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October 6, 2010

Worth Noting
October 7 2:00 PM
Walking ‘The Walk’
Italian Culture and Student Poll Names New Campus Outdoor Space
Heritage Month Lecture
Prima del suo tempo: Dr. Maria
Scholarship Funds
Montessori, Ahead of Her Time
Leonisa Ardizzone
to Get a Boost from
The Salvadori Center Paver Campaign
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
The people have spoken, and the outdoor
space that will unite the old and new elements of
October 15 9:00 AM
John Jay’s expanded campus will henceforth be
Prisoner Reentry Institute known as…
Occasional Series on The Jay Walk.
College officials conducted a “Name the New
Reentry Research Outdoor Space” canvass of the student body
Do Reentry Courts Reduce Recidivism?
in mid-September, in which more than 600
Results from the Harlem Parole
votes were cast. Students were asked to choose
Reentry Court
among The Commons, The Quad, The Green, or
Zachary Hamilton
submit a suggestion of their own. The balloting
Washington State University
generated 97 write-in ideas, with The Jay Walk
Room 630 Haaren Hall being a clear favorite.
“We sought the advice of the community, got Above: Sonia Chowdhury (l.), one of John Jay’s Peer
October 15 9:00 AM it and made a decision,” said President Jeremy
Ambassadors, looks on as a student gets ready to post a
suggested name for the new campus outdoor space on the
Homeland Security Travis. “The Jay Walk has sizzle, it comes from Idea Wall. Right: A sample of the commemorative pavers
the students, and it is unique. When we say
and New York that will line the new Jay Walk uniting John Jay’s old and
‘Welcome to The Jay Walk,’ we will get a smile new campus buildings.
Presented by the Center on Terrorism and
from a new visitor.”
the Christian Regenhard Center
The 60,000-square-foot Jay Walk will be made gifts go directly to support scholarships for John
for Emergency Response Studies
up of custom engraved bricks and personalized Jay students.
John R. Gibb, Acting Commissioner
trees and benches, providing supporters of John For more information on purchasing a
New York State Division of Homeland
Jay with a unique way to honor and remember commemorative item through the Jay Walk
Security and Emergency Services
alumni, graduating students, faculty and friends. Campaign, call 212.237.8688, or go online to
Room 630 Haaren Hall Proceeds from the sale of these commemorative http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/jaywalk.

October 20 7:00 PM
John Jay’s Got Talent
Talent showcase for music, dance
Community Service & Outreach Provide
and spoken word. Who will be the next
John Jay Performer of the Year? a Calling for John Jay Student Volunteers
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Are you ready and willing to plan, promote
and staff events; help build community ties
October 26 4:00 PM on- and off-campus; work alongside a variety
Book & Author Series of community partners, and plan and conduct
Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, research? If so, you should consider becoming a
and the (Un)Making of Terrorists Community Service Representative.
Scott Atran To pursue these positions offered by the
Presidential Scholar and Senior Fellow, College’s Office of Community and Service
Center on Terrorism, John Jay College Outreach, students need to be full-time with a
grade point average of at least 3.2, and hold U.S.
Room 630 Haaren Hall
citizenship or permanent resident status. Three
hundred hours of participation in this elite group
October 31 9:30 AM
of student activists comes with job training, a
CUNY Cross-Country $1,000 educational stipend, and memories and
Championships experiences to last a lifetime. The positions are
funded through the AmeriCorps program.
Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx
“I think we’re tapping into what motivates

Community Service Representatives greet a student at the recent Freshman Orientation and talk about what they do to
make a difference in the lives of others.

students to come to John Jay in the first place,”
said Declan Walsh, the office’s director. “They
come to John Jay to be in public service, and
this resonates with them as something that will
give them a chance right now to do what their
degrees will equip them to do down the road.”
The community-outreach office, which
completed its first full year of operation in July,
consists of Walsh and two part-time assistants,
along with a volunteer corps of 16 Community
Service Representatives ranging from sophomores
to graduate students.
