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Columbia students pub-lish first framework fornatural hazards anddisaster mitigation.

Columbia replacesmaster’s degree inphysical therapy withthree-year doctorate.

J. Anthony Lukas BookPrizes for non-fictionawarded to works address-ing social concern.

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Forty student films anddigital videos to bescreened during 2003Columbia Film Festival.

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Spring Fulfills its Promise!

Although it took longer than usual, spring finally made an appearence on Columbia’s Morningside campus. Students responded by takingto the Low Library steps, a traditional gathering place to relax and converse for more than a century.

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Author, JournalistNicholas LemannAgrees to BecomeJournalism Dean

Noted author and journal-ist Nicholas Lemannhas agreed to become

dean of the Graduate School ofJournalism, subject to approvalby the University Trustees,announced President Lee C.Bollinger on April 15.

“Nicholas Lemann has had adistinguished career as a journal-ist and writer for more than 25years,” Bollinger said. “I havehad the opportunity and privilegeof working with Nick this pastyear on the Journalism TaskForce that was set up in the fallto look at the future of journal-ism education. In all my years inuniversity life, I have rarely metanyone with more promise andability in assuming a leadershiprole of a school.”

Lemann has been the Wash-ington correspondent for TheNew Yorker since 2000. Readersknow him for his “Letter fromWashington” column and articleson national and world events.Before joining The New Yorker,Lemann spent 15 years as thenational correspondent for TheAtlantic Monthly, where hereported on a wide range ofdomestic issues. Prior to that, heheld senior editorial posts at bothThe Washington Monthly andThe Texas Monthly and was amember of the national staff ofThe Washington Post.

A New Orleans native,Lemann began his journalismcareer as a 17-year-old highschool student writing for a localnewspaper. He went on to Har-vard and in 1976, graduatedmagna cum laude from HarvardCollege, where he earned adegree in American history andliterature and was president ofthe Harvard Crimson.

Lemann is widely respected asa perceptive analyst of the issuesof race and inequality. His booksinclude the award-winning ThePromised Land: The Great BlackMigration and How it ChangedAmerica (1991), which wasadapted by the BBC and the Dis-covery Channel into a five-partTV series. His book The BigTest: The Secret History of theAmerican Meritocracy (1999)and its hour-long adaptation forthe PBS series Frontline helpedspark a reform effort that has ledto a major overhaul of the SAT.

Books on Native American Slavery Awarded Bancroft

Two books dealing withthe history and socioeco-nomic impact of slave

trade among Native Americans inthe South and Southwest havebeen selected as winners of the2003 Bancroft Prizes in AmericanHistory and Diplomacy.

This year’s recipients are:Captives and Cousins: Slavery,Kinship, and Community in theSouthwest Borderlands, byJames F. Brooks (University ofNorth Carolina Press), and TheIndian Slave Trade: The Rise ofthe English Empire in the Amer-ican South, 1670-1717, by AllanGallay (Yale University Press).

Captives & Cousins: Slavery,Kinship, and Community in theSouthwest Borderlands exam-ines the origins and legacies of aflourishing captive exchangeeconomy within and amongNative American and Eurameri-can communities throughout theSouthwest Borderlands from theSpanish colonial era to the endof the nineteenth century.

Indigenous and colonial tradi-tions of capture, servitude, and

kinship met and meshed in theborderlands, forming a "slave sys-tem" in which victims symbolizedsocial wealth, performed servicesfor their masters, and producedmaterial goods under the threat ofviolence. Slave and livestockraiding and trading among

Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas,Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards pro-vided labor resources, redistrib-uted wealth, and fostered kin con-nections that integrated disparateand antagonistic groups even as

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