The academy went he is again. Born in Prague in 1936, Havel with all funds designated for financial aid to on to say that he has had a decisive “impact began his career as a writer and dramatist, undergraduate and graduate students. It was on economic research as well as policy.” emerging as a leading voice of opposition to the largest gift ever devoted exclusively to Orhan Pamuk, the acclaimed Turkish novelist, the communist regime. He helped master- student aid, and the fourth largest to any sin- won the Nobel Prize in literature. The mind the bloodless overthrow of the govern- gle institution of higher education, according native was a fellow with Columbia’s Committee ment known as the Velvet Revolution, serving to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Kluge’s on Global Thought and currently holds a joint as the last president of Czechoslovakia and gift brings the University one step closer to faculty appointment in the writing division of the first of the Czech Republic. As another, meeting its fundraising goal. The University the School of the Arts and the Department of more familiar former president, Bill Clinton, has raised over $2.25 billion so far toward an Middle East and Asian Languages and said when he shared the stage with his long- overall goal of $4 billion for the Columbia Cultures. Pamuk, who has been publishing time friend last November, Havel’s legacy of Campaign, which launched publicly on Sept. since 1972, “has discovered new symbols for peaceful democratic regime change is 29, 2006. At the time of the announcement, the clash and interlacing of cultures,” the matched by only two others in recent memo- it was the largest fundraising campaign in Swedish Academy said. His novels include The ry: those of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson the history of higher education. (Stanford Black Book,The White Castle,My Name is Red Mandela. The theme of Havel’s residency, unveiled a $4.3 billion campaign 12 days and Snow, among others, and have been sponsored by the Columbia University Arts later.) The campaign seeks to add $1.6 bil- translated into more than 40 languages. Initiative, was citizenship and the arts. lion to Columbia’s endowment, with special Students read his play “The Garden Party” emphasis on financial aid and faculty sup- – Adam Piore and were treated to a reading by surprise port. Also sought is $1 billion for new and guest Dustin Hoffman. Havel delivered a lec- renovated facilities and $1.4 billion for aca- ture for students who read his seminal essay demic programs throughout the University. “The Power of the Powerless,” and a host of panels, concerts and screenings on campus – Dan Rivero and throughout the city honored his legacy as an artist-citizen.

PHOTOS BY EILEEN BARROSO – Anne Burt 4 MAY 14, 2007 s TheR 2006–2007

and better treatments in the future. GreeneChip, a new medical tool that will nonprofit arts organization. Over the Arts. Most of these shorts premiered at AIR FRESHENER Columbia’s Dr. Richard Mayeux, led the allow quick diagnosis of disease out- course of two years, the Columbia/ the 2006 Columbia University Film study along with researchers from the breaks in the developing world, empower- Harlem Jazz Project will hold a total of 14 Festival, the year-end showcase for grad- When Dr. Klaus Lackner decided to do University of Toronto and Boston ing aid workers to stop epidemics in their jazz events and post-performance talks uating M.F.A. students.The 2007 CU Film something about global warming, he was University. Examining DNA from tracks.The GreeneChip is a lab diagnostic at the Schomburg Center for Research in Festival wrapped on May 10—and this inspired by the one thing in nature that Alzheimer’s patients and a control group tool that tests for thousands of possible Black Culture, the Studio Museum in year’s films are stronger than ever. Can can suck carbon dioxide out of the in the Dominican Republic, Mayeux and disease agents simultaneously, instead of Harlem, Minton’s Playhouse and venues “Sundance: the Sequel” be far behind? atmosphere—a tree. Lackner, the Ewing his team discovered a new gene they one at a time or in small groups.The chip on campus, all thanks to a $300,000 – Anne Burt Worzel Professor of Geophysics at the dubbed “SORL1.” They then replicated consists of a glass slide with more than grant from the New York State Music Earth Institute and the School of their findings in groups of white 30,000 miniscule DNA and RNA samples Fund. “I think it’s important to remind Engineering and Applied Sciences, Americans, African Americans and Israeli of known viruses, bacteria, fungi and par- ourselves that we are ’Columbia CAFE SCIENCE worked on the prototype for what he calls Arabs, testing about 6,000 subjects over- asites aligned in neat rows on its surface. University in the City of New York’—in the a synthetic tree with Arizona-based all in the study. Researchers believe that When a technician applies tissue, blood, village of Harlem,” said Robert O’Meally, Chemistry and mixology are similar con- Global Research Technologies, LLC. The Alzheimer’s is caused by the buildup of a urine or stool to the slide, probes from director of the Center of Jazz Studies and cepts that rarely go together, but that’s prototype was unveiled this year. The toxic substance in the brain called amy- any closely related genetic material stick the Zora Neale Hurston professor of what is happening at Café Science, a new device, which looks something like a loid beta peptides, which are produced to the sample—allowing a fast and accu- English and comparative literature.