Spotlight on Asian Arts

Armstrong House Opens Oct. 15JAZZ GREATS WILL PLAY AT OPENING DAY CELEBRATION

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OCTOBER 2003

HIGHLIGHTS

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The Godwin-Ternbach Museum’s exhi-bition, The Light of Infinite Wisdom:Asian Art from the Godwin-TernbachMuseum and Other Collections, will be the centerpiece of a celebration ofAsian art and culture that will take placethis fall on campus. Besides the exhibi-tion, there will be a series of lectures,performances, and family events cele-brating the peoples of Asia. This spot-light on Asian culture is the result of acollaboration among the museum, theArt Department, Division of Education,the Asian/American Center, and ColdenCenter for the Performing Arts.

The Light of Infinite Wisdom, whichwill be open from October 15 through

December 20, will feature objects fromthe 2nd century B.C. to the 20th century, drawn from the collections of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, theBrooklyn Museum of Art, and otherimportant New York collections. De-signed to increase awareness of theartistic and cultural traditions of Asia,the exhibition will highlight a widerange of artworks associated with Bud-dhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Islam,and Taoism. On display will be art fromChina, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Nepal,Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, and Turkey.

The exhibition is curated by Amycontinued on page 7

Music legends such as Jimmy Heath,Clark Terry, Jon Faddis, MartyNapoleon, and Carrie Smith are used to bringing down the house. But onWednesday, October 15 they will helpto open up the house: the Louis Arm-strong House, which will make itsdebut as a historic house museum thatday in a special ribbon-cutting cere-mony. The festivities will also include ablock party, mini-tours of the house,and a book signing by MichaelCogswell, director of the House andand Archives and author of the just-published Louis Armstrong: The Off-stage Story of Satchmo.

International media are expected tocover the opening of AmbassadorSatch’s domicile. To accommodatethem, a special media preview tour is

planned for October 9.Louis and his wife Lucille purchased

the modest home, located at 34-56107th Street in Corona, in 1943 andlived there for the rest of their lives.The house, which has undergone a $1.6million restoration and renovation, willbe open to all for tours beginningThursday, October 16. Visitors on thefull 40-minute tour of the ArmstrongHouse – a federal and city landmark –will have the experience of “visitingLouis and Lucille.” Because no one has lived in the house since the Armstrongs, all of the furnishings areauthentic. Highlights of the tour includea turquoise kitchen from the 1960s,original oil paintings by Tony Bennett,LeRoy Neiman, and Calvin Bailey, acontinued on page 4

Chakrasamvara (Eastern Tibet, 1800-1899; Courtesy of the Rubin Foundation,http://www.himalayanart.org)

“Satchmo” and his wife, Lucille

The August 8 GothamGazette featured anarticle by ANDREW BEVERIDGE (Sociology)examining how schooldistricts measure theirdropout rates and howsome schools “pushout” poor performing

students . . . RNN-TV ran a storyabout CUE’s Open House on Septem-ber 12. Reporter Cat Greenleaffilmed classes with MARTIN BLOCH,and interviewed two CUE students,STANLEY HOWARD and SALLYDIKOWITZ . . . MARTIN BRAUN(Mathematics) offered tips to fresh-men in an August 19 Newsdayarticle. He suggested that students beprepared for two to three hours ofhomework a night and that they turnoff their cell phones during class . . .The September 10 Daily News re-ported on the plans for the openingof the Louis Armstrong House. Thepaper interviewed Armstrong HouseDirector MICHAEL COGSWELL and rana picture of him and House ManagerKendal Albert . . . Artist METKAKRASOVEC’s show in the QC ArtCenter in Rosenthal Library was fea-tured in the September 7 Newsday. . . President JAMES MUYSKENS,interviewed by the Queens Tribune in2002, was the subject of a first an-niversary follow-up article on August22 . . . JOHN TYTELL (English) wasprofiled in the August 24 Newsdayon the occasion of the publication ofhis autobiographical book, ReadingNew York (Knopf) . . . The August 19Daily News noted that “Queens Col-lege, reflecting its polyglot borough,was No. 4 on the list of Most DiverseStudent Body” in the latest PrincetonReview’s The Best 351 Colleges. . . A September 7 article in theDaily News examining how peoplewho lost loved ones in the attack on the World Trade Center weredealing with their loss, profiled NELLY BRAGINSKY, who established a scholarship at Queens College inhonor of her son ALEX. A conferenceroom in the library is also namedafter Alex.

QC IN THE NEWS

Andrew Beveridge

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and justice. “I go for issue-orienteddocumentaries,” she says, “from theblack market in plutonium to the worldwide impact of fundamentalism to the tragedy in Tibet. I focus on thehuman rights of people around the world.”

