I received an Email today from the President of Columbia University distributed by the Alumni Relations office describing a $200 million contribution which is going to be used for a Brain, Mind and Behaviour Initiative at its Jerome L. Greene Science Centre to be established by Columbia. That Email is provided at the end of my Email reply directed to Columbia's President. I think this is tremendous, but I add my awareness of current abuse which has to be addressed. ---------- Forwarded Message ----------Subject: Columbia Mind, Brain, and Behaviour Initiative at the Jerome L Greene Science CentreDate: Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:29From: Gary D ChanceTo: acb46@columbia.eduEric J. Furda '94TCVice President, Alumni RelationsColumbia UniversityDear Mr FurdaI read the enclosed Email with a great deal of interest and have some specific comments I wanted to send to President Bollinger, but his Email address is not readily available. Will you kindly forward a copy of this Email to him?Thank you very much.Yours sincerelyGary D Chance '69 BA '73 MBA******Email to President Bollinger*****Lee C BollingerPresidentColumbia UniversityDear Mr BollingerI am delighted to see such enlightened contributions and administration at Columbia with regard to neuroscience and the interdisciplinary approach you describe.I want to add a dimension of awareness to the problem of neuroscience research as it currently exists and most especially the critical need for all university departments to be full interdisciplinary participants especially schools such as the Law School since the abuse of neuroscience at present creates a standard of malevolent abuse rather than the benevolent objectives you describe.The implications of my direct experience during the past five years are foreboding in the extreme and require that the problem of abuse of such neuroscience research be addressed between university research centres and government at all levels: city, state and federal. I am copying the President of Emory University in this regard since I attended a division there before my military service in intelligence and subsequent attendance at Columbia. Emory's biological research and world wide commitment are considerable, and I have sent President Wagner similar information recently.I submit that the issues I raise deriving from my direct experience constitute a threat to civilisation as we know it and the freedom and liberty to pursue objective and beneficail research in all areas of academic discipline. This is especially threatening to those at the frontier of science from both compromising that research and creating a public reaction against its current abuses. The various university communities need to provide leadership throughout the US and the world to ensure that the integrity of science and society are preserved.Here is a very brief synopsis of my direct experience:1. Brainwave monitoring and feedback surveillance technology now exists to such a degree of perfection that all the sensory experience of a human being can be monitored remotely by means of satellite communications and without any implants in the human brain.2. Individuals can be so tracked anywhere they are by the recognition of the unique brainwave electromagnetic radiation surrounding the head. Not only is the individual completely monitored but is also turned into an surveillanceinstrument.3. Eyesight, hearing, feeling (pain), muscle movement, smell and thoughts (words and images) can be accurately monitored and read.4. In addition feedback for hearing, feeling (pain), muscle movement and thoughts (words and images) can be induced accurately.5. Surreptitious medication such as drugs to incapacitate and debilitate can be induced by electromagnetic radiation emulating a chemical impact on the brain and can be administered wherever the target is located.6. Memory probing including dream inducement as well as mage inducements are carried out especially at night while asleep.7. I have been the target of such surveillance technology R&D and neurological medical research slightly over five years since February 2001.8. Because of the ability to induce hearing and the psychological character of those carring out this surveillance activity I've been fully informed about all that is happening. This has been fortunate for me.9. One of its key methods and objectives is torture interrogation which has enabled me to confirm the nature and accuracy of the brainwave surveillance technology.10. It's usage is ultimately lethal and has caused me serious and crippling personal injuries to date including cataracts.11. This has been developed in secret in the US Government as part of its overall espionage activity, I believe, and was implemented against me by two retired US Marines, Colonel Vine and Lt Harry Bird. The former travels throughout the world to locations associated with US imprisonment and torture interrogation. They arrived shortly after George W Bush became President of the US.12. My experience resembles the pattern of torture which has surfaced at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and more recently exposed in the CIA Rendition flights. It is my belief that these have been part of this R&D effort too.13. The kind of torture to which I have been subjected by this method preceded 9/11 by seven months and was documented and comprehensively communicated by me with some 20-page daily diary/logs describing this incredible experience during July and August to the top of the UK Government, others in Government, various medical institutions and the media.14. I correctly anticipated the type of experience which has since be revealed by those who have reported on what has happened at the above mentioned US prisons.I seek to raise the awareness of those involved with neuroscience in order to stop this abuse of power carried out against nonconsenting human guinea pigs in the manner that the Nazis begain with their concentration camps in 1933 as soon as they assumed power. The difference today is the technology and the fact that someone can be imprisoned and tortured by neuroscience technologies I've described world wide.My efforts are directed against this abuse of power