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SchoolS ofthe StarSA mAp o A-List
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at Hofstra,I became amorning person
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Grant Kretchik, Pace University
Growing up, Grant Kretchik was lured to the stage by the glitz and
glamour of the entertainment industry. But it soon became clear that
acting, like any job, could be both tiring and dificult.
But, Kretchik, 31, was undaunted.
To me, this work is like oxygen, he said. Its like my family or
friends; its the place Im most comfortable; it forces me to be moreaware.
Kretchik graduated from Pace University in 2002 with a Bachelors
degree in Speech Communication, Media Studies and Theatre, and in
2005, from the New School University with an MFA in Acting. Having
guided drama projects for friends and underclassmen throughout his
student life, he was easily able to combine directing and teaching with
his acting career.
While serving as the head of Pace Universitys BFA Acting Program
and a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor, Kretchik is also
responsible for spearheading the Performing Arts departments travel
course to Greece and Italy. Now, Kretchik tries to channel personal
mentors like veteran theatre director, Stuart Vaughan, while remindinghis students that acting is not merely a degree or career, its a lifestyle.
I try to raise their awareness about the community at large, said
Kretchik, a resident of Jersey City. In order to do that through art, they
need to understand and create a personal relationship with it.
Kretchik believes that his position makes him responsible for
encouraging his students to contribute to their communities. To this
end, he makes every effort to bridge the gap between the classroom
and work place and also looks into opportunities for outreach
programs through partnerships with organizations such as Broadway
Green Alliance.
Having recently returned from the Austin Film Festival where he
celebrated the world premiere of a recent project, a romantic comedy
titled When Harry Tries to Marry, Kretchik is spending up to 15 hours
a day in rehearsal in addition to his teaching schedule. He is currently
assisting stage director, producer and Tony-nominee Michael Greif,
in preparation for the irst national Broadway tour of Next to Normal
starting on Nov. 28, while also directing an adaptation of A Christmas
Carol with Pace Universitys undergraduate performing arts and dancemajors, which is scheduled to debut on Dec. 8 at the Schimmel Theater.
When asked to name a favorite project, Kretchik replied, Its really
whichever one Im working on, at the time.
Alice Chun, Parsons The New School for Design
From an early age, Alice Chuns relationship with her father, an
architect, and her mother, an interior designer, cultivated a deep-rooted
appreciation for the creativity involved in the design process.
Today Chun, 45, a practicing architect, leads design studios in
Master of Architecture and Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design
programs at Parsons The New School for Design, where she is also anAssistant Professor of Design, Material Culture and Fabrication, and the
Director of the Angelo Donghia Materials Library and Study Center.
After graduating with an MA in Architecture from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1993, Chun happened upon teaching when a professor
she was for as a Teaching Assistant was forced to spend several months
recuperating from an accident. A successful semester lying solo in the
classroom resulted in her being invited back to teach her own design
studio.
My role is to help students become aware of their own potential,
she said. By creating a dialogue with them, I want to be a threshold for
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By Rhea MahBuBani
A closer look at how three proessors are bringing their passionsinto the classroomand getting results.
Grant Kretchik.
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my students to see what theyre capable of.
A proponent of connecting academia and professional practice,Chun advocates rethinking the education meted out to todays youth.
Why not create our own projects, empower ourselves and our
students, and reach out to clients rather than waiting for projects to
come to us? she asked.
According to Chun, her belief in humanitarian design, adaptable
architecture and cross-disciplinary relationships amidst different
branches of design make her somewhat of a radical. Today, much of
her work is centered on aiding crises-ridden communities through
initiatives that offer long-term progress via housing, education and
health infrastructure.
With the aim of creating a broader-reaching educational and
professional experience, Chun partnered with graduate students
from Columbia University and set up a non-proit organization called
Studio Unite. Rather than merely providing housing or a sole health
clinic, the team functions as a design platform connecting vulnerable
communities with a high level of design expertise and resources,
serving as a catalyst for the growth of sustainable communities
worldwide.
Chun is currently teaching a design studio at Parsons that is focused
on creating vocational school in Lagos,
Nigeria, to be built as a project of Studio
Unite.
Im driven by a sense of
empowerment and am really inspired by
helping communities, she said. I want mystudents to also experience that.
On Nov. 18, Chun is organizing
a fundraiser integrating fashion,
architecture and humanitarian design,
which involves Studio Unite, Parsons The
New School for Design and United Nude, a
shoe design company. Patrons can expect
silent auction items donated by designers
such as Marc Jacobs and Diane von
Furstenberg.
Charles Merguerian, Hoftsra University
Charles Merguerian is fascinated by rocks.
The texture, the colors, the minerals, the density, he said. Theres
just something special about them.
At the age of four, when Merguerians family moved to Queens, rocks
in the nearby ields caught his attention. What started as a childhood
hobby of became the foundation for a successful-35 year career as a
professional geologist.
Merguerian, 61, Chairman and Professor of Geology at Hofstra
University and the Director of Duke Geological Laboratory in Westbury,
NY, believes that rocks are portals into the history of the earth.
Despite publishing a fair amount of geological data about California
and Connecticut, Merguerians area of expertise is the geology of New
York City, an interest that he has nurtured since his childhood.
I work on the oldest rock layers which are about a billion years old
up to the most recent soil layers which are 10,000 years and younger,
mostly formed during the glacial periods, he said.
Merguerian irst taught as a Boy Scout master and then transitionedto academic teaching at CUNY in 1972. Since then, he has taught at
CUNY, Columbia University, NYU, The New School, and Hofstra.
