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The Department of Public Safety &
The Sexual Violence Response Program Presents:
A Class on Basic Self Defense (FREE)

@ Morningside Campus
Thursday, September 15, 2011, 6 pm
Lerner Hall Room 555

@ Medical Center Campus
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 6pm
Bard Hall, 50 Haven Ave Gym

RSVP is a MUST to rm29@columbia.edu

This is a very popular class, if you’re not sure you can make it please DO NOT RSVP.
Dress comfortable.

For more information, please call 212-854-8513

Thank you,

Ricardo Morales CCPP
Columbia University
Department Of Public Safety
Manager of Crime Prevention Programs
212-854-8513 Fax # 212-932-0798
www.columbia.edu/cu/publicsafety
Pride-Professionalism-Service

A Lecture with Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Title: From Closed Doors to Open Roads: A Journalist’s Journey
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College Campus
Cost: $20 (Barnard College and Columbia University students with ID may attend free of charge)

To Register Click Here

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years in the industry. She is the author of In My Place, a memoir of the civil rights movement fashioned around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia. Her latest book is New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance.

As a global journalist, Hunter-Gault has returned to NPR as a Special Correspondent after spending six years as CNN’s Johannesburg Bureau Chief and Correspondent. Before that, she worked as NPR’s chief correspondent in Africa.

Hunter-Gault had joined NPR in 1997 after 20 years with PBS, where she worked as a national correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She began her journalism career as a reporter for The New Yorker, before working as a local news anchor for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. and as the Harlem bureau chief for The New York Times.

Her numerous honors include two Emmy awards and two Peabody awards – one for her work on Apartheid’s People, a NewsHour series about South African life during apartheid, and the other for general coverage of Africa in 1998. Hunter-Gault also was the recipient of the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, the American Women in Radio and Television award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, and a 2004 National Association of Black Journalists Award for her CNN series on Zimbabwe. She has also received awards from Amnesty International for her Human Rights reporting, especially her PBS Series, Rights and Wrongs, a human rights television magazine. In August 2005, she was inducted in the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. She is a sought after public speaker, holds more than two dozen honorary degrees, is on the board of The Committee to Protect Journalists and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Athena Center for Leadership Studies Power Talks feature today’s leaders in conversation on provocative topics of the moment. Each talk will be followed by audience Q&A. Come join the conversation.

Dear full-time M.S. students:

Please fill in this form so that you can network with fellow students who are covering the same beat, whether neighborhood or topic beat.

If you have already finalized your beat, please fill in right away. We will circulate this list on Friday, Sept 2.

FILL IN THE FORM HERE.

FALL 2011 RESULTS, AS THEY COME IN: See the results (see info below).

FALL 2010 STUDENTS WHO COVERED YOUR BEAT: See the results (see info below).

For both links above:

* Password sent via e-mail on Monday, Aug. 29 at 1:45 p.m.

* The most useful view is SUMMARY TABLE (the top left tab).

* Once there, you can sort by borough by going to the appropriate column and hitting the up or down arrows. You can hit the little right arrow to expand the column to see it in full. You can get the same effect by mousing over the “…” of any item. There’s also a column for non-neighborhood, ie, TOPIC beats.

* Another, more efficient way to find folks on a particular beat is as follows: Go to the SUMMARY TABLE tab. Then hit SEARCH. Type in the name of the beat you are interested in (it should match the way it is described in the system - eg, Harlem, East or Harlem, Central or Hunts Point). You will get a list of all the relevant folks.

* If you click on the ITEM SUMMARY (the tab on the right, across the top), you can then click on items such as the borough names to see bar charts to get a sense of how many people are covering, say, Jackson Heights in Queens.

* The listed alumni agreed to have future students contact them about their beats. That said, they filled in this form a year ago, and most certainly will NOT appreciate it if they suddenly heard from dozens of you. So please contact them sparingly and very diplomatically. If one of them tells you they don’t want to be on the list anymore, please e-mail sree@sree.net. Please let us know how useful (or not) this is.

