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May 17, 2011

Spotlight Set to Shine on the Class of 2011

At the 2011 Commencement, John Jay will salute a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, a pioneering jurist and a women’s rights advocate with honorary doctorates.

Tony Kushner is the author of Angels in America, a two-part, seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era America that earned him the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama along with a Tony Award and Emmy Award.

Kushner’s newest work, An Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, opened off-Broadway in New York on May 6.

The Hon. Judith S. Kaye, who retired in 2008 after 15 years as Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, was the first woman to occupy the state judiciary’s highest office, and served during the administrations of four New York governors — the longest tenure of any chief judge in state history.

During her tenure, Kaye helped to establish the Center for Court Innovation, an independent nonprofit think tank that serves as the judiciary’s research and development arm. She has been a long-time advocate of court reform and problem-solving approaches to jurisprudence. In March 2008, Kaye became the first recipient of the John Jay Medal for Justice.

As the founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Lynn Paltrow has worked to secure the health, welfare and civil rights of all women. She has been a senior staff member at a number of

leading reproductive rights organizations, including the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and Planned Parenthood of New York City.

Paltrow combines legal advocacy with organizing and policy work to secure the rights, health and welfare of all women, particularly those who are most vulnerable — low-income women, women of color and drug-using women. She filed the first federal civil rights challenge to a hospital’s policy of searching pregnant women for evidence of drug use and then turning that information over to the police. The United States Supreme Court agreed that such a policy violates the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

More than 3,100 John Jay students will inaugurate a new venue for graduation on June 3, as the College moves its 46th annual Commencement ceremony to the Jacob Javits Convention Center North for the first time.

The Class of 2011, comprising 2,497 undergraduate and 617 graduate students, will bid farewell to John Jay in two ceremonies differentiated by major, one at 10:30 AM and the other at 3:30 PM.

“It is hard to believe, but we are rapidly approaching the end of the school year and the

celebrations that mark the awarding of degrees to our students,” said President Jeremy Travis. “For my part, I look forward to this festive celebration and to shaking the hands of each of our graduates as they walk across the stage of the Javits Center North.”

The graduating class consists of approximately 62.4 percent female and 37.6 percent male students. According to statistics provided by the Registrar’s Office, 26.9 percent are white, 22.1 percent are black, 29.5 percent are Latino and 6.8 percent are Asian/Pacific Islander. They range in

age from 19 to 61 years old.The top two students in the class — the

valedictorian and salutatorian — are both graduating with perfect 4.0 grade point averages. Profiles of Konrad Ornatowski and David M. Marshall IV appear below,

The College will also present honorary doctorates to three leading figures in humanities and the law: playwright Tony Kushner, former New York State Chief Judge Judith Kaye and women’s rights advocate Lynn Paltrow. (See profiles below.)

Pre-Commencement activities will include a

For Konrad Ornatowski, earning the designation as the Class of 2011 valedictorian is the latest in a string of honors — and yet another strong piece of evidence attesting to the triumphal power of dedication, effort and resiliency.

Ornatowski, a 27-year-old Forensic Science major with a perfect 4.0 GPA, immigrated to the United States from Warsaw, Poland, at age 7, settling in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. At

age 15, Ornatowski was on his own, following the deaths of both parents — his mother when he was 10, and his father five years later. Self-sufficiency was a lesson he had to learn quickly. “I knew that education would be my rescue,” he said.

Ornatowski planned to follow a conventional path from high school straight to college, but the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center intervened. “We watched the whole thing from

2011 doctoral honorees (clockwise from upper left) Lynn Paltrow, Judith Kaye and Tony Kushner.

The road of life can be filled with interesting and unforeseen detours. The 2011 salutatorian, David M. Marshall IV, appreciates the truth of that.

Marshall began his college career in 1993 fresh from high school, but soon left to escape from what he described as an environment marked by homophobic bullying. He was in the midst of a career as a flight attendant when two people he knew were killed on 9/11, prompting the realization that life is too short. He decided to restart his college career, this time at John Jay, where he has since compiled a perfect 4.0 GPA while majoring in culture and deviance studies, with double minors in psychology and gender studies.

“Coming back to college as an adult, you appreciate things in a totally different way,” said Marshall, now 35. “Your perspective is totally different.” The path to his bachelor’s degree has been a voyage of discovery for Marshall. He has worked on a variety of research projects, with

Departmental Awards ceremony on May 18, a college-wide Graduation Awards ceremony and reception on June 1 and the Night of the Stars dinner/dance on June 2. A harbor cruise for graduating seniors, including DJ and buffet, will take place on May 26. For more information about these and other graduation events, contact the Office of Student Development at 646.557.4888, or e-mail [email protected].

For complete information, visit the Commencement page on the John Jay website, www.jjay.cuny.edu.

What It Takes to Be #1 and #2 in the Class

Doctoral Honorees Hailedfor Art, Advocacy & Justice

‘I knew education would be my rescue’ the windows of our school,” he said, recalling his senior year at Murry Bergtraum High School in lower Manhattan. Like many of his generation, he heeded a patriotic call and enlisted in the armed forces.

During his four years with the Marine Corps, Ornatowski served in a variety of elite roles, including the Presidential honor guard and the Force Recon special operations unit, among other assignments. In 2006, following the end of his commitment, getting a college education once again became his priority.

“I enrolled in the forensic science program at John Jay in the hope of further developing my love and curiosity for the sciences,” he explained. Focusing on molecular biology, he became a member of the lab group led by Professor Diana

Friedland, and lost a valued mentor with Friedland’s death last year from cancer. “She was very influential and always cared about her students,” he said.

Ornatowski said maintaining a perfect grade point average was something of a challenge. “Sometimes I wish the 4.0 had gone away a long time ago, just to take the weight off me,” he said. “But it didn’t, so after a while keeping it became more and more important.”

Next on the agenda for Ornatowski is giving back to his wife and infant daughter. “Right now I need to get a job to support my family,” he said. “My time at John Jay has been extremely positive, and this program has unquestionably prepared me for the employment aspirations I have with the federal government.”

‘As an adult, your perspective is different’

Ornatowski

Marshall

many of them opening doors to new areas of scholarly interest and new faculty contacts, including a study of underage sex workers in Atlantic City with Professor Ric Curtis, a study of methamphetamine markets in New York City with Professor Travis Wendel and, since completing his degree in December 2010, a six-week study of social networks in Labrador, Canada, with Professor Kirk Dombrowski.

Wendel has since asked Marshall to be project coordinator for federally-funded HIV behavioral study in New York.

“I love research and I love fieldwork,” Marshall said of his broad-ranging scholarly interests. “It’s not something I thought I would like, but I just love it.” And while he gives much of the credit for academic mentoring to Dombrowski, Curtis and Wendel, he is also quick to cite the support provided by his mother and partner. “It may sound cliché,” he says, “but I wouldn’t be where I am without them.”

He’ll AlwAys HAve PAris — Student Council President JosePH onwu is a fan of Benjamin Franklin, quoting the Founding Father in an online profile. In June, Onwu will follow in Franklin’s footsteps and head to Paris for a five-

week Humanity International Fel-lowship, followed by an extended community-service internship.

Onwu, a native of Nigeria who grew up in the Bronx, is graduating with a B.S. in Political

Science, with triple minors in History, English and Philosophy. His glittering academic résumé at John Jay includes membership in national honor societ-ies and a 3.66 GPA. He was the 2010 winner of the Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship.

Now, with graduation upon him, he’s ready to give back to his school, and is encouraging his fellow graduates to join him. Along with other Stu-dent Council leaders, Onwu launched the Legacy 2011 project, through which the members of the Class of 2011 are being asked to give generously to John Jay as they make their transition from students to alumni. “When I was running for Presi-dent, I promised to push for community outreach and involvement,” he said. “The Legacy 2011 project is part of fulfilling that promise.”

The next big academic step for Onwu will be law school. In time, he said, he hopes to have a future as a lawmaker in Nigeria.

notHing to sneeze At — To say that John Jay senior DAviD geliebter is a person of varied interests would be an understatement. The 21-year-old Honors Program student and Forensic Science major could not have come up with two more different top-ics for his forensic science research project and his Honors thesis.

Geliebter’s research project took him to Texas last summer to examine pollen. “Just like everyone has their own fingerprints, every region has its own pollen count,” he said. Finding a certain ratio of pollen grains on a spe-cific individual, Geliebter explained, could help law enforcement determine where a person was killed or where a terrorist had been trained. “You’re try-ing to match up that body with a specific location.”

Geliebter will next be attending the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, NY, on an scholarship that will cover his tuition and provide a stipend in exchange for some teaching and research. His goal is to obtain a doc-torate in ecology from ESF.

For his Honors thesis, Geliebter turned away from forensic science to examine why rap music seems to be criticized more harshly for its violent lyrics than other genres of music such as heavy metal. He asked students to listen to equally vio-lent lyrics from both types of music, and found that rap got a bad rap because its lyrics were easier to understand. “People who heard rap recalled lyrics much better and they picked up on the themes,” said Geliebter. “People who listened to heavy metal are just horrendous at recalling lyrics.”

eyewitness to History — norHAn bAsuni, a CUNY BA student majoring in Conflict Resolution and International Crime, Justice and Development, minces no words in her online

profile, describing herself as a “student, activist, community organizer and revolu-tionary.”

When protests began in Cairo’s Tah-rir Square in January, Basuni was there to rally against Egypt’s authoritarian regime and watch history

unfold. “I’ll never forget the sense of solidarity and unity among my fellow Egyptians and how they expressed their desire for freedom and democ-racy,” she said.

Basuni, who has been selected as this year’s winner of the College’s Howard Mann Humanitar-ian Award, is a self-described “interdisciplinary student living an interdisciplinary life.” She is a Scholar/Athlete who plays on John Jay’s women’s soccer team and a former president of the Col-lege’s award-winning National Model United Na-tions Team. She served on the working group that help develop and launch the spring 2011 initiative “Mosques, Veils and Madrassas,” a series of cam-pus events aimed at enhancing the understanding of Islam.

On tap for Basuni is another return to Egypt, where she plans to work with a nonprofit orga-nization helping Sudanese and Iraqi refugees. She has applied for a position with the U.S. State Department, and later on plans to attend gradu-ate school, “hopefully in a joint JD/PhD program where I can study immigration law and human rights law,” she said.