“I like quasi-academic program started last year football goal post, soaks up CO2 mole- when enzymes cut up a protein called APP. rate diagnosis of any number of diseases to add that part because once a group of whose popularity has taken off by bring- cules from the air and funnels them into SORL1 helps to shield APP from the with a single test. The GreeneChip is us decided to form a center for jazz stud- ing together Columbia professors and the underground chambers. High levels of attacking enzymes by transporting them expected to have a major impact on pub- ies, it was very important that we not wall general public in a casual, salon-like the greenhouse gas have been linked to into “safe” compartments within a cell. lic health efforts around the globe. ourselves in as an ivory tower entity, but atmosphere where they can discuss sci- global warming. Some CO2 scrubbing Mayeux’s team found that Alzheimer’s Researchers cited a 2004 Marburg out- that we take advantage of this rich histo- entific topics. For $10 a head, attendees technology already exists—bulky filtering patients more often had a genetic varia- break in Angola that caused 252 cases of ry that we share with our neighbors.” get one drink and the chance to hear devices capture and store the CO emit- 2 tion causing them to produce less SORL1 hemorrhagic fever, 90 percent of them – Dan Rivero world-class, acknowledged experts in ted at power plants, for instance. But than normal. That left more APP unpro- fatal. A GreeneChip later identified traces their field. Subjects have included such devices are too large to use on tected against the destructive enzymes of malaria in the blood of one healthcare “Intelligent Life in the Universe,” by motor vehicles, which cause one fifth of and led to a build-up of more amyloid worker who died, suggesting he could LIGHTS, CAMERA astronomer David Helfand; “How Your global CO2 emissions. Lackner’s devices beta peptides, and an increased risk of have been saved had a correct diagnosis Brain Works…Or Not,” by biologist Darcy could be set up in a field anywhere in the Alzheimer’s. “Identifying genes that raise been available earlier. The parka-clad audiences at January’s B.Kelly; and,on June 11th,“Singing in the world—somewhat like a windmill farm— the risk of Alzheimer’s helps us diversify – Adam Piore Sundance Film Festival were treated to Brain: What Songbirds Teach Us About the capture CO2 regardless of its point of ori- our portfolio for ways to treat the disease,” no fewer than 20 films made by Brain and Communication,” with behav- gin. One “tree” could vacuum up the Mayeux explained this year.“We can’t pre- Columbia students and alumni. In April, a ioral neuroscientist Sarah Woolley. annual emissions equivalent of 15,000 dict if this one will lead to a treatment,but ALL THAT JAZZ record 10 Columbia-affiliated films – Bridget O’Brian cars. Lackner estimates that it would it is best to identify as many pathogenic screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.Add cost about $10 million to produce one of pathways as possible to generate as many The first official jazz collaboration these impressive numbers to seven gold the devices commercially. ideas for treatment as possible.” between Columbia and Harlem kicked off medals in the Student Academy Awards GOING GREEN – Adam Piore – Adam Piore in January with a concert by renowned in the past 10 years, and it’s clear that singer Paula West and her quartet at the movie industry is waking up to what Columbia’s buildings, grounds, activi- Columbia’s Miller Theater.The Columbia/ the School of the Arts film division does ties—and, most vitally, its people—are ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE FIGHTER Harlem Jazz Project, which has since held best: nurture thoughtful, original, power- vivid testimony to the University’s many concerts by latin band leader Eddie ful filmmakers poised to make their mark new efforts on behalf of the Earth. Last Early this year, a team of CUMC scientists In December, researchers from the Palmieri and blues artist Olu Dara, is a in both Hollywood and independent cin- fall, the Department of Environmental helped discover the first new gene linked Mailman School’s Jerome L. and Dawn two-year collaboration between the ema. This year at Sundance, four top Stewardship was created as the local to Alzheimer’s Disease in more than 14 Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory and University’s Center for Jazz Studies, New prizes went to Columbia filmmakers and focal point for sustainability efforts. Two years, a finding that could eventually lead their colleagues in the WHO Global Heritage Theatre Group in Harlem, and 10 percent of all short films in the com- new buildings are Columbia’s first to be to improved methods for early diagnosis Laboratory Network unveiled the Community Works, a Manhattan-based petition came from the School of the registered for a Leadership in Energy and Record MAY 14, 2007 5 HIGHLIGHTS

