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Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was a professor of psychology at Brandeis University who founded humanistic psychology and created Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Frederick Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism. He was also a founding member of the Artist's Club. He wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists".
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Agnieszka Holland
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation, an anarchic group of young men and women who joined poetry, song, sex, wine and illicit drugs with passionate political ideas that championed personal freedoms. Ginsberg's epic poem Howl, in which he celebrates his fellow "angel-headed hipsters" and excoriates what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States, is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation The poem, dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, has a memorable opening:
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Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College.
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Ann Althouse
Ann Althouse (born January 12, 1951) is an American law professor and blogger. Raised in Newark and Wilmington, Delaware (and later as a teen in Wayne, New Jersey), Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell.
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Archie Rand
Archie Rand (born 1949) is an artist and academic from Brooklyn, New York, currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College.
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Ben Lerner
Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, [http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/catalog/dsp_bookDetail.cfm?Book_ID=1213 The Lichtenberg Figures]. In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. The Lichtenberg Figures appeared in a German translation in 2010.
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Carey Harrison
Carey Harrison (born 1944) is an English novelist and dramatist.
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David Grubbs
David Grubbs (born September 21, 1967), guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. He has also played in The Red Krayola and The Wingdale Community Singers.
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Edwin G. Burrows
Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (born 1943) is a professor of history at Brooklyn College. He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning and author of 2008's Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War. Burrows received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973. He currently resides in Northport, New York on Long Island.
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Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman (b. January 14, 1960) is an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, , and educator. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008, and is now hosted by The Nation.
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F. Murray Abraham
Fahrid Murray Abraham (born October 24, 1939) is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. He appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as ''All the President's Men and Scarface''. He is also known for his television and theatre work.
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Fiorello La Guardia
Fiorello Henry La Guardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 September 20, 1947) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a liberal Republican. Previously he was elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922 through 1930. Irascible, energetic and charismatic, he craved publicity and is acclaimed as one of the three or four greatest mayors in American history. Only five feet tall, he was called "the Little Flower" (Fiorello is Italian for "little flower", diminutive of fiore, Italian for "flower").
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Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynolds (born 1960) is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, and is best known for his weblog, Instapundit, one of the most widely read American political weblogs.
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was an influential German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world". Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.
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Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman (; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violin virtuoso, conductor, and master-instructor. He is widely considered to be one of the preeminent violin virtuosi of the 20th century.
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John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin (2 January 1915 – 25 March 2009) was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. The John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago, Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
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John Hospers
John Hospers (born 9 June 1918) is an American philosopher. He was the first presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party, running in the 1972 presidential election.
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Karen L. Gould
Karen L. Gould (born June 17, 1948) is a scholar of French-Canadian literature, and an academic administrator who has been a dean at Old Dominion University and the University of Cincinnati, provost and senior vice president at California State University, Long Beach, and is currently president of Brooklyn College, the first woman to hold that position.
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KC Johnson
Dr. Robert David Johnson (born 1967), also known as KC Johnson, is a history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is a prolific critic of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and some members of the Duke University faculty and administration concerning the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, via his blog, "Durham in Wonderland", and a co-authored book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case. Professor Johnson's trademark is the bow tie, which he can often be seen wearing at events and conferences.
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Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".
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Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.
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Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi is an award-winning writer, and associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and raised in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, he currently lives in Brooklyn.
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Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein (born May 24, 1924) is an American painter, and part of the contemporary Realist school.
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Rafael Viñoly
Rafael Viñoly (born 1944) is a Uruguayan-born architect living in the United States.
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Tania León
Tania León (born May 14, 1943 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban composer and Conductor who has been recognized as an educator and advisor to arts organizations.
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Ursula Oppens
Ursula Oppens (born February 2, 1944 in New York City) is an American classical pianist.
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Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.
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William T. Williams
William T. Williams was born in Cross Creek, North Carolina, United States. He received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1966 and studied at The Skowhegan School of Art. In 1968 he received an MFA degree from Yale University School of Art and Architecture. He is presently Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, whose faculty he joined in 1971.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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Brooklyn, New York
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Hunter College
Hunter College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Originally known as the Normal College, Hunter was founded in 1870 by Irish immigrant and social reformer Thomas Hunter as a teacher-training school for young women. It remained a women's college through the 1960s. Today, Hunter is a coeducational liberal arts and sciences college that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 100 fields. The college is organized into four schools: The School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the School of the Health Professions, and the School of Social Work. Since 2001, Hunter has been led by President Jennifer Raab, former chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Midwood
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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New York City
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United States
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Brooklyn College

