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• 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)

NAMED: Steven B. Rosenfeld ’64, partner in the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has been named to a six-year term as chair of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board by Mayor Mike Bloomberg. The COIB, the ethics board for the City of New York, is an independent city agency charged with interpreting and enforcing the conflicts of interest law.

Rosenfeld has been a partner in the litigation department at Paul Weiss since 1976, with a practice that includes securities, intellectual property, estates, banking and insurance and international arbitration. Active in public services, Rosenfeld was a board member of the Legal Aid Society from 1978–95 and its president from 1989–91. He is a past member of the executive committee and past vice president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and has taught at the Law School in the profesion of law and trial practice courses.

beat: The life and works of Allen Ginsberg ’48, which for many defined a turbulent generation, were celebrated in a play that had a limited run this summer in New York City. beat, written and directed by Kelly Groves, centers on Ginsberg’s writings and his role in the Beat Generation and ran August 9–17 as part of the sixth annual New York Fringe Festival at the Culture Project in SoHo. The play follows the Beats from the 1940s to the San Francisco obscenity trial concerning Ginserg’s poem, Howl. The show, with Dan Pintauro in the role of Ginsberg, was the subject of an August 14 New York Times article that described it as “at times raucous, at times moving and consistently absorbing.”

The New York Fringe Festival, which ran for 17 days and comprised more than 1,000 performances, provides a venue for emerging theater companies and performance artists.


DINNER CHAIR: Steve Trachtenberg ’59, president of The George Washington University, chaired the D.C. Chamber of Commerce’s annual business awards dinner on November 2. Trachtenberg was selected to chair the group’s largest fund raiser of the year because of his “commitment to Washington businesses, as well as his stature in the community,” according to Barbara B. Lang, president and CEO of the DCCC.


THIS WEEK: George Stephanopoulos ’82 now hosts ABC’s Sunday morning talk show This Week, having succeeded co-hosts Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts in September. In an effort to catch Tim Russert’s top-rated NBC show, Meet the Press, Stephanopoulos says This Week may broaden its mix beyond politics to such subjects as sports, science and religion. The show’s popular roundtable continues to include conservative columnist George Will as well as others. “We want a vivid roundtable with a variety of voices, and we’ll look for different guests to liven that up,” says Stephanopoulos, the former aide to President Bill Clinton who joined ABC News as a commentator in 1997.