Posts Tagged ‘Hunter College’

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

An early version of this manual [DSM III] was a good resource tool when I was researching and writing The Kids Next Door: Sons and Daughters Who Killed Their Parents and Unspeakable Acts: The Ordeal of Thomas Waters-Rimmer which was selected for the New York Times 1993 Notable Books of the Year.

It has been invaluable …

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The Hunts Point Express on Editorial Alert?

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

An URL of the previous blog below (The Slippery Ethical Slope of the Hunts Point Express) was posted Monday on the The Hunts Point Express facebook page. Lo and behold, it was no longer there yesterday. In fact, the The Hunts Point Express on online is not accepting comments either.

Uh Oh! The plot thickens.

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The Slippery Ethical Slope for the Hunts Point Express?

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

D:F/M has been in a state of academic stasis for years and years but in recent years Colleagues have resorted to all manner of fabrications to cover up its failings. What follows reveals a venial sin/omission compared to a mortal sin/omission (catechism from Catholic  schools still resonates slightly). It also could be merely a mistake.

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Boycott the James Arsonson Awards at Hunter College

Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Send Peter Parisi a message so that James Aronson can stop turning over in his grave.

Send Peter Parisi a message so that James Aronson can stop turning over in his grave.

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D:F/M

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Many articles in the works.

 

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Another Story About the Ippies

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

 

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Why Are My Colleagues Smiling?

Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

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Hunter Public Safety Up to Its Old Yes-No Tricks

Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
Hunter Security Officer telling student that he can't videotape on school property

Hunter Campus Safety Officer  telling student early in the start of the fall semester  that he can’t videotape on school property.

Should the Princeton Review be alerting prospective film, art and journalism students that Hunter students are subject to harassment if they try to take pictures and video on campus?

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Rebuttal to a Colleague’s Message [See Previous Blog Post] Regarding “Attention Professional Staff Congress President Barbara Bowen”

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

I sent this message (way below) to Colleagues in the Department of Film and Media Studies as a response to comments sent to them by Colleague Bernard Stein, a Pulitzer Prize winning news essayist. One real piece de resistance he addresses concerns a strategy that Colleagues were considering, for example, to deal with the ethical journalism issues that Colleague Stein raised in his email memo: Pressure the Hunter College Administration into attacking me for the posts about the HC-PSC-CC, and if the Administration refuses, for Colleagues to attack the Administration (in some kind of public campaign, I assume) for not attacking me.

Absurd and bovine reasoning, symptomatic of the kind of thinking of those who assert leadership in D:F/M.

Bullying* and intimidation and harassment are core values in D:F/M, so much so that resolutions of serious problems affecting the department can’t occur. Serious issues pertaining to  principles of Academic Freedom or Journalism Ethical Issues or First Amendment Rights or Civil Liberties or Civil Rights, especially as those  pertain to behaviors and practices and customs in the department.

The message of my response is below.

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Vanessa Casavant: Whoa! What Happened to This Former WORD Writer?

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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