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Classified Information: The Newsletter Of The Lloyd Sealy Library, Lloyd Sealy Library, Cuny John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

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Classified Information was a publication that informed the College about Library services, personnel, upcoming events, new technologies, and available resources.

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The Trouble With Archie: Locating And Accessing Primary Sources For The Study Of The 1970s Us Sitcom, All In The Family, Kathleen Collins

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The US television sitcom, All in the Family was groundbreaking in its social relevance with regard to contemporary issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and politics, among others. The interest in All in the Family continues into the 21st century, and television historians and fans continue to seek out elusive historical video of the show. The author addresses the challenges in discovering, locating and accessing primary source visual material for its study and speculates on the future of accessibility of historical broadcasts, the impact on television studies and potential solutions. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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La Hispanización Y La Identidad Hispana En Filipinas, David Sánchez-Jiménez

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Catalog 2010-2011, Kingsborough Community College

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Management Of Online Tutorials: A Model For A Step-By-Step Approach, Kanu A. Nagra, Dorothea J. Coiffe

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Online tutorials have great potential to reach a large population and to accommodate multiple learning styles anytime and anywhere. This paper describes the management of online tutorials and related concepts in detail. The review of literature method is used to study the variables. The variables under study include the mission, objectives, funding, manpower, in-house creation, outsourcing, incorporation in curriculum, content, type, technology, metadata, discovery services, script design, standards, assessment, professional training, marketing techniques and future goals for creation and management of online tutorials in libraries. A practical model based on literature study and the authors' experience with online tutorials is …

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The Cinema Of Control: On Diabetic Excess And Illness In Film, Kevin L. Ferguson

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While not rare, films that do represent diabetes must work around the disease’s banal invisibility,and images of diabetics in film are thus especially susceptible to metaphor and exaggeration.This essay is the first to outline a diabetic filmography, discussing medical and cinematic strategies for visualizing the disease as well as how the illness informs family plots and heroic characters in horror films. Doing so, it participates in a larger discussion of the manner in which film images of ill or disabled groups sustain notions of “normalcy” by both representing and denying otherness.

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Selective Targeting Of Neuroblastoma Tumour-Initiating Cells By Compounds Identified In Stem Cell-Based Small Molecule Screens, Kristen M. Smith, Alessandro Datti, Mayumi Fujitani, Natalie Grinshtein, Libo Zhang, Olena Morozova, Kim M. Blakely, Susan A. Rotenberg, Loen M. Hansford, Freda D. Miller, Herman Yeger, Meredith S. Irwin, Jason Moffat, Marco A. Marra, Sylvain Baruchel, Jeffrey L. Wrana, David R. Kaplan

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Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most deadly extra-cranial solid tumour in children necessitating an urgent need for effective and less toxic treatments. One reason for the lack of efficacious treatments may be the inability of existing drugs to target the tumour-initiating or cancer stem cell population responsible for sustaining tumour growth, metastases and relapse. Here, we describe a strategy to identify compounds that selectively target patient-derived cancer stem cell-like tumour-initiating cells (TICs) while sparing normal paediatric stem cells (skin-derived precursors, SKPs) and characterize two therapeutic candidates. DECA-14 and rapamycin were identified as NB TIC-selective agents. Both compounds induced TIC death at …

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Taurine Regulates Insulin Release From Pancreatic Beta Cell Lines, William J. L’Amoreaux, Christina Cuttitta, Allison Santora, Jonathan F. Blaize, Janto Tachjadi, Abdeslem El Idrissi

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Background Pancreatic β-cells release insulin via an electrogenic response triggered by an increase in plasma glucose concentrations. The critical plasma glucose concentration has been determined to be ~3 mM, at which time both insulin and GABA are released from pancreatic β-cells. Taurine, a β-sulfonic acid, may be transported into cells to balance osmotic pressure. The taurine transporter (TauT) has been described in pancreatic tissue, but the function of taurine in insulin release has not been established. Uptake of taurine by pancreatic β-cells may alter membrane potential and have an effect on ion currents. If taurine uptake does alter β-cell current, …

