Sunday 06 July 2003
Dear Jaspers,
The jasper jottings email list has 1,086 subscribers (after subtracting the two deliberate duplicates) by my count.
Don't forget:
Mo July 21, 2003 7th
Annual Jasper Cup Yale Golf Course, New
Haven, CT
Mike Remigino
’92, (860) 663-4206 or Jim McKenna ’91, (800) 822-2014
Th Jul. 24 '03 - MC Young Alumni Happy Hour
LOCATION CHANGE Bar
Thirteen
35 E. 13th St. (btw
Broadway & University Pl.)
Fr August 1, 2003, Day at the Races Saratoga Springs, NY
Chairman: Bill Chandler ‘70 Club Leader: Rev. Erwin Schweigardt
‘61
See front cover of MCkit for reservations.
Mo August 4, 2003 Construction Industry
Golf Open & Tennis Match
Lake Isle County Club,
Eastchester, NY
Call: Joe Van Etten ’57, (212) 280-0663, 7:30am to 1:30pm
Sa August 23, 2003, Noon Alumni/ae Soccer Games
Gaelic Park (240th Street &
Broadway)
Alumni/ae
vs Varsity - Reception to follow!
Call: Tom Lindgren ’78, (914)
948-5399
Th August 28, 2003 Washington, DC Golf Andrews Air Force Base
Call: Chuck Martin ‘63 (703) 706-3130, Email: cmartin@apta.org
Mo Sep 22 '03 3rd Annual James Keating
O'Neill Memorial Golf Classic.
Hamlet Wind Watch Golf & Country
Club in Hauppauge, Long Island
More info at www.jkogolf.org .
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Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim
absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure
at the edge of uncertainty.
-- Frank Herbert
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/06/27/conjoined.twins.reut/index.html
Surgery to split conjoined adult twins set
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) --A high-risk, unprecedented operation to separate Iranian twin sisters joined at the head will begin in Singapore on July 5, sources said on Friday.
Law graduates Laleh and Ladan Bijani, 29, have undergone tests and counselling since November, and say they are willing to risk death for the chance to lead separate lives.
The operation, led by neurosurgeon Dr Keith Goh, was expected to last three days, the sources close to the case said. Doctors say the operation is possible because they have anatomically separate brains.
Twins joined at the head occur only once in every two million live births, and successful separation is even rarer.
Singapore doctors performed the operation in 2001 on infant girls from Nepal, but experts say an operation on adult twins is unprecedented.
Goh, of Singapore's Raffles Hospital, will be assisted by Dr. Walter Tan, a plastic surgeon, and Dr. Ben Carson, director of paediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland.
Carson successfully separated twin boys joined at the head in Germany in 1987 and 6-month-old twin girls in 1997.
Goh was part of the team that successfully separated 11-month-old Nepali girls Jamuna and Ganga Shrestha, joined at the head, in a four-day operation in April 2001.
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Last week I found the storey about the joined babies. This week, almost on demand, is a story about joined girls. If the lesson is too obtruse, let me tell you what I am taking away. "We don't know squat!" We see crippled babies; here we are shown law school graduates. I pray the human race's technology has progressed far enough to give these girls a fighting chance. But, now every time someone says abortion, I will think of the two Iranian lawyers! It's an image that just reinforces what we don't know. The Plan. Hopefully, I'm doing my part. Even when I am "idled". Although at least one reader would probably say I am "addled". Sticks and stones. There are too many other lessons to be learned.
Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.
"Collector-in-chief" John
reinkefj@alum.manhattan.edu
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Downs, Warren J. |
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McEneney, Michael F. |
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Harbort, William [Bill] F. |
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Ludford, Joe |
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Gibbons, Thomas D. |
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Belnavis, Sam |
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Sartore, Ed |
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Gilmartin, James J. Sr. |
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Goscicki , Donald |
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Mayorga, Oscar D. |
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Ferguson, Thomas S. |
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Brock, Ruth A. Gilbert |
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Godly, Margaret Mary |
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Guardino, Alison A. |
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Brown, Julie S. |
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Medina, Alyssa Tumbokon |
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Downs, Warren J. |
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[FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT JASPERS]
[JR: The following people have "bounced off" the list. Some bounces expose my poor administrative skills and I can not "who" bounced off. Thus the subscriber total may change more than are shown in this section. I have done what I can to notify them. If you can help "reconnect" – or "connect" new people -- I really appreciate it. And as always, I need your "news".]
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[Messages from
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[JASPERS PUBLISHING WEB PAGES]
[WebPage1]
http://www.strategicthinker.com/splash.htm
James B. Haybyrne
(1966)
Strategic Thinking Group is an international group of leading strategy practitioners who assist the Chief Executive Officer and his/her executive team to craft, implement, and sustain the organization’s strategic direction. Using its proven methodologies and processes, Strategic Thinking Group Directors assist the CEO to achieve results in revenue, market share, customer retention and overall profitability.
The Group’s strength, therefore, lies in the ability of our Directors to work in partnership with CEOs to instill in the client organization, a system of thinking strategically which can be applied practically. The premise that “the client should know his/her own business best” forms the basis of our strategic advice and counsel. The Group was founded in 1991
[JR: And, a new reader of Jasper Jottings. ]
[JASPERS FOUND ON/OFF WEB BY USING WEB]
[Found1]
John P. Eylers, Ph.D., RQAP-GLP
Education
B.S. Biology 1968 Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY
Ph.D. Zoology/BME 1975
Duke University,
Durham, NC
Professional History
Thirty years of university teaching and research in biomechanics, biomaterials and pharmacology with publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and books.
Consultant in Quality Assurance since 2000 with clients in toxicology, histopathology, in vivo testing, pharmacogenomics and analytical chemistry.
Knowledgeable in experimental design, laboratory procedures, data analysis and technical writing. Continuing education in GLP, Part 11, cGMP, QSR and OECD regulations.
Memberships
SX
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
elected 1968
SQA
Society of Quality Assurance
Registered Quality Assurance Professional in Good Laboratory Practice
(RQAP-GLP)
NCCSQA
North Carolina Chapter Society of Quality Assurance
member Issues and Methods Committee
[Reported As: 1968 (a fine year)]
http://www.u-wink.com/docs/charlie.shtml
Executive Profile
Charlie J. Weber
President and COO
For the past 20 years, Charlie Weber has been a successful key executive in the Entertainment/Communications Industry. During this time, he has been President and CEO/COO of the following companies: LucasFilm, Ltd. (CEO), Embassy Communications (COO), Entertainment Company of America (CEO), CanWest International Corp. (CEO) and Online Transaction Technologies, Inc. (Chairman). Mr. Weber has also been a producer of a number of feature films, as well as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Weber Communications, Inc., an international consulting firm.
Mr. Weber is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is a graduate of Manhattan College and received a Master's degree in Business Administration from Hofstra University.
[MCOLDB: 1965 ]
Peter M. Ungaro, Vice President, Managed Care Sales, has been with Merck-Medco since 1992, developing a diversified background in Sales, Managed Care and Information Technology. Prior to joining Merck-Medco, Mr. Ungaro had a successful career of more than 20 years with a major pharmaceutical company in the areas of sales, sales management and strategic planning. Mr. Ungaro offers an in-depth knowledge of the commercial, Medicaid, and managed care markets. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business from Manhattan College.
Mr. Ungaro participated in the Consortium's Healthcare and the Internet Conference on Wednesday, January 30, 2002 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA.
[MCOLDB: 1969 ]
[HONORS]
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From:
Liz Velasquez (1998)
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Birth Announcement
Please include in the next Jottings as I had to share the news of my newest little nephew.
