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March 30, 2011

Worth Noting Opening Doors of Opportunity

March 31 5:15 PM Law Day Offers Students Practical Advice
The Presumption of Guilt: The John Jay students attending the annual
Law Day on March 19 got more than words of
Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and encouragement and advice from a battery of
Race, Class and Crime in America speakers who have “been there, done that.” With
Book discussion with Professor Charles Ogletree, the day focused on mentoring and networking,
Harvard Law School students with their sights set on law school were
urged to reach back and help others as they
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advance their academic and professional careers.
Race, Crime and Justice
More than 225 students registered for the
Room 630, Haaren Hall all-day event sponsored by the Pre Law Institute,
which featured the annual Samuel and Anna
April 4 7:00 PM Jacobs Foundation Lecture on Law and the Legal
Profession, presented this year by Ida L. Castro,
The 1960s — The Struggle who was the first Latina to chair the U.S. Equal
for Justice Intensifies Employment Opportunity Commission.
The GI Anti-War Coffee Houses Castro, the Bronx-born daughter of minimally
Barbara Garson educated Puerto Rican immigrants, has enjoyed
a long career as a labor lawyer and litigator, and
Room 206/207, Haaren Hall
has held faculty posts at both Rutgers University
and the City University School of Law. She is
April 11 7:00 PM currently the Vice President for Social Justice and
The 1960s — The Struggle Diversity at Commonwealth Medical College in Above: President Jeremy Travis joins Law Day alumni honoree
Justice Marguerite Grays (2nd from left) and other members of
Pennsylvania.
for Justice Intensifies “The legal profession will place many
her John Jay-loving family, nieces Jaja, Jenelle and Jasmine Grays
and cousin Sheila Nickens Thomas.
The 1960s: A Reporter’s Eye View opportunities before you,” Castro said. “Rise to
Right: Keynote speaker Ida Castro got a rousing reception with
Carl Bernstein the occasion, open the door of choice and walk her “you can do it” talk to an audience of budding law students.
Room 630, Haaren Hall through. And whatever you do, make sure you also
open doors so that others like you can follow as
well.”
April 12 6:00 PM The students’ response to Castro’s remarks was and networking, said Holness, a “crash course”
2011 Alumni Reunion “out of control,” said Vielka Holness, Director of in understanding the law school application
Networking, reception and dinner. Includes a ­salute the Pre Law Institute, and they reacted similarly process, paying for law school and gaining access
to milestone classes and recipients of Endowed to the day’s alumni honoree, New York State to practicing attorneys who are doing well, many
Alumni Scholarship, Distinguished Faculty Award and Supreme Court Justice Marguerite A. Grays (BA, of them John Jay alumni. The returning alumni,
­Distinguished Alumnus Award. 1979), who emphasized reaching for dreams and Holness said, “all spoke of how excited they were
working hard to achieve them; helping others in to have an opportunity to give back.”
Gymnasium, Haaren Hall Beginning in June, the Pre Law Institute will
turn, especially those in middle school and high
Tickets required. Purchase online by April 11, at school; and networking. once again hold an intensive LSAT Prep Program
www.jjay.cuny.edu/2011reunion Grays is a true believer in the power of a for students who have signed up for the October
John Jay education. In addition to earning both 2011 Law School Admission Test. John Jay juniors
April 17–26 associate’s and bachelor’s degrees here, Grays and seniors who have a grade point average of group workshops, individualized advisement
can claim three nieces and a cousin who are John 3.0 or higher and are applying to enter law school sessions and a supportive learning community.
Spring Break Jay alumnae or students. in the fall of 2012 are eligible for full scholarships The deadline for applying for the prep program
No classes Law Day is designed as a full day of workshops for the on-campus prep program, which includes is April 4.

April 28 3:00 PM
Job & Internship Fair
PhD, MPA Programs Are Among
For students and alumni. Business attire required.

Gymnasium, Haaren Hall

the Best in Latest U.S. News Rankings
The John Jay/CUNY doctoral program in criminal University, Michigan State University and Florida in criminal justice.”