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John Jay College Performance Goals And Targets: 2010-2011 Academic Year, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

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Shear Stress Modulation Of Smooth Muscle Cell Marker Genes In 2-D And 3-D Depends On Mechanotransduction By Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans And Erk1/2, Zhong-Dong Shi, Giya Abraham, John M. Tarbell

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Background During vascular injury, vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and fibroblasts/myofibroblasts (FBs/MFBs) are exposed to altered luminal blood flow or transmural interstitial flow. We investigate the effects of these two types of fluid flows on the phenotypes of SMCs and MFBs and the underlying mechanotransduction mechanisms. Methodology/Principal Findings Exposure to 8 dyn/cm2 laminar flow shear stress (2-dimensional, 2-D) for 15 h significantly reduced expression of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), smooth muscle protein 22 (SM22), SM myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC), smoothelin, and calponin. Cells suspended in collagen gels were exposed to interstitial flow (1 cmH2O, ∼0.05 dyn/cm2, 3-D), and after 6 …

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Differential Toxicity Of Dna Adducts Of Mitomycin C, Jill Bargonetti, Elise Champeil, Maria Tomasz

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The clinically used antitumor agent mitomycin C (MC) alkylates DNA upon reductive activation, forming six covalent DNA adducts in this process. This review focuses on differential biological effects of individual adducts in various mammalian cell cultures, observed in the authors' laboratories. Evidence is reviewed that various adducts are capable of inducing different cell death pathways in cancer cells.This evidence is derived from a parallel study of MC and its derivatives 2,7-diaminomitosene (2,7-DAM) which is the main metabolite of MC and forms two mono-adducts with DNA, and decarbamoyl mitomycin C (DMC), which alkylates and cross-links DNA, predominantly with a chirality opposite …

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Lim-Domain Proteins Trip6 And Lpp Associate With Shelterin To Mediate Telomere Protection, Samantha A. Sheppard, Diego Loayza

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POT1 is the single stranded telomeric overhang binding protein, and is part of the shelterin complex, a group of six proteins essential for proper telomere function. The reduction or abrogation of POT1 DNA binding activity in mammalian cells results in telomere elongation, or activation of the ATR DNA damage response at telomeres. Therefore, overhang binding represents the functionally relevant activity of POT1. To better understand the roles of POT1, we sought to isolate proteins that interact with the DNA binding domain of the protein. A yeast two-hybrid screen was implemented using a C-terminal truncation termed POT1ΔC, retaining the DNA binding …

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Ubr1 And Ubr2 Function In A Quality Control Pathway For Degradation Of Unfolded Cytosolic Proteins, Nadinath B. Nillegoda, Maria A. Theodoraki, Atin K. Mandal, Katie J. Mayo, Hong Yu Ren, Rasheda Sultana, Kenneth Wu, Jill Johnson, Douglas M. Cyr, Avrom J. Caplan

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Ubr1 and Ubr2 ubiquitin ligases are shown to promote degradation of misfolded cytosolic polypeptides in vivo and in a purified system in association with Hsp70.

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Design Collaboration As A Tool For Developing Diversity In The Work Place, Rees E. E. Shad

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Without a doubt the modern workplace is one made up of numerous working professionals graced with an array of varied abilities who work in tandem to meet a common goal. In this article the author recounts his personal journey to embracing the collaborative process and how he has honed and developed the skill set into an important element of design curriculum in order to prepare students for this fundamental market paradigm.