Walsh admits that of all the projects his office
has run, he is most proud of the Treats for Troops
initiative that was conducted last fall. “It was a
great opportunity to make people aware that
there was a new office here, plus we tapped into
a very real need,” he said.
Community Service Representatives and other
A Beautiful Day for a Walk student volunteers, including the Veterans Club
and Homeland Security Club, collected more than
Members of the John Jay women’s softball team wore a different uniform on September 12 as they became part of the John
Jay Jaywalkers contingent in the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to fight breast cancer. The college delegation was
$3,500 and were able to fill 100 “care packages”
coordinated once again by team captain Irene O’Donnell (center, in white cap and sunglasses), the Director of Campus Office with a variety of badly needed items to send to
Services, and included President Travis and dozens of other faculty, staff and students. U.S. troops — mainly John Jay students or alumni
— serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a similar vein, a Hunger Banquet held at the
College last December helped to dramatize the
issue of unequal food distribution worldwide,
while raising funds for Oxfam and the nearby St.
Paul the Apostle’s Food Pantry.
The Red Hook Community Court in Brooklyn
is the agency through which grant funds are
obtained to provide stipends to the Community
Service Representatives. Feedback from the Red
Hook court as well as the Midtown Community
Court in Manhattan, where John Jay volunteers
conduct mentoring and GED tutoring programs,
has been overwhelmingly favorable, Walsh said.
“We get calls all the time from outside entities,
and unfortunately we can’t partner with all of
them,” Walsh said. “We have to be very strategic
in choosing partners, so we can leverage assets
and make the most of limited funds.”
[For more information, call 646.557.4820, or
e-mail communityoutreach@jjay.cuny.edu. The
office also has a Facebook fan page that can be
accessed at “Office of Community Outreach @
John Jay.”]
The Blair Facts:
Former London PC Comes to John Jay
Former London Metropolitan Police Commis-
sioner Sir Ian Blair, who presided over England’s
largest police force from 2005 to 2008, has
joined John Jay as a visiting professor, conducting
research, teaching seminars and giving lectures
through the end of October.
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for his
long and distinguished police service, in 2010
Blair became a member of the House of Lords
when he was named Lord Blair of Boughton.
Now a speaker, writer and consultant on
strategic policing, police leadership and security
issues, Blair came to John Jay at the specific re-
quest of President Jeremy Travis. In addition to
working with such College entities as the Center
on Terrorism, Blair will be the featured speaker at
an event in late October that the President’s Of-
fice is sponsoring.
In addition, Blair will use his time at John
Jay to continue his own police history research,
which focuses on the 19th-century evolution and
expansion of the British model of policing. He
has already authored one book, the well-received
Policing Controversy, which is part memoir of his
Anti-Sex Assault Protocols Unveiled by CUNY
Culminating a two-year effort by a multi-
disciplinary task force, the CUNY Board of
Trustees in July approved a comprehensive new
policy aimed at protecting and assisting student
victims of sexual assault, stalking and domestic
and intimate-partner violence.
The policy includes guidelines for students and
President Jeremy Travis represented the College on September 14 as the Museum of
FUN CITY
the City of New York presented a special symposium on “Criminal Justice & the Lindsay
Years,” part of an extended retrospective on the administration of New York Mayor
John V. Lindsay. The panel was moderated by veteran reporter Sam Roberts (2nd from
REVISITED left) and included Baruch College history professor Clarence Taylor along with former
Lindsay Administration officials Michael Armstrong, William Vandenheuvel, Jay Kriegel
and Herbert Sturz, and New York University law professor Jerome Skolnick.
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
ON BOARD
MARLENNE NUNEZ (Athletics) was named
head coach of the women’s softball team.
Nunez, a former four-year player on the team
and an assistant coach last season, succeeds
LAURA DRAZDOWSKI, who coached the team
for three years and is now Assistant Director
of Athletics for Budget and Finance and Co-
Compliance Officer. Nunez’s assistant coach will
be fellow John Jay alumna DANIELLE BONICI, a
four-year CUNY Athletic Conference all-star as a
member of the softball team.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
CANDACE MCCOY (Doctoral Program
in Criminal Justice) edited Holding Police
Accountable, published by the Urban
Institute Press as the first of “The John Jay
Series.” Contributors to the book all participated
in a conference on police accountability held
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tenure as Commissioner, part history of the Lon-
don police and part reflection on the stresses and
challenges of modern policing.