Environmental Design (LEED) rating, also took second in the 100-meter hur- Human Rights Documentation and without ever holding an elected office of homeless people counted by DHS vol- meeting the country’s highest environ- dles, finishing in 14.12 seconds for a Research, an international center that (although he held as many as 12 appoint- unteers, adjusted by the proportion of the mental construction standards. Meters school record. A few days earlier at the preserves materials from the global ed offices simultaneously). Ballon’s decoys who were missed by the counters. throughout the University now will meas- storied Penn Relays, the Lions won the human rights movement. It is the official detailed re-examination of Moses’ impact Still, all parties agree that the total num- ure energy use, leading to further reduc- 4x800-meter relay with Hurtault running repository for the newly acquired Amnesty on New York—along with a companion ber of unsheltered homeless in the city is tion of greenhouse gas emissions. the third leg. It was Columbia’s first vic- International USA archive of country and book of essays, Robert Moses and the likely much larger. Students, staff, faculty and administra- tory in a Championship of America heat mission reports, case files and oral histo- Modern City: The Transformation of New – Melanie A. Farmer tors continue to produce a stream of cre- at the Penn Relays since 1938, and the ries, among other materials. Magier, the York (co-edited by Ballon and Kenneth ative, everyday sustainability efforts, such first triumph for an Ivy League school librarian for the South & Southeast Asian Jackson, Columbia’s Jacques Barzun as serving locally roasted, organic, fair since 1974. In other highlights, Matt Studies concentration, also serves as the Professor of History and the Social CLEAN WATER trade coffee. And for the undergraduate Palmer (CC’07) became the first wrestler director of area studies at the University Sciences)—continues to make national EcoReps organization, it means collect- in more than 100 years of Columbian Libraries. The next big project will be the headlines months after the exhibitions Columbia Law School scored a big win in ing what would otherwise be thrown away wrestling to earn All-American a second library in the Northwest Science Building, opened. Her work undoubtedly will influ- January when a federal appeals court, at semester’s end and donating it to time from the National Collegiate Athletic which broke ground in May, and which ence urban planning scholars and New ruling in favor of environmentalists, local charities through their Give + Go Association. In fencing, Daria Schneider will house the University’s first interdisci- York City historians for years to come. declared that the Environmental Green project. (CC’09) won an NCAA title in women’s plinary library devoted solely to science, – Anne Burt Protection Agency (EPA) must change the – Barbara King Lord sabre; in women’s soccer, Shannon containing material from the astronomy, way it interprets the Clean Water Act. The Munoz (CC ’07) was named Ivy League chemistry, physics and biology depart- three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Player of the Year. Darren Schmidt ments. Columbia currently ranks as the SHADOW COUNT Court of Appeals also found that the EPA WINNERS (CC’07) won an Athletics Directors sixth-largest academic library in North violated the law by placing the profits of Association Scholarship in Division I-AA America, having added an average of has been battling chronic power companies ahead of the protec- Champions are wearing light blue again. football. The NCAA awarded a postgradu- 150,000 volumes each year. homelessness for decades. But how many tion of the nation’s fisheries. The lawsuit By the end of the academic year, ate scholarship to Greg Cass (CC’07) of – Dan Rivero homeless people live in the city? That was was filed by Columbia Law School’s Columbia had established a record for the men’s soccer team. the focus of a study this year by Professor Environmental Law Clinic, acting pro Ivy League team championships in a sin- – Dan Rivero Julien Teitler of the School of Social Work. bono on behalf of a coalition of more gle year, taking home five titles—women’s ROBERT MOSES On the night of January 29,more than 200 than a dozen environmental organiza- soccer, women’s golf, men’s tennis, volunteers—including Columbia stu- tions, including Riverkeeper, the Natural women’s fencing and men’s fencing. The LIBRARIES It’s an academic’s dream to see years of dents—fanned out across the city as decoy Resources Defense Council and the women’s soccer and women’s golf teams research and scholarship reach the homeless people in a project aimed at Conservation Law Foundation. Ten law won their first titles, and men’s tennis Columbia’s libraries are bursting at the widest possible audience, even change improving the accuracy of the city’s home- students worked with clinic director won its first Ivy League title since 2001. seams. Recent acquisitions include the the course of public discourse. That hap- less count. Dubbed Operation Shadow Edward Lloyd and Reed Super, the clinic’s Success began in the fall when, under digital archives of the now defunct left- pened for art history professor and direc- Count, the study helped to statistically senior staff attorney, on the case. Super, the leadership of first-year head coach wing progressive magazine The New tor of art humanities Hilary Ballon this adjust the figures of the unsheltered who is also a lecturer at the Law School, Norries Wilson, the football team posted Leader; materials chronicling the history spring. Three related exhibitions she homeless for the 2007 Homeless argued the case last June. The plaintiffs its best season since 1996 with a 5-5 of Japanese and East Asian film from curated on the legacy of long-time New Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) sur- claimed that the EPA was allowing the record. Men’s basketball followed in the documentary filmmaker Mamoru York City builder Robert Moses sparked vey, an annual count done in conjunction killing of