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Kaplowitz, English Department “We had a positive season last year which the squad. help anchor a pitching staff that also includes
RSVP to alumnireunion@jjay.cuny.edu was perfect to build on when approaching this The softball team begins its home season fellow senior Michael Colletta.
Gymnasium, Haaren Hall season,” said second-year head coach Laura on March 28 with a doubleheader against Catcher Luis Guzman, a second-team
Drazdowski. “We are a much different team conference rival Baruch. CUNYAC all-star, will return to his duties behind
can be applied together to address possible racial Goff followed Keesee to the podium and
bias in police decision-making. noted that as an outgrowth of the Denver
“As police officers, especially black officers, research, a Consortium for Police Leadership in
we struggle to do the right thing, and to do right Equity was established, consisting of 15 police
by the community,” said Keesee, a 20-year police departments nationwide and researchers from
veteran. To that end, the Denver PD conducted John Jay, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and UCLA.
extensive research to determine the extent to “The challenge for researchers is how do we
which racial bias and stereotyped beliefs may translate findings from the lab to the street,” he
influence officers’ handling of certain situations, said.
such as the decision to stop, arrest or use “Like Lloyd Sealy, we believe education is a
physical force. powerful weapon for civil rights,” Goff added.
“We brought in world-class scientists to ask Sealy was one of 60 founding members of
pointed questions,” said Keesee. “After all, we NOBLE in 1976. His 34-year career with the New
in law enforcement often think we know all the York City Police Department saw him become the
answers.” The department created a partnership department’s first black precinct commander, and
arrangement with university-based researchers, retire at the rank of assistant chief inspector.
sponsored by the Center for Modern Forensic words and phrases that actually mean the
Practice and the Department of English, brought opposite of what they appear to suggest.
together two of the top experts in the field to
discuss “Forensic Linguistics for Investigative
“What kind of person wrote this?” Fitzgerald
said, noting that 95 percent of threat letters Darkest Night
Practitioners,” with a focus on threat assessment, handled by the FBI are anonymous, and the Performers from the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group at Tel Aviv
counterterrorism and criminal communications. writers usually put as much effort into the threat University stage a scene from Cases of Murder (November
The workshop was conducted in a split- as they do into maintaining their anonymity. 9, 1938: A protocol of fear brutality and death) during
session format by Robert Leonard, head of the Other tip offs spotted by investigators a special presentation at John Jay on February 27. The
theatrical work reconstructs acts of violence committed
Hofstra University Department of Linguistics include whether an individual writes out dates
against Jews during the night between November 9 and
and director of the Hofstra Forensic Linguistic numerically with hyphens — as in 9-11-01
10, 1938, known as Krystallnacht. Using a montage of
Project, and James R. Fitzgerald, a former FBI — slashes — 9/11/01 — or periods — 9.11.01. documentary and literary devices, the scenes from Cases of
supervisory special agent who is now a violent The postmarks and return addresses on threat Murder exposed the mechanisms of moral evasion, vague
crime consultant and a forensic linguist with the letters may also be contraindicators, Fitzgerald and ambiguous talk and turning blind eyes that made
Academy Group Inc. said, in an attempt to confuse investigators. Such the atrocities possible. “It was significant that this work
occurred at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The larger
Fitzgerald, a member of the FBI’s Unabom task was the case with the 2001 Americathrax case,
discourse on genocide, war crimes, human rights abuses
force, described the investigation that ultimately in which anthrax poison was mailed to a number
and the struggle for social justice is clearly served by events
led to the arrest and conviction of Theodore of different targets. such as this,” said Professor Seth Baumrin, who facilitated
Kaczynski in 1996 as the “largest authorial Fitzgerald and Leonard first met during the the event for the Department of Communication and The-
attribution project ever undertaken by the FBI.” course of the Americathrax investigation that led atre Arts. The presentation also included readings of new
The task force, which at its peak considered nearly seven years later to the FBI’s identification work on the investigation of war crimes, enacted by John
roughly 2,500 suspects in the serial bombing of chemist Bruce T. Ivins as the most likely Jay Professor Ric Curtis and student Luis Guitierrez, and a
discussion led by Professor Itai Sneh.
investigation, pored over the 35,000-word suspect.
SIMON BAATZ (History) had his book, For the ELLEN BELCHER (Library) presented a paper
Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that titled “Is there a Halaf Bead and Pendant
Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins), chosen as a Typology? A Look at the Evidence” at the Bead
finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Technology Workshop hosted by the British
Non-Fiction Crime Book in 2008. The award will Museum in London, England, on January 12-13.
@ John Jay is published by the JANE KATZ (Physical Education and Athletics)
Department of Institutional Advancement conducted one-day clinics on “Swimming for
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Total Fitness and Swim Basics” at the Jewish
899 Tenth Avenue,
New York, NY 10019 Community Center in Tucson, AZ, on January 4
www.jjay.cuny.edu and The Club for Women, an all-women health
Editor Peter Dodenhoff club in Phoenix, on January 6.
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M. VICTORIA PÉREZ-RÍOS (Government)
presented two papers, “Cooperation against
Research A student pauses to take in the latest gallery display in the lobby of Haaren Hall, an
eight-panel salute to student-faculty research efforts. The exhibit features faculty mem-
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Transnational Crime: Lessons from the Balkans” under Glass bers and students representing a broad range of disciplines, from hard science to the
humanities, from criminal justice to computing.
Music, Drama and More initiative will soon be unveiled at John Jay, as
an outgrowth of the successful Bravo! Summer
Institute launched in 2008.
Resources), Ynes Leon (Facilities Management),
Cadelie Neat (Business Office), Louie Perillo
Students show off the research projects they created as part of their Freshman Opportunity class taught by Professors Kimberly Helmer and Marco Navarro. “A year ago, as a senior in high school, I never would’ve dreamed I’d be doing this,” said Heidy
Ramirez (at left in photo above right). The students will undertake new team-based research projects in the spring semester, choosing from a broad palette of course options.