Lyon, who teaches video production,advanced production and documentaryfilmmaking courses, makes sure that her students do “real shooting, real editing, real writing, real research, and real projects. . . . We are like modern-day Homers with new equip-ment and new materials. Nothing replaces learning how to make a goodstory well told.” Find out more atwww.Lionessmedia.com.

“We think about our technology in avery drab way,” says ZOE BELOFF, amedia artist whose own work is any-thing but drab. Recently appointed anassistant professor of Media Studies, sheexplores the evocative possibilities ofold and new moving-image technolo-gies. Projecting three-dimensional im-ages in the viewers’ near space,inventing interactive virtual realitieswith digital media, incorporating liveprojectionists within gallery installations– in these and other ways, she freelycombines stereo slides, film, live music,and other shards of cinema history torevivify the moving image, or “what’scontinued on page 8

RACHEL LYON, a new assistant profes-sor of Media Studies, has filmed on five continents as an independent filmmaker. For some 20 years, she hasdirected and produced documentaries,specials, and feature films, such as thecritically acclaimed restoration ofOrson Welles’ Othello.

Her work, screened at film festivalsaround the world, has won numerousawards, including the National Emmyfor Men Who Molest: Children WhoSurvive and three Telly Awards for herlast film, Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Wash-ington (2002). She has worked withthe likes of Ted Turner, the Smithso-nian, and National Geographic Televi-sion, and is president of Lioness MediaArts, an independent production com-pany. Prior to her appointment atQueens, she taught at Reinhardt Col-lege, New York University, North-western University, and ColumbiaCollege.

“I received three different offers inthree states,” she says, “but I was ex-cited about Queens College. The stu-dent body is diverse and interestingand the Media Studies faculty areremarkably talented.”

Currently at work on three films,including one on the death penalty,Lyon gravitates to such themes asgender and family and global peace

Rachel Lyon with the Dalai Lama

Zoe Beloff

FA C U LT Y P R O F I L E S

President Muyskens’ email last week announced important personnel changes inadministration. These include Burt Backner’s retirement and his gracious agree-ment to continue as Dean until a Vice President and Dean of Student Servicessearch is concluded; the appointment of Thomas Strekas as Dean of Mathematicsand Natural Sciences; and Jim O’Hara’s assumption of new responsibilities asInterim Vice President for Finance and Administration, in view of HratchZadoian’s retirement this year. Please watch upcoming issues of FYI for relatedstories and profiles.

Administrative Transitions

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NEWS FROM THE PROVOST Provost Evangelos Gizis recently issued a memo aboutcollege policies regarding course withdrawals and otherrelated matters. Please click on the link below, whichwill bring you to the Provost’s “Curriculum and StudentIssues” page. Scroll down and click on “Course with-drawals, absences and incomplete grades,” for the latestinformation. http://www.vanguard.qc.edu/provost/cur_stud/index.html

FLU SHOTS AVAILABLEDr. Vinay Kapoor will be at the Health Service Center(Fitz 204) on October 29 from 4– 6 pm to give flu shotsto staff and faculty. There is a fee of $15 to cover thecost of the vaccine. Students may receive flu shots onNovember 10 and 11 at the center as part of a free service provided by CUNY.

Please note also that there is a new poison controlnumber: 1-800-222-1222. This number should bechanged on the emergency flip charts provided to alloffices by the Health Service Center.

ADOPT-A-PROFHarvey Baker (Psychology) would like to share an apart-ment/rent a room within a 20-minute drive of the cam-pus two nights a week (usually Wednesday andThursday) during the fall and spring semesters. You canreach him at 3223.

HELPFUL FORMS ONLINEThe Human Resources Web site now features a number of forms in PDF format that can be easily downloaded,including forms for the direct deposit of checks and GHIHealth Insurance claims. For more information, go towww.qc.edu/hr/forms.php. The Provost’s website alsohas a number of forms, model letters, and policy state-ments that may be accessed at www.vanguard.qc.edu/provost/fac_staff

SYMPOSIUM ON ARTS DOCUMENTATIONRichard Wall (Library), a member of the Theatre LibraryAssociation, notes that the association will be holding asymposium on cutting-edge issues of performing artsdocumentation in a virtual environment on Friday, Octo-ber 10 from 9 am to 5 pm. Archivists, librarians, cura-tors, conservators, scholars, and practitioners are invitedto attend. The symposium will be held at the New YorkPublic Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.For more information, visit http://tla.library.unt.edu/symposiumagenda.htm

LIBRARY GUIDELINESChief Librarian Sharon Bonk notes that a CUNY Task Force recently issued guidelines for libraries con-cerning copyright compliance. To review these guide-lines, go to library.gc.cuny.edu/Copyright/Gudelines/Index.asp

