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Friday,
June 10, If
your graduating year ends in a 5 or a 0, you are celebrating an
anniversary. Questions
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Environmental Engineering Plumbers Club Location: Smith Auditorium, Campus For
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George
Sheehan Five Mile Run and Runners' Expo Redbank, NJ |
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JULY 18
Jasper Cup - Yale, 29 Capital District - Day at the Races |
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July
30-31 The Manahttan College Jasper Dancers will be
performing as part of the NBA's Rhythm N' Rims Tour on in |
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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:
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The quote as a literary form?
``Legislators do not merely mix metaphors: they are the Waring blenders of metaphors, the Cuisinarts of the field. By the time you let the head of the camel into the tent, opening a loophole big enough to drive a truck through, you may have thrown the baby out with the bathwater by putting a Band-Aid on an open wound, and then you have to turn over the first rock in order to find a sacred cow.''
Molly Ivins, *The
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=636855 The
vanishing flowers of By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor 09 May 2005 ===<begin quote>=== One
in five of The
total is far higher than previously thought and has shocked the team of
senior botanists who discovered it through a two-year intensive survey of all
of The
survey, published today, paints a completely new picture of the conservation
status of ===<end quote>=== Now I’m not an environmentalist whacko, nor to do I subscribe to the school of thought that says pave over everything for strip malls, but I am mildly piqued. Now my particular “enlightenment” comes from the dumb old “Adventure” game played on the night shift at AT&T many many moons ago. I know I have mentioned it here. Around move ~7, you find a bird. You can kill it, cook it, and eat it. But, unless you find the cage around move ~11, go back to ~7, catch the bird, and carry it to move ~15, you’ll never get past the snake at move ~15. From whence, I became an “ecologist”. It is possible that the consequences of our choices make further progress later on impossible. So
what if the English yellow bird’s nest flower cures cancer? Or worse yet,
what if the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon each had a part of the
solution to Alzhiemer’s? We know that that there
are some many things that we don’t fully understand and so few that we think
we do. I was always intrigued at that George Washington Carver legend about
how many things he got out of a peanut. And, In short, when I walk down my life’s road, I will try to take extra care not to step on that earthworm. It might be the one we need. I hope all my fellow alums – as in the alleged Indiant proverb -- “walk gently on the Earth”. It might be important to get by any “big snakes” in our future paths. |
Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.
"Collector-in-chief"
reinke--AT—jasperjottings.com
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PETER W. DRAKE, F.S.C., FORMER ASSISTANT DEAN OF ENGINEERING AND Br. Peter, who most recently served as adjunct assistant professor of math and computer science, joined the College in 1976 as the director of campus ministry, and served in this role until 1980. During this time, he also was coordinator of minority programs in engineering. Since his arrival, Br. Peter, who earned his doctorate and master’s degree in electrical engineering from The Catholic University of America, has held several positions at the College as a faculty member and administrator. In
the fall of 1982, Br. Peter, at the time, the assistant dean of engineering
and assistant professor of electrical engineering,
was appointed acting dean of the College’s school of engineering until the
position was permanently filled. As assistant dean of engineering, Br. Peter
was closely involved in the administration and development of the College’s
programs in civil, chemical, electrical, environmental and mechanical
engineering. His leadership helped make it possible to bring upper-level
engineering courses to residents of Prior
to A
published author, Br. Peter’s articles have appeared in numerous professional
journals. He held memberships in the The
wake and funeral for Br. Peter were held at the -------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- From:
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http://i-newswire.com/pr18802.html Kevin
Campbell, Ph.D., the Roy J. Carver Chair of Physiology and Biophysics and interim head of the
department, professor of internal medicine
and neurology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, is the recipient of the i-Newswire, 2005-05-05 - The Distinguished Mentoring Award honors a UI Carver College of Medicine faculty member who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to research mentoring and whose trainees have gone on to have notable careers of their own. Both
the Distinguished Mentoring award and the lecture were initially
established and are supported
by a gift to the UI Foundation from UI graduates Nancy and Daryl Granner, M.D., of In
1989, In
the course of his wide-ranging and productive research career, Nancy and Daryl Granner received their bachelor's degrees at the UI in 1958, and Daryl also received a master's and medical degrees from the UI in 1962. Granner served as the head of the endocrinology division
at the UI from
1975 to 1984. Today he is professor and head of the STORY
SOURCE: CONTACT: Jennifer Brown, ( 319 ) 335-9917 jennifer-l-brown-- at --uiowa.edu PHOTOS/GRAPHICS: A photo of Dr. Campbell is available from Jennifer Brown, jennifer-l-brown-- at --uiowa.edu ### [MiKeMcE: 1974 ] [JR: Faster than MCdb. ;-) Thanks, Mike] |
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DRAKE, BRO. PETER, F.S.C. DRAKE--Bro.
