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• Klein, McDavid, Lung, Johnson to Receive John Jay Awards • September 11 Recovery Efforts Continue • Columbia Expands Online Offerings • Jester Holds Court Again • Columbia Undertakes NCAA Certification • Celebrating WKCR's 60th Anniversary • To Pay Off Her Student Loans, Dunphy Tries for Miss America • Campus Bulletins • Roar, Lion, Roar • Alumni Bulletins • Transitions • In Memoriam

Mr. Governor: There was no close call this time around for Jim McGreevey '78. After narrowly failing in a bid to unseat New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman four years ago, the Democratic mayor of Woodbridge, N.J., received 56 percent of the vote and overwhelmed Republican Bret Schundler on November 6 to become New Jersey's 51st governor. Whitman had resigned to join President Bush's cabinet and her successor, Donald DiFrancesco, elected not to run for a full term.

McGreevey, the College's only sitting governor, received his J.D. in 1981 from Georgetown and his master's from Harvard a year later. He pledged in his victory speech that his administration would cross party lines to "change the way business is done in Trenton" and do away with back-room deal-making that he said had long symbolized New Jersey politics. State Senator John Lynch, a political patron and adviser to McGreevey, praised the governor-elect's consensus-building style, saying, "It isn't so much that he wants peace as that he sees the benefits of building a team, of trying to make people feel more comfortable with his leadership."

MARRIED: Congratulations to George Stephanopoulos '82, ABC News analyst and former Clinton adviser, upon his marriage on November 20 to actress Alexandra Wentworth. They were married at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York. The groom's father, Robert G. Stephanopoulos, dean of the cathedral, officiated.

EN GARDE: Two of Columbia's all-time fencing greats, Ann Marsh '94 and Erinn Smart, '01 Barnard, helped the United States win the bronze medal in women's team foil at the World Fencing Championships in Nimes, France, on October 26. It was the first women's foil medal for the United States, which defeated Romania and the Ukraine before losing to Russia in the semifinals. The U.S. fencers won the battle for third by beating Germany 45–43, avenging a loss to Germany, also for the bronze, at last year's Olympics.