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“Open the doors to all — let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.” — Townsend Harris, founder

cuny.edu/news THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS THE FREE ACADEMY S UMMER 2006 Graduation is Truly a Family Affair at CUNY, Inside Where Close Relatives Receive Diplomas Together PAGE iPods are Newest t’s well known that col- for Sammy. She took him 2 Teaching Tools lege graduations are fami- to Mexico for four umbili- Innovative professors are putting museum Ily affairs, with siblings cal stem cell treatments. tours and other audio packages onto and parents, and husbands In fact, this summer websites, so students can download and wives all attending the Linda Mograbi and Joseph them onto iPods and other ceremony, whooping it up — who took pre-med MP3 players. “Podcast- for the close relative receiv- courses and eventually ing” is becoming the ing his or her diploma. hopes to become a physi- newest tech tool But what kind of univer- cian — will be taking in the class- sity has members of the Sammy to the Ukraine for room. See same family all receiving two weeks of special treat- pages 2 those hard-earned pieces of ments. and 3. paper at the same time? At Queens College’s The answer: a large public graduation ceremony, university that draws stu- Linda Mograbi received the PAGE Sen. Marchi: a Behind- dents from the most ambi- Jeffrey B. Berman Award in 4 the-Scenes Hero tious, striving, sacrificing recognition of her “high collection of people in the academic achievement Sen. John Marchi is nation, if not the world. while meeting the retiring after 50 years Weeks ago, this publica- challenges imposed by in office. Away from tion of yours, CUNY experiences with disability.” the limelight, he spon- Matters, began inquiring Linda Mograbi is quick to sored legislation that whether other campuses point out that her bonds greatly benefited the Joseph Mograbi, 23, received his bachelor’s degree on June 1 from Queens could match a tale from with Queens College cover College of Staten College. Among the other graduates was his mother, Linda Mograbi, who Baruch College, which was three generations. Her Island and all of CUNY. See page 4. also received her bachelor’s. boasting of a CUNY trifecta, mother, Norma Gvardijan, PAGE a Baruch graduate who had a brother and the same time my mother was; it was cute, earned her bachelor’s degree from Queens Salk Scholars Will be mother both also receiving diplomas from I guess,” he said. in 1985 at the age of 50. 5 Pioneers CUNY institutions this spring. “We were struggling in our different Chancellor Matthew Sure enough, stories began flowing in, classes, so she understands what it was like cross the water, on Staten Island, Rima Goldstein told the new of a mother and son graduating from to be under that pressure, or her working and Racha Estephan seem to do A group of CUNY Salk Queens, a mother and daughter from City on papers and me studying for finals. It’s everything together. Scholars named after late Tech, two sisters receiving Ph.D.’s in good getting to graduate with my mother.” In May the sisters both earned the title City College alumnus bio-chemistry, and another set of siblings Linda Mograbi’s achievement is all the Dr., as they received doctorates in biochem- Jonas Salk, who stopped getting their doctorates in engineering. more notable because she excelled in her istry from the CUNY Graduate Center. the polio epidemic that Here are stories of some of those we studies and in extracurricular activities while The sisters have strolled the paths of life they will be the new pio- located. But who knows how many other caring for her youngest son, Sammy, who together in many significant ways. neers of medical such sets are out there? was born with cerebral palsy 15 years ago. Rima, who turns 32 on July 9, and research. See She co-founded and for five years Racha, who turned 30 on June 30, attend- page 5. t Queens College, there were Linda co-directed a school on Long Island that ed the College of Staten Island together to A Mograbi, 48, an English major, and integrates physical, cognitive and emotion- earn their bachelor’s degrees, before jointly PAGE her 23-year-old son Joseph, a political al development for those with the condi- deciding to pursue doctoral studies. City Track Star is science major. tion. During some of her summers, she “We also married two brothers [Joseph 8 NCAA Champion “It was funny to be studying for finals at traveled to California for physical therapy continued on page 6 ® Alecia Watson of City College won the NCAA Division III triple jump New Budget is Best in University’s History and was on the relay team that set a national he FY2007 CUNY Operating Budget increase of $83.5 million for the senior col- and eliminating the proposed tuition record. Meanwhile, adopted by the New York State leges over the current year. The support increase in the original Executive Budget. CUNY’s soccer team is TLegislature on April 26, 2006 is the approved for the senior colleges fully funds The community colleges received the on a Goodwill visit to best budget in the University's history, the CUNY Compact, both enabling the largest base aid operating budget request South Africa. See page 8. announced Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. implementation of the investment programs ever and other support providing an addi- The budget totals $1.438 billion, an outlined in the University Budget Request tional $12.5 million. CUNY also received PAGE Campuses are Being new capital support for construction and 10 Used for Film Shoots renovation of more than $322 million, Governors Island Summer Lecture Series bringing the total multi-year capital budget Increasingly, for a price, colleges are offer- from all sources to a record $2.6 billion. ing their campuses as locations for movies. Environmental issues ranging from global climate change to the impact of a storm The proposed reductions to the State's Also, a surge on New York will be the topics of free lectures by University faculty on Tuition Assistance Program were eliminated CUNY Governors Island this summer. The CUNY Environmental Science Lecture Series and and new funding for math and science schol- MFA stu- Exhibition is titled “Exploring the History of New York City: From Dinosaurs and Ice arships and summer programs was added. dent wins Ages to Modern Metropolis.” It will take place at 12:30 p.m. every Saturday through The city budget process is scheduled for a so-called August 5, and will be held in Pershing Hall (Building 125). conclusion by the end of June. CUNY is Student As one example, on July 1, Professor Stephen Pekar of Queens will discuss “A 7,000- seeking, said Chancellor Goldstein, Oscar for Year History of Climate Change in NYC and What it Means for Us Today.” Also, on enhancements to the community colleges, her film July 8, Hunter's Professor William Solecki will discuss how climate change will impact scholarship support, new capital funding, about New the quality of life in New York. and the restoration of legislative initiatives. York. See An exhibit of research on the ecology of the city will be open Fridays and Saturdays Visit CUNY Budget Watch at www.cuny.edu pages 10 through September 2nd in Building 110. for complete details on the budget. and 11. 2006 06 CUNY b 6/19/06 5:37 PM Page 2

GUEST COLUMN Address to CUNY Salk Professors Use Podcasting Technology as One of Their Newest Teaching Tools Scholars You too will eanne Torres is an iPod aficionado. by Dr. Richard Murphy, president of the Salk come to points Actually, she has two of them, recently Institute for Biological Studies (see also Salk in your careers Jupgrading from the “mini” to a larger Scholars article, pg. 5) where you will iPod so she could download her whole CD be challenged by collection and create her ultimate play list. n a sense you walk in Dr. [Jonas] Salk’s others and where “Whatever you’re in the mood for, footsteps. You have graduated from the you will need to make difficult decisions. you’re good to go,” said Torres, a senior at Isame university as he. You will pursue As Yogi Berra once said, when you reach John Jay College of Criminal Justice. the same profession he chose — medicine those forks in the road, take them. In mak- But last semester, the 43-year-old Torres, and science — and many of you have set ing decisions, of course we all need to list who is also a sergeant in the New York out on your journey from a background the positives and negatives to be well City Police Department, used her iPod for much like Dr. Salk’s. His family was from aware of the realities. But we should, like something totally different: a test in her New York, they were not formally educat- Jonas, leave room for what our guts tell us. History of World Civilizations course. The ed, and money was scarce. But they valued Often our instincts are the very best advi- test required her to download an “audio education and learning. Consequently sors. We need the courage and confidence tour” of the African Art Collection at the Jonas Salk thrived and went on to stellar to listen to them.… Metropolitan Museum of Art to her iPod, achievements. You too are off to a great In thinking of Jonas’s lesson of excel- then visit the museum and find the objects beginning, with the additional benefit of lence, when I look back on my own career, described on the tour. Next, Torres had to having a wonderful role model in Jonas. the regrets I have mostly stem from the answer her instructor’s questions linking Dr. Salk had two great accomplishments, times I over-compromised on excellence as the artifacts to themes about the unusual both of which will live on forever: the first, it related to developing programs, hiring cultural interchange between West African of course, was his development of the Salk people, or resolving disputes. Of course, and European societies during the period polio vaccine, proclaimed as “a safe, effec- compromise is a necessary part of doing between 1400 and 1900. tive, and potent defense against polio.”… business in any field, given people’s differ- “It was almost like a treasure hunt,” This [1955] achievement of Jonas Salk was ing interests and priorities. Yet Jonas Torres said of the tour, which was one of the greatest victories in the history of showed that it’s never acceptable to com- produced by Fritz Umbach, a professor of public health medicine. promise on the principles world history at John Jay College, and Salk’s second achieve- you hold dear, or on excel- Kojo Dei, who is also an anthropologist ment came ten years lat- ‘You…are off to a lence. It’s an important from John Jay. “The day I went to the Met are being produced by a growing number er, in 1965, when he lesson for all of us to I was pressed for time, but I was able to of college instructors, noted Massachusetts opened the Salk Institute great beginning, remember. relive the experience, each and every time Institute of Technology Professor Phillip D. for Biological Studies in with the additional Finally, in considering I replayed the podcast. It’s a very useful Long, the keynote speaker at CUNY’s La Jolla, California.… Jonas Salk’s legacy, we can teaching tool.” Fourth Annual Information Technology The Salk Institute, like benefit of having a learn much from his pas- While podcasts are still relatively new at Conference late last year. Tech-savvy pro- Jonas’s polio vaccine, has sion and empathy for peo- universities, one thing’s for sure: They’re fessors are putting digital recorders around been an enormous suc- wonderful role model ple. When Jonas developed not just for music anymore. their necks as they lecture to students, cess. It has housed 11 in Jonas [Salk].’ the polio vaccine, he never Technology is playing an ever-increasing then immediately afterward uploading the Nobel laureates both as made any money from it, role in higher education, and podcasting is lectures onto Web sites. From there, the faculty members and – Dr. Richard Murphy, and he insisted that it be one example of technology’s rise, noted lectures can be downloaded as podcasts by students who have gone distributed free to all Dr. George Otte, CUNY’s Director of anyone with access to the site. on to win the prize, and to new Salk Scholars Americans, whether they Instructional Technology. Several universities, including Stanford, is rated at the very top of could afford it or not. At Podcasts are now featured on the Duke, Brown and the University of independent research institutes worldwide that time, the American Medical Association university’s Web site and are available for Michigan, have been experimenting with in its scientific impact.… had a different idea; the AMA viewed free downloading onto an iPod or any other Apple Computer’s iTunes U, a program [W]e are honored to be partners with distribution of the vaccine as the beginning portable MP3 player. (Visit that partners Apple directly with universi- CUNY in hosting two Jonas Salk scholars of socialized medicine, and strongly opposed www.cuny.edu/podcasts) Among ties to help them distribute in our research laboratories over the sum- it, so Jonas had this mighty force to counter. the offerings: Weekly faculty lec- content over the Web mer months. We look forward to the visits Fortunately Congress intervened, and the tures beginning with the “CUNY using the popular iTunes of this year’s scholars and to benefiting vaccine was distributed without cost to all Summer Lecture Series” on the Music Store technology. from their efforts.… Americans.