Peter, F.S.C. Retired Professor of Engineering at Wake
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DWYER, CORNELIUS J., JR. DWYER--Cornelius
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Richard Cerchiara, 80, of Stuart, died He
was born in Cerchiara was a graduate of During
World War II, he served in the Army in Prior
to retirement, he was a podiatrist in He was a Catholic. He
was an avid tennis player, winning city and college championships. He also
was certified to teach by the U.S. Professional Tennis Association and taught
children in Survivors
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Press The disclosure by Roman Zvarych, 51, follows weeks of controversy over his educational background. The staunch ally of President Viktor Yushchenko has faced increasing pressure to produce his diplomas after news reports suggested he had studied at the school but had not completed the degree. "From
1976 until 1978, I studied at the Last
month, Zvarych's resume also said he was a professor at "I never said that I had the rank ... when I was teaching, students called me 'professor' " he said. Yushchenko's office and government officials were not immediately available for comment. Zvarych said he earned a bachelor's degree at Manhattan College, a small liberal arts school, and promised to "hand over all the appropriate certificates" to the government. Zvarych has bounced from one controversy to another since being tapped to head the Justice Ministry. Opponents have also alleged he was a CIA agent and that he improperly lobbied on behalf of his wife's oil business. As justice minister, he had pledged to promote the rule of law and to fight corruption - two of the top priorities of Yushchenko, a Western-oriented reformer who came to power after the massive protests last year known as the Orange Revolution. After the diploma scandal emerged, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said "everyone should hang his or her credentials in the government building in the full view of public." Earlier,
Zvarych claimed he lost his The minister also said he was unaware about what he described as erroneous information about his education on the government's Web site - even after reporters questioned its accuracy. "I never read information about myself and it was my mistake," he said. GRAPHIC: AP Photo KIV101 LOAD-DATE:
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Business
Wire Integrium, a contract research organization (CRO), announced the appointment of Michael Gleeson to the position of chief executive officer, formerly held by Dr. David Smith - one of Integrium's founding partners. Smith will continue in a key role at Integrium by focusing on the company's medical affairs and pharmacovigilance services. Gleeson is responsible for further establishing Integrium as a premier CRO for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. He will ensure the continued growth and expansion of Integrium, and will strategically position the company's operations and service offerings to meet continually changing industry needs. Gleeson brings extensive leadership, operations, and business development experience to Integrium from his 35+ years in the healthcare industry. "We are delighted to welcome Michael as Integrium's new CEO," said Smith. "His experience, vision, and industry knowledge are the ideal combination to lead Integrium into the next phase of its growth. I look forward to working closely with Michael as Integrium continues its proud tradition of serving its clients with operational excellence and clinical expertise." "The response Integrium has received from its clients during the past 7 years more than validates the unique service offering that we provide to the industry," noted Gleeson. "The task of further expanding Integrium's capabilities, global reach and operational capacities will be challenging and exciting for all of us here at Integrium and will signal our continued commitment to our sponsors to satisfy their clinical outsourcing needs." Gleeson
has a well-established track record in leading service providers to meet the
needs of the industry. He was a founding partner and president of The Gleeson
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from About Integrium Integrium is an established contract research
organization providing a comprehensive range of product research,
development, and communication services to clients in the biopharmaceutical
and medical device industries. Integrium is focused
on designing and managing clinical trials for its clients for the purposes of
product registration and product positioning and specializes in integrating
the scientific and marketing goals of its clients into successful projects. Integrium has headquarters in CONTACT: Integrium Richard Caroddo, 212-584-9190, ext. 222 rcaroddo-- at --integrium.com URL: http://www.businesswire.com LOAD-DATE:
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Inside the feds' war on the country's deadliest prison gang: 16 murders, 21 death-penalty cases, and snitches galore. BYLINE: By Alan Prendergast A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown's grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the rest of the place. Prisoners are forbidden to cross that line. Joseph Principe stays way, way clear of the line. The last thing he needs, today or any of the other days he has to spend behind bars, is trouble. Maybe
it's the olive-green uniform, maybe it's the way he stands for a frisk, but
there is little to distinguish Principe from the other convicts in this
medium-security lockup on "Is this new?" he asks. She shakes her head slowly. He turns away from her, for modesty's sake, and tucks. The whole exchange takes only a few seconds, but it's rich in ritual. Here are the rules, ancient and implacable, thus it has always been and always shall be... and over here is Joe Principe, a man in a unique position to understand both the absurdity and the necessity of what is being asked of him. Until
a few years ago, Disgraced
cops who go to prison usually end up in some form of protective custody --
"checking in," convicts call it. But that's not News
travels fast in prison, rumors even faster. Everybody knows a little bit
about who The
whole story, as Unveiled
in 2002 by the U.S. Attorney's Office in The
case has been long in coming -- in part, prison officials say, because the
fear created by the AB is so pervasive. Although bona fide members make up
less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the federal prison population, the AB has
been blamed for up to 25 percent of the killings in federal pens. It's also
said to be responsible for at least six inmate murders at In
one infamous 24-hour period in 1983, two AB lifers escaped their handcuffs
and killed two guards in the most secure unit of the federal penitentiary in In
recent months, nearly half the defendants in the racketeering case, many of
whom are already serving long sentences for other crimes, have accepted plea
deals --including But
prison gangs are multi-headed beasts, and the feds have made some
questionable deals in their effort to crush the AB. Much of the information
and several key witnesses behind the racketeering case can be traced to a
single cellblock at ADX known as H Unit, a secret intelligence unit where six
top defectors from the gang were assembled and debriefed. The existence of
the operation was first disclosed in Westword five
years ago, when a former resident of H Unit charged that the group's members
conned their handlers, smuggled out sensitive documents and embellished their
stories in order to obtain special privileges and transfers to less austere
prisons ("A Broken Code," Other informants have since come forward with their own tales about H Unit, and attorneys for the death-eligible defendants are challenging the credibility of the state's top snitches. They contend that the defectors tailored their testimony to suit the government and that the whole debriefing process was fatally flawed. "I think this case started with H Unit," says Dean Steward, Mills's attorney. "All of these guys were looking to find a way out of ADX. They had other agendas, but that was their top priority -- getting out of there." The
murky case against "There
was no honor in my case, just a lot of lying and exaggerating," Nobody sets out in life with a gnawing ambition to spend time in prison. Inmates don't plan on ending up there, and neither do staff. Correctional officers often come to their profession down a winding path that starts out with a hankering for the military or law enforcement, or possibly just for a uniform and the authority that goes with it. For Joe Principe, the calling had nothing to do with uniforms or the scent of danger; it was all about a regular paycheck and good benefits and a pension. After trying on all sorts of jobs and lives, he found himself turning thirty, ready to settle down and raise a family. Corrections looked like his ticket to suburbia, a way of repudiating what had gone before. "I've mellowed out quite a bit," he says, "but I used to have quite an itch to scratch." Born
