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April 1, 2009

Worth Noting Steamboat Is In, and Wallace Is Aboard

April 1 3:15 PM Student Council President Wins Prestigious Summer Scholarship
Indoor Triathlon Congratulations are in order to Shaheen Wal- director, said the process of paring down the field
10 minutes each of swimming, lace, president of the John Jay Student Council, was “very rigorous.”
cycling and running for winning the prestigious Steamboat Founda- The office held workshops on résumé writing,
Pool & Cardiovascular Fitness Center, tion Summer Scholarship. He topped a field of crafting personal statements, how to dress for
Haaren Hall more than 300 eligible students to become the success, and more. The goal was to find candi-
third John Jay student to win the coveted honor. dates who were self-motivated and possessed
April 6 2:00 PM Like the two winners who preceded him — first-rate writing skills, among other traits, ac-
Judas on Trial: Abdoulaye Diallo in 2007, and Amanda Ingle in cording to McNickle.
2008 — Wallace, a junior government major, will “It’s a good way to insure that we have vetted
Theatre and Theology be partnered with the Center for Court Innova- very strong, capable students who are going to
Guest lecture by the Rev. James Martin, SJ,
tion (CCI) for the three-month paid internship. perform well as Steamboat Scholars,” she said.
advisor to the off-Broadway production of
The scholarship provided by the Greenwich, Wallace underwent a series of nine interviews,
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
CT-based Steamboat Foundation allows out- including sessions with John Jay President Jeremy
Presented by the Department of
standing students to connect with acknowledged Travis and Adam Mansky, the director of CCI.
Communication and Theatre Arts
leaders in public, private and nonprofit organiza- “I’ve never done anything that draining in my
Room 330, Haaren Hall tions. John Jay’s Office of Honors, Awards and life,” he said. “It’s not for the faint-hearted, and
Special Opportunities identified 315 eligible it’s definitely a test of character. But after I was
April 21 3:30 PM students — those expected to graduate in 2010 done, it was really a great feeling.”
Changüí and the and carrying a current GPA of at least 3.5 — and Wallace has his sights set on attending law
invited them to apply. Litna McNickle, the office’s school and becoming a federal prosecutor. Shaheen Wallace
Pan-Caribbean Roots
of Cuban Popular Music
in Guantánamo
Presentation, Performance and
Sharpton: “It’s Time to Get Involved”
The Rev. Al Sharpton paid a call on John Jay “If you have a hostility or disconnect between stationhouse, Sharpton said the basis of protests
Book Signing by Benjamin Lapidus
on March 17, where he challenged students police and the community, it makes the police he has led is that “you cannot let this kind of
Room 630, Haaren Hall and others to help close the gap in treatment of job that much more difficult,” noted Sharpton, behavior go unchecked.”
people based on race. who has been an invited speaker at recent police The civil rights leader called for the creation of
April 21-25 8:00 PM “Institutional inequality in the United States recruitment rallies. a special section within the U.S. Department of
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot hasn’t changed just because we’ve elected a Citing a number of cases of police brutality Justice to deal specifically with police misconduct.
Presented by the Department of black president,” said Sharpton, who ran for or excessive use of force, including the shooting “It is only when you break out of local and
Communication and Theatre Arts president himself in 2004. of Sean Bell outside a Queens nightclub and county politics that you can get a measure of
At some point, you must have the courage the sodomizing of Abner Louima at a Brooklyn justice,” he observed.
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
(Call 212-695-6908 for ticket reservations.) to get in the game, to get involved,” he said,
calling on students to “help formulate an agenda
that will make this all work in your time, in your
April 23 5:00 PM generation.”
Conversations in Taking note of his surroundings — the nation’s
Literature & Law premier college of criminal justice — Sharpton
Conspiracy, Inc.: Zoot Suits, took issue with those who suggest that he and
Cockroach People and Chicano Culture’s his civil rights organization, the National Action
Rethinking of Legal Discourse Network, are anti-police. “There’s a misnomer
Carl Gutierrez-Jones that we are anti-police because we are against
University of California, Santa Barbara police brutality,” Sharpton said. “We are no more
anti-police than every cop who arrests a criminal
Room 630, Haaren Hall
in a minority neighborhood is anti-minority.”

John Jay Student and Sister

Tackle “The Amazing Race”
It’s no secret that John Jay is a
college filled with high-achieving
students. LaKisha Hoffman, a The Rev. Al Sharpton greets Charly Feliz, a sophomore criminal justice major, outside the Gerald W. Lynch Theater following
28-year-old undergraduate, his March 17 talk on the new civil rights movement.

is looking to add her name

to the list, but in a rather
unconventional way: She and
her sister are contestants on the
popular TV reality show “The
Amazing Race.”
LaKisha, a youth program
coordinator and basketball
coach, recently transferred to
John Jay from Western Illinois
University. Both she and her
24-year-old sister, Jennifer, are Jennifer Hoffman jogs through a Siberian city in her underwear, accompanied by
former Division I college athletes, her sister LaKisha (left) and a more sensibly clad Russian runner during an episode
of “The Amazing Race.”
and they are hoping to become
the first all-female team to win the around-the-
world race.
“The same strengths that make me a good
coach — patience and a strong competitive
nature — will ultimately make me the best racer
the game has seen,” LaKisha said.
The race was completed as this issue went to
press, but the competitors are strictly prohibited
from divulging any details as to the contest’s
outcome. In one recent episode, the Hoffman
sisters and other racers found themselves in
Novosibirsk, Russia — 400 miles inside the
Siberian heartland. There, they faced a series of
challenges that included driving a balky, four-
speed Lada sedan over snowy streets to take a
Russian bride to her wedding.
In another challenge, Jennifer was required
to pair up with two local runners for a 1.4-mile
jog to the local ballet and opera theater. There
was just one hitch: she had to complete the run
Siberian-style — in her underwear. Fortunately
the weather was a balmy 27 degrees Fahrenheit,
and Jennifer stripped down without hesitating,
asking those around her, “Don’t I look hot?”
Prior to “The Amazing Race,” neither LaKisha
nor her sister had traveled extensively outside of
the United States. To them, the race is a “journey
of a lifetime.”
Travis Talks Reentry
with House Committee
President Jeremy Travis traveled to Washing-
ton, DC, on March 12 to participate in a week-
long series of hearings by a House Appropriations
subcommittee on prisoner reentry and other
criminal justice challenges.
“Our nation has never before witnessed the
phenomenon of prisoner reentry at the scale
we see today,” Travis told members of the Sub-
committee on Commerce, Justice, Science and
Related Agencies. “There is a simple explanation:
More people are coming home because we are
putting more people in prison.”
The people coming home from prison — 90
percent of them male — face significant barriers
to their reintegration, Travis said, and in many
cases their return places huge burdens on urban
localities already struggling with poor schools,
poor health care and weak labor markets.
Travis said the historic Second Chance Act,
passed with broad bipartisan support last year,
has made an enormous difference in the nation’s
approach to the reentry issue, but federal fund-
ing for reentry initiatives remains woefully inad-
equate. “The point is obvious,” said Travis. “If
the federal government wishes to make a signifi-
cant change in the experience of people leaving
prison, much more money will be needed.”
Noting that recent and ongoing research has
provided volumes of information on which inter-
vention approaches work to promote prisoner
reintegration, Travis told the subcommittee: “We
should now marshal our resources to fund those
interventions and to insist that all reentry pro-
grams meet a standard of proven effectiveness.”
Travis urged Congress to provide support for
several promising innovations, including offender
notification forums, comprehensive interagency
initiatives, reentry courts and community-based
interventions. Such efforts, he said, “represent a
new frontier in reentry innovation.”
[President Travis’s testimony can be read online
at http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/2308.php.]