QC COMMUNITY

Tree Planting on 9/11: Saying “Yes” to the Future

Under a sunny sky, members of the Queens College community gatheredoutside Powdermaker Hall on September 11 to plant a young tree. “Acrossthe world, people are commemorating this tragedy by looking to the futureand planting trees, a symbol of life,” said President Muyskens. Also partici-pating in the ceremony, presided over by Dean Burt Backner, were FatherJohn Antonopoulos, pastor, St. Demetrius Cathedral, Astoria; MuhammadJawaid, co-president, Muslim Student Association; Tim Duffy, president,Day Students Association; Rabbi Moshe Shur, Hillel; and Father Paul Wood,Newman Center.

“The tree roots represent the religions of all mankind. As they grow, thetree will be strong,” said Rabbi Shur, who noted the many religions and back-grounds of Queens College students. “Our battle,” he said, “is the battle forbrotherhood, justice, and kindness.” Appropriately, the tree planted on cam-pus has international roots: it is a Katsura tree, which originated in Asia.

Where We RankThe annual listings of colleges are outand Queens is doing fine. The collegeis included once again in the PrincetonReview’s The Best 351 Colleges. Inthis book the college is ranked fourthin the nation for its diversity, behindRutgers University (New Brunswick,NJ), George Mason University (Fair-fax, VA, and the University of Mary-land (Baltimore). The college can alsoclaim 14th place among the soberestcampuses nationwide.

The 2004 edition of America’s BestColleges, published by U.S. News &World Report, also has good news forthe college. Queens ranks first amongall CUNY colleges with a graduationrate of 42%, and also has the highestpercentage of freshmen who were inthe top quarter of their high schoolclass (58%).

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JON A. PETERSON’S (History) book on urban planning, TheBirth of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917, hasjust been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.Heavily illustrated, the book explores the origins of American urbanism as shaped by market forces, and attributes the rise of “city planning” to Progressive Era urban reform. Peterson documents piecemeal attempts at planning in the

nineteenth century, relates Progressive city planning to the emergence of the metropolis, and links its decline with the decentralization of cities. City planning, he argues, was characterized by a comprehensive vision ofthe city, the public interest, and planning practice. In the face of a more diffuse reality, it lost its primacy of place, but left a legacy of ideas and techniques for modern planners.

City Lights Books in San Francisco recently published NineAlexandrias by Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic, translated by AMMIEL ALCALAY (Classical Languages). Thework is a “poetry of witness” inspired by a cross-countrytrain journey in post-9/11 America. Alcalay was also tapped to write text for a photo exhibit, Diaspora: Homelands inExile, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum October 1.

The exhibit’s related book of photography, Frederic Brenner’s Homelands inExile: Portraits of the Jewish Diaspora, is being published by HarperCollins this month. Alcalay’s essay “No Return” will also appear this month inWrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Grove Atlantic), an anthology edited by Tony Kushnerand Alisa Solomon.

CAMPUS AUTHORS

The Queens CollegeEvening Readingswill open its 28thseason on Wednes-day, November 12,with Norman Manea,who is widely re-garded as one of

Eastern Europe’sgreatest living writers. A survivor of theNazi camps and Ceausescu’s Romania,Manea is the author of several works offiction that have been translated intoEnglish, including October, EightO’Clock; Compulsory Happiness; TheBlack Envelope; as well as the collec-tion of essays On Clowns: The Dictatorand the Artist. His most recent work,the memoir The Hooligan’s Return, hasbeen receiving exceptional reviews. TheNew York Times found it “captivating,”and the New Yorker called it “an ex-

traordinary book.” Manea will readfrom his works and be interviewed byLeonard Lopate.

Manea will be followed in the seriesby Irish novelist Edna O’Brien on Tues-day, November 25. Hailed by PhilipRoth as “the most gifted woman nowwriting fiction in English,” O’Brien isthe author of many novels, includingThe Country Girls Trilogy; Night; WildDecembers; and In the Forest.

Among the authors scheduled toappear in the spring are Doris Lessingand Norman Rush. Season tickets forthe six-event series are still available for $39 ($64 for two). Subscribers areentitled to priority seating and also toreceive a copy of Manea’s The Hooli-gan’s Return. Tickets for single read-ings are $10. For more information,visit www.qc.edu/readings

Manea Opens Evening Readings Series

Norman Manea

Louis Armstrong with young neighbors

continued from page 1bathroom with gold fixtures and mir-ror-covered walls, and Louis’s den,where he wrote letters to his fans andvisited with friends and neighbors. Inthree rooms, a hidden audio systemplays excerpts from Louis’s home-recorded tapes; visitors will hear Louistelling jokes and band stories, the Arm-strongs eating dinner, and Louis play-ing with the family dog.