and raised in the Bronx, After
that, there was a stream of other jobs, including a stint as a private
investigator, working insurance and marital surveillance cases all over Principe
started at USP Lewisburg in central ADX
was a new kind of prison, designed to house the system's high-risk inmates in
isolation 22 hours a day. The place was a maze of control rooms, double doors
and cameras. When prisoners were taken out of their cells -- to the
recreation cages in the yard, for example, or to phone their lawyers -- they
were heavily shackled and escorted by three guards. For "It was kind of scary quiet," he says. "All the doors and grills, and it takes you forever to walk from one side to the other. It was supposed to be safer, but things can always happen. Those bars, they're an illusion. I used to tell the young officers, ŒMake believe they're not there. Because when you start depending on them, you're going to start screwing up.'" Crazies who'd assaulted staff at other prisons often wound up at ADX. Sure, they were behind double doors, but that didn't make them any less crazy -- quite the opposite. Now they had all day to try to figure out how they were going to nail you with one of their shit-piss cocktails. One inmate was known for stripping and oiling his body for the anticipated tussles with the extraction team; you could put him in a four-point restraint on his bed, and he'd still bite off a chunk of his shoulder and spit it at you. Just how were you supposed to "manage" wack jobs like that? The
place was different, all right. With all the cameras and rules, Pugh
was a veteran administrator who made no secret of his belief that he had some
"dirty" staffers at ADX, people who were being co-opted, blackmailed
or paid by prison-gang leaders to look the other way. "I
did little things," "The way I look at it, they're already locked up. What are you going to do? If you make them miserable, they make you miserable. So there were little things, minor rules -- like this issue of passing, okay? Bureau policy says you don't pass anything from one inmate to the next. At Lewisburg, they didn't trip on little things like that. They're just happy if nobody dies on shift." "A lot of guys sign it without really looking at it," he says. "After a while, you don't care. You do your eight, you hit the gate. It's a job. They want you to get more involved, but the job is miserable enough without poking around and peeking at everybody's deepest, darkest secrets." As
Pugh pursued his search for dirty staff, the relationship between the
administration and the union quickly deteriorated. On
There were no particular duties associated with his new assignment. He merely had to stay at his house, a living, breathing testament to others on the folly of being a renegade. For the next seven months, he sat tight, drawing his pay and wearing the stigma of being "under investigation" like a badge. Even after he was arrested and thrown in the county jail, the checks kept coming. The
Aryan Brotherhood started out in the early 1960s in the But
in time, prosecutors say, the organization's leadership became much more
interested in power than race. They developed sophisticated gambling,
extortion and dope operations; pimped out male inmates of all persuasions
(despite their loud contempt for homosexuality); ordered hits on their own
weak links; and forged uneasy truces with black and Hispanic factions. By the
late '70s, several veterans of the For years, few law-enforcement officials paid attention to the AB; as long as their principal victims were other inmates, there was little public outrage over their activities. But the 1983 killing of the two Marion guards, as well as incidents of street violence from paroled members who were dealing drugs and expected to pay "taxes" to the gang, drew increasing scrutiny. In the mid-'80s, the FBI tried to build a racketeering case against the AB, citing the extensive narcotics network in California prisons and the group's apparent efforts to extort Mafia elements inside the walls. "Source information indicates that the AB has a stranglehold on some of the top LCN [La Cosa Nostra] members who are inside the prison system," one report stated, "so now it allows the AB access to the funding of organized crime." But
in 1989, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Over
the next decade, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) became the
lead agency investigating the AB. A new crop of informants emerged, especially
after a war erupted in federal pens between the gang and the DC Blacks in the
late 1990s ("Marked for Death," Roach
was placed in H Unit, an isolated area tucked near ADX's
central control room. For several months, he was the only occupant of the
unit; guards took to calling it the Roach Motel. In 1999 he was joined by
five other defectors, including a Only a few top administrators and staffers were allowed access to H Unit. Still, it didn't take long for other guards to notice the bags of food from the outside world -- ribs, pizza, burgers from Carl's Jr. -- vanishing into the Roach Motel. Rumors spread that Warden Pugh had assembled a bunch of lowlifes to look at pictures of officers and tell tales about the "dirty" ones. But investigating staff was only a small part of H Unit's mission. The group was given other inmates' mail and asked to decode the secret messages that AB members were known to conceal in what seemed like innocuous small talk. (One method of sending orders involved a disappearing "ink" made of urine that reappeared when heated.) They made training videos that purported to show how gang members passed notes and drugs, compromised staff and made weapons out of ordinary commissary items. They were debriefed at length on their knowledge of various AB murder plots, even if much of what they knew was hand-me-down prison lore. And they were handed hush-hush files on everything from other AB rollovers to Latin American drug cartels, in the hopes that they could fill in some gaps in pending investigations. In return for their help, they got perks no ADX inmate could have dreamed possible. Carl's Jr. A television and VCR. A laptop computer -- and occasional, supervised access to the Internet. The ability to move freely throughout the unit. At least one soft-core porn video, smuggled in by one of their chummier handlers. What would ultimately amount to thousands of dollars in cash payments, placed in their commissary accounts. And promises of transfers to less secure prisons or spots in the witness-protection program. A
few months into the operation, a former AB shot-caller named Danny Weeks had
a falling-out with Roach and was moved out of H Unit. Weeks began snitching
on the snitches. He contacted Westword and declared
that the debriefing was a fraud. Roach and another top informant, "We would theorize what certain things meant and always embellish everything to make us look good," Weeks wrote. "Kevin would later confide in me that he was playing the biggest game he had ever played, and if he made a wrong move he was through. He told me that he had [a BOP intelligence officer] by the nuts and had told him so." The game may have included passing on to others the top-secret information that their handlers gave them. Weeks smuggled sensitive data on a DEA investigation out of ADX and into a public court file to show how easily it could be done. After Weeks went public, Warden Pugh moved quickly to discredit him. He sent out a memo to staff declaring that Weeks had failed a polygraph test. But another H Unit graduate, Brian Healy, would later tell a very similar story to defense investigators about what went on in the unit. "After they've been fed the information," he said, "the informants know what to say." According to Healy, Pugh had personally brought staff files to H Unit and shown the inmates photos that included the officers' addresses and phone numbers. He would then ask, "Which of these guys are dirty?" One
of the photos was of Joe Principe. Healy had spent months at ADX before
moving to H Unit, but Weeks
had made accusations about Principe when he first arrived in H Unit,
accusations that may have prompted "I
knew that Officer Principe had been placed on home leave, and I asked Kevin
the details on that," Weeks wrote. "He told me "I told Kevin that's kinda hard on the guy. He replied, 'Fuck the puke. He's lucky I can't kill him.'" Home