Alyssa Joy Tumbokon (maiden name Medina) '97 and her husband Jeremy welcomed their first child into the world this past weekend. Jasper Jay Tumbokon was born on June 28, 2003 at 12:35pm, weighing in at 6 lbs. 11.5oz. Mom and baby are doing wonderful.
Liz Velasquez '98
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[Collector's prayer: And, may perpetual light shine on our fellow departed Jaspers, and all the souls of the faithful departed.]
Your assistance is requested in finding these. Please don’t assume that I will “catch” it via an automated search. Sometimes the data just doesn’t makes it’s way in.
[Obit1]
From: McEneney, Michael F. (1953)
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:46 AM
Subject: Obit
Dear John,
Sunday's NY Times carries and obituary on page 35 for Warren I. Downs Class of 1953:
"Warren J. Downs passed away June 25, 2003 at his home in Tucson, AZ. Formerly of Bronxville, NY. After a long and courageous battle with Progressive Supernuclear Palsy. Survived by his wife of 46 years, Rita (nee Curry). Proud father of Stephen (Kelly) of Grand Rapids. MI, Brenda of Tucson, AZ, Diane Fasing (Richard) of Mt. Prospect, IL, seven grandchildren, Andrew, Madeline, Harrison and Liam Downs, Margaret, Skylar and Cathy Fasino. Memorial Services at St. Joseph's Church, Bronxville, NY in October (to be announced)"
Before moving to Bronxville, Warren lived in St. Barnabas Parish in Woodlawn. He and I hitched to Manhattan on many mornings. He will be missed.
Best,
Mike McEneney,
Esq.'53 BBA
[JR: Good find. It was not in the e-media? Thanks, jr ]
Copyright
2003 Newsday, Inc.
Newsday (New York)
July 2, 2003 Wednesday NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. A52
HEADLINE: DEATH NOTICES
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In Memoriam
SCHMITT JR.- William Jacob, P.E. Born on June 24, 1931, passed away on June 28, 2003 in his 72nd year, after a valiant struggle with cancer. He was a graduate of Brooklyn Technical H.S., Manhattan College and received a Masters Degree in Management Engineering from C.W. Post. He was a former environmental testing engineer. Retired from Nassau County Department of Public Works Building Department. A musician his whole life, he ended his career as a string bassist for the Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra and the Sr. Pops of Long Island. He was also an organist for Queensborough Lodge #892 F & AM. Loving son of the late William Sr. and Jeannette. Devoted husband of Mildred (nee Clareen). Beloved father of William III, Karin Ivan and her husband Lewis. Loving Poppa of Janine Margaret, Daniel Lewis and the soon to be born Thomas William. Dear cousin of Barbara Wickson and Kenneth Boege. Visitation, Wednesday 2-4:30 and 7-9:30pm at the New Hyde Park Funeral Home, 506 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park, NY. Masonic Service Wednesday 7:30pm and religious service Wednesday 8pm at funeral Home. Funeral Service Thursday 10am at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 600 New Hyde Park Road, New Hyde Park. Interment to follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church Memorial Fund would be appreciated. Rest in the Lord.
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LOAD-DATE: July 2, 2003
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2003 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. www.mcgraw-hill.com
All Rights reserved
Engineering News-Record
June 23, 2003
SECTION: PEOPLE; Obituary; Vol. 250, No. 24; Pg. 21
HEADLINE: Dick Walter Dies
BYLINE: Staff
C. Richard "Dick" Walter, former chairman of Hazen and Sawyer P.C., died June 11. He was 74.
Walter graduated from Manhattan College with a civil engineering degree in 1950. He received his master's in environmental engineering from Northwestern University in 1951.
Walter joined the newly formed partnership of Hazen and Sawyer in 1952 and rose successively to associate, partner and managing partner. Upon the firm's incorporation in 1977, he became president.
He was a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineering and a recipient of numerous awards in national professional associations. In 2003, Walter was installed in the New York Water Environment Federation Hall of Fame. He retired from Hazen and Sawyer in 1989.
GRAPHIC: Table, photograph: WALTER
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[News MC]
Copyright
2003 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
July 2, 2003, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section C; Page 4; Column 5; Business/Financial Desk
HEADLINE: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: REGIONAL MARKET-- THE BRONX;
Bronx Complex on Site Of Former Health Center
BYLINE: By EDWIN McDOWELL
A gleaming white Class A office complex is nearing completion just off the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, part of it built on the foundation of what had been a state mental health facility, the Bronx Developmental Center.
Construction began last August on what is now called the Hutchinson Metro Center, envisioned by its developers as the first stage of what will be a complex with a million square feet.
The first tenant, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, has signed a 12-year lease for 50,000 square feet, and expects to move about 825 employees into the offices in mid-August.
Mercy College, which already has five campuses and four extension centers throughout New York City and Westchester County, has signed a 20-year lease for 130,000 square feet. It plans to move in beginning in January.
Joseph Simone, whose family-owned Simone Development Company of New Rochelle bought the 18.5 acre site at auction for $3.7 million from the State of New York in May 2001, said that three other tenants have signed commitment letters -- but no leases yet -- for an additional 100,000 square feet. The 460,000-square-foot complex is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2004, Mr. Simone said, and it is expected to create about 2,000 white collar and service jobs.
The developer plans to provide security around the clock and parking space for about 1,400 cars. Those who drive to and from the Metro Center on the Hutchinson River Parkway will eventually be able to do so using a ramp that the city and state departments of transportation have approved, and which Mr. Simone said is expected to be ready in 20 months.
Commuters will also be able to use M.T.A. buses or the No. 6 subway to the Westchester Square station, which is a shuttle bus ride away. Buses will run between the station and the Metro Center from 7:30 a.m. until 7 p.m.
Also planned for the complex is a teleconference center, a cafeteria, a health club, a bank, a dry cleaner and a convenience store. The interior courtyards that were there when the state owned the site were recently landscaped, and will double as alfresco dining areas.
Construction at the Metro Center appears to have be proceeding smoothly, despite a controversy that surrounded the state's auction of the property in 2001.
Although the Bronx Developmental Center was already regarded as obsolete, several architects, preservationists and environmental advocates objected to plans to partly demolish the building and then expand it by 40 percent. The building, which was designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier, was noted for its elongated portholes, which have been replaced by conventional office windows.
The most difficult part of the new design, said its architect, Mitchell D. Newman, the principal of the Newman Design Group in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., had to do with the outline of the foundation of the old building.
"The original footprint," Mr. Newman said, "didn't lend itself to modern large footprint office space, which was required by the tenants."
Mr. Simone said the million-square-foot size of the full complex would be allowed by present zoning regulations.
"Our intention is to create an environment with a biotechnology and medical cluster," Mr. Simone said, "a cluster where lots of scientists can work and study everything from ideas to research."
Mr. Simone expressed confidence that the Hutchinson Metro Center will be a good location for biotechnology and medical offices, since it is within a mile and a quarter of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Calvary Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center.
He said his company is talking with the New York City Investment Fund, a private organization that supports job creation and business development in New York City, in hopes of bringing biomedical companies to the Metro Center.
Mr. Simone also plans to develop a 150-room hotel and conference center.
A hotel could accommodate visitors to the nearby health care centers, Mr. Simone said, as well as Fordham University, Lehman College and Manhattan College; and out-of-towners having business at the Bronx Criminal Court complex. In addition, he said, the planned hotel would be used by visitors to attractions in the Bronx, like the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden and Yankee Stadium.