An exhibit area in the basementdisplays Louis’s gold-plated trumpets,scrapbooks, photographs, and othermemorabilia. A gift shop sells post-cards, T-shirts, books, CDs, red beansand rice, and other Armstrong-relateditems.

The Armstrong House will be openfrom 10 am–5 pm, Tuesday–Friday,and 12 noon–5 pm, Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $8; students and seniors, $4; free for members ofthe Armstrong Museum.

In 1986 the Louis Armstrong Edu-cational Foundation gave the house tothe New York City Department ofCultural Affairs and arranged forQueens College to administer thehouse under a long-term license agree-ment. The house also receives gener-ous financial support from the LouisArmstrong Educational Foundation.For up-to-date information on theopening and other Armstrong news,visit the Armstrong House website atwww.satchmo.net or call 3670.

Tim Duffy ’05“I want to get students involved in the political process,” says Tim Duffy,the new president of the Day StudentsAssociation. “I want to get them regis-tered to vote, I want them to becomea political force, I want them to be-come educated about what’s going on and how they can affect what’sgoing on.”

Tim says he wasn’t an activist at his high school inPort Washington, but at Queens College, he jumped right in.

He was president of the Environmental Club last year,and has been very involved with NYPIRG. He is trying to expand recycling on campus, and last yearworked hard against the tuition increase: “Because ofour protests and lobbying efforts, going to Albany, wewere able to reduce the tuition hike and restore TAP[Tuition Assistance Program] that was cut initially byone-third.”

Now a junior, Tim is organizing a number of changesto improve student life as well as student events, like a

recent charities jam for the homeless. He hopes to makethe Student Union more inviting, and feels that the workbeing done on the facade and parking lot are steps inthe right direction. He credits student government vicepresident, Shih Wan Kong, his officers, and student com-mittees with making a good team. “We’re working ongetting kosher meat, and we’re going to get some namebrands like Starbucks and Krispy Kremes. I don’t eatdonuts, I don’t drink coffee, and I don’t eat meat! Butwe’re trying to make improvements for students.”

One of his favorite projects involves an attempt toexpand the free-hour system (when no classes arescheduled). He is working with the President and Aca-demic Senate, hoping to structure more time for studentsto participate in campus life. “Queens College has music,theater, all these wonderful things students don’t evenrealize are going on. That is a time for students to get toknow the college, and to get involved, and to listen tospeakers and talk about issues.”

An environmental studies major, Tim knows he wantsto attend graduate school but is uncertain yet what hiscareer path will be. No problem. “The world is wideopen!” he says.

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S T U D E N T P R O F I L E

New GraduatePrograms OfferedThe college’s graduate school is offering two new programs this fall. The School of Earth and EnvironmentalSciences (EES), in cooperation with thePhysics Department, is offering a 20-credit certificate program in earthscience. This provides junior high and high school earth science teachers withthe comprehensive background requiredto teach that course successfully. TheRegents earth science curriculum iscovered completely in five graduate-level courses: Earth Materials and Earth Processes; Earth History and the

Fossil Record; Meteorology; Oceanog-raphy; Astronomy. A sixth course on theGeology of New York State provideslocal context and materials for teachersto plan their own field trips.

Teachers who have science certifica-tion in other disciplines matriculate into this program and pay the regulargraduate student tuition. Upon comple-tion, they will have the required credentials for an earth science licenseand can apply directly to the state for that license. For more information,contact Allan Ludman (EES) at 3324;allan_ludman@qc.edu

The Graduate School of Library and Information Studies has begun a 12-credit certificate program in archives,

records management, and conservation,the only such program in CUNY. It isdesigned for practitioners in these fields,current students in the MLS program,and those holding the MLS who wish toadd this expertise to their credentialswithout enrolling in a full 30-credit post-master’s studies program.

Upcoming Presidential RoundtablesRichard Bodnar (Psychology) will de-liver the next lecture in the PresidentialRoundtable series on Wednesday, Octo-ber 29, with a talk on “Opioids, theBrain’s Hedonistic Peptides: Ingestiveand Analgesic Studies in Rats.” OnMonday, November 17, Frederick Buell(English) will address “What Counts asNature Now? A Short History of theConcept from Rachel Carson to thePresent.” The latest series of Roundta-bles began on October 1 with a lectureby the college’s newest distinguishedprofessor, Carl Riskin (Economics). The Roundtables are held from 12 noonto 1 pm in the Patio Room South. Bring your lunch along; beverages are provided.To reserve a seat, RSVP to the President’s Office at 5556 orqcpres@qc1.qc.edu.