trillions of fish per year because winter with its best record since Makino; and the archive of Robert headlines and were recognized as major with the city’s Department of Homeless power plants were improperly using river, 1992–93 at 16-12. Several individuals College of Istanbul, the oldest American contributions to the understanding of Services (DHS). The survey isn’t just aca- lake and coastal water to cool power also had banner years. Runner Erison school outside the United States. This New York City’s recent past; they also demic; an accurate count means that pro- plant machinery. The court found that Hurtault became the first-ever Ivy League year also saw the creation of the Center stirred passionate debate about its grams and initiatives for the homeless can regulations issued by the EPA in 2004 male student-athlete to win the champi- for Digital Research and Scholarship, future. Ballon picked a rich topic. From be focused better on those who need improperly rejected a technology called onship at the Ivy League Heptagonals which uses new media and digital tech- 1924 to 1968, Moses oversaw the con- them. An estimated 4,039 visible unshel- “closed cycle cooling,” which would have eight times in a career. On the women’s nology for research and other scholarly struction of bridges, tunnels, highways, tered homeless people were tallied that minimized the danger to fish. side, Osamuede Iyoha won the 400- purposes. In April, librarian David Magier parks, housing, beaches and more night, Teitler said, almost identical to a – Melanie A. Farmer meter hurdles in 1.71 minutes. Iyoha was appointed director of the Center for throughout New York City and state—all year ago.The total is based on the number 6 MAY 14, 2007 TheRecord 2007 HONORARY DEGREES

AHARON BARAK SANTIAGO CALATRAVA BENJAMIN S. CARSON SUSAN LINDQUIST BARBARA NOVAK DOCTOR OF LAWS DOCTOR OF LETTERS DOCTOR OF SCIENCE DOCTOR OF SCIENCE DOCTOR OF LETTERS

Aharon Barak is the former president of Santiago Calatrava is an architect, artist, Benjamin Carson is director of pediatric Susan Lindquist, a microbiologist, is a Barbara Novak is the Helen Goodhart the Supreme Court of Israel and a legal and engineer best known for his bridges neurosurgery—a position he has held member and former director of the Altschul Emerita Professor of Art History scholar. He has written extensively on and transportation projects. His recent since 1984, when he was 33 years old— Whitehead Institute, a professor of biolo- at Barnard College, where she served on judicial philosophy and the role of a work includes the Athens Olympic Sports and a professor of neurosurgery, oncolo- gy at Massachusetts Institute of the faculty for more than forty years, judge, which also is the topic of his 2006 Complex and the City of Arts and gy, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Technology, and an investigator with the twelve of them as chair of the book, The Judge in a Democracy. Barak’s Sciences in Valencia, Spain. He currently Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He is Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her Department of Art History. She is an legal career, shaped by his survival of the is designing the World Trade Center also the president and co-founder of the research includes evolution, neurological expert and leading figure in the field of Holocaust, has been marked by a quest Transportation Hub in New York. His hon- Carson Scholars Fund, which provides diseases, cancer, and nanotechnology. American art history, and has authored to safeguard human dignity. His awards ors include the 2005 Gold Medal of the scholarships to young people of all back- She is listed in Discover magazine’s three books: American Paintings of the include the International Justice of the American Institute of Architects; the Gold grounds for exceptional academic and 2002 list of the top 50 women scientists Nineteenth Century, National Culture, World prize, granted by the International Medal of the Institute of Structural humanitarian accomplishments. He has and the Scientific American SA50 list of and Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels Association of Judges, and numerous Engineers, ; and the Gold Medal been selected by the Library of Congress top leaders in business, policy, and and Patterns in American Art and honorary degrees. for Merit in the Fine Arts, Ministry of as one of 89 Living Legends. research for 2006. Literature, as well as scores of articles Culture, Spain. and publications, a novel and a theater piece. In 1998, the College Art Association recognized her with its award for distinguished teaching in art history. PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING TEACHING

JOYCE K. ANASTASI is a professor of clinical nursing. She has been on the faculty of the School of Nursing since 1992, pioneering two subspecialty pro- FELIX G. ROHATYN JONATHAN SPENCE STEPHEN JOEL SUZANNE MALVEAUX grams in HIV/AIDS and Integrative DOCTOR OF LAWS DOCTOR OF LAWS TRACHTENBERG MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE Therapies in Primary Care. In addition, DOCTOR OF LAWS she conducts research on the symptom Felix Rohatyn, a businessman and invest- Jonathan Spence is the Sterling Professor An Emmy award-winning journalist, management of HIV/AIDS and chronic ment banker, served as the U.S. of History at Yale University and one of Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has been pres- Suzanne Malveaux is the White House illnesses. Ambassador to France from 1997 to the foremost scholars of Chinese civiliza- ident