GRAPHIC: Photo: The initial portion of the Hutchinson Metro Center, on the site of an old mental health unit in the Bronx, will have its first tenant next month. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
LOAD-DATE: July 2, 2003
Copyright
2003 Daily News, L.P.
Daily News (New York)
June 30, 2003, Monday SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 63
HEADLINE: HE'S MAKING INROADS BROOKLYN PRODUCT BELNAVIS FUELS MINORITIES IN
NASCAR
BYLINE: By RICHARD HUFF DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Brooklyn has never been a hotbed for stock car racing.
Growing up in the borough, the closest ever came to it was watching locals speed along the Belt Parkway.
But Belnavis, 63, has come a long way from that time. He's the only full-time African-American team owner on NASCAR's Winston Cup level. Before the start of the 2003 season, Belnavis became a partner with Travis Carter on a team that fields cars for Todd Bodine.
"What intrigued me was that I had heard and seen a number of African-Americans attempt to have an ownership in racing," said Belnavis. "For whatever reasons, they didn't really get off the ground. I felt, not only having some innate abilities, but also having some exposure from a sponsor's standpoint, that if I had the right sponsor and good team, I could be successful."
Belnavis got his start in racing two decades ago, yet that experience had more to do with dollars and cents than pistons and tires. As the first African-American sports marketing director at Miller Brewing in 1979, the Manhattan College graduate noticed the beer maker was losing out to its Southeast competitors - who all sponsored NASCAR teams.
He convinced his bosses to get involved in the sport and by 1981 Miller was backing Bobby Allison.
"We gained some market share in the Southeast, but at the same time I became a fan myself," he said. "So, I followed it and kept involved with the sport."
In 1991, he advised Willie T. Ribbs, who became the first African-American to drive in the Indy 500 that year.
It would take 22 years from that first deal with Miller before Belnavis would become a full-fledged team owner. For NASCAR the timing couldn't have been better.
NASCAR officials have struggled luring ethnic groups to the sport throughout its 50-plus-year history.
Every other African-American owner who has bought into NASCAR has gone without leaving a mark. Julius Erving and Joe Washington launched a Busch Series a few years ago that failed. Jackie Joyner Kersee recently stepped in, then out. Reggie Jackson, as a part owner of a Busch Series team that also has Bodine as its driver, is the only other current African-American owner in NASCAR, with two seasons in the sport. (Former Packers lineman Reggie White has teamed with Joe Gibbs for a future program.)
"(Belnavis) brings such passion to the sport, and so much knowledge, having been on the corporate side," said Dora Taylor, who heads NASCAR's diversity initiatives. "He has a very well-rounded package and on a personal level, he's such a sweet guy."
Getting more ethnic groups into racing will take more than one owner, but it's a good start. Most African-Americans have little exposure to racing and for those who do, the cost of getting involved can be staggering, Belnavis said.
"When I lived in Bed Stuyvesant, I had to go outside of the community to go swimming," he said. "We rode bikes at the public school. I didn't know anything about kart racing. The exposure level to attract drivers is minimal."
Belnavis feels part of his job is to be a role model for younger African-Americans interested in racing.
NHRA Pro-Stock motorcycle drag racer Reggie Showers, an African-American man who grew up in Philadelphia, applauds Belnavis' intentions.
"Racing didn't exist in my neighborhood," Showers said. "There was a go-kart track, and my dad would take us there on Sundays. That was like going to heaven.
"But we didn't have racing role models to aspire to," he added. "That's one of the reasons why I don't think there are many blacks in racing."
But it's about more than role models. Racing has been portrayed as being less than hospitable to ethnic crowds, a feeling not helped by the glut of fans flying Confederate flags in most speedway infields.
"One of the things I've always said is that NASCAR has to display a welcome mat, that they're welcoming everybody to come out to a race," Belnavis said. "If you look at the history, they're not any different from any other institution. But you have to make an effort to say, 'Hey guys, I want you involved.'"
Belnavis is taking that to heart. One of his three daughters, Cherise, helps with outreach programs to increase racing awareness with youngsters.
"I'm aware I may be the flagship to NASCAR, the role model, it's something that is a personal interest to me, a personal desire," Belnavis said. "We can talk about driver development programs, but once you get past the first wave, we don't have a minor league, we don't have a little league of African-American drivers. We've got to get to the grass roots in the African-American community."
The success of his team can help increase awareness, although it is struggling, with Bodine 31st in points.
Belnavis is not giving up, maintaining it will take a few years to get the team on solid footing.
And what would be the impact of a successful turnaround?
"I haven't given it a lot of thought," Belnavis said. "I think a lot of years of trying to get to that point will be shown, emotionally. When it does happen, and it will, I'll be making some history of some sort. I don't consider myself a history maker."
GRAPHIC: Sam Belnavis points the way for minorities to make their mark in auto racing. Belnavis has become a fixture around the track and in the garage as the lone African-American owner on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit. His team fields cars driven by Todd Bodine.
LOAD-DATE: June 30, 2003
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[News3]
Copyright
2003 The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
All Rights Reserved
The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
June 26, 2003 Thursday
SECTION: OPINION; Pg. 8B
HEADLINE: Thinking cap on water
BYLINE: Staff
Recycling wastewater may be one way to add to low supply
The $43,000 research grant awarded Rockland to study recycling wastewater is a positive step in seeking new supply.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has awarded Rockland the money for a pilot program investigating water reuse as a way to increase the county's supply.
While we have called for review of expansion plans for Rockland County Sewer District No. 1, in light of a the possible $153 million price tag, at some point there will have to be even limited sewer service in western Ramapo.
That should involve wastewater recycling, with United Water paying a fair share for the returned supply to the Ramapo River and its well field.
When that happens, the results of the research effort should prove fruitful.
"It will enable us to expand the scope of the project to do more testing and evaluation," notes Ron Delo, executive director of the sewer district.
To be jointly pursued by the sewer district, Manhattan College and United Water, the project will involve filters containing microscopic pores to separate impurities from water. The treated water will be tested but not returned to the drinking supply. If the results are worthy, the water could be added to the supply via a soon-to-be built treatment facility.
The idea is to reuse the millions of gallons of wastewater that would normally be flushed down the drain, water that once was sent to Rockland's many underground wells through the use of home septic systems.
Those systems, which can also contaminate the earth and create odor problems, were the subject of a federal aid program in the 1960s that allowed the Rockland Sewer District No. 1 to form, connecting homes and businesses in many parts of Ramapo and Clarkstown.
Orangetown, North Rockland and Suffern have their own sewer systems.
Now, it's back to the future as scientists seek viable ways to return sewer water, which comprises most waste, back to the water supply chain rather than be pumped into the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River at Piermont.
Rockland sends about 20 million gallons of effluent - treated wastewater from its sewer plant - through a series of pipes that runs from the county treatment facility in Orangeburg to Piermont.
Finding ways to keep some of that water in Rockland became a priority during the three-year drought that recently gripped the county, as well as it should have. This newspaper has been urging such study for decades.
The study will determine how effective the filter is at removing solid material and bacteria from the wastewater, with students in the environmental engineering program at Manhattan College regularly testing the water at the school's laboratory to determine its purity.
The team wants to see if the water has a high enough quality to be returned to a waterway or reservoir as a way to recharge the area's drinking-water supply. That water would then be treated again, along with the rest of the water, before being piped into homes and businesses.
The method has been used successfully in other municipalities, including upstate portions of the New York City watershed.