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In MemoriamLEONARD SLATKES, an expert on Dutch paintingand a distinguished professor in the Art Depart-ment, died on August 22 at the age of 73.Slatkes, who started at the college in 1966 andbecame a full professor in 1982, held a BFA fromSyracuse University, an MA in art history fromOberlin, and a PhD from the University of Utrecht.Slatkes was the recipient of a number of FulbrightFellowships as well as fellowships and grantsfrom the National Endowment for the Humanities,the American Council of Learned Societies and theSamuel H. Kress Foundation. He published extensively on Caravaggio and his Dutch andFlemish followers and was the author of a number of books, includingRembrandt and Persia; Vermeer and His Contemporaries; Rembrandt; andThe Netherlandish Artists. CUNY named Slatkes a distinguished professorin 2000.

ARTHUR CARIN, who had been a member of the Department of Elementaryand Early Childhood Education for 33 years, died on September 14 at theage of 74. After serving in the army as a medic in Japan at the end ofWorld War II, Carin enrolled at SUNY Oswego and later earned a master'sdegree at Queens and a doctorate at the University of Utah. He returned toQueens in 1958 as an instructor and rose through the ranks to become afull professor and associate dean of teacher education. Besides writing awidely used textbook for elementary teachers, Teaching Science ThroughDiscovery, and co-authoring a series of science books for children, Carinwas very active on the board of the Jericho school district, where he andhis family lived. He retired from the college in 1991.

ALAN DUGAN, a poet whose honors included two National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Queens College Poetry Prize, died on September 3 in Massachusetts at the age of 80. Dugan was born in 1923 in New York City. His father was a salesman whose fluctuating income meant thatthe family was constantly moving back and forth between Brooklyn (dur-ing bad times) and Queens (during good times). After enrolling in QueensCollege in 1941, Dugan published his first poems in the college’s literarymagazine and won the Queens College Poetry Prize in 1943. Shortly there-after he was drafted into the Army and eventually earned a degree fromMexico City College. In 1960 Dugan won a Yale Series of Younger PoetsAward, which led to Yale University Press printing his book Poems, forwhich he won the Pulitzer. This was followed by six other volumes of po-etry. Dugan held numerous teaching positions during his career.

CLARE CARROLL(Comp. Lit.) is the author of Ire-land and Post-colonial Theory(Cork UniversityPress); the Ameri-can edition of the

book will be published this monthby Notre Dame University Press . . . DAVID COHEN (Library, Emeri-tus) wrote the introduction to thefifth edition of The Directory ofEthnic and Multicultural Pub-lishers (Center Focus Publishing) . . . During his sabbatical lastsemester, HERMANN HALLER (ELL)was a visiting professor at theUniversities of Florence andGenoa, where he taught seminarson Italian dialect literature. Healso lectured at the universities of Heidelberg, Siena, and Naples,and participated in a conferenceon Globalizzazione e Linguanazionale in Livorno in April. Hisnew book La festa delle lingue(Rome, Carocci) was presented atthe University of Genoa in March.He also contributed a chapter (“Idialetti italiani negli USA”) tothe volume Dialetti italiani: storia,struttura, usi (Turin: UTET) . . .PAUL LONIGAN (ELL, Emeritus) is acontributing editor to Oidhreacht:The Newsletter of Celtic HeritageBooks. Two articles of his recentlyappeared in Oidhreacht: “WeThree Kings” (Christmas 2002)and “Women and the Celts in theMiddle Ages” (Spring 2003) . . .An article by NATHALIS WAMBA(LEAP), “An Examination of Char-ter School Equity,” co-authoredwith Carol Ascher, appeared inthe August edition of Educationand Urban Society. He is also co-author of a report, Charter SchoolAccountability in New York: Find-ings from a Three-Year Study ofCharter School Authorizers, published by the Institute for Education and Social Policy atNew York University.

PEOPLE

ASCAP Honors Five QC ComposersFive members of the Aaron Copland School of Music recentlyreceived ASCAP Awards: Allen Brings, Michael Lipsey, Maurice Peress, Bruce Saylor, and Edward Smaldone (right).The awards are given by ASCAP (American Society of Com-posers, Authors, and Publishers) to concert music composers inrecognition of “the prestige value of their contribution to com-position.” To be considered for an award, a composer has tosubmit a list of compositions, performances, recordings, com-missions, and awards, which are then reviewed by a panel ofmusicians and professionals in the field. Awards are distributedbased on the level and quality of the past year's activities. Edward Smaldone

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Amy Winter

Angela Biancofiore, Poursuite, from theseries Amori solari

Exhibit of Mixed-Media Art OpensCiphers in Time: Recent ItalianMixed-Media Art will open at the Queens College Art Center on Tuesday, October 28. It willfeature the works of Angela Biancofiore, Luisella Carretta, and Gian Carlo Pagliasso. Theexhibit, which will run throughDecember 23, is curated by Peter Carravetta (European Languages).

