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November 18-22 8:00 PM
Il Furioso: The Birth
of Modern Justice
A dual-language adaptation
of Aeschylus’ “Eumenides”
Presented by the Department of
Communication and Theatre Arts with
support from the Department of African
American Studies
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
November 19 10:00 AM
2009 Annual Career Fair
Sponsored by the Office of
Career Development Services
Gymnasium, Haaren Hall
November 30 5:30 PM
Tattletales and Victims:
Rethinking Police Use of
Confidential Informants
Presented by the Center on
Race, Crime and Justice
Delores Jones-Brown, Director, CRCJ
Jon Shane, The Police Foundation
Room 1311, North Hall
December 2 6:00 PM
Moot Court in Forensic Computing
Sponsored by the Master’s Program
in Forensic Computing
Room 230, Haaren Hall
State of the College Address Cites ‘Breathtaking’ Changes
President Travis Calls for New Master Plan to Carry John Jay to 50th Anniversary in 2014
“We should feel confident that working
together…we can move the world. Let’s get
started.”
With these words, John Jay President Jeremy
Travis concluded his annual State of the College
address on October 21, in which he spoke of
creating a vision for the College for the next five
years, as John Jay approaches its 50th anniversary
in 2014.
The master plan that Travis called “John Jay @
50,” which he hopes to produce by the end of
the academic year through a collaborative effort,
will address questions surrounding the core issue
of how John Jay will be different in 2014 while
remaining true to its mission of “Educating for
Justice.”
Travis launched his address with a review of
the “simply breathtaking” changes that have
occurred in the past five years to create a “re-
vitalized” John Jay. Among those he cited were:
• A 40-percent increase in the size of the
entering class of baccalaureate freshman
students, to 1,657;
• A 33-percent increase in the size of the
College’s full-time faculty, with 50 percent of
those faculty members having been hired in the
past five years;
• Creation of educational partnerships with
community colleges to provide joint associate-
baccalaureate degree programs through what
has been called the CUNY Justice Academy;
• Development of new undergraduate majors
in English, Economics, Global History and Gender
Studies, and graduate programs in Forensic
Mental Health Counseling and International
Crime and Justice, with several more bachelor’s
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Leading New Yorkers Saluted at
Annual ‘Educating for Justice’ Gala
More than 300 supporters and friends of John
Jay College joined members of the college com-
munity on October 29 for the annual “Educating
for Justice” Gala, where Herb Sturz together
with Lynn and Jules Kroll were honored for their
lifelong contributions to public service and civic
betterment.
The gala raised a record-breaking sum in
excess of $550,000, including a generous contri-
bution of $50,000 by Dick Tarlow, a member of
the John Jay College Foundation Board. The pro-
ceeds of the evening will benefit various student
initiatives.
A former New York City deputy mayor and
creator of such programs as the Vera Institute for
Justice and The After-School Corporation, Sturz
received the Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
In presenting the award, Jack Rosenthal, Presi-
dent of The New York Times Company Founda-
tion, described Sturz as “the most imaginative
and effective public policy innovator of our
time.”
John Jay President Jeremy Travis said:
“Throughout his career, Herb Sturz has embraced
a philosophy he calls ‘double or triple social
utility’ — working to help one population while
helping another. He wrings optimal benefit from
every investment of time, money and talent.”
Award-winning journalist Ken Auletta
presented the Award for Civic Leadership to Lynn
and Jules Kroll for their deep and enduring com-
mitment to philanthropy and public service. Jules
and master’s degree programs “in the pipeline”;
• Creation of a First-Year Experience program
to enhance student success;
• Redesign of the Honors Program, the science
and math curriculum, the general-education
curriculum and several existing baccalaureate
majors;
• Significant improvements in technological
infrastructure, internal and external communica-
tions, and fundraising from government and
private sources;
• The “emergence of the John Jay research
juggernaut,” with grant receipts more than
doubling in the past four years.
“No other institution in the world can claim
that its faculty are so deeply involved in so many
pressing issues of justice and injustice,” Travis
said. “As we move forward to John Jay @ 50,
Lynch Leads John Jay Parade of Obama Appointees
John Jay is poised to expand its imprint on
the uppermost echelons of the U.S. Justice
Department, with the announcement by the
White House that President Obama plans to
nominate Distinguished Professor James Lynch as
Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
If confirmed by the Senate, Lynch would join
Ellen Scrivner, former director of the John Jay
Leadership Academy, and alumnus Benjamin
Tucker (BS, 1977) in the Obama Administration.
Scrivner has been appointed as Deputy Director
of the National Institute of Justice and Tucker has
been tapped as Deputy Director for State, Local
and Tribal Affairs of the White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy.
According to President Jeremy Travis, “While
the College will miss Dr. Lynch, we are honored
that a highly regarded member of our faculty has
been nominated to such an important position
in the Obama Administration. He brings to the
position a wealth of knowledge and practical
experience that will be invaluable to the Bureau
of Justice Statistics and the nation.”
Lynch, a member of the Department of
President Travis (right) enjoys a moment during the “Educating for Justice” Gala with (from left) presenter Jack Rosenthal,
honoree Herb Sturz, presenter Ken Auletta, and honorees Jules and Lynn Kroll.
Kroll is a pioneering figure in the modern corpo-
rate investigative and security industry, while his
wife, Lynn, is a veteran leader of numerous non-
profit institutions, including the UJA-Federation
of New York and the Jewish Board of Family and
Children’s Services.
“Jules Kroll has drawn upon his vast experi-
ence in his role as chairman of the John Jay
we should ensure that the College remains an
‘institution of consequence’ — that we partner
with agencies and individuals who would benefit
from the expertise of our faculty, the passion
of our students, and the independence of an
academic institution.”
In looking ahead, Travis conceded an
uncertain future that could include a weakened
national economy, depressed tax revenues and
unprecedented shortfalls in government budgets.
Nonetheless, he reassured the audience in the
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, “my top priority will be
to sustain our forward momentum…. We may
need to tighten our belts and slow the pace of
change, but I am confident that we will continue
moving forward toward a shared vision of the
John Jay of the future.”
The development of a new Master Plan for
Criminal Justice, is a widely acknowledged expert
on crime statistics and victimization surveys.
He previously served on a National Academy of
Sciences panel that evaluated BJS programs. He is
the current vice president-elect of the American
Society of Criminology and co-editor of the
Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Scrivner, a police psychologist, is “a nationally
recognized authority on community policing as
well as one of the leading experts on a wide
range of policing issues, including recruitment,
hiring and training,” noted Travis, who served as
director of NIJ, the Justice Department’s research
arm, during the Clinton Administration.
Scrivner said joining the Obama Administration
will allow her to “help advance the agenda of
those who value criminal justice research and
evidence-based practices.” She is no stranger to
the National Institute of Justice, having served
as an NIJ Visiting Fellow studying police use of
excessive force.
Tucker, a retired New York City police officer,
has served in numerous government positions,
including Deputy Director for Operations of
News and Events of Interest
November 18, 2009
College Foundation, providing superlative leader-
ship for the board and the John Jay community,”
Travis said.
The gala featured entertainment by Lin-
Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning
composer and lyricist of the Broadway hit “In the
Heights,” and Henry Butler, the legendary New
Orleans-based jazz and blues pianist.
John Jay comes as the College is about to begin
the multi-year process leading to reaccreditation
by the Middle States Commission on Higher
Education, and launch an initiative to increase
retention and graduation rates. Travis said the
Master Plan will be the result of a series of
“robust discussions” including forums, focus
groups, town hall meetings, surveys and “idea
walls,” all leading to a document “that reflects
our best thinking, our high hopes and our
commitment to excellence.”
[For the complete text of the President’s
State of the College 2009 address, go online to
www.jjay.cuny.edu/Stateofcollege.pdf. To view
the five-year “road map” of milestones for the
Master Plan, Middle States reaccreditation and
retention initiatives, go to www.jjay.cuny.edu/
StateoftheCollege_Roadmap.pdf.]
Distinguished Professor James Lynch
the Justice Department’s Office of Community-
Oriented Policing Services and Executive Director
of the New York City Commission on Human
Rights.
John Jay Takes the Lead in
Citywide ‘Celebration of Able-ism’
On October 21, John Jay became the first
college in New York to host the city’s Disability
Mentoring Day, one of the highlights of National
Disability Employment Awareness Month.
The day, described by Vice President for
Student Development Berenecea Johnson Eanes
as “a celebration of able-ism,” was launched
with a breakfast ceremony attended by the
students who would be shadowing mentors
in the Division of Student Development and
learning about the different functions and
services provided by units in the department.
Chris Rosa, CUNY’s University Assistant Dean
of Student Affairs, called the occasion an historic
day in which hundreds of people with disabilities
citywide would have the opportunity to be
mentored. “You will be the next generation
of leadership, in part because of mentoring
opportunities you receive,” Rosa said, addressing
students at the ceremony. “And when you get
there, remember to reach back and become a
mentor yourself.”
Rosa and Matthew Sapolin, Commissioner of
the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities,
praised John Jay for assuming an unrivaled
leadership role in promoting equal access and
opportunity. “That campus culture at John Jay
begins at the front door,” Sapolin said, praising
an unidentified security officer who met him at
the entrance to Haaren Hall.
The mentor/mentee relationship is a two-way
street, Sapolin emphasized, and one that should
lead to expanded horizons in the business and
professional world. “We all face obstacles,”
he said, “but we have to make the workplace
understand that those obstacles are removable.”
John Jay’s prominent role in local celebration
of Disability Employment Awareness Month
got an additional boost when Danielle Officer,
interim Director of the College’s Office of
Accessibility Services, served as an invited
presenter at a program sponsored by the FBI’s
New York office. The program, organized
around the theme “Expectations + Opportunity
= Full Participation,” was attended by FBI staff
employees and senior executive management.
Chris Rosa (seated), the University Assistant Dean of
Student Affairs, chats with President Travis, Danielle Officer
of the John Jay Office of Accessibility Services and Vice
President for Student Development Berenecea Johnson
Eanes at the kickoff ceremony for Disability Mentoring Day.
College Remembers Its Own with
‘Treats for Troops’ Outreach Effort
John Jay boasts the largest number of
military veterans of any student body in the City
University system, so the notion of “supporting
our troops” comes naturally, during wartime
or anytime. In that vein, the College’s Office of
Community Outreach, in conjunction with the
Veterans Club and Homeland Security Club, has
launched a Treats for Troops campaign as a way
of bringing relief to military personnel serving in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
The campaign has set up collection sites on
campus where volunteers are seeking donations
of toiletries and other sundries, baby wipes, anti-
fungal creams, socks, non-aspirin pain relievers,
food items, holiday candy, “gently used”
magazines, books and videogames, phone cards
and letters of support. Monetary donations to
cover the costs of packaging and shipping are
also appreciated.
“The title for our benefit drive, Treats for
Troops, is derived from a national organization Sgt. Yevgeny “Gene” Gershman, one of the beneficiaries of
the Treats for Troops campaign.
that delivered thousands of care packages to
soldiers all over the world,” said Director of Gershman, who is serving in Iraq with the 192nd
Community Outreach Declan Walsh. “We are Military Police Battalion, and an unidentified
hoping to reinstate the Treats for Troops mission female student who is now on her third tour of
of providing relief to soldiers on active duty duty in Afghanistan.
overseas as a college community.” For more information on the Treats for Troops
Among the John Jay students who have drive at John Jay, call 646.557.4820, or visit the
already received care packages from the Treats Office of Community Outreach in Room 3408
for Troops effort, Walsh said, are Sgt. Yevgeny North Hall.