… environment and other critical At CUNY, too, officials are Jonas Salk became an international hero In thinking beyond Jonas, empathy may issues; “Newsmaker” profiles currently negotiating with among the public, yet he never received well be the most vital ingredient to success and interviews with students, Apple to explore ways of the credit he was due among his scientific in any field, not only medicine. It certainly faculty and alumni in the producing materials across peers. For example, despite the importance enhances all the roles we play in life, both news, and “Citizenship Now! the university community of the vaccine, he never received the in work and in being good parents, good With Allan Wernick,” the that can be downloaded to Nobel Prize and he wasn’t inducted into friends, even good citizens of the Daily News columnist and students. the American National Academy of world.…Jonas left us all some good advice, CUNY’s immigration But the deeper academic Sciences. And he was frequently denigrated etched into a marble step at the entry of expert. challenge, experts say, is to find by the scientific elite for doing what they the Institute’s famous courtyard. It is, “We’re using technolo- ways in which podcasts can be downplayed as simple rather than elegant “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and gy to reach a wider audi- used as more than canned lec- science.… in the courage to make dreams a reality.” ence and keep them tures. “My hope is that podcasting informed about events can be used to enhance the educa- on campus,” tional experience,” said Michael said Umbach, Arena, CUNY’s That person with the iPOD “rather than fos- Board of Trustees director of silizing a pedagogi- The City University of New York media relations. just may be learning about cal moment.” Chancellor At the Indeed, Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Matthew Goldstein The Iliad. Chairman Baruch College Umbach’s podcast, Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Web site, pod- “Afro-European Valerie L. Beal Randy M. Mastro Vice Chancellor for University Relations casts of many activities—including a pre- Encounter in Africa,” is part of a larger pro- John S. Bonnici Hugo M. Morales Jay Hershenson sentation from a recent internship fair, ject involving scholarly audio tours being University Director for Media Relations John J. Calandra Kathleen M. Pesile speeches by visiting corporate executives developed by faculty from John Jay and Michael Arena Wellington Z. Chen Carol Robles-Román and tutorials for calculus students—are Medgar Evers colleges, including Professor Editor Ron Howell Kenneth Cook Nilda Soto Ruiz available through the college’s Digital of History Edward Paulino (John Jay); and Writers Gary Schmidgall, Rita Rodin Media Library. English professors Pat Licklider (John Jay) Rita DiMartino Marc V. Shaw Photographer André Beckles “If students are going into their iPods and Jennifer Sparrow (Medgar Evers). Joseph J. Lhota Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Graphic Design Gotham Design, NYC for recreational purposes, we want to be in The project, said John Jay Provost Basil Carlos Sierra Manfred Philipp Articles in this and previous issues are available there as well,” said Arthur Downing, Wilson, “is an outgrowth of the culture of Chairperson, at cuny.edu/news. Letters or suggestions for future Baruch’s chief librarian and assistant vice teaching at the College that fosters and Chairperson, stories may be sent to the Editor by email to Student Senate Faculty Senate [email protected]. Changes of address president for information technologies. supports faculty innovation, thus ensuring should be made through your campus personnel office. Around the nation, podcasts of lectures that technology serves pedagogy – rather

2 CUNY MATTERS — Summer 2006 2006 06 CUNY b 6/19/06 5:37 PM Page 3 g Technology as One of Their Newest Teaching Tools Professor Fritz Umbach loading, free of charge, by CUNY students Otte also cautions that widespread use prepared an audio tour and the general public, as either podcasts of podcasting in education may come with of the Metropolitan or as files ready to be “burned” into audio some legal and procedural challenges — Museum of Art for his CDs. (Podcasting software, such as Garage for example, sorting out questions of intel- History of World Band, costs about $65, but the real cost of lectual property and copyright protection. Civilizations course. podcasting is in faculty time — about 50 “All that notwithstanding, I see enor- Umbach is a pioneer in to 60 hours to produce a 45-minute pod- mous potential,” Otte said. “Reaching any- the use of "podcasting" cast, Umbach says.) one through both the eye and ear is much as a teaching tool. Given the themes of the three audio more powerful than through either alone, tours, they could be relevant to as many as and podcasts can now be accompanied by 300 CUNY courses that are taught slides.” Furthermore, he added, while for their Iliad/ Odyssey throughout the University, not just to the today’s basic podcasts offer linear audio course next spring classes of participating faculty, Umbach that must be listened to straight through, could be accomplished and his colleagues estimate. Eventually, the next generation of devices are likely to online via a “virtual they hope to produce 10 audio tours of use software that can “chapterize” content tour” of the cultural and historical sites in New York into demarcated segments and make them Metropolitan’s collec- City, and John Jay College now has a grant searchable by keyword—“effectively giving tion. But seeing the proposal for this project before the podcasts the equivalents of a book’s table object in person “adds National Endowment for the Humanities. of contents and index.” an important material Still, from the students’ perspective, Most experts agree that the wider dimension,” she said. blending podcasts into their coursework potential of podcasts will emerge as stu- “Here I am thinking of isn’t always a seamless process — not just dents begin to use them to produce and little things, like how yet, at least. show their own content, as well as listen to small the armor that “It takes some learning,” said Torres, lectures or tours delivered by faculty. great warriors like adding that Umbach’s assignment was the One example: “I think organizing notes Hector and Achilles first time she needed to download a pod- onto a podcast like a study session might wore — the ancient cast from a Web site. be useful,” Yang said. “I know people Greeks were the size And not everyone prefers academic pod- who sometimes record themselves onto than the reverse.” of today’s children!” casts to traditional faculty presentations. their iPODs in order to study while Paulino’s tour, entitled “Converging Another principle behind the podcast- “I listen to music on my iPod, but I walking and things of that sort.” Cultures, Latin America 1520–1830,” will ing project is to “make field trips possible don’t particularly like listening to However podcasting develops as a examine objects at the Brooklyn Museum that were not so in the past because of the podcasts,” said Nancy Yang, a junior at “student-authoring medium,” it inevit- — such as the 1,000-page pictorial commuting nature of the student popula- John Jay College majoring in forensic psy- ably will offer another useful tool to enrich manuscript representing daily Andean life tion,” Umbach said. “Now they can go to chology. Yang says she found Umbach’s the educational experience at universities. in both Spanish and Quechua — to the museum on their own time.” And stu- tour of the Met’s African collection “inter- “We know that the time constraints of explore the hybrid nature of Latin dents are not locked into proprietary for- esting,” but “I wouldn’t say it is better than the classroom mean that much of the American identity. The audio tour by mats requiring iPods; they can use either a conventional teaching methods, because I learning has to happen outside those con- Sparrow and Licklider will explore how CD or MP3 player. particularly like Umbach’s way of teaching straints,” Otte said, “and podcasts are great the analysis of artifacts from Classical Umbach’s tour is available for down- in the classroom.” constraint-busters.” Greece at the Metropolitan Museum can enrich one’s under- standing of Homer’s Using ‘Podcasting’ to Understand a ’65 U.S. Invasion great works, The Iliad and The Odyssey. t John Jay College last semester, some the White House during the ’60s. sense,” argues Umbach, “because it connects a Umbach says the students used their iPods and other MP-3 Students were asked to use these recordings phenomenon many of my students are familiar audio tours are guided A players to learn about a U.S. decision to (in addition to background reading) to analyze with from their daily lives — Dominican by several principles. invade another country. President Johnson’s decision to dispatch 23,000 migration — to a history that can seem quite First, he said, the content No, it wasn’t the invasion of Iraq that they troops to the D.R. abstract and removed.” produced by faculty is studied, but rather of the Dominican Republic The students learned about the otherwise Asked about the reaction of his students to intended for academic in 1965, when President Lyndon Baines Johnson “abstract notion of the Cold War,” Umbach said, use of the recordings, Umbach said, “Students courses, rather than sent marines into the Caribbean nation, suppos- referring to the four-decade period during which really like being able, in essence, to eavesdrop on “casual” museum-goers edly to project American lives during instability the United States was at dangerous loggerheads powerful figures. It’s compelling in a nearly cine- or school children. And there, but in reality to prevent it from coming with the old Soviet Union, and feared the emer- matic fashion without sacrificing academic rigor.” rather than “just shovel- under the control of leftists, historians say. gence of leftist, Soviet-backed governments (like During his five-year tenure, President Johnson ing a lecture into a pod- Shedding light on that controversial episode, Fidel Castro’s in Cuba) around the world. secretly recorded around 642 hours of phone cast,” Umbach said, “the World History Professor Fritz Umbach located a “Using the Dominican intervention to conversations and cabinet meetings. Umbach’s intent is to make it treasure trove of audio files available through explore larger issues in the Cold War makes students were able to hear Johnson holding dis- much more student- the Lyndon Baines cussions with key aides, including oriented,” embedding Johnson Presidential McGeorge Bundy, Johnson’s questions into a tour Library, located on the National Security Advisor; and Abe that spurs an “inquiry- campus of The University Fortas, one of Johnson’s advisers, based learning experi- of Texas at Austin. whom Johnson later appointed to ence.” “I expect almost all of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sparrow, who began my students used their Umbach’s approach in his incorporating Web-based MP3 devices to listen to History of Civilization class was assignments into her the tapes,” said Umbach, adapted from earlier Cold War English courses about noting that students can instructional modules developed seven years ago, echoes download the clips with by Professor Robert David “KC” Umbach’s sentiments. “I their devices and listen to Johnson of Brooklyn College, am interested in podcast- them afterward, at their Umbach said. Umbach added that ing,” she said, not as a desks, in their bedrooms his module was part of a larger way of replacing the or on the subway. project called “Investigating U.S., classroom lecture, “but, The assignment devel- History,” developed by City College rather, as a way to extend oped by Umbach involved History Professor David Jaffee. the classroom beyond the use of previously clas- To hear the five recordings what is possible in the sified government docu- used by Umbach for his module typical hour-and-fifteen- ments offering students, (“LBJ, the Dominican Republic, minute class period.” as well as scholars, a April 28, 1965 meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, as President Johnson (third & The Cold War”), and to see an Sparrow acknowledges glimpse into behind-the- from left, leaning on desk) and his top advisers discuss the U.S. invasion of outline of the module, visit that the podcast she and scenes decision-making at the Dominican Republic. www.cuny.edu/dominicaninvasion. 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STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS Sen. Marchi, Key Figure in CUNY History, Retires American Dream Fellowship ome January, 2007, when state Sen. for the new senior college. John Marchi retires, he will end a “I was an advocate for the ecent Hunter College grad Jane political career that started when City University since my first Yevgeniya Elkina has won a 2006 C R Dwight Eisenhower was president, Averell day on the job and I’ve con- Merage American Dream Fellowship, Harriman governor, and Robert Wagner tinued in that role ever since,” which is for immigrant students who mayor of New York City. Marchi said in a statement have shown excellence, leadership and In that 50-year career — a tie for the about his pending retirement. creativity. longest tenure as a state legislator in “CUNY is one of the jewels She is one of only 14 students American history — Marchi distinguished in the city’s crown and I’m selected from colleges across the coun- himself as the durable iron man of New particularly proud to be a part try for the award, which includes a York politics. of it.” stipend of $10,000 per year for two Less well-known is that Marchi, now College of Staten Island years of post-graduate study. 