duty was a bit like being locked up, His buddies from the union called with messages of solidarity. Hang in there, Joe. They can't get away with this. But as the months dragged on, the calls dried up. So much for the brotherhood of the badge. His father had just passed away. He was going through a messy divorce and a custody battle over his kids, sitting on a mortgage and wondering how much longer he could keep his non-job. If he was going to be branded an outlaw, he might as well live like one. He wrote poems, hung out in a tattoo shop, rode his Harley. People who used to work with him thought he was losing it. He carried guns and acted paranoid. According to one source, at a union meeting he put another officer in a headlock -- which might explain why his union pals stopped calling. His
new friends were other people living on the margins. One of them was a
bartender named Gino. In March 2000, Gino came to him with a story about
being in debt to "dangerous people." "I
probably should've let the police handle it, but I thought I was too
street-suave for that," Five
days later, Gino showed up at Gino
told a different story to the police. It was a lurid account of handcuffs, a
beating, a haircut lopping off his long hair. An
ex-girlfriend came forward with accusations of her own. Suddenly, Somebody,
His lawyers told him that the friend's testimony was damning: He was looking at 32 years. So they cut a deal with the prosecution before the case could be handed to a jury. He pleaded guilty to kidnapping and two counts of menacing. Sentence: eight years. Officer
Principe was no more. Felon "I've seen people in prison look out for each other," he says. "But that falls apart, too. All it takes is one rumor, and a guy can go from being on top of the pile to checking in." He didn't check in -- not even when he got an engraved invitation. A year into his sentence, he had a visit from Les Smith, an ADX intelligence officer, and Michael Halualani, the ATF agent heading the Aryan Brotherhood investigation. They handed him a copy of the racketeering indictment. In
the dozens of criminal acts described in the document, The
third charge was even more laughable. Yet
the government was saying that these incidents made After
The agent repeated himself. "You're
out of your mind," "This is a life sentence, Joe," Smith added. "The AB or the Dirty White Boys are going to get you. We're trying to help you." Help him? They were trying to flip him. Like they'd flipped Roach and Bentley, the fine pair who'd hung these charges on him. "I already tried the government," he said. "You let me drown. I'm a convict now." He declined their offer. Then he headed for the weight pile and had his best workout in a long time. A
month later, the feds took him out of Shortly
after he arrived in Using
the racketeering laws, the government has scored several victories in its war
against the Aryan Brotherhood. Numerous AB soldiers have been flipped or
convicted on conspiracy charges, and two years ago, Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, a prominent AB leader at But the cases against upper-level AB have tended to be marathon prosecutions, often yielding meager results. Tracing the carnage behind prison walls to its source can be a daunting task, especially when your chief witnesses are convicts with long histories of violence themselves -- and you're asking a jury to believe that they took their orders from someone else who belongs on death row. "If you take the informants in our case and do a body count, then compare it to the defendants, their body count is way higher," says Dean Steward, Mills's attorney. "One of their witnesses has supposedly killed seven or eight guys." It
took three trials in Last
year's prosecution in Illinois of David Sahakian,
alleged to be one of the AB's federal commissioners, was an even greater
debacle. Sahakian and two other Interviews by defense attorneys with jurors after the trial indicated they were hung 7-5 in favor of acquittal on the homicide charges, says Steward. "The jurors found the informants -- Kevin Roach and a bunch of others -- to be lying weasels," he says. "They found the Bureau of Prisons personnel who testified to be incompetent and hiding things. They found the prisoner witnesses called by the defense to be charming and truthful. 'Charming and truthful' -- those are their words." The
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Jessner, who's been pursuing the case since the late '90s, declines to comment on the H Unit operation. "That's something that's going to be decided at the hearing," he says. "It's not appropriate for me to say what happened before the witnesses testify. The proof will be in the pudding." Since Weeks first blew the lid off H Unit five years ago, several other disgruntled informants have told their stories to the defense, accusing the government of reneging on its promises to them. Some claim to have been fed information or offered incentives to lie; others say they've been threatened with being put in general population and labeled a rat if they don't play ball. Some appear to be playing both sides. One told defense investigators he should be considered "a double-edged sword that cuts both ways." Yet the snitch testimony is essential if Jessner is going to convince a jury that Mills and Bingham, despite being locked down under the tightest conditions the Bureau of Prisons has ever devised, continued to send and receive messages, order murders and settle disputes across the federal prison system. Defense-team veterans such as Terry Rearick, an investigator who's known Mills and Bingham for decades, says the premise has problems. "You
got a bunch of dysfunctional dope fiends, and the government's theory is that
they became this well-oiled killing machine," Rearick
points outs. "These guys are a bunch of broke-dick convicts. Mills can't
tell them what to do. I mean, they get But if Mills and Bingham are as powerful as the indictment claims, then what does that say about the effectiveness of supermax prisons such as ADX? "In order for the government to prevail at trial, the Bureau of Prisons is going to have to concede that they were incompetent and screwed up," Steward says. "That's an enormous problem in the prosecution's camp right now. They don't want to admit that they couldn't control the people they were supposed to be controlling." Among staff at ADX, the case presents other worries. The federal system reinstated the death penalty in 1988, after a 25-year moratorium, but it's never been used as widely as it could be in the AB case. News of the indictment was met with trash talk from some AB loyalists. In many cases, the defendants were already serving time for some of the same crimes for which they were now facing conspiracy charges; Mills, for example, is already doing life for the 1979 murder of inmate Mazloff. Others, like Bingham, are up for parole in a few years. Now the government was making noises about killing them. The rumor mill went crazy. For every one of ours they execute, the AB types were reportedly saying, we're going to take out two guards. He
got busy. He grabbed stacks of paperbacks off the book cart. He read
Melville, Tolstoy, He studied books on writing and labored over his own letters. "These concrete cages can birth geniuses and madmen, monks and monsters, if strong wills prevail," he wrote. For exercise, there was just room enough in his cell to do burpees -- a hybrid of jumping jack and push-up, popular among the military and convicts. When he started, he could barely do fifty of them at a time. Before long, he could do 500. When he was taken out to the yard, he was often allowed a recreation cage next to another AB defendant who became his workout partner. The guards who escorted him were basically doing the same thing he was accused of doing at ADX, but no one nailed them with conspiracy charges. He read through piles of reports, the discovery in his case. There was nothing anywhere to establish that he'd ever been paid to help the AB, that he had benefited in any way from this vast conspiracy. He meditated. He prayed. The
feds came back to see him every few months. Was he ready to cooperate? Did he
want to strike a deal in exchange for a "For
the first year, I was focused," There
are stages a person goes through when suffering sensory deprivation --
"SHU syndrome," as it's known in special housing units. At one
point, everything the staff did seemed to annoy The
extraction teams were called. It is not a time he wants to talk about now. "You have no idea what it was like," he says. "They break you down to the point where you're ready to make a deal." He
would not become a snitch. He was adamant about that; besides, what did he
really know that could interest them? But the prosecutors were eager to deal
anyway. They wanted to plead out the lesser charges without exposing too much
of their hand in the death-penalty cases. After two years in the hole, Assistant
U.S Attorney Jessner was handing out good deals, In
February he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering.
