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All Aboard at The Jay Stop
All Aboard at The Jay Stop
Worth Noting
May 15 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
All Aboard at the Jay Stop
5th Annual Forensic Psychology New Student-Centered Web
MA Student Research
Conference
Presence Makes Its Debut
For more information, visit http://sites. There’s a new place on campus for John Jay students to hang out: the Jay Stop, a
google.com/a/jjay.cuny.edu/msrg/ new component of the College Web site that offers a broad range of features geared
specifically to student interests and information needs.
Room 630, Haaren Hall The Jay Stop was unveiled on May 11 in what developers described as a “soft launch”
— the core of the new site and many of its features made their debut, with more ex-
May 21 & 22 8:15 AM - 5:00 PM
pected to roll out in the weeks ahead. Among the features are RSS feeds from the John
4th Annual National Jay calendar, links to TV, radio and news outlets on campus, a section on personal money
Conference: Men & Women management, “Learning Essentials,” and “My JJay,” a controlled-access feature allowing
students to track their course schedules, transcripts, bursar information and more.
Coming Together to Stand Up “The goal of the Jay Stop is to build community among the students through the use
and Speak Out to End Violence of technology,” said Vice President for Student Development Berenecea Johnson Eanes.
Against Women “Student Council President Shaheen Wallace, as part his election platform, made a
For more information, visit commitment to more efficient communications with students. Through the efforts of the
www.acalltomen.org, or email Jessica Department of Information Technology and the staff of the Office of Student Activities,
Greenfield, jgreenfield@jjay.cuny.edu such a means has been created, and we look forward to seeing how this tool can be
developed to service our students even more.”
Various locations, Haaren Hall Ana Giron of the Department of Information Technology (DoIT), the architect and
designer of the Jay Stop, credited students with much of the impetus for the new site,
May 26 5:00 PM including the name itself. As the site evolved over a two-month period, various features
Commencement were tested and modified through the use of student focus groups. “We went into
the focus groups with certain assumptions, and were surprised by some of what we
Awards Ceremony learned,” said Giron. The students, she said, felt they were lacking basic information
Gerald W. Lynch Theater about their school, as well as a sense of community.
The new site will include a self-managed section for the John Jay student government
May 27 6:00 PM and a provision for user feedback. Developers also hope to be able to create the means
Honorary Degree for students to upload their own content to the video section of the Jay Stop. There will
also be a “Who’s Who” feature, an “Of Interest Around Campus” section and a page
Recipients’ Dinner
simply titled “Free Stuff” — a rundown of no-charge things to enjoy on campus. Poten- The home page of the new Jay Stop, where John Jay students can find a wealth
Office of the President tial students can also visit the site to get a sense of what campus life at John Jay is like. of information and interactive features geared to their needs and interests.
Students Learn About Service from who was one of the coaches. Referring to Ryan
Wade, who won the competition for the second
through,” Wallenstein noted. “She worked her
way into the medals.”
Those Who Have Been There, Done That consecutive year, Wallenstein said, “He knows
more law than most of the attorneys here.”
The competition was done “blind,” meaning
that the judge — former Manhattan prosecutor
Wallenstein was assisted in the coaching Anne B. Rudman, who is now an attorney in
Speaker after speaker at an April 23 awards
efforts by Rosemarie Maldonado, Counsel to the private practice — had no idea what school the
luncheon urged a spirited group of John Jay
President; Sylvia Montalban, Assistant Counsel; students represented until the competition and
students and visitors from Roosevelt High School
and Michael Liddie, Deputy Labor Designee. the judging were completed.
in Yonkers to discover their purpose and to
“It was a lot of work,” Wallenstein said. “I’m proud of our students,” said Wallenstein.
focus on “perseverance, goals and outcomes” in
“These students really had to push themselves.” “They won because our classes at John Jay gave
making their mark on society.
The students had just a month to prepare. “It them a great background and because they
The Service Learning and Civic Engagement
was fast and intense,” said Wallenstein. “My prepared very well.”
Awards Luncheon was co-sponsored by the John
Jay African-American Studies Department, the
Black Male Initiative and the Connecting Class-
room to Community program. Before joining
John Jay students and faculty for lunch, the 40 From left: Basil Smikle Jr., Professor Lori Martin, director of
the Connecting Classroom to Community program, Victoria
high school students spent the day getting a
Oyaniran, and Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright.
firsthand look at what John Jay had to offer,
including a CSI-type demonstration courtesy of and start demanding your place in this world,
the forensic science faculty. remember that there are other folks you can lend
“Each of you has a purpose,” said Profes- a helping hand to.”
sor Kwando Kinshasa of the African-American Five John Jay students were presented with
Studies Department. “It’s up to you to find it out Excellence in Academic Writing awards: Kirill
through investigation and experience, and then Yemelyantsev, Bryant Duell, JaJa Grays, Amy
use it to make a major change in this world.” Diallo and Shanelle McIntosh.