85, played an important role in CUNY’s President Marlene Springer Elkina emigrated with her family development over the past half century. said of Marchi, “John Marchi from the former Soviet Union in 1990. He was a fierce advocate for the University is that exceptional person who At Hunter she has been president of during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. And combines extraordinary vision the Math Club. She plans to enter a throughout his years in office he sponsored with an equally exceptional Ph.D. program in math education at key pieces of legislation that helped make capacity to convert that vision Columbia University Teachers College. CUNY the “dream machine” that it is into reality. He was one of York Senior is NSF Fellow today, to borrow a phrase from The the moving forces behind the Economist magazine. creation of the College of ork senior Yisa Rumala, a 20-year- “When I look Staten Island.” old physics and math major, has Y at Sen. Marchi’s The senator was been awarded a $30,000 National career – although Senator Marchi also the key Senate Science Foundation Graduate Research many people sponsor of a bill in Fellowship. was a key sponsor of think of him as 1966 that created the Rumala will Sen. John Marchi, speaking at groundbreaking ceremonies Mr. Staten Island the 40-year-old SEEK Search for Education, use his award to in 1989 for the Willowbrook Campus of the College of – I know from Elevation, and attend the Staten Island. personal experi- program and came to Knowledge, or SEEK, University of ence that his sup- program, which Michigan, where the University’s port for CUNY offered the opportunity of higher at the community colleges. he will pursue a and his support of rescue in crucial education to tens of thousands of In the late 1990s, as the city and the Ph.D. in applied urban public edu- talented students from economical- nation grappled with the welfare/workfare physics. Michigan moments cation has ly disadvantaged backgrounds or debate, Marchi, with Assembly-man has additionally occurred in the struggling school districts. Roberto Ramirez, went on to sponsor leg- awarded him a Yisa Rumala in its history. most beneficial Supported by Democratic leaders islation that allowed CUNY students on Rackham Science and substantive in the state Assembly such as Percy public assistance to do their work on or Award worth $1,850 monthly, plus ways,” said Jay Hershenson, the Vice Sutton of Harlem and Shirley Chisholm of near their college campuses, freeing them tuition and fees. Chancellor for University Relations. Brooklyn, the program offered counseling, from often onerous tasks that were an Though born in New York, Rumala Marchi, a Republican, shepherded the tutoring, and a small stipend for students impediment to academic success. spent most of his childhood in Nigeria. legislation that allowed two colleges — who might have otherwise been denied a The bill “made sure that the poorer stu- In 2002, he returned to the Big Apple Richmond College and Staten Island chance in an institution of higher education. dents could do their workfare in the cam- and entered York. Community College — to combine in Currently serving more than 8,000 stu- pus library as opposed to raking leaves in Rumala has participated in summer 1976 to become what today is known as dents, SEEK spurred the careers of a whole another borough’s park,” said Hershenson. research projects at MIT and Princeton. the College of Staten Island. And then, generation of strivers, including state It’s for these accomplishments and more Winner of Gay Scholarship after the infamous Willowbrook State Supreme Court Justice Lottie Wilkins and that Marchi was given an honorary doctor- City College student Ivan Butka has School for the mentally retarded was Councilman Charles Barron. Another ate from the College of Staten Island dur- been named a Point Scholar and will closed in 1987, Marchi lobbied to 2,500 students are enrolled in ing commencement ceremonies this spring. receive an award of around $30,000 see that the site would be College Discovery, the The son of immigrants from the from the Point Foundation, a gay sup- reborn in 1993 as the SEEK counterpart Tuscany region of Italy, Marchi was born port group. sprawling 204- on Staten Island and attended school in The Foundation provides financial acre campus that borough until he attended Manhattan support and mentoring to outstanding College. After getting his juris doctor from students who are marginalized because St. John’s University, Marchi received the of their sexual orientation or gender degree of Doctor of Judicial Science from identity. Point Scholars are chosen for Brooklyn Law School. their demonstrated leadership, scholas- He served in the Coast Guard in World tic achievement, involvement in the War II and saw combat. Marchi is fluent in lesbian/bisexual/transgender communi- Italian and speaks some Spanish, German ty, and financial need. and French. Several foundations and corporations Sen. John The state senator made history in 1969 have partnered with Point to fund the Marchi, when he challenged New York’s liberal scholarships, including the Matthew retiring after mayor John Lindsay in a Republican pri- Shepard Foundation and MTV. 50 years in mary and won. Running on a Liberal- the legislature, Fusion ticket, Lindsay defeated Marchi in City Student is Javits Fellow receives an the general election. Deborah M. Wolf, an English major honorary Four years later, Marchi ran again for and recent graduate of the CUNY doctorate mayor on the Republican line, and was Honors College at City College, has from the defeated in the general election by Abe won a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from College Beame. the U.S. Department of Education. of Staten Marchi first took his seat in the state One of 25 recipients selected from a Island. Senate in 1957. He and his wife of 58 nationwide pool of 771 applicants, years, Maria Luisa, have two daughters Wolf will pursue a Ph.D. in African- Aline and Joan, two granddaughters and a American Studies at Yale University. great-grandson. The Javits Fellowship, named for the “He is a man of surpassing grace, dedicat- late U.S. Senator, includes an annual ed to his community and to public higher $12,224 payment to the institution in education. I am also pleased and proud lieu of tuition and a stipend of up to to call him a close personal $30,000 for the Fellow. friend,” College of Staten Island President Springer said.

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ANOTEDND Program Helps Community QUOTED College Students Chancellor Goldstein: Salk Scholars are Hostos Alumnae Advance in International Affairs n African immigrant who works to The Avant-Garde of Medical Science A support his family in Togo and a uz-María Lambert and Kazi Ahmed are young mother who networked from ight outstanding City L the first Hostos grads to complete the Starbucks to an investment bank intern- University of New Serrano Scholars program, having just ship are two of the Kaplan Educational EYork students were earned their Master of International Affairs Foundation’s first five Kaplan Leadership named Salk Scholars and will degrees from Columbia’s School of Scholars. The program aims to help high- receive stipends toward their International and Public Affairs. potential community college students medical school studies. They were in the first cohort of achieve their educational goals and Another seven were named students selected for the program, which become leaders. Honorary Salk Scholars. was started in 2001 through the efforts of Keisha Carrington, a Barbados native Chancellor Matthew Congressman José Serrano, who wanted and member of two honor societies, plans Goldstein told the Scholars more young people from New York to go to become a pediatrician. She works at they would be part of an elite into international affairs. K-Mart and an after-school program to group of researchers making Lambert, a native of the Dominican finance her education. important discoveries in the Republic, and Ahmed, a Bangladeshi- Bolaji James, an ophthalmic dispensary biological sciences. American, said they felt like pioneers. student, plans to earn a master’s in busi- “The 21st century is really “I feel blessed indeed!” said Ahmed. ness administration and open optical going to be dominated by Serrano said the two Hostos alumnae stores. The Nigerian native, a City Tech great advances in the biologi- represent the beginnings of a new student, was selected for the CUNY Black cal sciences and in medicine,” America, in which minorities will have a Male Initiative Taskforce. the Chancellor said. greater say in U.S. foreign policy. Ebony McIntosh, a business administra- “You’re going to make “It was my idea to create a program that tion major at BMCC and aspiring CPA, major contributions and it’s would prepare minority folks, Latinos, His- aims to start a foundation for at-risk going to benefit all of us.” panics, for the foreign service,” said Serrano. youth. As a freshman she gained a Lehman The Salk Scholarships are Those selected for the Serrano program Brothers internship through one of her the legacy of Dr. Jonas E. Salk, receive full tuition and stipends while at Starbucks customers. who developed the polio vac- Hostos, then at Columbia’s School of Hamissou Samari, a liberal arts major at cine in 1955. A 1934 graduate Chancellor Matthew Goldstein (above) and CUNY General Studies and finally at Columbia’s BMCC, finished high school and started of City College, Dr. Salk Salk Institute interns (from left), Sherman Sheung School of International and Public Affairs. college in Togo despite losing his parents turned down a ticker tape Man Chu and Andrea C. Silva. The Serrano program is funded by and working to support his siblings. The parade in honor of his discov- grants from the U.S. State Department, National Dean’s List nominee plans a ery and asked instead that the money be used for scholarships. The city provided initial Defense Department and Department of career in international law. funding for the Salk Scholarships in 1955. The endowment now provides a stipend of Education. Martha Santos, an early childhood edu- $6,000 per scholar to help defray the cost of medical school. cation major from Ecuador, aspires to open The annual award ceremony held recently at Baruch College featured keynote a day-care center offering services for chil- speaker Dr. Richard Murphy, president and CEO of the renowned Salk Institute for dren, families and adults. Active in student Biological Studies at La Jolla, California. The institute sponsors summer internships government, she launched BMCC’s first each year for outstanding Salk Scholars. Spanish-language magazine. Two of the Salk Scholars are interning at the institute this summer. One is The Kaplan Leadership Program pro- Sherman Sheung Man Chu, a graduate of the CUNY Honors College at The City vides scholarships, mentoring, tutoring and College of New York, who will begin studies at the New York College of Osteopathic help with college transfers, job placement Medicine. The other is Andrea C. Silva, a graduate of The City College of New York, and/or graduate school applications. who will be attending the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Jonas Salk established the Institute more than 40 years ago to serve as a “crucible Brooklyn Student Doing for creativity” to pursue questions about the basic principles of life. Today, the Salk Fulbright in Arab Emirates Institute conducts its biological research under the guidance of 58 faculty investiga- rooklyn tors, employing a scientific staff of more than 850, including visiting scientists, post- BCollege doctoral fellows, and graduate students. graduate stu- Luz-Maria Lambert dent Matthew MacLean has been awarded a Writer Vallone Is Speaker Again, This Time at LaGuardia Community College 2006 Fulbright ormer City Council Speaker Peter F. works and, in a perfect world, how it social science Professor Arturo Sanchez, Fellowship to FVallone, a key player in New York City should work. then had the opportunity to question conduct an oral government for three decades, shared an Vallone began with a brief overview of Vallone on issues ranging from immigra- history in the intimate view of the city’s inner political the foundation of government. He spoke tion rights to his opinion of the adminis- United Arab workings with a class of LaGuardia of the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and trations of Mayors Edward I. Koch, David Emirates. Community College students attending his the Constitution and surprised the audi- N. Dinkins, and Rudolph Giuliani. “The target Matthew MacLean recent book lecture. ence when he told them “you are the most Vallone called group for my During the two-hour talk, held at the important power in government.” Discus- Mayor Koch work will be UAE nationals who are sixty college May 4, the legislative leader- sing the role of the Council, which he led the spirit, Mayor years old or older,” said MacLean, who is turned-author discussed his recently pub- for 12 years, he described how the New Dinkins the heart, also a teacher at Edward R. Murrow High lished book, Learning to Govern: My Life in York City Charter Revision of 1989 helped and Mayor School. New York Politics, From Hell Gate to City create a balance of power between the Giuliani the brain The Fulbright grant will fund ten Hall, and explained how government mayor and the Council. of New York. months of research in the United Arab The students, who had been Emirates, a collection of seven small assigned the book by Islamic city-states along the Persian Gulf, the most famous being Dubai. While English is widely used in the UAE, MacLean will take a crash course in Arabic. MacLean plans to interview older resi- dents because oil wealth has greatly trans- formed the UAE in recent years, turning it from a sleepy collection of British colonies to a fabulously wealthy nation that con- trols eight percent of the world’s oil reserves. A San Diego native, MacLean has taught history at Murrow High School for Former City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone speaks to LaGuardia Community College students about New York politics and his recent book, the past six years. My Life in New York Politics, From Hell Gate to City Hall.