West Side Sendoff

for Class of 2011
The graduating class of 2011 will bid farewell to
John Jay on Friday, June 3, in twin ceremonies held
in a new location, the Jacob Javits Center North at
11th Avenue and 40th Street.
The Theater at Madison Square Garden, John
Jay’s customary graduation site, is unavailable for
the next three years due to ongoing major renova-
tions, prompting college officials to conduct a six-
month search for a suitable alternative. The Javits
Center was chosen from a field of roughly a dozen
venues.
There will be two graduation ceremonies that
day, at 10:30 am and 3:30 pm, with a student’s
major determining which ceremony he or she
attends. Current plans call for each graduating
student to be allotted three guest tickets for family
members and friends.
Student-related questions or concerns regard-
ing graduation may be e-mailed to graduation@
jjay.cuny.edu, or directed to the Division of Student
Development at 646.557.4888. Faculty-related
concerns and questions should be directed to
Maribel Perez in the Office of the Provost at
212.237.8802; e-mail mperez@jjay.cuny.edu.
justice has scored a solid Top 10 ranking in the
latest assessment of graduate programs published
by U.S. News & World Report, and the College
once again ranks in the top 20 percent of the
nation’s Master of Public Administration programs.
The #10 ranking for the doctoral program
places it ahead of the University of Pennsylvania,
Temple University and Northeastern University,
among others, and only narrowly behind Rutgers
Summer @ John Jay
Is Just Around the Corner
Looking for something fulfilling to do in New
York City this summer? John Jay can provide
dozens of options and opportunities, as part of
three summer session mini-semesters.
Whether one is looking to jump-start a John Jay
College education or complete the requirements
for a degree, the summer sessions have
something for virtually everyone, with course
offerings ranging from abnormal psychology to
yoga, from introductory undergraduate classes
to master’s-level capstone seminars. There are
traditional classroom-based courses, online
and hybrid courses as well as fieldwork-oriented
State University. The MPA program is one of the largest in
John Jay’s MPA program, meanwhile, was one of the country, with more than 500 students, and
only three public policy programs in New York City includes a unique Inspector General track that
— along with NYU and Columbia — to rank in the
top 20 percent nationally.
focuses on inspection and oversight, in addition to
a traditional MPA concentration.
“The ranking is a tremendous honor,” said The rankings of 36 doctoral programs in
President Jeremy Travis. “We are proud that criminal justice and criminology are based solely
our graduate programs continue to solidify the on responses to peer assessment surveys sent to
reputation of John Jay College as a thought leader academics in the discipline.
internships.
Four-week sessions run from June 1 through
July 1 and from July 6 through August 5, and an
eight-week session runs from June 1 through July
22.
The “Summer @ John Jay” program is open to
current John Jay students and those who have
been admitted. Visiting students from other
colleges and universities are also eligible to
attend. Registration for summer classes begins
April 4.
For more information, visit online at http://
johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/_summerjj/summersch.aspx.
Video Intro to Forensic Science Goes Beyond Basics
Budding young forensic scientists can now get a
thorough online introduction to the best that John
Jay has to offer, thanks to a new video that show-
cases the College’s science curriculum, its stu-
dents and faculty, and the Program for Research
Initiatives for Science Majors (PRISM).
Students may get turned on to the idea of
studying forensic science by such television shows
as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” notes science
Professor Lawrence Kobilinsky, but they quickly
find that John Jay is much more than just that,
with undergraduate concentrations in molecular
biology, toxicology and criminalistics.
With President Travis joins some of the 15 Inaugural members of John Jay’s Beta Phi chapter of Omicron Delta
Epsilon, the international economics honor society, on March 16 after the chapter was chartered in the
honors College’s first year of eligibility. ODE is one of the world’s largest academic honor societies, with more than
640 chapters worldwide.
Rifle Team Back in Championship Form
When it comes to straight shooting, it’s hard
to top the achievements of the John Jay College
rifle team, which recently won the Mid-Atlantic
Conference (MAC) championship in both small
bore and air rifle — the third time in seven
years that the team swept the MAC title in both
disciplines.
The championship-clinching victories on
February 27 in Annapolis, MD, included a 2117-
2116 squeaker over the University of the Sciences
of Philadelphia in small bore, and a 2213-2189
defeat of Wentworth College in air rifle.
The Bloodhounds, who lost to USP in small
bore during the regular season, were led in the
championship rematch by Stephen Zawislak, who
shot a 558. In air rifle, Jenna Hansen led the team
faculty/staff notes
On Board
Cheuk Lee (Enrollment Management) has been
named Interim Registrar, following the retirement
of Joan Antonicelli. Lee had been Associate
Registrar, a role in which he was the primary
developer of the Degree Works program at John
Jay. Shavonne McKiever, the current Executive
Associate to the Vice President for Enrollment
Management, will be assuming the role of
Interim Deputy Registrar. Katie (Pszeniczna)
Gershman will take over the role of Executive
Associate to the Vice President.  “Puerto Ricans and Their Journey into the Legal
Presenting…
Lori Latrice Martin (African American Studies)
presented a paper titled “Black Wealth and
Asset Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis of Nativity on
Housing Values,” at the annual meeting of the
Eastern Sociological Society in Philadelphia, PA, on
February 26. She also served as a discussant for a
session on race and ethnicity.  Future.”
 