Based on his experience as a professional jazz and blues musician,
Merguerian likens teaching to performing in front of a crowd.
There is no point in knowing something if you cant present it, he
said. The ability to present things well is very important to me, so as a
result I spent a lot of time on that.
At Hoftsra, Merguerian teaches a course called Cartographic
Techniques in which students learn how to draw diagrams and maps,
create power points and construct attention-grabbing presentations
with embedded audio and video.
I always tell my students that you want to be known for the quality
of your work, he said. Thats my basic mantra.
Along with instruction, Merguerian makes every effort to be a
role model for his students, whom he considers no different from his
own children, and provides emotional support and understanding.
He also ensures that his courses include ieldwork, complete with
opportunities for effective research and report preparation.
Merguerian is interested in the excavated
World Trade Center site because it allows a
peephole into Manhattans rock formation.
The lack of naturally exposed rock south of
59th Street makes the information obtained
from drilling and building excavations a
novelty, he says.Soon, Merguerian will be mapping out
areas in Isham Park as part of his involvement
with the electricity-transmitting Con-Edison
tunnel connecting Yonkers and the Inwood
section of Manhattan. His passion feeds his
productivity.
I dont work; I just continue to do what I
enjoy, he said. I dont need motivation. If you
are passionate about the things you do, even if
its selling hot dogs, it makes life much better.
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Its mid-fall. For the past few months, New
York City-based educational consultants
Evan Forster and David Thomas have
poured over everything from school lists to
admissions questionsand the answers to
themfor MBA programs across the country.
Now its time for a gear-change to college.
Through the door of their ofice in theFlatiron District, where their consulting irm
Forster-Thomas will see more than a hundred
undergraduate and graduate-bound clients
this year, come high school seniors from the
citys most notable high schools.
One of the irst things the consultants will
tell you is that what is done is done95%
of the admissions process took place in the
three-and-a-half years that bridge the eighth
grade and the present. So relax. Focus. And
start getting the words right on the pages
youll be sending in.
To be an educational consultant in
New York is to occupy at once the role of a
supportive therapist, a stern and unforgiving
coach, and that strict school principal who
looks crazed parents in the eye and
tells them that he is running the show.
So, with the onset of the college Early
Decision deadlines, and the looming general
deadline on the horizon, we return to
Mr. Forster and Mr. Thomas for another
Master Class--this time focusing not on
MBA admissions but addressing the even
more panic-inducing process of applying toundergraduate institutions.
Its evening, and were sitting with
them at their glass conference table to ask
questions on behalf of the young adults (and
their parents) wholl be submitting their
applications in the coming months.
The Educated Observer: Were now well
into November. Most college deadlines
are in the next two months. Where should
undergraduate applicants to be right now
in the application process?
Evan Forster: Those who have applied
Early Decision, youre not done. I cant tell
you how many students have been caught in
this mess of relying on their Early Decision
schooldelaying working on the
rest of the college applications
and then scrambling if they
dont get in to their irst choice.
Dont make this mistake!
Now that the personal
statement and the activity
essay are inished and lockedaway where you cant tinker
with them, the next most
important essay is the one
that asks why you want to
go to this school. We call
this the it essay. To nail
this question, you need
to be researching every
single aspect of the
schools youre applying
to. If the question is, Why do you want to
go to [College of Literature, Science, and the
Arts at Michigan University] and you start
writing about the university as a whole, you
are failing.
David Thomas: If your response to this
question can be dropped into any otherapplication for any other school just by
changing the name of the football mascot,
then youve done a poor job. If your response
works for Emory and for NYU, the schools will
see right through it.
Please elaborate. What are the details an
admissions oficer wants to read about?
Mr. Forster: Let me say this: Not all girls
want red roses. Some like daffodils, while
others even prefer dandelions. And the guy
who takes the time to igure that out is going
to get what he wants. The it essay is your
chance to get the colleges you want. So, show
each school you know what it is all about.
NYU, Cornell, and Colby are all very different
schools, and you cant write a boilerplate it
essay that works for all three.
For starters, think of an upside-down
pyramid: Start your essay with the overall
reason you want to go to this university.
If its University of Pennsylvania, you can
mention that its the Ivy with the heart,which is your overall thesis. Discuss volunteer
opportunities you are drawn to and then go
onto the academics. Note that you visited and
talk about speciic classes, the professors who
taught them, and the research theyre doing
that interests you. Some of this you can get
from the [yawns] Internet, but the details that
really show youve listened to your school are
the ones youll ind by speaking to people who
spend their days there.
ugaa Ala:ea A t eThe authors oMBA Reality Checksharethe dos and donts o the admissions process.
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Mr. Forster and
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If a student hasnt started his or her
application process, what are their
options?
Mr. Forster: First of all, its November, so Id
have to ask, what is going on? Somethings not
right. Is he or she experiencing some sort of
paralyzing fear about leaving home or going
to a new place? Ive seen that before and thats
a real problem. If youre the parent, you need
to sit down with your child and talk about this
out loud...or get professional help.
Mr. Thomas: Proactively, though, you can take
your child on a weekend trip, say to Boston
or the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. They
need to see a few college campuses NOW.
One small, one medium and one big. And take
a Fridayor preferably a Monday off whenclasses are in full swing.
Mr. Forster: In one weekend in Boston, you
could see Boston University, which is big with
no campus and in a city, Boston College--a
more medium-sized school with a beautiful
campus, and Wheaton or Wellesley, on your
way in or out, to get a sense of a smaller, liberal
arts campus. At least this way shell have a
better understanding of which schools to put
on her list if she has to rely mostly on guide
books or internet sites like youniversitytv.com.