Criminal Injustice
Marty Tankleff (above left) greets award-winning author and investigative reporter Richard Firstman
following the March 17 Book & Author Series presentation on A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a
False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff, co-authored by Firstman and former NYPD
detective Jay Salpeter (right). The book tells the story of Tankleff’s wrongful conviction and 17-year
imprisonment for the murders of his parents. He was freed in 2007, largely on the strength of new
evidence unearthed by Salpeter.
Distinguished Professor Saul Kassin (rear), an expert in false confessions, moderated the event, telling
the audience, “This is a crazy case about how powerful a confession can be when it’s accompanied by
no other evidence.” Salpeter, a John Jay alumnus (BA, 1978) who spent seven years working to get
Tankleff exonerated and freed, said Tankleff, then just 17 years old, was arrested by the lead detective
in the case to protect the actual killer. “Not one thing in this case was properly investigated,” he said.
Firstman said everything in Tankleff’s “so-called confession” ended up being disproven.
A John Jay Welcome, and
Thanks for a Job Well Done
Two new faculty members and 24 new staff
were given their official welcome to John Jay
on March 9 at the Spring 2009 Faculty and
Staff Meeting, an event that also served as the
occasion for recognizing those who have served
the College for 20 or more years, as well as
faculty who are newly tenured or promoted.
Joining the faculty were Charles McKenzie,
an assistant professor of English who will be
focusing his scholarship on John Jay’s new
literature and law major, and Jon M. Shane,
an assistant professor of police science and a
specialist in organizational stressors and police
performance.
The newest staff members include nine
from Academic Affairs, six from Enrollment
Management, three from Finance and
Administration, three from Institutional
Advancement, two from Student Development
and one from the Office of the President.
Fifty members of the John Jay community
were recognized for long service to the College.
The 2009 honorees were led by two faculty
members with 40 years of service: Barbara
Institutional Memory
In addition to Professors Odabashian and Sapse, the
following people were recognized for long service to the
John Jay community:
35 Years: Roselyn Blassberger, Edward Davenport, Jannette
O. Domingo, Francis McHugh, Arnold Osansky, Meyer J.
Peikes, Patricia Sinatra;
30 Years: Warren F. Benton, William C. Heffernan, Alan
Hoenig, Marlene Kandel, Debra Hairston-Parker, Francis
X. Sheehan, Rodolfo G. Sy, Maria R. Volpe, Linda R. Von
Lumm;
25 Years: José Arcaya, Robert C. Delucia, Mary S. Gibson,
Ernest Gilde, Lesley A. Hansen, Inez Ligon, Sylvia Lopez,
Mayra Nieves, Esther Owens, Alan Winson, Shirley D.
Zimmerman;
20 Years: Frederick R. Brodzinski, Kinya Y. Chandler,
Catherine F. Collins, Saundra Dancy, Yvonne A. Hatchett,
Dennis P. Hood, Ainsworth James, Jane Katz, Jonathan
E. Kranz, Michael A. Liddie, Phillip N. Marsh, Thomas
McGonigle, Eugene O’Donnell, Frank J. Pannizzo, Jill C.
Robbins, Lisa Rodriguez, Denise B. Santiago, Ronald R.
Spadafora, Frank G. Straub, Wendell J. Velez, Beatrice
Young.
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Professor Anne-Marie Sapse and President Travis enjoy a
laugh as she reflected on her 40 years at John Jay.
Odabashian (English) and Anne-Marie Sapse
(Sciences). In addition, the faculty and staff
meeting honored newly tenured and promoted
faculty, a 29-member contingent led by four new
full professors: Luis Barrios (Latin American and
Latina/o Studies), Anthony Carpi (Sciences), Bilal
Khan (Mathematics and Computer Science) and
Karen Terry (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration).
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
PEER REVIEW
JOHN MATTESON (English) is one of the judges
of the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Prize, awarded
annually for literary excellence in crime writing.
Matteson also accepted an invitation to give the
Class Day address at the Columbia University
School of General Studies in May.
PRESENTING…
BETSY HEGEMAN (Anthropology) presented
“Culture-Bound Syndromes and Diagnosis” to
the Grand Rounds of Upstate Medical School
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology in
Syracuse, NY, on March 26. She also met with
the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Syracuse
and presented “MPD and Spirit Possession: the
Influence of Culture”.
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) presented a paper on
“Methamphetamine Abuse and Treatment in
Rural America” at the 2009 annual meeting of
the Southern Rural Sociological Association in
Atlanta, GA, on January 31-February 3.
KWANDO M. KINSHASA (African American
Studies) was invited to Saginaw Valley State
University in Michigan from February 16-19 as
their 2009 King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Scholar. As
the visiting scholar, Kinshasa gave lectures on
African American history, criminal justice, global
migration policies, sociology and social policy.
He also presented a paper titled “History and
educating for justice
McCabe Fellowship Breakfast
Means Wearing o’ the Green
The McCabe Fellowship Breakfast held on
March 13 turned into a homecoming of sorts,
with a former honoree and a former McCabe
Fellow among those who traveled from Ireland to
attend the annual celebration at John Jay.
The event celebrates the exchange program
created in memory of Irish police detective Jerry
McCabe, who was killed in the line of duty dur-
ing an attempted robbery in June 1996. Each
year, two or more members of An Garda Siochá-
na, the Irish national police, come to John Jay for
an intensive course of study toward a graduate
degree.
Former keynote speaker and honoree Niall
Burgess, the Irish consul general in New York, at-
tended the McCabe breakfast and offered greet-
ings in which he observed that the connection
between John Jay and the Republic of Ireland is
part of the “mighty strength that links our two
countries.”
And, in a nod to those at the event who ac-
knowledged wearing green only one day a year
— on St. Patrick’s Day — Burgess said, “We’re all
Irish in God’s eyes.”
Also bringing greetings to McCabe attendees
was Detective Superintendent Orla McPartlin of
SIMPLY OUTSTANDING
Jeremy Pohl, a 2008 graduate of John Jay’s forensic science
program who now works at the New York City police crime
lab, has won the Eastern Analytical Symposium Student
Award for his outstanding research in forensic analytical
chemistry. Pohl has been working with Professor Yi He
of the Department of Sciences (at right in photo) on a
project to develop a novel method for detecting trace
levels of methamphetamine and its metabolite in urine
samples. A patent application has been submitted for the
procedure, which is said to have potential commercial
value. In addition, a manuscript has been submitted to
a peer reviewed journal. The award was presented by
Professor Barbara Kebbekus of the New Jersey Institute of
Technology (left in photo).
One’s Sociological Memory: A Contemporary
Interactive Perspective,” in which he revisited
and discussed the sociological and economic
implications of the 1955-1956 Montgomery, AL,
Bus Boycott.
MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) served as
commentator on a panel titled “Race, the Courts,
and Public Spectacle in Louisiana” at the annual
meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association in
Monroe, LA, on March 19.
KLAUS VON LAMPE (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) was an invited
speaker at the 12th European Police Congress
in Berlin on February 11. He spoke on “The
European Dimensions of Organized Crime: Some
Remarks from a Criminological Perspective.”
M. VICTORIA PÉREZ-RÍOS (Government)
presented a paper on the “UDHR and the
Millennium Developmental Goals: Making the
Three Generations of Rights a Reality” and was
the discussant on a panel on Transitional Justice
at the International Studies Association annual
convention in New York from February 15-18.
JON-CHRISTIAN SUGGS (English, emeritus)
gave the keynote lecture, “Imperium in Imperio:
Double Consciousness, Double Citizenship and
the Promise of the Obama Presidency,” for
African-American History Month at Salisbury
University in Salisbury, MD, on February 10. In
An Garda, who earned a master’s degree from
John Jay as one of the first McCabe scholars,
from 1997-1998. She now heads the police
service’s international liaison section.
Professor Bettina Murray, a member of the
John Jay Foundation board, introduced the
morning’s keynote speaker and honoree, Seán
Aylward, Secretary General of the Irish Ministry
of Justice, as the “steady hand on the tiller that
keeps the Ministry of Justice on course.” Aylward
noted the violent deaths of two British soldiers
and an Irish police constable in the week prior to
the McCabe breakfast, and said the murdered
peacekeepers had “left behind a community that
doesn’t want to return to the days of violence.”
Citing the words of John Jay, Aylward ob-
served, “Wise rulers will recognize that the best
way to frustrate the efforts of those who would
tear us apart through violence is by unity of pur-
pose.” He called on police to exercise moral and
legal leadership while employing a minimum use
of force.
This year’s McCabe scholars are Gardaí John
Griffin, a graduate student in public administra-
tion, and Emer Clarke, who is pursing a master’s
in criminal justice.
OUTRAGE
IN DARFUR
Xabier Agirre, senior analyst with
the Office of the Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court in The
Hague, was the featured speaker
for the International Criminal
Justice Major lecture series on
February 26, where he spoke about
the use of crime mapping and other
data analysis techniques to indict
Sudanese officials for genocide
and other crimes against humanity
in the Darfur region. Agirre is the
author of the forthcoming book
Methodology for the Investigation
of International Crimes (Brill, 2010).
April he will present a paper on race and “love”
in Melville’s Billy Budd at the American Society
for Law, Culture, and the Humanities in Boston;
in May he will present two chapters of his novel-
in-progress, After Jubilee, at the Working Group
on Law and Slavery at the Gilder-Lehrman Center
at Yale, and in June he will present a paper on
Hannah Elias and the murder of “the man who
invented New York” at the annual conference on
New York State history.
GLORIA PRONI and ELISE CHAMPEIL
(Sciences) presented a paper titled “Assessment
of Students’ Likeability of the ‘Clicker’ and ‘Wiley
Plus’ Technologies in Organic Chemistry” at the
CUNY IT Conference on December 5, 2008.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
GLORIA PRONI (Sciences) will have her articles
“CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer host-guest
complexes. Part 1: MC/OPLS-2005 computational
