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

Kudos for Triple-Threat Faculty

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

FACULTY / STAFF NOTES

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

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