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Mothers and Sons, Sisters and Brothers, Share the Thrill of Graduating at the Same Time continued from page 1 do with the environment in which he was she had earned an AA in biology there. education was the and Simon Alhaddad] and we live together raised. She expects to return for a bachelor’s lead- key to success, in a two-family house,” said Rima, laughing. “Growing up in East New York, you see ing to licensing as a registered nurse. suggested that Ali And where did Racha’s husband, Simon different things,” he said, recalling being Mrs. Smiley said that when she was consider getting a Alhaddad, graduate from this spring? The held up at gunpoint while playing basket- growing up in her native Jamaica, no one college degree and College of Staten Island. ball in a schoolyard. in her household could read or write. But looking for anoth- The Estephan sisters, Lebanese immi- Gregory was a high school dropout. He her vistas expanded after she immigrated er career. The grants, are both working at Weill Medical recalled that high school just “wasn’t work- to New York. mother took the College of Cornell University, Rima in the ing for me,” and so his parents encouraged “The same week I got my green card I daughter’s advice, pharmacology department and Racha in the him to get a GED. He did so and soon enrolled in school,” she said. While getting and this June they biophysics department. They are together began attending Kingsborough Community her AA, she worked as a home attendant. both graduated boosting even higher Cuny’s reputation for College, where his interest in law intensi- Now she’s an LPN at the Jewish Home from New York excellence in the sciences. “I don’t see any- fied and where he volunteered at the local and Hospital in Manhattan. City College of one else who is better than I am,” said police stationhouse. “City University got me through all Technology with Rima, proud of her training at the College This summer he’ll have a fellowship this,” she said. “I wouldn’t have the money associate degrees of Staten Island and the Grad Center. from the D’Agostino-Greenberg Program to go to a private college.…They really in human services. The talkative Rima likes to spread the in Law and Public Policy at City College. pushed me and provided help and support. Both intend to word also about her brother, 25-year-old Why did Mark and Gregory succeed They do everything to keep you focused.” continue studying Amir Estephan, a third- when so many young- Another of Norma Smiley’s sons, Oneil, there part-time year medical student at sters from their rough graduated from York College in 2002. for bachelor’s SUNY Downstate in ‘It was funny to be neighborhood got lost? Daughter Samantha is in high school and degrees. Brooklyn. His alma mater They cite their mother, hopes to become a physician through City “I’m following is, of course, the College of studying for finals at the Norma. College’s Sophie Davis School. in my daughter’s Staten Island. “She said, ‘Even at footsteps,” Ali same time my mother my age, I’m going to f the events of Sept. 11, 2001 united the said. n Brooklyn, the Smiley was; it was cute, I show you it’s possible,’ Ination, it might also be said that they “It has brought Ifamily tells distinctly ” Gregory said, lovingly also united individual families, in ways that us very close. As urban stories about their guess,’ Queens College and admiringly. Norma were both simple and profound. Take the with every moth- victories against the odds. graduate Joseph Smiley began attending mother and daughter pair, Sherina Ali and er-daughter rela- When Mark Smiley, college, showing her Jolina Rodriguez. tionship, you have who just graduated from Mograbi said about sons that even with In telling the story of herself and her your ups and Baruch, was a freshman, he her time constraints daughter, Ali flashes back to the day the downs, but we saw a childhood friend attending college with and her obligations as a World Trade Center fell. She worked in have a very close murdered in a cross-fire on his mother Linda mother, she could be a the area, as an administrative assistant at relationship.” the mean streets of East diligent college Citibank. She was late for work that morn- Being in the New York, Brooklyn. Mograbi. student. ing and hoped she could slip into her same major, they “If I was a doctor, I “On Saturday, she’d workspace unnoticed. saved money by could have helped him,” he say, ‘I’m going to the But then as she approached her work- sharing textbooks remembered thinking. Now, having gradu- library. Grab your books and come along,’ place, sickening ash from the burning tow- but, as Ali Mark Smiley (left) graduated from Baruch in June, as his mother, Norma Smiley, graduated from Medgar Evers and his brother Greg Smiley graduated from ated with a BA in biology and a 3.9 GPA, ” recalled Gregory. ers was beginning to permeate the streets. phrased it, “we City College. They and other nuclear families made CUNY commencements a true “family affair.” he is applying to some of the country’s top “We followed in her footsteps. She kept And later in the day, she and other fright- don’t bump medical schools. on top of us.” ened co-workers were evacuated by ferry heads” because The Smiley family’s victory did not end Norma Smiley, who says she’s “50- to New Jersey. In the coming months, like they’re in different concentra-tions, she in with Mark receiving a diploma. Uptown, something,” graduated in early June from other New Yorkers, she had trouble finding gerontology and her daughter in disabili- his brother Gregory, 24, graduated from Medgar Evers College’s licensed practical work on Wall Street. ties. City College with a major in political sci- nurse program. Previously, Her loving daughter Jolina, who Jolina, at 21 two decades younger than ence, a minor in black studies and the goal believed higher her mother, said she took a math class of law school. with her mom because she knew that she Like his brother, Gregory’s would be able to help her mother with professional aspira- tudent 23 Years to E the more difficult concepts. tions have ne S arn “I chose to go into led Against the O much to O He that class with trugg dd ook r Pie Also S s It T ce o Who anet Petronella has been pursuing her f P thers Jdegree for 23 years, longer than most of her illen Aponte was born ape re O fellow graduates have been alive. A with cerebral palsy and uses a r, but There a The 41-year-old Fresh Meadows woman has experienced wheelchair, but that did not stop her from many setbacks; but, she said, “Queens College was this dragon that I reaching her goal of completing her studies toward a had to conquer.” She first entered in fall 1983, and by spring, economic bachelor’s degree at New York City College of Technology, hardship forced Petronella to withdraw. and doing so with honors. Aponte was the salutatorian, Thirteen years passed. She married, had a child and re-entered Queens second in her class, summa cum laude, and she ended her in the fall 1996 in the Adult Collegiate Education program for students college career with a 3.83 GPA. Her bachelor’s degree age 25 and older. But she had to stop when her second son was born two was in human services. “I have always put my heart and months premature on “the day of my Art History final.” In fall 1998 soul into everything I do and pushed myself hard in Petronella was back, taking two classes a school to make sure my mother’s sacrifices have not semester. Impressed by the speech pathologists been in vain,” said Aponte, who made Dean’s List and others helping her son, Petronella decided every semester. Aponte’s mom, Sergia Liz, to major in Linguistics and Communications has been the central figure in Aponte’s life, Disorders. “So I’m going full steam ahead, with the source of her strength. “Mom didn’t a great GPA,” she recalled. “Then I go to the have the chance to graduate from high doctor in the summer of 2002 for my regular school, so my graduating from college is for exam, and my doctor felt a lump.” A year of the both of us,” Aponte said. “I want to radiation therapy, chemotherapy and surgery offer families the help and support sys- followed. But by fall 2004, “I felt ready to tem my mom didn’t have.” Aponte move forward. Even though cancer came into was accepted by all four colleges my life, I still had hope that I could finish col- she applied to for her master’s in lege.” Petronella, who graduated cum laude, social work and is deciding now has another dragon to slay: “I’ve applied between Hunter College and Janet Petronella of to graduate school — at Queens, of course. I NYU. She plans to start graduate Queens College. would never go anywhere else.” Aillen Aponte of City Tech. studies this fall.