International Conference Heads to Morocco

The ancient city of Marrakesh, Morocco,
will be the site for John Jay’s Ninth Biennial
International Conference, “Societies in Transition:
Balancing Security, Social Justice and Tradition,”
from June 2-5, 2010.
The conference, presented in partnership with
Hassan II University and the Advisory Council
on Human Rights of the Kingdom of Morocco,
will bring together scholars, practitioners,
government leaders, police officials and
representatives of international organizations
in an effort to promote international and
interdisciplinary understanding of justice issues in
the broadest sense.
The conference’s program committee,
chaired by Professor Chitra Raghavan of the
Department of Psychology, has issued a call
for papers soliciting proposals for symposiums,
presentations or posters on relevant themes,
including legal reform, terrorism, human rights,
transnational trafficking in drugs, arms and
human beings, financial crimes, gender and
social justice, and more.
Proposals should reflect scholarly work and
may be submitted in English, French or Arabic.
The deadline for submitting abstracts or panel
proposals is December 15.
For more information on the conference,
go online to www.jjay.cuny.edu/ic, or contact
Ken Lewandoski, Director of the Office Author, Sociology Professor David Green (right) was in the spotlight at the Book & Author lecture
on October 19 for a discussion of his book When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and
Political Culture, which was awarded the 2009 Book Prize by the British Society of Criminol-
of International Studies and Programs, at
intconference@jjay.cuny.edu. Author! ogy. Joining Green on the panel were (from left) Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice
Jock Young and Stephen Handelman, Director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice.

FACULTY / STAFF NOTES

PRESENTING…
MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) presented a paper,
“Racial and Class Frontiers: Vigilantism and
Criminal Justice in the Late Antebellum United
States,” at the Western History Association
Conference in Denver on October 9.
HOWARD PFLANZER (Communication and
Theatre Arts) co-produced Erotik Politik Cabaret:
A Sexual and Political Romp at The Living Theatre
in Manhattan on October 25. The production
was a series of readings and performance pieces
written by Pflanzer and others.
THOMAS A. KUBIC (Sciences) was an invited
speaker at the Trace Evidence Symposium
sponsored by the National Institute of Justice
and FBI in Clearwater Beach, FL, August 2-7.
His lecture on “Examination of a 13-Year-Old
Crime Scene for a War Crimes Trial, or Is it Ever
Too Late to Examine a Crime Scene?” dealt with
murders that took place in Rwanda in mid-1990s.
Also at the symposium, JOHN A. REFFNER
(Sciences) presented a poster concerning his
research, conducted with graduate students
Vanessa Martinez and Brooke Weinger, on the
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JOHN MATTESON (English) was the guest of honor and
featured speaker at an October 9 fundraising luncheon at the
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT. Here he poses with
fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers Debby Applegate (left)
and Joan D. Hedrick, who introduced Matteson at the gathering.
Infrared Microscopical Analysis of Mineral and
Glass Trace Evidence.” NICHOLAS PETRACO
JR. (Sciences) presented a poster on “The
Statistical Significance of the Aggregate Trace
Evidence Found in Dust Specimens.” DALE
PURCELL and REBECCA BUCHT, doctoral
students in forensic science who are both
laboratory instructors at John Jay, also presented
posters on their research.
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) delivered a talk titled
“How Is the Criminal Justice System Impacting
our Community?” at Reality House, Inc., on
September 24. Reality House assists individuals,
families, veterans and communities in leading
productive lives during the re-entry process.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
JEREMY TRAVIS (President) and ANNA
CRAYTON (Prisoner Reentry Institute) co-
authored an article “Offender Reentry”
that appears in 21st Century Criminology: A
Reference Handbook, Vol.2 (Sage Publications,
2009), edited by J. Mitchell Miller.
PETER MANUEL (Art & Music) recently
published three books: Creolizing Contradance
in the Caribbean (an edited volume), The Reggae
Scene: The People, the Image, the Music (a co-
authored children’s book), and Chowtal Rang
Bahar: A Treasury of Chowtal Songs from India
and the Caribbean (a co-edited anthology of
Indo-Caribbean folksongs). His 1988 book
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World, earlier
translated into Japanese, was recently translated
and published in Korean. He is currently working
on a video documentary on Indo-Caribbean
music.
PETER MOSKOS (Law, Police Science & Criminal
Justice Administration) published an article,
“From Amsterdam, Lessons on Controlling Drugs
— If It’s On the Shelves, It’s Off the Streets,”
in the October 25 Washington Post Sunday
Magazine. His article “Angels in Blue: The Virtues
of Foot Patrol” appeared in the September/
October 2009 issue of The American Interest.
JODIE G. ROURE (Latin American/Latina/o
Studies) had her book chapter “The NCLB,
Race, Ethnicity, Class and Diversity: Creating a
High School to Law/Graduate School Pipeline
for Underrepresented Students” published in
Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equity for
America’s Children (Carolina Academic Press,
2009), edited by Maurice Dyson.
DOROTHY MOSES SCHULZ (Law, Police
Science & Criminal Justice Administration),
working with Dr. Rita Wirrer of the Unit for
International Police Cooperation in Rhineland-
Palatinate, Germany, has created a bibliography
of items pertaining to women in policing around
the world that may be downloaded from the
Police Futurists International Web site, (www.
policefuturists.org). The items include books and
articles written in English, French, German and
Dutch.
PEER REVIEW
ROBERTA BELLI (Sociology), an adjunct faculty
member and a student in the John Jay/CUNY
doctoral program in criminal justice, received a
National Institute of Justice graduate research
fellowship for her dissertation on “Where
Terrorists, Far-Right Extremists and Greedy
Criminals Meet: A Comparative Study of Financial
Crimes in the U.S. The award was one of only
six given out this year, and the first federal
dissertation award won by a criminal justice PhD
student in the 45-year history of the program.
JOCK YOUNG (Sociology) has been named
winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award
presented by the American Society of Criminol-
ogy’s Division of International Criminology. He
was cited for Cultural Criminology: An Invitation
(London Sage, 2008), which he co-authored with
Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward.

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@John Jay News and Events of Interest
to the College Community
October 28, 2009

Worth Noting As John Jay’s Newest Student Leaders,

October 30 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Malcolm/King Peer Ambassadors Help College Shine
“Fall Back” Celebration They’re the newest cadre of student leaders at
A fundraising evening of music, dancing John Jay: 21 Peer Ambassadors, who represent
and refreshments to benefit the the College at a variety of functions both on- and
Malcolm/King Scholarship Fund off-campus.
For tickets and other information, By whatever name they are known, Peer
call 212.237.8117 or email Ambassadors are a common sight at many other
mlilly@jjay.cuny.edu college campuses, and Vice President for Student
Multipurpose Room, North Hall Development Berenecea Johnson Eanes made
it a priority to create such a program when she
arrived at John Jay in July 2006.
November 3 5:30 PM “Peer leadership initiatives are very common
Created Equal: How to and very popular,” said Eanes. “People love
Reduce Racial Disparity in to hear from students. Contact with Peer
Ambassadors can be a very powerful thing.”
the Criminal Justice System Carefully screened, trained and decked out
Dr. Barry Krisberg, Visiting Scholar, in black blazers with name tags proclaiming
Center on Race, Crime and Justice their status as Peer Ambassadors, the student
Room 1311, North Hall leaders are a group that reflects the diversity of
the John Jay student body, Eanes pointed out.
November 15 All day For one thing, the Vice President noted, their Winderline Petit-Frere (left) and José Rosario are among the 21 Peer Ambassadors whose efforts are making a difference at
Undergraduate Open House backgrounds are thoroughly international, with John Jay.
roots in the Caribbean Basin, Latin America
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
and West Africa, as well as the New York by contacting Trimboli. showing them how college life is very different
November 18 3:15 AM metropolitan area and surrounding states. “They’re just great,” said Eanes. “They’re from high school. “I’ve had the opportunity
“In a sense, they’re not your typical students another potential community here, like our to speak in classes as a Peer Ambassador,
Indoor Triathlon Relay leaders, in that new faces have stepped up,” athletes, and they help to make a large school a and when professors know you’re part of a
The Pool / Cardiovascular Fitness Center said Dana Trimboli, Eanes’s executive assistant, smaller place.” prestigious group like this, they know you’re
who oversees the Peer Ambassador program. One of the Peer Ambassadors, Winderline the tops.” Rosario said he tells fellow students
November 18-22 8:00 PM Trimboli added that the Peer Ambassadors, who Petit-Frere, a sophomore Justice Studies major, that corporations and other potential employers
Il Furioso: The Birth must have a 3.0 grade point average just to noted that she has “always been a leader” at “don’t necessarily want to know your GPA
be considered for the program, undergo two other schools she has attended, and her Peer — they want to know what you’ve achieved
of Modern Justice mandatory training workshops per semester, Ambassador duties allow her to continue doing in college, and want to see how you present
A dual-language adaptation
focusing on leadership, assessment, team- that while making a difference at John Jay. yourself.”
of Aeschylus’ “Eumenides”
building and other skills. “Everything we do helps me, allows me to help Maria Vidal, a college assistant working with
Presented by the Department of
Eanes praised the students’ dedication and others, and helps me to see things differently,” Trimboli, noted that in early November a Peer
Communication and Theatre Arts with
energy in working such events as college tours said Petit-Frere, adding that she hopes to stay Ambassador page will be added to the College’s
support from the Department of African
and orientations and the alumni phonathon. in the Peer Ambassador program until she Web site, featuring photos, biographical sketches
American Studies
Next up for the Peer Ambassadors will be the graduates. and other personal information on the Peer
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Undergraduate Open House on November 15. José Rosario, a senior majoring in Political Ambassadors, along with blog entries on their
The students’ services are available upon request Science, said he enjoys helping people and activities.

