Duff Ball- May 15, 2010

www.2010.duffball.org

Special Thanks To:

Stefanie Aquilina, Liz C., Louis Dale, Jeff Foote, Colin Grenning, Ashley Louise, Brendon Nash, Joe Scali, Ryan Wittman, Karen Williams- BASE Productions

Filmed & Edited By:

Tom Lee

MTV Newtwork’s Senior Editorial Director Ken Saji, class of ‘92, discusses his career as creative director and head writer for their creative services department.

Steve Coll, staff writer at the new Yorker, President of teh new American Foundation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and authr of many books including Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, presents the lecture, “Osama Bin Laden and the Age of Globalized Terror”

[video http://slopemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/vonhippel_nonproliferation.flv Prof. Frank von Hippel: Nuclear Non-Proliferation]

Professor Frank von Hippel of Princeton University speaks about worldwide non-proliferation and the disposal of all highly enriched plutonium and uranium.

Sponsored by: The Cornell International Affairs Review

Organized by: StudPubs

List of Speakers:

Samantha Henig ‘06 is a reporter for Newsweek and a freelance contributor to Slate. She was editor-in-chief of Current, a national magazine directed towards college students, from June 2007 to June 2008. During her time at Cornell, she co-founded Kitsch magazine, an all-features publication, and reported for the Daily Sun. She has been published in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and Harvard Magazine.

Katherine Jentleson ‘06 the other founder of Kitsch Magazine is an editor at Art+Auction, a trade publication devoted to the art world. She writes reviews of gallery and museum shows, art fairs and auctions for the magazine and its Web site and was recently appointed to be its Book Editor. She has also written art criticism for New York’s CUE Foundation, and before joining Art+Auction, she was an intern at Harper’s Magazine.

Jonah Green ‘06 is the video producer for NYMag.com, New York magazine’s online counterpart, and is also a freelance contributor to Slate. Jonah produced a documentary titled “Off the Record,” which aired on the Sundance Channel for two years. While at Cornell, he co-founded the Public Journal, a literary journal of confessions and personal essays that now appears at 6 colleges across the nation. He is currently shopping both a Public Journal collection and a first novel to editors, so if you know anyone good, send them his way.

Alexi Zentner has written for regional publications such as St. Louis Magazine, Newcity Chicago, and the Denver Rocky Mountain News. His short story “Touch” is featured in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 where it was chosen as a jury favorite, two of his stories were selected for “special mention” in the 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology, and he is the recipient of the 2008 Narrative Prize. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative, Tin House, and other publications. He is a lecturer in the English Department at Cornell University and a graduate of the MFA program.

Filmed, Edited & Produced by: Jasmin Francis & Corey Belaief

[video http://slopemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/billnyefullinterview.flv Eye on Nye]

Moran Nachum sits down with Cornell ‘77 Alum Bill Nye, a day after he led the Sagan Planet Walk Tour.