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reforM-MinDeD — JuliA szenDro, a senior in the CUNY BA program at John Jay, is holding off on plans for graduate school. The first item on her agenda, after having won a prestigious Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, will be to return to her native Hungary in September for research in the area of youth who are at risk of homelessness or criminal activity.

Szendro, who has majored in Criminal and Social Reform under the mentorship of John Jay Professor Staci Strobl, is no stranger to so-

cially conscious activism. While in high school, she traveled to New Orleans to participate in the demolition and res-toration of homes damaged by Hur-ricane Katrina. She spent the summer between high school and college

in Nicaragua, building a house as part of a cultural exchange program.

“Nicaragua was an eye-opening experience,” said Szendro. “It was confidence-boosting and inspiring. I’ve always had a strong feeling for people who are being taken advantage of, and a strong interest in the justice system.” In January, she organized and led another trip to Nicaragua as part of the research for her senior thesis.

Szendro already has a solid background in prisoner reentry efforts and alternatives to incar-

MAPPing tHe future — Celinet DurAn has her educational future all mapped out. First, the Justice Studies major will get her master’s de-gree from Michigan State University, and then she will return to John Jay for her doctorate. She will be on full scholarship for both programs.

“I just feel really lucky because I get to stay and work on the project I have been working on with Dr. [Joshua] Freilich and continue my interest in domestic terrorism,” said Duran. “And it’s a com-pletely free education!”

Duran, a McNair Scholar with a 3.7 GPA, de-scribed her work with Freilich as “a cross compari-son of extremist groups that operate both in and out of prison,” specifically the far-right and the black separatist groups. Her senior thesis explores the paradox of punishment and how it directly relates to prison radicalization of extremist groups as well as groups such as the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan. “Instead of reflecting on what they’ve done, they are learning new motives to commit more crimes in the future,” she said.

go west, young MAn — All prospective law school students should have the problems of tyler gArvey, a Justice Studies major who has been accepted to Cornell Law School, the Univer-sity of Texas School of Law and UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, which offered him a full ride.

“I think that might be the place I’m going to be headed,” said the 21-year-old Student Council Vice President, who is graduating with a 3.66 GPA and will receive the Scholarship and Service Award, John Jay’s second highest graduation honor.

The 2010 winner of the prestigious Steamboat Scholarship, Garvey’s expenses at Berkeley will be covered by two scholarships that will provide a combined $49,000 a year. But that’s not the only reason Garvey is going to Berkeley. “I’m interested in family law,” he said. “Berkeley has one of the best pro bono programs in the country.”

“I can’t say for certain I want to do family law, but I’ve interned at places to see what I like, what I don’t like, and try to learn from there instead of just starting when I get to law school,” he said.

oPPortunity KnoCKs — While teach-ing criminal justice at Bronx Community College was not in MegAn MAiello’s post-graduation plans, it was the kind of opportunity that the Hon-ors student and Justice Scholar was not about to turn down. What is even more remarkable is that Maiello landed the job while still a student herself. “I got lucky because I was working there as a Criminal Justice Fellow,” she said. “It fell on my plate and I grabbed it.”

Maiello will gradu-ate in June with bach-elor’s and master’s degrees in criminal justice. The 22-year-old sports a GPA of 3.798 and is co-cap-tain of the College’s women’s swimming team.

Maiello’s plans include taking the test for the Suffolk County, NY, Police Department. Meanwhile, she’ll spend the next year teaching at BCC. “I wasn’t planning on doing that,” she said. “At the same time, I’ll be looking into a police job.”

Playing intercollegiate sports at a Division III school takes a special commitment, with no athletic scholarships available to provide motivation and support. At a commuter campus like John Jay, with the added factor of no dormitories, the necessary commitment gets taken to another level. How, then, to describe the 12 John Jay seniors who have been student athletes for four years?

“They love their sport and they love the school they represent,” said Director of Athletics Dan Palumbo. “They have given us so much over the course of four years, excelling on the field and in the classroom, even while wrestling with busy

lives, family responsibilities and more.”Six sports will say goodbye to these very special

athletes at the 2011 commencement. Said Palumbo: “We’re very proud of all our student athletes, and we as a department will always be here for them as they move on to the next phase of their lives.”

The departing four-year athletes include several who are Scholar/Athletes, having achieved GPAs of at least 3.2 on top of their athletic achievements. Two — men’s soccer goalkeeper Kemar Brown and softball catcher Christina Perez — have been Scholar/Athletes for their entire John Jay careers. Many have also posted extensive records of school

service, most notably as representatives on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.

This year’s class includes:

woMen’s Cross-Country: Anna Garlinska; Baljit (Bita) Kahlon (also softball).

woMen’s bAsKetbAll: Dominique Grice; Jessica Lirio (also softball).

volleybAll: Crystal Reyes.

Men’s soCCer: Kemar Brown; Steven Castillo; Ray Sanicola; Christian Valdez.

softbAll: Angela Lam; Christina Perez.

Men’s tennis: Dong Shao.

Saying Goodbye to Highly Dedicated Athletes

PresentAtion — José rosArio made a midlife decision to return to college to finish his education, and is he ever glad he did.

“I’ve had the most wonderful years at John Jay,” said Rosario, a Political Science major. “I was involved in many different events, orga-nizations, committees and the Student Coun-cil, and because of my participation, the John Jay community has benefited from my knowledge and maturity.”

Serving as a Peer Ambassador gave Rosario the opportunity to speak in classes to fellow students. As a SEEK student, he talked to students about how to man-age their time while in college and achieve suc-cess. “Corporations and other potential employers don’t necessarily want to know your GPA,” he said. “They want to know what you’ve achieved in col-lege, and see how you present yourself.”

Rosario manages his own busy schedule well enough to find time for extracurricular activities as well as academic excellence. “John Jay has given me more strength to achieve the highest accom-plishments in my life,” he said.

grAy MAtter — For most people, becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon would be a lofty enough aspiration, but it is just a part of what forensic sci-ence major riCHArD PiszCzAtowsKi wants to do with his life. The 21-year-old says he would also like to open his own research laboratory where he could study the “complex and ambiguous” work-ings of the brain.

Piszczatowski, who will graduate summa cum laude, is currently preparing a manuscript based on his original research into the mechanisms of blood clotting for submission to the medical jour-nal Blood. “Ultimately, I plan on getting an MD/PhD degree,” said Piszczatowski. “For the short term, I plan on taking a small amount of time off to travel to Europe and see the world while also trying to look at how hospitals and the medical field function in various countries.”

Piszczatowski has lined up an interview at Mount Sinai Medical School for an internship at its Genome Sequencing laboratory. “Hopefully, this will bring me more experience as a scientist, more exposure to the clinical world, and one step closer to admission to an MD/PhD program,” he said.

tHinK globAlly — A world view of criminal justice seems to be in Jennifer sHiM’s blood. She was raised in six states and two countries. At age 16, while on a trip to Bolivia, she discovered a crime called “human trafficking,” which sparked her interest in International Criminal Justice. When it came time to select a college, she chose John Jay and was accepted into the Honors Program.

Her college career has been similarly inter-national. She has been a member of John Jay’s United Nations Student Association for three years and helped to bring back numerous awards at the National Model United Nations conferences. Her Honors thesis, which will be published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Police and Criminal Jus-tice, focused on differences between Hindu and

Muslim honor killings in Pakistan and India.Shim also knows how to “talk the talk.” She par-

ticipated in three study-abroad programs in Spain to learn Spanish, then mastered Korean, French, Arabic and German. She has traveled to 22 coun-tries, and interned twice in Australia.

Up next for Shim? Not surprisingly, she’ll be heading overseas once again, having been accepted for graduate study in Intelligence and International Security at King’s College London, England in the fall.

ceration. “I’m also very interested in preventive work with young people and diverting them from the justice system,” she said. “The Fulbright schol-arship is an incredible opportunity to do that and continue working for social change.”

Worth Noting


April 20, 2011

April 27 Spring Break Ends — Classes ResumeCampus-wide

April 28 3:00 PMJob & Internship FairFor students and alumni. Business attire required.

Gymnasium, Haaren Hall

April 28 6:30 PMThe Hijabi MonologuesBy Sahar Ishtiaque UllahDirected by Professor Lorraine Moller

Room 1311, North Hall

May 2 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice IntensifiesThe Revolution Fantasy: Thinking Yourself into a CornerMark Rudd

Room 630, Haaren Hall

May 9–14Celebrating Student Research & Creativity @ John JayFor complete schedule of events and other information, contact Office of Honors,Awards & Special Opportunities, 212.237.8553, or visit Room 3300 North Hall

Members of John Jay’s graduating class of 2011 are working to insure that they will leave a lasting imprint on the College, and their means to that end is a campaign known as the Legacy 2011 Project.

The project, which organizers describe as unprecedented at John Jay, is asking each of the more than 2,000 members of the 2011 graduating class to donate or pledge a minimum of $1 a year for the next five years. The funds will be used to provide scholarships for struggling students and student services aimed at insuring

“a culturally and academically enriching experience for future classes,” according to a letter to the graduating class written by Student Council President Joseph Onwu, Vice President Tyler Garvey and Secretary Elizabeth Cyran.

The executives explained that the campaign is intended to cement the seniors’ legacy while embracing their new status as John Jay alumni. “The Legacy 2011 project allows us to give back in the most simple, direct and powerful way,” their letter says. “This initiative allows us to make a visible difference to those classes following in

ThoMAs J. DArTThe Sheriff of Cook County, IL, Thomas J. Dart has brought an aggressive yet innova-tive approach to law enforcement, earning national attention for a more thoughtful approach to evictions brought on by the mort-gage foreclosure crisis. Earning the enmity of banks and landlords, Dart suspended evic-tions until greater safeguards were in place to protect tenants, assigned a staff attorney to investigate potential mortgage fraud and assigned a social worker to accompany sheriff’s eviction teams in hopes of linking displaced families with social services. Dart has also targeted the sex-trafficking industry, filing a groundbreaking pro-bono lawsuit against the Web site craigslist.com in order to crack down on elusive purveyors of prosti-tution in the Greater Chicago area.