College Takes Steps to Mitigate Swine Flu Threat

The recent increase in public concern about
the H1N1 influenza virus — swine flu — has the
College’s Student Health Center and the Office
of Environmental Health and Safety on high
alert as a variety of precautions are put in place
to minimize the incidence and spread of the
disease.
Information is a crucial tool in responding
to the H1N1 threat, noted Malaine Clarke,
the Director of Student Health Services, and
to this end, she and her staff are holding a
New York’s senior U.S. Senator, Charles Schumer (center), joins members of the John Jay Jay-
series of health-information sessions for the
College community. Shailendra Chainani, the
Environmental Health and Safety Officer, added
that postings on bulletin boards, in classrooms
and bathrooms and on the College’s Web site
keep the John Jay community up to date on
preventive measures, including hand-hygiene
practices and “respiratory etiquette.”
To reduce the risk of opportunistic infection,
hand-sanitizer dispensers have been installed at
key locations throughout the College. “We know
they are being used,” said
Chainani, “because we are
already having to refill them.”
The Student Health Center
in Room 1292N is usually a
beehive of activity, with traffic
increasing in October and
November due to seasonal flus.
Clarke said the emergence of
H1N1 could double the center’s
workload. The center already
provides seasonal-flu vaccines
and soon, with assistance from
the CUNY Health Services
Office and the New York City
Department of Health, it will
provide free H1N1 vaccine as
well, through borough-based Medical professionals recommend access to and use of a “swine flu combat kit,”
clinics. which includes baby wipes, tissues, hand sanitizer, soap and water, and a non-
invasive digital thermometer.
“We’re getting plenty of
calls about swine flu,” Clarke said. “People are • Cough or sneeze into the crook of your arm
concerned, with many of them asking about the or your upper shoulder, not into your hands.
vaccine’s effectiveness and safety.” • If using a tissue when coughing or sneezing,
Citing information from the CUNY health immediately dispose of the used tissue in a
office and government health agencies, Clarke wastebasket, then wash your hands.
said that people who are considered “high risk” • Wash your hands frequently with soap and
— those who are pregnant, diabetic, have kidney water, or sanitize with an alcohol-based hand
problems or a compromised immune system, gel.
or are over 65 —should probably get the H1N1 • Do not share food, drink or utensils.
vaccine. • Get plenty of sleep.
In addition, Clarke noted, an H1N1 working • Be physically active.
group comprising key administrative staff and • Drink plenty of fluids and eat nutritious food.
faculty has been formed to develop prevention (The Student Health Center provides a full
and response plans. range of health-related services for John Jay