of George Washington University for correspondent for CNN. She has covered 2000. He is currently a senior advisor at tion from the sixteenth century to the 19 years. Prior to that, he served as the and interviewed President George W. PATRICIA J. CULLIGAN is a professor of Lehman Brothers, where he is also the present. His books, including The Search president of the University of Hartford, Bush, former Presidents George H.W. civil engineering and engineering chair of the firm’s International Advisory for Modern China, have become leading and dean of arts and sciences and vice Bush and Bill Clinton, and First Lady mechanics. Her principal fields of inter- Council. From 1975 to 1993, he was texts in the field. Spence was president of president of Boston University. He is the Laura Bush. She was named one of est include geo-environmental engineer- chair of the Municipal Assistance Corp. of the American Historical Association from author of four books and numerous arti- America’s Most Powerful Players Under ing, geotechnical centrifuge modeling, the State of New York, where he managed 2004 to 2005, and has received numer- cles on higher education. In 1997, he 40 by Black Enterprise magazine, one of and porous media flow and transport. the negotiations that enabled New York ous fellowships and awards, including received the U.S. State Department’s Ebony’s Outstanding Women in Marketing City to resolve its fiscal crisis in the late being named a Companion of the Distinguished Public Service Award. and Communications, and the National DONALD C. HOOD is the James F. Bender 1970s. In 1990, he received the Hundred Distinguished Order of St. Michael and Trachtenberg is a 1959 graduate of Black MBA 2004 Communicator of the Professor in Psychology and professor of Year Association of New York’s Gold St. George in 2001, an honor given by the Columbia College. Year. She earned a master’s degree in ophthalmic science. His primary Medal Award in “recognition of outstand- Queen of England for outstanding 1991 from Columbia University Graduate research focuses on physiological and ing contributions to the City of New York.” achievement. School of Journalism. psychophysical studies of human visual perception.

LIZA KNAPP is an associate professor of Slavic languages and the director of graduate studies for Slavic languages. Her primary research focuses on 19th- century Russian literature and the novel CARBON-NEUTRAL CREDITS FOR 2007 COMMENCEMENT in Russia and the West. SUSAN P. STURM is the George M. Jaffin By Barbara King Lord helped support projects that minimize green- Professor of Law and Social house gases for the future,” Mesa said. Responsibility. She has been a member strand of green will wind its way The credits will be purchased from of the Columbia faculty since 2000, and through the sea of Columbia’s blue grad- Carbonfund.org, a non-profit organization whose her primary teaching and scholarly inter- uation regalia. For the first time, the focus is on reducing carbon emissions. Through ests include employment discrimination, University will have a “carbon-neutral” Carbonfund.org, the emissions credits will be new forms of public problem solving, ACommencement Day, by purchasing credits that applied to domestic and international projects conflict resolution, race and gender, will offset the carbon footprint generated by the for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Solar elec- ceremony and its related events. trification in East Africa, wind energy farms in the public law remedies,and civil procedure. This means that Columbia will offset the esti- United States and post-tsunami mangrove mated 4,649 metric tons of CO2 produced by the restoration in are on the list. air, auto and local travel to and from commence- The reduction of the commencement cele- 2007 GSAS ment, as well as the energy used throughout the bration’s carbon footprint is yet another step in TEACHING AWARDS festivities, by funding projects that save the equiv- Columbia’s increasingly significant commit- The Graduate School of Arts and alent amount of greenhouse gases from going ments to sustainability, both on campus and Sciences recognized Corbett D. Bazler, into the atmosphere. worldwide. These include new building projects Department of Music; Denise Milstein, The numbers were derived from data the com- Columbia’s director of environmental steward- that follow the USGBC’s green building Department of Sociology; and Christian mencement team provided on the number of ship, to make the calculations. “The graduates can standards, a “green” residence hall, more refined Murphy, Department of Computer graduates, estimated guests, and states and coun- be proud of their hard work and accomplish- metering to measure energy usage, and the Science for their achievements in stu- tries of origin. The team worked with Nilda Mesa, ments, while knowing that their celebrations student EcoRep program. dent teaching. TheRecord MAY 14, 2007 7 2007 ALUMNI MEDALISTS