approach for predicting preferred interporphyrin
helicity” and “CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer
host-guest complexes. Part 2: cis- and trans-3-
hydroxy-4-aryl/alkyl-beta-lactams. A case study”
published in a forthcoming issue of the peer-
reviewed scientific journal Chirality.
SIMON BAATZ (History) is the author of the
foreword to a new edition of Clarence Darrow’s
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment, published in the
Kaplan Classics of Law series.
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Worth Noting
March 13 8:30 AM
McCabe Fellowship Breakfast
Guest speaker: Seán Aylward,
Secretary General,
Department of Justice,
Republic of Ireland
RSVP to mccabe@jjay.cuny.edu
4th Floor, Haaren Hall
March 17 4:00 PM
Book & Author Lecture
A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime,
a False Confession, and the Fight to
Free Marty Tankleff
Richard Firstman and Jay Salpeter
Moderated by Professor Saul Kassin
Room 630, Haaren Hall
March 19 5:00 PM
Conversations in
Literature & Law
Where the Wild Things Are: Children’s
Literature and the Constitution of Law
Desmond Manderson
McGill University
Room 630, Haaren Hall
March 22 4:00 PM
Water, Our Most Precious
Resource: A Celebration
of World Water Day
A narrated concert including traditional
spirituals, gospel and folk music
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
March 30 6:00 PM
2009 Alumni Reunion
Saluting the classes of 1969, 1974,
1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004.
Honorees: Anthony J. Lamberti, Esq.
(BA, 1978) and Professor Karen
Kaplowitz, English Department
RSVP to alumnireunion@jjay.cuny.edu
Gymnasium, Haaren Hall
Marketing & Development
Pro Is John Jay’s Newest VP
Vivien Hoexter, a veteran
executive in the highly
competitive nonprofit
sector, has been named
as the College’s new Vice
President for Marketing and
Development.
President Jeremy Travis
announced the appointment
on February 9. Hoexter
succeeds Tova Friedler, who
retired at the end of January.
“In every position she has
held, Vivien has been highly
successful at increasing the
organization’s visibility, build-
ing a team of professionals
committed to the organiza-
tion’s mission, and leveraging
external support for that Vice President for Marketing and Development
mission,” Travis said. “These
skills are precisely what John
Jay needs at this point in our history.”
Hoexter most recently served as chief
executive officer of Gilda’s Club Worldwide,
an organization that provides emotional and
social support to people with cancer, their
families and friends. In that role she doubled
the organization’s fundraising income, launched
a planned-giving campaign and generated
more than $1 million through a new corporate
Black History Month Wraps Up with Salute
to Malcolm X, Dr. King, Obama & Malone
Milly-ann Isaac belts out the anthem “Lift
Every Voice and Sing” at the 19th annual Mal-
colm/King Breakfast on February 27, as President
Jeremy Travis, Vice President for Student Develop-
ment Berenecea Johnson Eanes, Dean of Gradu-
ate Studies Jannette Domingo and Dr. James
Malone look on.
Malone, the event’s honoree, retired in January
after 40 years at John Jay, during which he served
as the first director of the SEEK Department, the
first vice president for administrative affairs and
dean of students, among other positions. Travis
pointed out that Malone also served as a tennis
opponent and coach. In his acceptance remarks,
Malone said: “What I am most proud of are the
many students I have helped to develop a differ-
ent world view. That makes my heart sing.”
The event’s scheduled keynote speaker, New
York State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm
Smith, was unable to attend due to unforeseen
circumstances.
Play Ball!
Baseball & Softball Teams See Big Things in Store in 2009
One sure sign that spring is just around the
corner is the return of baseball and softball to
the John Jay calendar.
The men’s baseball team opened its eighth
season under head coach Dan Palumbo on
February 22, in a road game played under raw
wintry conditions against Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, NJ. The Bloodhounds
lost 12-7 in their only game before heading
South for a seven-game trip to Florida.
The women’s softball team began its 2009
season on March 6 with a four-game tournament
in Virginia Beach, VA. Results of those games
were not available as this issue went to press.
“We had a positive season last year which
was perfect to build on when approaching this
season,” said second-year head coach Laura
Drazdowski. “We are a much different team
fundraising program.
Prior to Gilda’s Club,
Hoexter was vice president
of AFS Intercultural
Programs/USA, one
of the world’s largest
international high school
exchange programs. She
has also been director
of development for The
Hunger Project, a global
anti-poverty initiative.
Hoexter earned her
bachelor’s degree in
history (magna cum laude)
from Yale College, and a
master’s degree in business
administration, with a
concentration in marketing,
from the Wharton School
Vivien Hoexter at the University of
Pennsylvania.
“I am thrilled to be part of such a vibrant
community,” said Hoexter, whose department
includes alumni relations, fundraising and
development, special events planning,
communications, public relations, graphics
and design, and Web site management. “I
look forward to serving the students, faculty
and other stakeholders of this very important
institution.”
from a year ago. We have our core group of
players returning this year along with a great
incoming class, which is the perfect recipe for
improvement. The veterans are excited about
what they believe we can accomplish this season,
and the newcomers are enthusiastic and eager to
prove themselves.”
The team is led by junior shortstop Danielle
Bonici, a first-team CUNY Athletic Conference
all-star, and senior catcher Marlenne Nuñez,
a second-team all-star. They are among 10
returning players from the 2008 team, including
sophomore starting pitchers Angela Lam and
Nina Chao. Seven freshmen have been added to
the squad.
The softball team begins its home season
on March 28 with a doubleheader against
conference rival Baruch.
The 2008 baseball team narrowly lost out
in a bid for a second straight CUNYAC title,
falling to the College of Staten Island 8-7 in
the championship game. This year’s squad will
feature five returning position players, including
first-team conference all-stars John Massoni in
right field and Xavier Perez at shortstop.
When not playing the outfield, Massoni will
John Jay Delegation Takes
ACJS Conference by Storm
Sixty of John Jay’s faculty members, staff and
students arrived in Boston on March 10 for the
four-day annual meeting of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), to present the
fruits of their current research efforts.
“Once again John Jay will have more
presenters at the ACJS conference than any
other college or university in the country,” said
Dean for Research James Levine, who is among
the conference attendees. “This is yet another
manifestation of our ever-expanding research
agendas and our prominence in the world of
criminal justice scholarship.”
At the conference, Professor Staci Strobl was
named as the winner of the Richard J. Terrill
Paper of the Year Award. Strobl was honored for
“The Women’s Police Directorate in Bahrain: An
Ethnographic Exploration of Gender Segregation
and the Likelihood of Future Integration.” This
article appeared in the International Criminal
Justice Review and was hailed by the journal’s
editor as “an excellent piece of scholarship.”
Underscoring the prevalence of faculty-student
News and Events of Interest
to the College Community
March 11, 2009
Luis Guzman (left) and Michael Colletta hope to be part of
another championship season for John Jay’s baseball team.
help anchor a pitching staff that also includes
fellow senior Michael Colletta.
Catcher Luis Guzman, a second-team
CUNYAC all-star, will return to his duties behind
home plate, while centerfielder Edwin Hernandez
and first baseman Johan Abad are also back for
another season. All three are juniors.
“This team is working incredibly hard right
now,” Palumbo said in a pre-season assessment.
“We have a better work ethic than I have seen
in a few years and there is a great feeling of
cohesiveness on the team.”
research collaborations at John Jay, at least
20 students from a variety of undergraduate,
graduate and doctoral programs attended the
conference as presenters or panel discussants.
John Jay faculty representatives at the ACJS
conference included: Alissa Ackerman, Katarzyna
Celinska, Serguei Cheloukhine, Todd Clear,
John DeCarlo, Kristin Englander, Beverly Frazier,
Lior Gideon, Maki Haberfeld, Joseph King,
Charles Lieberman, James Lynch, Yue Ma, Kevin
McCarthy, Frank Pezzella, Megan Sacks, Walter
Signorelli, Eli Silverman, Staci Strobl, Hung-En
Sung, Karen Terry, Carrie Trojan and Cecile van
de Voorde (Law and Police Science); Elizabeth
Jeglic, Cynthia Calkins Mercado and Gabrielle
Salfati (Psychology); Rosemary Barberet and
Brenda Vollman (Sociology); David Kennedy
(Anthropology/Center on Crime Prevention
and Control); Matthew Zommer (Government);
Marvie Brooks and Larry E. Sullivan (Library);
Richard Culp and Vincenzo Sainato (Public
Management); Roberta Belli and Candace McCoy
(criminal justice doctoral program).
Like Sealy, Researchers at
Annual Lecture See Education
as a Weapon for Civil Rights
Reducing Racial Bias by Police Is the Goal
The legacy of Lloyd Sealy — pioneering police
commander and educator — lived on at the
annual lecture event named for the late John
Jay professor, in a lively discussion of how police
leaders can use research to reduce racial bias.
The event, co-sponsored by John Jay and the
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement
Executives (NOBLE), featured Dr. Tracie Keesee,
the Division Chief of Research, Training and
Technology for the Denver Police Department,
and Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, a social psychologist at
the University of California, Los Angeles. The two
have been exploring how research and training
giving them wide access to information and
promising them autonomy in terms of publishing
their findings.
Using a high-tech virtual reality simulator,
officers were measured for their reactions to and
handling of various threatening situations. In
general, racial bias was found to affect officers’
reaction time, but not the decision to shoot the
suspect. The department created a feedback
loop consisting of officers’ behavior, training
evaluations and psychological testing, Keesee
said, and researchers were able to conclude that Tracie Keesee, a division chief with the Denver Police Department, explores the use of research to reduce police bias, while
“training does what it’s supposed to do.” co-researcher Phillp Atiba Goff awaits his turn at the microphone during the annual Lloyd Sealy Lecture. (See story at left.)