Walking walkers before the start of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on September 14. Under
team captain Irene O’Donnell, the John Jay delegation, which won an award for the largest
college contingent, included Alumni Association 2nd vice president Teri Coaxum (20313),
Basic precautions to prevent the spread of flu
virus include:
students, from breast cancer awareness to
heart health, from smoking cessation to safe
• Avoid close contact with people who are ill. sex, and much more. For more information on
the Walk who is Schumer’s deputy New York State director; Director of Athletics Dan Palumbo (23282);
Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Robert Pignatello; President Jeremy
Travis, and members of the John Jay baseball team, among many others.
• If you are ill, keep your distance from others
to protect them from becoming ill as well.
the activities and services of the Student Health
Center, call 212.237.8052.
Lots of Buzz for New Safe-Communities Network
The National Network for Safe Communities
(NNSC), a project spearheaded by John Jay’s
Center for Crime Prevention and Control, is
already bearing fruit around the country, despite
having just been formally launched in June.
Professor David Kennedy, director of the
crime prevention center and co-chair of the
NNSC along with President Jeremy Travis,
pointed out that 45 jurisdictions have joined the
network to date. The network and its members
are committed to building a new standard of
practice aimed at reducing levels of violent crime,
eliminating overt drug markets, promoting racial
reconciliation between minority communities and
Welcome to John Jay
The latest group of visiting scholars who have found John Jay to be a mecca for their research pursuits got an official wel-
come to the College on October 6 when President Jeremy Travis hosted a reception in their honor. The scholars represent a
variety of academic disciplines and hail from all parts of the United States as well as overseas.
A Busy Year for Center on Race, Crime & Justice
It has been a busy 2009 for the Center on
Race, Crime and Justice, with the fall semester
continuing the trend of a crowded calendar of
events.
Professor Paul Butler of the George
Washington University School of Law, who
is co-chair of the Center’s advisory board,
highlighted the board’s October 15 meeting with
a talk based on his latest book, Let’s Get Free:
A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice. Later that day, a
reception was held to celebrate the publication
of the new Encyclopedia of Race and Crime, co-
edited by advisory board member Helen Taylor
Greene, a professor at Texas Southern University,
and Shaun Gabbidon of Penn State University-
Harrisburg, who has been a featured speaker at
previous events sponsored by the Center. The
encyclopedia includes articles by several John Jay
faculty members and doctoral students.
Professor Delores Jones-Brown, the Center’s
director, pointed out that advisory board
members continue to be active participants in
scholarly and professional settings, including a
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
PRESENTING…
ELLEN SEXTON (Library) and MARK MCBETH
(English) co-presented at the Georgia Conference
on Information Literacy in Savannah, GA on
September 26. Their talk, “Justice (through
Literacy) for All: Library/English Collaboration
& Faculty Development,” described the John
Jay Subway Series and how that college literacy
initiative subsequently promoted faculty
development workshops on Writing Across the
Curriculum and information literacy.
MARGARET WALLACE (Sciences) gave
a presentation titled “DNA New Frontiers:
Identification of Non-Human Biological Material-
Botanicals, Bugs & Bacteria” on September 23
at a DNA Symposium sponsored by the New
York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,
Department of Forensic Biology.
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police, and reducing high levels of incarceration.
The network includes a Leadership Group
of jurisdictions that have committed to full
implementation of two crime-reduction
approaches conceived by Kennedy: a gang-
violence strategy that was first launched in
Boston, MA, in the mid-1990s, and a strategy
aimed at overt drug markets, pioneered in High
Point, NC.
“The goal of the National Network is to
establish these two strategies as default standard
practices, and so far there’s tremendous
excitement,” Kennedy said. “It’s all a work in
progress, which is part of the reason to bring
symposium held in July by the U.S. Department
of Justice to mark the 45th anniversary of Title
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a three-day
criminal justice conference held at Medgar Evers
College, and the activities of the Consortium on
Police Leadership in Equity.
The Center is currently hosting its third visiting
scholar, Barry Krisberg, president of the National
Council of Crime and Delinquency.
“It’s hard to believe that this October marks
the fourth anniversary of the Center’s launch,”
said Jones-Brown. “Over the past four years, the
Center has sponsored or co-sponsored more than
30 colloquia, talks, presentations and interactive
events that promote discussion or raise aware-
ness about race, crime and justice concerns.”
Such events, Jones-Brown pointed out, have
involved faculty and students at all levels —
undergraduate, graduate and doctoral — as well
as a wide variety of individuals and groups from
the community, academia and criminal justice.
In June, the Center co-sponsored, along with
the Department of African-American Studies,
ROBERT MCCRIE (Protection Management)
was the presenter and seminar leader for
“Reinventing the Prison: Linking the Prison to
the Community for Lower Recidivism,” as part
of a conference held at the University of Ulster in
Northern Ireland September 21-22. The event,
aimed at prison governors and public policy
advisors, was sponsored by the university’s School
of Sociology and Applied Social Studies.
MARK MCBETH (English) presented on a
panel “Who’s Telling the Truth? Revisiting an
Interrogation of an Accused Child Abuser”
on July 7 at the International Association of
Forensic Linguists Biennial Conference on
Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law. Also
in July, McBeth presented “An Alternative
to the Common Reading — The Common
Denominator: Riding the Subway to Inquiry” at
the Writing Program Administrators Conference
in Minneapolis, MN. He received a Special
Recognition Award at the conference for his
article “Memoranda of Fragile Machinery:
A Portrait of Shaughnessy as Intellectual-
Bureaucrat,” which was published in the Journal
of Writing Program Administration.
STACI STROBL (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) recently met
with police officials in Novo Mesto, Slovenia,
educating for justice
people together. People are figuring out very
powerful ways to adapt this and make it work.”
One such gathering took place on October
13-14, when nearly a score of practitioners
and academicians gathered at the College for a
symposium sponsored by the crime prevention
center, focusing on “Managing Community
Interventions.” The symposium was a huge
success, said Kennedy, and bodes well for the
upcoming first annual NNSC conference, which
already has more than 300 people signed up to
attend on December 2-3 at the Time Warner
Conference Center near the John Jay campus.
“We’re trying, in a larger way, to bring
together people who are committed to this,”
Kennedy said. “That includes international
jurisdictions, too, places in South Korea and
Australia, for example. What we’re finding is that
the core principles are remarkably transferrable.”
A “first among equals” of the National
Network’s core issues, Kennedy said, “is the
They’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
A delegation of 125 John Jay faculty members,
administrators, graduate students and doctoral
candidates is expected to make its presence felt
at the annual meeting of the American Society
of Criminology, to be held in Philadelphia from
November 4-7.
The program for this year’s conference is
being co-chaired by Professor Joshua Freilich,
deputy executive officer of the doctoral program
in criminal justice, and focuses on the theme
“Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy.” The
delegation will once again be led by President
Jeremy Travis and will boast more than 60 faculty
members, including Distinguished Professors
the 2009 Power of One Racial Justice Awards,
which recognized individuals who have taken
on issues related to race and the criminal justice
system and made a difference in how justice is
administered, or who have called public attention
to race, crime and justice concerns that had long
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to discuss forthcoming research on policing
Roma (gypsy) populations there. The meeting,
which has been featured on the Slovenian police
Web site, focused on research that Strobl will
commence this November in collaboration with
MAKI HABERFELD (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration), along with a
John Jay graduate student and a colleague at the
University of Maribor, Slovenia.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
LARRY SULLIVAN (Library) is the editor-in-chief
of the recently published The Sage Glossary
of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Sage
Publications, 2009), the first such historical and
comparative study of some 2,200 concepts
in nine different social and behavioral science
disciplines. Professors KAREN TERRY (Criminal
Justice) and CYNTHIA MERCADO (Psychology)
were among the associate editors of the volume.
SERENA NANDA (Anthropology, emerita) is the
author of an anthropological murder mystery,
A Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology,
Matrimony and Murder, published recently by
Altamira/Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. The
mystery, set in an Indian immigrant community
in New York City, explores gender inequality,
violence against women and immigrant
adaptation to American life.
matter of promoting racial reconciliation. It’s
impossible to ignore and our work on the ground
confirms the preeminence of this issue. We know
that many in law enforcement have written off
entire communities.”
Kennedy commented that he is struck by
the extent to which people in law enforcement
are now willing to admit that past practice
isn’t working, and that despite having the best
of intentions, law enforcement has caused
enormous harm in the process. “That’s a
conversation you couldn’t have had with law
enforcement not too long ago.”
With much of the work of the National
Network and its member jurisdictions taking
place “below the radar,” by Kennedy’s admission,
at what point can it be said to have reached a
critical mass? “We hope it’s true that we’ll know
it when it happens,” he remarked. “But the fact
of the matter is we think the country is ready to
move in a bold new direction.”
James Lynch and Todd Clear.
Clear is the current ASC president.
The John Jay contingent includes faculty from
the following departments: Criminal Justice,
Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Political
Science, Public Management, Mathematics and
Computer Science, and Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration. In addition,
representatives from the Library, the Center on
Crime Prevention and Control, the Criminal
Justice Research and Evaluation Center, the
journal Criminal Justice Ethics, and the Office of
Honors, Awards and Special Opportunities will be
on hand as panel presenters and discussants.
gone under-addressed.
Honored at a ceremony at the College were
the late New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert
E. Francis; Celeste Fitzgerald of New Jerseyans
for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; and former
New York Post reporter Leonardo Blair.
ELISE CHAMPEIL (Sciences), GLORIA PRONI
(Sciences) and DANIELLE SAPSE (Law, Police
Science and Criminal Justice Administration)
have had their paper “Ab Initio Studies of
Receptor Interactions with AMPA and Kainic
Acid” published in the September 2009 issue
of the Journal of Molecular Modeling. The
article discusses the possible impact on forensic
psychology of mutations in the receptors.
PEER REVIEW
NICHOLAS PETRACO, PETER DIACZUK,
THOMAS KUBIC, DALE PURCELL and
BROOKE WEINGER (Sciences) and PETER
SHENKIN (Mathematics and Computer Science)
have been awarded $700,000 by the National
Institute of Justice to carry out research on the
application of Machine Learning and Statistical
Pattern Recognition to toolmarks. Their research
is aimed at addressing many of the issues raised
in the recent National Academy of Sciences
report on the forensic sciences.
MEGHAN DUFFY (Center for the Advancement
of Teaching) has received a $250,000 grant
from the U.S. Department of Education for
her project: “Reading More and Reading More
Effectively: The Outcomes of Renting Customized
Kindle E-Readers to Increase Undergraduate
Students’ Access to Course Materials.”
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Worth Noting
September 17 11:00 AM
Race and the U.S. Constitution
A Constitution Day lecture by
Professor Gloria J. Browne-Marshall,
Department of Law, Police Science
and Criminal Justice Administration
Presented by the Center on Race, Crime and
Justice, and The Law & Policy Group Inc.
Room 3510 North Hall
September 21 2:00 PM
Cops and Robbers,
Las Vegas Style
Jeff Jonas,
Entity Analytic Solutions, IBM
Presented by the Center for
Cybercrime Studies
Room 630 Haaren Hall
September 24 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Coordination of Emergency
Services in Italy and the
European Union
Lecture by Erika de Guttry,
Visiting Researcher, Pisa, Italy
Presented by the Christian Regenhard
Center for Emergency Response Studies
Room 3510 North Hall
October 7 7:00 PM
What a Wonderful World!
An Automythography
Written and performed by Meghan Duffy
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
Transitions in Key Personnel
Bring New Look & Energy
to Student Development
The Division of Student Development began
the 2009-2010 academic year with a number
of new faces in key positions, as well as current
John Jay staff members in new roles.
Dennis Camacho is one of the new faces,
having joined the John Jay College community
on July 20 as Director of Student Activities.
A veteran of 10 years in higher education
administration, Camacho most recently served
as Director of Student Activities at New York
Institute of Technology.
The man Camacho succeeded as student
activities director, Declan Walsh, has taken on
the leadership of the division’s new Office of
Community Outreach and Service Learning. The
office will help students develop their sense
of social responsibility through projects in the
community and on campus.
Danielle Officer is serving as interim Director
of Accessibility Services, charged with refocusing
the mission, vision and capabilities of that office
to better serve its student clients.
The College’s new Athletic Director, Daniel
Palumbo, is a familiar presence on campus,
having served as interim Athletic Director since
The new school year brings
new additions to John Jay’s
faculty ranks as well.
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High Achievement
College Celebrates ‘Topping-Out’ of New Building
Topping-out ceremonies are special events
in the construction industry, and the one held
on August 27 on 11th Avenue between 58th
and 59th Streets was especially significant for
John Jay College. The ceremony marked the
erection of the final piece of structural steel in
the building that will add 620,000 square feet of
new space to the College’s midtown campus.
The 13-story building — the largest
construction project currently being undertaken
by the City University of New York — will include
Above: Signing the final beam for John Jay’s new campus building are (from left) Senior Vice President Robert Pignatello,
President Jeremy Travis, City Council member Gail Brewer, CUNY Vice Chancellor Iris Weinshall, CUNY Executive Vice Chancel-
lor Alan Dobrin, State Dormitory Authority Executive Director Paul Williams, and Turner Construction Senior Vice President
and General Manager Charles Murphy. At right: Workers begin hoisting the flag-decked beam into place.
October 2008, and
as baseball coach for
the past eight years.
Palumbo will preside
over a 12-team
athletics program
that includes five
new head coaches.
The division has
also welcomed new
assistants to the
Dean of Students
Athletic Director Dan Palumbo
and to the Vice
President for Student
Development. Raquel Piazza, who will work with
Dean Wayne Edwards, comes to John Jay from
St. John’s University, where she was Assistant
Director of Admissions. John Leebens, the new
assistant to Vice President Berenecea Johnson
Eanes, is a recent graduate of Southern Illinois
University.
“I am pleased to see all of these talented
individuals added to the John Jay family, and am
eager to see the impact of their collective skills
and experience on our students,” Eanes said.
a moot court, computer and forensic labs, an
outdoor commons, a gallery and lecture halls,
along with office and classroom space and other
facilities.
“It will accommodate most of the College’s
programs that are scattered across four
buildings,” CUNY Vice Chancellor Iris Weinshall
said at the ceremony. “This is the first time it will
create an integrated campus.”
John Jay President Jeremy Travis said the
building, designed by Skidmore, Owings &
DA Hopefuls Take Gloves Off
in Televised Debate at John Jay
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has
known only three elected incumbents in nearly
three-quarters of a century, making the televised
Democratic primary debate held at John Jay
College on September 1 truly a once-in-a-lifetime
event.
Co-sponsored by NY1, and moderated by the
TV station’s Dominic Carter, the spirited debate
gave the three candidates — Richard Aborn,
Leslie Crocker Snyder and Cyrus R. Vance Jr. — a
chance to make their case for succeeding Robert
M. Morgenthau as district attorney, a post he has
held since 1974.
The hour-long debate took place before a
lively audience of John Jay students, faculty and
staff as well as elected officials and members of
Moderator Dominic Carter of NY1 (left) fires questions at the Democratic candidates for Manhattan District Attorney
— Leslie Crocker Snyder, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and Richard Aborn — during their September 1 debate at John Jay.
News and Events of Interest
to the College Community
September 16, 2009
Merrill and due to be completed in 2011, will
be a physical symbol of the “new John Jay.”
“The structure will be sheathed in glass, the
transparency of which is intended to symbolize
the way the justice system should function,”
Travis said.
In keeping with industry tradition, the last
beam to be hoisted into place was painted white,
topped with an American flag and signed by
construction workers, project managers and
College and University officials.
the West Side community.
The candidates were questioned by Carter
and a panel of journalists that included Maggie
Haberman of the New York Post, Robert Hardt of
NY1 and Errol Louis of the New York Daily News.
They responded to questions on topics ranging
from the prosecution of former New York Giants
football star Plaxico Burress and the Central Park
jogger case to the prosecution of drug offenders,
alternatives to incarceration and wrongful
convictions.
All three candidates previously worked as
assistant district attorneys under Morgenthau.
There is no Republican candidate in the race,
making the winner of the Democratic primary a
virtual certainty to succeed him.
Faculty Ranks Swell with 36 Newest Additions
The fall 2009 semester saw John Jay welcome
36 new full-time faculty members in 14 academic
departments. These latest additions include
specialists to support the newest majors in
Economics, English, Gender Studies and Global
History.
President Jeremy Travis called the investment
in new faculty “a critical building block of
a revitalized John Jay College.” The College
has compiled an outstanding track record of
recruiting top-choice candidates in a competitive
market, Travis said, attracting new faculty who
“come from premier doctoral programs around
the world, are committed to excellence in
scholarship and teaching, and are eager to join