MAriAn WrighT EDElMAn /ThE ChilDrEn’s DEfEnsE funDFor 35 years a tireless champion of efforts to protect America’s children, Marian Wright Edelman founded the CDF to help lift children out of poverty, protect them from abuse and neglect, and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiri-tual foundation. Edelman has become a pas-sionate advocate for juvenile justice reform, emphasizing the “cradle to prison pipeline,” a phase describing the ways that schools and justice agencies have become overly puni-tive and funnel a high percentage of minority youth into the nation’s criminal justice sys-tem. Edelman and the CDF have focused on school discipline policies, juvenile detention and police-youth relations.

suniThA KrishnAnSunitha Krishnan is a former Hindu nun who founded and operates Prajwala (“eternal flame”), an organization that provides shel-ters, schools and other services for victims of sex trafficking in Hyderabad, India. Working inside the bleak netherworld of human slav-ery in India’s slums, and at times suffering violent retribution from sex traffickers for her work, Krishnan has helped to rescue and re-habilitate thousands of women and children in hopes of restoring them to some sem-blance of a normal life. With an estimated 3 million sex workers in India alone, and many millions more around the world, Krishnan believes it essential to “break the culture of silence” in combating what she said is the world’s third-largest organized crime.

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Justice AwardHonorees

Seniors Leave Mark With Legacy 2011 Campaign

A panel discussion on April 5 gave John Jay students and other members of the college community a chance for some candid, up-close-and-personal interaction with winners of the 2011 John Jay Justice Awards.

Honorees Sunitha Krishnan and Sheriff Thomas J. Dart fielded questions from moderator Mangai Natarajan of the criminal justice department and from the audience, and said they were excited and energized to be talking with the students. “We need your energy and your vision,” said Dart.

Both honorees are accustomed to facing problems on a grand scale — India, the world’s second most populous country, has more than 3 million sex-trade workers, while Cook County, IL, runs the second-largest jail in the United States, and is the largest mental-health provider in the state of Illinois. Nonetheless, both underscored the power of the individual to effect change. “It’s important for each of us to find ways to respond

to this problem,” said Krishnan, referring to illicit sex trafficking and human slavery. “There is no tomorrow when it comes to this problem; it has to be today.”

Being passionate about taking a stand for justice is vitally important, the honorees agreed, but awareness and perception of a problem are just as crucial. “Sex trafficking is more pervasive than you think,” said Dart, who has taken on the craigslist Web site over its links to prostitution. “Still, a lot of people don’t seem to care about this. Society’s perception has a long way to go.”

Changing the perception of society is more important, and more difficult, than dealing with the organized crime aspects, said Krishnan. She urged the many students in the audience to break the culture of silence, become more aware, and learn the law and how to use it — and change it.

“If you think about possibilities, the sky’s the limit,” she said.

Honorees Urge Students toBecome Agents of Change

Courage in the Pursuit of JusticeAwards Ceremony Salutes Three Who Dare to Make a Difference

our footsteps, and is a great demonstration of the exemplary leadership to be found in the Class of 2011.”

Organizers set up tables around campus in early April where seniors could make Legacy pledges. In addition, donations and pledges could be made on line at www.jjay.cuny.edu/legacy2011.

“This is the first such effort in the history of the College, and you should be proud to be members of a class that wishes to leave such a meaningful legacy,” President Jeremy Travis said in a letter to the Class of 2011.

The 2011 John Jay Justice Awards Ceremony held on April 5 was a celebration of individuals who “dare to make a difference,” and the honorees who were cited for global, national and community leadership in the pursuit of justice were favored with repeated ovations from a packed house at the City University Graduate Center’s Proshansky Auditorium.

Before an audience of public officials and members of the college community, the Justice Awards were presented to Sunitha Krishnan, founder and head of Prajwala, an anti-sex trafficking network in India; Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights activist and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, and Sheriff Thomas J. Dart of Cook County, IL.

“Justice is often described as truth in action. This defines our honorees tonight,” said President Jeremy Travis. “As we leave tonight we are called to action.” Travis hailed the honorees as true champions of justice, saluting their “courage, clarity of purpose and generosity of spirit.”

The awards ceremony included a roster of presenters as notable as the recipients themselves. One of the presenters, award-winning stage, screen and TV actor Len Cariou, also provided the event’s welcoming remarks. “Tonight, we celebrate individuals who dare to make a difference,” said Cariou. “They have devoted their lives to helping individuals for whom help seemed like a distant dream.”

Cariou was later called on to present the Community Leader for Justice Award to Dart. “Experience shows how much rarer moral courage is than physical bravery,” Cariou said. “Thomas Dart is one such rare man.”

The International Leader for Justice Award was

presented to Krishnan by Tina Brown, best-selling author and editor-in-chief of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, who proclaimed it “a huge honor to honor this small woman with extraordinary courage and a huge heart.”

Edelman received her National Leader for Justice Award from her long-time civil rights compatriot, singer and actor Harry Belafonte, who noted that he felt “no need for contemplation or reflection when John Jay extended an invitation to participate” in the ceremony. He and the honoree, Belafonte said, “have shared many campaigns and struggles.”

The Justice Awards affirm the commitment of

John Jay College to strengthening society’s social fabric through justice and civic engagement. These awards, named after John Jay, a founding father and first Chief Justice of the United States, recognize individuals and organizations for their unparalleled dedication to the cause of justice.

The John Jay Justice Awards are made possible through a generous donation from Richard J. Tarlow, a retired advertising executive and member of the John Jay College Foundation Board of Trustees.

[For more information on the 2011 Justice Award honorees, including video profiles, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu.]

President Jeremy Travis with (from left) presenter Tina Brown, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart, Marian Wright Edelman, presenter Harry Belafonte, Sunitha Krishnan and presenter Len Cariou.

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FACULTy/STAFF NOTES

President Jeremy Travis paid tribute to John Jay’s past, present and future in one fell swoop in a March 29 ceremony that recognized long-time members of the faculty and staff, saluted those who have earned tenure or promotion and welcomed new staff to the College.

Headlining the event were the newest members of John Jay’s “40-year Club” — four faculty members and one administrator who joined the College during the 1970-1971 academic year, when the campus was little more than the upper floors of an office building on Park Avenue South. The honorees were Vice President for Enrollment Management Richard Saulnier, Distinguished Professor of History Michael Wallace, Professor Samuel Graff (Mathematics & Computer Science), and Associate Professors Norman Olch (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) and Peter Shenkin (Mathematics & Computer Science).

Also honored for their service were:ThirTy yEArs: Paul Brenner (Audio Visual

Services); Mary Colon (Center for English Language Support); Esperanza Herrera (Political Science); Irene O’Donnell (Campus Office Services); Sandra Palleja (Admissions); Gary Zaragovitch (Marketing & Development).

TWEnTy-fivE yEArs: C. Jama Adams (African

on BoArDCAlvin r. Chin (Student Development) is the new Director of Counseling Services, succeeding MAAT EriCA lEWis, who is returning to her faculty position after three years as counseling director. Chin, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology from New york University, previously served as the Assistant Director for Outreach and Community Clinical Services at Columbia University.

PrEsEnTing. . .José luis Morín (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) presented testimony on “Puerto Ricans in the Context of their Transnational Status and the Relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States” before the American Bar Association’s Commission on Hispanic Rights and Responsibilities at New york University School of Law on March 25. On April 2, he presented a paper on “Hate Crimes against Latinas/os: Past and Present” at the 2011 Latino Law Student Conference held at New york Law School and sponsored by the New york Metropolitan Latin American Law Students Association.

JEffrEy KroEsslEr (Library) was a panelist for “The Battle for Historic Districts: Brooklyn Heights and Beyond,” sponsored by the New york Preservation Archives Project at the World Monuments Fund on February 22. At St. Francis College on March 5, he presented a case study of the designation and regulation of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District at the 17th annual preservation conference of the Historic Districts Council. At the SI 350 Conference held at the College of Staten Island March 19-20, he was a participant in a roundtable discussion on Staten Island Politics since the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, and presented a paper titled “Beyond the Bridge: Robert Moses and the Parkways on Staten Island.”

EffiE PAPATziKou CoChrAn (English) was invited to speak about forensic linguistics at a “Breakfast with TESOL’s Best” during the 45th anniversary convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), held in New Orleans, LA. Cochran also delivered a paper titled “Learning About Forensic Linguistics Helps Student Awareness of Language Crimes” as one of TESOL’s featured speakers.

Ann A. husE (English) presented a talk on “Lucy Terry Prince’s ‘Place of Resort’ and African-American Textual Transmission” as part of a panel devoted to “Common Coteries” at the Society of Early Americanists meeting in Philadelphia in March.

MAriE uMEh (English) presented a paper, “Rising Above Socio-Cultural Inhibitions: The Key to Empowering Women and Girls in Africa and America,” at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women conference on February 25.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Umeh gave the keynote address, titled “Living the Dream and Leaving a Legacy: Flora Nwapa As Activist,” at the UN’s African Union on March 7.

BETWEEn ThE CovErsgEorgE AnDrEoPoulos (Political Science), rosEMAry BArBErET (Sociology) and JAMEs P. lEvinE (Criminal Justice) have co-edited the book International Criminal Justice: Critical Perspectives and New Challenges, published by Springer. The book includes selected papers from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice International Conference in Puerto Rico in 2008, including those of faculty members Toy-fung Tung (English), MArTin WAllEnsTEin (Communication and Theatre Arts), M. viCToriA PErEz-rios (Political Science), riChArD CulP (Public Management), ChrisToPhEr WArBurTon (Economics), PAul nArKunAs (English) and Andreopoulos.

KlAus von lAMPE (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) is co-editor and co-author of the recently published Festschrift in

honor of Professor Petrus van Duyne, who retired this year from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. The title of the book, published by Maklu, is Usual and Unusual Organising Criminals in Europe and Beyond: Profitable Crimes, from Underworld to Upper World — Liber Amicorum Petrus van Duyne. Von Lampe contributed a chapter on “The Use of Models in the Study of Organised Crime,” and also presented a paper on “The Concept of ‘Transnational Organised Crime’ Revisited” at the 12th Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, held at Tilburg University in March in conjunction with van Duyne’s retirement ceremony.

MiChAEl PfEifEr (History) has had his new book, The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching, published by the University of Illinois Press. Pfeifer was also a panelist during a session on “Lynching and Mob Violence: State of the Field,” held at the meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Houston on March 17.

PEEr rEviEWJAnE KATz (Health and Physical Education) was inducted March 27 into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Commack, Ny. Katz, who helped pioneer synchronized swimming as an Olympic sport early in her career, becomes only the fifth swimmer to be inducted into the multisport Hall of Fame, alongside Olympic medalists Jason Lezak, Dara Torres, Lenny Krayzelburg and Mark Spitz.