The pilot project is being done at the sewer district facility in Orangeburg, though officials hope that eventually the system could be operational at a proposed sewage treatment plant in western Ramapo. The treated water could then be channeled into the Ramapo River.
Well fields adjacent to the Ramapo River provide one-third of Rockland's drinking supply, and the field had to be shut down temporarily in September because of inadequate river flow, as it has many times in recent heavy water use/drought conditions.
So, go ahead, while also heeding the warning of Geoff Welch, chairman of the Ramapo River Committee, an environmental group, who seeks a study of river-water quality before any additional treated water is added. "There is already a lot of treated effluent in the river, and we need to establish a baseline to see what's in there already . . . It's a good concept as long as the water is treated to a high standard."
We agree. It may be that Rockland will have to work with Orange County, which also impacts the Ramapo, and with New Jersey further downstream.
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[RESUMES]
FROM THE COLLEGE’S WEB SITE: Your resume can be sent to employers who contact our office seeking to fill positions. For more information contact the Recruitment Coordinator at (718) 862-7965 or Email to JGlenn@manhattan.edu
Actual jobs at MC are at: http://www.manhattan.edu/hrs/jobs
[SPORTS]
FROM THE COLLEGE’S WEB SITE: http://www.gojaspers.com [which is no longer at the College, but at a third party. Web bugs are on the pages. (That’s the benefit of being a security weenie!) So, it’s reader beware. Your browser can tell people “stuff” about you, like your email address, leading to SPAM. Forewarned is forearmed.]
The only reason for putting this here is to give us a chance to attend one of these games and support "our" team.
Date Day Sport Opponent Location Time/Result
9/4/03 Thursday Golf Towson Fall
Classic Baltimore, MD 4:00 PM
9/5/03 Friday Golf Towson Fall
Classic Baltimore, MD 8:00 AM
9/6/03 Saturday Golf Towson Fall
Classic Baltimore, MD 8:00 AM
9/11/03 Thursday Golf Bucknell Invitational
Lewisburg, PA 2:00 PM
9/12/03 Friday Golf Bucknell
Invitational Lewisburg, PA 1:00 PM
9/13/03 Saturday Golf Bucknell Invitational
Lewisburg, PA 8:45 AM
9/19/03 Friday Golf Manhattan Fall
Invitational Riverhead, NY 1:00 PM
[Sports from College]
Nothing New
[Sports from News & Web]
Copyright
2003 Newsday, Inc.
Newsday (New York)
July 1, 2003 Tuesday QUEENS EDITION
Correction Appended
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. A59
HEADLINE: Newsday's All-City First Team
BYLINE: Compiled by John Boell
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CATCHER
Nick Derba, Molloy: The senior captain was one of two returning starters from Molloy's 2002 CHSAA championship team, and he helped lead the Stanners back to the title game, where they lost to Iona Prep ... Derba, headed to Manhattan College, batted .418 (36-for-86) with a .721 slugging percentage, 7 doubles, 2 triples, 6 homers, 22 runs scored and 34 RBIs ... Where Derba really shined was behind the plate; he was entrusted by coach Jack Curran to call his own pitches.
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2003 The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
All Rights Reserved
The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
June 29, 2003 Sunday
SECTION: ALL STARS; Pg. 7K
HEADLINE: Explosive swing
BYLINE: Ian R. Rapoport, Staff
O'Brien won triple crown, led Greeley to sectional final
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Sam DeLuca, Hackley: Slick fielding with a solid bat, DeLuca led the Hornets to the final of the NYSAIS tournament. He hit .512 with some pop - he had 11 doubles and three home runs to go with his 41 RBI, third in the area. He had an eight-RBI game. The senior signed with Manhattan College toward the end of the season.
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http://www.thechronicle.com/story_disp.htm?action=Search&story_id=jul01-69858&category=Sports
Tides split twinbill
NEWPORT — The Thread City Tides used some 2-out magic to break a 6-game losing streak.
Derek James (Old Dominion) singled home a run before a wild pitch plated the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth inning as the Tides held off the host Newport Gulls, 7-6, in the first game of a doubleheader in front of 1,532 fans at Cardines Field.
The Gulls (8-7) would salvage a split with a 5-3 win in the 7-inning nightcap.
Geoffrey Orr (Miami of Ohio) started the come-from-behind heroics for Thread City (7-10) with a single leading off the eighth against reliever J.R. Duffey (Toledo), followed by a single from Adam Murray (Duke). James knocked home Orr with his safety through the right side of the infield and moved to second as Murray advanced to third on the throw to the plate.
Duffey unleashed a wild pitch with Blake Hershelman (St. John’s) at the plate as Murray (3-for-5, 3 runs) raced home to give the Tides a 7-6 lead.
Joey McLaughlin (Oklahoma City University) would keep the Gulls from knotting things up.
Entering the game in relief of Derek Feldman in the top of the second inning, McLaughlin gave head coach Trevor Brown a gutty eight innings of work and held off a rally in the home half of the eighth.
Anthony Aquilino (LeMoyne) singled leading off the home eighth and moved to second on a bunt. He took third on a wild pitch with one out and was left 90 feet away as McLaughlin (2-1, 9 hits, 5 walks, 8 strikeouts) recorded a strikeout and fly ball to left to escape the threat.
In the ninth, McLaughlin sandwiched a pair of strikeouts around an infield groundout to put the finishing touches on the victory.
The Tides held early leads of 2-0 and 3-2 before eventually falling behind by a 5-3 margin after five innings. Scott Balster (double) and Brian McKenna (single) provided run-scoring hits in a 2-run seventh as the Tides tied the game at 5-all.
John Quigley (2 RBI, 2 runs) had two hits for Newport, including a 2-run long ball off McLaughlin in the second inning that tied the game at 2-2.
The hero in the nightcap for the Gulls was Quigley, who added his second home run of the twinbill in the third and brought home Jason Armstrong with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth inning with a single to left-center that broke a 3-3 tie.
Later on, Greg Isaacson (University of Washington) drew a bases-loaded walk to increase the lead to 5-3.
Sam Graham (Mississippi College) allowed four hits over seven innings and struck out five in recording the complete-game victory. His defense would come to his aid in the sixth by turning a double play after Balster had reached on an infield error to lead off the frame.
Trailing 3-2 heading into the top of the fifth inning, Thread City used back-to-back doubles leading off the frame by Joe Cantone (New Haven) and Jeremy Stifler (Towson University) to tie the game at three.
The Gulls were able to keep the Tides from taking the lead after Graham escaped further damage aided by an inning ending 4-3 double play with men on the corners.
Steve Bronder (Manhattan College) took the loss on the mound, allowing six hits and four earned runs over 4ì innings.
Thread City hosts the Riverpoint Royals tonight at Eastern Connecticut State University’s ballpark beginning at 7 p.m.
Get the complete story everyday in the Chronicle.
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[EMAIL FROM JASPERS]
[Email01]
From: Gibbons, Thomas D. (1960)
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 24 Jun 2003
Yes & thanks for the information
Tom
[JR: Welcome ]
[Email02]
From: Goscicki , Donald (1968)
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: "Jasper Jottings"
Please keep me as a subscriber to your "Jasper Jottings". Thanks!
Don Goscicki
[JR: Be glad to. ]
[Email03]
From: Gotimer,
Thomas M. (1977)
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 25 Jun 2003
John
Sign me up, I'd love to hear more about our alma mater
Tom Gotimer
[JR: And, we'd like to hear about you. ]
[Email04]
From: Guerriero,
Angela M. (1985)
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 26 Jun 2003
John,
I've been getting the jottings since you started it. Hopefully getting this email doesn't mean I wasn't bumped.