Questions to Dean Sree. All feedback welcome.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AT 6:30 PM

MEDIA MOGULS AND NEWSPAPER EMPIRES: JOURNALISM IN NEW YORK
ALAN BRINKLEY AND DAVID NASAW IN CONVERSATION

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
www.mcny.org
212-534-1672

Dear Public Safety Friends,

Campus Emergency Text Message System

PLEASE REGISTER NOW IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE SO ALREADY:

Students can enter their mobile phone numbers securely and confidentially through SSOL. Log-in to SSOL at

https://ssol.columbia.edu . Under “Your Academic Records,” select “Text Message Enrollment” and enter your mobile phone number.

Text messaging is useful because of the portability and ubiquity of mobile phones, and it complements the use of email, web postings, phone calls and in-person communication for delivering important information. Remember that the University will not use text messaging unless there is a need to convey urgent information, such as a campus closure.

If you have any questions about the text message notification system, before or after the test on Wednesday, please email txt@columbia.edu

Thank you,

Ricardo Morales CCPP
Columbia University
Department Of Public Safety
Manager of Crime Prevention Programs
212-854-8513 Fax # 212-932-0798
www.columbia.edu/cu/publicsafety
Pride-Professionalism-Service

The following is the Scavenger Hunt we created for the International M.S. students. Because of time constraints, we will not be doing similar hunts for the other cohorts, but the items on the list below can be used to created your own self-guided tour of the campus.

INTERNATIONAL M.S. STUDENTS ORIENTATION 2012

Scavenger Hunt: Get to know the campus and the neighborhood and your classmates (and win some cool prizes!)

How this works: Divide into teams of seven-ish. Make sure your team has at least one digital camera.

Beginning at 3 pm, your team will be racing against the other teams to visit the most number of places below AS A TEAM, take a group photo and return to the J-school. We assemble in the Lecture Hall at 4:30 pm to announce the winners and look at the photos.

The rules are simple: Figure out each clue, go to the location and take a group photo of everyone on the team (yes, hand the camera, carefully, to a stranger). Make sure the photo shows the appropriate signage/landmark for each location. The winner is the team that does the most photos. In the case of a tie, the judges will decide based on the bonus questions and aesthetics of the photos. You can go in any order you like.

THE HUNT…

J-SCHOOL:
This is the portrait of Arthur Sulzberger outside Dean Lemann’s office.
This is the Alumni office.
This is Melanie Huff’s door.
This office is shared by Evelyn Corchado and Chanel Roche.
This is Ernest Sotomayor’s door.
This Mailroom is where the Lost & Found is located.
This is Brad’s Cafe.
This is Thomas Jefferson.

CAMPUS:
This is Alma Mater.
This is the Sun Dial.
This is a version of Rodin’s famous “The Thinker.”
This is Dodge Physical Fitness Center.
This is Lerner Hall, where counseling services is located.
This is Butler Library.
This is John Jay Hall, where health services is located.
This is the Kent Hall, where you pay your bills.
This SIPA library is where you’ll find the main Journalism collection.

AMSTERDAM AVE:
This is one of the world’s five largest cathedrals.
This popular cafe has been featured in several movies, including Woody Allen’s “Husbands & Wives.”
This popular pizza place is next to the popular cafe.
This is the Emergency Room for St. Luke’s Hospital.
This is a fun crepe place opposite St. Luke’s.

BROADWAY:
Before it became famous in one of the biggest sitcoms of all time, this diner was the focus of a worldwide acapella (by New Yorker Susan Vega) and dance (by British group DNA) hit
This is the Columbia Bookstore.
This is Ollie’s, a popular lunch and dinner spot.
This is Barnard College.

BONUS:
Find and photograph the owl hidden in Alma Mater.
This is the closest Post Office.
This is where J-school Student Affairs keeps discount coupons for Broadway shows.