AROUND THE QUADS
Alumni Bulletins

Around the Quads

• Rushdie's Midnight Children brought to the Apollo • General Science Course Being Created for Core • Bizup Developing New Writing Program • Bollinger Adds Two Key Administrators • Campus Bulletins • Alumni News • Transitions • In Lumine Tuo • In Memoriam • Leadership Conference Draws More Than 100 Alumni, Parents • Elbaum, Carroll Receive CCYA Achievement Awards • Athletics' Bill Steinman Retires (Sort of)

REESE A JET?: Johnathan Reese ’02, the most prolific running back in Columbia football history, has signed a free agent contract with the New York Jets and will attempt to win a spot on the National Football League team’s roster during summer training camp and the preseason exhibition schedule. Reese will be competing for a reserve berth behind veteran Curtis Martin, one of pro football’s leading running backs.

Reese is Columbia’s all-time leading ground-gainer with 3,321 yards, one of six school records he set in his four seasons. He was an All-Ivy First Team selection as a junior and a Second Team selection as a senior.

Reese’s cousin, Kirby Mack ’01, who spent last season as a graduate assistant coach at Brown, also was signed to play professionally, by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. Mack, a running back and linebacker at Columbia, will attempt to win a spot as a pass-rusher with Winnipeg. Also, the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL selected wide receiver Jarel Cockburn ’02 in that league’s draft. Cockburn is a native of Ontario, Canada.

A year ago, Marcellus Wiley ’97, a Pro Bowl defensive end with the San Diego Chargers, was the only Columbia alumnus playing pro football.

REUNION 2002: The College’s annual reunion, held on campus and at venues throughout New York and environs on May 30– June 2, was the biggest and most exciting yet — but came too late to make the deadline for this issue of Columbia College Today. Look for extensive coverage in September!