But now is the time to wrap up this list. Its
not too late--but do not wait much longer and
if your kid is in this dilemma, then let him or
her apply and visit schools after your child is
acceptedbut deinitely visit!
In terms of blemishes on a transcript,
should undiagnosed A.D.D. as a freshmen,
or a suspension as junior, be included in
the essays?
Mr. Thomas: The same thing goes for
blemishes on transcripts. Applicants needto frame it in the way that he or she wants
the admissions committee to see it. Dont
leave it up to them wonder why you got a
D in Chemistry or a C in English. If this is
an anomaly due to, say, a death, illness or a
learning disability, it better get explained in
that additional information space. But youve
got to keep it brief.
Mr. Forster: Absolutely, yes. They are
going to ind out about the suspension
somehow, so your child better be the one to
frame it for the admissions ofice.
What are big red lags for the essay
writing process? What are some warnings
you have?
Mr. Forster: Essays by committee. Its
what happens when applicants start to pass
their essays around to their mother, father,
sister, best friend, and English teacher. The
truth is, they all want to help you, but theyll
screw you up lovingly. Your mother might not
like the part where you admit to a weakness.
Your father might not like that youre not
talking about tennis. And your English teach
is concerned that you used the word but
to start your second sentence. They chip
away at what makes your essay unique, andit becomes like vanilla. You write your essay.
Then choose one person to help you, and
thats the end of it.
Mr. Thomas: I was just at my high school
reunion--Im not going to say which year-
-and all my friends were asking me about
their kids essays. One friend said that they
were having issues getting all their childs
opinions out of his essays to Princeton and
Amherst. I looked at her and said, Youre
taking the opinions out? Amherst isnt afraid
of opinionsthey welcome them.
What makes a personal statement
great?
Mr. Thomas: A personal story with
extreme speciicity. The admissions oficer has
your resume. This isnt the time to regurgitate
it. They can imagine that lacrosse changed
your life, because theyve heard it a thousand
times. What they dont know is that secret
youve been keeping, or that revelation you had
about yourself or your world based on some
seemingly mundane thing--like the time you
realized your older sister isnt out to get you.
Mr. Forster: Or if she is, youre still going
to love her.
Mr. Thomas: The personal statementis not about proving your worth. Its about
showing an oficer how you think. Its also
about having a voice. An essay that really
makes me feel you, and makes me understand
and relate to an experience, that has a typo in
it, is going to be more successful than a bland
but grammatically correct one.
Mr. Forster: But let me say this: No typos.
Are their dangers in writing about a
volunteer experience in the developingworld for the personal statement?
Mr. Thomas: There are some amazing
essays that fall into this category, but a lot
fall into the trap of something Evan calls the
Its a Small World After All essay. This is the
trip-abroad essay that says Im enlightened
because I inally see that people who look so
different are actually so similar to me. I want
the story about a journey, but I want it to be
about what you learned about yourself, not
about what you learned about the people you
lived with.
Mr. Forster: Dorothy, youve got the red
slippers on, click your own heels. Great stories
are in your own backyard. You dont have
to go halfway across the world for a great
personal statement. And if you did go halfway
across the world, thatd be a great detail for
your activity list, or a shorter answer.
What sets New Yorkers apart from
other applicants you work with?
Mr. Forster: For starters, just by taking the
subway, theyre exposed to a whole lot more
than most kids, and that gives them a very
unique perspective.
But theyre also extremely overproduced.
I had one parent who would literally go visit
the schools and report back to his child. The
child claimed he was too busy. The truth was,
he was in fear. His parents were so involved in
trying to make sure that he was going to the
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quote-on-quote right school, that they boxed
him out of the process. Youd think thats
one-off, but I cant tell you how many other
examples like that Ive seen.
Mr. Thomas: Parents have to let their
children go to college. And that starts at least a
year before the student ever steps foot in their
dorm.
Apart from not overproducing, what
are positive steps a parent can take to
support their child in this process?
Mr. Forster: Go on a separate tour.
[laughs].
Youve got to keep an open mind
here. Theres a whole country illed with
tremendous programs, and yet if you told
a parent on the Upper East Side that theyshould look at Rice University in Texas, theyll
look at you like you just offered them their
irst hit of crack.
To parents reading this article, I have to say
this: Just because youve never heard of, say,
Elon University in North Carolina, it doesnt
mean its not a great school. And it especially
doesnt mean that its not a great school for
your child.
Youve seen a thousand of these essays.
What would you write if you had to write a
personal statement for yourself today?
Mr. Forster: Well, irst lets be honest, back in
19-whenever, my mother wrote my college
essay. She was the original college consultant.
But if I were writing mine today? I would be
writing about taking 100% Responsibility
for everything I am involved in. Recently, the
non-proit organization where I launched a
successful program was taken over by a new
hire. I felt she was dificult to work with andactually hurting the program I had worked
eight hard years to grow. And then I asked
myself, where am I responsible for the current
state of affairs? Did I have a part in making it
dificult for her to do her best? What part of
the problem do I need to take responsibility
for and how will I operate deiantly in the
future? Thatd be a great essay.
Mr. Thomas: I always prefer personal
statements that are revelatory. So, for me?Ive been fascinated by this recent discovery
that old friends used to think I was aloof. I am
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Proessor Yvonne Latty is a journalist, author and nativeNew Yorker. Ater working or the Philadelphia Daily News
and authoring two books on veterans, she is back in the city,developing innovative strategies or documenting lie in herhometown. She currently directs two graduate programs atNew York Universitys Arthur L. Carter Institute o Journalism,Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation. The EducatedObserver caught up with her about the Local East Village, theNYU-New York Times collaboration thats bringing hyperlocal
journalism to city streets.