He got fifteen months, to be served concurrent with the state time he was
already doing for the assault on Gino. The prosecution wanted to close the
hearing to reporters, but He
returned to He was going to fix that. He was going to do his time standing up, walking the yard like a regular convict. "The only thing I got going for me is I held my mud through this," he says. "This has been a humongous humble pie -- a whole pie, being force-fed to me from day one -- to go from that side to this side. Humility is, I guess, a good thing." He looks around him, at the guards, the prisoners, the red line, as if seeing it all for the first time. "I'm ready for a break," he says. LOAD-DATE:
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college" -"borough of manhattan
college" Who she is Bernadette
Dunne, in her fifth year at She
was formerly the principal of She
serves on the advisory board of the Yonkers Community Planning Council and
the policy board for the Educator
Bernadette Dunne, a former parochial school principal who now teaches at "Together, we've got a great team that will work together for the positive benefit of parents, teachers, students and administrators," Dunne said. Elected vice president was Debra Martinez, interim director of the state Department of Health's Family Health Plan. "I'm
looking forward to the challenge," Dunne
and But
Amicone has proposed providing $400 million for the
city schools. The City Council will review Amicone's
school proposal at The election of Dunne marks the loosening of the ties between the school board and City Hall. For the past two years, the school board was headed by trustees who also worked in appointed positions in the city administration. Amicone also appointed the Rev. Gerald Sudick, pastor of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, to the school board. Sudick, a member of the board of trustees of SUNY Binghamton, served as that institution's president from 1980 to 1994. Sudick's appointment reduced the number of city employees to four on the school board. The state Legislature is now considering a bill that would bar city employees from the school board. Dunne, who celebrated her 70th birthday last week, said that the state's fourth-largest school district was moving in the right direction. "I really believe we are on the verge of becoming very good," she said in an interview. "Staff development for our teachers is excellent, and they'll bring that learning into the classrooms." A
graduate education professor at "We need to give them more leeway," she said. "They are professional people, and can use their judgment. I don't really fully believe that it should always come from the top down." With
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The office of the dean of students is handling 18 of those cases and so far has expelled one student, suspended another, put a student on suspension held in abeyance and put four others on probation, said Karen Grava, a UConn spokeswoman. Eleven other cases are pending. Meanwhile, the university's department of residential life is dealing with cases that occurred in UConn residence halls. Of those, two students were put on probation and one was given a warning, Grava said. Five other students have hearings scheduled in the next few days. The dean's office has banned from campus 41 non-UConn students who were arrested and sent letters to officials of the schools they attend asking the schools to impose their own punishments. ``We want their schools to discipline them,'' Grava said. Persons
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Journal News ( 10 years of helping minorities become teachers celebrated By the time she was 9, "I'm from a single-parent household, one of three children, and my mom was already working two jobs to make it all happen," said Chambers, now 23. Teaching seemed out of reach, she remembered, until she found Today's Students, Tomorrow's Teachers, an Elmsford nonprofit program dedicated to tackling the regionwide teacher shortage and increasing the number of minority teachers in local schools. Through
mentoring, internships and the half-price tuition the group secured for her
at "This
program was really a godsend," said Chambers, celebrating Today's
Students, Tomorrow's Teachers' 10th anniversary last night at The
Fountainhead in There
to agree with her yesterday were dozens of high school students currently
enrolled in the program, along with some of the region's top educators and
famed New Rochelle actress and civil-rights activist Ruby Dee, who announced
the group's designation as an Ossie Davis Memorial
Charity, in memory of her At a panel discussion and gala to mark the organization's 10-year birthday, one educator after another praised the group's success, while also discussing some of the local school systems' biggest challenges - including closing the achievement gap between white and minority students, teaching in an era of standardized tests, and attracting qualified minority teachers. Currently,
just 13 percent of "You've made a conscious decision you are going to come back and work in your community and I applaud you," she said to the assembled students. Larry
Leverett, superintendent of "We need you desperately, we need you men, women, African-American, Latino, straight, gay ... we need you all to push and demand that we provide education to all our families," he said. Program founder Bettye Perkins grew teary as she spotted some of the group's first graduates in the panel audience. "Today really is a family reunion," she said. Founded
in Ossining as a simple Future Teachers Club, Perkins said, the organization
now provides mentors, student teaching opportunities, SAT prep courses, and
college scholarships to about 400 mostly low-income, minority high school and
college students in Westchester, "The beauty of the program is that now we've been able to place these students back in their own communities as teachers and role models," Perkins said. By
now, the program includes students from schools in Besides
garnering corporate support from J.P. Morgan Chase and PepsiCo, the group
also recently caught the eye of Ruby Dee, whose youngest daughter, Hasna Muhammad, is a principal at Last
night, Dee awarded a $5,000 scholarship to Joanna Willis, 18, a "A
teacher is a bringer into the light," For her part, Willis' mother, Alberta Willis, said she always saw that special light in her daughter, who she says has an exceptional gift with children, but without money, she worried she would never be able to attend college. "This program just opened the door for her to fulfill her dreams," she said. Learn more For more information about Today's Students, Tomorrow's Teachers, or to apply to the program, visit www.tstt.org LOAD-DATE:
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Sunday, the year-old Hudson Turkish American Cultural Association
put on its second annual
festival at "Our
goal is to represent the whole Turkish community in The
group is organizing a trip to The trip was organized, in part, in response to the recent portrayal of Turks as fundamentalists and terrorists in two American television programs, NBC's "The West Wing" and Fox's "24." An
episode of the "West Wing," for instance, depicted Elshan Gasimov, 20, a Turk from
"When I came here, I got |a lot of strange questions," Gasimov said. "Someone asked me, 'Do you guys have cars?'Ÿ" But
Arzu Karagulle, a
21-year-old "They
say they want to come to Sunday's festival featured a large spread of Turkish dishes, carpets, books and crafts. Lucia
and Kevin Brown of "It's part of me," Lucia Brown said, looking down at her son. "I want it to be part of him as well." ### |
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ZJASPERSPORTS:
MC mentoring impacts other coaches Mike
Mulqueen remembers the day he became the head coach
of the "I
was 29 years old and I had just told Fred Gruninger
that I would accept the job," Mulqueen said.
"I went back to the athletic center and sat there by myself and thought,
'What do I do now?' There were some great athletes, like Elliott Quow, who had finished second at the world championships in the 200
the year before and Mulqueen did just fine by following what he had learned
from Al McCafferty, his coach at "They always stressed the importance of the team concept," Mulqueen said. "Track is an individual sport, but the best runner in the world is not going to win a track meet by himself." That's
why it got a bit emotional for Mulqueen on Sunday
when he addressed his team after "The point total showed that it was truly a team effort," Mulqueen said. "We scored points in 18 of the 22 events." The
first person Mulqueen called from the track to give
the news was his
longtime confidant "Gags" Gagliano, who
now lives in "They're
a great program and they're not even fully funded," Gagliano said. "A lot of the teams he's
competing against have 12.6 scholarships and he's not even close
to that. They've won the IC4As (2005 indoor) and the Big East. Those
kids are learning how to win. Mike has
been very loyal to Gagliano saw something in Mulqueen
when he was a freshman hurdler at "He was a plugger," Gagliano said. "He didn't have great talent or speed, but he wanted to succeed and be the best that he could be. That's what he's doing with his team now." A
testament to Mulqueen's effort is the fact that "We
sell a lot of them on the academics," Mulqueen
said. "Balazs Koranyi
was a semifinalist in the 800 in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics and he came here because he liked our
political science and history departments.