American Studies); Laura Greenberg (Art & Music); Raymond Jiggetts (Instructional Technology Support Services); Kewulay Kamara (African American Studies); Roger McDonald (Political Science); Luis Negron (Audio Visual Services); Maribel Perez (Provost’s Office); Juana Polanco (SEEK); John Reffner (Sciences); Debra Spivey (Facilities Management); Charles Strozier (History); Antoinette Trembinska (Mathematics & Computer Science).

TWEnTy yEArs: Mayra Baez (Communication & Theatre Arts); Kaifan Deng (SEEK); Edward Kagen (Psychology); Christopher Morse (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration); Sandra Rutherford (Office for the Advancement of Research); Suzette Sancho (Instructional Technology Support Services); Jim Vrettos (Sociology).

At the ceremony, Travis presented Certificates of Continual Employment to four Higher Education Officer series employees, and Certificates of Continuous Appointment to two faculty members. Twenty faculty members were awarded tenure, and 15 were promoted to associate professor or professor.

Twelve of the 23 new staff who were officially welcomed at the ceremony are John Jay graduates.

Thirty-six of the John Jay student body’s best, brightest and most athletic were honored by President Travis on April 11 during the College’s 11th annual celebration of National Student-Athlete Day.

The athletes, all of whom sport grade point averages of at least 3.2, were hailed as role models for the entire college community by Travis, Director of Athletics Dan Palumbo and Vice President for Student Development Berenecea Johnson Eanes. This year’s group represented 11 of John Jay 13 varsity teams.

The 2011 award recipients are:WoMEn’s BAsKETBAll: Allana Beddoe,

Katherine Borda, Jamecia Forsythe, Jessica Lirio;MEn’s Cross-CounTry: Matthew Arpino,

Mark Benjamin;WoMEn’s Cross-CounTry: Jude Gilgurd, Bita

Kahlon;riflE: Christian Arguello, Robert Connolly,

Stephen Zawislak;MEn’s soCCEr: Kemar Brown, Ratko

Rakocevic, Andy Rocher;WoMEn’s soCCEr: Norhan Basuni, Gabriela

DeJesus, Brenda Pitts;

Provost Jane Bowers and President Travis with four of the newest members of John Jay’s “40-Year Club”: Distinguished Professor Michael Wallace, Professor Sam Graff, Associate Professor Peter Shenkin and Vice President Richard Saulnier.

College Salutes Service, Tenure,Promotions & Appointments

sofTBAll: Julia Goldberg, Lana Kovac, Angela Lam, Christina Perez, Marlin Ralas, Johanny Santana, Nelly Vega;

sWiMMing: Catherine Gomez, Kaili Insalaco, Billie Jean Kuppler, Megan Maiello, Vanessa Toro-Plaza;

MEn’s TEnnis: Stephen Walz, Ian Wildman;WoMEn’s TEnnis: Crystal Charles, Jessica

Eng, Halam Kathy Seo;vollEyBAll: Vanessa Caballero, Barbara

Calderon.Kemar Brown and Christina Perez were honored

as student-athletes for the fourth consecutive year.

Student Athletes in the Spotlight

ONE FOR THE BOOKS: The fruits of scholarly labors are on display during a March 24 reception to celebrate those faculty members who published new works in 2010.

rEConnECTing: John Jay Alumni Association President Michael McCann (left) and President Travis share a moment with honor-ees past and present at the 2011 Alumni Reunion on April 12. From right: 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award winner Lawrence Loesch; 2010 Distinguished Alumnus honoree Richard Koehler; 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award winner John Matteson; 2010 Distinguished Faculty honoree Jane Katz; 2008 Endowed Alumni Scholarship winner Michelle Hershkowitz; 2011 Alumni Scholarship honoree Naith-ram Singh; 2010 Alumni Scholarship winner Jamie Bridgewater.

sMiling irish EyEs:On March 16, John Jay once again celebrated the McCabe Fellowship, a program that funds graduate study at John Jay for members of An Garda Síochána, the Irish national police. This year’s McCabe Fellows, Ciara McCormack (left) and Annette Connolly are both studying for master’s degrees in criminal justice. They were joined by Pro-fessor Bettina Murray (2nd from right), a member of the John Jay College Foundation Board, and her daughter, Dr. Renee Tobin, both of whom are long-time patrons of the program.


March 30, 2011

March 31 5:15 PM

The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in AmericaBook discussion with Professor Charles Ogletree,Harvard Law SchoolPresented by the Center onRace, Crime and Justice


April 4 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice IntensifiesThe GI Anti-War Coffee HousesBarbara Garson

Room 206/207, Haaren Hall

April 11 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice IntensifiesThe 1960s: A Reporter’s Eye ViewCarl Bernstein


April 12 6:00 PM2011 Alumni ReunionNetworking, reception and dinner. Includes a salute to milestone classes and recipients of Endowed Alumni Scholarship, Distinguished Faculty Award and Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Gymnasium, Haaren HallTickets required. Purchase online by April 11, atwww.jjay.cuny.edu/2011reunion

April 17–26Spring BreakNo classes

April 28 3:00 PMJob & Internship FairFor students and alumni. Business attire required.


Worth Noting

The graduating class of 2011 will bid farewell to John Jay on Friday, June 3, in twin ceremonies held in a new location, the Jacob Javits Center North at 11th Avenue and 40th Street.

The Theater at Madison Square Garden, John Jay’s customary graduation site, is unavailable for the next three years due to ongoing major renova-tions, prompting college officials to conduct a six-month search for a suitable alternative. The Javits Center was chosen from a field of roughly a dozen venues.

There will be two graduation ceremonies that day, at 10:30 am and 3:30 pm, with a student’s major determining which ceremony he or she attends. Current plans call for each graduating student to be allotted three guest tickets for family members and friends.

Student-related questions or concerns regard-ing graduation may be e-mailed to [email protected], or directed to the Division of Student Development at 646.557.4888. Faculty-related concerns and questions should be directed to Maribel Perez in the Office of the Provost at 212.237.8802; e-mail [email protected].

West Side Sendoff for Class of 2011

The John Jay/CUNY doctoral program in criminal justice has scored a solid Top 10 ranking in the latest assessment of graduate programs published by U.S. News & World Report, and the College once again ranks in the top 20 percent of the nation’s Master of Public Administration programs.

The #10 ranking for the doctoral program places it ahead of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Northeastern University, among others, and only narrowly behind Rutgers

Looking for something fulfilling to do in New York City this summer? John Jay can provide dozens of options and opportunities, as part of three summer session mini-semesters.

Whether one is looking to jump-start a John Jay College education or complete the requirements for a degree, the summer sessions have something for virtually everyone, with course offerings ranging from abnormal psychology to yoga, from introductory undergraduate classes to master’s-level capstone seminars. There are traditional classroom-based courses, online and hybrid courses as well as fieldwork-oriented

John Jay students attending the annual Law Day on March 19 got more than words of encouragement and advice from a battery of speakers who have “been there, done that.” With the day focused on mentoring and networking, students with their sights set on law school were urged to reach back and help others as they advance their academic and professional careers.

More than 225 students registered for the all-day event sponsored by the Pre Law Institute, which featured the annual Samuel and Anna Jacobs Foundation Lecture on Law and the Legal Profession, presented this year by Ida L. Castro, who was the first Latina to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Castro, the Bronx-born daughter of minimally educated Puerto Rican immigrants, has enjoyed a long career as a labor lawyer and litigator, and has held faculty posts at both Rutgers University and the City University School of Law. She is currently the Vice President for Social Justice and Diversity at Commonwealth Medical College in Pennsylvania.

“The legal profession will place many opportunities before you,” Castro said. “Rise to the occasion, open the door of choice and walk through. And whatever you do, make sure you also open doors so that others like you can follow as well.”

The students’ response to Castro’s remarks was “out of control,” said Vielka Holness, Director of the Pre Law Institute, and they reacted similarly to the day’s alumni honoree, New York State Supreme Court Justice Marguerite A. Grays (BA, 1979), who emphasized reaching for dreams and working hard to achieve them; helping others in turn, especially those in middle school and high school; and networking.

Grays is a true believer in the power of a John Jay education. In addition to earning both associate’s and bachelor’s degrees here, Grays can claim three nieces and a cousin who are John Jay alumnae or students.

Law Day is designed as a full day of workshops

and networking, said Holness, a “crash course” in understanding the law school application process, paying for law school and gaining access to practicing attorneys who are doing well, many of them John Jay alumni. The returning alumni, Holness said, “all spoke of how excited they were to have an opportunity to give back.”

Beginning in June, the Pre Law Institute will once again hold an intensive LSAT Prep Program for students who have signed up for the October 2011 Law School Admission Test. John Jay juniors and seniors who have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and are applying to enter law school in the fall of 2012 are eligible for full scholarships for the on-campus prep program, which includes

Opening Doors of OpportunityLaw Day Offers Students Practical Advice

Summer @ John JayIs Just Around the Corner

PhD, MPA Programs Are Amongthe Best in Latest U.S. News Rankings

group workshops, individualized advisement sessions and a supportive learning community.

The deadline for applying for the prep program is April 4.

University, Michigan State University and Florida State University.

John Jay’s MPA program, meanwhile, was one of only three public policy programs in New York City — along with NYU and Columbia — to rank in the top 20 percent nationally.

“The ranking is a tremendous honor,” said President Jeremy Travis. “We are proud that our graduate programs continue to solidify the reputation of John Jay College as a thought leader

in criminal justice.”The MPA program is one of the largest in

the country, with more than 500 students, and includes a unique Inspector General track that focuses on inspection and oversight, in addition to a traditional MPA concentration.

The rankings of 36 doctoral programs in criminal justice and criminology are based solely on responses to peer assessment surveys sent to academics in the discipline.

internships.Four-week sessions run from June 1 through

July 1 and from July 6 through August 5, and an eight-week session runs from June 1 through July 22.

The “Summer @ John Jay” program is open to current John Jay students and those who have been admitted. Visiting students from other colleges and universities are also eligible to attend. Registration for summer classes begins April 4.

For more information, visit online at http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/_summerjj/summersch.aspx.

Above: President Jeremy Travis joins Law Day alumni honoree Justice Marguerite Grays (2nd from left) and other members of her John Jay-loving family, nieces Jaja, Jenelle and Jasmine Grays and cousin Sheila Nickens Thomas.

Right: Keynote speaker Ida Castro got a rousing reception with her “you can do it” talk to an audience of budding law students.




