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Adjunct professor Claudia Dreifus calls the details of the Penn State scandal awful, “…but I’d like to see more coverage about how scandal - child abuse, sex, money - is endemic to semi-pro college sports. It’s a corruption machine.”
Professor Dreifus is co-author of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It, where she devotes a chapter to the myths and realities of college athletics.
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Ariel Stulberg (MIA ’13) writes in The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student-run blog, “Many outside Russia are baffled by (Vladimir) Putin’s continued popularity given his consistent tendency to centralize power and curtail liberal institutions.”
Professor Stephen Sestanovich stresses that context is key: “Most Russian leaders are responding to what they see as the mistakes of their predecessors.”
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SIPA and Columbia’s World Leaders Forum welcome Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect and 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, on Thursday, November 17.
Leaders in Global Energy is the centerpiece of SIPA's initiative to identify solutions to the challenge of creating sustainable energy while protecting the environment and reaffirming corporate citizenship.
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Book discussion: Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion,
November 15
8 Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse,
November 16
Dual Revolutions: A Discussion on Egypt's Labor Movements and their Influence on the Continuing Revolution,
November 17
Israel and the Arab Spring: Challenges and Opportunities,
November 21
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Ranjini Pillay (MIA ’86) was honored by the Girl Scouts of Greater New York at its 19th Annual Women of Distinction Breakfast.
Pillay serves as Chief Underwriting Officer and Senior Vice President at Chartis Insurance.
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Irene Finel-Honigman talks about Europe's sovereign debt crisis and its implications for the U.S. Treasuries,
Bloomberg
Arvind Panagariya: India’s economic growth must help the common man … become less dependent on government handouts,
Washington Post
Joseph Stiglitz says local governments have been exploited by big banks,
Bloomberg
José Antonio Ocampo says governments should be free to use “capital account regulations,"
Financial Times
Jeffrey Sachs: A review of his new book The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity,
The Economist
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Suresh Naidu: Lessons in economics at Occupy Wall Street and Zuccotti Park,
The Huffington Post
Jennifer Wilmore (MIA ’12) interviews documentary filmmaker Pamela Yates on “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator” at
RightsViews
Jeffrey Sachs, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, and Joel Cohen discuss the milestone of 7 billion people living on Earth,
SouthSouth News
Samantha Barthelemy (MIA '11) comments on corruption in the Rio de Janeiro police force in “Conquering the Enemy Within,”
The Rio Times
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Francisco Noguera (MPA DP ’12) interviews Makeshift magazine’s Steve Daniels on grassroots creativity and invention around the world,
Next Billion
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Photo by Mynor Godoy (MIA '12).
Mynor interned last summer with Fundación Mi Sangre in Medellin, Colombia. Fundación Mi Sangre is an arts-based nonprofit begun by Colombian musician Juanes. Its mission is to help victims of landmines and internally displaced people in the cities of Colombia.
"Mi Sangre was a fusion of all the things I was passionate about: education, at-risk youth, community advocacy, and art. They were in the process of launching a new program known as “Pazalobien” and they wanted me to assist with their research on the role art can play in the construction of peace."
This newsletter is distributed by the Office of Communications and External Relations at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Contact Alex Burnett at 212-851-1818 or
alex.burnett@sipa.columbia.edu.
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