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Tr-2002004: On The Effectiveness Of Tangible Interfaces In Collaborative Learning Environments, Lori L. Scarlatos, Shalva S. Landy, Julia Breban, Robin Horowitz, Chanie Sandberg

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2002007: Ubiquitous Puzzle Pieces: 3d Tangible Interfaces For Collaborative Learning Environments, Lori L. Scarlatos, Shalva S. Landy, Saira Qureshi

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2002006: States Of Knowledge, Rohit Parikh

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Writing An Important Body Of Scholarship: A Proposal For An Embodied Rhetoric Of Professional Practice, Jane Hindman

Publications and Research

Identifies a set of professional discursive practices of rhetoric teachers that reveal gendered power relations. Proposes an "embodied rhetoric" characterized and authorized in part by specific sorts of personal author- and context-saturated gestures. Concludes that an embodied rhetoric regenders academic discourse, assures agency and power to feminist theory and praxis, and facilitates efforts to effect change in teachers and students' lives.

We Weren’T Always White: Race And Ethnicity In Italian/American Literature, Fred L. Gardaphé

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Urban Youth Reimagine Trauma: Making Meaning Of Experiences With Chronic Community Violence Through The Arts, Stephanie Urso Spina

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The impact of participation in the "Creating Original Opera" (COO) program was investigated among two consecutive (1999 and 2000) cohorts of eighth grade inner-city students living in a context of chronic community violence. Four research questions were posed: (1) What are these students' experiences of violence? (2) What strategies, if any, do they employ to cope with violent events? (3) What, if any, of the above change over the duration of the project? (4) How might those changes relate (or not) to participation in the opera program?

Data collection included a series of three semi-structured interviews with randomly chosen students …

Anti-Minority Riots In Unified Germany: Cultural Conflicts And Mischanneled Political Participation, Roger Karapin

Publications and Research

Anti-foreigner riots in eastern Germany in the early 1990s have usually been explained by ethnonationalism or racism, ethnic competition for scarce resources, and opportunistic political elites. If anti-minority riots are analyzed as a distinct phenomenon with a cross-sectional approach, local political processes emerge as more important causes. Cultural conflicts, the channeling of mobilization from nonviolent into violent forms, local political opportunities for success, and mobilization by social movement organizations convert ethnic conflict and violence into riots. A comparison of riot and non-riot localities in eastern Germany supports this argument.

No Relief: The Politics Of Welfare Retrenchment, 1873-1898 And 1973-2002, Stephen Pimpare

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

No Relief compares the national repeal of AFDC in 1996 with the widespread campaigns against municipal poor relief that occurred throughout the United States some one hundred years earlier. In both eras businesses and the governments that depended upon them, threatened by growing labor power, civil unrest and the rising costs of poor relief, launched an attack against poor people and the limited benefits available to them. They did not do so directly but under cover of the Charity Organization Societies of the Gilded Age and conservative think tanks of the late twentieth century—"neutral" reform organizations that obscured the class-based …

Art To Educate: A History Of Public Art In The New York City Public Schools, 1890–1976, Michele Cohen

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

"Art to Educate" chronicles a history of public art in the New York City public schools from the beginning until the passage of the City's Percent-for-Art Law in 1982. Its purpose is twofold: to bring to light public artworks in school buildings that are typically ignored in discussions of public art and to create a historical framework for understanding this collection.

To contextualize this collection, "Art to Educate" links public art in schools to school architecture and the Board of Education's school construction programs over the last century; to a consideration of educational theory and viewpoints in art education; and …

Know-It-All Librarians, Beth Posner

Publications and Research

Librarians are depicted as know-it-alls by some, and as know-nothings by others. Similarly, they are seen as both utterly powerless and preternaturally powerful. This essay offers examples of these contradictory images, examines their implications, and proposes a more realistic view of librarians and their relation to knowledge and power.