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faCULty/Staff NOtESOn BOArdCheuk Lee (Enrollment Management) has been named Interim Registrar, following the retirement of Joan Antonicelli. Lee had been Associate Registrar, a role in which he was the primary developer of the Degree Works program at John Jay. ShAvOnne MCkiever, the current Executive Associate to the Vice President for Enrollment Management, will be assuming the role of Interim Deputy Registrar. kAtie (PSzeniCznA) GerShMAn will take over the role of Executive Associate to the Vice President.

PreSentinG…LOri LAtriCe MArtin (African American Studies) presented a paper titled “Black Wealth and Asset Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis of Nativity on Housing Values,” at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Philadelphia, PA, on February 26. She also served as a discussant for a session on race and ethnicity. JAne kAtz (Health and Physical Education) was the featured guest speaker at Kingswood Oxford School in Hartford, CT, for a celebration of National

Girls and Women in Sports Day on February 18.

kiMOrA (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was an invited speaker at the Edgecombe Correctional Facility in New York City on February 18. She addressed inmates enrolled in employment services programming on the subject of reentry issues facing parole violators.

JOdie rOure (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) presented a co-authored paper on “Puerto Ricans and Their Journey into the Legal Profession: Overcoming Challenges” on December 10, 2010 at the Puerto Rican Social Conditions and Public Policy Conference at the Hunter College School of Social Work. On December 11, Roure attended the Society of American Law Teachers biannual teaching conference at the University of Hawaii, where she presented a paper on “Teaching in a Transformative Age: The Law School of the Future.”

Between the COverSJereMy trAviS (President) and Christopher Stone have had their monograph “Toward a New Professionalism in Policing” published as part of the New Perspectives in Policing series produced by the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. the monograph identifies accountability, legitimacy, innovation and national coherence as four cornerstones of the new professionalism. Stone is the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Kennedy School.

rAndy kAndeL (anthropology) and anne Griffiths

had their article, “Local Responses to National and Transnational Law: A View from the Scottish Children’s Hearings System,” published recently in From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws: Northern European Laws at the Crossroads, by ashgate Publishing. Griffiths is a professor at the Edinburgh University School of Law.

r. terry FurSt and riC CurtiS (Anthropology) and reBeCCA StAnLey (Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center) had their article,, “The Transformation of Drug Markets and its Impact on HIV Outreach to Injection Drug Users in New York City, 1987-2008,” published in the February 2011 issue of the Journal of Substance Use and Misuse.

LOri LAtriCe MArtin (African American Studies) had her manuscript, “Debt to Society: Asset Poverty and Prisoner Reentry,” accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Review of the Black Political Economy. Martin’s article “The Battle Over the Ex-Slave’s fortune: the Story of Cynthia Hesdra,” appeared in the January 2011 issue of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History.

ABBy Stein (Anthropology/ Interdisciplinary Studies) had her paper, “The Utility of Contempt” published in the winter issue of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The paper is based on clinical and research work around issues of anger and agency in the lives of battered women.

edwArd SnAJdr and ShOnnA trinCh (Anthropology) had their article “What the

Brownstones Say” featured in the March 2011 issue of Anthropology News. The article focuses on their research into community views of the sprawling Atlantic Yards redevelopment project in Brooklyn, and features the fieldwork done by a team of John Jay undergraduates, including Shauna Parker, Yance Vargas, Earlynn Bernadin and Veronica Cortez.

kwAndO M. kinShASA (African American Stud-ies) authored an article titled “The Pain of Remem-brance: Interview with Lodewijk Alphonsus Maria Lou Lichtveld [a.k.a. Albert Helman], Surinam Intellectual and Activist,” that was published in the December 2010 issue of The Caribbean Journal of History. This article/interview examines Lichtveld’s life as a leading novelist, intellectual and anti-Nazi leader in the Dutch underground during World War II. Later this year, McFarland Publishers will republish Kinshasa’s 1988 book, Emigration vs. Assimilation: The Debate in the African American Press, 1827–1861.

Peer reviewdAvid kennedy (Anthropology/Center for Crime Prevention and Control) has been named winner of the 2010-2011 Hatfield Scholar award by the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, in recognition of his contributions to addressing violent crimes in communities. The Award, named after the distinguished former Governor and Senator from Oregon, Mark O. Hatfield, is bestowed on exceptional scholars whose careers best exemplify the Hatfield ideals of public interest, scholarship, public service, civil and human rights, social justice and peace. It will be presented on April 7 in Portland.

Budding young forensic scientists can now get a thorough online introduction to the best that John Jay has to offer, thanks to a new video that show-cases the College’s science curriculum, its stu-dents and faculty, and the Program for Research Initiatives for Science Majors (PRISM).

Students may get turned on to the idea of studying forensic science by such television shows as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” notes science Professor Lawrence Kobilinsky, but they quickly find that John Jay is much more than just that, with undergraduate concentrations in molecular biology, toxicology and criminalistics.

When it comes to straight shooting, it’s hard to top the achievements of the John Jay College rifle team, which recently won the Mid-atlantic Conference (MAC) championship in both small bore and air rifle — the third time in seven years that the team swept the MAC title in both disciplines.

The championship-clinching victories on February 27 in Annapolis, MD, included a 2117-2116 squeaker over the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia in small bore, and a 2213-2189 defeat of Wentworth College in air rifle.

The Bloodhounds, who lost to USP in small bore during the regular season, were led in the championship rematch by Stephen Zawislak, who shot a 558. In air rifle, Jenna Hansen led the team

The U.S. economy may still be facing hard times, but the John Jay Office of Career Development Services is expecting a strong turnout of potential employers and job-seeking students and alumni for the annual Job & Internship Fair on April 28.

“The goal is to get 80 to 100 employers, which would be an increase from last year,” said Will Simpkins, the CDS director. “And although it’s heavily government and law enforcement, we do have a good representation from the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors as well.”

As important, Simpkins added, every employer represented should have job or internship

“We don’t often focus on what science is,” says Professor Anthony Carpi, chair of the Depart-ment of Sciences. “It’s this process of inquiry, this process of discovery that they don’t often get in traditional classes.”

through a tour of John Jay’s scientific labora-tories and interviews with faculty and students, the video paints a vivid picture of how the science department, via PRISM and other efforts, creates opportunities for forensic science students to en-gage in faculty-mentored research projects.

“By the time you get to your senior year, you’re learning things that were just recently discovered,”

with a score of 569. “We prepared well for the match,” said

head coach Vincent Maiorino. “Everyone was exceptional. They really pulled together for this championship. I just told them to go out there, do your best, have fun, and what will be will be.”

John Jay won the MAC regular season title in air rifle with a 13-3 record in the expert division, and finished second in the small-bore sharpshooter class with a 10-7 record.

At the midpoint of the 2010-2011 season, the team won the Big apple Rifle Championship on December 4 for the third year in a row with a lopsided defeat of SUNy Maritime in air rifle. In November, the team won the Admiral’s Cup trophy by defeating the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in air rifle and small bore competition.

Rifle Team Back in Championship Form

Video Intro to Forensic Science Goes Beyond Basicssays science Professor Nathan Lents, the director of the Office of Undergraduate Research. “you’re approaching the limits of what’s known.”

“the kids here are absolutely amazing,” adds Professor Marcel Roberts, a 2002 alumnus of John Jay’s forensic science program. “They’re doing presentations that are, at the PhD level.”

Students featured in the video are engaged in research ranging from a study of Parkinson’s disease to testing a new reagent for uncovering latent fingerprints to analyzing antiviral proteins in certain plants. And, like so many of their fellow forensic science students, they all have ambitious plans for continuing their studies beyond the un-dergraduate level. Jason Quinones was accepted into the doctoral program in molecular and cellular pharmacology at Stony Brook University. Danielle Scimeca went on to the highly competitive joint

MD/PhD program at the University of Miami. Kath-erine Reynoso is in the PhD program in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and amanda Vasquez moved on to John Jay’s master’s program in forensic science.

Faculty mentoring is a key component of the PRISM program, and the students are unstinting in their praise for the guidance they have received. “He, quite honestly, made me the scientist that I’m going to become,” said Scimeca of her unidenti-fied mentor.

the White House recently took official notice of the scientific mentoring at John Jay when Carpi received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excel-lence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

The video can be easily accessed via a link on the home page of the John Jay Web site.

openings. “We want to make this a premier event for employers,” he said, noting that his office employs a proactive strategy that involves staff members reaching out to targeted lists of prospective employers. Even the Central Intelligence Agency will be on hand, looking to hire covert operatives.

Recent job fairs at John Jay have drawn some 400 to 500 interested students and alumni, a number that Simpkins hopes to increase. “Career fairs have become very attractive for students, given the current economic climate,” he observed.

The April event is also designed to expose students to the wide variety of internships that are available. “I’d like to see a dramatic increase in the number of students doing internships, both academic and non-academic,” said Simpkins. “By the time they graduate, every student should have participated in at least one internship during their college career.”

As in the past, the fair will be in the Haaren Hall gymnasium where, in addition to booths and display areas for every employer, a networking space will be set aside where employers and employees alike can interact one-on-one.

“Networking is key when it comes to getting jobs,” Simpkins noted, “and this is a great networking opportunity.”

Pre-registration is not required for those wishing to attend, but business attire is. (See the CDS website — www.jjay.cuny.edu/ careers — for guidance as to proper business attire.)

Career Development OfficeGears Up for Best-Ever Job Fair

Withhonors

President Travis joins some of the 15 Inaugural members of John Jay’s Beta Phi chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international economics honor society, on March 16 after the chapter was chartered in the College’s first year of eligibility. ODE is one of the world’s largest academic honor societies, with more than 640 chapters worldwide.

Sharpshooter Stephen Zawislak draws a bead on the target during the Rifle Team’s recently concluded championship season.


March 9, 2011

Anyone passing Room 630 in Haaren Hall on the evening of February 23 might have felt transported back to the 1960s, as a standing-room-only crowd linked arms and unabashedly sang “We Shall Overcome,” led by a guitar-toting guest lecturer.

Closer inspection would have revealed that the lecturer in question was none other than Peter Yarrow, former member of the seminal 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, who was on hand as one of the distinguished artists, writers and scholars taking part in the spring semester lecture series “The 1960s: The Struggle for Justice Intensifies.”

The series is co-organized by Visiting Professor of Economics Michael Meeropol and Distinguished Professor of History Gerald Markowitz. It builds on the successful lecture series staged by Meeropol in 2010, “Justice and Injustice in 1950s America.” As before, the 1960s lectures are designed as one component of an Interdisciplinary Studies course taught by Meeropol, along with readings, interactive Blackboard sessions and 90-minute discussions before the lectures.

