The Daily Plan-it / Dean of Students Blog, Columbia J-school

We are very pleased to announce the formation of a new co-working, incubator space for this summer, Columbia Entrepreneurs Lab (CEL), located on the Morningside campus. If you are committed to entrepreneurship we encourage you to apply.

CEL will host up to 30 individuals or about 15 to 20 teams. This is a dedicated co-working environment offered free of charge to admitted entrepreneurs. It is the aim of this incubator to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across campus by providing practical resources and mentorship to burgeoning Columbia entrepreneurs who are committed to their ventures.

APPLY HERE TODAY.

Application Requirements:

• CEL applicants may apply as individuals or as formed teams. Space will only be supplied for up to three members per team.
• You must apply with at least a well-articulated business plan if not a prototype or minimal viable product.
• All teams must include at least one currently enrolled student (undergraduate or graduate) who will be returning to campus during the 2013-14 academic year.
• In addition to the one currently enrolled team member, seats in the incubator can only be offered to team members with a Columbia affiliation (i.e. student, alumnus or staff).
• The details of the program are being finalized but CEL members will be expected to meet with mentors, define and report in on milestones, work full-time on their ventures, make significant progress and offer something back to the other teams in the program.

Please visit here to apply. Applications are due Wednesday, April 24 at 5 p.m.

If you have questions, please submit to Ashley Zwick az2335@columbia.edu and Chris McGarry cm3014@columbia.edu.

Columbia Journalism Students are invited to attend a cocktail reception to announce the winner of The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in the Sue and Edgar Wachersheim III Trustee Room at The New York Public Library.

The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence honors journalists whose work has played an important role in drawing public attention to current issues, events, or policies. The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence was established in 1987 through a gift from Joseph Frank Bernstein in honor of journalist Helen Bernstein (now Helen Bernstein Fealy).

The 2013 finalists are Katherine Boo (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity), Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan), David Quammen (Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic), David E. Sanger (Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of Power), and Tom Wilbur (Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale).

To RSVP, email bernsteinawards@nypl.org by May 8, 2013.

Friday, April 12 is the official close of this year’s centennial celebration, with a party at the New York Public Library. The party, which is the official kickoff of alumni weekend, will include a delicious cajun supper and a musical performance by New Orleans musician Jon Batiste - full details are below.

We have a limited number of subsidized spots that we will make available on Monday, April 1 at 12 p.m. We will offer these tickets on a first-come, first-served basis to students who register and pay the $20 ticket price.

Click on this link to purchase tickets. Any questions, please direct them to your SPJ Centennial Chair, Stuart Sia.

Columbia Health is providing FREE Flu Shots:

When: Tuesday, January 29th from 11am - 4pm
Where: Lerner Hall, Broadway Room

NO APPOINTMENTS NECESSARY!!! Get in and out with your CU ID.

Can’t attend this event? Visit www.health.columbia.edu/flu for more information.

Questions? Contact Columbia Health at 212-854-2284 or hsc@columbia.edu

The Tiziano Project is currently looking for students and student groups to collaborate with on audience engagement
and program development for the 2012 American Giving Awards voting contest (Nov. 27-Dec. 4). With funding
from the American Giving Awards, The Tiziano Project plans to support one or more student groups interested in
completing their own storytelling projects around the world.

Current students at the elementary, high school or college level can sign up as a group to compete for a $15,000 grant
to complete a storytelling project in their own community.
The Tiziano Project will provide winners with program support and consultation on their projects and will promote
the final project through our own channels (a value of an additional $15,000 in pro-bono communications support).
Final story packages will be featured on the StoriesFrom.us platform.

Student groups must register for a unique URL at www.TizTheSeason.org and invite supporters to vote during the
week of Nov. 27-Dec. 4.

Please contact Victoria Fine (vfine@tizianoproject.org) or visit www.tiztheseason.org for more information.

Dear Students,

You have been invited by Sharon Otterman, NBC’s Chief Marketing Officer, for anyone to visit “Democracy Plaza” at NBC News Division tonight, tomorrow morning or tomorrow night and watch a variety of correspondents, anchors and others from the network in action at NBC News headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center.