An Interview With Sandra Harding, Stephanie Urso Spina, Mike Roberts, Patricia Ticento Clough

Publications and Research

Harding’s position has been critiqued as more postmodern than feminist, as viable without nasty entanglements in feminism, as too concerned with established Eurocentric, scientific discourses, and as appealing to foundational innocence by her concern with realism. But what seems to drive Harding’s choices more than anything is a conscious attempt to be effective in intervening in existing systems of power, whether empiricist and postmodern. By taking this position, Harding undertakes a difficult task. Its difficulty, however, is compensated for by the conversations she generates. As a voice not restricted to one intellectual school, Harding demands attention from many with opposing …

Modernity And Musical Structure: Neo-Marxist Perspectives On Song Form And Its Successors, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, December 10, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Advocate, December 2001, Vol. [13], No. [3], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Global Politics

Living After the Terror: Poverty, Despair, Grief Plague Chiapas Communities. Andrew Kennis (p. 2)

Masthead (p. 2)

Local Politics

Behind Green’s Blue Drapes. Rob Wallace (p. 6)

Neither Kabul, Nor Washington! Rob Wallace (p. 7)

1492 Office Exotic Dishes. Tamara Rosenberg (p. 7)

Lava Gina Will Keep You Coming Back for More. Tamara Rosenberg (p. 7)

Writing Fellows

Earn and Learn: $22,118 a Year at CUNY! Nassima Abdelli (p. 8)

Writing Fellow Experiences. Bonnie Oglensky, CUNY Writing Fellow at Bronx Community College in Response to Questions by Nassima Abdelli (p. 8)

My Writing [Fellowship] Process: …

The Ticker, November 19, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, November 2001, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, October 22, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Queer Feelings, Ann Cvetkovich

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

As people have mobilized in response to the September 11 attacks, I have found myself uncharacteristically dissatisfied by analysis of foreign policy and by teach-ins that consist of supplying information. They're absolutely crucial, and I applaud all of those who have coordinated their energies in this way. But I also want to see, as AIDS activist and theorist Douglas Crimp has argued, mourning and militancy brought together. Crimp has suggested that activism ignores mourning at its own peril, that it cannot simply displace mourning with militancy or fail to address the ways that anger is also motivated by loss.

What's Medieval Got To Do With It?, Carolyn Dinshaw

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

President Bush's response to September 11 — he has called this "war on terrorism" a "crusade" — is terrifying in its own right, framing the future as a reprise of the medieval past: several centuries of battle between Christianity and Islam. It's "going to take a while," Bush said. The White House may have subsequently backed off that rhetoric, but the metaphor (if it is one) draws on entrenched habits of thought.

Towelheads, Diapers, And Faggots: Reviving The Turban, Jasbir Puar

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

In the days and weeks following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on September 11, there has been a rapid proliferation of mocking images of a turbaned Osama bin Laden, not to mention of the turban itself. In a photo-montage circulating from Stileproject.com, even George Bush has been sporting a bin Laden-esque turban. Another internet favorite is a picture of bin Laden superimposed into a 7-11 convenience store scene as a cashier. Posters that appeared in midtown Manhattan only days after the attacks show a turbaned caricature of bin Laden being anally penetrated by the Empire State building. The …

Insisting On Inquiry, Alisa Solomon

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

This special CLAGS newsletter goes to press exactly one month after hijackers rammed jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and aimed for a third target before being brought down in the fields of Pennsylvania. In the days immediately following the attacks, pundits, politicians and plain folks asserted that our lives in America had been changed forever. Certainly all of us at CLAGS have been stunned and shaken. Gathering for our first board meeting of the year just days later, we expressed our grief, confusion, anxieties, and fears. Like everyone, no doubt, we questioned the meaning and purpose …

Advocate, October 2001, Vol. [13], No. [2], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

War or Peace?

On the Precipice of World War 3 Oppose the “Jihad” and the “Crusade.” Louise Ammentorp (p. 2)

Why War is Not the Answer. Josh Little (p. 3)

Martyrs. Anonymous Author (p. 3)

Unexcusable, Unexplainable, Unavoidable Acts of Terror? Andrew Kennis (p. 4)

Why the U.S. Public Has Been in a “War-Like Mood.” Andrew Kennis (p. 6)

Masthead (p. 2)

Immigration

The Many Tortuous Ways an Alien Can Become a Permanent Resident. Nassima Abdelli (p. 7)

Art (p. 8)

Picassos from Málaga at the Graduate Center Art Gallery. Patricia Siska.

