Health is just one reason New York City Councilman Leroy Comrie recently began a weight-loss program to slim down his 350-plus-pound frame. Comrie, who represents Southeast Queens, wants to be a role model for his constituency, and others, as he considers seeking higher office. He and city nutrition expert Cathy Nonas discuss what’s being done to stem the obesity epidemic in New York and nationwide. Salad bars are appearing in schools, fresh produce in bodegas and farmers markets in low-income areas to provide healthier alternatives to fatty, sugary, carb-loaded convenience foods. What’s the best diet? What bad habits besides overeating contribute to weight gain? How much exercise is enough?
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The Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the third quarter 2007 “Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,” which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis including economic confidence, the federal rate cut, and the performance of SEC Chairman Christopher Cox. The survey results are available on Baruch College’s website at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cfosurvey/.

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Judith Kimerling’s lifelong passion for the environment was ignited in the 1980s when she litigated hazardous waste cases, including Love Canal, as an Assistant Attorney General for New York State. Later, when she moved to Ecuador, it was fueled by her work on behalf of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rainforest. Now an associate professor of law and policy at both CUNY Law School and Queens College, Professor Kimerling was recently honored for her efforts with the 2007 Parker/Gentry Award by Chicago’s Field Museum.
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In her latest and critically acclaimed biography, “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice,” the sleuthing, at times controversial, New Yorker journalist and author Janet Malcolm unsparingly investigates how the literary figures Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas — two Jewish American lesbians — managed to get through World War II while living in France. Malcolm, author of such penetrating works as “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession”, and “Inside the Freud Archives”, discusses her new book with Wendy Lesser, founding editor of The Threepenny Review literary magazine, at the Graduate Center.
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She’s been praised as one of the most powerful – and best dressed — women in New York City. Now international investment expert and civic activist Diana Taylor is focusing on improving the West Side waterfront, as chair of the Hudson River Park Trust. She discusses how the city can ensure its spot as a [...]

Increasingly, journalists who promise source anonymity are being forced to face two options: break the bond of confidentiality or go to jail to protect the source. As part of a CUNY Media Conference panel, Indira Satyendra, a lawyer specializing in First Amendment cases for ABC, Inc. and Sheryl McCarthy, a longtime columnist for Newsday and currently a distinguished lecturer in Queens College’s Journalism Department, explore the basics of what has become known as the reporter’s privilege and whether recent court decisions have stripped away journalists’ protections.
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Is it Burma or Myanmar? Miss, Mrs., or Ms.? The expert who can answer this question and say why it matters is Norm Goldstein, a 40-year veteran of the Associated Press who for two decades edited the AP Stylebook, the bible for news writers across the nation. The master word smith addressed the often complicated issue of style as part of the 2008 CUNY Media Conference.
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Aka “The High Priest of Bebop,” Thelonious Monk left an indelible mark on jazz with his unmistakable piano pieces. In celebration of Monk’s 90th birthday, jazz critic Gary Giddins, along with pianist Jason Moran, discuss Monk’s work and legacy at the Graduate Center. Giddins, winner of the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for his book/CD collaboration, “Visions of Jazz” discusses Monk’s influence on Moran, who was named 2005 Pianist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.
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In response to a wave of armed raids on the part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, fifteen Hispanic people — including seven U.S. citizens — in the New York City area filed a federal lawsuit accusing immigration officials of violating their civil rights. Allan Wernick discusses the tactics being used by ICE and whether complaints from the Nassau County Police Department over their techniques will have an impact.
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Executive Committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Tuesday October 16, 2007.

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