Thanks,
Angela (Lynch) Guerriero, '85
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From: john.reinke
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 26 Jun 2003
Address1 not Address2, that's why the second invite.
Enjoy, John
[Email05]
From: Guardino,
Alison A. (1992)
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 26 Jun 2003
John -
You can keep me on the Jasper Jottings list.
Thanks.
Alison
[JR: Can do. ]
[Email06]
From: Godly, Margaret Mary (1982)
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 25 Jun 2003
Hi John,
Please include me on your email distribution list. I think this is the wonderful service you are providing to our alum community!
Please feel free to contact me if there is some way I may assist.
Meg Rimore
Godly (class of 1982)
Farmington, NY 14425
[JR: I always need input. My international reporters have been quiet. I maybe force to ask for a report on "French archers", (inside joke!) ]
[Email07]
From: Nancy P. Guernsey (1977)
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 26 Jun 2003
OK, I'll try it!
[JR: You'll like it. (I hope) ]
[Email08]
From: Mayorga,
Oscar D. (1969)
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 24 Jun 2003
Please correct my graduation year...oscar d mayorga 1969 BME.....
great work...I see a fellow jasper every so often at our local parish in Miami....who mentioned about your news letter...
great work!
Oscar Mayorga (1969 BME)
[JR: Sure, what's 20 years among friends. ]
From: Gilmartin,
James J. Sr. (1964)
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 24 Jun 2003
John:
Thank you for the note and, yes, please sign me up. I am always interested in Manhattan activity, particularly as I get older. Just had occasion to talk with Manhattan's (now) most famous son, Rudy G. We graduated together as poly sci majors in '64. He went on to be, well, rudy. Thanks very much for your efforts. Looking forward to more news.
[JR: Enjoy it. ]
From: Harbort,
William [Bill] F.
(1955)
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 5:09 PM
Subject: WEEKLY E-MAIL
OK
HAVE A GOOD DAY!
BILL H.
[JR: YOU DO THE SAME. (Have to speak up for the non-young alums.) Just kidding. ]
From: Haybyrne,
James B. (1966)
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 27 Jun 2003
I'll join in !
[JR: We have you. ]
From: Brown, Julie S. (1994)
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 11 April 2003
Would like to receive Jasper Jottings, please email them to <privacy invoked> . Thanks so much!
[JR: For a reader, anything. ]
From: <privacy invoked>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 27 Jun 2003
please take me off any mail file that you might have.
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From: john.reinke
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 27 Jun 2003
Hi. I would be happy to, but, I don't have this email address in my "list". I realize that everyone has a lot of "spam" to deal with, but this was not "spam". It was a personal invitation to a fellow alum. If you just reply to the message, give me your last name, or tell me to where I originally email it to, then I will not bother you again. As I said in my message, no response was required to not receive anything further. If you have any questions, feel free to give me a call 732-821-5850. As a computer security professional in the financial industry, if your intention is to minimize spam, then I suggest you do not request to be taken off any list. Responding to spam merely confirms that the bad guys have a valid email address, ensuring that you will have your address traded around and you will get more. Any way sorry to disturb you. It was only my intent to reach out to a fellow alum. Best wishes, John Reinke '68E
[JR: No response! ]
From: Ludford,
Joe (1958E)
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: jasperjottings20030629.htm
John,
Special thanks for your thoughtful comments on the conjoined twins in Argentina.
Joe Ludford,
'58E
Waldorf, MD
[JR: Glad you liked them. ]
From: Sartore,
Ed (1962)
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: jasperjottings20030622.htm
John,
I thought you might be interested in the 150th Anniversary Celebration of Manhattan College held 7 June 2003 at St Patricks Cathedral and Rockefeller Center Plaza restaurants. Cardinal Edward Egan presided at the Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral and recived an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Manhattan College. We met Brother Kevin from Syracuse NY at the Mass. All the colleges including Arts & Science, Engineering, Business, and Education were represented in the procession at the Mass for the Anniversary Classes. We then went to the Rockefeller Grill and Seafood Restaurant at the Plaza- a short walk away from the Cathedral. Because of the rainy weather, a tent canopy had been placed over the reception area which offered some protection against the elements. The food was excellant and I was able to met several of the Brothers including Brother Henry of the electrical engineering department. He is scheduled to be reassigned to Bethlehem University.
Edward Sartore Class of 1962
[JR: I enjoyed the report. Thanks. ]
From: Ferguson, Thomas S. (1975)
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Notes on the week of 6/22/03
What an interesting coincidence that the United States Supreme Court's ruling on Texas's anti-sodomy law came during the same week that saw the deaths of three people noted for bigotry: Lester Maddox, Leon Uris and Strom Thurmond. The two politicians (Uris was the author of the racist novels -Exodus- and -The Hajj-), like the critics of the new ruling, claimed "State's Rights" in order to legitimize injustice. Not being a political scientist, I will not argue their point from a legal point of view. But, from the point of view of plain human justice, sometimes a State needs to be saved from its own uneducated and hateful elements: whether it be those who favor racial segregation or those who would use legal means to terrorize people (especially adolescents) because of their sexual orientation.
The Catholic Church is quite clear about its teaching concerning sexuality: the proper place for sex is within marriage. Added to this is the inherent belief of the Church in the dignity of each human life. So far, unfortunately, no religious group, including the Church, has been able to reconcile its teaching concerning behavior with the practice of affirmation of sexual diversity. Another continuing challenge for humanity. However, the Church offers forgiveness in the form of the Sacrament of Reconcilliation. Laws often do not offer such a boon to humanity.
These two sides of the coin: condemnation and apparent acceptance, have caused confusion and pain for generations of young people who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual. Luckily, there is a growing number of support groups for them. As an teacher, I have worked with self-hating young people through my years in both secondary and higher education. At Manhattan College we have such a group, called Standing Together. Its membership includes students who identify with one of the three groups above, as well as many heterosexual students who wish to support their friends. The students' stories usually incorporate one or more of the following: feelings of worthlessness, being identified exclusively through their orientation, temptation to suicide, use of alcohol or drugs to escape pain. One cannot really understand these feelings unless one has been condemned by society since birth for something in which he or she has had no choice. The heterosexual and homosexual faculty who guide Standing Together have, for ten years, been helping these students try to come to grips with their lives and their religious beliefs.
So, consider this brief intervention as a pre-emptive strike against the homophobia that I have noticed before in "Jasper Jottings," and know that, as long as there are caring faculty at Manhattan, it will be a safe place for all of our students.
PS: One example of acceptance: After the first anniversary remembrance of 9/11 at Manhattan College (a beautiful service), I saw one of my students, an Afghan-American. He mourned with the rest of us. I asked him, "Do you feel safe?" His answer,"I always feel safe here at Manhattan."
[JR: " a pre-emptive strike against the homophobia"!!! It's a good thing I am an engineer with a thick skin and don't know no big words. You have got to be kidding. I am the fellow who in the 70's when it wasn't cool to be gay, hired a gay man to clerk for me while he pursued his theater drams. Homophobic. How about "love the sinner; hate the sin". The black robed "high priests" were once again wrong! And, by their actions again – as with the abortion decision, have precluded society from finding a peaceful resolution. Arghhh! ]
From: john.reinke
To: Leon J. Zick (1997)
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: FW: Returned mail: User unknown
Jasper Leon: I have this address as an alternate for you. "Magic1" bounced. All ok? Any instructions?