to ensure that its benevolent use is achieved without compromise or public discredit for scientific research. Someone with this ability can remain ahead of all the neuroscience researchers by monitoring their activity while stealing and sabotaging it at will. Nobody has any privacy as long as this weapon is allowed to flourish unchecked in its malevolent manner I experience.It is going to be very difficult to protect against the monitoring aspect, but the feedback activity can be detected and objectively determined. The neuroscientist will have to work with the physicist to carry out such determination and protection. The more difficult monitoring problem will have to be coordinated with the legal and political entities to effectively address this surveillance.I think it's stupendous that Columbia has received this donation and commitment to a neuroscience centre, and I applaud all involved from the perspective of the target being subjected to this abuse 24/7 including during this writing. While every attempt has been made to hide what is being done and to discredit what I document extensively and report, it cannot be done successfully because scores if not hundreds of people have been involved in this experimental R&D for many years just in my situation alone.It's just a question of time before this comes out with a massive exposure of what is going on. I am not the only one who has been so targeted since this R&D has been going on for a long time. It is best to proceed with full awareness of this abuse to minimise its impact on science and society when it does become general public knowledge.Leadership in this area from institutions like Columbia and Emory will go a long way in assuring that public confidence is maintained and not undermined. The implications for human activity are profound from the threat of such abuse since it could be massively depressive world wide.You can keep up with and see more detail about my experience in the web site and web journal whose URLs are noted below. I am building up my web journal to include my years of experience. The months of July and August 2001 are included but are rough reading since the torture so far exposed has not been pleasant. However, it is necessary to deal with reality as it is in order to get at the truth. Sometimes that can be a painful process, but it will continue to grow worse until addressed properly.Yours sincerelyGary D Chancecc James W Wagmer,. President, Emory University---------- Forwarded Message ----------Subject: Announcing the Jerome L. Greene Science CenterDate: Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:08From: Columbia University To: Columbia University Alumni ============================================================This message is being sent to you because of your affiliation with Columbia University at URL http://alumni.columbia.edu. ============================================================Announcing The Jerome L. Greene Science Center and the Mind, Brain, and Behavior InitiativeMarch 20, 2006To the Columbia Community,I am writing to inform you of a transformative development for the sciences -- indeed, for all areas of learning -- at Columbia. This morning, I announced plans to establish The Jerome L. Greene Science Center at a special event attended by Dawn M. Greene, Columbia President Emeritus Michael Sovern, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and members of the Columbia community. Building on the University's existing strengths in the neurosciences, the Center will be among the world's most advanced facilities specializing in the study of the brain and will house the new Columbia Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. The creation of the Center is made possible by a donation of more than $200 million from Dawn M. Greene and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation in honor of her late husband Jerry Greene (CC '26, Law '2 .It is with a profound sense of gratitude and appreciation that Columbia University accepts this most generous, and generative, gift from Dawn Greene and the Foundation in honor of Jerry -- the largest gift ever received by Columbia and, indeed, the largest ever received by any U.S. university for the development of a single facility. The Jerome L. Greene Science Center, on our proposed Manhattanville campus, will forever symbolize our ongoing effort to understand the human organism. It will also, in very practical ways, lead to cures for diseases and a deeper grasp of our behavior as individuals and societies. In so doing, The Jerome L. Greene Science Center will carry on the legacy of a great Columbian.Let me begin with some words about Jerry and then Dawn. Jerry was a prominent member of the New York community, who was distinguished by his many accomplishments as a lawyer, real estate investor, and philanthropist and humanitarian. He credited Columbia with providing him "the greatest learning experience of his life." He gave back to his alma mater many times over, passionately supporting Columbia in so many ways that it is difficult to appreciate all of them fully. He served on the Board of Visitors of Columbia College and as director of the Alumni Association of the Columbia Law School. His counsel guided several generations of Law School deans and University presidents, and his gifts in support of legal and undergraduate education at Columbia funded building projects, fortified financial aid, and initiated and strengthened key academic programs.Jerry left an indelible mark on Columbia, through both his active personal involvement and his exceeding generosity. The ubiquity of the Greene name on our campuses speaks to Jerry's legacy.The Greenes have contributed approximately $40 million to the Law School and across the University prior to this most recent gift. Dawn, as President and CEO of the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, has carried on their philanthropic work since Jerry's passing in 1999. The Foundation's contributions include the renovation and enhancement of Jerome L. Greene Hall at the Law School, the endowment of the Jerome L. Greene Professorship in Transactional Law and the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Professorship