Showcased tonight are journalists Ezra Klein and Eugene Robinson and tomorrow, will be Andrea Mitchell at 9am, the Rev. Al Sharpton at 11 am, Chris Hayes at 2:30 pm, and Lawrence O’Donnell at 4 pm. Visitors will be able to view interviews with newsmakers by NBC correspondents and guests.

There will also be a viewing party all night around the headquarters for those interested in hanging around. Everything is free and open to public.

Ask for Sharon Otterman upon your arrival and she can provide you with wristbands to gain access to various locations.

The Office of Counseling and Psychological Services is offering a new Workshop Series.

This hands-on, sequential 4-session workshop will provide practical tools for couples who wish to strengthen their relationship. Topics include:
o Understanding Relational Expectations and Beliefs
o How to Nurture the Positives in the Relationship
o How to Improve Problem Solving Ability and Communication Skills

When: Tuesdays, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 & 12/11/12
What time? 5:30pm to 7:00 p.m.
Where: Counseling & Psychological Services’ Conference Room, Alfred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor
For: Couples only (one member of couple must be a Columbia student who has paid the health services fee)

To reserve a spot or for more information, please e-mail:
Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu or
Dr. Aoife Villafranca-West at saw19@columbia.edu

Dear Students,

Don’t know how to ask out that cute classmate in Biology? Is your mom
calling every Friday night to ask you about your grades? Having trouble in
class but not sure how to ask your professor for help? As students of
Columbia University, most of you naturally excel academically; however, time
spent in a classroom is only part of the college experience. Over the next
year, Alice! Health Promotion will be developing a new initiative, Rel@te,
which will address a variety of relationships experienced by students
ranging from relationships with parents, friends, roommates, partners,
teachers and more.

Do you have something to say about relationships? We are looking for
student volunteers to participate in hour-long discussions about
relationships on campus. These conversations will directly inform the
development of the Rel@te program and you’ll get a $15 Barnes & Noble
giftcard! To participate, please take two minutes to complete this
short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/relate. You can also
email us at al2758@columbia.edu to find out more information!

Thanks for your help!

Alice!

Counseling & Psychological Services would like to invite you to join the Procrastination Workshop

This hands-on, sequential 4-session* workshop will:

• address procrastination and time management difficulties which affect your studies and your life

• enable you to pinpoint the problem and address its’ solutions

When? Mondays, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12 & 11/19/12
What time? 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Where? Counseling & Psychological Services’ Conference Room, Afred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor

To reserve a spot or for more information, please email Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu

* Students are expected to attend all 4 meetings.

Please join the Social Enterprise Club for lunch with a very special guest: Paul Binder, founder of the Big Apple Circus, CBS Class of ‘65.

Learn about Mr. Binder’s adventures in creative business and social entrepreneurship,

And how he started one of the world’s most successful circuses.

Mr. Binder plans to share his story as well as stimulate our natural creative tendencies and

encourage us to tolerate uncertainty and be excited about the possibilities in front of us.

See Mr. Binder’s full bio here: http://www.paulbindercircus.com/about.html

Thursday, September 27th: 12:30-2pm

Please RSVP here: https://columbia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0uIYdIR3QJgA5db

TABLE 4 WRITERS FOUNDATION Announces its ANNUAL WRITERS’ GRANTS

The Table 4 Writers Foundation, formed to honor the legendary restaurateur Elaine Kaufman, announced this week that it will give several grants of $2,000 (or gifts in kind
of up to $2,000) to promising writers as part of an annual competition.

Writers 21 and older who are residents of New York City are eligible for the grants, which will be announced at a gala to be held in February 2013 marking what would have
been Ms. Kaufman’s 84th birthday. Ms. Kaufman, known for nurturing writers and other creative people, died in December 2010 after running the world-famous Elaine’s
restaurant on the Upper East Side for more than 47 years.
“What we want to do is reach writers who are struggling in their careers,’’ said Jenine Lepera Izzi, the foundation’s chairwoman. “Maybe it takes the place of a few months of
part time work,’’ she said. “Maybe it pays a portion of their rent.’’ The goal is to give the writers time to focus on their work, and possibly allow them to do a little networking
through the foundation.