can be applied together to address possible racial
bias in police decision-making.
“As police officers, especially black officers,
we struggle to do the right thing, and to do right
by the community,” said Keesee, a 20-year police
veteran. To that end, the Denver PD conducted
extensive research to determine the extent to
which racial bias and stereotyped beliefs may
influence officers’ handling of certain situations,
such as the decision to stop, arrest or use
physical force.
“We brought in world-class scientists to ask
pointed questions,” said Keesee. “After all, we
in law enforcement often think we know all the
answers.” The department created a partnership
arrangement with university-based researchers,
Goff followed Keesee to the podium and
noted that as an outgrowth of the Denver
research, a Consortium for Police Leadership in
Equity was established, consisting of 15 police
departments nationwide and researchers from
John Jay, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and UCLA.
“The challenge for researchers is how do we
translate findings from the lab to the street,” he
said.
“Like Lloyd Sealy, we believe education is a
powerful weapon for civil rights,” Goff added.
Sealy was one of 60 founding members of
NOBLE in 1976. His 34-year career with the New
York City Police Department saw him become the
department’s first black precinct commander, and
retire at the rank of assistant chief inspector.

Speech Sleuths Analyze Art &

Science of Forensic Linguistics
As the saying goes, it’s not what you say, but
how you say it. According to forensic linguistics
manifesto written by Kaczynski in search of clues.
One of the phenomena spotted in the document, On the Alford Young Jr., a sociologist at the University of Michigan and author of The Minds of Mar-
ginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility. Opportunity and Future Life Chances, interacts
experts, however, it may be both.
An all-day workshop on February 20, co-
as in numerous similar communications, was
what Fitzgerald called “contraindicators,” or
Margins with the audience that packed the Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby during a February 23 discus-
sion and book-signing event co-sponsored by Center on Race, Crime and Justice.

sponsored by the Center for Modern Forensic
Practice and the Department of English, brought
together two of the top experts in the field to
discuss “Forensic Linguistics for Investigative
Practitioners,” with a focus on threat assessment,
counterterrorism and criminal communications.
The workshop was conducted in a split-
session format by Robert Leonard, head of the
Hofstra University Department of Linguistics
and director of the Hofstra Forensic Linguistic
Project, and James R. Fitzgerald, a former FBI
supervisory special agent who is now a violent
crime consultant and a forensic linguist with the
Academy Group Inc.
Fitzgerald, a member of the FBI’s Unabom task
force, described the investigation that ultimately
led to the arrest and conviction of Theodore
Kaczynski in 1996 as the “largest authorial
attribution project ever undertaken by the FBI.”
The task force, which at its peak considered
words and phrases that actually mean the
opposite of what they appear to suggest.
“What kind of person wrote this?” Fitzgerald
said, noting that 95 percent of threat letters
handled by the FBI are anonymous, and the
writers usually put as much effort into the threat
as they do into maintaining their anonymity.
Other tip offs spotted by investigators
include whether an individual writes out dates
numerically with hyphens — as in 9-11-01
— slashes — 9/11/01 — or periods — 9.11.01.
The postmarks and return addresses on threat
letters may also be contraindicators, Fitzgerald
said, in an attempt to confuse investigators. Such
was the case with the 2001 Americathrax case,
in which anthrax poison was mailed to a number
of different targets.
Fitzgerald and Leonard first met during the
course of the Americathrax investigation that led
nearly seven years later to the FBI’s identification
Darkest Night
Performers from the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group at Tel Aviv
University stage a scene from Cases of Murder (November
9, 1938: A protocol of fear brutality and death) during
a special presentation at John Jay on February 27. The
theatrical work reconstructs acts of violence committed
against Jews during the night between November 9 and
10, 1938, known as Krystallnacht. Using a montage of
documentary and literary devices, the scenes from Cases of
Murder exposed the mechanisms of moral evasion, vague
and ambiguous talk and turning blind eyes that made
the atrocities possible. “It was significant that this work
occurred at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The larger
discourse on genocide, war crimes, human rights abuses
and the struggle for social justice is clearly served by events
such as this,” said Professor Seth Baumrin, who facilitated
the event for the Department of Communication and The-
atre Arts. The presentation also included readings of new
work on the investigation of war crimes, enacted by John

roughly 2,500 suspects in the serial bombing of chemist Bruce T. Ivins as the most likely Jay Professor Ric Curtis and student Luis Guitierrez, and a
discussion led by Professor Itai Sneh.
investigation, pored over the 35,000-word suspect.