The Educated Observer: Tell us a little bit about how TheLocal East Village came into existence.
Yvonne Latty: A lot o planning and a lot omeetings. It was developed as a project or Studio
20, which is a graduate concentration o the ArthurL. Carter Institute o Journalism at NYU. Studio20 ocuses on innovation and experimentation in
journalism, as well as orming partnerships withproessional media outlets. It was the concentrationdirector Jay Rosens idea to create a hyperlocalsite in the East Village and his graduate STUDENTSdeveloped the Local East Village and presented itto the New York Times. Im the graduate directoro Reporting New York, a concentration all aboutreporting in the streets, telling stories, usingmultiplatorm strategies to tell stories not beingtold. Ater the Local East Village went live it cameto live in the Reporting New York concentration.
Pro. Brooke Kroeger, Pro. Jason Samuels and The Localseditor, Richard Jones were all heavily involved.
How does the proessional media oce t into theacademic environment?
Its a hyperlocal news room, and NYU is our base. Were aclass and the students in the class report on the East Village.We meet once a week or newsroom meetings, we assignbeats, talk about what were doing and whats going on. Werestill trying to teach, but its the kind o learning Im really bigon: actually doing. The only way you can learn to be a good
journalist is to do journalism. Its not something that can betaught in a classroom, doing ake assignments. So or me this
project is exciting; its brought to lie what I believe in.Thats my model with the Local East Village. Were there,were a part o the community and its really interestingneighborhood, with interesting history and diversity.
Does NYUs outsized presence in the East Village confictwith your coverage o the neighborhood?
Our director Brooke Kroger hired a community editorwho covers NYU, so were not covering [issues that arise oncampus]. Also, our editor is rom the New York Times, andtheyre invested in objective coverage o the neighborhood.Hyperlocal reporting is very new and very innovative; its giving
communities what is lost as newspapers have shrunk: reportingin your neighborhood.
Do you consider yoursel in competition with otherhyperlocal sites like Patch and EveryBlock?
Were trying to do something new and dierent. Im notlooking at other sites saying, What can we do that theyredoing? With our students its, How can we stand out? Howcan we be dierent? The answer is with really good reporting.Our students are good writers and good reporters--they reallyhustle. Several o our stories have been picked up by the TimesCity Room blog, The Hungton Post, Salon, and the New YorkTimes print edition. Theres this eeling that i you work really
hard, youll be rewarded by having your piecegoing through the wires.
Now you just have to gure out how to payreporters...
Thats part o the experiment; were workingto build business models, guring out how togenerate income. Were lucky because at NYUthe resources are there--weve partnered withthe Stern Business School to help gure it out,and our internships are paid internships, and thatcomes rom NYU. There are six paid internshipsevery summer open to students rom all over thecountry.
How does the education oered by Reporting
New York and the Local dier rom traditional journalismprograms?
Its a good place to experiment with multimedia--slideshows, stand alone images, videos--which is another one omy passions. One reporter should know how to do everything--they dont have to be great at it, but they should know howto do it. Thats what makes it un. Its so dierent rom when Istudied journalism, but that way o doing things ailed. The badnews in the business broke it open or innovations.
But the Local East Village comes down to having to poundthe pavement and look or stu. I can make suggestions, butwere really looking or students to have enterprise, nd theirbloggers voice. Its really a great experience, with that pay o
o getting published and even getting picked up by anothersite. I think just being a part o it is a big deal or the students.
How would you compare working or the Local to theconventional college experience o working or a campusdaily paper?
Theres no comparison. At the Local, the stakes are really,really high. One o the New York Times editors comes to ourclass every week, and theyre really honest. I they dont likesomething they say it. Feelings are bruised. Peoples storiesare rewritten. All the things you will nd in the real world, youwill nd at the Local East Village. Theres a lot o pressure, but
ol-sl nw maNYU and the New York Times team up to cover the East Village
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theres also the victory o when your story runs--its the highwe all live or as journalists. Working or a school paper is greatexperience, but this has the New York Times stamped all over it,so the standards are really, really high. We cover breaking news.Things that make it into the school paper are not going to makeit in to the Local.
Do you think working or the Local will benet yourstudents proessionally?
It really helps to have a proessional story to tell, andlaunching a hyperlocal blog or the New York Times is one theentire industry has been watching, so instead o talking aboutwhat you did on your internship, you can tell this story. Its beenquite an experience. Theyve done so much, and its been very
intense and very real world. We have this product that we haveto eed every day, and its part o the newyorktimes.com
I you want to study journalism now, its very competitive. Youhave to do everything you can to give yoursel a competitiveedge. A site like the Local East Village does that. Studentsthat are in the class are working or a publication. That kind oexperience is priceless, especially or the students who have beeninvolved in the launch. Launching a start up is hard, things werechanging constantly, but we had the opportunity to rise to thechallenge and we did. The most incredible thing to me is seeingthe real world in a classroom. This is it. And in New York City andin the East Village, it just doesnt get any better.
Catch up with the Local at http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com.
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11Junot Diaz Fiction Reading
7:00 P.M at the NYU Cantor Film Center,
Theater 101
Hear Junot Diaz, author o The BriefWondrous Life of Oscar Wao member
o the NYU creative writing aculty, talk
as a part o the NYU Creative Writing
Programs Reading Series. For more
inormation on uture NYU Reading Series
events, e-mail creative.writing@nyu.edu.