Basil Smikle Jr., a political consultant and for- New York State Assemblyman Keith L. T.
mer top aide to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Wright made a special appearance at the
offered an interactive keynote talk in which he luncheon to present the service award that bears
stressed the importance of perseverance. “I want his name. “There’s no greater calling than service
to help you get to a place where you can walk in learning and civic engagement,” said Wright,
the door and get whatever you want… . People who has represented Harlem in the Assembly
may tell you it’s not your time or your place, but since1992. He presented the Keith L. T. Wright
there should be nothing stopping you.” Service to Victoria Oyaniran, a student in the John Jay students have plenty of reasons to smile after trouncing the competition in the annual CUNY-wide Moot Court
In a closing “pay it forward” admonition, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achieve- Competition. From left, first-place finisher Ryan Wade, Najah Gall (2nd place), moot court judge Anne B. Rudman, Beruryah
Batyehudah (4th place) and Tricia Lewis (3rd place).
Smikle reminded the students, “As you go out ment Program.
As the World Watches, John Jay
Students Shine at U.N. Event
For the fifth consecutive year, a delegation of preparation for the conference, the students
John Jay students captured a top honor at the conducted extensive research on the national,
National Model U.N. (NMUN) Conference, held in regional and international policies of Burkina
New York April 7-11. Faso on topics ranging from the situation in
The 16-member John Jay contingent, which Israel/Palestine and the rights of children in
this year represented the African nation of armed conflict to climate-change economics and
Burkina Faso at the NMUN, won an honorable regional trade and integration, in addition to
mention for overall team performance, as well the applicable law for the two cases before the
as the team’s first-ever award for outstanding Rwanda tribunal.
position paper. The 2009 team, chosen from a pool of
“As you can imagine, we are all extremely roughly 50 applicants after a rigorous screening
pleased with this outcome,” said a proud process, included Patrick Scullin, Rennae Francis,
Professor George Andreopoulos of the Gabriele C. Ursitti, Mark Benjamin, Eva Helena
government department, who is director of the Hernik, Stephanie Valarezo, Norhan Basuni, Mike
John Jay Center on International Human Rights Rodriguez, Beyi Polanco, Ama-Mariya Ampah,
and an advisor to the team. “Being part of this Geeta Gangadeen, Peter J. Cella, Marie-Andree
team is entirely voluntary and takes hours of Barthelemy, David Sabatelle, Jennifer Shim and
hard work and determination to carefully and Natalia Lysetska. Matt Zommer, a lecturer in
accurately manage being a delegate, while being the government department, assisted by his
a full-time student and, for some, a full-time department colleagues Jacques Fomerand and
employee as well.” Andreopoulos, coached them. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE? Playwright and actor Sean Christopher Lewis stalks the
stage of the Gerald W. Lynch Theater during the New York premiere of his one-man play Killadelphia: Mixtape for a City on
The team served as delegates on seven The NMUN Conference is recognized as one of April 29. The play, which weaves together the story of murdered teaching fellow Beau Zabel (on screen) with interviews of
different U.N. committees and as an independent the largest, international collegiate competitions inmates at Graterford Prison, was preceded by a panel discussion featuring the playwright along with Professors P.J. Gibson
advisory justice and clerk on the International in the world, attended by more than 3,000 and Peter Moskos, and Robyn Buseman of the Restorative Justice Program run by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Project.
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In students from 29 countries.
Kaplowitz, English Department “We had a positive season last year which the squad. help anchor a pitching staff that also includes
RSVP to alumnireunion@jjay.cuny.edu was perfect to build on when approaching this The softball team begins its home season fellow senior Michael Colletta.
Gymnasium, Haaren Hall season,” said second-year head coach Laura on March 28 with a doubleheader against Catcher Luis Guzman, a second-team
Drazdowski. “We are a much different team conference rival Baruch. CUNYAC all-star, will return to his duties behind
can be applied together to address possible racial Goff followed Keesee to the podium and
bias in police decision-making. noted that as an outgrowth of the Denver
“As police officers, especially black officers, research, a Consortium for Police Leadership in
we struggle to do the right thing, and to do right Equity was established, consisting of 15 police
by the community,” said Keesee, a 20-year police departments nationwide and researchers from
veteran. To that end, the Denver PD conducted John Jay, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and UCLA.
extensive research to determine the extent to “The challenge for researchers is how do we
which racial bias and stereotyped beliefs may translate findings from the lab to the street,” he
influence officers’ handling of certain situations, said.
such as the decision to stop, arrest or use “Like Lloyd Sealy, we believe education is a
physical force. powerful weapon for civil rights,” Goff added.