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ZJASPERSPORTS:
MC to host NCAA regional championships at As Dominique Darden intently watched the success and accolades bestowed upon former teammate and Olympian Lauryn Williams last season, she realized that her opportunity to excel would arrive. The time is now. The
former At
the ACC Championships in The
Canes went on to win the ACC title with 142 points, 20 more than second-place At
the Penn Relays last month, Darden was a member of the But
it all started for Darden last summer during the "The magnitude was huge at the trials but I didn't take it too seriously," Darden said. "I was running crappy in my races; my mind- set was I was just there and I wasn't competitive at all. "Lauryn was a year ahead of me, and after watching her do well and go to the Olympics I felt that I could also go out and compete at a high level." She realized her potential. With her renewed confidence Darden has shot out of the blocks, setting records and helping the 'Canes become one of the most well- rounded track and field programs in the nation. Next
up for Darden and the 'Canes is the Reebok Invitational in "Moving to the ACC from the Big East was really a step up in competition," said Darden, a marketing major. "It's been a great experience as I progressed and adapted from my freshman season competing on the collegiate level." The
Before winning ACC indoor and outdoor Coach of the Year awards this season, Deem earned Big East Outdoor Coach of the Year honors four times. "This
has been a good year for me," Darden said. "I'm definitely
putting my name out there. I
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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
5/15/05 Sunday Track & Field
IC4A/ECAC Championships
Princeton, NJ 10:00 AM
5/15/05 Sunday Baseball Le Moyne* HOME 12:00 PM
5/17/05 Tuesday Baseball St.
John's Jamaica, NY 7:00 PM
5/19/05 Thursday Baseball Fairfield*
(DH) Fairfield, CT 12:00 PM
5/20/05 Friday Baseball Fairfield* Fairfield, CT 12:00 PM
5/26/05 Thursday Baseball MAAC
Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
5/27/05 Friday Baseball MAAC
Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
5/27/05 Friday Track & Field NCAA Regionals %
5/28/05 Saturday Baseball MAAC
Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
5/28/05 Saturday Track & Field NCAA
Regionals %
5/29/05 Sunday Baseball MAAC Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
6/3/05 Friday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/4/05 Saturday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/5/05 Sunday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/6/05 Monday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/7/05 Tuesday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/8/05 Wednesday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/9/05 Thursday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/10/05 Friday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/11/05 Saturday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/23/05 Thursday Track & Field
USATF Championships $
6/23/05 Thursday Track & Field
USATF Junior Championships $
6/24/05 Friday Track & Field USATF
Junior Championships $
6/24/05 Friday Track & Field USATF
Championships $
6/25/05 Saturday Track & Field
USATF Championships $
6/25/05 Saturday Track & Field
USATF Junior Championships $
6/26/05 Sunday Track & Field USATF
Junior Championships $
6/26/05 Sunday Track & Field USATF
Championships $
If you do go support "our" teams, I'd appreciate any reports or photos. What else do us old alums have to do?
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FALLS TO 1** MCCRACKEN NAMED FIRST TEAM ALL-MAAC; STREIN NAMED SOFTBALL SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Stratford,
CT (May 12, 2005)- Manhattan senior Jennifer McCracken was named to the
All-MAAC First Team, and sophomore Liz Strein was
named the 2** MCCRACKEN NAMED TO 2005 ESPN THE MAGAZINE/CO-SIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT I SECOND TEAM Riverdale, NY (May 12, 2005)- Manhattan senior outfielder Jennifer McCracken (Wappingers Falls, NY/John Jay) has been named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District I Second Team, it was announced today. 3*** 4*** 10 RUN FIRST PROPELS BASEBALL TO 17-7 WIN OVER SACRED HEART Riverdale,
NY (May 11, 2005)- Manhattan send 11 batters to the plate in the first inning
before an out was recorded, scoring 10 runs en route to an 17-7 win over
Sacred Heart at Van Cortlandt Park in the final
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Times Union ( COLONIE - After anchoring the winning Colonie 400-meter relay team, Stacy Gregory walked off the track, took off her orange shoes and smiled, having just wowed the crowd for the third time Saturday at the Colonie Carnival Relays. "Maybe they need to rename it `The Gregory Relays,"' Gregory joked. Gregory started the day with a record-setting 12-second performance in the 100 meters, helping the Garnet Raiders win the girls' team title. The meet record also was a Colonie school record. "This
is my last year. I wanted to go out with a bang," said Gregory, who was
racing on Colonie's track for the last time as a
high school athlete. "I wanted to do good today." The Colonie girls upset Shaker 89-86 to win the team
championship. Shenendehowa was third with 63
points. Shaker won the boys' championship with 86 points. Colonie
was second (71), followed by Colonie hadn't won the meet in Gregory's varsity career. "It's
The
Colonie senior, who has accepted a scholarship to She anchored both the 400-meter relay and Colonie's winning 800-meter relay. She also ran the second leg of the Garnet Raiders' second-place 1,600-meter relay. "She does an incredible job," Colonie co-head coach Jen Petersen said. "She's been a powerhouse for all four years I've been with the team." While Gregory led the Garnet Raiders, it was an all-around effort that allowed the Colonie girls to win the team title and hand Shaker its first loss of the season. Colonie had a top-six finisher in 12 of meet's 17 events. Shaker
coach Marbry Gansle said
the Garnet Raiders' "They had 24 points in that race, we had four," Gansle said. "That's 20 points. It's too hard to make that up. You have to win two events and hope they don't place in either." The Blue Bison suffered their first loss, but the team also showcased their talent by setting a meet record in the 1,600-meter relay (4:01.3). Shaker also set a school record in the 800-meter relay. "We never go in thinking we'll win," Shaker senior Ashlee Smith said. "We go out to do our best." <extraneous deleted> GRAPHIC: Photo WILL WALDRON/TIMES UNION RUNNERS in the boys' 3,000-meter steeplechase sail over the water jump during the Colonie Carnival Relays. Stacy Gregory was the star of the event, winning three times, including a record-setting performance in the 100 meters. LOAD-DATE:
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the win, the Mount (14-5) advances to the NCAA Division I tournament for the
second straight season. The announcement of the field of 16 will be Sunday at
Junior Ellie Keener tied a career high with four goals. Kirby Day posted a hat trick and an assist while Nicole Di'Angelo (St. Mary's), Erin LaMotte and Jenna Duffy contributed two goals and two assists apiece. Katie
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college" = THE
DAILY BRUIN ONLINE 5/12/2005 When it comes to the NCAA Tournament, no extra motivation is usually necessary. But it certainly couldn't hurt. When
play begins Saturday for the UCLA men's tennis team (21-3) in the first round
of the NCAA Tournament at the "From a psychological standpoint, I think it's tougher to beat a team you've beaten two or three times in a row when you know your opponent is going to come back a little hungrier," Martin said. Martin undoubtedly hopes that his players will be the hungry ones. And based on results earlier in the season, that will likely be the case. There