FACULTY / STAFF NOTES

PRESENTING
MIRIAM EHRENBERG (Psychology) gave an
invited address at the annual conference of
Globalisation for the Common Good, held in
Melbourne, Australia. Her paper, “Applying
Psychotherapy Techniques to Religious and Ethnic
Conflict,” covered both western and Islamic
psychotherapy approaches and the implications
of each for conflict resolution.
JEREMY TRAVIS (President) was the keynote
speaker at the Public Service Conference on
the Future of Community Justice in Wisconsin
at Marquette Law School on February 20. His
remarks focused on “Building Communities with
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Justice: Overcoming the Tyranny of the Funnel.”
GEORGE ANDREOPOULOS (Government)
delivered a series of lectures on “The Evolution
of International Human Rights Norms” at the
University of Bologna in January. The lectures
were part of the university’s graduate program in
human rights and humanitarian intervention.
PETER MOSKOS (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) was a panelist
at the New York Academy of Medicine’s “Harm
Reduction” conference on January 23. He was
also a featured speaker at the annual conference
of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, held in
College Park, MD, on November 23.
R. TERRY FURST (Anthropology) presented
“A Qualitative Exploration of Suboxone Opioid
Maintenance in a Harm Reduction Setting in
New York City,” a paper cowritten with Herman
Joseph, and Sharon Stancliff, at the Columbia
University Seminar Series in New York in Decem-
ber. Furst was also one of the authors, along
with Stancliff and Joseph, of “Low Threshold
Buprenorphine,” a paper presented by Stancliff
at the 7th National Harm Reduction Conference
in Miami last November.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
PATRICK COLLINS (Communication & Theatre
Arts) had two books released in January by
Sterling Publishers, a Barnes and Noble imprint.
Negotiate to Win! is a tactical guide to achieving
success in negotiations, and features a unique
chapter on cross-cultural negotiation. The
second book, Speak with Power and Confidence,
is an updated and revised edition of Collins’
comprehensive guide to maximizing public
speaking skills, originally published in 1998.
Both works attracted the attention of foreign
publishers at the Fall 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair.
JOSEPH KING (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) published his article
“Policing after Peel: the Government Moves to
Centralize” in the Turkish Journal of Police Stud-
ies in 2008. His article “Police Problems: Labor
Relations in the Early Police Service of the United
Kingdom” appeared in the January 2009 issue of
Police Forum, published by the Police Section of
the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
ALISSE WATERSTON (Anthropology) has
had two new edited volumes published: An
Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline
(Berghahn Books, 2009) and Anthropology Off
the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing (Wiley
Blackwell, 2009, Maria D. Vesperi, co-editor). An
Anthropology of War includes Waterston’s
introduction, “On War and Accountability.”
Anthropology off the Shelf includes a chapter
by Waterston titled “Writing Poverty, Draw-
ing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and
Rage.” Waterston serves as chair of the American
Anthropological Association’s Committee on
the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing to
guide the digital transition of scholarly publish-
ing. In November, Waterston presented a talk at
the association’s annual meeting on “The Acad-
emy, the Market-State and the Dissemination of
Anthropological Knowledge in the Digital Age.”
PETER MOSKOS (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) had his book
review of Hugh Holton’s The Thin Black Line:
True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers
Policing America’s Meanest Streets published in
The Washington Post on January 11.

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Worth Noting
February 23 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Making (Much) Better Sense
of the Culture of Black Men
in Crisis
Dr. Alford Young Jr.
University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the Department of
Sociology, Department of African-
American Studies, Gender Studies
Program, the John Jay Black Male Initiative
and the Center on Race, Crime and Justice.
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
February 24 6:00 PM
Lloyd Sealy Lecture
Leadership in Police Equity:
Using Research to Reduce Racial Bias
Dr. Tracie L. Keesee
Denver Police Department
Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff
University of California-Los Angeles
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
February 27 8:30 AM
Prisoner Reentry Institute
Occasional Series on
Reentry Research
Incarceration and Sexually Transmitted
Infections: A Neighborhood Perspective
James Thomas
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
February 27 9:00 AM
19th Annual
Malcolm/King Breakfast
Keynote speaker:
The Hon. Malcolm A. Smith
Majority Leader, New York State Senate
Honoree:
Dr. James Malone
Professor of Counseling
RSVP to 212-237-8764
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
February 28 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Law Day @ John Jay
Including the Samuel and Anna Jacobs
Foundation Lecture on the Law and the
Legal Profession
Speaker: The Hon. Juanita Bing Newton
Deputy Chief Administrative Judge
for Justice Initiatives
Criminal Court of the City of New York
RSVP to www.jjay.cuny.edu/lawday
Various locations, Haaren Hall
Deadlines Loom for Scholarship Aid to Qualified Students
Deadlines are looming for qualified John Jay
students to apply for hundreds of thousands
of dollars in scholarship funds, and dozens of
awards for graduating seniors.
“We have no shortage of highly qualified
students at the College, and we’re always
looking for more,” said Vice President for
Enrollment Management Richard Saulnier.
“We’re trying to ensure that institutional
scholarship funds are being spent for the
purposes they were intended, which is why we
are encouraging as many qualified students as
possible to apply.”
The College offers scholarships for freshmen,
sophomores, upper-division and graduate
students as well as some specifically aimed at
women, international students, law enforcement
Gazing into the Crystal Ball
Symposium Looks at Criminal Justice Challenges on the Horizon
A two-day conference intended, in the words
of its organizer, to produce more light than heat,
the Fourth Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim
Symposium on Crime in America returned to
John Jay on February 2-3, with journalists,
academicians and practitioners from across the
United States taking a nuanced look at recent
and impending changes in criminal justice.
“This symposium has become a meeting
place for people in criminal justice, a field that’s
changing even as we speak,” said Stephen
Handelman, Director of the Center on Media,
Crime and Justice, which organized the event,
with funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim
Foundation.
Focusing on the theme “A New Beginning?
Exploring the Criminal Justice Challenges Over
the Next Four Years,” the symposium wasted
no time before diving into one of the thorniest
issues currently on the American agenda, as
panelists discussed the nation’s distressed
economy and its relationship to crime trends.
Crime trends, like economic conditions, are
characterized by volatility, observed Professor
Richard Rosenfeld of the University of Missouri-
St. Louis. While Rosenfeld’s research showed
similar patterns between crime trends and
consumer confidence, he said that an increase in
crime is not inevitable despite the recent sharp
reversals in the economy. “After all,” he said,
“crime did not increase substantially during the
Great Depression.”
Professor Delores Jones-Brown, Director of
the Center on Race, Crime and Justice said the
Obama Administration must deal with the “lack
of legitimacy for police in communities of color.”
With the economic downturn, she added, people
may seek out jobs in law enforcement solely
for the pay and benefits, rather than for public-
service reasons, thereby increasing the potential
for incidents of excessive or lethal use of force by
College Salutes Reporters’ Quest for Justice
A newspaper need not be big to achieve big
things, as was proven by Christine Young, a
reporter for the 80,000-circulation Times Herald-
Record of Middletown, NY, one of the 2009 win-
ners of John Jay College’s Excellence in Criminal
Justice Reporting Awards.
Young was honored at a luncheon on Febru-
ary 3 for her investigative report on the 1989
conviction of Lebrew Jones, who has spent 20
years in prison for the murder of a Manhattan
prostitute. Young’s article, “I Didn’t Do That Mur-
der,” prompted the Manhattan District Attorney’s
Office to open a new investigation into the case.
The awards are presented annually in
conjunction with the Harry Frank Guggenheim
Symposium on Crime in America.
A second award was presented to Eric Nalder
and the investigative team from the Seattle
employees, research-
minded students
and more. Many
scholarships at both
the undergraduate and
graduate levels have
March 2 deadlines, and
still others have March
23 closing dates.
Scholarship
Coordinator Michael
Scaduto pointed out
that most scholarships The Office of Scholarship Services is taking a strategic ap- of Scholarship Services,
proach to finding qualified candidates for scholarship aid.
require completion and
submission of the John Jay Scholarship General
Application form, available online at http://www.
jjay.cuny.edu/GeneralScholarshipApplication08.
Distinguished Professor Todd Clear makes a point during a panel discussion on “The Sentencing and Corrections Challenge”
during the Guggenheim symposium. Also on the panel were (from left) Beryl Howell, a member of the U.S. Sentencing Com-
mission, and U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner of Massachusetts.
police, particularly against young black males.
Col. Dean Esserman, the Police Chief of
Providence, RI, called on the assembled journal-
ists to “tell the story” that America is losing its
children to violence. “We bury our children or we
arrest them. Where’s the moral outrage?” Esser-
man said. “The story is not being told.”
Keynote speaker Judith S. Kaye, who recently
retired after 15 years as Chief Judge of the New
York State Court of Appeals, was introduced by
President Jeremy Travis as “one of my heroes
in this world.” Kaye, who was making her first
public appearance since stepping down from the
bench, urged attendees to focus on the “crucial
but thoroughly unfulfilled job of educating the
public about criminal justice matters.”
Among the issues that Kaye pointed to were
the cost of incarceration compared to the cost
Post-Intelligencer, for their series “The Strong
Arm of the Law,” which exposed Seattle police
bias in arrests for obstruction of justice and the
questionable handling of complaints against
police for wrongful use of force.
“This year’s winning news stories show that
newspapers large and small take seriously their
commitment to reporting on criminal justice
issues,” said President Jeremy Travis.
Honorable-mention citations were awarded to
Steve Weinberg of Miller-McCune magazine, for
his exploration of wrongful convictions around
the United States; Lomi Kriel and John Tedesco of
the San Antonio Express-News, for their critical
examination of the San Antonio police Tactical
Response Unit, and Geoff Dutton and Mike
Wagner of the Columbus Dispatch, for their
series on Ohio’s DNA inmate testing program.
pdf. Many also require
essays and/or letters of
recommendation.
For a list of
scholarships that are
currently available,
including descriptions
and eligibility criteria,
go to http://www.jjay.
cuny.edu/scholarships.
php. Information is also
available in the Office
Room 1285N.
“We’re taking a more strategic direction with
regard to scholarships,” said Scaduto. “We want
to recruit and retain qualified students, based on
News and Events of Interest
to the College Community
February 18, 2009
of education; the prosecution of certain juvenile
offenders as adults; and the need to provide
alternatives to criminal justice, such as youth
courts or restorative justice. “This is the time for
all of us who care about justice in this country to
roll up our sleeves and get to work,” Kaye said.
Steven Brill, founder of American Lawyer
magazine, Court TV and Verified Identity Pass
Inc., served as keynote speaker for the sympo-
sium’s awards luncheon, and reminded the audi-
ence of his rule for covering the justice system:
“Skepticism is an absolutely essential virtue.”
“The real challenge for us as reporters is not
to be anyone’s lapdogs,” said Brill.
The symposium also included sessions on
“solutions-oriented” crime coverage, privacy
and civil liberties, the future of forensics, and the
online world and crime.
Award winners Christine Young and Eric Nalder are joined
by keynote speaker Steven Brill, founder of Court TV.
things like academics, public service and activities
outside of academics, and then support them
once they’re on campus, keeping them active in
the larger John Jay community.”
Scaduto noted that a “representative” 11-
member scholarship committee, chaired by
Saulnier, has been working proactively to inform
students about available scholarships and
encouraging them to apply. “We develop criteria,
select candidates and set application deadlines,”
he said.
A new Web feature allows students to sign
up for the “John Jay College Scholars Network”
to receive information about new and current
scholarships, application information and
deadlines, invitations to workshops and seminars,
and other relevant updates.
 Study Abroad Experience
to Go Farther Afield in 2009
Flush with the success of John Jay’s first
faculty-led study abroad programs last summer,
four new courses will be offered by the College
in 2009, in such locales as Korea, Greece, Mexico
and the Dominican Republic.
The new study abroad programs are:
¶ “Caribbean Cultural Criminology,” taught
by Professors Luis Barrios (Latin American and
Latino/a Studies) and Douglas Thompkins
(Sociology), meeting in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic.
¶ “Religious and Cultural Co-existence Among
Christians, Jews and Muslims in Greece,” taught
by Professor Effie Cochran (English), meeting in
Thessaloniki, Greece.
¶ “Korean Art and Culture,” taught by
Professor Thalia Vrachopoulos (Art and Music),
meeting in Seoul and selected other cities in
Korea.
¶ “Women in Mexico: Labor, Violence and
Social Change,” taught by Professor Natalie J.
Sokoloff (Sociology), meeting in San Miguel de The White Tower, one of Thessaloniki’s most famous archi-
tectural landmarks.
Allende, Mexico.
Ken Lewandoski, the Director of International local persons of interest.
Studies and Programs, noted that the study Housing arrangements will vary from one
abroad programs provide John Jay College program to the next, including apartments,
academic credits, and qualify under the Study/ dormitories or living with indigenous families.