15Eliza Griswold: Shop Talk and God Talk
6:30-8:00 P.M. at Columbia University,
Morningside Campus Journalism Building,
World Room
Part o a series o talks on religion andthe world organized by Lisa Miller, senior
editor o Newsweek, and co-sponsored
by the Columbia Journalism School and
Center or the Study o Democracy,
Toleration and Religion. Eliza
Griswold, ellow at the New America
Foundation, will speak on her new
book The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches
from the Fault Line Between
Christianity and Islam. Contact Emily
Brennan at eb422@columbia.edu or
212-851-4145 or more inormation.
18A Conversation with Eliot Spitzer
8 P.M. at the Time Warner Center,
Screening Room 1
The Fordham University Forum on Law,
Culture, and Society presents a talk with
disgraced governor and CNN host Eliot
Spitzer. Moderated by Thane Rosenbaum,
Director o the Forum on Law, Culture, and
Society. Admission is ree but reserve a
seat at http://www.ordhamlawandculture.
org/conversations/.
19Race, Sexuality, and Power
4:00 P.M. at the CUNY Graduate Center,
Room C198
Carroll Smith Rosenberg o the CUNY
Graduate Center moderates a discussion
between Doris Garraway (Northwestern),
Arlene Keizer (UC, Irvine), and Jennier
Morgan (NYU) on race and sexuality intopics ranging rom Haiti to 20th century art.
For more inormation, call 212-817-2005.
20Metropolitan Youth Orchestra
7:00 P.M. at the Alelphi University
Perorming Arts Center Concert Hall
Come hear the talented youths o the
Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Nassau
Treble, Concert Choirs, and Youth Chorale
play live. Conducted by Craig Knapp, Erica
Warner, and Ed Norris. Purchase tickets or
$20 at http://aupac.adelphi.edu/events/
metropolitan-youth-orchestra.php
Cirque Du Soleil Wintuk Alumni Event
3 P.M. at The Theatre at
Madison Square Garden
Cirque Du Soleil is putting
on a special matinee
perormance o its
newest show Wintuk or
Iona College alumni and
their amily and riends.
The cost o a ticket
includes bus are rom Iona College (leaving
at 1:00 P.M.) and back ater the show. Tickets
are $50 per person. Call 914-633-2390 i you
plan on taking the bus. Contact alumni@
iona.edu or more inormation.
22Margaret Keller Distinguished Lecturer
Series Speaker: Chai Feldblum
5:30 pm at the Sarah Lawrence College
Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Donnelley
Lecture Hall
Chai R. Feldblum, Commissioner o the
Equal Employment
Opportunities
Commission, will speak
on A Vision o Equality:
How Policy AdvocacyCan Help Change the
World as part o the
Sarah Lawrence College
Health Advocacy
Program lecture series.
Call 914-395-2412 or e-mail collegeeevents@
sarahlawrence.edu or more inormation.
Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate Series
6:45 P.M. at the NYU Jack H. Skirball Center
for the Performing Arts
A public debate on the motion U.S. Airports
Should Use Racial and Religious Proling.
Moderated by ABC News Nightlinecorrespondent John Donvan. Purchase
tickets or $40 at http://www.skirballcenter.
nyu.edu.
23Sachs Student Lecture: Americas
Economic Crisis - Where Do We Go From
Here?
4:00 P.M. at the Columbia University,
Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall,
Roone Arledge Auditorium
EventCalendarYou dont have to be a student to enjoy these
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Jerey Sachs, Director o The Earth Institute
at Columbia University gives a talk on the
uture o the American economy.
Registration recommended, contact
Annemarie Eimicke at aeimicke@
ei.columbia.edu.
24Andi Arnovitz: Tear/Repair
11 A.M to 8 P.M. at the Yeshiva University
MuseumAndi Arnovitz combines eminist and
religious art to present a refection on
modern Israeli society and Jewish identity.
Her exhibit makes use o Jewish documents,
old prayer books, and traditional textile and
printmaking tools.
Contact Rachel Lazin at rlazin@yum.cih.org
or 212-294-8335 or more inormation.
30Cave Canem Poets on Crat: Kazim Ali and
Lyrae Clie-Steanon
6:30 P.M. at The New Schools Eugene Lang
Building, Wollman Hall
Camille Rankine o the Cave Canem
Foundation moderates a poetry reading
and discussion eaturing Kazim Ali, author
o The Far Mosque and The Fortieth Day,
and Lyrae Van Clie-Steanon, the author o
Open Intervaland Black Swan. The event is
sponsored by the Cave Canem Foundation
and The New School Writing Program.
Seating is limite d.
December1
The New Marketing Revolution: The Impact
o Social Media and Viral Marketing on
Political Advertising and Branding
9:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. at Baruch Colleges
Newman Library, Room 750
Todd Wasserman, editor o Brandweek,
moderates the conerence eaturing speakers
like Tom Basile, Managing Director o
Middleberg Communications Sustainability
Group; Liz Gumbinner, Senior Vice President,
Group Creative Director at Deutsch; Azi
Paybarah o WNYC; Alan Rosenblatt, Associate
at the Center or American Progress; and AlanSnitow, Group Strategy Director o Gotham,
Inc. Admission is ree. Register at http://aux.
zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu /advertising/. For more
inormation call 516-732-0547.