Spice Up (Powdermaker Hall) byChristian Philipp Müller (above) is asite-specific artwork for three stu-dent lounges on the first, second,and third floors of the newly reno-vated Powdermaker Hall. The workincludes 11 oval tables, 19 porcelainenamel letters, each measuring threefeet high, and 60 stools. Spice Up(Powdermaker Hall) is one of threecommissioned art installations forthe high-tech building, which con-tains classrooms and departmentaloffices.

“Queens College has a globalstudent body,” says Müller. “Theselounges are designed as ‘comfort-zones,’ places for students to meetand rest from academic activities oncampus.” The three lounges examinehow food staples are shared world-wide, and how specific spices trans-form basics such as corn, rice, andpotatoes into familiar-tasting dishes.Eleven oval tables, laminated withimages of bay leaves, cardamom,chilies, cinnamon, lemongrass, dried porcini mushrooms, nutmeg,oregano, tamarind, and turmeric, suggest how students from diversecultural backgrounds “spice-up” the college and enrich the campusexperience.

Müller frequently draws linksbetween the fields of architecture,design, visual and culinary arts.

Art Installation “Spices Up” Powdermaker Hall Lounges

Spice Up (Powdermaker Hall) wasdeveloped collaboratively with students and faculty, who offeredrecipes from their countries of origin.Students are encouraged to continuecontributing and exchanging recipesto share their most comfort-provid-ing food.

continued from page 1Winter, the museum’s director andcurator; Xiaoping Lin, QC professor ofAsian art history; and their graduatestudents in Asian art and museumstudies classes. An opening receptionwill be held on October 23 from 6–8pm. Prior to the reception, at 5 pmMaxwell K. Hearn, curator of AsianArt at the Metropolitan Museum, willgive a lecture entitled “Dreams ofYellow Mountain: Landscapes ofSurvival in Seventeenth-CenturyChina.”

For a list of other lectures, visithttp://www.qc.edu/art/gtmus.html.Gallery hours for The Light of InfiniteWisdom are Monday through Thurs-day, 11 am-7 pm. For more informa-tion, call 4724 or 4736.

Colden Center for the PerformingArts will be presenting Asian perfor-mances and work-shops on everythingfrom drumming tocalligraphy on Sun-day afternoons inLeFrak Hall. PekingOpera Festival willvisit on October 19,to be followed by thepuppetry of Tamaraand the Shadow The-atre of Java (11/2), Soh Daiko/TaikoDrummers (11/16), and Ethos & Mas-ters of Music (12/21). Family work-shops on Asian art will begin onOctober 26 with Maskmaking & Sto-rytelling from South Asia and willcontinue with Chinese Calligraphy(11/23) and Indian Dance (12/7). For acomplete list of events and times, callthe Colden Center box office at 793-8080 or visit www.coldencenter.org

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GRAD GIVES TIPS FOR FUTURE SCREENWRITERS On Thursday, September 11, Jay Wolpert ’64, a seasoned Hollywoodscreenwriter, addressed a packed crowd in the Little Theatre. Wolperttalked about his path from the Pomonok Houses through Queens Collegeand on to television and movies. He shared the “back story” of writingscripts and stories for such movies as The Count of Monte Cristo and Piratesof the Caribbean, and encouraged students to pursue their dreams of showbusiness. “The stuff you dream about in your room is true. It really is awonderful business,” he said.

CUNY Honors College at QC

The CUNY Honors College class of2007 at Queens College is a stronggroup, representing diverse back-grounds and high academic achieve-ment. According to director JanicePeritz, the CUNY Honors Collegereceived 350 applications from quali-fied students, of whom 34 were ac-cepted for admission. Among theadmitted students:

■ the mean SAT was 1340, and themean high school academic averagewas 94;

■ 33% graduated from New York Citypublic schools and 63% from privateschools (mostly yeshivas and parochialschools);

■ their ethnic backgrounds includeAsian American, Hispanic, AfricanAmerican, Irish, Italian, Native American, and Jewish;

■ they have a wide range of interests,with one-third headed toward the natural sciences, one-third toward thesocial sciences, and one-third towardthe humanities.

The class of 2007 includes a Westinghouse semifinalist, a numberof community volunteers, severalscholar athletes (in soccer and track),many gifted writers, quite a few musi-cians, and a filmmaker. This semesterthe students will be working withmembers of the Metropolitan Opera tocreate and present an original opera.

continued from page 2become a very dry, unmagical realm” ofmovies and television. This year, shewas awarded a Guggenheim FoundationFellowship to complete a new installa-tion, The Ideoplastic Materialization ofEva C.