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disabled older adults received Ph.D.’s in engineering. in Brooklyn, and How did it all begin? Jolina, pregnant with After Bahar earned her bachelor’s a baby that’s due in in Iran, a friend mentioned CUNY and in August, just finished 1998 she was in New York, studying civil an internship at engineering. Her doctoral research explored Young Adults whether two harmful protozoa could be Institute, which eliminated from the city’s drinking water by serves people with using settling techniques, instead of more retardation, autism costly filtration. She found that because and similar Giardia intestinalis and Cryptosporidium conditions. attach to other particles, settling is an Both are interested option in the laboratory, at least. in careers in counsel- As her brother neared college graduation ing. “Being in human in Tehran, Bahar sought out mechanical services doesn’t pay engineering Professor Ali M. Sadegh, asking much, but the whether her brother also might pursue a rewards are so great,” doctorate at CUNY. Sadegh later would Jolina said. direct Mohamad’s computer-modeling “I’m very proud of research into how impacts of differing force her,” the daughter and direction would injure the human skull said of her mother. and brain — research that’s applicable to “I’ve learned so designing safer helmets, for example. much from her,” the Then at a biomedical seminar, Mohamad mother said of her met his future wife Jennifer. Jennifer’s daughter. research explored the biophysics of elec- tron transfer in proteins, as she sought to ohamad Zoghi- understand how to capture the light MMoghadam says released by electron transfer and transform he owes a lot to his it into energy. Having completed a year of sister, Bahar Zoghi- studies at Touro University’s College of Moghadam. If it were Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, Cal., not for her, he might Jennifer’s ambitions are soaring. She has not have left Iran and her doctorate now but also wants to con- might not have met tinue her medical studies. his future wife, New “If I have both a Ph.D. and a medical Yorker Jennifer degree I can go into more fields and have Madeo. an easier time applying for grants. And my They are a very husband is crazy enough to support me,” raduated from Baruch in June, as his mother, Norma Smiley, graduated from Medgar Evers and his brother Greg Smiley graduated from close family, the she said. nd other nuclear families made CUNY commencements a true “family affair.” Moghadams, so close Mohamad now works for California-based that they supported computer chip-maker Xilinx, although he her since I’m fresh out of high school,” Jolina daughter headed. The former provides each other intensely over the past few intends to return to academia one day. said. opportunities for students to give back to years, offering assistance with research and “It was fun because people thought we the community, such as collecting clothing in English, as they advanced through gradu- were a couple, not mother and daughter, for the homeless; the latter assists students ate school. All three of them Thought for the day: “The family is one of because we were always talking so closely with disabilities. life’s masterpieces.” From George Santayana’s to each other.” Sherina Ali now works at a Catholic The Life of Reason, 1905. Even their extracurricular activities dove- Charities home for devel- tudent 23 Years to E tailed. As president of the Human Services opmentally ne S arn Club, Sherina Ali worked with the Student led Against the O O He Support Club, which her trugg dd ook r Pie Also S s It T ce o Who ames Faghmous, a June graduate of City f P thers JCollege, may be one of the greatest come-back ape re O hen Doreen Brittingham arrived stories of all. He, literally, came back. At six years of age, r, but There a Wat Kingsborough in September while living here in the United States, Faghmous’ father took 2004, she was desperate to find someone to trust. For most of the boy back to the family’s home country, Algeria, and kept him her life, Brittingham, 47, had fought severe depression, there against the mother’s will. Faghmous’ distraught American-born which often made her feel hopeless. “In my family there mother suffered the after-effects of the kidnapping. For 14 years there, the was lots of drama,” she said. “I was unable to stand up for boy had no contact with his mother, who was an assistant superintendent of myself. I had no voice.” At Kingsborough, Brittingham is schools in White Plains. But at 20 years of age, Faghmous went to the U.S. recognized as the student who was instrumental in bring- Embassy in Algiers to seek a passport. Embassy officials told him they had ing a shuttle bus to the college. “On my first day of classes been looking for him and began a process that led to his being reunited with I took the subway to the bus in Brighton Beach and wait- his mother in 2002. He decided to transfer to an American college, and ed for over an hour with hundreds of other students as someone suggested City College, which each city bus slowly went by filled to capacity,” she said. “I has a strong computer science program. was late for my first class and angry. My first class turned out He was admitted as a transfer student to be a public speaking class and the professor gave the for fall 2003 and he fell in love with assignment of speaking on one of the following subjects: Teach the place. At City, Faghmous played something, demonstrate something or find a cause to talk basketball, which he had picked up in about,” she said. “I decided to speak about the bus situation Algeria. But his interests shifted to aca- which brought me to the attention of the Dean of demics, and he racked up all kinds of Student Life, Angelo Pappagallo and eventually to honors, graduating finally with a 3.8 (KCC President) Regina Peruggi.” Because of GPA. Faghmous has received a two- Brittingham’s work researching the need for a year National Institutes of Health grant, shuttle, President Peruggi soon arranged for one. which will support his research into the Brittingham, who now has her own apartment, role of beta amyloids in Alzheimer’s plans to pursue an education degree at Brooklyn disease. The grant comes as he pursues College, and later her master’s and Ph.D. in early a Ph.D. in computation neuroscience Doreen Brittingham of Kingsborough Community College. childhood education. at The University of Minnesota. James Faghmous of City College

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York Professors Honored his summer, from July 25-August 8, make this summer unforgettable for the Nearly four years ago, a team representing wo York College math professors CUNYAC’s men’s soccer team is in CUNY players. CUNYAC’s men’s basketball teams went Treceived awards from the TSouth Africa, playing the sport they As for City College’s Carter, this is his to the Dominican Republic. In 2004, the Metropolitan New York Section of the love and being ambassadors of goodwill. third season as head men’s soccer coach. women’s basketball team traveled to Mathematical Association of America – For many players, it’s a taste of what it’s And the Beavers have been the regular Ecuador, and last summer, the women’s the first time two instructors from the like to be a superstar athlete, minus the season champs in the CUNY Athletic volleyball team flew to Argentina. same institution were so honored. exorbitant paycheck. Conference in each of his three campaigns. The tournament the CUNYAC team The Society gave York’s Professor The so-called Goodwill Tour is part cul- For his efforts, Coach Carter was named will take part in starts only a few weeks Farley Mawyer its 2006 Distinguished tural exchange, part athletics. Each year a the 2005 CUNYAC Coach of the Year. One after The World Cup, which will be hosted Teaching Award and gave Professor different CUNYAC athletic team, made up of his players, midfielder Juan Gomez, was by Germany this summer. Yatsuhashi said Joseph Malkevitch its Distinguished of members from all 18 CUNY colleges, named Player of the Year. When Carter is he believes that sports can bring cultures Service Award. heads overseas to compete while gaining not leading his soccer team to CUNYAC and nationalities together like few other Mawyer, who grew up in Brooklyn’s exposure to a foreign country, its people and Championships, he is an Assistant Essex activities of humankind. Bedford-Stuyvesant, demonstrated his cultures. But this is the first such trip for soc- County Prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey. “Do you remember the guy on the pedagogical inclinations early in life. “In cer players, and the CUNY team is being co- Referring to this summer’s trip to South Iranian team, who kicked the goal that the Marcy Projects, the other children coached by Kenichi Africa, Carter said, caused the U.S to lose?” he asked, referring nicknamed me ‘professor,’” he said. Yatsuhashi of the “I believe it will be to the U.S.-Iran match-up in 1998 in France. Malkevitch, also a Brooklyn native, Borough of Manhattan a great cultural “Well, he came and played for one of the has taught at York for nearly four Community College opportunity to see Major League Soccer franchise teams in the decades. He is active in several mathe- and Osborne Carter of another part of the U.S. for a season after that. He eventually matical societies and writes feature the City College of world and play soc- went back to Iran, but the move showed columns for the American Mathemati- New York. cer there.” great sportsmanship and possibilities of cal Society’s Web site. CUNYAC’s execu- The Goodwill peaceful resolutions beyond the soccer field.” tive director Zak Tour has a brief For Yatsuhashi, the love of the game Prof Discovers New Species Ivkovic says the trip history, and CUNY- itself is paramount, more important than City College Biology Professor will be a once-in-a- AC directors hope the politics or the economics of it. But he Borough of Manhat- City College soccer Robert P. lifetime experience for it will continue and admits that not everyone shares his view. tan Community coach Osborne Carter. Anderson has many of the players. even expand. “The business of soccer is beginning to College soccer coach discovered a new “We are thrilled to dominate the sport in an Kenichi Yatsuhashi. species of rodent be able to take this TEAM ROSTER for this summer’s Goodwill tour: alarming way, however,” he found only in the group of student- GOALKEEPERS: Michael Giordano MIDFIELDERS: Jonathan Guenzatti said. “It’s becoming more (Queensborough Community College), northwestern athletes on an educational trip of a lifetime,” (Brooklyn College), Kafui Kouakou about career goals than Ivkovic said. (York College) Caner Yilmaz (Baruch College), Hirofumi any sense of teamwork or mountains of Takeuchi (John Jay College of Criminal Costa Rica. “Aside from playing friendly games, we DEFENDERS: Roger Gonzalez (City even national pride. It can College of New York), Dave Justice), Alberto Tortosa (Manhattan The descrip- are excited to conduct a series of clinics for be about both, I suppose, Lovercheck (Hunter College), Clint Community College), Elysee Vilsaint tion of the new kids and learn about the South African cul- (Manhattan Community College), Juan but I’m watching it ture, history and scores of languages while McGregor (Medgar Evers College), becoming more and more species of spiny Robert Anderson Thomas Murdoch (Baruch College), P. Gomez (City College of New York) spreading good will from all New Yorkers.” about the money.” pocket mouse Jhonny Osorio (Queensborough FORWARD: Lindel Pope (Kingsborough appeared in the March 16 issue of Kenichi Yatsuhashi — or Kenni, as he Community College), Dukens Riche Community College), Daniel Rendon But at CUNY, he said, American Museum Novitates, a journal prefers to be called — and Carter were (York College), Garfield Thomas (City Tech), Marcin Buk (City Tech) soccer is still being played published by the American Museum of chosen as co-coaches because their respec- (Brooklyn College) for the love of it. Natural History. It was coauthored with tive teams won their CUNY divisions, Dr. Robert M. Timm of the University BMCC leading the community colleges of Kansas. with an .808 overall win percentage, and CCNY Track Women are National Champs The new discovery belongs to the City College leading the senior colleges Heteromyinae group, one of three with a .684 percentage. lecia Watson of City College was the national champion this spring in the triple subfamilies of the rodent family Hetero- Yatsuhashi came to his lower Manhattan jump, with an effort of 40’11”. Her leap was nearly six inches ahead of her closest myidae, whose granivorous (seed- community college via a circuitous route, A competitor. Watson, a junior, was also on the City College relay team that set a eating) members live in a wide variety landing his job as BMCC’s soccer coach new national record. of habitats, from deserts of the western just before the beginning of the 2001sea- “This was the perfect way to U.S. to the rainforests of northern son. As fate would have it, the coach at the cap off a scintillating year,” said South America. time was stuck in Peru with passport prob- CCNY head coach Lyndon lems. Yatsuhashi came through in that George, speaking of the perfor- New Psych Society President coach’s place and stayed on. mance of the women’s track