Blair’s leadership was tested almost from the
outset when a series of terrorist bombing at-
tacks targeted the London transit system in July
2005. Fifty-two people were killed when bombs
were set off in three trains and a bus. “London-
ers weren’t quite ready for an attack such as
this,” Blair recalled. “When the bombs went off,
I promptly went on the telly to let people know
that it’s going to be all right.”
Scotland Yard, as the Metropolitan Police
Service is familiarly known, provides police pro-
tection for Greater London in addition to having
national responsibilities for counterterrorism and
dignitary protection. As such, Blair is credited
with enhancing the agency’s commitment to
community-minded policing and diversity within
the ranks.
Blair won a reputation as a pull-no-punches,
free-speaking public official — one that he feels
is generally deserved. “I refuse to see police as
being little more than street butlers,” he said.
counselors, establishes disciplinary procedures
and on-campus advocacy positions for students,
provides education and training for faculty and
staff, and ensures assistance for students in
obtaining medical care and counseling.
Dr. Katie Gentile, Director of the John Jay
Women’s Center, was a member of the CUNY-
at the College in 2006, honoring the scholarly
legacy of the late Distinguished Professor James
Fyfe. In addition to editing the book and writing
its preface, McCoy contributed a chapter titled
“How Lawsuits Improve American Policing.”
DANIEL L. FELDMAN (Public Management) is
co-author, along with Gerald Benjamin, of Tales
from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New
York State, which was published in September by
SUNY Press. Feldman is a former Assemblyman
who represented southern Brooklyn from 1981
to 1998.
GEORGE ANDREOPOULOS (Political Science)
guest-edited the most recent issue of the journal
Criminal Justice Ethics. The theme of the special
issue is “The Ethics of Intervention/Protection:
Contending Approaches.” This issue is based on
papers presented at a research workshop held
at the College in January of this year, under the
joint auspices of the Institute for Criminal Justice
Ethics and the Center for International Human
Rights.
LUIS BARRIOS (Latin American and Latina/o
Studies) authored “Reflections and Lived
Experiences of Afro-Latina/o Religiosity,” which
appears in The Afrolatin@ Reader: History and
Culture in the United States, edited by Miriam
Jiménez Román and Juan Flores and published
educating for justice
“And I tend to agree with the notion that ‘lead-
ers are like teabags — you don’t know how
strong they’ll be until they’re in hot water.’”
For Blair, that hot water came sooner than
he might have wished when, just days after the
London transit bombings, police shot and killed
an unarmed man they mistakenly believed was
a suicide bomber. The shooting, along with the
controversial police handling of the incident and
its aftermath, created a stir that reportedly led
Blair to briefly consider resigning.
The British police establishment, he believes, is
well equipped to handle the current threat of ter-
rorism, and he plans to address England’s current
status in various talks during his stay at John Jay.
Educated at Oxford, with a degree in English
language and literature, Blair joined the Metro-
politan Police in 1974, under a program known
as the High Potential Developer Scheme for
Graduates. A native of Chester, near Liverpool,
his local Chief Constable told him that if he was
Sir Ian Blair, as he appears on the cover of his 2009 memoir.
serious about a police career, he should move
to London. He was, he did and the rest is a cele-
brated history that continues to be written.
Judges Named
for CJ Journalism
wide Sexual Assault Task Force convened by
Competition
Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs Frederick
P. Schaffer. “A handful of super-active students
and members of campus women’s centers have Two current members of the John Jay faculty
been agitating for a while for the need for such and a former Distinguished Professor will be part
a policy,” Gentile recalled. “It was needed in of the six-member judging panel for the sixth
order to develop and implement standardized annual John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Prizes
procedures for dealing with the issues and for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting.
training people who help students who are Stephen Handelman, Director of John Jay’s
victims of such violence.” Center on Media, Crime and Justice, noted that
Required under New York State Education the jury will include Alexa Capeloto, an assistant
Law, the policy spells out the essential elements professor of English and former enterprise editor
of reporting incidents of sexual assault and for The San Diego Tribune, and Greg Donald-
other forms of violence, recognizing the need son, an associate professor in the Department
for different points of on-campus contact for of Communication and Theatre Arts and the
students, faculty and staff, such as public safety author of the newly published Zebratown: The
departments, women’s/men’s centers and True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single
counseling departments, and/or the Dean of Mother in Small-Town America.