ALEXANDRA E. MICHAEL H. A’LELIA P. BUNDLES STEVEN B. PETER JOHN FARRELLY BARANETSKY, D.D.S. BARNETT, ESQ. 1976 M.S.Graduate School of Journalism EPSTEIN, ESQ. 1986 M.F.A. School of the Arts 1975 B.S.Fu Foundation School of Engineering 1970 M.S.Mailman School of Public Health 1968 J.D.Law School and Applied Science 1972 J.D.Law School A’Lelia Bundles, former director of talent A filmmaker and author, Peter Farrelly is 1980 D.D.S.College of Dental Medicine development for ABC News in Washington Steven B. Epstein is recognized as the one of Columbia’s most effective sup- A founding partner in a midtown law and New York, received an Emmy and a leading pioneer in health care law. He is porters and volunteers. In addition to A general dentist in Union, New Jersey, firm, Michael Barnett is president of the du Pont Gold Baton during her 30-year the founding partner in the law firm of traveling from the west coast to volun- Alexandra Baranetsky served as vice Mailman School’s Alumni Executive career as a producer and executive with Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C., a national teer and teach master classes at the president of her freshman class at the Board. Mr. Barnett was an early and ABC News and NBC News. She recently law firm with 400 attorneys and offices School of the Arts, Mr. Farrelly endowed College of Dental Medicine. An active effective advocate for incorporating co-chaired and facilitated the Graduate in 11 cities. Mr. Epstein serves as chair- student fellowships in the writing and and engaged Engineering School under- College of Pharmacy alumni into the School of Journalism Alumni Association man of the Columbia Law School Board film divisions and uses relationships to graduate, she currently serves on the Public Health Alumni Association. He is Task Force strategic planning meetings to of Visitors. He has encouraged board raise additional funds for the School. He alumni representative committee, is vice the current representative to the help the association examine its mission members and alumni to actively partici- currently serves on the School of the Arts president for student relations for the University’s Alumni Trustee Nominating and engender broader representation of pate and donate to the Law School to Dean’s Council, the highest level of par- Columbia Engineering School Alumni Committee and is active in the Columbia its alumni. She currently chairs a GSJ help maintain its status as the leading ticipation for arts alumni. Association and is an officer of the Board Alumni Association. He has lectured at transition group convened to implement law program in the country. Mr. Epstein of Directors of the Society of Columbia the Mailman School and volunteered his the strategic plan. will teach a course in health law at the Graduates. She has reinvigorated the time to provide mentoring, career guid- Law School next fall. faculty-student luncheons and dinners, ance and opportunities to both students increasing overall alumni participation. and faculty.

MARJORIE HARRISON EDWARD D. HEFFNER RALPH O. HELLMOLD PATRICIA HARRIGAN ROBERT R. SIROTY, M.D. FLEMING 1968 B.S.Fu Foundation School of Engineering 1963 International Fellow,School of NADOSY 1956 B.A.Columbia College 1969 B.S.School of Nursing and Applied Science International and Public Affairs 1968 B.A.Barnard College 1964 M.I.A.School of International and 1970 M.B.A.Columbia Business School As managing editor of the Columbia Daily Better known as Midge, Marjorie Fleming Executive vice president of Empire City Public Affairs Spectator, Robert Siroty worked hard to is a member of the School of Nursing’s Iron Works in Long Island City, Queens, Patricia Harrigan Nadosy was a foreign help end racial discrimination in the Off- Board of Visitors and a founding member Edward Heffner serves on the Dean’s Currently the chairman of Hellmold & Co., exchange options trader, banker and Campus Housing Registry. After graduat- and the first president of the Columbia Council of the School of Engineering and LLC, a financial advisory firm, Ralph money management consultant at JP ing, he attended the State University of University and Presbyterian Hospital Applied Science as well as the Board of Hellmold has been a member of SIPA’s Morgan for 15 years before starting her New York College of Medicine at Syracuse School of Nursing Alumni (CAPSONA, now Managers of the SEAS Alumni Associa- alumni community for more than 40 own consulting firm, Optfor, Inc. A French and served in the U.S. Public Health known as The Alumni Association). She tion. In addition to advising Dean Zvi years. A dedicated advocate of the major at Barnard, she went on to obtain Service. A clinical assistant professor of currently chairs the School’s capital cam- Galil, he has helped direct the associa- School and the University, he has served an M.B.A. from Columbia and years later medicine at the University of Medicine paign. In addition to hosting many alum- tion’s many social and academic activi- on SIPA’s Advisory Board since 1990, sig- earned a Ph.D. in botany from the City and Dentistry of New Jersey and author of ni events in her home and on the road, ties for students and alumni. Since grad- nificantly strengthening development University of New York. Ms. Nadosy is a several medical papers, he practiced Ms. Fleming has been a leader in restruc- uating, Mr. Heffner has helped promote and fundraising programs. Mr. Hellmold trustee at Barnard College and spear- internal medicine and hematology in turing and developing the current School the growth of the School through both his has mentored students and assisted headed the creation of its Financial Dover, New Jersey. into a world-class organization. volunteer activities and his philanthropy. them with career development and Fluency Program for alumnae. In addition His most recent gift established the placement. He has served as both co- to the Executive Committee, she serves on Heffner Biomedical Imaging Laboratory. chair of the development committee and committees devoted to investments; stu- as chair of SIPA’s Annual Fund. dent life; budget and finance; and build- ings, grounds and environment.

