the Incredible Hulk. To create thislife-sized structure, Connerscanned the figurine with a laserand used a computer program toenlarge the image to the seven-footscale of the Incredible Hulk, creat-ing an on-screen-digital mold. Hethen used a computer-controlledrouter to cut the various "body"parts from the EPS foam, andspent a full day assembling"Bruce/Hulk."

The work of another student,Sam Yates, is displayed as a floor-to-ceiling banner of a seven-storyfiling cabinet. At first a viewermight think it is a digital creation.

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Ten 2002-2003 Knight-Bagehot Fellows Named by Graduate School of Journalism

Ten Knight-Bagehot Fellows inEconomics and Business Journal-ism have been named by theColumbia University GraduateSchool of Journalism. Theyinclude journalists from thePhiladelphia Inquirer, Dow JonesNewswires, Forbes, Time Maga-zine, Black Enterprise Magazine,The Record (Bergen County,N.J.) and the Financial Times.

The mid-career fellowshipsprovide full tuition and a livingstipend of $40,000 for experi-enced journalists to take graduatecourses at Columbia’s Schools ofBusiness, Law, and Internationaland Public Affairs. Fellows alsoattend special seminars at theJournalism School led by scholarsand business experts during thenine-month program, whichbegins every year in August. Theprogram is open to journalistswith at least four years’ experi-ence.

Founded in 1975, the fellowsare named for John S. and JamesL. Knight, brothers who estab-lished the Knight Foundation, andWalter Bagehot (pronounced baj-et), the 19th-century British econ-omist and editor of The Econo-mist. They are administered bythe Columbia Graduate School ofJournalism and directed by TerriThompson, a former associateeditor of U.S. News & WorldReport and reporter for BusinessWeek and a graduate of the pro-gram.

Funds are provided by anendowment from the KnightFoundation and by grants fromfoundations and corporations,which have included The NewYork Times, The Starr Founda-

tion, Reuters Foundation, MerrillLynch & Co. Foundation, Inc., theWorld Bank, Citigroup and NAS-DAQ Education Foundation.

The 2002-2003 Knight-Bage-hot Fellows in Economics andBusiness Journalism are:

Mickey Butts, 33, is a free-lance book editor and magazinewriter in San Francisco. His writ-ing has appeared in such publica-tions as Salon, The Nation, Wired,the Financial Times and the SanFrancisco Chronicle. He was afounder and executive editor atThe Industry Standard, and previ-ously was assistant managing edi-tor at Parenting magazine andmanaging editor of the East BayMonthly. He has a master’s ofjournalism degree from the Uni-versity of California at Berkeleyand a bachelor’s degree in com-parative literature from BrownUniversity.

Marilen A. Cawad, 28, is anews reporter/producer for GMANetwork in the Philippines and acontributing correspondent forCNN World Report. She graduat-ed from University of the Philip-pines in 1995 with a degree inbroadcast communication and hassince worked for GMA, the lead-ing broadcast organization in thecountry and local partner of CNN.She has covered various issuesranging from political affairs tothe environment and, since 1998,has concentrated on the businessbeat.

Lauren Coleman-Lochner,39, is the retail reporter for TheRecord (Bergen County, N.J.),where she has worked since 1994.She started there as a part-timeeditorial assistant after freelanc-ing for publications including TheDaily News and the CharlotteObserver. She has earned degrees

from the University of Pennsyl-vania, Rutgers University andColumbia Graduate School ofJournalism, and is an active mem-ber of the Columbia JournalismAlumni Association’s executiveboard.

Carleen Hawn, 31, is an asso-ciate editor at Forbes coveringenterprise software and venturecapital from the Silicon Valleybureau. A graduate of BarnardCollege, she began her career in1993 as a reporter/fact-checkerfor the New York Observer andjoined Forbes in 1996 as areporter. She was rapidly promot-ed to senior reporter and thenagain to staff writer before mov-ing two years ago to California,where she created the magazine’s"Midas List," an annual index ofthe 100 most influential venturecapitalists.

Tim Larimer, 42, joined Timein 1996 as the weekly magazine’sHanoi bureau chief and in 1999became its Tokyo bureau chief.He received a B.S. in journalismfrom Northwestern University in1982 and then wrote for the SanJose Mercury News for eightyears. He has freelanced fromWashington, D.C., for Washing-ton Post Magazine and from Viet-nam for The New York Times andThe Economist magazine beforejoining Time.

Leon Lazaroff, 40, is a seniorwriter for The Daily Deal and forthe past three years has coveredmergers and acquisitions in thetelecommunications and energyindustries. Previously, he hasreported from Madrid, Spain, forthe Associated Press, from Hous-ton for the Houston Post, andfrom Hermosillo, Mexico, forThe Arizona Daily Star. He hasalso freelanced from New York

City and from Mexico City formany newspapers, including theChristian Science Monitor, theNew York Observer, and the FortWorth Star-Telegram. He graduat-ed with a B.A. in History fromUniversity of Wisconsin in 1985.

Emilie Lounsberry, 47, islegal affairs reporter for thePhiladelphia Inquirer where she’sbeen reporting since 1982. Whilea student at Temple University,where she graduated in 1979 witha B.A. in journalism, she startedout covering trials for the DailyIntelligencer in suburbanPhiladelphia. She worked brieflyat the Philadelphia Bulletin beforeit folded and was then hired by theInquirer.

Raphael Minder, 30, is theParis correspondent for Ft.com,the online service of FinancialTimes. Before joining the FT in2000, he reported seven years forBloomberg News from Zurich,Brussels and Madrid. A native ofSwitzerland, he is fluent in Eng-lish, French, German and Span-ish, and earned a B.A. honorsdegree in politics, philosophy andeconomics from Queen’s College,Oxford University, in 1992.