Hometown Heroes Travel Opportunities for CUNY Students (STOCS)

program, through which participating students
All students will be required to attend a
pre-departure orientation, and to share their
The John Jay baseball program gave a tip of the collective cap on January 24 to two prominent members of the local base- can receive $750 to $1,500 in financial aid. (The experiences with the broader John Jay College
ball scene, at the annual Lou DeMartino Memorial Dinner. John Brant, a member of the John Jay Athletics Hall of Fame and deadline for STOCS applications is March 16.) community upon their return, Lewandoski said.
three-year team co-captain in the late 1970s, was presented with the Distinguished Baseball Alumni Award. Brant, a summa “These programs are academically rigorous,” Application dates for the four courses vary.
cum laude graduate of John Jay and a decorated lieutenant with the Port Authority Police Department, told guests at the
Lewandoski said. “They are all designed to For more information on the study abroad
fundraising dinner that “playing at John Jay was one of the greatest points of my life.” Lou Santos (right), a longtime figure
in sandlot baseball and youth baseball instruction, was honored with the Lou Demartino Lifetime Achievement Award. Dan
enhance a student’s chosen course of study.” The opportunities, contact the appropriate faculty
Palumbo, John Jay’s head baseball coach and interim Director of Athletics, presented the awards and served as the dinner’s four-week programs include classroom lectures program directors, or Lewandoski at 212-484-
master of ceremonies. and discussions, field trips and presentations by 1339, email klewandoski@jjay.cuny.edu.

CUNY FIRST Application Package Packs a Lot of “Wow!”

CUNY FIRST, a comprehensive array of
applications that will streamline and enhance
finance, personnel and student service processes,
is coming to John Jay, and members of the
Department of Human Resources are hoping to
share with the rest of the College the various
“wow! moments” they say are built into the
system.
Addressing a Town Hall meeting on January
29, Christel Colón, the College’s Director of
Human Resources, said the implementation of
CUNY FIRST – which stands for Fully Integrated
Resources and Services Tool – will be “a change
for the better, the faster, the easier, the more
accurate.” It will also represent a major step
toward making the College a more paperless
operation.
“I can’t wait for the PAF bonfire,” she said,
referring to the personnel action forms that
would be phased out by the creation of an online
reappointment process.
Praveen Panchal, John Jay’s Chief Information
Officer, moderated the gathering and pointed
out that existing CUNY systems are “archaic,
difficult to maintain and failing every day. The
lack of information in the existing systems,
Panchal said, leads to enormous redundancy and
inaccuracy.
According to Panchal, CUNY has more than
35,000 employees, with no comprehensive
human resources system. In addition, the
University receives more than 10,000 job
applications a year.
The Talent Acquisition Management (TAM)
module of CUNY FIRST will be used to help
streamline the hiring process, and then a Human
Capital Management (HCM) module will come
into play, handling a broad range of personnel
functions such as time and leave, reappointment,
and changes in personal information or status.
The two modules will be the first human
resources components to roll out, with an
implementation target date of summer 2009.
The entire system, Panchal emphasized, is
designed with privacy and security in mind.
Personal information can only be viewed by the
individual in question and authorized College
officials.
The new system’s potential for doing mass
reappointments as opposed to processing
them individually, and its “Quick Hire” function
for speeding the process of hiring college
assistants and adjuncts, were among the “wow!
moments” noted by Colón, who underscored
her own excitement with CUNY FIRST by adding
that “I came into HR for the people, not the
paperwork.”
CUNY FIRST is being launched in stages, with
the entire system expected to be operational by
the winter of 2010-2011.