Once a Columbian, Always a Columbian By Candace Taylor of Alumni Affairs and Development. a European launch this fall in Paris. From September 28 to “The school has been your whole life,” Catandella said. September 30, CAA Paris 2007 will feature events at Reid hall; on’t think of commencement as leaving Columbia. “Suddenly, you’re in a workplace, it’s a huge adjustment. receptions for individual schools; a Café Science, and a forum on Consider it your entry into a worldwide network of Anything we can do to help facilitate that, and keep people in globalization, arts, and media, with speakers including President 270,000 alumni, many of them eager to help you touch with each other, is important to us.” Lee C. Bollinger, Nobel laureates Orhan Pamuk and Joseph find a job, an apartment or just a good party. For the past five years, Columbia College Young Alumni (CCYA) Stiglitz, Journalism Dean Nicholas Lemann, Earth Institute D“When you graduate, you’re still a part of this community,” has thrown a dinner for seniors on the Morningside campus. On Director Jeffrey Sachs, and other Columbia faculty. said Eric J. Furda, vice president for alumni relations. “You’re June 1, the organization will hold a casino dance party at the Nokia Alumni also lead regional clubs in cities worldwide. In recent just in a different phase.” Theater in Times Square. Last year, 1,400 young alumni showed up; years, the University has focused on starting new Columbia Alumni enjoy lifelong privileges at Columbia’s 25 libraries. this year, the group is hoping for 2,000, Catandella said. clubs overseas, said Karen Sendler, senior associate director for They and their families can use the University’s New York fit- CCYA also holds happy hours, networking nights and other University alumni relations. There are now 38 alumni clubs in ness centers and tennis courts for a low membership fee or events in cities across the country to help recent graduates the United States and 36 abroad, with the newest clubs popping purchase discounted computers through the alumni Web site. stay in touch, he said. up in Cyprus, Russia, Switzerland and the Netherlands. They’re invited to audit classes on campus; choose from 150 Alumni activities aren’t just confined to the United States. After Columbia clubs in foreign countries have helped alumni e-seminars taught by Columbia faculty; and go on vacation commencement, graduates will find themselves part of a net- abroad, Sendler said. For example, a professor currently work- with University faculty through alumni travel study programs. work of Columbia alumni in 183 countries, linked through an ing in Paris contacted the Columbia club there when he need- At Columbia College, undergraduates meet alumni even online directory on the University’s Web site, Furda said. Besides ed a babysitter, she said. before graduation through a series of workshops on topics career networking, alumni also can stay connected to the intel- “Whether somebody’s looking for a job or an apartment or such as career networking and apartment hunting, said Ken lectual life of the University. The Columbia Alumni Association any number of things, it’s a group of people who are there to Catandella, executive director of the Columbia College Office (CAA), which serves to connect all University alumni, is planning support you,” Sendler said. TheRecord SCRAPBOOK MAY 14, 2007 8

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1. U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel talks trade policy at SIPA. 2. Former NYC Mayor and Columbia Professor David Dinkins congratulates Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, on his keynote address at the Columbia Business School’s Enterprise Program Annual Reception. 3. H.E. Ong Keng Yong, secretary-general of the Association of Southeast 16 Asian Nations, speaks at a World Leaders Forum. 4. Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivers the 5 keynote address at a conference on global cities. 5. Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and professor at Columbia, discusses security issues with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of foreign affairs and minister of economy in Nigeria, and Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi, minister of economy, United Arab Emirates. 6. Rapper Ice-T discusses the evolution of hip-hop music and the promotion of education at Teachers College. 7. Akeel Bilgrami, professor of philosophy, delivers the fall 2006 University lecture. 8. Syeda Sughra Imam, member of par- liament in Pakistan, argues that creating jobs is key to state security. 9. Writer Garrison Keillor presents awards to recipients of the Lukas Prize for exceptional works of non-fiction. 10. President Lee C. Bollinger, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Václav Havel on Columbia’s campus. 