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Material Support And The First Amendment: Eliminating Terrorist Support By Punishing Those With No Intention To Support Terror?, Bradley A. Parker

City University of New York Law Review

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Whose Survival? Environmental Justice As A Civil Rights Issue, Majora Carter, Miranda Massie, David Palmer, Elizabeth Yeampierre, Carmen Huertas-Noble

City University of New York Law Review

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Effect Of Teammates On Changes In Physical Activity In A Statewide Campaign, Tricia M. Leahey, Melissa M. Crane, Angela Marinilli Pinto, Brad A. Weinberg, Rajiv Kumar, Rena R. Wing

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Objective—Most Americans do not meet physical activity recommendations. Statewide campaigns can effectively increase activity levels. Reported herein are physical activity outcomes from Shape Up Rhode Island (SURI) 2007, a statewide campaign to increase steps through team-based competition. Given the importance of social networks in behavior change, this paper focused on the effects of team and team characteristics on activity outcomes. Method—For 16-weeks, 5333 adults comprising 652 teams wore pedometers and reported their steps online. Results—Participants’ daily steps increased from 7029(3915) at baseline to 9393(5976) at SURI end (p<.001). There was a significant intraclass correlation for step change among team members (ICC=.09); thus, an individual’s change in steps was influenced by what team they were on. Moreover, baseline team characteristics predicted individual step change; being on a more active team was associated with greater increases in activity for individual members (p<.001), whereas being on a team with a broad range of steps was associated with smaller changes in activity for individual members (p=.02). Conclusion—These findings are the first to suggest that team members influence individual activity outcomes in team-based statewide campaigns. Future research should explore ways to use social network factors to enhance team-based physical activity programs.

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The Inadvertent Alliance Of Anthony Comstock And Margaret Sanger: Abortion, Freedom, And Class In Modern America, Karen Weingarten

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This article investigates how moral-reformer Anthony Comstock, who helped outlaw the practice of birth control and to have abortion criminalized, and Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and birth-control activist, advanced their causes through the discourse of freedom and self-control. While Comstock’s and Sanger’s works are often seen in opposition, this article questions that positioning by pointing out how they both lobbied against accessible abortion using similar tactics. Finally, this article demonstrates how Comstock and Sanger, through different means, worked to present abortion as a depraved practice that would lead to the demise of American society. Presenting Comstock and Sanger …

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Autoregulation Of Sinorhizobium Meliloti Exor Gene Expression, Hai-Yang Lu, Hai-Ping Cheng

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The successful nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between the Gram-negative soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti and its leguminous plant host alfalfa (Medicago sativa) requires the bacterial exopolysaccharide succinoglycan. Succinoglycan and flagellum production, along with the ability to metabolize more than 20 different carbon sources and control the expression of a large number of S. meliloti genes, is regulated by the ExoR–ExoS/ChvI signalling pathway. The ExoR protein interacts with and suppresses the sensing activities of ExoS, the membrane-bound sensor of the ExoS/ChvI two-component regulatory system. Here we show that exoR expression is clearly upregulated in the absence of any functional ExoR protein. This upregulation was …

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Videos In The Kitchen: The Lesbian Herstory Archives As A Moving-Herstorical-Image, Shawn(Ta) D. Smith

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Dna Adducts Of Decarbamoyl Mitomycin C Efficiently Kill Cells Without Wild-Type P53 Resulting From Proteasome-Mediated Degradation Of Checkpoint Protein 1, Ernest K. Boamah, Angelika Brekman, Maria Tomasz, Natura Myeka, Maria E. Figueiredo-Pereira, Senyene Hunter, Joel Meyer, Rahul C. Bhosle, Jill Bargonetti

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The mitomycin derivative 10-decarbamoyl mitomycin C (DMC) more rapidly activates a p53-independent cell death pathway than mitomycin C (MC). We recently documented that an increased proportion of mitosene1-β-adduct formation occurs in human cells treated with DMC in comparison to those treated with MC. Here, we compare the cellular and molecular response of human cancer cells treated with MC and DMC. We find the increase in mitosene 1-β-adduct formation correlates with a condensed nuclear morphology and increased cytotoxicity in human cancer cells with or without p53. DMC caused more DNA damage than MC in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. Checkpoint 1 …

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John Jay College Performance Goals And Targets Year-End Results: 2009-2010 Academic Year, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

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Leonard Lief Library Sony Reader Program: Leading Cuny In Digital Media Technology, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer A. King, Adelaide Soto