FACULTY / STAFF NOTES

ON BOARD
BEN JORGENSEN (Physical Education and
Athletics) was named as the College’s new
head men’s tennis coach. Jorgensen, who has
been a tennis instructor for more than 15 years,
was the top singles player as a member of the
men’s tennis team at New York University in
1989 and 1990. He is also a working actor who
has appeared in several films and daytime soap
operas.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) will have her article titled
“The Correctional Educator: A Nontraditional
Occupation” published in the May/June 2009
issue of Offender Programs Report, a publication
from the Civic Research Institute that is
devoted to “innovative programs, management
strategies and legal developments in offender
rehabilitation.”
be presented by the Mystery Writers of America
on April 30.
DAVID BROTHERTON (Sociology) had
his book Keeping Out the Other: A Critical
Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today
(Columbia University Press) cited as “Outstanding
Academic Title for 2008” by Choice, the review
magazine of the American Library Association.
Brotherton co-edited the book along with Philip
Kretsedemas of the University of Massachusetts.
PRESENTING…
ADINA SCHWARTZ (Law, Police Science
and Criminal Justice Administration) made a
Continuing Legal Education presentation on
“Daubert Challenges to Firearms Identification”
on January 10 at the Fifth National Seminar on
Forensic Science and the Law, sponsored by the
Office of Defender Services of the Administrative
Office of the U.S. Courts.
and “International Courts and Conflict
Resolution: Toward a New Normative Framework,
Social Justice and New Debates,” at the annual
meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association, held in New Orleans, LA, in early
January. She also chaired a panel on Domestic
Implications of International Law and served as a
discussant on a panel on Pedagogy and Research.
PEER REVIEW
STACI STROBL (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) is one of the
finalists for the Richard J. Terrill Paper of the
Year Award to be presented in March by the
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Strobl was
nominated for her paper “The Women’s Police
Directorate in Bahrain,” which appeared in the
International Criminal Justice Review Journal.
NISHAN PARLAKIAN (Communication and
Theatre Arts, emeritus) received the St. Vartan
Award from the Diocese of the Armenian Church
of America (Eastern), for his lifelong achieve-
ments in the performing arts. Archbishop Khajag
Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese, said, “It is
through individuals like [Parlakian] that the future
of Armenian theater will remain vibrant among
the next generation of Armenian Americans.”

SIMON BAATZ (History) had his book, For the
Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that
Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins), chosen as a
finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best
Non-Fiction Crime Book in 2008. The award will
ELLEN BELCHER (Library) presented a paper
titled “Is there a Halaf Bead and Pendant
Typology? A Look at the Evidence” at the Bead
Technology Workshop hosted by the British
Museum in London, England, on January 12-13.