“We brought in world-class scientists to ask Sealy was one of 60 founding members of
pointed questions,” said Keesee. “After all, we NOBLE in 1976. His 34-year career with the New
in law enforcement often think we know all the York City Police Department saw him become the
answers.” The department created a partnership department’s first black precinct commander, and
arrangement with university-based researchers, retire at the rank of assistant chief inspector.
sponsored by the Center for Modern Forensic words and phrases that actually mean the
Practice and the Department of English, brought opposite of what they appear to suggest.
together two of the top experts in the field to
discuss “Forensic Linguistics for Investigative
“What kind of person wrote this?” Fitzgerald
said, noting that 95 percent of threat letters Darkest Night
Practitioners,” with a focus on threat assessment, handled by the FBI are anonymous, and the Performers from the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group at Tel Aviv
counterterrorism and criminal communications. writers usually put as much effort into the threat University stage a scene from Cases of Murder (November
The workshop was conducted in a split- as they do into maintaining their anonymity. 9, 1938: A protocol of fear brutality and death) during
session format by Robert Leonard, head of the Other tip offs spotted by investigators a special presentation at John Jay on February 27. The
theatrical work reconstructs acts of violence committed
Hofstra University Department of Linguistics include whether an individual writes out dates
against Jews during the night between November 9 and
and director of the Hofstra Forensic Linguistic numerically with hyphens — as in 9-11-01
10, 1938, known as Krystallnacht. Using a montage of
Project, and James R. Fitzgerald, a former FBI — slashes — 9/11/01 — or periods — 9.11.01. documentary and literary devices, the scenes from Cases of
supervisory special agent who is now a violent The postmarks and return addresses on threat Murder exposed the mechanisms of moral evasion, vague
crime consultant and a forensic linguist with the letters may also be contraindicators, Fitzgerald and ambiguous talk and turning blind eyes that made
Academy Group Inc. said, in an attempt to confuse investigators. Such the atrocities possible. “It was significant that this work
occurred at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The larger
Fitzgerald, a member of the FBI’s Unabom task was the case with the 2001 Americathrax case,
discourse on genocide, war crimes, human rights abuses
force, described the investigation that ultimately in which anthrax poison was mailed to a number
and the struggle for social justice is clearly served by events
led to the arrest and conviction of Theodore of different targets. such as this,” said Professor Seth Baumrin, who facilitated
Kaczynski in 1996 as the “largest authorial Fitzgerald and Leonard first met during the the event for the Department of Communication and The-
attribution project ever undertaken by the FBI.” course of the Americathrax investigation that led atre Arts. The presentation also included readings of new
The task force, which at its peak considered nearly seven years later to the FBI’s identification work on the investigation of war crimes, enacted by John
roughly 2,500 suspects in the serial bombing of chemist Bruce T. Ivins as the most likely Jay Professor Ric Curtis and student Luis Guitierrez, and a
discussion led by Professor Itai Sneh.
investigation, pored over the 35,000-word suspect.
SIMON BAATZ (History) had his book, For the ELLEN BELCHER (Library) presented a paper
Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that titled “Is there a Halaf Bead and Pendant
Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins), chosen as a Typology? A Look at the Evidence” at the Bead
finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Technology Workshop hosted by the British
Non-Fiction Crime Book in 2008. The award will Museum in London, England, on January 12-13.
@ John Jay is published by the JANE KATZ (Physical Education and Athletics)
Department of Institutional Advancement conducted one-day clinics on “Swimming for
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Total Fitness and Swim Basics” at the Jewish
899 Tenth Avenue,
New York, NY 10019 Community Center in Tucson, AZ, on January 4
www.jjay.cuny.edu and The Club for Women, an all-women health
Editor Peter Dodenhoff club in Phoenix, on January 6.
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M. VICTORIA PÉREZ-RÍOS (Government)
presented two papers, “Cooperation against
Research A student pauses to take in the latest gallery display in the lobby of Haaren Hall, an
eight-panel salute to student-faculty research efforts. The exhibit features faculty mem-
e-mail: pdodenhoff@jjay.cuny.edu
Transnational Crime: Lessons from the Balkans” under Glass bers and students representing a broad range of disciplines, from hard science to the
humanities, from criminal justice to computing.
Music, Drama and More initiative will soon be unveiled at John Jay, as
an outgrowth of the successful Bravo! Summer
Institute launched in 2008.
Resources), Ynes Leon (Facilities Management),
Cadelie Neat (Business Office), Louie Perillo
Students show off the research projects they created as part of their Freshman Opportunity class taught by Professors Kimberly Helmer and Marco Navarro. “A year ago, as a senior in high school, I never would’ve dreamed I’d be doing this,” said Heidy
Ramirez (at left in photo above right). The students will undertake new team-based research projects in the spring semester, choosing from a broad palette of course options.