AROUND THE QUADS
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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)

FUND OFFICERS: The Alumni Office welcomed Patrick O’Connell and Scott Koonin ’02 as new fund officers in September, bringing the development division up to full staff. O’Connell, who graduated from Washington and Lee in 1999 with a degree in business administration, worked for political candidates in Iowa and New Jersey before coming to Columbia. Koonin, a leader of the Class of 2002 Senior Gift Fund that produced a record participation rate of more than 50 percent, founded and served as president of his fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi; and served on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, as president of the InterGreek Council and as fund-raising chairman for the dance marathon that raised funds for combating pediatric AIDS.

STEPPING DOWN: Bernard Tschumi, who transformed the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation into an international model for architectural education, will step down as dean on June 30, 2003, to devote more time to his expanding architectural practice. He will remain on the Columbia faculty.

Tschumi, who became dean in spring 1988, made Columbia the most advanced school of architecture in the use of computers in studio work. In a profile on the school in September 2000, Architecture reported that Tschumi “fostered one of architecture’s most significant forays into the digital age. Rarely in any generation does a single academic institution have a sweeping effect on the profession at large the way Columbia has” under Tschumi. During his tenure, the school developed a highly successful post-professional program, the degree in advanced architectural design, as well as a Ph.D. in architecture.