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March 13 8:30 AM
McCabe Fellowship Breakfast
Guest speaker: Seán Aylward,
Secretary General,
Department of Justice,
Republic of Ireland
RSVP to mccabe@jjay.cuny.edu
4th Floor, Haaren Hall
March 17 4:00 PM
Book & Author Lecture
A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime,
a False Confession, and the Fight to
Free Marty Tankleff
Richard Firstman and Jay Salpeter
Moderated by Professor Saul Kassin
Room 630, Haaren Hall
March 19 5:00 PM
Conversations in
Literature & Law
Where the Wild Things Are: Children’s
Literature and the Constitution of Law
Desmond Manderson
McGill University
Room 630, Haaren Hall
March 22 4:00 PM
Water, Our Most Precious
Resource: A Celebration
of World Water Day
A narrated concert including traditional
spirituals, gospel and folk music
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
March 30 6:00 PM
2009 Alumni Reunion
Saluting the classes of 1969, 1974,
1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004.
Honorees: Anthony J. Lamberti, Esq.
(BA, 1978) and Professor Karen
Kaplowitz, English Department
RSVP to alumnireunion@jjay.cuny.edu
Gymnasium, Haaren Hall
Marketing & Development
Pro Is John Jay’s Newest VP
Vivien Hoexter, a veteran
executive in the highly
competitive nonprofit
sector, has been named
as the College’s new Vice
President for Marketing and
Development.
President Jeremy Travis
announced the appointment
on February 9. Hoexter
succeeds Tova Friedler, who
retired at the end of January.
“In every position she has
held, Vivien has been highly
successful at increasing the
organization’s visibility, build-
ing a team of professionals
committed to the organiza-
tion’s mission, and leveraging
external support for that Vice President for Marketing and Development
mission,” Travis said. “These
skills are precisely what John
Jay needs at this point in our history.”
Hoexter most recently served as chief
executive officer of Gilda’s Club Worldwide,
an organization that provides emotional and
social support to people with cancer, their
families and friends. In that role she doubled
the organization’s fundraising income, launched
a planned-giving campaign and generated
more than $1 million through a new corporate
Black History Month Wraps Up with Salute
to Malcolm X, Dr. King, Obama & Malone
Milly-ann Isaac belts out the anthem “Lift
Every Voice and Sing” at the 19th annual Mal-
colm/King Breakfast on February 27, as President
Jeremy Travis, Vice President for Student Develop-
ment Berenecea Johnson Eanes, Dean of Gradu-
ate Studies Jannette Domingo and Dr. James
Malone look on.
Malone, the event’s honoree, retired in January
after 40 years at John Jay, during which he served
as the first director of the SEEK Department, the
first vice president for administrative affairs and
dean of students, among other positions. Travis
pointed out that Malone also served as a tennis
opponent and coach. In his acceptance remarks,
Malone said: “What I am most proud of are the
many students I have helped to develop a differ-
ent world view. That makes my heart sing.”
The event’s scheduled keynote speaker, New
York State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm
Smith, was unable to attend due to unforeseen
circumstances.
Play Ball!
Baseball & Softball Teams See Big Things in Store in 2009
One sure sign that spring is just around the
corner is the return of baseball and softball to
the John Jay calendar.
The men’s baseball team opened its eighth
season under head coach Dan Palumbo on
February 22, in a road game played under raw
wintry conditions against Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, NJ. The Bloodhounds
lost 12-7 in their only game before heading
South for a seven-game trip to Florida.
The women’s softball team began its 2009
season on March 6 with a four-game tournament
in Virginia Beach, VA. Results of those games
were not available as this issue went to press.
“We had a positive season last year which
was perfect to build on when approaching this
season,” said second-year head coach Laura
Drazdowski. “We are a much different team
fundraising program.
Prior to Gilda’s Club,
Hoexter was vice president
of AFS Intercultural
Programs/USA, one
of the world’s largest
international high school
exchange programs. She
has also been director
of development for The
Hunger Project, a global
anti-poverty initiative.
Hoexter earned her
bachelor’s degree in
history (magna cum laude)
from Yale College, and a
master’s degree in business
administration, with a
concentration in marketing,
from the Wharton School
Vivien Hoexter at the University of
Pennsylvania.
“I am thrilled to be part of such a vibrant
community,” said Hoexter, whose department
includes alumni relations, fundraising and
development, special events planning,
communications, public relations, graphics
and design, and Web site management. “I
look forward to serving the students, faculty
and other stakeholders of this very important
institution.”
from a year ago. We have our core group of
players returning this year along with a great
incoming class, which is the perfect recipe for
improvement. The veterans are excited about
what they believe we can accomplish this season,
and the newcomers are enthusiastic and eager to
prove themselves.”
The team is led by junior shortstop Danielle
Bonici, a first-team CUNY Athletic Conference
all-star, and senior catcher Marlenne Nuñez,