is little doubt that UCLA should breeze by "That was annoying because we're a lot better team than them," senior Alberto Francis said. "I just felt that it was disappointing. "There's plenty of excuses, but we lost. The bottom line is that we lost, and now we can get our revenge." UCLA
beat "I'm
sure In the minds of the Bruins, there is no doubt about the answer to that question. But if the team wants to advance deep into the tournament, they will likely have to answer it again. If UCLA finds a way to advance to the Elite Eight, the Bruins could get another crack at second-seeded Virginia, the team that sent them to their first loss of the season at the National Team Indoors. "For
me, I would like to get a chance to play "I've said that since the beginning of the year. I thought we did pretty good against them in the Indoors, but with Luben (Pampoulov) in the singles lineup, I think we have a good chance to get a victory there." Pampoulov, ranked No. 7 in the country, has recovered from a neck injury, and there can be no more excuses for the Bruins. The next excuse means that the season is over. "I always think that (losing) stimulates a competitor," Martin said. "If my guys are competitors and they want to stand up to that test, I think we should be ready." The ultimate test could come in the form of defending national champion Baylor, the team that beat UCLA 4-0 in last season's championship match. The Bears haven't lost in 52 matches. But that potential opportunity for revenge is still five victories down the road. Right
now, the Bruins are focused on "We should not be concerned about our opponent," senior Kris Kwinta said. "We should be concerned about our game and our preparation." Web Address: http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=33302 |
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http://www.collegesports.com/sports/w-softbl/stories/050905aas.html Stags
Hosts 2005 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Softball Tournament Four-Team,
Double-Elimination Tournament FAIRFIELD,
The Stags finished second in the regular-season standings with a conference mark of 10-6, the seventh straight season that the team has reached double-digits for MAAC victories. Freshman Erin Frank has already set the school record for home runs (nine) and RBI (41) in a season, and also leads the team with 24 extra base hits (14 doubles). Sophomore Cagney Ringnalda (.309) and junior Natalie Visone (.308) own the top batting averages, with Tara Hansen just missing the .300 mark with a .296 hitting percentage. Pitchers Tracy Sylvestre and Hansen have both reach double digits in the win column, registering 13 and 11, respectively. Canisius boasts four batters over the .300 mark this season, which helped the Golden Griffs finish with a 10-6 MAAC record and grab the three seed in the tournament. Seniors Becky Owen (.345) and Beth Enk (.344) completed the regular-season as close two players can get to each other. Enk smacked eight home runs during the year, second only to sophomore Jessica Martin's 10 homers. Martin (.340) and freshman Katie Miranto (.327) round out top four hitters. Senior Andrea Bunten brings a 10-9 record and a 1.70 ERA into this week's action, while freshman Jess Stackhouse takes a 5-1 mark with a 1.34 ERA into Friday's games. The
tournament will take place at Deluca Field in 2005
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Greetings from John Stearns '57 Your work will be a more valuable if you can keep people like Thomas Hickey a part of your involved audience. Critical thinking is essential in a democracy. Perhaps using "I" 44 times in a single pargraph indicates that you MAY be thinking more of the importance of your opinion than of the search for truth. That's for Brother Leo! Best
regards from a Minnesota Jasper, [JR: Touche. Point well taken. Kick when down. Beating will continue until the morale improves. I agree that we need diversity of thought. But, we also need that “diverse thought” to speak up and show us the error of our ways. For example, I championed that moving form the gold standard by FDR was a defrauding of the dollar and permission for the Federal Government to go on a spending spree that we’ll never recover form. Likening it to the debasement of the gold franc from Louis 1 to 17. If am wrong, I welcome some one to educate me. Lift me out of my stupidity. To leave without comment, condemns me to a life of ignorance. Or, is that today’s lefty liberal, as opposed to the Classical Liberal from who Libertarianism flows, or righty fascist can’t defend why the currency should not be tied to an external standard of value. But, I’ll try to be easier to talk to. When we are all eating dog food ‘cause Social Security bankrupts us, we’ll have pleanty of time to chat on the soup line.] |
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Donald McLeod, BEE `74 John I just finished reading the Jottings and again I say thanks. I appreciate the news. I am sorry you are feeling down but we all get like that. Cheer up; life is wonderful no matter what. I always read the obits and feel bad not when someone who has had a full life dies but when someone who has not really lived dies. I remember hearing that when we die we will be asked what have we done with our gift, life? I hope we can all answer a lot of wonderful thing. I have been quiet for a while as we have been busy with work, church, family and life in general. My wife, Paula, was diagnosed with breast cancer in January, lumpectomy in February, then recover and seven weeks of radiation. She will finish radiation next Wednesday. Then a month off and 4 chemo treatments to reduce the chances for a second attack. Are we feeling down? Is she depressed? No; we now celebrate every small thing. I go with her on my days off, not that she needs me but to be together and we make the treatment a thing to celebrate. The
Yes there are days I feel down and wish it had never happened but then I think of all the good things we have done in the last 4 months and I remember to rejoice in life. Paula has been an inspiration in her strength and determination. We attended a Eucharistic Congress in DC a couple of years ago and there was a story of an expectant woman who found out her child would not survive long after birth due to a genetic defect. Her doctor wanted to abort the pregnancy and she refused to kill her unborn child. The doctor refused to continue treating her if she was going to waste his time, so much for the medical profession. She and her husband found a new doctor and had the girl. As predicted, the baby was born with no lungs. There was a priest and their entire family present for the birth. The baby was passed to everyone present and she then quietly died and returned to the Lord. Everyone was moved by the girl especially how she had a happy expression the entire time. The mother said don't weep for she lived the life God gave her to the fullest. What more can any of us hope to achieve with our life? The Romans said it best Carpe Diem – Seize the Day. This is even more important when things are not going so smoothly. Then remember the moral – When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Just think, John that one day when God asks what did you do with your life, one thing you will able to say is that you published the Jotting and kept us together as a group. WE do appreciate that you do publish each week. Donald McLeod, BEE `74 [JR: Well, that puts things in perspective. My day / week wasn't that bad. ] |
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Reinke(nsteinian monster) Hi Bill, Gald to see that your mail is getting thru. Re the new address, we have two choices: (1) YOU can go to http://groups.yahoo.com/, register the "new id", verify it, and then replace it for Distribute_Jasper_Jottings. (2) You can accept the new invite I will send you in a few minutes, and then let me know to nuke the old one. Either way is fine. Method One fixes all Yahoo Groups you belong to. Method Two just fixes one group. Makes no diff to me. Although one is "better" since it keeps your original stats intact. === Instructions