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Urban Public School Libraries And Educational Reform: The Case Of The Detroit Public Schools, Kafi D. Kumasi

Urban Library Journal

This article explores the implications of school reform on school libraries using the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) as a case study in urban librarianship. A literature review on the role and impact of school librarians in K-12 education is included to help illustrate the role of school libraries in public school reform. Two DPS reforms are selected for closer evaluation: a 2002 district-initiated reform and a 2008 state-mandated reform. The article concludes by offering a list of recommendations to help strengthen DPS reform goals and objectives by utilizing the professional knowledge and resources of school librarians in the district. These …

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Selecting Success: Disconnected Youth’S Reading Choices, Eva Raison, Sandra Sajonas

Urban Library Journal

By examining a sample of books chosen by participants in Brooklyn Public Library’s Young Adult Pre-GED program, this article will explore characteristics of reading materials that appeal to out-of-school youth. Authors will share the selection process behind the creation of a special collection targeted to low-literacy young adults (16–24 years old). Using youth participants’ independent reading logs, we will compare what we expected students to enjoy reading with what youth chose to read. A discussion will include lessons learned about collection development for out-of-school youth and how libraries can improve access for struggling adolescent readers.

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“I Feel Like I Could Do It Too”: A Paradigm Shift In An Urban Library Internship Program, Daren A. Graves, Doris Ann Sweet, Mary Mcgowan

Urban Library Journal

In the 2007/2008 academic year Simmons College Library put the life experiences of eight Boston high school students at the heart of an already established, IMLS-funded forty-hour library internship. The internship’s long standing goal was to create lifelong library ambassadors and future librarians, by teaching the students information literacy skills, introducing them to how a complex organization (the library) is organized and run, and imparting college and career skills. The learning paradigm conceived of the librarians as reciprocal learning and research partners, positioning the lived experiences and authentic interests of the students as central to the internship. The article describes …

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Induction Of Neuro-Protective/Regenerative Genes In Stem Cells Infiltrating Post-Ischemic Brain Tissue, Gokhan Yilmaz, J Steven Alexander, Cigdem Erkuran Yilmaz, D Neil Granger

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Background- Although the therapeutic potential of bone marrow-derived stromal stem cells (BMSC) has been demonstrated in different experimental models of ischemic stroke, it remains unclear how stem cells (SC) induce neuroprotection following stroke. In this study, we describe a novel method for isolating BMSC that infiltrate postischemic brain tissue and use this method to identify the genes that are persistently activated or depressed in BMSC that infiltrate brain tissue following ischemic stroke. Methods- Ischemic strokes were induced in C57BL/6 mice by middle cerebral artery occlusion for 1 h, followed by reperfusion. BMSC were isolated from H-2 Kb-tsA58 (immortomouse™) mice, and …

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Measuring Social Capital As An Outcome Of Service Learning, Maria J. D'Agostino

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Service-learning has been put forth as one of the proposed solutions to increasing social capital. However, service-learning research has not significantly addressed the impact of service learning on social capital. Unlike most previous studies, this research used quantitative analysis to measure the effect of university service-learning programs on social capital by examining the question: What impact do service-learning programs have on social capital post-graduation? This study showed that service learning addresses the civic engagement problem by providing evidence suggesting that service learning predicts social capital post-graduation.

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Lacuny Archives And Special Collections Roundtable Minutes, May 2010, Lacuny

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The Communicator, May 12, 2010, Bronx Community College

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The Communicator newspaper published on May 12, 2010.