Social Responsibility in Business in the 21st
Century
11 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the Hofstra University
Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus
Hostra Universitys Frank G. Zarb School
o Business and Center or International
Financial Services and Markets presents a
day-long conerence on the increasing interest
corporate social responsibility. Speakers will
come rom a range o elds (including keynote
speaker Paul ONeill, ormer Secretary o the
Treasury) in order to discuss the challenges o
educating uture business leaders to be socially
responsible businesspeople.
4Lighting Fires in the Mind6:00 P.M at The New Schools Tishman
Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
Educator, journalist, and author o Fires
in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us about
Motivation and MasteryKathleen Cushman
talks about what it takes to get really good
at something. She draws rom numerous
interviews with children to learn how they
overcome environmental challenges to their
education. Seating is limited. Visit http://
resinthemind.org/ or more inormation.
8Union Forum: Alredo Jaar
6:00 P.M. at the Union Theological
Seminary James Chapel
Alredo Jaar, Chilean born artist, architect,
and lmmaker is known or his politically-
charged interdisciplinary works oten
covering controversial topics like the
Rwandan genocide. He will discuss his most
recent and upcoming projects in a lecture
entitled It is Dicult. Register online at
https://www.utsnyc.edu. Contact Kathryn
Reklis at kreklis@uts.columbia.edu or 212-
280-1404 or more inormation.
Sex in an Epidemic
6:30 P.M. at NYUs Michelson Theater
(721 Broadway, 6th Floor)
A screening o a new documentary
that examines the political and personal
struggles o HIV and the concept o saer
sex in the public sphere will be ollowed
by a discussion with the lmmaker Jean
Carlomusto. Contact Robert Campbell at
csgs@nyu.edu or call 212-992-9540 or
more inormation.
9Between Picture and Viewer: The Image inContemporary Painting
7:00 P.M. at the School of Visual Art Theatre
(333 West 23 Street)
Katy Siegel o Hunter College moderates a
discussion between contemporary painters
Josephine Halvorson, Jim Hyde and Dana
Schutz on the image in modern art. The panel
is being held along with an art exhibition o
the same name at the Visual Arts Gallery (601
West 26th Street, 15th foor), which will run
rom November 23 to December 22.
12
Poulenc: Les mamelles de Tirsias2:00 P.M at Juilliards Rosemary and
Meredith Willson Theater
Mark Shapiro directs the surrealist comic-
opera perormed by the Juilliard Orchestra
and Juilliard Opera. Extremely limited tickets
go on sale on November 24 at the Janet and
Leonard Kramer Box Oce at Juilliard.
14Avery Dulles and the Future o Theology
6 P.M. at the Fordham University, Lincoln
Center Campus Pope Auditorium
Aristotle Papanikolaou o Fordham
University will moderate a discussionbetween theologians rom schools including
Marquette, Boston College, and Yale
on the topic o the late Cardinal Dulles
contributions to Catholic thought.
To RSVP, e-mail CRCevent@ordham.edu.
For more inormation, call 212-636-7347.
16Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Reading
7:00 P.M. at the NYU Lillian Vernon Creative
Writers House
Philosopher and novelist
Rebecca Newberger
Goldstein (The Mind-
Body Problem, Betraying
Spinoza: The Renegade
Jew Who Gave Us
Modernity) reads rom her
new book36 Arguments
for the Existence of God:
A Work of Fiction as part
o the NYU Creative
Writing Programs
Reading series. For
more inormation on uture
NYU Reading Series events, e-mail creative.
writing@nyu.edu.
17Rana Santacruz
8 P.M. at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts
Center
Hear Brooklyn musician Rana Santacruzs
sel-described Mexican Bluegrass and
Irish Mariachi which eature instruments
ranging rom the upright bass and accordion
to the banjo, jarana, and trumpet. Tickets are
$15. Call 212-220-1460 or more inormation.
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F
ew things in the typical
college students
experience are assigniicant as studying abroad.
The Institute of International
Educations Open Doors Survey
reported that in 2009, 262,416
college students went abroad.
The reasons for this are clear.
New York University, which, out
of all American universities sends
the greatest number of students
abroad each year, operates out
of almost twenty countries, and
has campuses in foreign citieslike Paris, London and Madrid.
But for most undergraduates,
going abroad is more than just
visiting the Arc de Triomphe
and watching Spanish bullights.
Those things help, sure, but
an international education
demands much more that simple
sightseeing. It presents students
with the chance to put their
education within an international
perspective, challenging them
to work and live somewhere
drastically different and acclimate
to an unfamiliar culture.
All that sounds expensive,
but the cost of the average study
abroad program tends to vary
in accordance with a variety of
factors - including transportation,
incidentals and, most notably, the
destination. And with a weaker
dollar abroad and an overall
bust in the domestic economy,
thousands of cash-strapped
college students are askingthemselves the same question:
Can the dream of an international
education become a reality?
Much of the time the answer
is yes. Still, for many students,
inancial constraints present
an insurmountable obstacle.
Nowhere is this truer than in The
City University of New York. One
of the largest universities in the
United States, CUNYs member
schools serve over 222,000
students, many of who areminority students from families
that fall below the poverty line.
For many of these students,
an experience abroad is an
unlikely venture. African
American students, for example,
who comprise 14% of the total
population of college students,
only constitute 3% of the
students that go abroad. This
comes at a time during which
the total American study abroad
population has doubled.For man y students, their
reasons for not going abroad
extend beyond just inances.
Many rarely venture out of the
New York area, and even fewer
have travelled on an airplane
overseas. Pressure by family
and friends also contribute to a
students apprehension about
traveling. Some students are also
affected by what is called not for
people like me syndrome. Due toa lack of cultural or family history
traveling abroad, these students
do not see the experience as
something meant for them.