John'68
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From: Leo Zick
(1997)
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 8:48 PM
Subject: RE: Returned mail: User unknown
Hi John,
Yes, this is my new address, I did my best in making the changeover, sorry I missed you!
Thanks,
Leo
[JR: And, I thought life began and ended with Jottings. ]
From: Denis O. Gray Ph.D. (1970)
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 25 Jun 2003
I'll join. I don't currently receive any alumni stuff so if you could pass my info along to MC them I would appreciate it.
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:39
AM
To: 'Denis Gray'
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 25 Jun 2003
Hi Denis: Sure be glad to. The alumni society usmails most of their stuff out (i.e: McKit, Manhattan alumni news, and Class projects). Is this still current? John'68
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From: Denis Gray
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 25 Jun 2003
yes, that is accurate. I put my stuff on their website a while back and figured that would trigger getting on their lists but haven't received anything.
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From: john.reinke
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:18 PM
To: denis gray
Subject: FW: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 25 Jun 2003
Done
From: ddStebbins
[Stebbins, Donald M.
(1961)]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:10 PM
Subject: Libertarianism
Dear Jasper John,
Your answer to the limited broadcast frequency problem is "leave it to the broadcasters. "
But who are the broadcasters? The ones with the biggest transmitters I guess.
There would be nothing but chaos without government regulation. It's bad enough as it is since the fairness doctrine was repealed.
I think you forget that Jefferson's statement that "men are endowed with inalienable rights" is followed by the statement that "to insure these rights, governments are instituted among men."
Man's life in the natural state is brutish and short as Hobbes wrote:
"No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
The following article sums up the problems with Libertarianism and why it does not work in a modern society. Bush appears to be putting Libertarian theories to the test. God help us all as we head toward oblivion.
Sincerely yours,
Donald M. Stebbins
1961
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Ernest Partridge: 'Privatized hell'
Date: Tuesday, June 24 @ 10:04:00 EDT
Topic: Conservatives And The Right
By Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers
In colonial Philadelphia, firefighters were employed by private insurance companies which, of course, had financial incentives to minimize damage to their clients' properties. Plaques with the insurance company's insignia were placed on buildings, so that the fire fighters would know whether or not it was their "business" to put out the fires on the premises. (These plaques are often found today in antique shops). If the "wrong" plaque was on the building, well, that was just tough luck. Of course, with their attention confined to a single building, fire fighters were ill-disposed to prevent a spreading of the fire to adjacent "non-client" structures.
Occasionally, when the building's insurance affiliation was in some doubt, competing fire companies would fight each other for the privilege of putting out the fire, resulting in more water aimed at fire fighters than at burning buildings.
Eventually, the absurdity and outright danger of this system led one prominent Philadelphia citizen to come up with the idea of a publicly funded and administered fire department.
His name was Benjamin Franklin: America's first anti-free-enterprise commie pinko nut-case.
Franklin's subversive left-wing ideas were extended to include libraries, post offices, and public schools, and, if we are to believe some of today's self-described "conservatives," [Note 1] it's been downhill ever since.
These "conservatives" contend that virtually all economic and social institutions are better managed when privatized and unregulated. According to this libertarian theory, the greed (i.e., "profit motive") of investing private individuals is, in virtually all cases, mystically transformed into the optimum public good. The exceptions are the police, the military, the courts and the legislatures which, they concede, are properly confined to "the public sector." [Note 2].
However, today even these exceptions are succumbing to "creeping privatization," as the hyphen in "military-industrial complex" erodes, as members of Congress are clearly more beholden to their corporate sponsors ("contributors") than to their constituents, and as "conservative" judges routinely rule that corporate "property rights" trump personal injury suits and civil liberties.
Critics such as William Greider charge that the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress wish to take America back to the days of William McKinley. It appears that they have miscalculated by more than a century. Instead, it seems that the right-wing ideologues in charge of our government, want to take us back to the days before Benjamin Franklin. (As an added bonus, this would be before the American Revolution, and those troublesome documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.) So now that Ben Franklin's socialist dispositions have come to light, surely Tom Delay will propose that William McKinley's image replace that of Franklin on the $100 bill.
But is it just possible that old Ben Franklin had a point? Are we not all better off now that the fire department doesn't look first for the insurance medallion on our homes before they turn on the hoses? Isn't the function of the military to defend the country - all of us, rich and poor, male and female, white and "other" - from foreign enemies, rather than enrich the industries that supply the armed forces? And shouldn't the members of Congress represent the public at large, and not the private corporations and individuals that finance their campaigns?
The issue turns on the question of whether or not there are such things as "public goods" - in fact, on whether there is such a thing as a "public" (or "society") at all. Dame Margaret Thatcher, Ronnie Reagan's favorite Brit, apparently didn't think so when she famously wrote "There is no such thing as society, there are only individuals and families." (Thatcher)
As noted above, fire protection is clearly a public good, since fires are without conscience and completely oblivious to the concept of property or property boundaries.
As further evidence of the existence of "public goods" and (contra Thatcher) "society," consider a parable.
Two communities are situated on opposite banks of a great river: on the right bank is "Randville," and on the left bank is "Rawlsburg." Randville is populated entirely by libertarians - rugged individualists all, who shun "collective" activity and who assume full responsibility for their personal safety, welfare and property. "Rawlsburg" is comprised of individuals who are properly covetous of their personal rights, yet fully aware of the desirability of promoting public goods and of acting collectively in the face of common emergencies.
News arrives at both communities from (gulp!) a government bureau, that a great flood is approaching from upstream. The citizens of Randville immediately get to work piling sandbags around each of their individual dwellings. Across the river in Rawlsburg, brigades of citizens are hard at work building a levee around the entire town.
Come the flood, the puny separate efforts of the rugged Randville individualists prove to be futile, while the substantial communal levee surrounding Rawlsburg holds firm and the community is spared.
"Now hold on!," the libertarian retorts. "Surely, faced with this common emergency, the folks at Randville would volunteer to build a levee. That's just common sense."
Very well, but what about those Randvillians who say: "you guys go right ahead and build that levee. I'd rather stay at home - I have other priorities." Surely the good libertarians wouldn't want to force anyone to contribute to the common defense!
And so we have the well-known "free rider problem," whereby an individual gains unearned and cost-free advantage from the labor of others. A profound injustice on the face of it. The solution? What else than to coerce a contribution to the common effort, either by labor or, failing that, cash assessments.
In other words, taxes.
So it comes to this: The only way for the Randvillians to deal with "the free riders" is to coerce labor on the levees, or assess taxes in lieu of labor. They must do so in behalf (are you ready for this?) of the "common good" of the community-as-a-whole. Just as the Rawlsburgers are doing across the river.
The free rider problem exemplifies a larger conundrum, well-known to political philosophers back to Aristotle (and presumably beyond): the tragedy of the commons -- famously reiterated by Garrett Hardin. Here is how the tragedy plays out: in numerous cases, an aggregate of individuals who rationally seek advantage for themselves, bring ruin upon all. Hardin's example was of an overstocked pasture, the productivity of which is destroyed as each "private" farmer attempts to increase his personal wealth by adding livestock to the pasture. Substitute the "common" atmosphere, or fish stocks in the "common" ocean, and you have a similar situation. Or consider antibiotics. The overuse thereof is commonly known to decrease their potency. Yet it is clearly to my advantage to take antibiotics for even a trivial bronchial infection - good for me, but minimally bad for everyone else who takes antibiotics. Multiply the separate "personal advantages" by millions, and eventually the antibiotic becomes effectively useless to all.
Put simply, good for each, bad for all (e.g., antibiotics) . And conversely, bad for each, good for all (e.g., taxes).