Rules and application forms for the grants, which will include both fiction and
nonfiction writing, are available at www.table4.org.
All entries must be postmarked by Oct. 15, 2012.

Hey Journalists!!!

Got a cool journalism idea but don’t have the resources to fund it……..Problem Solved!!!!!

Enter the Ebyline/E&P 100% Journalism Challenge

Sept. 12 - Oct. 12, 2012

You could win up to $35,000 in prize money to access over 2,000 top-notch freelance journalists and make your project a reality.

All you need are:
• An original, ambitious idea for complete coverage of something you care about. We’re talking projects that seek to cover every band in a music festival, every political race in an
election, every homicide in a city – anything that’s 100%.
• A super-simple entry form. Go to www.ebylinecontest.com from Sept. 12 - Oct. 12, 2012 to enter.

Come to our info session at Columbia Journalism School
When: 4 p.m., Monday, Sept. 17
Where: Room 706 (Knight-Bagehot Seminar Room)
What: Drinks, snacks and information about the contest
RSVP: http://ebyline.eventbrite.com

Visit www.ebylinecontest.com to Enter!

Columbia Technology Ventures is now accepting applications for the Fall 2012 recruiting round of our nationally-recognized CTV Fellows Program. The Fellows Program is open to all Columbia graduate students. We especially encourage applications from graduate students seeking degrees in clinical, scientific, engineering, and business disciplines.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012

Details on eligibility, selection criteria, and the application process can be found in the attached flyer and online at
http://techventures.columbia.edu/about/jobs/fellows.
The online applicationmay be accessed at
https://ctvfellows.myreviewroom.com/

ABOUT THE CTV FELLOWS PROGRAM
Established in 2006, the Fellows Program at Columbia Technology Ventures
(CTV) offers a unique opportunity for Columbia graduate students to gain
in-depth experience with university technology transfer and technology
commercialization. Fellows work closely with CTV on a wide range of
projects, including assessment of the commercial viability of new
inventions, identifying potential licensees or investors, developing
marketing materials, and analysis of patent literature. After graduation,
many CTV Fellows pursue exciting careers at the intersection of science,
technology, business, and law.

Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarships/Internships

Graduate and undergraduate students, studying at American colleges and universities or Americans studying at foreign universities, who aspire to become foreign correspondents, are invited to apply for one of fourteen scholarships/internships to be awarded by the Overseas Press Club Foundation.
From among the scholarship winners, the Foundation selects up to six scholars and pays travel and living expenses for them to intern at foreign bureaus at such leading news organization as the Associated Press, Reuters and Forbes. Students win either a $2,000 grant or funding for their overseas experience. In many cases, winning a prestigious OPC Foundation award has helped launch careers. Winners are also invited to join the Overseas Press Club family. They are encouraged to network and keep the organization informed of their career moves.

The judges require that applicants submit a Cover Letter, Resume and Essay. The applicant’s name and school should appear at the top of each page. The Essay of approximately 500 words should concentrate on an area of the world or an international issue that is in keeping with the applicant’s interest. It can be in the form of a news story, analysis, or essay. Recent winners have written on such diverse topics as playing black jack on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, political activism in Morocco, and social upheaval in China. Applicants are also encouraged to submit essays showing a strong understanding of, or interest in, global economic issues such as trade, finance, emerging markets, immigration or environmental impacts.

The Cover Letter should be autobiographical in nature addressing such questions as how the applicant developed an interest in this particular part of the world, or how he or she would use the scholarship to further journalistic ambitions. The judges respond well to applications showing strong reporting skills, color, and understanding or passion.
Winners will be contacted in December so that arrangements can be made for them to attend the Foundation Scholarship Luncheon in February 2012 in New York City at the Foundation’s expense. Recipients are expected to attend. The results will be posted on the Web site in mid-December.
Applicants do not have to be US citizens. Applications may be sent by mail, fax or email. Please choose one. Email is preferred (Word or PDF).