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Reinke via Yahoo from Anywhere Hi Keith, You
may remember me in conjunction with my newsletter, Jasper Jottings. It tracks
weekly I also have a bunch of resources that our fellow alums have used. One of them is Corex Cardscan. Any way for some reason, perhaps you expressed and interest, asked a question, or in someway responded, so I put your entry in my Corex Cardscan database. (It periodically asks for updates.) I try to make myself, and my "stuff", available to my fellow and future alums, as a way of paying back the Jasper who helped me. Any way that is who I am and why you got an update request from me. If you're interesting in Jottings or networking, then by all means keep me, and thru me, our fellow alums updated about yourself. I take the updates I receive thru Corex, strip of the usmail address, email, and phone stuff, and publish the rest in Jottings under the heading "update". So for exmaple I am going to report this week that [Coppola, Deborah (1999), Associate, Human Resources, JPMorgan Chase]. It looks like a new assignment for her. Now that might be of interest to you if you wanted to work at JPMC, learn about HR, or know Deb from some way. So you send in an email, that I would forward to Deb. If she's willing, then she'd contact you. So I'm like a trusted busybody. A yenta. matchmaker. Buttinski. Who nags you to network. A connector. I make connections for you, and any of our fellow alums. If the update request, is annoying or you're not interested, I can certainly nuke it. Hope
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Bob Insull [1963] When unquestioning orthodoxy replaces the informed investigation of alternatives as the basis for the formation of conscience then the word 'morality' loses any meaning. Morality has to do not so much with conforming as with making choices to conform. To argue that these choices should not be examined from all sides is patently absurd. This is the more so in the context of an institution that has the education of adults as its mission. (To say nothing of being contrary to the supremacy of informed individual conscience as the arbiter of moral decisions recognized even by the Catholic Church.) If our Catholic moral teachings cannot withstand such examination by people we have educated for four (or more) years at commencement, the culmination of their educational efforts, than what flimsy things we must think they are (or perhaps how lazy we've become in our defending them). The
real sadness is that the adoption of orthodoxy as the sole standard for
whether something is or is not Catholic' would make the phrase ' If we were to lose the moral battle to the 'Church of the Secular Humanists' (most of whom, by the way, seem to have little use for church in any form) that would be sad; what is truly sad would be to see us Catholics surrender our institutions of higher learning to the 'Church of Craven Conformity' a consummation that all too often these days seems devoutly to be desired among people who should know better. Bob Insull '63S [JR: I believe some of the gripe is about the granting of honors to people who's beliefs are at odds with the Church's teachings. I'm not in the business of running the Church. I don't remember objections to inquiry or dialogue. It's the featured and honored speaker that brings down the wrath. ] |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/johnson-t1.html Government Can’t Run Schools Like Businesses by Thomas L. Johnson Thomas
L. Johnson is professor emeritus of biological sciences at ===<begin quote>=== What this all boils down to is, are we trying to raise sheep – timid, docile, easily driven or led – or free men? If what we want is sheep, our schools are perfect as they are. If what we want is free men, we’d better start making some big changes. ~ John Holt, The Underachieving School Just
after the Civil War ended in 1865, the public-school system, and governments
at all levels, began to rapidly expand in But the public schools, along with big government, tragically continue to thrive and expand. This synchronous growth is not accidental, but inevitable. <extraneous deleted> When
commenting about the public-school system, But she has it all wrong. Education is not a product; it’s supposed to be a learning experience. A properly educated student might be considered a good “product” of the system, but since that has seldom happened in the past, it became necessary to establish the Standards of Learning reform program in the futile attempt to end this acute public-education problem and embarrassment. Also, students are definitely not customers, because customers are not forced by law to patronize businesses, but students are forced to attend school. Customers choose when, where, and how they will, or will not, deal with businesses. Public-school students rarely have these choices, unless politicians or school authorities grant them. So it is useless to attempt to try to apply techniques that are used in the business world, where customers are free to come and go as they please; where customers are not required to obey a vast number of rules and regulations; where customers are not subjected to fear and force by authority figures; where customers do not have to deal with bullying, hazing, violence, mind-numbing boredom, and censorship. Also, in the business world: customers do not have to please businesses, and are not tested and graded, and thus do not pass or fail; customers fearlessly judge businesses and their products or services; customers do not have official detailed records (except credit records) that are kept for many years and that might negatively impact them for the rest of their lives. Yet Marshall, a “turnaround specialist” who absurdly calls students customers, has already separated Perrymont students by gender (sexism), and required them to wear uniforms (regimentation). She has simply adopted ancient academic practices that have been tried innumerable times and failed, but which clearly reveal the authoritarian nature of the academic system. (Have you ever heard of customers being separated by gender, or having to wear uniforms?) So if public schools are obviously not like free-market businesses, precisely what are they? Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In
fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism
existing in <extraneous deleted> If
freedom is to survive in This must be replaced with a system involving freedom and democracy; that is, a system of individual choice known as free enterprise in which students would actually be genuine customers, patronizing genuine education businesses. ===<end quote>=== Yup, the government skools are the problem. They teach the wrong stuff from a very early age. While one might disagree in one aspect or another, one would have to recognize that Walter was right. Remember his quote, … "If one didn't know better, one would
think that So, I’d say if I didn’t know better, I’d wonder what the government skools were trying to produce. In engineering, I learned that one designs to produce a result. If you are unhappy with the result, then create a new design. Iterate until you find the design that works. So, I’d assume that the design operates as intended. These skools produce, just like the Prussian aristocracy wanted, cannon fodder. Stupid people who vote the way they are “supposed” to, conform to the group think, and never question why. They are working EXACTLY as designed. If I had kids, I darn sure would not send them to a government skool! |
And that’s the last word.
Curmudgeon
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GBu. GBA.