Art Historians Do Their Part …

Panel Presentation On Immigration And Criminal Law. Sponsored By The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York., Neha Lall, Jen Murray

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Oh Righteous Delinquent One: The United States' International Human Rights Double Standard - Explanation, Example, And Avenues For Change, Amy C. Harfeld

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

The State Goes Home: Local Hyper-Vigilance Of Children And The Global Retreat From Social Reproduction, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

In an early scene in The Terminator, the Cyborgian Arnold Schwarzenegger walks into an L.A. gun shop and asks to see the wares. The shopkeeper lays out Uzis, submachine guns, rocket launchers, and other sophisticated means of overkill, nervously understating, "Any one of these will suit you for home defense purposes." The situation is likewise in the growing child protection industry. In keeping with the shopkeeper's sly comment, these businesses feast on an all-pervasive culture of fear, while creating a mockery, alibi, and distraction out of what they are really about - to remake the home as a citadel through …

The Data Game: Colorado State University’S Animated Library Research Tutorial, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

The Data Game, produced by Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries, is a web-based multimedia tutorial designed to teach basic research skills. Using interactive contests and animated presentations, The Data Game introduces and reinforces essential ideas. This paper discusses the tutorial's design, construction, and implementation.

Advocate, September 2001, Vol. [13], No. [1], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Adjunct Organizing

Adjunct Confessions. Tim McCormack (p. 2)

Adjunct Action Set to Heat Up in the Fall. Kristin Lawler (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 2)

CUNY Life

Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Zalk Dies at 56. Nassima Abdelli and Mark Petras (p. 4)

Zalk was Advocate for Students. Jocelyn Boryczka (p. 4)

Zalk Worked Hard for Child Care. Linda Perrotta, Grad Center Director of Child Care (p. 4)

Comments from Colleagues (p. 4)

Sue Rosenberg Zalk: A Scholar, Mentor and Friend. Jennifer Leigh Disney (p. 4)

Childcare Center: A Year Later. Linda Perrotta (p. 7)

Student Government …

The Emerging Periplasm-Localized Subclass Of Aroq Chorismate Mutases, Exemplified By Those From Salmonella Typhimurium And Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, David H. Calhoun, Carol A. Bonner, Wei Gu, Gary Xie, Roy A. Jensen

Publications and Research

Background Chorismate mutases of the AroQ homology class are widespread in the Bacteria and the Archaea. Many of these exist as domains that are fused with other aromatic-pathway catalytic domains. Among the monofunctional AroQ proteins, that from Erwinia herbicola was previously shown to have a cleavable signal peptide and located in the periplasmic compartment. Whether or not this might be unique to E. herbicola was unknown. Results The gene coding for the AroQ protein was cloned from Salmonella typhimurium, and the AroQ protein purified from both S. typhimurium and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was shown to have a periplasmic location. The periplasmic …

Lgbt Studies: Past, Presences And Futures, Richard M. Juang

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

When I rolled out of bed at 4 am on April 20 to make the trip to New York for "Futures of the Field: Building LGBT Studies into the 21st Century University," the idea of discussing institutionalization was less than appealing. In a time of staff cutbacks, increasing courseloads and notoriously poor job markets, going back to sleep seemed a much better idea.

Ionic Mechanisms Underlying Repetitive High-Frequency Burst Firing In Supragranular Cortical Neurons, Joshua C. Brumberg, Lionel G. Nowak, David A. Mccormick

Publications and Research

Neocortical neurons in awake, behaving animals can generate high-frequency (.300 Hz) bursts of action potentials, either in single bursts or in a repetitive manner. Intracellular recordings of layer II/III pyramidal neurons were obtained from adult ferret visual cortical slices maintained in vitro to investigate the ionic mechanisms by which a subgroup of these cells generates repetitive, high-frequency burst discharges, a pattern referred to as “chattering.” The generation of each but the first action potential in a burst was dependent on the critical interplay between the afterhyperpolarizations (AHPs) and afterdepolarizations (ADPs) that followed each action potential. The spike after depolarization and …