DEADLINE: Saturday, December 1, 2012
Email: foundation@opcofamerica.org
Fax: 201-612-9915
Mail: William J. Holstein, President, Overseas Press Club Foundation, 40 West 45 Street, New York NY 10036
Web site: www.overseaspressclubfoundation.org
For more information, contact Jane Reilly, Executive Director, at
foundation@opcofamerica.org or call 201-493-9087.

The Associated Press Media Editors Association is offering a new contest for college students: The (New) Innovator of the Year Award.

The award recognizes innovation by university students in print, online, management, structure or other area that demonstrates a bold, creative effort to improve a news or information product and increase audience. Demonstrable success is not essential but could improve the entry’s standing.

Eligibility: The competition is open to any APME affiliate member who is either an enrolled student or faculty member.

Submissions: A total of 20 files can be uploaded with each entry. This can include a combination of documents, published pages and multimedia files, if applicable.

Online innovation: The entrant is responsible for making the site available to judges through a Web link. URL should be submitted with the application.

Print innovation: Submit electronic files of published tear sheets.

Online and print: Combinations are welcome, and should be submitted according to rules for both.

Management, structure or other: Explain thoroughly the innovation and how it improved or increased efficiency, effectiveness, coordination and audience or enhanced the newspaper’s competitiveness or ability to improve content. Provide examples of resulting content as appropriate.

Judging: A panel of APME board members will judge all entries and select three finalists. The finalists will be presented to attendees of the APME annual conference in Nashville, Sept. 19-21, and a vote of attendees will determine the winner. A representative of each finalist will be asked to present his or her newspaper’s entry at the conference. Attendance is not required to win.

To enter, go to https://www.omnicontests4.com/?comp_id=330

Do you already have a strong foundation for your committed relationship, but want to see it get even better? This might be the workshop for you!

Enhancing Your Relationship: A Workshop for Couples

This hands-on, sequential 4-session workshop will provide practical tools for couples who wish to strengthen their relationship. Topics include:
• Understanding Relational Expectations and Beliefs
• How to Nurture the Positives in the Relationship
• How to Improve Problem Solving Ability and Communication Skills

When: Tuesdays, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24 & 5/1/12
What time? 5:30pm to 7:00 p.m.
Where: Counseling & Psychological Services’ Conference Room, Alfred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor
For: Couples only (one member of couple must be a Columbia student who has paid the health services fee)

To reserve a spot or for more information, please e-mail:
Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu or
Dr. Aoife Villafranca-West at saw19@columbia.edu

The Politiva.com Emerging Journalists Awards Contest is to recognize young journalist who are conducting investigative reporting on a variety of important issues.

If you are a Journalist age 18 to 30 you are encouraged to apply.

Each month there are 13 winners of $200 Apple Gift Cards.

Grand Prize: a 13.5 inch Mac Book Pro AND an I-Pod Touch *
2nd Prize: Apple I-Pad *
People’s Choice Contributor Winner: Apple I-Pad *

*For more information and contest rules click here.

Contest ends December 31, 2012.

Do You Procrastinate? What Can You Do About It?

The Counseling & Psychological Services department may have the answer. The Procrastination Workshop.

This hands-on, sequential 4 session workshop will:

Address procrastination and time management difficulties which will affect your studies and your life

Enable you to pinpoint the problem and address it’s solutions

Where: Mondays, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 & 4/9/12
What time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Where: Counseling & Psychological Services’ Conference Room, Alfred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor

To reserve a spot or for more information, please email: Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu

*Students must attend the first meeting and are expected to attend all 4 meetings.

CARE ABOUT FREEDOM??? So do we!

Reporters Without Borders, along with the Ford Foundation and CNN wants you to have the opportunity to air you PSA about the importance of press freedom on national cable television. Your PSA of no more than 50 seconds will answer the question: Why should we care about freedom press? Students from any US university can collaborate on this project.

Be professional, Be factual and Be creative!!