Yarrow, 72, remains actively engaged in both music and causes, and he called on many of the touchstone moments from his life and long career to talk about “Music as Advocacy: How Songs Can Change History.” Biographical and historical reflections were mixed with soft-spoken admonitions and familiar folk songs as Yarrow made his case to a captivated audience.

The series opened, and will close, with talks by leading figures from the radical organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). On February 7, Paul Buhle, a historian and former editor of the SDS journal Radical America, presented “The 1960s: An Overview.” Buhle was a spokesperson for campus chapters of SDS in

Bernstein; poet/playwright/activist Amiri Baraka; political scientist/broadcaster/publisher Alan Chartock; historian Joyce Avrech Berkman, and playwright/author/activist Barbara Garson.

Funding for the series is being provided by the New York Council on the Humanities. Co-sponsors include the Westside Crime Prevention Program and JASA – Jewish Association for Services for the Aged.

[The complete schedule for the series “The 1960s: The Struggle for Justice Intensifies” can be found online at www.johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/injusticejustice/60s/.]

The Malcolm/King Breakfast, the annual celebration of African American heritage and scholarship that concludes Black History Month at John Jay, honored noted artist and author Faith Ringgold, with a keynote address by eminent legal scholar and activist Derrick Bell.

The event took an unexpected turn when Ringgold presented the College’s Department of African American Studies with a gift of her acclaimed series of serigraphs based on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

The gift of the hand-signed prints stunned the audience and generated a sustained round of enthusiastic applause. The serigraphs depict examples of key issues that gave rise to the Civil Rights movement and highlight significant events in that struggle, as commented on by King in his letter.

The letter, written in April 1963 while King was being held in the Birmingham, AL, jail for his involvement in a protest against segregation in that city, serves as a call to immediate and direct nonviolent action to overcome racial injustice in the South. Ringgold’s serigraphs were produced in an extremely limited edition of 75, of which the College’s is No. 31.

“Faith asked that the works be displayed where students can see them, as inspiration,” said a delighted Professor Lisa Farrington, chair of the Department of Art and Music. “Ideally, that would be in the African American Studies Department when they are resettled in the new building. Meanwhile, the works would make a wonderful exhibit in the President’s Gallery.”

The breakfast proceeds support the Malcolm/King Leadership Scholarship and other student endeavors.

To the average Westerner, much of Islam and the Muslim experience may seem cloaked in mys-tery. During the spring 2011 semester, John Jay College will try to bring some clarity to the subject through a campus-wide initiative, “Mosques, Veils and Madrassas: Muslims and Institutions of Jus-tice in Pluralistic Societies.”

A diverse program of public discussion, study and research, “Mosques, Veils and Madrassas” seeks to build awareness of the experiences and challenges of Muslims living in America and Europe at a critical juncture in history.

“In the modern era, one of the most pressing issues facing our society is the emerging role of Islam and the Muslim population in pluralistic democracies,” noted President Jeremy Travis. “Academic institutions such as John Jay College

can serve an essential function in fostering under-standing and discussion of these critical issues. Indeed, doing so is key to the College’s mission.”

The initiative is the product of the Understand-ing Islam Task Force, which Travis empaneled last August under the chairmanship of Professor Fritz Umbach of the history department. The task force included faculty, staff, students and alumni.

As part of the program, Umbach and sociology Professor Mucahit Billici will teach an interdisci-plinary course exploring the history of the Islamic diaspora and the new challenges facing Muslim communities as well as their adopted countries. Related college-wide activities include films, musi-cal and theatrical performances, trips to museums and other cultural institutions, and outreach to Islamic students in the United States and abroad.

Answers Are Still Blowin’ in the WindFolksinger Peter Yarrow Highlights Lecture Series on the 1960s

Illinois, Connecticut and Wisconsin. On May 2, the series will conclude with a

presentation by Mark Rudd, an SDS fixture at Columbia University who led a student takeover of five campus buildings in 1968, and later one of the founders of the Weather Underground, an extremist offshoot of SDS. Now a schoolteacher in New Mexico, Rudd will speak on “The Revolution Fantasy: Thinking Yourself into a Corner.”

Other speakers include educator/civil-rights activist Bob Moses; editor/writer/radical feminist Robin Morgan; free-market economist Richard Ebeling; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carl

Singer Peter Yarrow has a song and a smile for an overflow audience as he talks about how music can change history.

The lecture series, which is open to the college community and the general public, is sponsored by a private foundation and the Canadian Consulate. The series includes:March 10. “Muslim Immigrant Communities: The

Canadian Experience.” (Panel Discussion) Room 1311 North Hall.

March 17. Shari’a Law in Liberal Multicultural Societies: Are Religious Tribunals Desirable? Speaker: Bryan Turner, CUNY Graduate Center. Room 630 Haaren Hall.

March 24. Islamophobia. Speaker: Andrew Shryock, University of Michigan. Room 1311 North Hall.

March 31. Islam, Women and the American Experi-ence. Speaker: Mona Eltahawy, columnist, The Toronto Star. Room 1311 North Hall.

Understanding Islam Is Goal of Campus InitiativeApril 7. Homeland Values, Homeland Communities:

Has History Repeated Itself? Speaker: David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center. Room 630 Haaren Hall.

April 14. Roots of Fundamentalism. Speaker: Scott Atran, Presidential Scholar, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Room 630 Haaren Hall.

April 28. Hijabi Monologues. Room 1311 North Hall.

May 5. The 99 and Challenging Muslim Stereo-types. Speaker: Naif Al-Mutawa, clinical psy-chologist. Room 630 Haaren Hall.

May 12. Muslim Youth and Police Relations in Hol-land and Canada. Speakers: Geoffrey Verheul, Ready for Change, and Luciano Bentenuto, Cor-rectional Service of Canada. Room 1311 North Hall.

Keeping Faith: Malcolm/King Honoree Donates Artwork

As keynote speaker Derrick Bell (lower left) applauds, a smiling Professor Lisa Farrington accepts a gift of valuable artwork donated to the College by Malcolm/King Breakfast honoree Faith Ringgold (at microphone).

March 11 2:00 PMCybersecurity: A NATO for CyberspaceProfessor Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law SchoolPresented by the Centerfor Cybercrime Studies

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March 14 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice IntensifiesPolitics in the 1960s:A Conversation with Alan Chartock


March 21 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice IntensifiesThe 1960s: Struggle Against RacismAmiri Baraka

Fordham Law School, 140 W. 62nd St.

March 31 5:15 PMThe Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in AmericaBook discussion with Professor Charles Ogletree,Harvard Law SchoolPresented by the Center onRace, Crime and Justice


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FACULTY/STAFF NOTESOn BOardJerrell W. rOBinsOn (Student Development) is the College’s new Director of Student Life (formerly Student Activities). Robinson, who holds an MS in Counseling Services, comes to John Jay from Berkeley College, where he was Associate Dean of Student Development and Campus Life. He also held a variety of student services positions during 10 years at Hunter College.

In other personnel changes in the Division of Student Development, Maria e. Vidal was named Coordinator of the Urban Male Initiative. A second-year MPA student at John Jay, Vidal currently supervises training and development for the 20-student Peer Ambassador Program. lOretta acquaah, a New York State-licensed Master Social Worker who graduated from the

Hunter College School of Social Work, was appointed to the position of Intake Coordinator in the Counseling Office, assisting students in need of individual and group counseling, crisis intervention and academic advisement. ashley current, another John Jay MPA student, is the new Coordinator for the Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning. liza carBaJO (Undergraduate Studies) is the new substitute director of the Study Abroad program. Carbajo comes to John Jay from Florida International University, where she was the director of the Office of Education Abroad.

Presenting…susan OPOtOW (Sociology) has been chosen to deliver the American Psychological Foundation’s Lynn Stuart Weiss Lecture at the 2011 convention of the American Psychological Association, to be held in August in Washington DC.

danielle saPse (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) gave a talk on methamphetamines at the Franco-Belgian-Swiss Congress of Legal Medicine in Toulouse, France, in September 2010. In October, she gave an invited talk on DNA and its applications to law at the University of Lille, France.

KiMOra (Law, Police Science and Criminal

Justice Administration) spoke to the entire senior high school class enrolled in “Arts, Imagination and Inquiry,” a campus within the Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus in Manhattan. At the invitation of Assistant Principal Christopher Yarmy, she spoke on February 11 about the need to understand the role that correctional education plays for inmates in New York jails and prisons.

lyell daVies (Communication and Theatre Arts) has had his 2008 documentary Brain Injury Dialogues picked up by PBS for airing on stations nationwide to mark National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Davies co-wrote and co-directed the 53-minute film with brain injury survivor Rick Franklin. A five-minute clip from the film can be viewed on the National Educational Television Association’s Web site, www.netaonline,org/5minutes.htm#BRAIN.

BetWeen the cOVerseVan Mandery and daVid Kennedy (Criminal Justice) had the lead article in the January/February 2012 issue of The Criminologist, the official newsletter of the American Society of Criminology. Their article, “A New Direction for Criminal Justice Education,” explores the recent evolution in criminal justice education at John Jay and elsewhere.

danielle saPse (Law, Police Science and

Criminal Justice Administration), elise chaMPeil and anne-Marie saPse (Department of Sciences) published a paper on methamphetamines in Comptes Rendus des Séances de L’Académie Francaise.

Katie gentile (Women’s Center/Gender Studies) has had her paper, “What about the Baby? The New Cult of Domesticity and Media Images of Pregnancy,” published as the center of a roundtable discussion of cultural and personal representations of reproductivity since 9/11, in the latest issue of the interdisciplinary journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Treatment, Research. The paper analyzes representations of pregnancy and postpartum weight control in The New York Times and People magazine from 1996-2006, and describes a growing cultural anxiety over the future, resulting in increased medicalization of women’s reproductive capacities and a use of babies as fetish objects.

Mangai nataraJan (Criminal Justice) has had her book International Crime and Justice published by Cambridge University Press. The edited volume was written by a team of 75 scholars from around the world, including 18 John Jay faculty members and 2 John Jay/CUNY PhD students. President Jeremy Travis wrote the foreword.

No one can accuse personnel from the Division of Student Development of letting their professional skills languish in the face of an ever-more challenging workload.