While these factors affect
many CUNY students, some
are given heavier weight when
making a decision about study
abroad programs. The two
major points that students seem
to be mostly concerned about
are inancial, said Michael
Giammeralla, a professor
at Borough of Manhattan
Community College. Meaning,
how to fund their share--many of
them have part time jobs, theyve
got family responsibilities.
Indeed, families present
a formidable hindering
circumstance for many CUNY
students. Nanychi Franquiz, a
BMCC student who travelled to
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Italy during the summer of 2010, worried
about leaving her grandmother home alone
in The Bronx for the extent of her Italy stay.
But Franquiz was lucky. Rather than holding
her back, she was delighted to ind that her
grandmother encouraged her to go abroad.
She said that it was a good opportunity for
me to get some form of education and culture.
She was the one that kind of pushed me to go,
though I had my reservations about leaving
her alone, Franquiz said.
Franquiz faced other issues prior to her
departure. Though she received work-study
funds, she faced perpetual concerns about
whether she was going to be able to afford
her abroad experience. Though she received
a scholarship from BMCC, a major portion of
the inal cost of her program would be coming
directly from her.
That was deinitely the heavy thingweighing on me, she said.
In order to ensure that she would be able
to not only afford her program but also be able
to pay for the various incidentals while being
in Italy, Franquiz underwent a self-imposed
spending freeze.
I deinitely had to stop going out with
my friends, she said of her efforts to save. I
stopped buying things that I needed or that I
thought I needed. Unnecessary spending I
stopped that altogether.
Richard Mitten, Study Abroad Director
at Baruch College notes a particular quality
of Baruch students that seems to have made
them less vulnerable to the inancial issues
that can get in the way of pursuing a study
abroad experience.
Unless they are living in a situation where
their families lost their jobs or something a lot
of our students sort of planned for studying
abroad anyway, he said. They anticipated the
extra couple thousand dollars they are going
to have to come up with to study abroad.
Mitten notes that because many of Baruch
students families are accustomed to pinchingpennies and doing more with less, adjusting to
the efforts needed to save up for a few weeks
away is relatively easy. This, Mitten says,
largely explains why the numbers of Baruch
students studying abroad has not dropped off
as one might expect in the current economic
climate.
Galit Berkovitch, International Exchange
Student Coordinator at Hunter College, has
seen similar trends at Hunter, noting that
Hunters students actually offered some
surprises. Last year we had more students
studying abroad than weve ever had ever
before, and we expected fewer because of the
economy. But that wasnt the case.
Both Mitten and Berkovitch point out that
another major reason why CUNY students
have not been severely affected by the
downturn in the economy. Compared to the
average NYU study abroad program studying
abroad via schools like Baruch and Hunter is
comparably cheap.
If youre a inancial aid student at NYU
Mitten said, You pay your NYU tuition-plus
to go on a semester abroad, which means youcan pay as much as $25,000 a semester if your
inancial aid doesnt cover it. Our students pay
a fraction of that to go abroad.
Moreover, for CUNY students like Franquiz,
it is oftentimes easier and far more cost-
effective to opt-out of the standard semester
abroad and instead focus on programs offered
during the summer and January intercession.
At BMCC, these programs take the form of
short-term summer programs, which students
fund via a variety of means. The BMCC
Association Scholarship, which is collectedfrom a portion of the schools student activity
fees, helps study abroad students by funding
sixty percent of program costs. This is a
unique mechanism in the CUNY system, which
also offer grant programs like Study/Travel
Opportunities for CUNY Students (STOCS).
For many students funding such as this often
means the difference between getting abroad
and not.
Overall, Baruchs Richard Mitten thinks
CUNY does a good job of helping students,
but the students do a fairly good job helping
themselves, too Students at Baruch tend to be
really smart kids who just dont have money,
he said. The CUNY system itself doesnt
coddle students, so they tend to be able to
fend for themselves pretty well.
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By aManda coRMieR
In June, the State Court of Appeals
announced a decision that rocked
Manhattan north of 100th street:
Columbia Universitys use of eminent domain
to acquire private properties in a small
area called Manhattanville was declared,
indeed, legal. The plan? To build a mixed-useacademic center just a few blocks north of
the existing Morningside Campusan area
roughly deined by Broadway and the Hudson
between 125th and 134th streets populating
the area with the shiny translucent buildings
and modest greenery that deine a modern
college campus.
Its one of many recent expansion
efforts for New York City universities. CUNY
will open a new community college at a
temporary midtown campus in 2012, and
plans on expanding all 21 of its campuses in
the city as part of a $5 billion capital plan. A
new 600,000-square foot expansion at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice is set to be
completed this July.
This building will provide classroomsand lecture halls, modern forensic science
labs, instructional and research laboratories,
faculty ofices, student activities and academic
support services, administrative ofices, and
campus services, said Michael Arena, CUNYs
Director of Communications and Marketing.
NYU unveiled a 25-year expansion plan
in April that will expand the campus by six
million square feet. The university president,
John Sexton, has noted that NYU has about
half space per student that Columbia does,
and even after the expansion would be below
Columbia and Harvard in that respect. The
expanded campus will roam into Manhattans
East Side, downtown Brooklyn, and Governors
Island in addition to expanding in NYUs
core campus area near Washington SquarePark. The project is called NYU: 2031, in honor
of NYUs 200th anniversary that year. The
plan includes a 40-story Pinwheel Tower on
Bleecker Street, which NYU administrators
hope will be approved as a landmarked
complex by the Landmarks Commission.