Name	Brooklyn College
Image name	Brookllyn College Logo.gif
Motto	Nil sine magno labore ("Nothing without great effort")
Established	1930
Type	Public
Endowment	$60 million
Staff	519 full-time, 444 part-time
President	Karen L. Gould
Students	17,094 (2009)
Undergrad	13,069 (2009)
Postgrad	4,025 (2009)
Campus	Urban
City	Brooklyn
State	NY
Country	USA
Free label	Athletics
Free	14 teams
Mascot	Bulldogs
Website	www.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.

Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College (then a women's college) and the City College of New York (then a men's college). With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City. The campus is known for its great beauty.

The College ranked in the top 10 nationally for the second consecutive year in Princeton Review’s 2006 guidebook, America’s Best Value Colleges.

Campus history

In 1932, the architect Randolph Evans drafted a plan for the college's campus on a large plot of land his employer owned in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. He sketched out a Georgian-style campus facing a central quadrangle, and anchored by a library building with a tall tower. Evans presented the sketches to the president of the college at the time, Dr. William A. Boylan. Boylan was pleased with the plans, and the lot of land was purchased for $1.6 million. Construction of the new campus began in 1935, with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by then Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Brooklyn Borough President Raymond Ingersoll. In 1936, then-President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt went to Brooklyn College to lay the cornerstone of the Brooklyn College Gymnasium. President Boylan, Borough President Ingersoll, and President Roosevelt all had buildings on Brooklyn College's campus named after them. The campus located in Midwood became the only Brooklyn College campus after the school's Downtown Brooklyn campus was shut down during the 1975 budget emergency.

Modern campus history

Brooklyn College's campus today looks much as it did when it was originally constructed, but with extensions of Ingersoll Hall and Roosevelt Hall. The campus also serves as home to the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts complex and its four theaters, including the George Gershwin.

The most recent construction to take place was the demolition of the Plaza Building, due to its inefficient use of space, poor ventilation, and significant maintenance cost. To replace the Plaza Building, the college has constructed a new West Quad, designed by the notable Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly. The new grounds contain a newly landscaped quadrangle with grassy areas and trees. Also, new façades are being constructed on the Roosevelt and James Hall buildings where they once connected with the Plaza Building. In addition to these changes, a new West Quad building has been completed. It contains classroom space, offices, and the Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science. The building also has new gymnasiums, and a swimming pool. The 2009-10 CUNYAC championship men's basketball team now plays its home games in the new West Quad Building.

This follows a major library renovation that saw the library moved to a temporary home while construction took place. The Brooklyn College library is now located in its original location in a completely renovated and expanded LaGuardia Hall. The Leonard and Claire Tow Performing Arts Center is scheduled to be built on the site of Gershwin Hall. Noted as one of the most beautiful in the United States, the campus has been shown on numerous movies and television shows.

Ninety percent of the Brooklyn College faculty hold the highest degree in their field. Among them are Fulbright and Guggenheim fellows, an American Book Award winner, a National Book Award finalist, an Obie Award-winning playwright, three Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and award-winning scientists and musicians.

The College ranks 1st nationally in the number of its undergraduates who have gone on to earn Ph.D. degrees.

Divisions

Brooklyn College is made up of three academic divisions:

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

School of General Studies

Division of Graduate Studies

Also, the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College offers undergraduate and graduate work in performance, musicology, composition, and music education.