Amit Prakash, 35, reports oneconomics, foreign exchange andbanking from Singapore as seniorcorrespondent for Dow JonesNewswires. He joined Dow Jonesin 1996 as a correspondent basedin New Delhi, and transferred toSingapore in 1998. After receiv-ing a B.A. in economics from theUniversity of Delhi, India, hestarted his career in 1989 as ajunior reporter with the IndianPost in New Delhi. Over the nextseven years, he worked for lead-ing publications, including themagazine Illustrated Weekly ofIndia, The Pioneer (newspaper)

and Outlook magazine. FromIndia, he also freelanced for UK’sSunday Telegraph and wrote acolumn for Pakistan’s News onSunday.

Sakina Spruell, 31, is a senioreditor at Black Enterprise, respon-sible for assigning and editingbusiness news stories and contentfor the magazine’s Web site. Pre-viously she worked as a staffwriter at the Home News Tribuneand as a reporter and producerwith New Jersey’s CNN HeadlineNews Local Edition. Her careerincludes stints as a WeekendNews Anchor at National PublicRadio, WBLS-FM (N.Y.) radioand the Sally Jessie RaphaelShow. She is a 1993 graduate ofRutgers University.

Applications for the 2003-2004academic year are now beingaccepted. For information, call(212)854-6840, send an e-mailmessage to tat5@columbia.eduor visit the Web site atwww.jrn.columbia.edu/knight-bagehot.

“Writing About Business: TheNew Columbia Knight-BagehotGuide to Economics and Busi-ness Journalism” (Columbia Uni-versity Press) draws on the expe-riences of 40 of the nation's finestjournalists and serves as a com-prehensive guide to writing aboutbusiness and economics. Thebook's contributors—all alumniof the Knight-Bagehot Fellow-ship—include reporters and edi-tors from The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times, BusinessWeek and Barron's as well asbusiness executives and consul-tants, academics and authors. Thebook is available from online andregular bookstores, or fromColumbia University Press at800-944-8648.

Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition in Mink Building Depicts ‘New’ Face of Contemporary Art

Artists today do not generallylimit themselves to one medium;rather they use the one that bestexpresses their ideas. Or they mixseveral media in the same work. Inthe Visual Arts program at Colum-bia’s School of the Arts, painters,photographers, sculptors, print-makers and video artists collabo-rate and communicate their ideaswith each other. Examples of thisinteraction can be seen throughoutthe 2002 Visual Arts Thesis Exhi-bition, currently on view in theMink Building (Amsterdam at126th Street) through May 26.

"I am in awe of the talent andambition of the 23 graduatingMFA candidates whose work is ondisplay in this exhibition," saysVisual Arts Chair Jon Kessler."They are a charmed and fero-ciously talented lot and I have nodoubt that their collective spiritwill help to change the landscapeof contemporary art. This exhibi-tion depicts what ‘new’ reallylooks like."

Among the paintings on displayare three of Tom McGrath’s 56-by-90-inch urban landscapes. Inthese oil paintings, McGrath cre-ates the illusion of lookingthrough the windshield of a car inbad weather, arousing feelings ofmelancholy and potential danger.

Photographer Lila Subramanianbases her series of six iris prints on

the closing couplets in Milton’s"Paradise Lost," which shedescribes as a series of oppositionsand contradictions that create atone of ambivalence and uncer-tainty rather than an image offinality and closure.

"My prints hover between thefamiliar and the unfamiliar, thenear and the far, here and there,posing the question where do wefind our frontiers in the vastlyurbanized contemporary land-scape," explains Subramanian."The work seeks an oasis, out-of-bounds, a kind of visual relief.Details from the landscape that are

markers of time and place are dig-itally removed from the pho-tographs in an attempt to de-con-textualize the environment. Theseplaces of referential absence arealso platforms upon which viewerscan project their own narratives."

Demonstrating how today’sartists work in a variety of media,Jon Conner has three works ondisplay in this exhibition – thepainting "Pigeons," the digitalvideo "Wave" and "Bruce/Hulk,"a seven-foot EPS styrofoam sculp-ture. The later is based on aneight-inch figurine of Bruce Leethat at first glance he mistook for

Lila Subramanian’s iris print “Untitled” is one in her series on display.

BY TERRI THOMPSON

BY KRISTIN STERLINGBut Yates includes blueprints,structural engineering designs anda Guinness World Record certifi-cate for the "tallest file cabinet(sculpture)" as documentation ofhis 21,000-pound sculpture.

Inside the filing cabinet are1,862 pieces of a shredded MGmidget sports car that Yates steam-rolled himself and then labeledand filed by weight, in milligrams,from heaviest to lightest. In doingso Yates says he "reduced the MGsports car to its most mundanevalue -- milligrams (mg)." Thesculpture is located in Napa, CA,on the property of a collector whowas interested in it when the three-story version was displayed in ashow in Berkley.

These are just a few examples ofthe photography, painting, print-making, sculpture, installation,video and performance that com-prise the 2002 Visual Arts ThesisExhibition.

As part of Columbia and theSchool of the Arts’ commitment toUpper Manhattan, the exhibition ison view in the first floor of theMink Building, 1361 AmsterdamAvenue (at 126th Street), Wednes-day through Sunday from noon to6:00 p.m., through May 26. Thenow vacant Mink Building wasformerly the home of a fur factoryand a brewery. Upon request GregMartin, one of the students partici-pating in the exhibition and work-ing from the exhibition site, alsooffers tours of the building.