AROUND THE QUADS: CAMPUS BULLETINS CONTINUED [ 2 OF 3]

Around the Quads

• Rushdie's Midnight's Children coming to the Apollo • General Science Course Being Created for Core • Bizup Developing New Writing Program • Bollinger Adds Two Key Administrators • Campus Bulletins • Alumni News • Transitions • In Lumine Tuo • In Memoriam • Elbaum, Carroll Receive CCYA Achievement Awards • Athletics' Bill Steinman Retires (Sort of)

ORAL HISTORY: The Columbia University Oral History Research Office has been awarded $100,000 by The New York Times Neediest Fund to build upon its September 11 archives.

In collaboration with the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy (ISERP), the OHRO created The September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project to document responses to the terrorist attacks and their aftermath. Many of the more than 400 audiotaped interviews were conducted within six to eight weeks of the attacks, and they reveal the diversity of experiences and responses to the catastrophe by those who were affected.

The award from the Neediest Fund will support a new initiative, The September 11th Response and Recovery Oral History Project, which will focus on the response to September 11 and the efforts of those who have contributed to the recovery. At least 40 new interviews will be conducted with mental health, law, employment, education and philanthropy leaders who mobilized to provide short- and long-term services in the aftermath. Interviews also will be conducted with people directly traumatized by proximity to the catastrophe or loss of loved ones, and OHRO will work with schools and after-school programs to help youths interpret the experience of September 11 and its aftermath. Interviewees will be interviewed three times across three years.


READING ROOM: The George and Jesse Siegel Reading Room formally opened on June 24 with a visit from Jesse Siegel ’49 and his wife, Wilma. Part of the Philip L. Milstein Family College Library, the new reading room spans the west side of the fourth floor of the renovated Butler Library. Holding a significant portion of the undergraduate collection, and with seating and Internet connectivity, the reading room is a popular place for undergraduates to meet and study.

A longtime supporter of the College, Siegel also established the Jesse and George Siegel Scholarship in the Humanities and the Jesse and George Siegel Professorship in the Humanities. All three are named for Siegel and his late brother, George ’43.


FLOORED: Levien Gym, home of Columbia basketball, volleyball, fencing and wrestling, has a new floor thanks to a summer renovation project, a continuation of the overhaul of the entire Dodge Physical Fitness Center that began in 1996. The new floor, which replaced the one that was installed when Levien opened in 1974, is supposed to provide better spring and cushion for the athletes. “That will allow less impact on the legs and backs of our student-athletes, which should decrease injuries,” noted Athletics Director John Reeves.

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