Undergraduate curriculum

Beginning in 1981, the college instituted a group of classes that all undergraduates were required to take, called "Core Studies". The classes were: Classical Origins of Western Culture; Introduction to Art; Introduction to Music; People, Power, and Politics; The Shaping of the Modern World; Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning and Computer Programming; Landmarks of Literature; Chemistry; Physics; Biology; Geology; Studies in African, Asian, and Latin American Cultures; and Knowledge, Existence and Values.

In 2006, the Core Curriculum was revamped, and the 13 required courses were replaced with 15 courses in 3 disciplines, from which students were required to take 11.

Division of Graduate Studies

The Division of Graduate Studies at Brooklyn College was established in 1935 and offers more than seventy programs in the arts, education, humanities, sciences, and computer and social sciences.

Graduate programs are offered in Africana Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computer and Information Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, Education, English, Health and Nutrition Sciences, History, Judaic Studies, Mathematics, Modern Languages and Literatures, Music, Physical Education and Exercise Science, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Sociology, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, Television and Radio as well as Theater.

B.A.-M.D. program

The Brooklyn College B.A.-M.D. program is an 8-year program affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center. The Program follows a rigorous selection process, with a maximum of 15 students selected every year. Each student selected to the program receives a Brooklyn College Presidential Scholarship. B.A.-M.D. students must engage in community service for three years, beginning in their lower sophomore semester. During one summer of their undergraduate studies, students are required to volunteer in a clinical setting where they are involved in direct patient care. B.A.-M.D. students are encouraged to major in the humanities or social sciences. A student who majors in a science must choose a minor in the humanities or social sciences. All students meet the pre-med science requirements by taking cell and molecular biology, botany, physiology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and general physics. B.A.-M.D. students must maintain at Brooklyn College an overall grade point average of 3.5, and a pre-med science GPA of 3.5.

The Scholars Program

The Scholars Program was established in 1960 with support from the Ford Foundation. It was the first honors program in the City University of New York, and one of the earliest at any American college or university. The program received national recognition, became a model for honors programs elsewhere, and was the foundation of the Brooklyn College Honors Academy, which now includes nine federated programs.

Students in the program are distinguished by their strong writing ability. Applicants must score at least 680 on their SAT II Writing, and maintain a GPA over 3.50. Graduates of the Scholars Program enter such fields as medicine, law, speech therapy, public health, television, film producing and directing, and biochemistry. They are admitted to graduate programs at such schools as Harvard Law School, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Yale, Berkeley, New York University, and London School of Economics and Political Science. Many are elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and have received awards, including Brooklyn College’s Tow Travel Fellowship and Furman Travel Fellowship for undergraduate international study and research, and the nationally competitive Beinecke Fellowship and Mellon Humanities Fellowship for graduate study. Limited to 15-20 new students per year, the Program offers a community much like a small residential college.

Coordinated Engineering Program

The Coordinated Honors Engineering Program offers a course of study equivalent to the first two years at any engineering school. Students who maintain the required academic level are guaranteed transfer to one of the three coordinating schools—Polytechnic University, City College of New York School of Engineering, and the College of Staten Island Engineering Science Program—to complete their bachelor’s degree in engineering. Coordinating Engineering students have also transferred to SUNY Stony Brook, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Cooper Union, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Students admitted as incoming First-Year receive a Brooklyn College Foundation Presidential Scholarship that provides full tuition for their two years of full-time undergraduate study in the Coordinated Engineering Program. As members of the Honors Academy, Engineering Honors students take advantage of individual advising, faculty consultation, and early registration. In the Commons they find study facilities, computer access, academic, scholarship, internship, and career opportunities, and, above all, intellectual stimulation among other talented students like themselves. Students applying to the Engineering Honors Program will also be considered for the Scholars Program.

