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Lightning Summer 04 L EHMAN ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○ L I G H T N I N G ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Summer/Fall 2004 Lehman Honors Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi inside… ‘It is only through awareness, knowledge and education that M one can start to change deep-rooted and wrongful STUDENTS BRING HOME TOP PRIZES traditions….With every girl’s IN NATIONAL COMPETITION ............ 2 school that is established, we are ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER CELEBRATION SET TO BEGIN ON CAMPUS .............. 3 taking one step toward the ‘04 GRADUATES SHARE ACHIEVEMENT higher and better civilization.’ WITH THEIR FAMILIES ....................... 4 — Shirin Ebadi, NEW SPEECH CLINIC HELPS President Fernández leads the applause at Lehman Center Lehman College, May 2004 STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY .... 6 as Shirin Ebadi accepts the Lehman Leadership Award. MORE STUDENTS STUDY ABROAD orld Peace was the focus at Lehman AS LANGUAGE OFFERINGS GROW .... 7 this May with two back-to-back events. At a United Nations reception Double Lehman Degrees ‘LEHMAN HONORS’ AND U.N. W May 23, the College honored Iranian human RECEPTIONS ................................ 8-9 For the Bucaj Twins rights activist Shirin Ebadi, who was on her first AN AMAZING SEASON FOR LEHMAN trip to the United States since winning the 2003 ATHLETICS–AND MORE TO COME ... 10 Nobel Peace Prize. The next day, a campus symposium featured a keynote address by Mrs. TWO LIVES CRISSCROSS IN STRUGGLE Ebadi as well as noted speakers from the worlds of AND RECOGNITION ........................ 13 diplomacy and academia. During the symposium, ALUMNI NEWS ........................ 14-15 Lehman President Ricardo R. Fernández pre- sented Mrs. Ebadi with the Lehman Leadership ‘The Protectors’ Award for advancing “the march toward peace.” The College has also established the Shirin Ebadi Peace Scholarship in her honor. One of Iran’s first female judges, Mrs. Ebadi was president of the Tehran city court from 1975 Like many twins, Violeta (left) and Vera to 1979, but was forced to resign after the Iranian Bucaj have a lot in common, including revolution in 1979. She now works as a lawyer and interests, friends and, in their case, two teaches at the University of Tehran. Lehman degrees. The children of With Islam as her starting point, she cam- Albanian immigrants, both Violeta and paigns for peaceful solutions to social problems Vera received psychology degrees from This gargoyle rose to the occasion and argues for an interpretation of Islamic law Lehman in 1995, and this June they for Lehman art major Patricia that is in harmony with equality before the law, earned their master’s in literacy studies. Guardado. See page 2. religious freedom and freedom of speech. She has After teaching first grade for five years, defended victims in several controversial political both still work in local public schools, but cases. in different capacities—and different LEHMAN COLLEGE Both the reception and the symposium were schools. Each aspires to become a The City University of New York principal or assistant principal. See pages 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West cosponsored with the International Health Bronx, New York 10468 Awareness Network, which works to improve 4 and 5 for more on the dreams and www.lehman.edu women's healthcare in developing nations. accomplishments of the Class of 2004. See page 9 for more on the U.N. reception N • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •C •AMPUS • • • • N• •EWS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Warren Rosenberg ‘76: Lehman Students Bring Home Top Prizes Helping Us Understand In National Arts Club Competition Science and Technology nce again Lehman College art students have walked away with prizes from the O National Arts Club Annual Student Exhibition and Competition, which features works from students in the tri-state area. Patricia Guardado and Veronica E. Mason joined previous Lehman students who have impressed judges with their work. Patricia, who graduated with a B.A. in art this spring, was awarded the Wardine V. Frazier Award for “The Protectors,” a gargoyle sculpture. “I’ve always liked gargoyles Patricia Guardado with her sculpture, "The Protectors." because they depict a range of human emotion and that’s what I wanted to capture in this Dr. Warren Rosenberg ‘76, the piece,” she says. full of vigor—tall and majestic,” she explains. “She Provost and Vice President for Initially a psychology major, Patricia changed Academic Affairs at Iona College, carried her weight with pride, and it is her returned to his alma mater this gears after just one art class. She served as solidity, stature, and size that is reflected in my year to speak about science and president of the Art Club at Lehman and intends work.” technological literacy, a program he to pursue a master’s degree in education. Originally from Curaçao, Veronica grew up in helped to implement at Iona. Veronica, who graduated this spring with a Antigua, but moved to the United States in her “There is a difference between Master of Fine early twenties. After