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Classified Information: The Newsletter Of The Lloyd Sealy Library, Lloyd Sealy Library, Cuny John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

The Trouble With Archie: Locating And Accessing Primary Sources For The Study Of The 1970s Us Sitcom, All In The Family, Kathleen Collins

Publications and Research

La Hispanización Y La Identidad Hispana En Filipinas, David Sánchez-Jiménez

Publications and Research

Catalog 2010-2011, Kingsborough Community College

Course Catalogs

Management Of Online Tutorials: A Model For A Step-By-Step Approach, Kanu A. Nagra, Dorothea J. Coiffe

Publications and Research

The Cinema Of Control: On Diabetic Excess And Illness In Film, Kevin L. Ferguson

Publications and Research

Publications and Research

Taurine Regulates Insulin Release From Pancreatic Beta Cell Lines, William J. L’Amoreaux, Christina Cuttitta, Allison Santora, Jonathan F. Blaize, Janto Tachjadi, Abdeslem El Idrissi

Publications and Research

John Jay College Performance Goals And Targets: 2010-2011 Academic Year, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

Shear Stress Modulation Of Smooth Muscle Cell Marker Genes In 2-D And 3-D Depends On Mechanotransduction By Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans And Erk1/2, Zhong-Dong Shi, Giya Abraham, John M. Tarbell

Publications and Research

Differential Toxicity Of Dna Adducts Of Mitomycin C, Jill Bargonetti, Elise Champeil, Maria Tomasz

Publications and Research

Lim-Domain Proteins Trip6 And Lpp Associate With Shelterin To Mediate Telomere Protection, Samantha A. Sheppard, Diego Loayza

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Ubr1 And Ubr2 Function In A Quality Control Pathway For Degradation Of Unfolded Cytosolic Proteins, Nadinath B. Nillegoda, Maria A. Theodoraki, Atin K. Mandal, Katie J. Mayo, Hong Yu Ren, Rasheda Sultana, Kenneth Wu, Jill Johnson, Douglas M. Cyr, Avrom J. Caplan

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Design Collaboration As A Tool For Developing Diversity In The Work Place, Rees E. E. Shad

Publications and Research

Material Support And The First Amendment: Eliminating Terrorist Support By Punishing Those With No Intention To Support Terror?, Bradley A. Parker

City University of New York Law Review

Whose Survival? Environmental Justice As A Civil Rights Issue, Majora Carter, Miranda Massie, David Palmer, Elizabeth Yeampierre, Carmen Huertas-Noble

City University of New York Law Review

Effect Of Teammates On Changes In Physical Activity In A Statewide Campaign, Tricia M. Leahey, Melissa M. Crane, Angela Marinilli Pinto, Brad A. Weinberg, Rajiv Kumar, Rena R. Wing

Publications and Research

The Inadvertent Alliance Of Anthony Comstock And Margaret Sanger: Abortion, Freedom, And Class In Modern America, Karen Weingarten

Publications and Research

Autoregulation Of Sinorhizobium Meliloti Exor Gene Expression, Hai-Yang Lu, Hai-Ping Cheng

Publications and Research

Videos In The Kitchen: The Lesbian Herstory Archives As A Moving-Herstorical-Image, Shawn(Ta) D. Smith

Publications and Research

Publications and Research

John Jay College Performance Goals And Targets Year-End Results: 2009-2010 Academic Year, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

Leonard Lief Library Sony Reader Program: Leading Cuny In Digital Media Technology, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer A. King, Adelaide Soto

Publications and Research

Urban Public School Libraries And Educational Reform: The Case Of The Detroit Public Schools, Kafi D. Kumasi

Urban Library Journal

Selecting Success: Disconnected Youth’S Reading Choices, Eva Raison, Sandra Sajonas

Urban Library Journal

“I Feel Like I Could Do It Too”: A Paradigm Shift In An Urban Library Internship Program, Daren A. Graves, Doris Ann Sweet, Mary Mcgowan

Urban Library Journal

Induction Of Neuro-Protective/Regenerative Genes In Stem Cells Infiltrating Post-Ischemic Brain Tissue, Gokhan Yilmaz, J Steven Alexander, Cigdem Erkuran Yilmaz, D Neil Granger

Publications and Research

Measuring Social Capital As An Outcome Of Service Learning, Maria J. D'Agostino

Publications and Research

Lacuny Archives And Special Collections Roundtable Minutes, May 2010, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

The Communicator, May 12, 2010, Bronx Community College

The Communicator