On January 7, several top unit heads from Student Development attended an all-day Winter Renewal Retreat sponsored by Region I and II of NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. The first-time event, held at the College of New Rochelle, was aimed at giving female leaders an opportunity to renew and refocus for the year ahead.

Vice President for Student Development Berenecea Johnson Eanes was an invited guest speaker at the retreat, and she encouraged seven of her key personnel to attend.

“The goal is to promote efforts to have a

team that is well trained and committed to best practices in student affairs,” said Eanes. “It’s part of our commitment to increased student engagement and CAS standards.”

CAS is the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, a consortium of higher education professional associations that promotes the development of standards in student affairs, student services and student development.

“Anytime I go to a professional development event, I’m always reinvigorated,” said Danielle Officer, Director of the Office of Accessibility Services. “The winter retreat gave me and others the chance to be surrounded with both mid-level and seasoned professionals. For one day, we stepped away from our work obligations in order

to reflect, renew and re-energize ourselves for the new year, and stay current on the latest trends and best practices within the field.”

Officer said she came away so impressed with the retreat, which included topics such as “Developing a Personal and Professional Action Plan for 2011” and “Managing Your Life and Career with Graceful Strength,” that she signed up to assist with the planning for next year’s event.

The NASPA winter retreat was just one of the “creative and innovative professional development activities” that Student Development staff have participated in recently, Eanes noted. A Directors Day was convened in January at the Macauley Honors College, giving about a dozen Student Development officials an opportunity to look at vision, mission and strategic priorities, particularly

The 2010-2011 women’s basketball season may have ended one game short of the ultimate goal of a championship, but the team ended play after having posted a dramatic improvement under third-year Coach Diane Ramirez, and saying goodbye to two of its all-time leading scorers.

Finishing with an 11-16 overall record, the women’s basketball team lost by a score of 91-59 to eventual conference champion Baruch College on February 22 in the semifinals of the CUNY Athletic Conference tournament. The Bloodhounds had defeated York College 94-86 in the quarterfinals to earn the right to face top-seeded Baruch.

The tournament marked the end of the four-year careers of Dominique Grice and Jessica Lirio, who finished second and fifth, respectively, on John Jay’s all-time scoring list. Grice scored 19 points in the semifinal game to bring her career total to 1,527, while Lirio finished with 1,122 following a 15-point effort in the Baruch game. Both women were also named second-team CUNYAC all-stars at the close of the season. Teammate Jamecia

Forsythe,a first-year player, was named to the all-tournament team.

Two other members of the women’s team have played what will likely be their last game in a Bloodhound uniform, graduating seniors Crystal Ferguson and Chantelle Smith.

The men’s basketball team concluded play with an opening-round loss to the College of Staten Island in the CUNYAC tournament, 93-83. Jamar Harry was named the conference’s 2010-2011 Rookie of the Year, while teammate Jerome Alexander earned second-team all-star honors.

Top scorers Dominique Grice and Jessica Lirio, and conference Rookie of the Year Jamar Harry.

Top All-Time Scorers Depart, Top RookieEmerges as Basketball Season Concludes

In less than three months, John Jay’s graduat-ing class of 2011 will don caps and gowns to receive their hard-won degrees. This year, however, the graduation ceremonies will take place in a new venue, the Jacob Javits Center North at 11th Avenue and 40th Street.

With the Theater at Madison Square Garden, John Jay’s customary graduation site, unavailable for the next three years due to ongoing renova-tions, college officials considered a dozen alterna-tives in a six-month search for a suitable location. Once the Javits Center was selected, the date for graduation could be finalized — Friday, June 3.

In an open letter to the college community, President Jeremy Travis noted that once again, there will be two graduation ceremonies that day, at 10:30 am and 3:30 pm, “duplicating the timing of the successful ceremonies held last year.” A student’s major will determine which ceremony he or she attends.

“I look forward to this festive celebration and to shaking the hands of our graduates as they walk across the stage,” said Travis.

In order to attend graduation, students must file for their degrees by March 23. This can be done by visiting the Jay Stop on the college Web site.

Current plans call for each graduating student to be allotted three guest tickets for family mem-bers and friends.

Student-related questions or concerns regard-ing graduation may be e-mailed to [email protected], or directed to the Division of Student Development at 646.557.4888. Faculty-related concerns and questions should be directed to Maribel Perez in the Office of the Provost at 212.237-8802; e-mail [email protected].

Javits Center Is Site of 2011 Graduation

Only 30 people out of the nearly 2 billion in the United States, Russia and China qualify each year for the German Chancellor Fellowship Program. This year, John Jay graduate student S. Catherine Salzinger will be one of them.

The program was introduced in 1990 under the patronage of then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and is administered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. While the Fellows come from diverse backgrounds and a broad array of academic and professional fields — from law,

in the context of the Middle States reaccreditation process and the new college Master Plan.

The day was structured and focused, yet with opportunities for an open forum. Directors Days have been held twice a year since Eanes arrived at John Jay in 2006.

Clerical and administrative support staff have not been overlooked in Student Development’s push for personal and professional enhancement. On November 16, many of them attended a conference held at the nearby Holiday Inn Midtown, where they had the chance to design their own agenda by choosing from 10 workshops in two different tracks: “Taking Control of Your Job and Your Life” and “Career and Professional Development.” The conference was aimed at providing fresh ideas and strategies that would make a difference in support-staff’s performance, attitude and productivity.

Student Development Staff Gear Up for Challenges

political science and economics to psychology, sociology and medicine — their common denominator is a demonstrated potential for outstanding leadership in their careers.

“This is an extremely prestigious prize awarded to future leaders through an unimaginably stiff competition,” said Professor Hung-En Sung, Salzinger’s graduate mentor in the Department of Criminal Justice.

During a 12-month stay in Germany, Chancellor

Fellows conduct a project of their choosing in cooperation with specialist colleagues at a host institution. Salzinger will spend her time researching restorative justice practices under the mentorship of Professors Elmar G.M. Weitekamp and Hans-Jürgen Kerner, both renowned scholars at the University of Tuebingen.

“Ms. Salzinger is a humble yet brilliant student,” said Sung. “Her success is our success, and could inspire many other John Jay students to aspire and strive for excellence.”

Fellowship-Winning Student Is in Elite Company

Worth Noting“And what did you do during your winter break?’If you’re Professor Anthony Carpi, chair of the

Department of Sciences, you visited the White House on January 27 to receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

Carpi was one of 11 individuals and four organizations honored by President Barack Obama. The honorees, Obama said, “have gone above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that the United States remains on the cutting edge of science and engineering for years to come. Their devotion to the educational enrichment and personal growth of their students is remarkable, and these awards represent just a small token of our enormous gratitude.”

In addition to his personal mentorship of dozens of John Jay students, Carpi was co-founder of the Math & Science Resource Center and science peer-mentoring program. Along with Professors Lawrence Kobilinsky and Ron Pilette, he co-founded the College’s Program for Research Initiatives for Science Majors (PRISM), an undergraduate initiative that creates opportunities for forensic science students to engage in faculty-mentored research projects.

“I am truly honored and humbled to receive this prestigious award, and very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with outstanding students at John Jay,” said Carpi, who joined the College’s faculty in 1997 and specializes in environmental toxicology. “The real reward is knowing that the mentoring programs we’ve created have provided the support and resources that our students need to reach their full potential.”

President Jeremy Travis said Carpi’s award is a recognition of the science program at John Jay. “This is a great honor for the College,” said Travis. “This award to Professor Carpi, who has trans-

formed the science program at John Jay and has established strategies aimed at mentoring young scientists, underscores his accomplishments.”

The award “reinforces the image of John Jay as a nationally recognized institution known both for the scholarship of our faculty and our deep commitment to undergraduate education,”

Among the disturbing post-incident revelations in the aftermath of the recent shooting tragedy in Tucson, AZ, in which six people were killed and 14 others were wounded, was the fact that

the alleged gunman had been dismissed from the local community college for his bizarre and threatening behavior. At John Jay, the Division of Student Development’s Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) has been on the alert for signs of possible students in crisis for some time, and stands ready to take appropriate action as needed.

In the aftermath of an earlier mass killing — the Virginia Tech shootings in April 2007 — John Jay formed a committee to develop BIT and other crisis responses. BIT was charged with identifying, assessing and monitoring students who exhibit “moderate to elevated levels of distress or disruption, and/or behavioral dysregulation, including homicidal, suicidal, assaultive or self-injurious threats,” and implementing timely interventions that protect the welfare of the student and the safety of the college community. The primary goal is to provide threat assessments and early intervention before a crisis arises.

The team is chaired by Dean of Students Wayne Edwards, and also includes the Director of Accessibility Services, Director of Public Safety, Director of Health Services, and three counselors, including the Director of Counseling, the Director of the Women’s Center, and Counsel to the President. On a case-by-case basis, BIT may also call upon the expertise of other members of the college community for consultation on risk assessment and interventions.

The team meets biweekly to discuss current cases, which may include a wide range of behaviors, such as order of protection violations, improper and potentially delusional contacts with professors or aggressive text-message advances aimed at a fellow student. The assessment

process is cloaked in confidentiality, to protect potentially troubled students as well as their potential or actual victims.

“We stress confidentiality and due process, but candor is also a part of the process,” said Edwards. “We look at each case to make sure various protocols are followed.” The Dean and/or other BIT members may also meet with a student’s parents to elicit additional information on a case.

When it comes to responses, BIT has a variety of carrot-and-stick options, from counseling to discipline to legal action. There are also cases that do not get an immediate intervention but remain “on the radar screen,” said Edwards.

The challenges facing BIT, Edwards noted, are compounded by operating within a large public college with a commuter student base. The team’s work is abetted by timely awareness of threats, acts of violence and potential mental health emergencies. To that end, BIT produced a “Faculty & Staff Emergency Response Guide” that includes step-by-step reporting instructions, beginning with notifying the John Jay Department of Public Safety at 212.237.8888.

“We recommend that all mental distress or suicide comments be taken very seriously,” said Edwards. “Assuming that someone is only seeking attention could be a very serious and potentially dangerous mistake.”

In non-emergency cases, members of the college community can request a crisis consultation by calling the Department of Counseling at 212.237-8111.

More information on BIT, including a policy and procedure guide and a downloadable BIT Report Form, can be found online at www.jjay.cuny.edu/3534.php.

Professor Anthony Carpi is greeted by President Obama during a White House ceremony at which Carpi was honored for outstanding mentoring efforts.

Travis said, adding a note of gratitude to the City University for the “support that has made this possible.”