in Epidemiology, and the creation of The Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health, which conducts research on infectious disease and investigates links between infection and a wide range of chronic diseases. Dawn also has served as a close friend and counsel to many of us at Columbia. We are very grateful for this.Jerry and Dawn's involvement and generosity have had an enormous impact not only on Columbia, but on other prominent New York institutions and on the culture and welfare of the entire City.Jerry served as a trustee of the Juilliard School and WNET/Channel Thirteen. He underwrote the annual Mostly Mozart Festival and programs at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Jerry and Dawn's gifts built both the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Medical Arts Pavilion and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center.The Jerome L. Greene Science Center will stand as a fitting tribute to a person of unmatched stature in the Columbia community and in New York City. This state-of-the-art facility will be the world's preeminent center for education and research in the neurosciences and will house many of the most prominent faculty in the field. As home to Columbia's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative, the Center will seek to illuminate the brain and mind, with the ultimate goal of decoding their mysteries, curing the diseases that impair their functioning, and unlocking still more of their untold potential.Columbia long has been recognized as a leader in neuroscience and a center of excellence in neurology and the related sciences more broadly. Combining world-leading research and clinical capabilities, Columbia's activities include translating fundamental discoveries into new therapies for some of the most intractable neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders.Columbia scientists and researchers, most notably renowned neurobiologist Dr. Thomas Jessell, Nobel laureates Dr. Richard Axel and Dr. Eric Kandel, and distinguished neuroscientist and executive vice president for Health and Biomedical Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Medicine Dr. Gerald Fischbach, have made seminal contributions to the neurosciences and continue to be at the forefront of discovery. Under the leadership of Drs. Jessell, Axel, and Kandel, The Jerome L. Greene Science Center and the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative will reinforce and expand Columbia's role as an international leader in neuroscience education and research, bringing together the greatest minds and using the latest technology and scientific methods.Scientists working at the Center will explore the causal relationship between gene function, brain wiring, and behavior. They will aim to clarify the workings of the mind -- the mental processes that permit us to perceive, act, learn, and remember, and that govern the remarkable individuality of human action. The research they conduct will have profound implications for the treatment of brain illness. It will probe the root causes of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and motor neuron diseases, among others, and it will seek to decode disorders of mood and motivation, cognition, and behavior. The Center also will establish an educational outreach facility and clinical programs with a focus on childhood developmental disorders and diseases of the aging brain.The Center also will explore the gaps in our knowledge between the functioning of the brain and mind at the genetic and molecular level, and human behavior as studied at the level of the social sciences, the professions, and the arts and humanities. This will involve creating opportunities to find linkages among virtually all disciplines, since, at a profound level, we all study how the mind works.The arts and the humanities, for instance, have shed much light on the human condition and the life of the mind, and how we perceive and respond to the world through art and other forms of expression. For example, Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition, recently has been honored for his work on the origins and evolution of language, which bridges the boundaries between mind, brain, and behavior studies and music. This Friday, March 24, the first Columbia Forum on Art and the New Biology of the Mind will convene Columbia neuroscientists, artists, art historians, and philosophers. David Freedberg, professor in the Art History and Archeology Department and director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, is organizing this forum with Dr. Axel and Dr. Kandel. Professor Freedberg's area of specialty is art and the neurosciences, and he is best known for his work on psychological responses to art.Subject to completion of the appropriate public processes, we envision the Center being located in Manhattanville in West Harlem in close proximity to both the Morningside Heights and the Medical Center campuses. This would provide an ideal platform for the convergence of diverse areas of study and for collaboration across the University among faculty, researchers, clinicians, graduates, and undergraduates. The Center also would be situated close to the new public secondary school specializing in science, math, and engineering that Columbia is working with the City to establish, which would allow for new knowledge to be imparted to the school's teachers and students.Throughout history, the quest to understand the human brain, the construct of the mind, and their relationship to human behavior has been central to the work of universities. Thanks to the great generosity of Dawn Greene and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, The Jerome L. Greene Science Center and the Columbia Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative will carry that work forward, heralding a new age of knowledge and discovery. The planning for the Centerand the Initiative is still in its infancy. I look forward to providing additional updates as we continue to make progress in its development.Sincerely,Lee C. BollingerColumbia UniversityOffice of University Alumni Relations475 Riverside DriveSuite 402New York, NY 10115