DEADLINE: MARCH 19, 2012

Your video could be chosen to air on CNN on WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, May 3, 2012

FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.rsf.org/videocontest

ATLANTIC-COMMUNITY.org- the first open think tank on foreign policy - has launched a new competition for undergraduate and graduate students called “Your Ideas, Your NATO”.

We are looking for students’ ideas on important current issues that will be debated at the NATO Summit in Chicago in May, including partnerships with Arab Spring countries, spending more efficiently on defense, and building transatlantic values and community. Students at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism are encouraged to participate.

Winners will present their policy ideas at our conference in Berlin and receive feedback from NATO (round-trip airfare and 4 nights’ accommodation plus 500 EUR cash prize included). Students will also have a chance to collaborate with their peers in other NATO Member and Partner countries to come up with common solutions to these important transatlantic issues.

Articles must be written in English, but we will be judging all submissions based on ideas and content, and will help edit and improve writing. Even if students have little or no experience writing in English, if they have great policy ideas, we want to hear from them!

The deadline for submissions in the first category is February 23. You can find all the details here:
http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/articles/view/Your_Ideas%2C_Your_NATO

Go Ask Alice!, a leading Internet resource supported by Columbia University that answers reader-generated questions ranging from acne to x-rays, debuts an updated website on January 17, 2012 at www.goaskalice.columbia.edu. Site enhancements enable readers to find information easily and quickly, and be a part of the conversation. Launched in 1993, Go Ask Alice! is one of the oldest Web sites to provide systematically researched, reliable, and culturally sensitive health information.

Among new features of the site are a redesigned navigation system and page layout, an expansion of site capabilities to allow more flexibility and engagement with readers, as well as an evolution of the site’s technology to meet current and future Web standards for disability access. In addition to maintaining our core anonymous health Q&A content, we are please to introduce new features, including:
• Mobile friendly version for smart phone users;
• Interactive quizzes;
• Robust social media integration;
• Rate this question;
• A new Health Information section to better present alerts, recalls, health in the news, and other core information; and
• Easier mechanisms for submitting questions, reader responses, comments, corrections, and rants & raves.

With intensive reader feedback, Go Ask Alice! was redesigned to streamline the way visitors navigate to new or archived health questions and answers and other related content. Information is now categorized in four sections: 1) browsing for questions by health topic; 2) directly receiving new Go Ask Alice! questions; 3) participating in health quizzes, polls, and other features; and 4) accessing health information and resources in one convenient location. The page layout and color palette were also upgraded for a cleaner and more approachable site that highlights Go Ask Alice!’s 18-year digital presence combined with contemporary branding.

Go Ask Alice! maintains its format as an anonymous question and answer site, but further engages users by enabling readers to rate or comment on any of the thousands of questions found in six broad health categories: alcohol & other drugs; emotional health; general health; nutrition and physical activity; relationships; and sexual and reproductive health.

Leveraging current technologies for social networking and sharing, readers can distribute Go Ask Alice! content on any of their preferred social platforms. The redesign incorporates a “Share” button listing social communities, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, among others, and allows the site to expand into newer technologies further down the pipeline. Additionally, the site is redesigned to provide full Web accessibility to visitors with visual impairments.

Go Ask Alice! has more than 1.5 million visitors each month and contains thousands of health-related questions produced by Columbia Health, Alice! Health Promotion. This is the third major enhancement of the site. Go Ask Alice! is supported entirely by Columbia University and does not receive funding to promote specific products, nor does it accept advertising of any sort.

Greetings from Alice!

The rumors are true. The new expanded version of Go Ask Alice! is scheduled to launch with the start of the new academic term in January.
If you are not familiar with the site, please visit www.goaskalice.columbia.edu to learn about our efforts.

We are reaching out to see if you, as a student leader, are willing to be part of our initial launch promotion. Here are the details:

Each student leader will be provided with a Go Ask Alice! t-shirt (two designs, three color options). S/he will be expected to wear the shirt on January 17, 2012 (first day of classes). S/he will also be expected to wear the shirt up to 4 more times in the semester, with notes from us as to which are the preferred days. Each student will also be given a pair of the stylish Go Ask Alice! sunglasses (8 color choices).