The College’s new building scheduled to open in the fall of 2011 will include an increase of nearly 50 percent in the number of state-of-the-art teaching labs available to students.

Behavioral Intervention Team Stands Ready to Respond to Students in Crisis

The Good BookLarry Sullivan, Chief Librarian of the Lloyd Sealy Library, cradles one of the library’s most prized holdings, a Bible that was inscribed by former U.S. Chief Justice John Jay and given to his daughter in 1814. The restored Bible, which is housed in the library’s Special Collec-tions, has been on loan to the College since 2006. John Jay’s direct descendant, David Livingston Jay Hughes (right), and his wife, Tracy, visited the College on January 28 to renew the loan arrangement with President Jeremy Travis for another five years. The renewed loan also includes the portrait of John Jay that hangs in Haaren Hall..

February 22, 23, 26CUNY Athletic Conference Women’s & Men’s Basketball ChampionshipsTimes vary. For information,call 212.237.8371 or visitwww.johnjayathletics.com

Nat Holman Gymnasium, City College

February 23 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice IntensifiesMusic as Advocacy:How Songs Can Change HistoryPeter Yarrow

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February 25 9:00 AMAnnual Malcolm/King BreakfastKeynote Speaker: Derrick Bell, Esq.Honoree: Artist Faith RinggoldTickets: $35; students, $15.RSVP to 212.237.8764


February 28 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice Intensifies20th & 21st Century Feminism:From Small Groups to Global PoliticsRobin Morgan


March 7 7:00 PMThe 1960s — The Strugglefor Justice IntensifiesLyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society’:A Free-Market CritiqueRichard Ebeling


Professor Carpi Goes to WashingtonScience Chair Honored by Obama for Mentoring Efforts


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FACULTy/STAFF NOTESPresenting…Jana arsovska (Sociology) and Leonid Lantsman, a PhD student in criminal justice, conducted a training session on November 10 at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services–Newark Asylum Office, where they spoke on West African organized criminal networks and the exploitation of traditional belief systems as a method of control for human trafficking victims. On December 8, Arsovska led an additional training session on the changing operational methods of Albanian organized crime groups and their ties to political structures. Each session was attended by approximately 30 agents of the Newark office.

klaus von laMPe (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) presented a paper on December 8 titled “Re-Conceptualizing Transnational Organized Crime: Offenders as Problem Solvers,” at the Second International Symposium on Terrorism and Transnational Crime, in Antalya, Turkey. The symposium was organized by the Turkish National Police Academy.

kiMora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) spoke to the staff of Options Recovery Services in Berkeley, CA, on January 5, about the cognitive skills needed to properly mentor offenders, as part of the Offender

Mentor Certification program. She also spoke to counselors from Options Recovery Services about drug addiction certification through the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors. On December 20, Kimora presented a prison re-entry training session to female inmates at the Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan.

José luis Morín and Brian Montes (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) presented a paper on “Puerto Rican youth and Criminal Justice” at the Puerto Rican Social Conditions and Public Policy Conference at the Hunter College School of Social Work on December 10, 2010. Morín organized the conference in his role as director of the Puerto Rican Research and Policy Initiative at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Morín also presented a paper on “The Latino Male and the U.S. Criminal Justice System,” at the young Latino Male Symposium at Arizona State University on October 1.

terry Furst (Anthropology) delivered a paper, “An Exploration of The Socio-Behavioral Correlates Related to Patients Cycling In and Out of Buprenorphine (Suboxone) Treatment in a Harm Reduction Setting,” as part of the Columbia University Drug Seminar Series, held in December in New york. Furst was also one of the authors of the paper “Treatment: Beyond the Office,” delivered in October at the Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs, in Canberra, Australia.

Betsy HegeMan (Psychology) discussed a paper and videotape on November 13 at the NyU Postdoctoral Program Colloquium. The paper was Dr. Sheldon Itzkowitz’s “We’re All In It Together,” which showed facets of the personality and treatment of a woman diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Hegeman has been invited to

teach a course on cultural syndromes, dissociation and trauma in the NyU Postdoctoral Program.

alisse Waterston (Anthropology) presented a paper on “Sacred Memory and the Secular World: The Poland Narratives” at the American Anthro pological Association’s annual meeting in December 2010.

BetWeen tHe CoversFritz uMBaCH (History) will have his book The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing, published in February by Rutgers University Press. The book is part of the “Critical Issues in Crime and Society” series.

alisse Waterston (Anthropology) had her edited volume, Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing published in paperback in January by Wiley-Blackwell.

Peer revieWtHalia vraCHoPoulos (Art & Music), a specialist on contemporary Asian art, has won the Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar Award, which she will use to lecture on faculty and curricular development at Korea University in Seoul.

Wayne edWards (Dean of Students) received his PhD in sociology from the City University Graduate Center on February 1, following the acceptance of his dissertation, “Black Males, Money & More: Conduits and Barriers to Academic Success.” In the dissertation, Edwards contrasted the impact of a series of demographic, behavioral and attitudinal variables on educational outcomes of black males of low socioeconomic status versus black males of not-low socioeconomic status.

Martin Horn (Law, Police Science and Criminal

Justice Administration) has been appointed to the Criminal Justice Committee of Governor-elect Tom Corbett’s transition team in Pennsylvania. The committee will advise Corbett on matters pertaining to corrections, probation and parole, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, and the State Police. Horn served as commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections from 1995 to 2000.

Jon sHane (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) has been honored for his doctoral dissertation, receiving the “Highly Com-mended Award” on January 24 in the Outstanding Doctoral Research Award competition sponsored by the Emerald/European Foundation for Manage-ment Development.

suzanne oBoler (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to serve on the Jacob Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board.

alisse Waterston (Anthropology) has been elected to the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association and serves on the Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology. Waterston was named chair of the Anthropological Communication Committee, and appointed to the Rapid Response Network, the AAA advisory group on matters related to anthropology and the military. Professor Waterston has also received a Mellon-funded fellowship from the Committee for the Study of Religion (CUNy Graduate Center).

José luis Morín (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) has been selected to serve on the young Latino Male Working Group, consisting of prominent academics and community leaders from across the country.

Student Achieversdavid saBatelle, a graduate student in

International Criminal Justice, won the 2010 global paper competition of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology, for his paper, “The Scourge of Opiates: The Illicit Narcotics Trade in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” He received the award at the ASC meeting in San Francisco in November.

nazia MaHMood, a Forensic Science major, won a Student Research Award at the Eastern Analytical Symposium held November 15-18. Mahmood was one of just six undergraduates nationwide to receive the award this year. She has been working with Professor yi He in the Department of Sciences on a project to identify chemical fingerprints in beverages by using inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry.

Investigative reporters from New York magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer walked away with the top prizes in the 2011 John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Awards competition.

The awards were presented January 31 as part of the annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium, “Law and Disorder: Facing the Legal and Economic Challenges to American Criminal Justice,” hosted by John Jay’s Center on Media, Crime and Justice.

“This year’s winning entries demonstrated once again how criminal justice journalism at its highest level can lead to changes in public policy and community awareness,” said John Jay President Jeremy Travis.

The award in the single-story category went to Robert Kolker of New York for his article “I Did It,” an investigation into the 1992 case of a New york State man who served 19 years for a crime he did not commit after making a false confession to police. As a result of Kolker’s article, a subcommittee of the New york State Justice Task Force held hearings on the issue of tape-recording interrogations. A member of the awards panel called Kolker’s reporting “a stunning example of how the press can inform the public and help keep justice in our criminal justice system.”

An investigative team from the Philadelphia Inquirer — Craig McCoy, Nancy Phillips, Dylan Purcell, John Sullivan and Emilie Lounsberry — won the excellence in reporting award in the series category for “Justice: Delayed, Dismissed and Denied,” a four-part series that exposed serious flaws in the Philadelphia court system. The series documented an epidemic of witness intimidation, a court debt of $1 billion in bail owed by defendants who skipped court and the highest fugitive rate in the nation.

The Inquirer’s investigation led to the Philadelphia District Attorney and the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordering a series of reforms and reorganization blueprints. One of the awards judges commented that “other news media organizations should take a cue from the Inquirer and look at their local court systems.”

Honorable mentions were presented to Jim Schaefer of the Detroit Free Press for “Overdue Justice,” an investigation of undistributed victim-restitution funds, and, in the series category, to Charles Piller of The Sacramento Bee for “The Public Eye,” a look at prison reforms, and to a joint team from ProPublica, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and “PBS Frontline” for “Law and Disorder,” a look at the New Orleans police force after Hurricane Katrina.

Students, faculty and staff at John Jay and the 22 other City University campuses will soon be able to breathe a little easier, after the CUNy Board of Trustees on January 24 voted to imple-ment a university-wide ban on smoking.

Campuses will have until September 2012 to impose the new rules, giving them time to launch educational campaigns, post no-smoking signs and provide counseling assistance for those who wish to kick the habit. Campuses will be free to ban smoking before the university deadline.

At John Jay, smoking will be banned on the Jay Walk, the rooftop commons that will be a center-piece of the expanded campus set to open in the fall. English Professor Karen Kaplowitz, president of the John Jay Faculty Senate and a member of the advisory task force that recommended the CUNy smoking ban, said the prohibition will allow John Jay to enjoy “a beautiful, tobacco-free campus in the middle of Manhattan that is un-threatened by cigarette smoke and butts.”

The ban will be less noticeable at urban colleges like John Jay, Baruch and Hunter, since it will not apply to smoking on public sidewalks.

Intrepid Journalists Cited for Criminal Justice Reporting

Stephen Handelman of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice (left) and President Jeremy Travis join with award winners and other key participants in the annual Guggenheim Symposium on crime in America. From right: Keynote speaker John Conroy of the Better Govern-ment Association of Chicago; Joel Wallman, program officer with the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; Robert Kolker of new york magazine; Nancy Phillips and Craig McCoy, both of the Philadelphia inquirer.

A more sweeping application of the smoking ban would apply to campuses with significant green spaces between buildings, such as the College of Staten Island and City College.

No Ifs, Ands or ButtsCUNY Board OK’s Smoking Ban for 2012

LondonCallingProfessor Staci Strobl (right) of the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration traveled to London January 20 to receive the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for the best paper in the British Journal of Criminol-ogy. Strobl won the award for her article “ Policing housemaids: The criminalization of domestic workers in Bahrain.” The award was presented by Pat Carlen, the journal’s editor in chief, at the annual meeting of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at the University of London’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies.

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