Vincent Prohaska of Lehman’s psy- Before coming to BMCC, Yatsuhashi and field team at the 2006 chology faculty is president-elect of Psi worked for the New York State Soccer NCAA Division III competi- Chi, the National Honor Society in Association, which sent him to work at tions, held at Benedictine Psychology. He will take office in several soccer training camps that recruited University in Lisle, Ill. August and will serve as national professionals. The 4 x 100 meters relay president for a year. “I was coaching coaches and the New team set a new NCAA Champi- Psi Chi has more than 1,000 chap- York State Select Team,” Yatsuhashi onship record with a time of ters around the country. explained. “They send players to the U.S 45.98 seconds. The other three Professor Prohaska and his students National team, so I was coaching the best members of the team were often participate in workshops and players in the state.” Mechelle Barnwell, Sharnalee research panels at Psi Chi regional and Growing up an athlete in Japan, where Stewart and Jodyann Raymond. national convention programs. baseball is the most popular sport, Yatsu- CUNYAC Executive hashi knew he’d have to leave the country Director Zak Ivkovic said Hon. Ph.D. to BCC Pres. for a shot at playing soccer professionally. CUNY has been raking in Bronx Community College President “Baseball was too boring for me,” he medals in tracks in recent years. Carolyn G. Williams has been awarded explained. “There was too much standing “Track has been by far our an honorary doctorate of humane let- around. I needed a sport with action.” most accomplished sport ters by Quinnipiac University. So, at age 17, Yatsuhashi moved to nationally in recent history. Quinnipiac President John L. Lahey Brazil, where he trained with the Youth Every year we get well over 200 bestowed the honorary degree on Academy. At 20, he went on to play All-Americans,” he said, refer- Williams at the University’s 75th Division II. Despite his passion for the ring to athletes who finish Undergraduate Commencement, held sport, Yatsuhashi left Brazil and moved to among the top eight competi- recently in Hamden, Conn. Among the New York, where he made the decision to tors in their respective events. other honorary degree recipients at the stop pursuing a career as a professional Quinnipiac graduation event was New soccer player. Alecia Watson, NCAA champion York City Police Commissioner It’s Yatsuhashi’s coaching experience, his triple jumper, is one of City Raymond W. Kelly. ease in foreign settings, and his obvious College’s track and field stand- dedication to the students that will help outs.

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BOOK TALK OF THECITY Sisterly Hospitals and Brotherly Lodging Places 50 Percent Americans By Gary Schmidgall n his book, The 50% American: tion, setting standards of care, as well as center, temple, hostel, and embassy that IImmigration and National Identity in providing the nursing. was built by members of ethnic communi- an Age of Terror, Stanley Renshon wo members of Hunter College’s Part of the impetus for the Sisters’ entry ties from one of China’s far- or near-flung explores the national ramifications of department of history have recently into hospital work was a feeling that provinces just outside the walls of Beijing’s personal loyalties (Georgetown Tproduced retrospects on the heydays Catholics were not being well served in Imperial and Forbidden Cities (the “center” University Press, October 2005). of two venerable civic institutions that the only other hospitals in town, the pub- of Belsky’s title). Renshon, a political science professor once flourished in world capitals on oppo- lic Bellevue and the private New York These huiguan (pronounced ‘whey- at Lehman College, looks at an interest- site sides of the globe: New York City’s Hospital, where Protestant chaplains had gwahn’), Belsky demonstrates, were impor- ing fact of life in this country — that flourishing Catholic charitable hospitals of the upper hand. It was also felt that newly tant in sustaining regional ethnic identities many Americans have dual citizenship — the late 19th- and early arrived immigrants, notably the among those compatriots who, in order to and he examines how such people mani- 20th-century Catholic Irish, were seriously under- interact with the Imperial government and fest patriotism. His finding: that heartfelt and the served (all the fairly small new bureaucracy, found themselves temporarily emotions underlie true allegiances. native-place Catholic hospitals were situated in resident in Beijing. They were also concen- “Citizenship without emotional lodges of immigrant communities). trated in a particular area near one of the attachment is the civic equivalent of a Imperial McCauley’s narrative is divided city gates called Xuannan. one-night stand,” says Renshon. China. into chapters on the early founda- Picture, if you will, every state having a Between tions, the communities of sisters, dedicated cultural center/chamber of com- Images of the Blonde 1875 and the care and treatment they merce building (corporately owned by its n I’m No Angel: The 1900, there offered, hospital finances, and the citizens) planted in, say, the Anacostia IBlonde in Fiction and was explosive sisters’ response to the challenges neighborhood a few miles southeast of the Film, Ellen Tremper growth in the of modernization. Along the way Capitol in Washington. Some lodges boast- shows how the image of number of hos- there are some ed gardens, altars to regional deities, opera the blonde was remod- pitals in the passages that stages, and libraries. Others established eled over the past two U.S.—from less cause a read- cemeteries for those who never made it centuries and how it than 200 to near- er to sigh back home. kept pace with changes ly 4,000. No wistfully.In Speaking of home, Belsky suggests as an in the ways that women church contribut- the early days, underlying raison d’etre for native-place lived their lives. ed more to this we are told, lodges the fact that “since ancient times Tremper, chair of the English upsurge than the “Payment was Chinese people have honored an affection Department at Brooklyn College, demon- Catholic Church, never a for one’s native place.” It is striking, he adds, strates through the novels and films she which sponsored its first one in St. requirement.” “that in classical Chinese poetry expressions explores that fair hair and its traditional Louis in 1832. And no group— McCauley of homesickness are far more prevalent attributes – of patience, pliancy and inno- Bernadette McCauley argues in her notes, “In eleven than themes such as romantic love.” cence – passed through stages that were new book, Who Shall Take Care of of the years The lodges also played an important essential to the evolution of modernity. Our Sick?: Roman Catholic Sisters between 1863 function in maintaining lines of communi- In her book, Tremper also speculates and the Development of Catholic and 1900…about cation (and political control) between about the possible end of blond domi- Hospitals in New York City (Johns half the patients China’s provinces and the Imperial court. nance. Hopkins University Press)— at St. Vincent’s One important function of the lodges was Persecution in Puerto Rico played a more important part in paid something to house provincial candidates for civil ser- this progress than the religious com- toward their care; vice posts, who were obliged to come to uerto Rico under munities of sisters whose story she tells. at least 30 per cent Beijing for examinations. The lodges PColonial Rule, “Like the overwhelming majority of paid in full.” In St. Vincent’s annual budget enjoyed a reputation for respectability, not Political Persecution and Catholic hospitals in the U.S., all of New report for 1862-63 (totaling $24,109.12), least because (until early in the 20th cen- the Quest for Human York’s Catholic hospitals were founded by the cost of “medicines” was $651.78, just a tury) they were exclusively male preserves. Rights, is the best avail- women religious,” McCauley says, using a tad less than “liquors, wines, porter” at The capital was moved from Nanjing to able account in English phrase from the 19th century. They are, $743.56. Pharmaceutical Giant was not Beijing in 1421, and the influx of visitors of political persecution she adds, “properly called sisters, though yet a concept, obviously. was enormous. By 1650 there were 70 in twentieth century commonly referred to (inaccurately) as If McCauley’s tale is largely an inspiring lodges, and this number grew to 385 by Puerto Rico. nuns” – the latter being cloistered within one of gallant and intrepid public service, 1907, just four years before the Empire So says Andrés Torres, convents. her epilogue offers a disheartening brief fell. The life-span of some of these lodges co-editor of The Puerto Rican Movement: The first Catholic hospital in the city, sketch of shaky hospital finances, closures, was more than 500 years, and they were Voices from the Diaspora, writing about St. Vincent’s, was opened in 1849 by the and mergers, a trend she says began around by no means unique to Beijing: Belsky esti- Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule, which Sisters of Charity, the first indigenous com- 1965. And so it goes: Sister Angela’s own mates that there were as many as 2,000 was co-edited by Ramón Bosque-Pérez, a munity of women religious in the nation. St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, as it lodges in 300 other cities. researcher at Hunter College’s Center for Its beginnings were modest – serving about is now corporately known, filed for Beijing’s lodges went into a tailspin after Puerto Rican Studies, and José Javier Colón 300 patients annually at bankruptcy protec- Chang Kai-shek moved the Republic’s cap- Morera of the University of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule con- first and 6,000 fifty One Hunter College tion last year. Just ital back to Nanjing in 1927. But their real years later. Thanks to this May The New demise came with the communist takeover tains eleven chapters written mostly by various orders, including history book explores the York Times reported in 1949, the Maoists calling them “feudal political scientists, historians, sociologists the Franciscan, that St. Vincent’s is remnants.” Intent on homogenizing the and lawyers. It includes a foreword by Misericordia, and history of Catholic trying to sell two political and cultural landscape, not cele- Congressman José E. Serrano. Dominican Sisters,as hospitals in New York, hospitals in Queens, brating China’s ethnic diversity, the Serrano says the book, published by well as the Sisters of St. Mary Immaculate Communists confiscated all huiguan prop- the State University of New York Press, Joseph, there were 14 while another studies and St. John’s. erty in the 1950s. shows how U.S. and Puerto Rican agen- Catholic hospitals in the And while the Surprisingly, Belsky reports that some cies silenced dissenters on the island. city by 1904. the ’lodging places’ of closing of Catholic lodges are still to be seen, though mostly Law Enforcement Crises St. Vincent’s hospital churches and schools in dilapidated condition (in a postscript old China. hy Law Enforcement Organizations is roughly contemporary have been in the he includes several pictures he took on a Fail: Mapping the Organizational with that other most visible Catholic edi- news recently, the trend, as McCauley 2004 trip). W Fault Lines in Policing examines how fice, St. Patrick’s, and McCauley notes that explains, is also playing out in the once He notes that one province, Shanxi, crises occur regularly among common the first administrator of St. Vincent’s was thriving metropolitan hospital system of actually made a successful claim to the fault lines in police agencies. Sister Angela Hughes, the sister of John Catholic sisters. municipal government for the return of its Analyzing a variety of cases, Professor Hughes, the first archbishop of New York. lodge. It was handed over, Belsky wryly p Patrick O’Hara of John Jay College of St. Vincent’s was directed by a Sister of ichard Belsky’s Localities at the notes, because the mayor of Beijing at the Criminal Justice furnishes insight into the Charity for 140 years, until 1990. Center: Native Place, Space, and time was a native of Shanxi. effects of such factors as institutional In a time when women had almost no Power in Late Imperial Beijing As for the future…well, think Penn R racism and sexual harassment. visibility in corporate, real estate, or (Harvard University Asia Center; East Station. Belsky writes, “as real estate invest- The book, published by Carolina accounting executive suites, McCauley Asian Monograph #258) explores the long ment has transformed even the relatively Academic Press, offers guidance for spot- writes, “these women assumed primary history of the huiguan — which Belsky unfashionable Xuannan area, more and ting so-called “malignant” individuals in responsibility for the nuts and bolts of chooses to translate as native-place lodges. more of the old structures have been torn the law enforcement community, whose Catholic hospital development,” raising A huiguan lodge was something of a com- down to make way for the urban failings can infect a whole agency. money, managing daily and building opera- bination chamber of commerce, cultural landscape of 21st-century Beijing.”