Jane Katz (Health and Physical Education) was
the featured guest speaker at Kingswood Oxford
School in Hartford, CT, for a celebration of National
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“We don’t often focus on what science is,”
says Professor Anthony Carpi, chair of the Depart-
ment of Sciences. “It’s this process of inquiry, this
process of discovery that they don’t often get in
traditional classes.”
Through a tour of John Jay’s scientific labora-
tories and interviews with faculty and students,
the video paints a vivid picture of how the science
department, via PRISM and other efforts, creates
opportunities for forensic science students to en-
gage in faculty-mentored research projects.
“By the time you get to your senior year, you’re
learning things that were just recently discovered,”
Sharpshooter Stephen Zawislak draws a bead on the target
­during the Rifle Team’s recently concluded championship season.
with a score of 569.
“We prepared well for the match,” said
Girls and Women in Sports Day on February 18.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice
Administration) was an invited speaker at the
Edgecombe Correctional Facility in New York City
on February 18. She addressed inmates enrolled
in employment services programming on the
subject of reentry issues facing parole violators.
Jodie Roure (Latin American and Latina/o
Studies) presented a co-authored paper on
Profession: Overcoming Challenges” on December
10, 2010 at the Puerto Rican Social Conditions
and Public Policy Conference at the Hunter College
School of Social Work. On December 11, Roure
attended the Society of American Law Teachers
biannual teaching conference at the University of
Hawaii, where she presented a paper on “Teaching
in a Transformative Age: The Law School of the
Between the Covers
Jeremy Travis (President) and Christopher
Stone have had their monograph “Toward a New
Professionalism in Policing” published as part of
the New Perspectives in Policing series produced
by the Executive Session on Policing and Public
Safety at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government. The monograph identifies
accountability, legitimacy, innovation and national
coherence as four cornerstones of the new
professionalism. Stone is the Daniel and Florence
Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal
Justice at the Kennedy School.
Randy Kandel (Anthropology) and Anne Griffiths
educating for justice
says science Professor Nathan Lents, the director
of the Office of Undergraduate Research. “You’re
approaching the limits of what’s known.”
“The kids here are absolutely amazing,” adds
Professor Marcel Roberts, a 2002 alumnus of
John Jay’s forensic science program. “They’re
­doing presentations that are, at the PhD level.”
Students featured in the video are engaged
in research ranging from a study of Parkinson’s
disease to testing a new reagent for uncovering
latent fingerprints to analyzing antiviral proteins
in certain plants. And, like so many of their fellow
forensic science students, they all have ambitious
plans for continuing their studies beyond the un-
dergraduate level. Jason Quinones was accepted
into the doctoral program in molecular and cellular
pharmacology at Stony Brook University. Danielle
Scimeca went on to the highly competitive joint
Career Development Office
Gears Up for Best-Ever Job Fair
The U.S. economy may still be facing hard times,
but the John Jay Office of Career Development
Services is expecting a strong turnout of potential
employers and job-seeking students and alumni
for the annual Job & Internship Fair on April 28.
“The goal is to get 80 to 100 employers, which
would be an increase from last year,” said Will
Simpkins, the CDS director. “And although it’s
heavily government and law enforcement, we do
have a good representation from the for-profit and
not-for-profit sectors as well.”
As important, Simpkins added, every employer
represented should have job or internship
head coach Vincent Maiorino. “Everyone was
exceptional. They really pulled together for this
championship. I just told them to go out there, do
your best, have fun, and what will be will be.”
John Jay won the MAC regular season title in air
rifle with a 13-3 record in the expert division, and
finished second in the small-bore sharpshooter
class with a 10-7 record.
At the midpoint of the 2010-2011 season,
the team won the Big Apple Rifle Championship
on December 4 for the third year in a row with a
lopsided defeat of SUNY Maritime in air rifle. In
November, the team won the Admiral’s Cup trophy
by defeating the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in air
rifle and small bore competition.
had their article, “Local Responses to National
and Transnational Law: A View from the Scottish
Children’s Hearings System,” published recently
in From Transnational Relations to Transnational
Laws: Northern European Laws at the Crossroads,
by Ashgate Publishing. Griffiths is a professor at