the John Jay community.”
The most recent additions to the faculty, along
with their terminal degrees, granting institutions
and areas of specialization, are:
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, associate professor;
PhD, University of Massachusetts (political
economics)
ANTHROPOLOGY
Abby Stein, associate professor; PhD, CUNY
Graduate Center (criminal psychopathology)
ART AND MUSIC
Benjamin Bierman, assistant professor; PhD,
Welcome, John Jay Class of 2013!
Some 1,600 new baccalaureate students got their official welcome to John Jay last month during a two-day Freshman Orien-
tation that included opportunities for parents to take their concerns straight to the top, at a reception hosted by President
Jeremy Travis (photo at right, top), and for students to meet one of the newest members of the College’s leadership team,
Dean of Undergraduate Studies Anne Lopes (right, bottom). The 4th-floor gymnasium (above) became a virtual bazaar of
services, options and opportunities available to new students, with orientation leaders and newly trained “Peer Ambassa-
dors” rising to the challenge of making the students’ transition to college life a smooth one.
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
PRESENTING…
PATRICIA TOVAR (Anthropology) presented a
paper on “The Things We Do for Love: Narratives
of Women and War in Colombia” at the Latin
American Studies Association meeting in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12.
MARIE UMEH (English) chaired the panel, “Life
is Short and Wide: Memoir and Biography in
the Diaspora,” and presented a chapter from
her biography of Flora Nwapa on July 18 at the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
in New York. The program was televised on C-
SPAN/Book TV. Umeh also presented a paper,
“How Flora Nwakuche Eliminated Poverty,
Created Wealth, and Empowered the People
after the Nigerian Civil War,” on August 6 at the
Fourth Women in Africa and the African Diaspora
International Conference in Abuja, Nigeria.
NATHAN LENTS (Sciences) presented a talk
on June 18 titled, “Video Lectures and Online
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CUNY Graduate Center (jazz composition)
Cyriaco Lopes, assistant professor; MFA,
University of Maryland (imaging and digital
arts)
COMMUNICATION AND THEATRE ARTS
Dana Tarantino, associate professor; PhD,
New York University (stage directing/arts
partnerships)
ECONOMICS
Geert Dhondt, assistant professor; PhD,
University of Massachusetts (political
economics/economic history)
Michael Meeropol, visiting associate professor;
PhD, University of Wisconsin (macroeconomic
policy)
Catherine P. Mulder, assistant professor; PhD,
University of Massachusetts (labor economics)
ENGLISH
Alexa Capeloto, assistant professor; MS,
Columbia University (journalism)
Yasmin Dalisay, lecturer;MFA, Sarah Lawrence
College (writing and composition)
Lesley Alan Hansen, lecturer; PhD, Columbia
University (writing)
Veronica C. Hendrick, assistant professor; PhD,
CUNY Graduate Center (literature and law)
Sanjana Nair, lecturer; MFA, New York University
(poetry/creative writing)
Office Hours: Teaching Biology through the
Internet,” at the Sloan-Consortium Symposium
on Emerging Technology for Online Learning, in
San Francisco, CA. On June 22, Lents presented
a talk on “Teaching the Process of Science in
Evolution, Phylogenetics, and Natural Selection,”
at the quadrennial conference of the National
Association of Paleontology in Cincinnati, OH.
EUGENE O’DONNELL (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) appeared in the
documentary, “Shouting Fire: Dispatches from
the Edge of Free Speech,” shown on HBO in
July, in which he discussed police handling of the
2004 Republican National Convention. The film
was also shown earlier this year at the Sundance
Film Festival.
MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) presented a paper,
“Vigilantes, Criminal Justice and Antebellum
Cultural Conflict,” at the annual conference
of the Society for Historians of the American
Republic, held in Springfield, IL, on July 19.
DOROTHY MOSES SCHULZ (Law, Police
Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was
the keynote speaker at the Florida Police Chiefs
Association’s annual summer training conference
in June. She was also the keynote speaker at
the Women in Public Safety Communications
Leadership Symposium, held in May by the
Association of Public Safety Communications
Officials in Orlando, FL.
educating for justice
Tara Pauliny, assistant professor; PhD, Ohio
State University (writing/composition/feminist
rhetoric)
Jay Walitalo, lecturer; MA, University of Illinois
(creative writing)
Claudia Zuluaga, lecturer; MFA, Sarah Lawrence
College (creative writing/fiction)
HISTORY
James DeLorenzi, assistant professor; PhD,
University of Pennsylvania (Italian studies)
David P.D. Munns, assistant professor; PhD, Johns
Hopkins University (history of science, sexuality
and religion)
LAW, POLICE SCIENCE AND CRIMINAL
JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION
Martin F. Horn, distinguished lecturer; MA, John
Jay College of Criminal Justice (corrections and
probation)
LIBRARY
Marta Bladek, assistant professor; MS, Rutgers
University (reference)
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
John Bryk, assistant professor; PhD, Rutgers
University (number theory/cryptology)
Shamik Sengupta, assistant professor; PhD,
University of Central Florida (applied
mathematics/game theory/network security)
Keith B. Thomas, lecturer; MS, CUNY Graduate
EFFIE COCHRAN (English) followed up on
teaching a month-long study abroad course
in Thessaloniki, Greece, by moderating a panel
at a conference on “Human Rights Learning
as Peace Education: Pursuing Democracy in a
Time of Crisis,” held from July 26 to August 2 in
Budapest, Hungary
BETWEEN THE COVERS
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) had her article “A Map
through the Maze: Achieving Five Years of Arrest-
Free Behavior,” accepted for the January/February
2010 issue of Insights, a publication of the
Offender Preparation & Education Network Inc.
DANIEL PINELLO (Political Science) published
his article, “Location, Location, Location:
Same-Sex Relationship Rights by State,” in the
September 2009 edition of the American Bar
Association’s The Young Lawyer.
JOHN STAINES (English) had his new book The
Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots 1560-
1690: Rhetoric, Passions, and Political Literature
published by Ashgate Publishing in May. His
essay “Radical Pity: Responding to Spectacles of
Violence in King Lear” appeared in the volume
Staging Pain, 1580-1800: Violence and Trauma
in British Theater, also published this summer by
Ashgate.
DOROTHY MOSES SCHULZ (Law, Police
Center (photochemistry/mathematics
education)
PHILOSOPHY
James DiGiovanna, assistant professor; PhD,
Stony Brook University (ethics and aesthetics)
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Samantha Majic, assistant professor; PhD, Cornell
University (gender and American politics and
public policy)
Maxwell H.H. Mak, assistant professor; PhD,
Stony Brook University (judicial decision-
making)
Yuksel Sezgin, assistant professor; PhD, University
of Washington (human rights/Middle Eastern
and South Asian affairs)
PROTECTION MANAGEMENT
Bethany L. Brown, assistant professor; PhD,
University of Delaware (disaster planning,
response and recovery)
PSYCHOLOGY
Preeti Chauhan, assistant professor; PhD,
University of Virginia (clinical psychology)
Hyewon Chung, assistant professor; PhD,
University of Texas at Austin (educational
psychology)
Silvia Lorena Mazzula, assistant professor; PhD,
Columbia University (counseling psychology)
Ching-Fan Sheu, professor; PhD, New York
University (experimental psychology)
Peggilee Wupperman, assistant professor; PhD,
University of North Texas (clinical psychology)
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
Carmen R. Apaza, assistant professor; DPA,
American University (public administration)
Salomon Alcocer Guajardo, associate professor;
PhD, University of Pittsburgh (financial
management/budgeting)
Yi Lu, associate professor; PhD, University
of Georgia (performance management/
budgeting)
William J. Pammer Jr., associate professor; PhD,
University of Oklahoma (public policy and city/
county management)
Adam Wandt, instructor; JD, Hofstra University
(e-government/homeland security/information
literacy)
SCIENCES
Angelique Corthals, assistant professor; DPhil,
University of Oxford (forensic anthropology)
Albert Harper, distinguished lecturer; PhD,
University of Connecticut (crime scene
reconstruction/law and forensic science)
Marcel Roberts, assistant professor; PhD, Boston
College (spectroscopy/biomedical engineering)
SOCIOLOGY
Jana Arsovska, assistant professor; DCrim,
Catholic University of Leuven (criminology)
Richard E. Ocejo, assistant professor; PhD, CUNY
Graduate Center (urban/cultural sociology)
Science and Criminal Justice Administration)
recently authored Becoming a Police Officer (New
York: Learning Express), aimed at high school
and college students who are interested in police
careers. She also contributed to the Encyclopedia
of Race & Crime (Sage Reference, 2009), with
entries on Lee P. Brown, Ella Bully-Cummings,
The Guardians, Beverly Harvard and Benjamin
Ward.
PATRICK COLLINS (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) has had his book
Negotiate to Win (Sterling Publishing, 2009)
translated into Portuguese in Brazil by Elsevier.
ANDREW MAJESKE (English) published an
article in the journal Law and Literature this
summer titled “Equity’s Absence: The Extremity
of Claudio’s Prosecution and Bernardine’s Pardon
in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.”
PEER REVIEW
ERIN ACKERMAN (Political Science), TIM
MCCORMACK (English), DARA BYRNE
(Communication and Theater Arts) and ROS
MYERS (Sociology) were selected to participate
in CUNY’s highly competitive 2009-2010
University Seminar on Teaching and Learning in
Undergraduate Education. Of 70 applications to
the program, 15 faculty members were chosen,
including the four from John Jay — the most of
any college.
@John Jay
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September 1 6:45 PM
Primary Debate of the
Launches Two New Undergraduate Majors
Democratic Candidates for The wealth of academic offerings at John Jay
Manhattan District Attorney is gleaming even more brightly at the start of
Richard Aborn, Leslie Crocker Snyder and the fall 2009 semester, with the launch of two
Cyrus Vance Jr. new majors: Bachelor of Arts degrees in Gender
Moderated by Dominic Carter Studies and Global History.
John Jay will be the first City University
Admission by ticket only. Contact the Office
institution to offer a BA in Gender Studies. The
of Student Activities for tickets.
36-credit interdisciplinary major will build on
Gerald W. Lynch Theater the minor in Gender Studies that the College
has offered since 1997, including such courses
September 10 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM as Sex and Culture, Women and Terrorism, Sex
Offenders in the Criminal Justice System, History
Barack, Hip Hop and Being of Gender Images, Manhood in America and
a Black Male in America many others.
Discussion and book signing with Kevin The major will be taught by a core group of
Powell, author of The Black Male Handbook: nearly four dozen full-time faculty members
A Blueprint for Life representing 14 academic departments who have
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby strong records of scholarship in Gender Studies.
Their expertise covers a range of issues including
antidiscrimination law, hate crimes, intimate-
September 16 6:00 PM – 8:15 PM
partner violence, sexuality and sexual identity in
Free Performance by popular culture, stalking and sexual harassment.
the Ailey II Dance Company The new major is already generating buzz in
academic circles, with one prominent outside
Contact the Office of Student Activities or
reviewer describing it as “an integrated, coherent
the Provost’s Office for tickets.
and solid major — and one that is targeted
Gerald W. Lynch Theater to the already developed strengths in criminal
justice at John Jay.”
“I’ve rarely seen [a major] as inclusive and
Onward & Upward well-thought-out as yours,” said the reviewer,
Professor Michael Kimmel, a professor at SUNY’s
for High Achievers Stony Brook campus and editor of the journal
Men and Masculinities.
The Global History major is believed to be
One current John Jay student, one former
among the first of its kind in the United States,
student, two glittering success stories.
and with it John Jay becomes one of just a
Victoria Oyaniran, a student in the Ronald E.
handful of institutions to provide students
McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Pro-
with a background in the new historiographic
gram, recently learned of her selection as one
approach of global history, which emphasizes the
of the 2009 winners of a $10,000 fellowship
connections between and among civilizations.
presented by the Education Fund of the Women’s
The new John Jay program differs from tradi-
Forum Inc. of New York.
tional undergraduate world-history majors, which
The Women’s
are organized according to region, by giving
Forum, an organization
students the chance to master the history of the
of prominent women
world during a particular chronological era.
in the professions,
As with the new Gender Studies major,
arts and business,
the Global History major has already won the
presents annual grants
endorsement of independent reviewers. Professor
to mature women
who, after a break
in their education,
are pursuing under-
Crime Prevention Center Spearheads
Victoria Oyaniran
graduate degrees.
Oyaniran, who
National Network for Safe Communities
has been active in A coalition of more than 50
the John Jay student leading criminal justice officials
government, the and scholars representing 30
African Student jurisdictions throughout the United
Association and the States has banded together under
Alpha Phi Sigma the aegis of John Jay’s Center for
honor society, was Crime Prevention and Control to
“quite deserving” of create the National Network for
the Women’s Forum Safe Communities (NNSC).
award, said Marlon The National Network was
Joseph Simone Jr. Daniels of the Office of formally launched June 15 at
Student Activities. a press conference held during
In April, Oyaniran was honored at the Service the annual meeting of the
Learning and Civic Engagement Awards Lun- U.S. Conference of Mayors in
cheon with the Keith L.T. Wright Service Award. Providence, RI.
Meanwhile, an ocean away, former Justice President Jeremy Travis, who
Scholar and Honors Program student Joseph serves as the NNSC’s co-chair, Joined by local elected officials from around the country, and with President Jeremy Travis (left)
Simone Jr. wrapped up the requirements for an said the coalition’s members looking on, Professor David Kennedy fields reporters’ questions at the press conference held to
MPhil degree from Cambridge University, with are “all committed to building formally launch the National Network for Safe Communities.
the help of a $15,000 scholarship provided by a new standard of practice aimed at reducing
the John Jay College Foundation. violent crime, eliminating overt drug markets,
Simone said the Honors Program at John promoting racial reconciliation between minority
Jay had prepared him well for his studies at communities and law enforcement and reducing
Cambridge. He cited his undergraduate mentor, high levels of incarceration.”
criminal justice Professor Joshua Freilich, as The chief architect of these crime-reduction
having been an “engaging and thoughtful strategies is Professor David Kennedy, who is
supervisor” when they worked together on Director of the Center for Crime Prevention
a government-funded study of right-wing and Control and co-chair of the NNSC. “These
extremism in the United States. strategies work,” Kennedy said. “We’ve been
Dean of Undergraduate Studies Seeks
to Build on Campus-Wide Momentum
In a bit of serendipitous timing, the newest
baccalaureate majors in Gender Studies
and Global History will be overseen by a
new Dean of Undergraduate Studies whose
scholarly track record covers both fields.
Dr. Anne Lopes, who assumed the
deanship in late July, holds a PhD in political
science from Freie Universität in Berlin,
Germany, and is widely published on topics
relating to gender, feminism and the women’s
movement in late 19th-century Germany.
Lopes succeeds José Luis Morín, who
had held the post on an interim basis for
the past two years. Lopes most recently
served as Associate Dean at Empire State
College (SUNY), where her responsibilities
included curriculum development, supervision
of adjunct faculty members, and student
academic and support services.
“As John Jay embarks on a period of
strategic planning and self-study and prepares
to launch a retention initiative, Dr. Lopes’
experience and abilities will serve us well,”
said Provost and Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs Jane Bowers, noting that
Lopes led similar initiatives at Empire State
and her previous institution, Metropolitan
College of New York.
Lopes, who said she has been struck by
the helpful and welcoming atmosphere
that greeted her arrival, noted the campus-
wide buzz surrounding “the innovative new
programs showcasing the synergy of criminal
justice and the liberal arts, the plans for hiring
new faculty at the leading edges of their
Joshua B. Freeman, Executive Officer of the
PhD program in history at the CUNY Graduate
Center, said the new major “represents the
forefront in thinking among historians about
how to understand and teach about the history
losing whole generations of young people to the
streets, prison or murder, and we simply don’t
have to live with that any longer.”
Kennedy’s crime-reduction strategies,
pioneered in Boston, MA, in the mid-1990s, have
since been adapted successfully in High Point,
NC, Cincinnati, OH, and Hempstead, NY. At the
press conference, officials from these localities
and others spoke glowingly about the NNSC
approach.
News and Events of Interest
to the College Community
August 26, 2009
Dean of Undergraduate Studies Anne Lopes
fields, and the deepening conversation about
sharpening our focus on student success.”
According to Lopes, “John Jay has
developed incredible momentum in its
global mission of Educating for Justice,
from the energy and diversity of students
in first-year learning communities to the
productivity that comes from the sustained
promotion of faculty and student research.
There’s still much work to do, which makes
it an extraordinary and exciting time to
be the Undergraduate Dean. I very much
look forward to my first academic year
here and to contributing to the continued
improvement of undergraduate education.”
of the world…. In stressing global interactions,
large historical processes and broad themes, the
proposed major adopts a highly sophisticated
approach to teaching world history, [one that is]
ambitious yet manageable.”
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory
said that city’s version of the
Network’s strategy “has not only
reduced group-related homicides,
but it has helped many formerly
violent individuals escape the cycle
of violence and turn their lives
around.” In Hempstead, which
had the worst open-air drug
market in Nassau County, the
NNSC strategy led to a 74-percent
decrease in crime and an 87-
percent drop in drug arrests.
A Leadership Group has been
created within the NNSC to help
further develop the anti-crime
strategies and share experiences
and insights with the network. The
group currently includes Boston,
MA, Police Commissioner Ed Davis, Cincinnati
Police Chief Col. Tom Streicher, High Point Police
Chief James Fealy, Los Angeles, CA, Police Chief
William Bratton, Providence Police Chief Col.
Dean Esserman, and Milwaukee, WI, Police Chief
Ed Flynn, a John Jay alumnus (MA, 1976).
The National Network’s first annual conference
will be held Dec. 2-3 in New York City. For
more information on the NNSC, visit www.
nnscommunities.org.
 Three Key Positions Filled
New Public Safety Director, Bursar,
Development Director Join College Ranks
Three broadly
experienced professionals
took the reins of key
positions in the College
over the summer.
Christopher Trucillo,
a former top official
with the Port Authority
of New York and New
Jersey Police Department
(PAPD) was chosen to