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Bronx Puts Premium on Film n early June, Bronx Community Campuses Open Their Doors for Film Shoots, College student Ramon “Ferbie” IVazquez returned from the Cannes By Cathy Jedruczek Film Festival, having seen first-hand how the world’s best movies are mar- n the 2004 remake of “The Manchurian keted in the early stages. Candidate,” Denzel Washington, who “The experience expanded my per- Iplays an army officer and veteran of the spective on what I can aspire to in the first Gulf War, is interrogated in the con- moviemaking business,” said Vazquez, ference room at John Jay College. who is a media tech major, sometimes In the 2004 biographical film “Kinsey,” also referred to as film major. Liam Neeson, playing pioneering sex Vazquez won the trip after writing researcher Alfred Kinsey, lectures in the the winning essay in a competition Rotunda at Bronx Community College. sponsored by the college. Over the years, a number of CUNY The film major is part of the campuses have served as locations for Communications Arts and Sciences Hollywood productions and independent Department at Bronx Community. The films. Recently however, there has been a program maintains state-of-the-art facil- concerted effort by the University to open ities to prepare students to enter the up more of the campuses to film crews world of media production. and actors. Every year, in early-mid June, the Ron Spalter, Deputy Chief Operating college holds its Film & Video Festival, Officer, came up with an idea to establish in which college filmmakers compete a centralized office to facilitate that end, for $2,500 cash awards from Kodak and and two years ago the CUNY Film Avid Technology. Location Initiative was born. This year’s event, on June 13, fea- “He began to explore the concept of tured about a dozen five-minute movies increasing the individual colleges’ opportu- made completely by students, including nities to generate additional revenue from the following titles — “Iron Shuffle,” serving as film and TV locations,” said Kitty “The Talent Show,” “Community Preston, a key administrator in the College,” and “Lucifer’s Breed.” University’s attempts to boost productivity. Also on the list was Vazquez’s Preston said that a college can earn any- “Master’s Revenge,” which is about a where from $10,000 to $40,000 for a film student who seeks revenge on those “shoot,” with the precise amount depend- responsible for the death of one of his ing, among other things, on the length of teachers. time of the shoot. Created with very little in the way of In its attempt to attract movie produc- Alicia Keys at Kingsborough Community College recently for the filming of the upcoming movie financial backing, student productions ers, CUNY has teamed up with Mayor “The Nanny Diaries,” in which she stars along with Scarlett Johansson. reflect the multitude of voices in the Michael Bloomberg’s Office of Film, metropolitan area, often addressing per- Theatre & Broadcasting, an outreach that aside $30 million annually for tax incen- inventory for scouts to look at.…” tinent social and artistic issues. lately has begun to yield bigger and sweet- tives to aid local film and television pro- The CUNY Initiative is there to assist Students throughout CUNY are er fruit. ductions. Bloomberg has a commissioner of all CUNY colleges in marketing their cam- making strides toward recognition in a “The Giuliani administration was scat- film and theater, Katherine Oliver, who in puses, and the effort will be made easier in fast growing media environment. tered on this issue; there was no tax incen- turn has a special liaison — Elias coming weeks when CUNY’s Film “Showing films is as important as tive, people were recreating New York in Scoropanos — to help CUNY match cam- Location office launches its website, which making them. Audience feedback is Toronto,” said Preston. puses with filmmakers. “will feature each of the campuses digital- invaluable in developing a clear sense of Things changed rapidly, Preston said, “Our philosophy dovetailed with the ly, both in thumbnail sketches and in what one wants to do as a film artist,” when Bloomberg became mayor and began mayor’s office,” said Preston. “It was a kind gallery format, to facilitate searches…by remarked Professor Jeffrey Wisotsky, to take an interest in boosting the $5 bil- of nifty, magical work that happened.” location scouts,” said Preston. director of the Media Technology lion a year local entertainment industry. Preston added, “With 17 different loca- A few campuses already stand out as Program. He recently announced he was setting tions and 19 schools, we have quite a large special success stories. Kingsborough City MFA Student Captures an ‘Oscar’ at Academy Awards Ceremony in Beverly Hills

By Cathy Jedruczek landmark film “Chasing Amy,” Davidson. “We made quantum introduced Vidal, he announce leaps as a small program.…” ity College grad student Carmen that he was overjoyed to see Established in 1972 to “support Vidal Balanzat woke up one recent someone from City College in and encourage excellence in film- Cmorning to learn that one of her the house. making at the collegiate level,” the wildest dreams had come true. Her seven- The New Jersey-reared Student Academy Awards gave a minute film, “6 a.m.,” which depicts New Smith then shouted out, “F___ head start to filmmakers such as York City in its early morning hours, was Harvard!” as a startled Vidal Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, John chosen as a finalist in the highly prestigious laughed along with everyone Lasseter and Trey Parker. They all Student Academy Awards. else, and then graciously took received Oscar nominations earlier Then on June 10 came word that Vidal the medal, thanking her fami- this year. Over the past three had received a silver medal for the film, ly, her friends, her crew and, decades, 33 past Student Academy along with a cash prize of $3,000. of course, her alma mater City Award winners went on to win The so-called Student Oscars are College, known to many over Oscar nominations. administered by the Academy of Motion the years as the poor person’s [The gold-medal winning film Picture Arts and Sciences, which every Harvard. in Vidal’s “alternative” category year gives out the industry’s most coveted “It was really impressive to was “Perspective,” done by prize — the Oscar statuettes — to the best be called and stand in front of students Travis Hatfield and directors and actors. all those people, with the Samuel Day of Ball State While Vidal received a medal rather lights in your face and not Carmen Vidal Balanzat, a recent City College MFA film grad, receives University in Indiana.] than a statuette, the thrill for her was the even being able to see the her “Student Oscar” from director Kevin Smith in Beverly Hills. Smith Vidal wrote and directed “6 same as it has been for Ang Lee and other people,” said Vidal, a native of said he was thrilled that a CUNY student won the award. a.m.” as group project for her directors on Oscar night. Spain, who had received her “Producing and Directing The Academy flew her to Beverly Hills MFA from City’s Media Arts program a Vidal’s award as a breakthrough for his Documentary” class. Other students who for the awards ceremony, which was held week and a half previously. relatively young M.F.A. program. collaborated with her were: Octavio at Samuel Goldwyn Theater. When Kevin Professor Dave Davidson, M.F.A. “It is a golden key that puts you on the Warnock-Graham, director of photogra- Smith, who wrote and directed the 1997 Program Director at City College, sees other side of the doorway to success,” said phy; Sara Booth, editor; Ira Blanchard, sec-

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Gaining Revenue for Programs and Exposure Prof is Guggenheim Fellow ichael Gitlin, a film and media studies professor at Hunter Community announcements. rary exit and stairwell built. The FDNY MCollege, has been named a College, for one, has “I have a basic philosophy that when also issued a permit for the use of propane 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, an award even been featured people want to use the campus you have and stayed on the scene to reduce even that will support his ongoing film pro- on the Mayor’s web- to be film friendly,” said Pina Martinelli, further the unlikely possibility of a prob- ject about philosophy of science issues. site as the city’s film Director of Administrative & Events lem with the tanks. The fellowship is one of the most pres- location of the Management Services at Bronx Across the river, over at City College, tigious in the arts and sciences, and Gitlin month. Community College, who has been in many scouts have wanted to use the cam- says it will bring his current film project Kingsborough charge of managing the shoots for eleven pus, especially The Great Hall with its closer to completion. He describes the recently was select- years. “It comes naturally to me. I get a lot impressive gothic architecture. But the work as “a kind of ethnographic film ed as the location of repeat performers. Some have been here campus has been undergoing substantial about Young Earth Creationists, dealing for a film based on 3 or 4 times.” repairs and has been unable to accommo- with philosophy of science issues.” the book The Nanny A lot of movie stars have rolled through date them. Gitlin is one of 187 artists, scholars, Diaries. In May, the Bronx campus over the years, Pierce That will soon change, said Anthony and scientists selected by the John Alicia Keys and Brosnan while shooting “The Thomas Crown Achille, the college’s film liaison person. A Simon Guggenheim Memorial Scarlett Johansson, Affair,” Denzel Washington for “The Siege,” number of areas are opening back up and Foundation for this year’s awards, from the stars of this Russell Crowe while shooting “A Beautiful will be made available for filming. a pool of almost 3,000 applicants. The major motion pic- Mind,” and most recently, Robert De Niro “The campus itself is very beautiful,” fellowships are awarded to applicants ture, filmed a col- while shooting “The Good Shepherd,” which said Achille. “On a rainy day it looks who have exceptional records of past lege graduation is yet to premiere in the theaters. medieval. The scenery is what attracts achievement and are taking their work scene in the quad Martinelli said that “The Good them. It is sort of secluded and quieter and in especially promising directions. area. Shepherd” was the most complicated shoot it has an Ivy League look. We have started Gitlin’s films have been shown at Paul Winnick, she has ever dealt with and one that took getting a lot of requests and through the numerous film festivals and other venues Kingsborough’s film the longest to arrange. The production CUNY Initiative and Bloomberg we are both nationally and abroad, including liaison, said more company changed the filming dates fifteen getting more exposure.” the Toronto International Film