If you are interested, please e-mail your name & uni to alice@columbia.edu .

On behalf of the team, thanks for your ongoing support and working with us to make Columbia a healthier place to live, work, and learn.

In health,
Alice!

Do you already have a strong foundation for your committed relationship, but want to see it get even better? This might be the workshop for you!

You have been invited to participate in the a workshop series hosted by the Counseling & Psychological Services (CPS) Department.

When: Tuesdays, 11/22, 11/29, 12/6, & 12/13/11
What time? 5:45pm to 7:15 p.m.
Where: Counseling & Psychological Services’ Conference Room, Alfred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor
For: Couples only (one member of couple must be a Columbia student who has paid the health services fee)

This hands-on, sequential 4-session workshop will provide practical tools for couples who wish to strengthen their relationship.

Topics include:

Understanding Relational Expectations and Beliefs
How to Nurture the Positives in the Relationship
How to Improve Problem Solving Ability and Communication Skills

To reserve a spot or for more information, please e-mail:
Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu or
Dr. Aoife Villafranca-West at saw19@columbia.edu

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) Next Talks

Featuring: Brandon Holley, Editor-in-chief, Lucky

When: Tuesday, November 15th, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Where: The Professor’s Loft - 219 Second Ave, NYC

ASME Next Talks are a series of open bar nights for those interested in advancing their careers, learning more about magazines from industry leaders or just meeting new people. It is open to junior-level magazine and web editors, journalists and anyone interested in learning more about the magazine industry.

Please register for the event here: http://www.magazine.org/asme/asme_next/Talks.aspx.
Admission for ASME Next members is $10; admission for non-members is $20.
Payment can be made at the door, but space is not guaranteed. To secure your spot at the event,
please register.

You are invited to attend the Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Forum at Columbia University

Friday, October 28th

The Forum is the culminating event of the Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Program, a exciting initiative which serves to inspire and empower the next generation of community leaders. The theme, “The Power of Community Engagement: Impact, Innovation and the Individual” expresses the goal to discuss important social issues of today by highlighting innovative approaches to solutions and the ways in which individuals can have an impact on their communities.

Tickets are required and are free of charge and available NOW at the Miller Theatre Box Office and On-line

9:30am - Keynote Address: Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone

10:45am - Panel 1: “Creating a Sustainable Community: Ensuring Access to Healthy Food” Moderator: Claire Shipman CC’86 (ABC News)
Panelists: Kubi Ackerman (Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute), Michael Hurwitz (Greenmarket), and Abby Youngblood (Just Food)

1:30pm - Panel 2: “Advocating for a Just Community: Creating New Pathways to Justice”
Moderator: Chris Cuomo (ABC News)
Panelists: Ben Jealous CC’94 (NAACP), Angel Rodriguez (Andrew Glover Youth Program), and Professor Carla Shedd (Sociology and African American Studies)

3:30pm - Panel 3: “Creating a Global Community: Social Media and Social Change”
Moderator: Professor Sree Sreenivasan (School of Journalism)
Panelists: Mark Belinsky (Digital Democracy), Beka Economopoulos (Fission Strategy), and Professor Ted Perlmutter (School of Continuing Education).

Do You Procrastinate? What Can You Do About It?

This hands-on, sequential 4-session* workshop will:

1. Address procrastination and time management difficulties which affect your studies and your life

2. Enable you to pinpoint the problem and address its’ solutions

When? Mondays, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21 & 11/28/11
What time? 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Where? Counseling & Psychological Services’ Conference Room, Alfred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor

To reserve a spot or for more information, please e-mail:
Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu.

*Students must attend the first meeting and are expected to attend all 4 meetings

Dear Students:

Flu season is quickly approaching and it is time to get your annual flu shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene recommend receiving a seasonal flu shot as the best way to protect yourself, family, friends, and colleagues from the flu.
We invite students, faculty, and staff on the Morningside campus to receive a FREE seasonal flu shot.

