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Mourning the loss of Zanvyl Krieger Zanvyl Krieger '28, the noted entrepreneur and philanthropist who made history in 1992 with his $50 million challenge grant to Hopkins's School of Arts and Sciences, died September 15 at his Baltimore home. He was 94. A lifelong Baltimorean, civic leader, and sports enthusiast- -who was crucial to bringing both the Colts and Orioles to the city--Krieger was a loyal supporter of his alma mater. His gift to Arts & Sciences was aimed at adding $100 million to the endowment and was believed at the time to be the largest gift ever directed exclusively to a U.S. school of arts and sciences. In addition, other Hopkins affiliates attest to his generosity: the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, the Krieger Children's Eye Center at the Wilmer Eye Institute, and the Kennedy-Krieger Institute. In 1995, the university paid tribute by renaming its core institution the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. "Zan Krieger was a Johns Hopkins for our time, a hard-working, very successful man with a vision for what philanthropy can accomplish," says university president William R. Brody. "It will never be possible to calculate all the good he has done for Baltimore, but we are a far better city because of him. Zan was also a genuinely warm and human man, a delight to be with. We will all miss him." Krieger was a friend and adviser to Hopkins president Milton S. Eisenhower (1956-67 and 1971-72). The fellow sports fans were frequently seen together in Krieger's box at Memorial Stadium, during the years Krieger owned the city's baseball franchise. In honor of the duo's friendship, part of the Krieger Fund has been used to establish 10 endowed chairs at Arts & Sciences--called the Zanvyl Krieger/Milton S. Eisenhower Distinguished Professorships. After graduating from Hopkins, Krieger earned a law degree and went on to serve as assistant attorney general of Maryland. He later launched a successful career in real estate development, in part by using income from the Krieger family brewery, makers of Gunther beer and distilled rye whiskey. But the seeds for his fortune were sown primarily in 1964, when the entrepreneur signed on as key investor for U.S. Surgical; the start-up company owned the rights to the surgical staple and would go on to pioneer the field of laparoscopic surgery. A diminutive man with an impish grin, Krieger lived frugally; he eschewed expensive vacations and pumped his own gas well into his 80s. At the time of his 1992 gift, he compared philanthropy to eating olives. Both are habit-forming, he said. "The first olive doesn't always taste good, but as you eat more olives, you learn to like them." --Sue De Pasquale
"A nice marriage of skills"
Hopkins's Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies (SAIS), which in recent
years has adapted to an economics-oriented international
scene, also is beefing up its public service mission,
offering a concurrent degree starting this fall with
Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs and an upcoming certificate program with
Hopkins's Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
"The real reason SAIS was created was to promote public
service," says Stephen Szabo, associate dean for academic
affairs. "We can take advantage of the division of labor and
share resources and expenses. SAIS does politics, culture,
and economics and they do quantitative public policy
analysis. It's a nice marriage of skills."
SAIS and Maxwell School students can work toward a
concurrent MA-MPA, with three semesters at SAIS and two
semesters and a summer session at the Maxwell School.
Courses also will be available via a certificate program
with the two-year Master of Arts in Policy Studies program
at IPS.
There are other opportunities for SAIS students to list two
prestigious graduate programs on their resumes. While
earning a master's in international relations, they can also
pick up a law degree from Stanford, a Master of Health
Science degree from Hopkins's
School of Public Health,
or an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania. --JCS
An "outpouring of outrage"
In early October, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA)--under intense and protracted pressure from animal
rights activist groups--agreed to expand regulation of
research animals to include mice, rats, and birds for the
first time.
The decision was met with "an outpouring of outrage" by
research institutions around the country, according to Estelle Fishbein,
Johns Hopkins vice president and general counsel. At
Hopkins, which is the leading recipient of federal research
dollars, officials warned that the increased cost and
paperwork involved will greatly slow the pace of biomedical
advances and prompt research to be moved to areas of the
world without regulatory oversight.
Hopkins currently has 468 faculty members using a total of
42,000 mice, 3,000 rats, and 300 birds in their labs.
Nationally, some 23 million mice and rats were used in
research nationwide in 1999, according to the National
Association for Biomedical Research, which expects that
number to grow by 50 percent in three years, given the
explosion of genetics research.
"The animal rights groups' true motive in this case is to
halt all animal-based medical research in the United States,
with total disregard for the human consequences," said
Fishbein.
Until now, mice, rats, and birds had been exempt from USDA
rules that protect larger warm-blooded animals like primates
and dogs. The National Institutes of Health, however, has
regulated rodent care for scientists receiving federal
money.
In late September, the university filed a petition asking a
federal court for permission to intervene in the dispute.
"Keeping such individualized written records on the many
thousands of mice, rats, and birds at Hopkins to comply with
USDA regulations designed for other species would be
virtually impractical, and probably impossible; would
greatly increase the financial and personnel burden on
Hopkins's research; and [would] undermine the cost-based
reasons for using these animals in research," said Hopkins
in a filing in U.S. District Court.
At press time, a federal judge ruled that Hopkins could not
block the settlement between the USDA and animal rights
activists, while congressional House and Senate conferees
were considering an appropriations amendment that would
prevent the USDA from proceeding with a new rule this year.
--SD
New venues for favorite events
For the first time in 40 years, family and friends who
attend the universitywide commencement ceremony in May will
not gather beneath a big white tent on Homewood's Upper
Quad.
The change comes as a result of recent campus renovation
efforts, which are nearing completion: newly laid irrigation
and drainage lines run the risk of being punctured by tent
spikes. Administrators are leaning toward using Homewood
Field for the big event, according to Dennis O'Shea,
executive director of Communications and
Public Affairs.
Also affected is April's popular Spring Fair. New brick and
marble walkways aren't capable of supporting the trucks
that have brought concessions to the Upper and Lower Quads
for the last 29 years. Fair planners are considering moving
much of the fair--including the heavy carnival rides
traditionally housed on the freshman quad--to Garland Field
and the parking lot behind it. Stay tuned.
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Scooterin' by to say, "Hi!" It's a familiar sight by now, on freshman move-in day: the athletic university president, William R. Brody, and wife, Wendy, on in-line skates, zipping between cars to shake hands and offer greetings. This year, however, the First Couple traded in their skates for scooters, in order to get around safely during campus renovations.
Olympic glory
Hopkins had three Olympians take part in the 2000 Summer
Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Joanna Zeiger, a graduate
student and research data assistant in the
School of Public Health,
placed fourth in the first-ever women's triathlon.
Undergraduate Kamal Masud swam the 100-meter butterfly for
his native Pakistan. And rower Ruth Davidon '98 came in
fourth in the women's double sculls.
Zeiger is a PhD candidate in genetic epidemiology. At the
end of the .9-mile swim that opens the Olympic triathlon,
she was seventh. By the end of the 24.6-mile cycle, she was
in the hunt for a medal. Zeiger ran well (she's a good
enough runner to have competed in the U.S. Olympic marathon
trials earlier in the year) in the 6.2-mile run that
concludes the event, but couldn't stay with the leaders when
they surged near the end of the race. It didn't help that
she dropped her asthma inhaler with two miles left in the
run.
For Masud, the games were about taking part, not about
contending for a medal. An honorable mention all-American on
the Hopkins swim team, he was Pakistan's entire swim team
and finished 62nd in his event.
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