a second-team all-star. They are among 10
returning players from the 2008 team, including
sophomore starting pitchers Angela Lam and
Nina Chao. Seven freshmen have been added to
the squad.
The softball team begins its home season
on March 28 with a doubleheader against
conference rival Baruch.
The 2008 baseball team narrowly lost out
in a bid for a second straight CUNYAC title,
falling to the College of Staten Island 8-7 in
the championship game. This year’s squad will
feature five returning position players, including
first-team conference all-stars John Massoni in
right field and Xavier Perez at shortstop.
When not playing the outfield, Massoni will
John Jay Delegation Takes
ACJS Conference by Storm
Sixty of John Jay’s faculty members, staff and
students arrived in Boston on March 10 for the
four-day annual meeting of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), to present the
fruits of their current research efforts.
“Once again John Jay will have more
presenters at the ACJS conference than any
other college or university in the country,” said
Dean for Research James Levine, who is among
the conference attendees. “This is yet another
manifestation of our ever-expanding research
agendas and our prominence in the world of
criminal justice scholarship.”
At the conference, Professor Staci Strobl was
named as the winner of the Richard J. Terrill
Paper of the Year Award. Strobl was honored for
“The Women’s Police Directorate in Bahrain: An
Ethnographic Exploration of Gender Segregation
and the Likelihood of Future Integration.” This
article appeared in the International Criminal
Justice Review and was hailed by the journal’s
editor as “an excellent piece of scholarship.”
Underscoring the prevalence of faculty-student
News and Events of Interest
March 11, 2009
Luis Guzman (left) and Michael Colletta hope to be part of
another championship season for John Jay’s baseball team.
help anchor a pitching staff that also includes
fellow senior Michael Colletta.
Catcher Luis Guzman, a second-team
CUNYAC all-star, will return to his duties behind
home plate, while centerfielder Edwin Hernandez
and first baseman Johan Abad are also back for
another season. All three are juniors.
“This team is working incredibly hard right
now,” Palumbo said in a pre-season assessment.
“We have a better work ethic than I have seen
in a few years and there is a great feeling of
cohesiveness on the team.”
research collaborations at John Jay, at least
20 students from a variety of undergraduate,
graduate and doctoral programs attended the
conference as presenters or panel discussants.
John Jay faculty representatives at the ACJS
conference included: Alissa Ackerman, Katarzyna
Celinska, Serguei Cheloukhine, Todd Clear,
John DeCarlo, Kristin Englander, Beverly Frazier,
Lior Gideon, Maki Haberfeld, Joseph King,
Charles Lieberman, James Lynch, Yue Ma, Kevin
McCarthy, Frank Pezzella, Megan Sacks, Walter
Signorelli, Eli Silverman, Staci Strobl, Hung-En
Sung, Karen Terry, Carrie Trojan and Cecile van
de Voorde (Law and Police Science); Elizabeth
Jeglic, Cynthia Calkins Mercado and Gabrielle
Salfati (Psychology); Rosemary Barberet and
Brenda Vollman (Sociology); David Kennedy
(Anthropology/Center on Crime Prevention
and Control); Matthew Zommer (Government);
Marvie Brooks and Larry E. Sullivan (Library);
Richard Culp and Vincenzo Sainato (Public
Management); Roberta Belli and Candace McCoy
(criminal justice doctoral program).
Like Sealy, Researchers at
Annual Lecture See Education
as a Weapon for Civil Rights
Reducing Racial Bias by Police Is the Goal
The legacy of Lloyd Sealy — pioneering police
commander and educator — lived on at the
annual lecture event named for the late John
Jay professor, in a lively discussion of how police
leaders can use research to reduce racial bias.
The event, co-sponsored by John Jay and the
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement
Executives (NOBLE), featured Dr. Tracie Keesee,
the Division Chief of Research, Training and
Technology for the Denver Police Department,
and Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, a social psychologist at
the University of California, Los Angeles. The two
have been exploring how research and training
giving them wide access to information and
promising them autonomy in terms of publishing
their findings.
Using a high-tech virtual reality simulator,
officers were measured for their reactions to and
handling of various threatening situations. In
general, racial bias was found to affect officers’
reaction time, but not the decision to shoot the
suspect. The department created a feedback
loop consisting of officers’ behavior, training
evaluations and psychological testing, Keesee
said, and researchers were able to conclude that Tracie Keesee, a division chief with the Denver Police Department, explores the use of research to reduce police bias, while
“training does what it’s supposed to do.” co-researcher Phillp Atiba Goff awaits his turn at the microphone during the annual Lloyd Sealy Lecture. (See story at left.)

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

Speech Sleuths Analyze Art &

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

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

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

FACULTY / STAFF NOTES

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

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