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by Lisa James Goldsberry
The
September 14 issue of The
Buffalo News featured a profile of UAlbany�s
Pulitzer Prize-winning author WILLIAM
KENNEDY. �William Kennedy Discusses his Characters,
His Influences and His Albany� focused on Kennedy�s
novels. The article states that Kennedy has done for
Albany what Dickens did for London and Faulkner for
Jackson, Miss. Kennedy was quoted as saying, �The New
York State Writers Institute has had a success nobody
would have predicted, especially me.� About his work,
Kennedy said, �I�ve deceived myself so well that my
fictional Albany now spins in a cosmos that never was,
but which I understand in ways I never understood the
real city in which I was raised and have lived much
of my life.� The article covered the history of Kennedy�s
cycle of Albany novels filled with hoboes, actresses,
and politicians.
The
September 21 issue of the Denver
Post featured quotes from HANS
TOCH, a professor of criminal justice. The article
�The Animals� discussed a unique recruitment and training
program started in 1986 by the Denver Police Department
to fight skyrocketing crime. While establishing a reputation
for toughness, the class has also had the most police
shootings in decades. Toch, who has studied Denver police
shootings and testified at several trials that resulted
from them, was quoted as saying, �One possibility is
that this is just an ill-fated class.� He added, �Or
they merely ran into a disproportionate number of incidents.�
Fourteen officers from the class have been involved
in the wounding or deaths of 14 people, 13 of them by
gunfire.
The
September 22 issue of The
Boston Globe mentioned a study done by the CENTER
FOR WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT & CIVIL SOCIETY.
The article �Howard B. Dean, Candidate in the Making:
Meteoric Rise in Vermont Politics, Younger Sibling�s
Death May Have Been Catalyst� was a profile of the current
presidential candidate. According to the report, in
1998, 62.5 percent of policy leader positions in Vermont
were held by women, which was a higher percentage than
in any other state. It also focused on the jobs that
have been and continue to be done by the women on Dean�s
staff.
The
September 29 issue of the Los
Angeles Times featured a profile of UAlbany alumni
LOUISE KRASNIEWICZ
(Ph.D. �88) and MICHAEL BLITZ
(B.A. �80, D.A. �86). The article �Arnold Hits the Halls
of Academe: Two Scholars Have a Curious Specialty, Schwarzenegger
Studies� focuses on their study of the actorrole in
popular culture. The article describes how, while both
were doctoral students at UAlbany in the mid-1980s,
the phrase �Hasta la vista, baby� became part of the
American lexicon. �Schwarzenegger became a bridge between
their disciplines (anthropology and English), the topic
of a long-running conversation and the cement of their
friendship,� the article says. Krasniewicz is now a
research associate at the School of American Research
in New Mexico, and Blitz is chair of �thematic studies�
at John Jay College in New York.
A
May 27 broadcast on WTEN-TV featured JOSEPH
BOWMAN of the School of Education talking about
UAlbany�s two-week Science and Technology Entry Program
(STEP) for middle and high school students. The program
was also featured in an article in the July 10 issue
of the Albany Times Union. The article, �Students Take
a Step Into a Larger World,� mentioned that this is
the first year STEP has been held on UAlbany�s campus.
In a rare triple play, the July 15 broadcast of WNYT-TV�s
newscast also included a piece about the program. News
of the program also reached the World Wide Web. The
Center for Digital Education has an article on its �Inside
the Arena� page, as well.
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