Hardin's solution (along with Aristotle, Hobbes, Rawls, and many others) is "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon." In other words, government. And if we must have government, then by all means let it be a democratic government, under rule of law, and protective of the rights of all citizens. The sort of thing that our founding fathers had in mind when they ratified the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
To the contrary, the libertarian doctrine behind the radical right-wing declares that government is "the enemy" - that the free market and the self-interested use of private property will, via Adam Smith's "invisible hand," invariably result in the best result for society at large. Good for each, good for all; bad for each, bad for all.
The absurdity of uncompromising privatism and market absolutism is on full display when applied to environmental policy. The libertarian Robert J. Smith writes:
"The problems of environmental degradation, pollution, overexploitation of natural resources, and depletion of wildlife all derive from their being treated as common property resources. Whenever we find an approach to the extension of private property rights in these areas, we find superior results." (R. Smith, 42-3, my emphasis)
It thus follows that I own, not only my property, but also the atmosphere above it and the ground below it. Can I then prohibit fly-overs by aircraft? Can I sue if the inflow to the aquifer beneath me is contaminated? Who, then? Are the "owners" of the insects that pollinate my orchards entitled to charge me for the service? The mind boggles. And it gets even worse (as I elaborate in Section III of my "With Liberty for Some").
The privatization regime being imposed by the Bush administration is inherently unstable, unequal, and eventually oppressive. Wealth and power act in behalf of and enhance wealth and power, ever loosening the constraint of checks and balances, as it proceeds to absorb government and make it an instrument in behalf of wealth and power. The statistics tell it all: today, the average CEO of a Fortune 500 company earns in half a day, what his median worker earns in a year (a ratio of 500 to 1). Twenty years ago, the ratio was 40 to 1. Today, one percent of the US households own almost 40% of the nation's wealth - twice that of the 1970s. (United for a Fair Economy). With the coming abolition of taxes on estates, dividends and capital gains, that inequality can only accelerate, as Leona Helmsley's maxim -- "taxes are for the little people" - achieves full realization.
Furthermore, the privatizers' celebration of "competitive enterprise" is essentially hypocritical. Capitalists hate competition, as they relentless strive to build monopolies and crush their competitors. All that stands in their way are anti-trust laws and the courts - which is to say, government.
But let us stop well short of the deep end. Privatization and free enterprise, constrained by popular government, are fine ideals, the applications of which have undoubtedly yielded great benefits to mankind. Moreover, government regulation can often be excessive and a damned nuisance to the private entrepreneur. Private enterprise should surely count for something. But not for everything. Adam Smith was right: "the invisible hand" of the market place can, without plan or intention, "promote ... the public interest." But we put ourselves in great peril if we fail to acknowledge "the back of the invisible hand" - the tragedy of the commons - whereby the unregulated pursuit of self interest by the wealthy and powerful becomes parasitic upon, and eventually destroys, the well-ordered society of just laws, common consent, and an abundance of skilled and educated workers who produce and secure that wealth.
Both the radical anarchism of the Busheviks and the communism of Lenin and Stalin share the attribute of uncompromising dogmatism: in both cases, these are doctrines which are assumed, apart from experience and common sense, to apply to the real world, fully formed and fully ready to be imposed upon that reality. These are dogmas for which pragmatism and corrective feedback have no part. Both libertarianism and communism err in proposing extreme, simplistic and doctrinaire prescriptions for conditions that are necessarily complex: communism by condemning all property, and libertarians by condemning all public governmental functions, other than that of the "watchmen" (police and military) and the courts. (Cf. "Two Lessons from Russia").
The complex arena of human economic and social behavior has no place for such simplistic dogmas. Throughout our illustrious and prosperous history, the United States has developed a society and an economy that is a splendid mix of private enterprise, civic association and public service. We have learned how to progress through the trials, errors and successes of countless policy experiments, all leading to refinements and compromises amongst competing parties and interests, with the excesses of both government and private interests constrained by the rule of law and finely honed checks and balances.
Now all that is about to be thrown away. The Bush administration has no use for these complexities, caveats and constraints. They are comfortable in their assurance that they already have all the answers. All that remains is for them to serve their corporate sponsors, and, as GOP activist Grover Norquist crudely puts it, drown the beast (namely our constitutional republic) in the bathtub.
With that demise we will see the end of Social Security, Medicare, Head Start, the Environmental Protection Agency, to just begin a recitation of a very long list. Vouchers will drain support and funding from the public schools, and the crippled social services will be forced to attach themselves to religious organizations in order to qualify for "faith-based" funding. The privatized replacements for the current government social services - the insurance companies, the HMOs, the private schools, etc. - will, of course, have as their prime objectives, the enrichment of their stockholders and corporate officers, rather than service to the public. And oversight and reform of these private institutions will be out of reach of political institutions: elections, legislatures, and the courts.
This will be a very different country, virtually unimaginable to most American citizens today, but familiar to those who are acquainted with third world kleptocracies in Central America, Africa and Asia.
This will be a country that the public at large will not want. But when, to their great regret and sorrow they discover this, it will be too late to turn back.
The founders of our republic, let us never forget, recognized the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (rather than simple "property").. Furthermore, they acknowledged that "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." And among the six functions of government enumerated in the Preamble to our Constitution are, "to insure domestic tranquility" and "to promote the general welfare."
This government - our government - is what the Bush and his supporters wish to "drown in a bathtub!" They desire this, firm in the conviction that a disconnected aggregate of self-serving private individuals, in absolute control of their private property, will serve us better.
Are you willing to allow these radical anarchists to try out this bold experiment on the rest of us?
If not, then what do you propose to do about it?
Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field s of Environmental Ethics and Moral philosophy. He publishes the website, "The Online Gadfly" www.igc.org/gadfly and co-edits the progressive website "The Crisis Papers" www.crisispapers.org .
NOTES and REFERENCES
1. Simply put, those who call themselves "conservatives" aren't. They are in fact radical anarchists. Authentic conservatives, revere our founding documents (e.g., the Bill of Rights) and respect the rule of law. (See my "Conscience of a Conservative")
2. The (self-described) "conservatives" thus exemplify the core libertarian doctrine that the only legitimate function of government is to protect the fundamental human rights to life, liberty, and property. Hence, the only legitimate institutions of government are the military, the police, and the courts. (Bayes, Hospers) Right wing "conservatives" thus agree with libertarian economic dogma. They disagree on matters of personal conduct such as drug use, gay rights and abortion. The right wing would "take government off our backs and put it in our bedrooms," while the libertarians would keep government both off our backs and out of our bedrooms. (For my extended critique of libertarianism, see "With Liberty for Some". For my critique of "free market absolutism," see "The New Alchemy" and follow the links).
William W. Bayes, "What is Property?," The Freeman, July 1970, p. 348.
Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 162: 1243 (13 De. 1968).
John Hospers,. "What Libertarianism Is," The Libertarian Alternative, (ed.) Tibor R. Machan, New York: Nelson Hall.
Robert J. Smith, "Privatizing the Environment," Policy Review, Spring, 1982, p. 11.
Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, Harper Collins, London. P. 626.