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February 2-3 8:30 PM
4th Annual Guggenheim
Conference on Crime
in America
A New Beginning Exploring the Criminal
Justice Challenges for the Next Four Years.
Presented by the Center on Media, Crime
and Justice. Includes presentation of
the annual John Jay Excellence in
Journalism Awards.
Room 630, Haaen Hall
February 3 7:30 PM
Happy Birthday,
Felix Mendelssohn!
A concert celebrating the 200th
birthday of the Romantic composer.
Narrated by Eli Wallach.
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
February 20 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Forensic Linguistics for
Investigative Practitioners
A workshop presented by the Center for
Modern Forensic Practice and
the John Jay Department of English.
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Room 630 Haaren Hall
February 23 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Making (Much) Better Sense
of the Culture of Black Men
in Crisis
Dr. Alford Young Jr.
University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the Department of
Sociology, Department of African American
Studies, Gender Studies Program, CUNY
Black Male Initiative and the Center on
Race, Crime and Justice.
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
Music, Drama and More
Fill the Theater’s Spring Bill
A great college, like a great city, deserves a
great performing-arts program, and with that
in mind, John Jay’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater has
unveiled its Spring 2009 Series of concerts, plays
and other events.
The season commences on February 3 with
a 200th birthday salute to Felix Mendelssohn,
who is perhaps best known for his “Wedding
March,” originally composed as incidental music
for a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. The free concert narrated by actor
Eli Wallach will include selections from the string
octets Mendelssohn wrote as a youth, arias from
his oratorio “Elijah,” and his Trio for Piano in D
Minor.
Another bicentennial — that of the death
of composer Joseph Haydn — will be marked
in a series of performances beginning February
18, as the Gotham Chamber Opera presents
the New York City stage premiere of Haydn’s
L’isola Disabitata (Desert Island). The production,
directed by acclaimed choreographer Mark
Morris, will also be presented on February 21, 25,
27 and 28.
Theatre, theology and the judicial process
collide when the Department of Communication
and Theatre Arts, in conjunction with the
APACHE Project, presents The Last Days of Judas
Iscariot, directed by Professor Dana Tarantino.
The serio-comic play, which will be performed
New Center Focuses on the Private Sector’s
Changing Security-Preparedness Needs
Since 9/11, John Jay has aggressively focused
on developing programs to meet the changing
security imperatives of the private sector. The
opening of the Center for Business Preparedness
is the latest addition to this strategy. This
research hub will be led by a recognized
expert in corporate security and business risk
management.
Thomas E. Cavanagh, whose appointment was
announced by President Jeremy Travis on January
22, comes to John Jay from The Conference
Board (TCB), where he was Senior Research
Associate, having joined TCB’s research staff in
1998.
“With corporate security expert Tom
Cavanagh as its director, the Center on
Business Preparedness will be able to offer
a comprehensive program of research and
networking opportunities that will keep
practitioners abreast of the latest developments
and enable them to benchmark their efforts
against the prevailing standards,” Travis said.
Cavanagh, who holds bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from Yale University, has served as
principal investigator for a number of major
reports on corporate security and preparedness,
including “Corporate Security Management:
Organization and Spending Since 9/11,”
“Navigating Risk: The Business Case for Security”
and the forthcoming “Preparedness in the Private
Sector.”
“The field of business preparedness is
relatively new and is evolving very rapidly,”
College Says Bravo! to Latest Group
of Employees Who Go the Extra Mile
Twenty-two employees were honored as
the latest winners of the Bravo! Employee
Recognition Awards on December 19.
“I don’t often get a chance to say to a group
of employees like the ones we have here how
appreciative I am of all your hard work,” said
President Jeremy Travis. “You have strengthened
from April 21-25, takes an imagined look at
the plight and fate of the New Testament’s
most notorious sinner in a trial of “God and the
Kingdom of Heaven and Earth v. Judas Iscariot.”
The Spring 2009 Series also includes:
¶ Water, Our Most Precious Resource, a
narrated free concert of traditional spirituals,
gospel and folk music to celebrate World Water
Day on March 22;
¶ “Killadelphia,” the latest work from
award-winning playwright and performer Sean
Christopher Lewis, which runs April 29, 30 and
May 1, and uses hip-hop and documentary
theater techniques to tell the story of murdered
teaching fellow Beau Zabel;
¶ Culturefest!, a weeklong festival of
performances and events from March 2-5 to
celebrate John Jay’s cultural diversity;
¶ Ballet Academy East presenting the spring
performance by its Pre-professional Division, May
22-24, with works choreographed by leading
artists of the dance world;
¶ Barnes & Noble Storytelling Hour, on
February 4, March 18 and April 8, a special story
time for children and caregivers.
Complete details of coming events, including
times and ticketing information, are on the
theater Web site, www.jjay.cuny.edu/theater. E-
mail theater@jjay.cuny.edu to get regular updates
about events.
Cavanagh observed.
“It incorporates a lot
of different elements,
ranging from routine
security management
to business continuity
and disaster recovery.
At John Jay, we will
be able to draw on
an extensive body of
expertise on protection
management,
emergency response,
cybercrime and
terrorism to create a
dynamic and exciting
program on business
preparedness.
“John Jay has a tradition of effectively
integrating top-quality research with practical
experience, so it is an excellent home for
this new program, and I look forward to the
challenge of developing it,” Cavanagh said.
As a research and information clearinghouse,
the Center for Business Preparedness will explore
best practices, preparedness standards and
procedures, and analyses of public safety and
corporate security strategies. Its first initiative,
undertaken in conjunction with The Conference
Board, will be an in-depth examination of
preparedness in the private sector. Researchers
will interview corporate security executives
to determine the extent to which specific
the core values of this institution.”
The third semiannual group of divisional
Bravo! award winners were recognized for their
“new and creative ideas, innovative problem-
solving and superior customer service,” said
Robert Pignatello, Senior Vice President for
Finance and Administration. Pignatello went
on to note that a new wellness and work life
initiative will soon be unveiled at John Jay, as
an outgrowth of the successful Bravo! Summer
Institute launched in 2008.
The College’s vice presidents were called to
the podium in alphabetical order to introduce the
employees in their units who were to receive the
Bravo! awards. The winners were:
Academic Affairs: Priscilla Acuna
(Interdisciplinary Studies Program), David Barnet
(Office of Educational Partnerships), Esperanza
Lopez-Herrera (Department of Government),
The newest recipients of the Bravo! Employee Recognition Awards, joined by Senior Vice President Robert Pignatello and
President Travis, have plenty of reason to smile after they were honored on December 19.
News and Events of Interest
to the College Community
January 28, 2009
Thomas E. Cavanagh (left), director
of John Jay’s new Center for Busi-
ness Preparedness, and the cover
of one of his recent reports for The
Conference Board.
preparedness standards have been implemented.
The project will also gather and report data on
corporate procedures for emergency response,
disaster recovery and crisis management.
The research will be funded by a grant from
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to
The Conference Board.
“We’re delighted to see that the work we
began here will continue in partnership with
John Jay, and we congratulate them on the
establishment of the Center,” said David J. Vidal,
founder of The Conference Board’s security and
preparedness research programs and director
of its Center for Corporate Citizenship &
Sustainability.
Ashton Franklyn (Criminal Justice Center), Susy
Mendes (Office of Sponsored Programs);
Student Development: William Altham
(Health Services), Ma’at Lewis Coles (Counseling
Center), Premwati Sukhan (Office of Internships
and Cooperative Education);
Finance and Administration: Yagris Diaz
(Bursar’s Office), Christine Johnson (Human
Resources), Ynes Leon (Facilities Management),
Cadelie Neat (Business Office), Louie Perillo
(Department of Information Technology), Shirley
Robinson (Mailroom), Barbara Wala (Security);
Enrollment Management: Crystal Brathwaite
(One-Stop Center), Ariel Del Rosario (One-Stop
Center), Dawn Layne (Registrar), Mariela Nuñez
(Graduate Admissions), David Primak (Registrar),
Sara Scaldaferry (Registrar);
Strategic Planning: Gail Hauss (Institutional
Research).
 Welcome to the College Experience
Students show off the research projects they created as part of their Freshman Opportunity class taught by Professors Kimberly Helmer and Marco Navarro. “A year ago, as a senior in high school, I never would’ve dreamed I’d be doing this,” said Heidy
Ramirez (at left in photo above right). The students will undertake new team-based research projects in the spring semester, choosing from a broad palette of course options.
Brady Scores,
On and Off
the Court
Gary Brady, a shooting guard with the John
Jay men’s basketball team, knows how to
“pay it forward,” and prominent media
outlets have taken notice. Brady, a junior on
the team that last year won the first CUNY
Athletic Conference championship in program
history, was the subject of a feature report
on the MSG network on December 20, which
focused on his work at the same group home
in the Bronx where he grew up. His story
has also been told on the Web site d3hoops.
com, which covers Division III collegiate
basketball. Brady was just 9 years old when
he began living at the Andrus group home,
and he is now in his third year as a counselor
at the facility, working an overnight shift
four nights a week. His days are filled with a
full-time class load, studying and homework,
and during basketball season, practices and
games. He credits his success to the guidance
provided by his own counselors, mentors
and coaches, who he says “made time for
everything.” Brady now makes the same
time as mentor for scores of youngsters in
the same situation he once faced. The cable
TV report appeared on MSG Network’s
“Aéropostale College Basketball Weekly”
show. A link to the MSG video will appear
soon on the John Jay Athletics Web site,
www.johnjayathletics.com. For the d3hoops
online article, “Mature Beyond His Years,”
visit www.d3hoops.com/nation/09/dec18.htm.
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
BETWEEN THE COVERS
SIMON BAATZ (History) had his book, For
the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder
that Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins) chosen
by USA Today as one of its 10 Best Books for
2008. Jonathan Yardley, the book critic for The
Washington Post, chose For the Thrill of It as one
of the Top 15 Books for 2008, and R.V. Scheide
of The Sacramento News & Review selected
Baatz’s book as one of the year’s Best 55 Books.
JOCK YOUNG (Sociology) had his new book,
Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, written with
Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward, published by
Sage. The book was launched in November at
the American Society of Criminology meeting in
St. Louis.
JILL STAUFFER (Philosophy), who is currently on
fellowship in residence at the Graduate Center,
has had her new book, Nietzsche and Levinas:
“After the Death of a Certain God,” published by
Columbia University Press. The volume was co-
edited with Bettina Bergo.
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JANE KATZ (Physical Education and Athletics)
had her article “Joint-Friendly Water Workout”
published in the October/November 2008 issue
of Arthritis Health Monitor. Her article on “The
Healthy Swimmer” appeared in the November/
December issue of USMS Swimmer magazine.
ADINA SCHWARTZ (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) published Parts
1 and 2 of her article “Challenging Firearms
and Toolmark Identification” in the October and
November/December issues of The Champion,
the journal of the National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers. Part 1 was the cover
story in the October issue. The articles are also
scheduled to be reprinted in The California
Defender.
PRESENTING…
MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) presented a
paper titled “The Midwestern Making of Racial
Lynching: The Lynching of African-Americans
in the Civil War and Reconstruction” at the
American Historical Association meeting in
New York City on January 3. Pfeifer previously
presented a paper, “Lynching, Law, and Sectional
Identity in the Antebellum Border States” on
October 25 in Louisville, KY, at the Filson Institute
Academic Conference on Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis.
JOCK YOUNG (Sociology) gave a series of
six lectures during a recent visit to Argentina.
He was the introductory plenary speaker at
the international seminar on “Rethinking the
Role of the State in Crime Prevention,” hosted
educating for justice
Inauguration Provides Study
Opportunity of a Lifetime
As scholarship students go, Michael Yusupov
is more fortunate than most. During the midyear
break in January, while classmates were enjoy-
ing a respite from their studies, Yusupov was
in Washington, DC, participating in a 10-day
academic seminar tied in to the historic inaugura-
tion of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th Presi-
dent on January 20.
The Campaign 2008 Presidential Aca-
demic Seminar Series comprises four separate
academically tailored seminars in conjunction
with the 2008 presidential campaign, of which
the Presidential Inauguration session is the last.
Sponsored by the Washington Center for Intern-
ships and Academic Seminars, the series has The seminars “are designed for the elite col-
been held every four years since 1984. lege or university student who has or yearns for
The highly competitive seminar offered a heightened sense of civic engagement and will
Yusupov a backstage look at the 2008 presi- enjoy interacting with internationally recognized
dential inauguration, focusing on the new figures including politicians, journalists, profes-
president and the formation of his administra- sionals and many more,” according to the Web
tion, and the impact of the media on American site www.campaign2008.info.
politics. Through a combination of lectures, site “This is a first-rate program, with many learn-
visits, tours, and special events, Yusupov and the ing opportunities, culminating in the inaugura-
other participating students and faculty explored tion itself,” President Jeremy Travis said in an
the critical issues surrounding the transfer of e-mail to Yusupov, a senior BA/MA student in
power, the political processes involved, and how public administration. “We are so proud that
the nation’s leaders are responding to the out- you have been selected for this scholarship
come of the 2008 elections. opportunity.”
by the Federal Secretariat of Public Safety. He
addressed the Social Cabinet of the Province
of Santa Fe on policies of social inclusion in the
field of crime control; spoke at the Universities
of Buenos Aires and Rosario on his recent book
The Vertigo of Late Modernity; and presented his
research on multiagency crime prevention to the
U.N. Development Program on local initiatives
in this area. While there, he also had productive
meetings with the National Director of Criminal
Policy and the director of the U.N. program
regarding future research on crime and social
exclusion.
JANE KATZ (Physical Education and Athletics)
presented a talk on “Health and Exercise Through
the Holidays” on December 17 as part of the
David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium at New
York Weill Cornell Medical Center.
HOWARD PFLANZER (Communication and
Theatre Arts) had readings of his plays UFO
Story and The Flowers Sing: Strindberg’s Dream
presented by the Living Theatre in Manhattan on
December 2.
PEER REVIEW DUANE GREEN (Facilities Management) won
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal the heavyweight title in the biennial Tournament
Justice Administration) was appointed to the of Champions amateur boxing competition held
board of directors of OPEN Inc. (Offender at Nassau Coliseum in December. Green, who
Preparation & Education Network, Inc.), a trains at the Young Boxing Association (YBA)
correctional service agency founded in Dallas, TX, gym in the Bronx, chalked up two technical
in 1979. “We are thrilled Dr. Kimora has agreed knockouts and one decision en route to the
to serve on our board,” said the organization’s championship. In the first round, he scored a
executive director, Ned Rollo. “She brings a TKO over the fighter who had defeated him for
national and academic perspective to us.” the title two years ago.