Fully realizing NYUs proposals wont
change the type of person who will come
here they will still be the same kind of smart,
talented, energetic, entrepreneurial people
City schools are creating new campuses,new neighborhoods, and new communities
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we attract now. But creating more academic
space will make a difference in whether or not
we can recruit top people, or whether we will
lose them to universities in other cities.
Columbias expansion is already in
progress. Lee Bollinger set his sights on
the Manhattanville space early in his term,
oficially announcing plans to expand in 2003.
Last month, Bollinger announced he planned
on remaining president of the University for
another ive years.
Until recently, controversy has been the
only visible fruit of the expansion. Small-
business owners, anti-gentriication activists
and Manhattanville residents alike have
voiced opposition to the expansion and
Columbias tactics in making it happen. In
December 2009, the State Supreme Court,
Appellate Divison court ruled in favor of the
opposition, stating that Columbias use ofeminent domain to acquire the properties was
illegal. For a short time, the plan was in limbo.
Now, with the courts at least temporarily
on its side, Columbia has momentum. The
plan, for now, will move forward. But what
seems to be left unanswered is what, exactly,
this new community will look like in 10 years.
The plan includes a neuroscience research
center and a one-acre public square. But what
kind of stores and restaurants will surround
it? Who will live there? And what will the area
be called?
What will it look like?
Columbias Environmental Impact
Statement for the expansion lays out a
blueprint for a new community will attempt
to retain the character of Harlem:
West 125th Street would be enlivened
through the creation of ground-loor retail and
other uses to create a lively streetscape similar
to that of the street in Central Harlem.
Lynne Sagalyn, director of Columbia
Business Schools real estate program, saidthat Columbia has a history of shifting the
retail makeup of an area to it a communitys
needs. In the early 90s, they made sweeping
changes to the retail they owned around the
Morningside campus.
What they wanted to do was make
sure that the retailing was servicing their
community, she said. They surveyed
everybody. This is whats here, this is what
you want; what do you want thats not here.
And then during the next few years they went
about changing the neighborhood.
Sagalyn said Columbia students attract
a different type of retail store than NYU or
CUNY school.
I think you can expect cafes and
restaurants; students arent wealthy, she said.They arent likely to be the high price kind. ...
Galleries? I would not expect that. This is not
NYU or another location downtown that has a
more diverse neighborhood population.
Developers may already have an eye on the
rapidly changing area. Elliot Dweck of Besen
Retail keeps track of changes in university
communities as part of the businesss retail
leasing activities.
I think it [Manhattanville] will be a
little bit of an extension of the Columbia
neighborhood thats up there now, he said.
But in the new area, if you go up between
120th and 130th, its going to require a
Tribeca type of look, or if you could get some
smaller stores, a Nolita type of look, if you get
some nice small shops on different blocks.
Though the Lincoln Center Apple store just
opened about 60 blocks south, Dweck said
the new campus will attract electronics stores
and restaurants geared towards the university
community.
I know that Apple-type stores will be in
the area, I dont know if theyll be on 125th
[street] Harlem or Columbia Harlem, but
thats a great spot for them, he said. Burgerand hot dog carts would also love to come
there.
Has the transitionin retail already started?
Laurie Vu is the owner of VNV Optical,
an eyeglasses store right across the street
from the development. She said she isnt
fearful that her store will be bought out or
moved in the near future.
If I do have any fears, theyre very
little, she said. I heard its going to be a
long time. Ive been here for the last 10
to12 years or so. Columbias on the other
side of Broadway, and its been going on for
at least six or seven years. I know for sure
that its on the other side, but not this side.
But around the corner, on the other
side of the same building as VNV Optical, a
landlord is sure that Columbia is interested
in acquiring his property. William
Sanchez is the landlord for Manhattanville
Pharmacy, a tiny mom-and-pop that
resembles more of a Vermont general store
than a Duane Reade.
Around Thanksgiving of last year, he
said, a brokerage stopped by and offered
$5,000 if he would talk to them.
And I said, Wow, I can use that moneyfor Christmas, he said. The broker never
said they were representing Columbia or a
developer for the expansion.
They said they were from a brokerage
irm , looking to buy property in an uptown
neighborhood, he said. No, but Im pretty
sure its Columbia because Ive been here
11 years. Theyve never come so hard like
that, ever.
He didnt talk to the broker. Nevertheless,
hes glad that the expansion is moving
forward, and said the area will look like
SoHo when its done. Bohemian, even.
When it was bad, nobody cared about
it, he said. Now that white people are
coming, theyre [the opposition to the
expansion] getting insulted because theyre
driving them [residents and business
owners] out. Theyre not driving them out,
theyre bettering the neighborhood. They
didnt care it before. Its going to be better.
Whether better or not, the area will
certainly have a different community
dynamic should the courts continue to
support Columbias plan. The shift couldbe so radical, Dweck says, that it could give
the area more pronounced signiicance in
Manhattan geography.
I dont think right away, but I think
eventually, yes, you will see more
neighborhood ties, you will see the place
turn into more of a grid on the map, he
said. Youll have another neighborhood,
a name, Manhattanville, Columbiaville,
whatever you want to call it.
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Director Lois Heymann (left), President Jeffrey Cohen(center) and Rosie ODonnell (right) at ribbon cuttingfor the Auditory Processing Center.
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New Resource for Childrenwith Listening and
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The Center for Hearing and Communication announces
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Under the leadership of Lois Heymann, M.A., CCC-SLP,
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Visit www.CHChearing.org or phone (917) 305-7809
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