Popular Science head the newly renamed

Department of Public The newest members of the Department of Public Safety received their certificates

One of New York’s Finest (above) does a double-take
after spotting a “blood-soaked body” dumped on his beat
in Washington Square Park June 14. The “body” was a
training mannequin that was part of The CSI Experience,
a popular feature of the World Science Festival Street
Fair that was run by forensic science faculty members
and students from John Jay, including Peter Diaczuk
(left), training director for the Center for Modern Forensic
Practice. Visitors to the hands-on exhibit could evaluate
a crime scene, identify trace evidence, compare ballistic
evidence, collect fingerprints and learn about DNA analysis.
Professor Linda Chiu Rourke served as team leader, working
with colleagues and student volunteers to assemble the
exhibit in just over a week.
Safety at John Jay.Trucillo’s recently upon completing 80 hours of basic training.
long career with the
PAPD included overseeing security operations
at Newark International Airport and the Port
Authority Bus Terminal, as well as commanding
the department’s internal affairs unit. He retired
from the agency as its highest-ranking uniformed
executive, Chief of Department.
One of the first official acts for Trucillo,
who holds a master’s degree in criminal justice
from Rutgers University, was to preside over a
graduation ceremony for the first class of officers
to be hired and trained under the renamed
department. The 11 new public safety officers
completed an 80-hour course of instruction prior
to being deployed on campus.
Money matters
The task of managing a broad array of
financial matters will now be in the hands of
Gerald Garvey, who began work as John Jay’s
new Bursar on July 20.
Garvey, a certified public accountant with 25
years of public accounting experience, recently

John Jay Says ‘Bravo!’ to Employees
Building on the rousing success of its
inaugural effort in 2008, the second annual
Bravo! Employee Summer Institute was held
July 1-2, once again earning rave reviews from
the hundreds of John Jay employees who took
part in professional and personal development
workshops, social networking opportunities and
entertainment offerings.
Organized and presented by the Department
of Human Resources, the Summer Institute this
year included the presentation of the John Jay
Employee of the Year Award to Kathy Killoran of
the Office of Undergraduate Studies.
The presentation of the Employee of the Year
honor was conducted by Provost and Senior Vice
President Jane Bowers, who spoke glowingly of
Killoran’s 19 years with John Jay, the last three
of which have been as Academic Director of
Undergraduate Studies.
In accepting the award, Killoran praised the
energy, collegiality and friendliness of her John
Jay co-workers. From the very start, she said, she
has gotten “great satisfaction in improving the
educational experience for our students.”
The Summer Institute, subtitled “Excellence
in Customer Service: How Do We Get There?”
featured dozens of small-group sessions led by
in-house experts as well as outside specialists.
Participants could learn how to manage their
money and their time, deal with difficult co-
workers or customers, improve their public-
speaking technique, learn the art of forensic
sketching, or run various computer programs or
Kathy Killoran of the Office of Undergraduate Studies (photo left) offers reflections and thanks after winning the 2009
Outstanding Employee of the Year Award. Divisional winners of the Bravo! Employee Recognition Awards were joined by
President Travis and the College’s vice presidents as they were honored at a June 18 breakfast ceremony (photo right).
electronic devices.
Each day included a complimentary
continental breakfast and lunch. The first day’s
luncheon featured the Soft Rock Café, with an
acoustic musical performance by Peter Dodenhoff
of the Office of Marketing and Development and
Senior Vice President Robert Pignatello.
Making things happen
Two weeks prior to the Summer Institute,
18 John Jay employees who have gone the
extra mile with creative problem-solving and
superior customer service were honored as the
latest divisional winners of the Bravo! Employee
Recognition Awards.
“The College is in a stronger position than it
was at the beginning of the year,” said Pignatello
assisted the College in a review of bursar
operations. He brings to the bursar’s position a
strong background in financial management,
best practices in financial accounting, and
establishing and maintaining strong internal
controls.
“He is the ideal candidate to lead the Bursar’s
Office through the implementation of the CUNY
First system and will become an integral part of
improved student services,” said Patricia Ketterer,
the Executive Director of Finance and Business
Services.
One sharp ’raiser
James Sheridan also joined the John Jay
community on July 20, as the new Director of
Development.
Sheridan, who holds an MBA in marketing
and accounting from Fordham University,
comes to John Jay from the Institute of Student
at the breakfast ceremony on June 18. “You
Achievement, a nonprofit organization that
made it happen.”
helps public high schools improve student
The newest Bravo! honorees, who were intro-
performance. As director of development there,
duced by their respective vice presidents, are:
he increased fund-raised income by 50 percent
Meilisa Arlt (Facilities Management), Johanna
in three years and secured a number of major
Carlin (Theater), Sherry Gibson (Information
gifts from corporate benefactors. Previously, he
Technology), Stacey Grant (Health Office), Jerylle
served as director of corporate and governmental
Kemp (Alumni Relations), Leanne Mehno (Coun-
seling), Alexander Pizarro (Registrar), Nicole Rios
relations at the International Longevity Center, an
affiliate of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
(One-Stop Center), Felice Shoot (Counseling),
“In both development positions he has held,
Marina Shturmina (Institutional Research), Jessica
James has built the organization’s fund-raising
Usera (Health Office), Tomas Vallejo (Mailroom),
program while mobilizing support for the
Richard Van Patten (Media Services), Doreen
organization among board members, donors and
Viñas (Public Relations), Cherryanne Ward (Spon-
other external constituents. These are precisely
sored Programs), Nika Whitehead (Fire Science
the skills John Jay needs as we build our private
Institute), Fay Williams (Graduate Admissions)
fund-raising capability,” said Vice President for
and Nakisha Williams (Institutional Research).
Marketing and Development Vivien Hoexter.