Controversy

Controversy erupted during the 2010 school year, when some professors issued protests, picked up by conservatives, against the fact that, according to one alumni who decided to disinherit his alma mater, "all incoming freshmen and transfer students are given a copy of a book to read, and no other, to create their 'common experience.' … The author is characterized by some as being a radical pro-Palestinian professor.

"… One professor’s unpublished letter [of protest, asking for a balanced presentation,] to the college president said: 'Anyone who has taught at a university during the past quarter-century and more knows that the slogan of "diversity" generally alludes to its opposite (i.e., imposed uniformity of thought camouflaged by diversity of physical appearance) and also foretells mischief.'"

Tanger Hillel

The Tanger Hillel @ Brooklyn College is part of the Hillel Foundation organization in the United States.

Built in 1959, the Tanger building was designed by Percival Goodman, a leading architect of American synagogues. It is located at the junction of Campus Road and Hillel Place, across from the Whitman Auditorium of Brooklyn College, at the center of Brooklyn. Brooklyn College currently houses the largest Hillel facility among CUNY campuses, featuring a host of recreational and social amenities.

Alumni

In a National Research Council study of baccalaureate origins of Ph.D. recipients between 1920 and 1995, Brooklyn College ranked 19th in the nation.

Notable faculty

F. Murray Abraham - Actor of stage and screen; professor of theater, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor

Eric Alterman - American liberal journalist

Hannah Arendt - Philosopher and political theorist; author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and The Human Condition (1958).

Edwin G. Burrows - Historian; Pulitzer Prize winner for co-writing with Mike Wallace.

Michael Cunningham - Novelist; winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours

Charles Dodge - Composer, founder of the Center for Computer Music

Paul Edwards - Professor of Philosophy, editor of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Allen Ginsberg - Beat poet; taught at Brooklyn College from 1986-97

David Grubbs - musician, composer, recording artist

Carey Harrison - Novelist/dramatist

Amy Hempel - American short story writer, journalist, and coordinator of the MFA Fiction-Writing Program

Agnieszka Holland - Film director, best-known for Europa, Europah (1992).

John Hope Franklin - American historian, former Chairman of the History Department

John Hospers - First presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party; professor from 1956-66.

KC Johnson - Professor of American history.

Tania León - Cuban-born composer and conductor

Ben Lerner - Poet and writer

Abraham Maslow - Psychologist in the school of humanistic psychology, best known for his theory of human motivation which led to a therapeutic technique known as self-actualization; taught from 1937–51

Wilson Carey McWilliams - political scientist, author of The Idea of Fraternity in America (1973, University of California Press), for which he won the National Historical Society prize in 1974.

Ursula Oppens - pianist, co-founded the contemporary music ensemble Speculum Musicae, Conservatory of Music

Itzhak Perlman - Violinist, Conservatory of Music

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Novelist and Broeklundian Professor of English

Albert Schatz - Microbiologist, co-discoverer of streptomycin

Mark Rothko, Philip Pearlstein, Ad Reinhardt, Elizabeth Murray, Vito Acconci, William T. Williams, Archie Rand - artists (1950s to present)

References

External links

Brooklyn College Web Site

Brooklyn College Library

Brooklyn College Excelsior (newspaper)

Brooklyn College Kingsman (newspaper)

Brooklyn College Emergency Medical Squad

Brooklyn College Computer Science Society

Brooklyn College Orchestra

SUNY Downstate

Brooklyn College BA/MD Program

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Name	David Horowitz
Birthdate	January 10, 1939
Birthplace	Forest Hills
Occupation	Conservative activist, writer
Nationality	American
Spouse	Elissa Krauthamer (deceased)Sam Moorman (divorced)Shay Marlowe (divorced)April Mullvain Horowitz (current)
Children	Jonathon Daniel, Benjamin Horowitz, Anne Pilat, Sarah Rose Horowitz (deceased) Horowitz founded the right-leaning activist group Students for Academic Freedom.
Name	Horowitz, David
Short description	Neoconservative activist, writer
Date of birth	10 January 1939
Place of birth	Forest Hills, New York City, New York, United States