Copyright 2003, by Ernest Partridge
Reprinted from The Crisis Papers:
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[JR: Time doesn't permit me to engage you in a debate about Libertarianism – I have to recover from the computer failure. But, I will say I would prefer voluntary solutions to government ones. :Public" education graduates who can't read. "Social Security" "insurance" that returns negative rates of return and discriminates against women and minorities. Public "welfare" that deprives us of the resources to do true charitable works. And, probably the worst, turning Americans into wards of the government. A Libertarian world would be peaceful, prosperous, and beautiful. What we have is Orewellian perpetual war, confiscatory "taxes", and government-induced "pollution". IMHO ]
From: Robert L. Hodge Jr. (1978)
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:42 PM
Subject: OK-Hook me up!----------------------------------RE: Hello from a 1968
Jasper on 30 Jun 2003
Dear John,
OK. Sign me up, etc.
Thanks!
Prof. Robert L. Hodge, Jr., J.D.
Class of 1978
From: Ruth A. Gilbert Brock(1979)
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 24 Jun 2003
Hi John,
I'm glad you dropped me a line. A better e-mail address for me is <privacy invoked> . My last name has changed to Brock now. My life has been very busy for the last year or so. I attended senior service school at the Army War College as one of 3 Air National Guardsmen selected for this school. I graduated in June 2002 with a Masters of Strategic Studies. I also was married on St Paddy's Day this past March to Michael Brock. We blended our families together nicely. I have a 16 year old daughter, Erin and Michael came to the marriage with three children: Michael, age 15, John, 20 and his twin sister Kristen, age 20. Michael works for Northwest Airlines as a supervisor, and I'm currently a federal employee and also a lieutenant colonel working for the Texas Air National Guard. I recently bought a house in Hurst, TX this past December. This is a good location for an easy drive to our places of work and we are also near family. My brother lives 2 miles away and my parents only 35 miles in Dallas.
I will be coming to NYC for a supply conference in July. Is there anything going on at the college 18-24 July? What is the young alumni group? How young? I plan on coming in on the weekend before my conference to visit with a HS girlfriend. I haven't been back to MC in years and may try to visit or go to the happy hour on 35th St.
What has been going on in your life?
Sincerely,
Ruth Brock
MC Alumni, 1979
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:55
AM
To: 'Ruth Ann'
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 24 Jun 2003
Ms. Ruth Ann:
I have entered your preferred email address on the list for the weekly ezine.
Your description of your status was fascinating. I assume I have your permission to share it with our fellow alums.
Congrats on the nuptials. Reminds me of a Lucy and Henry Fonda movie "His, Hers, and Ours". I defer to Doctor Dans who is the resident film guru.
If you want a great Broadway play, I recommend "Mama Mia". I suggest you get the tix before you come. I saw it in London and a critic there described it as "a license to print money". It was great. What's a trip to NY without a play.
I don't see anything on the calendar. If you go to the happy hour, please file a trip report on the "Young Jaspers" with us. All the "old Jaspers" will get a giant kick out of it. It'll remind them of their youth. I keep threatening to show up. I can't believe they'd be anything less than hospitable since you're closer to their age than I am.
I am in another one of my perennial job searches. As a "fat old white man" working on Wall Street, these "hiatuses" are a fact of life. Hopefully the politicians will get out of the way and let the American economy recover. In the mean time, I just have to find the place where they are in excruciating IT pain or else in a panic, not knowing what to do, and I'll be back in the harness again.
As I said in my invitation letter, I have been doing Jasper Jottings for a while. It has become a hobby while I wait for the Alumni Association's paid staff at the College to take it over. Hopefully before I croak.
I recommend a trip back to the Quad for the sense of history, peace, and "full circle" closure. I was amazed at the number of girls from when I went; it's like 3 out of 4, or seems that way. Everyone is so young and full of energy. Unlike the grizzled has beens like me.
In any event, thanks for your great email, I hope you enjoy my modest hobby, and good luck on your upcoming trip. Traveling these days is a giant hassle. IMHO
John'68
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FINAL WORDS THIS WEEK
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/roberts-carey4.html
Taxpayers Bankroll Feminist Hoax
by Carey Roberts
Remember the Super Bowl hoax?
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That was back in 1993, when feminist groups called a press conference to claim that Super Bowl Sunday was "the biggest day of the year for violence against women." NBC executives, cowed by the hysteria, agreed to run a public service spot just before the big game, reminding men to not beat up their wives after every touchdown.
Of course, the whole thing turned out to be a farce.
But there is another myth that many persons still accept at face value that women were shortchanged by medical research.
It all began in 1990, when Rep. Patricia Schroeder of Colorado made the claim that "When you have a male-dominated group of researchers, they are more worried about prostate cancer than breast cancer."
Apparently, Rep. Schroeder was ignorant of the fact that spending on breast cancer has long outstripped prostate research by a 3:1 ratio at the National Institutes of Health.
And when Sen. Barbara Mikulski learned that 9.7% of the NIH budget was allocated to women’s health, newspaper headlines were filled with her shrill allegation of "Blatant discrimination." Sen. Mikulski was obviously unaware that only 4.5% of the NIH budget was allocated to men’s health. The remainder of the money went to research that benefited both sexes.
The mass media has contributed to the disinformation campaign, as well. For example, the General Accounting Office published a report in 2000 showing that men represented only 37% of research participants.
Then USA Today ran an editorial on May 5, 2000 summarizing the GAO report. The column made this bizarre claim: "Moreover, the habit of overlooking women in medical research is deeply ingrained and hard to shake." Predictably, the editorial writer blamed it all on men: "And the research hierarchy is still largely dominated by the interests and concerns of white males."
Even medical researchers succumbed to the hysteria surrounding the female exclusion myth. In 1993, editor Marcia Angell wrote in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, "There is little doubt that women have been systematically excluded as subjects for study....it is not surprising that most clinical trials have been heavily, if not exclusively, weighted toward men".
But according to the NIH Inventory of Clinical Trials, women were included in 96% of clinical trials as early as 1979.
More troubling is that government officials would also mislead. Dr. Vivian Pinn, director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/), alleged in a 1997 interview that "women were routinely excluded from medical research supported by NIH."
Problem is, the reverse is the truth. Women have been routinely included in NIH research studies.
For example, Curtis Meinert of Johns Hopkins University did a head count of subjects in all clinical trials published in five leading medical journals in 1985, 1990, and 1995. Professor Meinert tallied over 906,000 participants in these trials, of whom 61% were female and 39% were male.
So where’s the "routine exclusion" of women?
To this day, officials from the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health continue to spin the claim that women were shortchanged by medical research.
And every year, U.S. taxpayers cough up millions of dollars devoted to the bogus proposition that women’s health needs to play catch-up.
June 30, 2003
Carey Roberts [send him mail] is a researcher and consultant who tracks gender bias in the mainstream media.
Copyright © 2003 LewRockwell.com
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I would like to know why the Federal Government is forcing
me to fund either research. I am forced to participate in "stuff"
that I wouldn't contribute to if it was voluntary. Let some group like MDA,
March of Dimes, or the Leukemia Society panhandle me for funds to support their
research. Or, more effectively let the drug companies do the research. When the
"government" gets involved, we can be sure that controversy, waste,
and stupidity abound. I just keep asking "Why me?".
I am forced to "invest" in programes that I
wouldn't fund on any basis. So why does the "King" command its
"subjects" to participate. Doesn't anyone see the basic unfairness?
Now if someone came to be and asked for a donation for Parkinson's research,
showed the good work they were doing, and how frugal they were being, then I
would kick in. But, I as a taxpayer get no right to insist on solid science,
fiscal discipline, results, and appreciation for enabling good work. I refer
the reader to the Lord Acton site, http://www.acton.org/ ,
and a great page that I have quoted before http://www.acton.org/publicat/books/transformwelfare/olasky.html
about what makes for good charity. The "government" breaks all the
rules and we bear the result of it.
And that’s the last word.
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