SEPTEMBER 2000
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The University held its annual block party on September 7.The block party, held on West 12th Street, included live music performances, art, games, food and refreshments. |
| The Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano Graduate School offered a series of discussions during the fall. "Comeback Cities: The Urban Neighborhood Revival" was led by Harvard University professor Paul Grogan. Other discussions included "Criminal Justice: The New Mental Health System," "In the Public Interest: Broadband, Next-Generation Internet Technology and the Nonprofit Sector," "Public Education and New Americans," "Immigrants and the Transformation of Health Care in NYC "and "Immigrants in New York:Impact and Issues." |
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Mannes College of Music faculty member and pianist Vladimir Feltsman performed Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" and presented a master class as part of the Mannes "Bach 2000" festival. The concert also inaugurated Mannes 's new Steinway grand piano, a gift from The Starr Foundation. |
| Parsons School of Design and the Fontainebleau Association of the American Arts School in Fontainebleau, France, presented "In the Garden," a series of lectures with landscape architects Ken Smith, Gary Hilderbrand and Michael Van Valkenburgh, who is the designer of the Vera List Courtyard. |
| Richard Bernstein, Chair and Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty, was among 40 internationally recognized scholars and intellectuals selected to pursue studies at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin for the 2000- 2001 academic year. |
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The Actors Studio "Craft Seminar Series" opened with guest Spike Lee. Other guests in the fall series included Ed Harris, Ben Affleck, Ned Beatty, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mike Myers, Melanie Griffith, Helen Hunt and Michael Douglas. |
| Victoria Hattam, Associate Professor of Political Science, was accepted as a member of the prestigious Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, for the 2000-2001 academic year. |
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