Student of Development/Student Affairs. They will be joined by John Jay’s former
Distinguished Professor Todd Clear, who is now
Victims/survivors are urged to contact law
Dean of the Rutgers University School of Criminal
enforcement personnel immediately, seek prompt
Justice.
medical attention and obtain on-campus assis-
The national journalism prizes are awarded
tance, including the help of a campus advocate.
annually to recognize high-quality reporting
The president and vice president for student
that has had a significant impact on the public’s
development of each college are responsible for
understanding of criminal justice.
implementing the policy “in accordance with
“This is the only national prize awarded for
the most up-to-date information and resources
criminal justice journalism and has been called
pertaining to sexual assault, stalking and
the ‘Pulitzer’ of crime journalism for a good
domestic/intimate partner violence education
reason,” said Handelman. “It not only acknowl-
and prevention, and victim assistance.” A copy
edges the superb work currently being done
of the policy is accessible on the College’s Web
by U.S. crime and justice reporters but helps to
site (www.jjay.cuny.edu/1974.php). CUNY’s
ensure that the work continues at a time when
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs will monitor
the media industry is under constant challenge.
compliance with the policy and procedures and
We expect that the high quality of our judges this
review their implementation on an annual basis.
year will be matched by the quality of our entries
for the prize.”
The other members of the judging panel are:
• Joe Domanick, award-winning investiga-
tive journalist and author of Cruel Justice: Three
earlier this year by Duke University Press. Another Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s
article, “Von der Bander zur sozialen Bewegung: Golden State;
Das Beipiel der Almighty Latin King and Queen • Ted Gest, president and co-founder of
Nation,” was published in Jugendliche in Criminal Justice Journalists, former legal/justice
Gewaltsamen Lebenswelten: Wage aus den reporter for U.S. News & World Report, and
Kreisläufen der Gewalt, edited by Sabine author of Crime and Politics;
Kurtenbach, Rüdiger Blümor and Sebastian Huhn • Larry Olmstead, former managing editor
and published in August by the German Institute of The Miami Herald, and past president of the
of Global Area Studies. Florida Society of Newspaper Editors.
The prizes will be presented at the College on
EDWARD SNAJDR (Anthropology) recently January 31, 2011, as part of the annual Guggen-
published the chapter “Balancing Acts: heim Symposium on Crime in America.
Women’s NGOs Combating Domestic Violence [For more information about submissions,
in Kazakhstan,” which appears in Domestic prize rules and eligibility, contact Cara Tabach-
Violence in Post-Communist States, edited by nick, CMCJ Deputy Director, at ctabachnick@jjay.
Katalin Fabian (Indiana University Press, 2010). cuny.edu.]
PRESENTING…
BENJAMIN LAPIDUS (Art and Music) ERRATA
performed with his Latin jazz band Sonido Isleño The article on John Jay’s newest faculty in
at the FB Lounge in Manhattan on September 24 the September 15 issue incorrectly listed
in a show celebrating 14 years and five albums of the terminal degree for Assistant Professor
Denise Thompson of the Department of
original music.
Public Management. She has a PhD from
PEER REVIEW Penn State. Also, the article inadvertently
omitted a new member of the Department
KATHLEEN COLLINS (Library) had her book,
Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of of Philosophy. Associate Professor Cath-
Television Cooking Shows (Continuum, 2009), erine Kemp, a specialist in the philosophy
selected for the 2010 Peter C. Rollins Book of law and modern philosophy, holds a
Award by the Northeast Popular Culture/ PhD from Stony Brook and a JD from the
University of Texas Law School.
American Culture Association.