the Edinburgh University School of Law.
R. Terry Furst and  Ric Curtis
(Anthropology) and Rebecca Stanley (Criminal
Justice Research and Evaluation Center) had their
article,, “The Transformation of Drug Markets
and its Impact on HIV Outreach to Injection Drug
Users in New York City, 1987-2008,” published
in the February 2011 issue of the Journal of
Substance Use and Misuse.
Lori Latrice Martin (African American
Studies) had her manuscript, “Debt to Society:
Asset Poverty and Prisoner Reentry,” accepted for
publication in the peer-reviewed journal Review of
the Black Political Economy. Martin’s article “The
Battle Over the Ex-Slave’s Fortune: The Story of
Cynthia Hesdra,” appeared in the January 2011
issue of Afro-Americans in New York Life and
History. 
Abby Stein (Anthropology/ Interdisciplinary
Studies) had her paper, “The Utility of Contempt”
published in the winter issue of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis. The paper is based on clinical and
research work around issues of anger and agency
in the lives of battered women.
Edward Snajdr and Shonna Trinch
(Anthropology) had their article “What the
MD/PhD program at the University of Miami. Kath-
erine Reynoso is in the PhD program in molecular,
cellular and developmental biology at the CUNY
Graduate Center, and Amanda Vasquez moved on
to John Jay’s master’s program in forensic science.
Faculty mentoring is a key component of the
PRISM program, and the students are unstinting
in their praise for the guidance they have received.
“He, quite honestly, made me the scientist that I’m
going to become,” said Scimeca of her unidenti-
fied mentor.
The White House recently took official notice
of the scientific mentoring at John Jay when Carpi
received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excel-
lence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering
Mentoring.
The video can be easily accessed via a link on
the home page of the John Jay Web site.
openings. “We want to make this a premier
event for employers,” he said, noting that his
office employs a proactive strategy that involves
staff members reaching out to targeted lists
of prospective employers. Even the Central
Intelligence Agency will be on hand, looking to hire
covert operatives.
Recent job fairs at John Jay have drawn some
400 to 500 interested students and alumni, a
number that Simpkins hopes to increase. “Career
fairs have become very attractive for students,
given the current economic climate,” he observed.
The April event is also designed to expose
students to the wide variety of internships that
are available. “I’d like to see a dramatic increase
in the number of students doing internships, both
academic and non-academic,” said Simpkins. “By
the time they graduate, every student should have
participated in at least one internship during their
college career.”
As in the past, the fair will be in the Haaren
Hall gymnasium where, in addition to booths and
display areas for every employer, a networking
space will be set aside where employers and
employees alike can interact one-on-one.
“Networking is key when it comes to getting
jobs,” Simpkins noted, “and this is a great
networking opportunity.”
Pre-registration is not required for those
wishing to attend, but business a ­ ttire is. (See the
CDS website — www.jjay.cuny.edu/­careers — for
guidance as to proper business attire.)
Brownstones Say” featured in the March 2011
issue of Anthropology News. The article focuses
on their research into community views of the
sprawling Atlantic Yards redevelopment project
in Brooklyn, and features the fieldwork done by
a team of John Jay undergraduates, including
Shauna Parker, Yance Vargas, Earlynn Bernadin
and Veronica Cortez.
Kwando M. Kinshasa (African American Stud-
ies) authored an article titled “The Pain of Remem-
brance: Interview with Lodewijk Alphonsus Maria
Lou Lichtveld [a.k.a. Albert Helman], Surinam
Intellectual and Activist,” that was published in the
December 2010 issue of The Caribbean Journal of
History. This article/interview examines Lichtveld’s
life as a leading novelist, intellectual and anti-Nazi
leader in the Dutch underground during World
War II. Later this year, McFarland Publishers will
republish Kinshasa’s 1988 book, Emigration vs.
Assimilation: The Debate in the African American
Press, 1827–1861.
Peer Review
David Kennedy (Anthropology/Center for Crime
Prevention and Control) has been named winner
of the 2010-2011 Hatfield Scholar Award by the
Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland
State University, in recognition of his contributions
to addressing violent crimes in communities.
The Award, named after the distinguished former
Governor and Senator from Oregon, Mark O.
Hatfield, is bestowed on exceptional scholars
whose careers best exemplify the Hatfield ideals
of public interest, scholarship, public service, civil
and human rights, social justice and peace. It will
be presented on April 7 in Portland.