11. Ludacris and actress Emmy Rossum at SIPA to launch the “Kick Me” campaign to prevent HIV/AIDS.12. Jagdish Bhagwati,University professor,speaks with Yegor Gaidar, former prime minister of Russia. 13. Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, joins a discussion on “making globalization work.”14. The creative team 15 behind The First Emperor, with Columbia professors James Schamus and Lydia Liu, gather 6 after a World Leaders Forum on the opera. 15. Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first MICHAEL DAMES indigenous leader in Latin America in over 500 years, speaks at Columbia. 16. George Soros, founder and chair of the Open Society Institute, addresses globalization issues. 17. Hank Paulson gives his first policy address after becoming U.S. Treasury Secretary at Columbia Business School. 18. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, newly appointed University Professor, delivers the spring 2007 University lecture. 19. John Kluge (CC’37) meets two Kluge schol- ars, Denise De Las Nueces (CC’03) and Ronald Townes (CC’08) after pledging $400 million for financial aid. 20. Barbara Walters with Joan Marks at the 80th birthday party honoring Joan’s husband and former Columbia professor Paul Marks. 21. Prime Minister Ivo Sanader 14 of Croatia addresses his country’s integration into the Europe-Atlantic alliance. 7 8

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Most Senior Graduate Shake, Rattle and Toss continued from page 1 continued from page 1 defended it; two professors on the panel accepted it, a The School of General Studies prides itself on doing third wanted revisions. “I remember him vividly,” something different every year. This year, GS students Horlick said. “He didn’t like the style.” Jeff Horlick, 62, plan to wave black-and-white checkered racing flags. remembers his father banging away on a black “We’re crossing the finish line,” explained senior class portable Royal typewriter, wrestling with different president Jason Dixon. Last year, the small plastic drafts. “As a nine-year-old, I was sensing that things whistles they brought failed to blow at the right time. were going in a frustrating way,” he said. “We decided to go with something that can’t malfunc- Then Horlick’s wife contracted tuberculosis and was tion,” he said. sent to a sanitarium for two years. (She made a full recov- For the second year in a row, graduates of the ery and still works as a fine arts photographer.) With all School of Continuing Education will let fly black fabric his responsibilities, Horlick said, “I just couldn’t do it.” discs with the school’s logo, said Dean of Student Horlick went on to work for the government—his Affairs Tom Harford. “This is something that people children say it was the CIA—eventually ending up at the can take home with them and use in the parks,” he Social Security Administration. Even after retirement, he said, adding that the discs also function as “an ‘under- continued working in the pension industry. The disser- handed’ advertising campaign” for the University’s tation stayed in a lockbox until the University asked to newest school, chartered in 2002. see it. “I didn’t even know we still had it,” Horlick said. School of the Arts students will carry plastic noise- Horlick had to fill out paperwork to get the Ph.D., makers topped with gold stars, according to adminis- which included the question: “What are your job plans trative assistant Toni Scott. “We’re very small,” Scott for next year?” Even though he is in his ninth decade, said. “We try to make our presence known.” Students Horlick has a long list. at the School of Social Work are blowing bubbles. The He still consults for his former employer, has fin- School of Engineering and Applied Science grads are ished a book about the history of the pension system waving clappers. and is writing a novel about football. He plays golf, Seniors at Barnard College debated a number of belongs to a monthly book group, teaches Spanish and WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? throwing options. Gummy bears were too sticky, and is taking a course in mysticism, myth and the work of while a few students at the women-only school sug- Joseph Campbell. HINT: This and others like it makes a seasonal appearance as part of the campus gested bras and panties, “we’re going with a classier Call back soon if there were any other questions, he landscape each spring, but it doesn’t grow out of the earth. Send answers to option,” said class president Puja Kapadia. She won’t, said in a recent phone call from his home in Silver [email protected]. First correct answer receives a RECORD mug. however, say what it will be. “There’s supposed to be Spring, MD; he was about to leave for a tai chi class. ANSWER TO LAST CHALLENGE: Tightrope Walker by Kees Verkade, a statue on Revson Plaza. an element of surprise.”