A native of Scotland, Beloff worksand exhibits in Europe and NorthAmerica. She has taught widely, includ-ing at City College, Columbia Univer-sity, The College of Staten Island, andNew York University. Her work incor-porates many artistic and intellectualinfluences, exploring such subjects asthe unconscious, the fantastic, and theparanormal. “I’m inspired, on the onehand, by philosophical ideas and, on theother hand, by exploring technologies

that will best express these ideas withstories,” she explains. “I think of otherways people can interact with storiesand images to break apart the mono-lithic, classical narrative cinema thatwe’ve expected for such a long time.”

At Queens, Beloff hopes to encour-age students’ appreciation for the “his-tory and poetry” of film. She herself isproficient with varied technologies andfilm stocks of the past, such as 3D cam-eras from the 1950s and Kodachrome.A zoetrope sits in her office, along withelegant black-and-white stills of herwork. Explaining her work with stereo16 mm film, she says, “it’s a completelyobsolete technology but, when you getit to work, it’s very beautiful.”

FACULTY AND STAFF ASSEMBLY

Wednesday, October 22, at 3:30

in LeFrak Hall.Introduction of new faculty

and administrators, presentation of

President’s Awards, and a State of the College address

by President Muyskens.

SAVE THE DATE!

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2THU CHORUS AND CHOIR:Cindy Bell and James John, directors;Choral Coffee Break; Rosenthal Library Lobby, 12 noon.

7TUEPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: “Engineeringof As Nanoclusters in GaAs,” Vladimir Chaldyshev, Brooklyn College; Science Bldg. B326, 12 noon.

8WEDPOETRY READING/DISCUSSION:Maria Terrone (Communications) and Peter Carravetta (European Languages); Rosenthal, 5th flr., President’s Conference Rm. #2, 12 noon.

JEWISH LECTURE SERIES:“From Ghetto toSuburb: Shaping ofAmerican JewishLandscape,” JennaWeissman-Joselit, Princeton Univ.;Music Bldg., LeFrak Concert Hall, 7:30 pm.

LIBRARY VIDEO/LECTURE: “Dreamersand Fighters: New York’s TeacherPurges,” independent filmmaker Sophie-Louise Ullman-Vidal; Rosen-thal 230, 7:30 pm.

SEMINAR: “She Who Is: Women’sExperience of God,” Rev. Alan Bentz-Letts, moderator; Student Union 203,7:30–9:30 pm ($35 for 8 sessions– for info/to register, call 261-1550).

14TUEFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY LECTURE:“Jews in Colonial New York,” LeoHershkowitz (History); Rosenthal, 5th flr., President’s Conference Rm. #2, 12:30–2 pm.

15WEDSEMINAR: “She Who Is: Women’sExperience of God,” Rev. Alan Bentz-Letts, moderator; Student Union 203,7:30–9:30 pm ($35 for 8 sessions–forinfo/to register, call 261-1550).

LECTURE: “Geochemical Heterogeneityof Groundwater in Uncontaminatedand Contaminated Aquifers,” Jean M. Bahr, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Science Bldg.,Rm. C207, 12 noon.

16THUQC CHORUS AND CHOIR: Cindy Belland James John, directors, Jan-PietKnijff, organ; Britten’s “Rejoice in the Lamb”; Music Bldg., LeFrakConcert Hall, 12 noon.

17FRIQUEENS PHILHARMONIA:Dong-Hyun Kim, director, Yeo-LimNam, violin; LeFrak Concert Hall,7:30 pm (voluntary $10 donation to the ACSM Scholarship Fundrequested).

19SUNASIAN ART IN PERFORMANCE:Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company;Music Bldg., LeFrak Concert Hall, 2 pm ($12 – 4-event series price $40).

20MONPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM:“Hydrodynamic Approach to Correla-tion Functions in Integrable Models,”Alexander Abanov, SUNY–StonyBrook; Science Bldg. B326, 12 noon.

MATTERS OF THE SPIRIT/FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Student Union 208 (Newman Center), 12:30–2 pm (for info/to register, call 793-3979).

BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGYLECTURE SERIES: “TheExodus from Egypt: NewEvidence,” James K.Hoffmeier, Trinity Interna-tional Univ.; Music Bldg.,LeFrak Concert Hall, 7:30 pm ($5, 3-event series price $12).

LECTURE: “Gender and Empire: The Detention of Foreign Women inAncient Rome,” Joel Allen (History),Student Union, VIP Room, Union Grill, 12 noon.