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011
Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway Room

Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011
Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway Room

**Please remember to bring your Columbia ID.

If you are unable to attend these events, please visit one of our other flu fairs this fall. You can also receive your free flu shot by scheduling an appointment with Medical Services during clinical hours. For more information about upcoming flu fairs or how to schedule a flu shot appointment with Medical Services, visit www.health.columbia.edu/flu.

The locations of all of the flu fairs are wheelchair accessible. If you require sign-language interpreting services to communicate with our health care providers, please contact Disability Services (disability@columbia.edu). If you require large print or electronic information, please contact dc60@columbia.edu or (212) 854-7390.
The flu shot is safe and effective. An annual single flu shot protects people from different flu viruses, including the H1N1 virus and two other common flu viruses.
Questions about the flu shot? Please contact Columbia Health at (212) 854-2284.

Sincerely,

Columbia Health

The Earth Institute at Columbia University has assembled its 2011-2012 Student Advisory Council with two students from the Journalism School who will assist in developing student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

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For an entertaining evening and a crash course in the evolution of modern journalism, don’t miss this Media Movie Series.
Register ASAP at www.cencom.org. You can also e-mail info@cencom.org or call 212.686.5005.

Déjà Vu All Over Again
Wednesday, September 28

4:30 to 6:30 pm, Network (1976). This brilliant and biting satire from Sidney Lumet rings more true with every passing day. The film won Oscars for screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, and actors Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch, who gives the performance of a lifetime for his iconic “mad as hell” portrayal of an embittered news anchor whose life and ratings are in freefall.

6:45 to 8:30 pm, Sweet Smell of Success (1957). Lean, mean and impossibly cynical, this masterpiece grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. Burt Lancaster gives a chilling performance as a classier, more cultivated version of Walter Winchell, the most powerful and reviled journalist and broadcaster in the heyday of radio.

Panel follows, 8:30 to 9:30 pm
Larry Hackett, Managing Editor, People
Moderator: Michael Riedel, Theater Columnist, New York Post

Reporting News in the 21st Century
Friday, September 30

6:30 to 9:00 pm, Page One: Inside The New York Times (2011). Filmmaker Andrew Rossi (Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven; Eat This New York) spent a year inside the NY Times shooting the newsroom and capturing the inner workings of the Media Desk as the paper struggles to stay profitable in the wake of the digital revolution. Reporters Brian Stelter, Tim Arango and the irascible David Carr provide the drama as they tackle 20th century problems and try to keep apace of constant transformations as the Internet surpasses print as our main source of news.

Andrew Rossi, Director, Page One: Inside The New York Times
William McGowan, Author, Gray Lady Down
Moderator: Michael Riedel, Theater Columnist, New York Post

Location:
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
1871 Broadway (61st and 62nd St.)

To the Columbia Community:

I am writing to tell you about a new shuttle bus service which will be introduced in the Morningside Heights area for Columbia University community members early in the Fall 2011 semester. This new shuttle service, which will replace point-to-point vehicular escorts, will utilize two shuttle buses traveling on different routes, in thirty minute loops across the Morningside and Manhattanville areas.

The evening shuttle service will operate seven days a week from 6PM every evening until 4AM the following morning. We believe that the evening shuttle service will provide a safe and efficient method for traveling around the Morningside Campus area during the evening hours. A copy of the evening shuttle bus schedule which contains both a map of the routes and a listing of the stops on each of the two separate routes can be found on the Public Safety website at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/publicsafety/morningsideshuttlev3_2011_08_31.pdf

For those who prefer, Public Safety’s walking escort service, which sends two specially trained students to walk you to your door, will continue to be available seven nights a week from 8PM to 3AM. We encourage you to take advantage of both of these services.

For further information on this, and other shuttle services provided to the Columbia Community, please visit http://transportation.columbia.edu.

All the best,

Jim McShane

James F. McShane
Vice President for Public Safety
Columbia University
Low Library, Rm. 101
Mail Code 4301
535 W. 116th Street
New York, New York 10027
212-854-6792