CPU Newsletter

January 30, 2005

CPU EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. CPU Event: Gifford Miller, New York City Council Speaker
POSTPONED (to 2/14)

2. CPU Event: State of the Union Watch Party (2/2)

3. CPU Event: Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights
Watch (2/3)

OTHER EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:

4. SIPA Event: Careers in the Foreign Service (2/3)

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CPU EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Gifford Miller, New York City Council Speaker

Tuesday, 2/14 at 12:30 pm
Room 101, Jerome Greene Hall

This event has been postponed to February 14th.

Elected unanimously by his colleagues to the post of City Council
Speaker on January 9, 2002, Gifford Miller leads the legislative
branch of New York's municipal government, overseeing the passage of
all new laws and the City's $47 billion annual budget. Speaker
Miller, a Democrat and lifelong New Yorker, was fist elected to the
City Council in 1996.

Sponsored by the American Constitution Society, the Columbia Law
School Young Democrats, the Columbia College Democrats, and the
Columbia Political Union.

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2. State of the Union Watch Party

Wednesday, 2/2 at 9:00 pm
Location TBA

Join your classmates as we get together to watch President Bush
deliver the annual State of the Union address. Pizza and soda will
be served.

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3. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

Thursday, 2/3 at 8:00 pm
Room 517, Hamilton Hall

Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, a post
he has held since 1993. The largest U.S.-based international human
rights organization, Human Rights Watch investigates, reports on,
and seeks to curb human rights abuses in some 70 countries.

Mr. Roth has written over 70 articles and chapters on a range of
human rights topics in such publications as the New York Times, the
Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the International Herald Tribune,
and the New York Review of Books. He also regularly appears in the
major media and speaks to audiences around the world.

In his ten years as executive director of Human Rights Watch, the
organization has tripled in size, while greatly expanding its
geographic reach, and adding special projects devoted to refugees,
children's rights, academic freedom, international justice, AIDS,
gay and lesbian rights, and the human rights responsibilities of
multinational corporations.

Co-sponsored by: Center for the Study of Human Rights, Amnesty
International, and the Columbia Political Union

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OTHER EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:

4. The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) presents
Careers in the Foreign Service

With Mrs. Robyn Hinson-Jones, the Coordinator of the Diplomat in
Residence Program and the Chief of the State Department’s Human
Resources Outreach Branch and Dr. Clyde Bishop, PhD, US Department
of State Diplomat-in-Residence at the City College of New York.

Thursday, 2/3 at 5:00 pm
Room 1501, International Affairs Building

Robyn Hinson-Jones has been a career Foreign Service Officer since
1978. Her first assignment was to Kinshasa, in the former Zaire,
followed by tours in Barbados and London. In 1983, Ms.
Hinson-Jones returned to Washington for a series of assignments as
Congressional Liaison Officer in the Bureau of African Affairs,
Desk Officer for Zambia and Malawi, Staff Officer for the Secretary
of State, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary.

In 1989, Ms. Hinson-Jones returned to Africa to serve as Political
Officer in Lusaka, Zambia where she was the liaison with the
then-exiled African National Congress. Her next tour was to South
Africa during which she again worked closely with the ANC during
their transition from opposition group, through the first
multi-racial election and finally to government in power.

Following her tour in South Africa, Ms. Hinson-Jones received senior
training and a Masters degree at the National Defense University at
Ft. McNair. Her next assignment was as Political Counselor in
Brussels, Belgium. Upon being promoted into the Senior Foreign
Service, Ms. Hinson-Jones was posted as the Principal Officer in
Lagos, Nigeria.

Since September 2004, Robyn Hinson-Jones has been the Coordinator of
the Diplomat in Residence Program and the Chief of the State
Department’s HR Outreach Branch. She is the recipient of several
Department of State Meritorious Honor Awards and has twice received
the Department’s Superior Honor Award.

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