FACULTY / STAFF NOTES

PRESENTING…
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) delivered a talk on
“How Addicts Can Develop Character” to
patients at the Addiction Institute of New York
at Roosevelt Hospital on July 20. She addressed
the importance of integrating aspects of critical
thinking as a means of positive reintegration into
society after drug treatment.
ANN A. HUSE (English) presented a talk on
“Monmouth County Sites in Philip Freneau’s
Poetry” to the Atlantic Highlands Historical
Society in New Jersey on May 20.
HOWARD PFLANZER (Communication and
Theatre Arts) presented a lecture with video clips,
“Jerzy Grotowski, Judith Malina and The Living
Theatre and Alternative Theatre in the U.S.”
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under the auspices of The Theatre of the 8th Day
as part of the Malta International Theatre Festival
in Poznan, Poland, on June 25.
ELLEN SCRIVNER (John Jay Leadership
Academy) moderated a panel on “Information
Sharing Across Federal, State and Local Levels” at
Attorney General Eric Holder’s Law Enforcement
Summit in Washington, DC, on April 20.
LORIE NICHOLAS (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) delivered a
presentation on prisoner re-entry at the “Safe in
Our Brothers’ Arms”: Black Male Mental Health
and Wellness Symposium held at John Jay on
May 1. The event was hosted by the New York
Association of Black Psychologists.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) published an
article, “The Origins of Postbellum Lynching:
Collective Violence in Reconstruction Louisiana,”
in the Spring 2009 issue of the journal Louisiana
History.
ANDREW MAJESKE (English) had his new
book Justice, Women, and Power in English
Renaissance Drama published in June by Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press. The edited collection
includes Majeske’s essay “Striking a Deal: Portia’s
Trial Strategy in Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Effects of mRNA structure and initiation factors.”
Venice.’” The research, funded by the NSF’s Division of
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Genes and
NIVEDITA MAJUMDAR (English) had her Genome Systems, is aimed at increasing the
edited book The Other Side of Terror: Writings understanding of viral infections and how they
on Terrorism in South Asia published by Oxford affect protein synthesis, potentially leading to
University Press earlier this year. new anti-viral approaches.
PEER REVIEW PAUL BRENNER (Media Services) has been
DAVID GREEN (Sociology) attended the British elected a member of the Online Film Critics
Society of Criminology conference in Cardiff, Society.
Wales, in late June, where he received the
society’s 2009 Book Prize for When Children Kill
Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture.
JANE KATZ (Health and Physical Education)
recently competed with the USA Masters Swim
Team at the 18th World Maccabiah Games
in Israel, where she won 10 first-place gold
medals and three silver medals. Katz, who has
participated in the Maccabiah Games since
1957, had the opportunity to meet Olympic gold
medalist Jason Lezak (see photo, right), who lit
the torch at Ramat Gan Stadium to open the
Maccabiah Games.
DIANA FRIEDLAND (Sciences) was awarded
a three-year, $415,665 National Science
Foundation research grant for her proposal
“Pokeweed Antiviral Protein selection of mRNA;

educating for justice

@John Jay
Worth Noting
May 15 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
5th Annual Forensic Psychology
MA Student Research
Conference
For more information, visit http://sites.
google.com/a/jjay.cuny.edu/msrg/
Room 630, Haaren Hall
May 21 & 22 8:15 AM - 5:00 PM
4th Annual National
Conference: Men & Women
Coming Together to Stand Up
and Speak Out to End Violence
Against Women
For more information, visit
www.acalltomen.org, or email Jessica
Greenfield, jgreenfield@jjay.cuny.edu
Various locations, Haaren Hall
May 26 5:00 PM
Commencement
Awards Ceremony
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
May 27 6:00 PM
Honorary Degree
Recipients’ Dinner
Office of the President
May 27 7:00 PM -11:00 PM
3rd Annual Night of the Stars:
A Celebration to Honor
the Graduating Class of 2009
(Event limited to members of
the graduating class.)
6th Floor, Haaren Hall
May 28 10:30 AM & 3:00 PM
2009 Commencement
Ceremonies
The Theater at Madison Square Garden
Students Learn About Service from
Those Who Have Been There, Done That
Speaker after speaker at an April 23 awards
luncheon urged a spirited group of John Jay
students and visitors from Roosevelt High School
in Yonkers to discover their purpose and to
focus on “perseverance, goals and outcomes” in
making their mark on society.
The Service Learning and Civic Engagement
Awards Luncheon was co-sponsored by the John
Jay African-American Studies Department, the
Black Male Initiative and the Connecting Class-
room to Community program. Before joining
John Jay students and faculty for lunch, the 40
high school students spent the day getting a
firsthand look at what John Jay had to offer,
including a CSI-type demonstration courtesy of
the forensic science faculty.
“Each of you has a purpose,” said Profes-
sor Kwando Kinshasa of the African-American
Studies Department. “It’s up to you to find it out
through investigation and experience, and then
use it to make a major change in this world.”
Basil Smikle Jr., a political consultant and for-
mer top aide to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton,
offered an interactive keynote talk in which he
stressed the importance of perseverance. “I want
to help you get to a place where you can walk in
the door and get whatever you want… . People
may tell you it’s not your time or your place, but
there should be nothing stopping you.”
In a closing “pay it forward” admonition,
Smikle reminded the students, “As you go out
News and Events of Interest
to the College Community
May 13, 2009
All Aboard at the Jay Stop
New Student-Centered Web
Presence Makes Its Debut
There’s a new place on campus for John Jay students to hang out: the Jay Stop, a
new component of the College Web site that offers a broad range of features geared
specifically to student interests and information needs.
The Jay Stop was unveiled on May 11 in what developers described as a “soft launch”
— the core of the new site and many of its features made their debut, with more ex-
pected to roll out in the weeks ahead. Among the features are RSS feeds from the John
Jay calendar, links to TV, radio and news outlets on campus, a section on personal money
management, “Learning Essentials,” and “My JJay,” a controlled-access feature allowing
students to track their course schedules, transcripts, bursar information and more.
“The goal of the Jay Stop is to build community among the students through the use
of technology,” said Vice President for Student Development Berenecea Johnson Eanes.
“Student Council President Shaheen Wallace, as part his election platform, made a
commitment to more efficient communications with students. Through the efforts of the
Department of Information Technology and the staff of the Office of Student Activities,
such a means has been created, and we look forward to seeing how this tool can be
developed to service our students even more.”
Ana Giron of the Department of Information Technology (DoIT), the architect and
designer of the Jay Stop, credited students with much of the impetus for the new site,
including the name itself. As the site evolved over a two-month period, various features
were tested and modified through the use of student focus groups. “We went into
the focus groups with certain assumptions, and were surprised by some of what we
learned,” said Giron. The students, she said, felt they were lacking basic information
about their school, as well as a sense of community.
The new site will include a self-managed section for the John Jay student government
and a provision for user feedback. Developers also hope to be able to create the means
for students to upload their own content to the video section of the Jay Stop. There will
also be a “Who’s Who” feature, an “Of Interest Around Campus” section and a page
simply titled “Free Stuff” — a rundown of no-charge things to enjoy on campus. Poten- The home page of the new Jay Stop, where John Jay students can find a wealth
tial students can also visit the site to get a sense of what campus life at John Jay is like. of information and interactive features geared to their needs and interests.
Oyez! Oyez! Oh Yes!
John Jay Students Have their Day in Court
at CUNY-wide Moot Court Competition
John Jay students had their day in court on the Moot Court Competition. philosophy in coaching is to work them so hard
April 9 and made the most of the opportunity, “How spectacular!” said President Jeremy in practice that the competition seems a breeze.”
sweeping first through fourth places in the Travis. “This is a great tribute to our students, In addition to Wade, John Jay’s other award-
annual CUNY-wide Moot Court Competition held and to our nascent pre-law program. And thanks winning moot court competitors were senior
at Fordham University Law School. to our coaches for doing a great job.” Najah Gall, who took second place, sophomore
The four medal-winning students were part of “First place I can take no credit for,” said Tricia Lewis, who finished third, and senior
a field of 15 — eight of them from John Jay — in Professor Martin Wallenstein, Chair of the Beruryah Batyehudah, who finished fourth.
Department of Communication and Theatre Arts, “Tricia Lewis really worked and really came
who was one of the coaches. Referring to Ryan
Wade, who won the competition for the second
through,” Wallenstein noted. “She worked her
way into the medals.”
consecutive year, Wallenstein said, “He knows
more law than most of the attorneys here.”
The competition was done “blind,” meaning
that the judge — former Manhattan prosecutor
Wallenstein was assisted in the coaching Anne B. Rudman, who is now an attorney in
efforts by Rosemarie Maldonado, Counsel to the private practice — had no idea what school the
President; Sylvia Montalban, Assistant Counsel; students represented until the competition and
and Michael Liddie, Deputy Labor Designee. the judging were completed.
“It was a lot of work,” Wallenstein said. “I’m proud of our students,” said Wallenstein.
“These students really had to push themselves.” “They won because our classes at John Jay gave
The students had just a month to prepare. “It them a great background and because they
was fast and intense,” said Wallenstein. “My prepared very well.”
From left: Basil Smikle Jr., Professor Lori Martin, director of
the Connecting Classroom to Community program, Victoria
Oyaniran, and Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright.
and start demanding your place in this world,
remember that there are other folks you can lend
a helping hand to.”
Five John Jay students were presented with
Excellence in Academic Writing awards: Kirill
Yemelyantsev, Bryant Duell, JaJa Grays, Amy
Diallo and Shanelle McIntosh.
New York State Assemblyman Keith L. T.
Wright made a special appearance at the
luncheon to present the service award that bears
his name. “There’s no greater calling than service
learning and civic engagement,” said Wright,
who has represented Harlem in the Assembly
since1992. He presented the Keith L. T. Wright
Service to Victoria Oyaniran, a student in the John Jay students have plenty of reasons to smile after trouncing the competition in the annual CUNY-wide Moot Court
Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achieve- Competition. From left, first-place finisher Ryan Wade, Najah Gall (2nd place), moot court judge Anne B. Rudman, Beruryah
Batyehudah (4th place) and Tricia Lewis (3rd place).
ment Program.
As the World Watches, John Jay
Students Shine at U.N. Event
For the fifth consecutive year, a delegation of
John Jay students captured a top honor at the
National Model U.N. (NMUN) Conference, held in
New York April 7-11.
The 16-member John Jay contingent, which
this year represented the African nation of
Burkina Faso at the NMUN, won an honorable
mention for overall team performance, as well
as the team’s first-ever award for outstanding
position paper.
“As you can imagine, we are all extremely
pleased with this outcome,” said a proud
Professor George Andreopoulos of the
government department, who is director of the
John Jay Center on International Human Rights
and an advisor to the team. “Being part of this
team is entirely voluntary and takes hours of
hard work and determination to carefully and
accurately manage being a delegate, while being
a full-time student and, for some, a full-time
employee as well.”
The team served as delegates on seven
different U.N. committees and as an independent
advisory justice and clerk on the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In
preparation for the conference, the students
conducted extensive research on the national,
regional and international policies of Burkina
Faso on topics ranging from the situation in
Israel/Palestine and the rights of children in
armed conflict to climate-change economics and
regional trade and integration, in addition to
the applicable law for the two cases before the
Rwanda tribunal.
The 2009 team, chosen from a pool of
roughly 50 applicants after a rigorous screening
process, included Patrick Scullin, Rennae Francis,
Gabriele C. Ursitti, Mark Benjamin, Eva Helena
Hernik, Stephanie Valarezo, Norhan Basuni, Mike
Rodriguez, Beyi Polanco, Ama-Mariya Ampah,
Geeta Gangadeen, Peter J. Cella, Marie-Andree
Barthelemy, David Sabatelle, Jennifer Shim and
Natalia Lysetska. Matt Zommer, a lecturer in
the government department, assisted by his
department colleagues Jacques Fomerand and
Andreopoulos, coached them. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE? Playwright and actor Sean Christopher Lewis stalks the
stage of the Gerald W. Lynch Theater during the New York premiere of his one-man play Killadelphia: Mixtape for a City on
The NMUN Conference is recognized as one of April 29. The play, which weaves together the story of murdered teaching fellow Beau Zabel (on screen) with interviews of
the largest, international collegiate competitions inmates at Graterford Prison, was preceded by a panel discussion featuring the playwright along with Professors P.J. Gibson
in the world, attended by more than 3,000 and Peter Moskos, and Robyn Buseman of the Restorative Justice Program run by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Project.
students from 29 countries.