Festival, and more movie times, even as Martinelli had an array of Hunter College has had quite a bit of the London Film Festival, the New York scouts are learning other important events to coordinate. film activity and exposure on its campus. In Video Festival at Lincoln Center, the about the campus “I am very good at juggling, but it was 2004, “The Interpreter” movie crew used 1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, and from the mayor’s very stressful,” said Martinelli, who had the athletic facilities at the college’s on Independent Focus, a PBS television office. exchanged 200 phone calls and 170 e-mails Brookdale campus – located at E. 25th program. His latest film, “The Birdpeo- Up in the Bronx, by the time the filming finally took place. Street and the FDR Drive – for one of its ple,” premiered in January 2005 at the at Lehman College, Because Gould Memorial Library scenes. Lorraine Gallucci of Hunter said she Museum of Modern Art in New York. the TV series “Law & Building is a landmark, an architect had to has turned down offers from some produc- Order” started shoot- assess the structure’s every tiny feature and tion companies ing scenes about 15 determine any damages that might result because of con- years ago. Among the recent productions at from a shoot. De Niro, the director for flicts with other Lehman have been the movies “Pink “The Good Shepherd,” filmed a ritual scene events taking Panther,” “All Fall Down,” and “White in the Rotunda of the Library Building. place, or because Haven,” as well as a number of commercials, Martinelli said that she denied some the crew’s pres- photo shoots and television shows. “Good Shepherd” shooting requests ence would be “We have been pretty consistent for because they were too risky for her staff too disruptive. many, many years and many people come and the film’s crew. Sometimes working Over on the back. It’s by word of mouth,” said Rene M. with the crew was time-consuming and west side of Rotolo, Campus Facilities Officer at complicated. Manhattan, John Lehman. For example, the ritual scene involved Jay College in Meanwhile, Bronx Community College the use of propane tanks. This was a prob- 2003 allowed has had over 14 feature films shot on its lem because there’s only one way in and “The Manchuri- campus, and over a dozen other smaller out of the Rotunda. Eventually the Fire an Candidate” productions, such as commercials, music Depart-ment was called in, and a window crew to film an videos, photo shoots and public service was removed from one office and a tempo- interrogation scene in its roundtable con- ference room. rds Ceremony in Beverly Hills The same year, “A Beautiful Mind” starring Russell Crowe in 2001 was one of the movies the college also filmed at Bronx Community College. More recently Robert De Niro directed ond camera, and Piotr Kajustra, producer. for the Oscars. permitted a the filming of scenes for “The Good Shepard” on the college’s campus. Vidal said the crew enjoyed getting up at 4 The student documentary films shown Japanese compa- a.m. to shoot at Central Park and the at the Docworks festival — held at the ny producing a Fulton Fish Market, to capture planes tak- CUNY Graduate Center — ranged in weekly series ing off at JFK, to film the A train cutting length from 1 minute to 17 minutes and called “Astonishing TV” to use the college’s Money, of course, is an important part through the red sun in Howard Beach, and were produced in film programs at science lab to shoot an experiment scene. of the deals with film producers. The bene- to get shots of the Brooklyn Bridge emerg- Queens, City, Hunter and Brooklyn “It was the most memorable film shoot,” fits go beyond the amount of money ing from darkness and entering the early Colleges. They represented a panorama of said Nancy Marshall from John Jay about spelled out in the contract. As Gallucci morning sunlight. life going on in the city, including, for “Astonishing TV.” “They did not speak said, the income “helps us support academ- “6 a.m.” falls into a sub-genre of films example, a film showing members of the English, but we were able to communicate ic endeavors, buy computers or supplies about cities and draws on Walter New York Polar Bear Club swimming in and they walked away with a very good for the Art Department.” Ruttman’s “Berlin: Symphony of a Great the freezing waters off Coney Island. feeling about John Jay.” But the arrangements go way beyond City” and Joris Iven’s “Rain,” according to Professor Danto says the technology Marshall added of her experiences so far that. Colleges also have had production Davidson. In the regional competition pre- revolution has made documentary film- with producers: “Some people don’t know companies donate money to academic ceding the national one, the film was making cheaper and has, in a sense, what John Jay is about, so when I show departments, renovate buildings or allow moved to the “Alternative” category, democratized it, allowing greater numbers them the facilities I also give them a brief students to be involved in filming as assis- because of its “strong visuals and medita- of students and others to express them- history of the college…We feel good about tants or extras. tive quality,” Davidson added. selves through it. having them here and I write them a thank Winnick of Kingsborough sees film “6 a.m.” had been shown in March at “I graduated from NYU in film in ’88,” you letter after receiving a check.” shoots as having positive impact on the Docworks-NYC, the first annual festival of said Danto. “You couldn’t think of making The goal of the CUNY Film Initiative is students. student documentary works by CUNY a film for less than $10,000. Digital format to attract more companies to the colleges “Money is one benefit, but it was an students. democratized the entire industry. Many and to make the campuses film-friendly excitement for the college,” said Winnick Davidson, and Annette Danto, Professor don’t have trust funds and access to 40 places. of “The Nanny Diaries” shoot. “Students of Film and Television Production at million [dollars]. The [digital format] has “It is building slowly,” said Martinelli. got to see a movie being produced and the Brooklyn College, coordinated the festival made it possible for [students] to develop “When I started here we made little or no electricity was amazing. When students see and they can now claim, with good justifi- a voice and use this medium to make money. It has grown considerably but it the college is involved they appreciate the cation, that Docworks is a launching pad movies. So it’s an exciting time.” has to grow more.” college experience even more.”

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Summer Offerings of Queensborough La Guardia Kingsborough Holocaust Introduction to KCC Summer Andy Warhol, and More Resource American Sign Concert Center Language Series The Jewish 5:45-7:15 PM July 1, 8, 15, 22 aybe you’ve fantasized about “It’s mainly for our students, but it’s Community in Free 8 PM Free writing your own one-person open to the community,” said Ross, speak- Poland. Mshow. Crafting restaurant-worthy ing of the summer events. Ross, who’s on Now - Sept. 30 hors d’oeuvres. Rehearsing a musical pro- the faculty of Lehman’s Department of LEHMAN FILM FESTIVAL duction. Learning to sell real estate, be a Journalism Communications and Theatre, Graduate Center rescue hero, sail the Brooklyn coastline. said the summer program is the college’s After the Fall: Reality Lehman Cinema Under the Stars and the New Romanian Theatre The Bronx Independent July 19 (“Night of the Living Dead”) Or maybe way of saying, July 26 (“A Tribute to Film Comedians”) Play readings & discussion Film Festival you simply want “Come and July 14 and15 August 1 (To be decided) Two evenings: Gianina Carbunariu, 8 PM in Lehman College 8:30 PM in Lehman College to know more look at the Bogdan Georgescu, and Vera Ion. — about Andy beautiful cam- Amphitheatre Amphitheatre. 6:30 PM $5 Free Warhol, mar- pus you have Free itime careers or here… Come the Romanian and learn.” Kingsborough Bronx Bronx TRIP TO EGYPT theater. Throughout Refresher Hors d’oeuvres Write your own This summer, the CUNY Sailing preparation one-person Medgar Evers those dreams are system, there’s 9 AM 6 PM show Re-Educating the African in the 21 Century: 12 Noon Through Balance, Peace and Justice doable through- an intriguing Study Tour of Egypt out CUNY’s 19- array of other with Conferences in the evening campus system. offerings, many July 22- August 5 The City of them also University’s July free of charge, and August cal- to sample this MUSIC HISTORY endars brim summer. Queens Louis Armstrong House with cultural LaGuardia Guided 40-minute tours leave every hour offerings, camp Community Tuesday-Friday: 10 AM-5 PM Saturday and Sunday: 12 Noon-5 PM and college College, for (last tour everyday is at 4 PM) Now— September 1, $8, $6, Members Free classes for kids, Warhol’s ‘Superman’ print example, is and serious lec- offering a tures. quick course in It’s a chance not only to learn new skills American Sign Language. The Graduate Queens ART Queens but to sample the breadth of the Center is presenting “After the Fall: Reality Queens Jazz EXHIBITS Art Center University’s year-round offerings: All of the and the New Romanian Theatre,” a two- Festival Light Listened: Glass Works 3 PM Queens Now - July 31 community colleges will hold open houses evening program of play readings and dis- Free Godwin-Ternbach Museum Queensborough on July 11 and Aug. 16, providing informa- cussion. For the water lovers, the Now - July 31, 2006 Louis Art Gallery tion on academic programs, admission and “Refresher Sailing” class can be taken right Armstrong: An American Jazz Icon Andy Warhol, Graphic Prints Free Now - September 30 financial aid, and a venue for on-the-spot on the Brooklyn waterfront, at Kings- admission. And from the Bronx to borough. Brooklyn and Queens, and from lower For those oriented towards the visual Manhattan to Staten Island, this summer arts, Queensborough Community College’s will showcase not only serious subject Art Gallery in Bayside features “Andy KIDS CAMPS Baruch OPEN matter but CUNY’s fun side. Warhol, Graphic Prints” showing some 80 Summer Camp in HOUSES Lehman CSI LaGuardia Start with the arts. There’s Kingsbor- pieces by the avant-garde artist once Lehman Manhattan Ages 6-14, Theater Play S. I. 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Queens College’s Louis Armstrong Kingsborough College for Children Brooklyn College College for Kids PreK - 12 “Of Mice and Men” and “Dr. Faustus.” For House is continuing its 40-minute guided Children’s University Ages 7-12, grades 2-7, children, there’s a puppet show, “The tour of the late jazz composer’s former Grades 1-6 Mon -Thurs, 2 or 4 mornings Queens College People vs. The Big Bad Wolf.” residence. 10AM to 3PM July 5 - College for Kids, H.S. Aug. 10 Prep, KinderKamp, Sports, Music Check for various details

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