22WEDAFRICANA STUDIES LECTURE:“Medardo Angel Silva: An Afro-Ecuadorian Poet & the EthnicProduction of Sentiments,” Hugo Benavides; Student Union 304, 12 noon.

FALL FACULTY & STAFF ASSEMBLY:Music Bldg., LeFrak Concert Hall, 3:30 pm (reception follows – for info, call 5559).

SEMINAR: “She Who Is: Women’s Experience of God,” Rev. Alan Bentz-Letts, moderator; Student Union 203, 7:30–9:30 pm (for info/to register, call 261-1550).

23 THUGALLERY LECTURE: “Chinese Scroll Painting,” Maxwell A. Hearn, Curator of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Godwin-Ternbach Museum,Klapper, 4th flr., 5 pm.

OCTOBER EVENTS

23 THUEXHIBIT RECEPTION: The Light of Infinite Wisdom: Asian Art from theGodwin-Ternbach Museum & OtherCollections; Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper, 4th flr., 6–8 pm.

26 SUNJEWISH MUSIC/THEATREPERFORMANCE SERIES: FlamencoSepharad, with the Gerard EderyEnsemble & Flamenco Dancers; MusicBldg., LeFrak Concert Hall, 2 pm ($10, 4-event series price $36).

27 MONLECTURE/BOOK SIGNING: “From Written Out to Written In: RetrievingJewish Women’s History,” Emily Taitzand Sondra Henry; Student Union, 4th flr. 12 noon.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: “Novel Optical Phenomena in Metallic Nanostructures,” Victor Podolskiy,Princeton Univ.; Science Bldg. B326, 12 noon.

29 WEDPRESIDENTIAL ROUNDTABLE:“Opioids: The Brain’s Hedonistic Peptides,” Richard J. Bodnar (Psychology); Dining Hall, Patio Rm.South, 12 noon–1 pm (RSVP toqcpres@qc1.qc.edu or 997-5556).

JEWISH LECTURE SERIES: “Law & Revelation: How Does One KnowWhen God Speaks?,” Suzanne LastStone, Yeshiva Univ.; Music Bldg.,LeFrak Concert Hall, 7:30 pm.

SEMINAR: “She Who Is: Women’sExperience of God,” Rev. Alan Bentz-Letts, moderator; Student Union 203, 7:30–9:30 pm (for info/to register, call 261-1550).

30 THUCPSM FACULTY CONCERT: MargaretHjaltested & Anthony Newton; worksby Bach, Rota, and Brahms; MusicBldg., LeFrak Concert Hall, 12 noon.

GALLERY TALK/RECEPTION: Ciphers inTime: Recent Italian Mixed-Media Art(Angela Biancofiore, Luisella Carretta,Gian Carlo Pagliasso); QC Art Center,Rosenthal, 6th flr., 5–8 pm.

LECTURE: “Integrated Medicine: Pills,Diet & Exercise,” Dr. Robert Borzoneand Theo Kyrkostas, Music Bldg.,Choral Room 264, 7 pm.

Exhibits

15 WEDEXHIBIT OPENING: The Light of InfiniteWisdom: Asian Art from the Godwin-Ternbach Museum & Other Collections; Godwin-TernbachMuseum, Klapper, 4th flr., 11 am(through Dec. 20).

20 MONEXHIBIT OPENING: This Is Woman’sHour: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy;Rosenthal Library, Barham Rotunda,3rd flr., 9 am (through Dec. 19).

28 TUEExhibit Opening: Ciphers in Time:Recent Italian Mixed-Media Art (Angela Biancofiore, Luisella Carretta,Gian Carlo Pagliasso); QC Art Center,Rosenthal, 6th flr., 9 am (through Dec. 23).

2 SUNASIAN ART IN PERFORMANCE:Tamara & the Shadow Theatre of Java; Music Bldg., LeFrak ConcertHall, 2 pm ($12).

JEWISH LECTURE SERIES/MUSIC &DANCE PERFORMANCE: JournalistGary Rosenblatt, The Jewish Week, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company;Colden Auditorium, 2 pm.

3 MONPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: “Wave Propagation in Active & NonlinearRandom Media,” Patrick Sebbah,Univ. of Nice/CNRS; Science Bldg.B326, 12 noon.

4 TUEBIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURESERIES: “Archaeology of Qumran &the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Jodi Magness,Univ. of North Carolina; Music Bldg.,LeFrak Concert Hall, 7:30 pm ($5).

5 WEDSEMINAR: “She Who Is: Women’sExperience of God,” Rev. Alan Bentz-Letts, moderator; Student Union 203,7:30-9:30 pm (for info call 261-1550).

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NOVEMBER EVENTS

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