Kudos for Triple-Threat Faculty

Members of the John Jay faculty were honored
at an April 23 reception for their outstanding
efforts in teaching, scholarship and service to
students — “the three legs of the proverbial
three-legged stool,” according to President
Jeremy Travis.
New to the list of faculty honors this year
was a Distinguished Teaching Prize, established
by the office of Provost Jane Bowers and
overseen by the advisory board of the Center
for the Advancement of Teaching. Three faculty
members were chosen for the initial prizes.
Nathan Lents of the Department of Sciences was
nominated by his colleague Anthony Carpi. Jillian
Grose-Fifer of the Department of Philosophy and
Dara Byrne of the Department of Communication
and Theatre Arts, both of whom teach in the
Freshman Learning Communities program, were
nominated by students.
The award for Faculty Service to Students,
which recognizes mentoring, advisement and
involvement in student activities, was presented
to Carpi, one of the creators of the Program for
Research Initiatives for Science Majors (PRISM).
He was nominated by his department chair,
Professor Lawrence Kobilinsky.
Awards for faculty scholarship included the
Donal E. J. MacNamara Junior Faculty Award,
which is presented annually to an instructor or
assistant professor. The 2009 recipient was Amy
Adamczyk of the Department of Sociology, a
specialist in religious contextual influences on
delinquency and cross-national differences in
attitudes about crime and deviance.
Scholarly excellence awards were presented to
Amy Adamczyk, Lisa Farrington (Art and Music),
Bilal Khan (Mathematics and Computer Science),
Margaret Bull Kovera (Psychology), Susan COURT IS NOW IN SESSION: History’s most notorious betrayer, Judas Iscariot (kneel-
ing), is in the spotlight during a tense courtroom scene in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, which was staged at John Jay April
Opotow (Sociology), Hung-En Sung (Criminal 21-25 under the direction of Professor Dana Tarantino. As an accompaniment to the play, the Department of Communication
Justice) and Philip Yanos (Psychology). and Theatre Arts presented a guest lecture “Judas on Trial: Theatre and Theology,” by the Rev. James Martin, S.J.

FACULTY / STAFF NOTES

PRESENTING
BENJAMIN LAPIDUS (Music and Art)
performed his recent work Herencia Judía on
March 29 at the Eldridge Street Museum in
Manhattan. On April 4, he performed with his
Latin jazz band Sonido Isleño at the Bronx Library
Center.
ELLEN BELCHER (Library) was a panelist
on the Feminist Archaeologist Panel at the
Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center
for Feminist Art on March 14. The panel was
presented in conjunction with the Fertile
Goddess in the Herstory Gallery, an exhibit that
runs through May 31, for which Belcher was a
consultant.
PETER MOSKOS (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) spoke on the
Baltimore Ghetto at the Yale University Urban
Ethnography Project Mini-Conference, “The
Urban Ghetto: Then and Now,” during the
Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting in
Baltimore, MD, on March 20.
BETTINA CARBONELL (English) presented
a paper on “Bearing Witness in Twenty-First
Century Museum Practice“ at the Curating
Difficult Knowledge conference held April 16-18
at Concordia University in Montreal.
M. VICTORIA PÉREZ-RÍOS (Government)
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presented “Back to the Future: Accountability
for Past Abuses in Consolidated Democracies“ at
the New York State Political Science Association
Conference, which took place at John Jay on
April 24-25. She also chaired the panel on
Current Issues of International Relations
MARTIN WALLENSTEIN (Communication
and Theatre Arts) presented two papers
at the centennial meeting of the Eastern
Communication Association (ECA) from April
22-26 in Philadelphia. The first, titled “Freedom
of Speech 1909-1919: The Dark Decade,” was
an invited paper. The second, “The Big Chill: First
Amendment and the War on Terror,” was peer-
reviewed and received an award as Top Paper
in Communication Law and Ethics. Wallenstein
was also elected chairperson of the ECA
Communication Law and Ethics Interest Group.
JOHN STAINES (English) gave a paper on
“Violence and Generic Experiment in Thomas
Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller” at the
meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
in Los Angeles on March 21. He also attended
the Shakespeare Society of America conference
in Washington, DC, where on April 11 he
presented a paper on religious controversial prose
of the 1590s, “Comic Violence” and “Martin’s
Reforming Word in the Marprelate Tracts.”
HOWARD PFLANZER (Communication and
Theatre Arts) had a staged reading of his play
Living with History: Camus Sartre De Beauvoir
presented May 5 and 6 at the Medicine Show
Theatre in Manhattan.
STEPHEN HANDELMAN (Center on Media,
Crime and Justice) delivered a talk on “How do
Organized Criminals Hijack State Activities?” at
a special seminar on organized crime and
corruption hosted by the RAND Corporation in
Arlington, VA, on May 1.
ADINA SCHWARTZ (Law, Police Science
and Criminal Justice Administration) made
a Continuing Legal Education presentation,
“Biting the Bullet: Challenging Firearms
Evidence,” as part of the Fifth Annual Indigent
Criminal Defense Seminar: Advanced Skills for
the Experienced Practitioner, sponsored by the
Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia State
Bar, in Richmond, VA, on April 3.
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) recently spoke to a
group of female inmates who are enrolled in the
Going Out by Going In prisoner reentry program
at the Century Regional Detention Facility in
Los Angeles. In addition, she spoke to 35 at-
risk youth in the Vital Intervention Directional
Alternative program at the Lennox Station
campus in Watts.
DELORES JONES-BROWN (Law, Police Science
and Criminal Justice Administration) served on
a panel titled “Prosecutorial Discretion: From
Mistake to Misconduct,” sponsored by the
Diversity Committee of the New Jersey State Bar
Association. Other invited talks include “Police
Brutality: In the 10 Years Since the Death of
Amadou Diallo” for the Women’s City Club of
New York, and a presentation at the Russell
Sage Foundation for the Consortium for Police
Leadership in Equity.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
DAVID KENNEDY (Anthropology) has had
his article “Drugs, Race and Common Ground:
Reflections on the High Point Intervention“
published in the March 2009 issue of NIJ Journal,
a publication of the National Institute of Justice.
KATHLEEN COLLINS (Library) had her new
book, Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of
Television Cooking Shows published this month
by Continuum.
DIANA E. FRIEDLAND (Sciences) has published
a manuscript in the February 2009 issue of
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Genes and
Regulatory Mechanisms. The title of the paper is
“Characterization of pokeweed antiviral protein
binding to mRNA cap analogs: Competition with
nucleotides and enhancement by translation
initiation factor iso4G.” Friedland presented this
work with student researchers from John Jay and
Pace University.
ANDREW KARMEN (Sociology) had the
seventh edition of his book Crime Victims: An
Introduction To Victimology, published recently
by Wadsworth/Cengage. The original edition,
published in 1984, was the first and only
comprehensive textbook in the victimology field
at that time.
PEER REVIEW
ROBERT MCCRIE (Protection Management)
received the Eugene R. Fink Memorial Award
from the Associated Licensed Detectives of
the State of New York at the group’s annual
banquet in New York.
ISABELLE CURRO (Security) received one of the
New York State Bar Association’s President’s Pro
Bono Service Awards on May 1, in recognition of
her work in promoting pro bono service as a path
to achieving equal access to justice.
JANE KATZ (Health and Physical Education)
competed in the recent Albatross Open masters’
swim meet held in North Bethesda, MD, by the
Montgomery Ancient Swimmers. She won the
50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke
events, setting a new meet record in the 100-
meter race.
RODDRICK COLVIN (Public Management) was
recently elected as the incoming President of the
New York State Political Science Association.

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to the College Community
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.

educating for justice

@John Jay
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.

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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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Worth Noting
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.
RSVP to jdoyle@jjay.cuny.edu.
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
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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.