the deaths of her mother and science and technology,” he said. Arts degree, husband, she decided to pursue a degree in “Science is an enterprise that seeks received the nursing but at the suggestion of a friend attended to explain how the natural world Marguerite R. a ceramics class and soon changed her major. She works and technology is the Jossel Award for plans to pursue a teaching career and will application of scientific knowledge her work, “Bio- continue to work on her art. to the solution of problems.” morphic Forms.” Professor Janet Skolnik, who teaches both He explained that using technology She found students, has been involved with the National Arts appropriately to address social inspiration for Club competition for the past seven years. She problems requires citizens to engage her work from says that both women have been successful in civic debates about expected the life of her because, like most artists, they create work with a benefits, risks and costs, while at mother, who personal voice to explain their passion. Patricia the same time understanding that Veronica Mason and her sculpture, died in 1984. and Veronica credit the art faculty as a source of there will be unexpected benefits, "Biomorphic Forms." “My mother was N risks and costs. guidance and inspiration. As informed citizens, he said, we aim to minimize risks and maxi- President Bush Thanks Lehman Center's Rich McKeon mize benefits, and this can be done through either manipulating the For His Service as a 'Banker–Teacher' technology or regulating its use, for President George W. Bush has honored Lehman their investments example through legislation for Center Chairperson Richard McKeon for his during the semester. products like DDT, antibiotics, service as a member of the "Banking on Our “Nothing is more cellular phones and automobiles. Future HOPE Corps," a financial literacy rewarding," Rich says, initiative of Operation Hope, a nonprofit "than seeing kids working in eight states and the District of understand the basics Columbia. of money and how Lehman College of The City University of New During school hours and in after-school their eyes light up York is located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard programs, Rich teaches fifth- through twelfth- when they get the fact West, Bronx, NY 10468. Anne Johnson, Vice grade students about how to open and balance a that this is information President for Institutional Advancement; Barbara Smith, Director of Alumni Relations. checking or savings account, create a budget, they will use their President Bush thanks Rich Lehman Lightning is produced in the Office of maintain good credit and invest for the future. entire lives.” A 2003 Media Relations and Publications. McKeon for his service. The goal is to make them better able to manage survey showed that test Editor: Marge Rice their own financial futures. scores of 35 students in the Dearborn After- Staff: Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Barbara Cardillo, Linda Hargraves, Florian Penev and To encourage student involvement, he designs School Academy improved by 700 percent Yeara Milton. projects in which students pretend to purchase following four weeks of Banking on Our Future stock, follow the financial markets and report on sessions with volunteer banker-teachers. N 2 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •C •AMPUS • • • • N• •EWS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Campus Set to Join in National Celebration Map by Lehman Student Of Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial Wins Judges’ Nod his fall, Lehman will celebrate the 100th support from the National Endowment for the Over Hundreds of Others anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize- Humanities. T winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer Singer, the seventh American writer to win the with a series of movie screenings, lectures, Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Leoncin, discussions and exhibitions, as well as a musical Poland, in 1904 and moved to Warsaw in 1923 lecture by the world-famous Yiddish folk music and then to New York City in 1935. He wrote authority Zalmen Mlotek. All events are free and numerous novels and short stories, dealing with open to alumni as well as the community. both the Eastern European Jewish experience and Jewish immigration and assimilation in America. “The universality of his characters as they grapple with issues of immigration and assimila- tion transcend ethnic boundaries and speak to all immigrants, regardless of their country of origin,” says Professor Rona Ostrow, Lehman's Lehman graduate student Janet Chief Librarian and organizer of the event. Norquist-Gonzales has earned an Along with Professor Zelda Newman, she will honorable mention for her map of moderate a six-session discussion series that will the Jerome Avenue–Gun Hill Road cover some of Singer’s most beloved works, area in the Bronx in the 31st Annual including Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, Gimpel The Fool Map Design Competition of the and Short Friday. The celebration will also feature American Congress on Surveying other events as well (see calendar below).
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