Archive for November, 2011
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
D:F/M Colleagues were shocked at the Wednesday, November 9, faculty meeting when Dara Meyers-Kingsley, Project Director, Arts Across the Curriculum Initiative, said several departments in the College were submitting proposals to add media to their curriculum. [The Chair, speaking in a manner that set off alerts in this Colleague, expressed to Meyers-Kingsley hissurprise that he had not been made aware of this action, as chairs are suppose to be aware of threats to department turfs. No one even blinked.]
D:F/M sobriety was also blown away when it became known that D:F/M was not represented on the AAC Committee that had been formed.
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Tags:academically adrift, College Curriculums
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
There are way too many inaccuracies and too much misrepresentation and deceit in this blog-tumblr piece [below] by Hunter alumna Vanessa Casavant for this former mentor-instructor to engage in rebuttals, rejoinders, replies and the lot at this point in time in the early fall semester. For the moment, this writer is collecting her online posts as well as contacting news services who wrote about her quotable and paraphrased whining in their news articles to alert them to the spurious and the specious and that they were snookered.
So, what is this about? Read on.
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Tags:9/11 frauds, 9/11 jokes, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, Legislative Gazette, Vanessa Casavant
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
[Soon to be a Major Motion Picture — :)]
The following screed was posted on Hunter-L, a Hunter College listserv, in response to a petition posted to support OCCUPY WALL STREET. Hunter-L is used by faculty and students and staff for disseminating information and has a long history of turbulence and relevance . The petition can be found much further down in this blog.
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Tags:BIG CORPORATIONS, DEMOCRACY, OCCUPY, OCCUPY D:F/M, OCCUPY WALL STREET
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, Not Easily Categorized, Student Journalism | Comments Closed
Monday, November 7th, 2011
At the J Walter Thompson agency on Lexington Avenue, 46 Street today.
The nervous energy before the start of the press conference announcing the SUS campaign to help U.S. military vets and soldiers could not be denied. And then things got serious.
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Tags:Aftertheparade, homelessness among U.S. military vets, military suicides, post traumatic stress disorder, suicidal military vets and soldiers, veteran suicides
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Will be attending a press conference today with several students about the SUS program for a campaign to help present and former U.S. military folks dealing with serious issues.
Each day 18 current or former military personnel take their own lives. Over 2,300 active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces have killed themselves since January, 2001.
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Tags:Veterans
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
SUS is introducing a series of public service announcements focusing on significant issues facing U.S. military members, such as the epidemic level of suicides by active and former members of the U.S. military.
Each day 18 current or former military personnel take their own lives, according to SUS. The public service campaign will feature personal pictures and home videos provided by the suicide victims families. Over 2300 active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces have taken their own lives since January of 2001. Listen here.
Tags:military suicides, military veterans
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