Term: 200404	CRN: 41023
Student Name	Comments: What jeanne knows you're learning; what you know you're learning;
Aguilera, Peter A.	"I just found about this board. Do you when the exhibit will actually take place? Both Sergio Soto and myself would love to help out at the event for both day, but we need to let our job know when it is so we can take it off. Thank you very much. Message 1500." Glad to have you on board. Please read enough of the website and this yahoo discussion group that you understand: answerability, accountability, dominant discourse, levels of affect, illocutionary discourse, governance discourse, ontological hope, knowingness. You should find most of them in the index on the website. "I've also run into the library issue several times at several different campuses. What I've noticed is that people are more quiet if an obvious authority figure was present, say the librarian at desk, dressed professionally. However, when someone such as a student assistant in casual attire is present, the noise makers often act loud, as if no authority is present. Again, it ties into respect. The offenders have more respect for the official looking authority figure than for the more casual student worker. What is amusing is that I once witnessed such a "casual" young man firmly ask blatantly noisy people to leave or else he would call campus security. It turns out he was the director of this particular library. He certainly surprised them".Message No. 1692 Good observation on several levels, both the "authority" fixation with clothes and appearance, and the "firmly asked" with reference to campus security. Peter. "Jeanne, I can see what you are saying. Its kind of the old "it doesn't hurt til its close to home" kind of mentality. People claim to be accepting until it effects their lives. I know people who will have friends and friendly acquaintances of every color, but if one of their children fell in love with someone of a different ethnic background, they would become unglued. In the same light, I know people that are tolerant of and even friendly with gays and lesbians, but have disowned their children when they came out of the closet. I think the conservative dominant discourse thrives on this kind of thinking. Just last night after Thanksgiving dinner, there was a discussion in my extended family about mixing ethnicities in marriage. I was proud of my aunt who ended the discussion by saying, "I don't care what color or even gender the person my daughter falls in love with is...as long as they are good to her and she is happy, that's good enough for me." Her objectifiers fell silent. I realized she transformed some of the swaying middle views in the room to be a bit more accepting. I thought to myself, "It has to start somewhere." I'm glad she spoke up. Peter. Message No. 1705. Good point, Peter. It has to start somewhere, and with each of us when we have the courage is as good a place for that as any. jeanne "I spent two days in the exhibit surrounded by extraordinary works. Jeanne kept telling me I could leave, but I didn't want to. It created such a wonderful environment that I literally fed off of the energy in the room. It was evident that our very essence went into our work and we each learned a lot. I was particularly impacted by several pieces. The drunk driving project continues to play a part on my life. I found myself the weekend after the exhibit citing stories that were on the poster board, urging people in a bar not to drive home drunk. The Martin Luther King toy car exhibit looked cute, but it did draw attention to a very serious matter. People that are hurt in the central location have much further to go, and therefor their condition becomes all the more dire when getting help must be done in a literal instant. Even the obesity project, which sparked debate among ourselves, proved quite useful BECAUSE it sparked debate. It got us all thinking about a very serious issue. Sergio and I spent a lot of time on our projects on valuing women and the need for hope, and the whole process that hope definitely is a necessity and humanity has a true NEED for all women. In turn, I found the project that urged people to look beyond a woman's size rather commendable. So all in all, I'd like to thank all of you for this experience, and of course, to Jeanne and Pat for making it all possible." Message No. 2067. Well, Peter, I'm glad you discovered transform_dom, and that i finally found you. jeanne "I've actually seen the million dollar lights, and while they are a sight, the cost is astronomical. Similarly, I was driving on Santa Monica Boulevard, near Rodeo, and there are fancy lights there as well. Well, they are really beautiful, but they proved to be a distraction and I almost got into a car accident. Ironic that these expensive holiday lights, which the money could easliy go elsewhere, could end up causing costly accidents."Message No. 2071. You know, Peter, I really wasn't expecting this thread. And then all of a sudden those damned lights went up. A million dollars, and no armor for our troops in Iraq. I've been saying that we've gone so far into logos we've omitted mythos and spirituality. But if that's logos, maybe we've just gotten dumb, dumber and . . . jeanne
Berry, Nyree Rena	startling absence and non-communication; hello?? Nyree, I need some explanation for evidence of learning; I haven't seen you since early in the semester. C until I receive your material. jeanne
Broussard, Lee K	Need evidence of learning. F until I hear from you. jeanne
Brown, Shaheen Yomire	Need evidence of learning. F until I hear frm you. jeanne
Castro, Silvia Guadalupe	aware of activity, but need face to go with name; Need evidence of learning. B until I hear from you. jeanne
Collier, Audra Bernice	Have material. Will upload. Would help to hear from you. jeanne
Dale, Lori A	Need evidence of learning. "I sent this message to your dearhabermas email and it was sent back as a delivery failure. The message was do not forget that my project was on elder abuse and working the exhibit. My project was on elder abuse and working at the exhibit. I also worked with voter registration and the Democrats. The project was with Brenda Davis. who is in your soc 367 370a 370 595." Lori Dale. habermas.org. Thank you, Lori. Sorry about the mail bouncing, but that's why I asked you to use transform_dom. jeanne
Davis, Brenda	Need evidence of learning. "I sent this message to your dearhabermas email and it was sent back as a delivery failure. The message was do not forget that my project was on elder abuse and working the exhibit. Please do not be irratated for this reminder. The project was with Brenda Davis. who is in your soc 367 370a 370 595." Lori Dale. habermas.org. Brenda, I think itwould be appropriate for you to contact me yourself. B- until you do. jeanne
Decter, Renee	I know where your'e at - thesis plans; good work; OK, we need to get an answer on the temple plan of Pay for praying; will try. "Actually, Jeanne, you have two out there reading "Reframing Organizations." It helped me understand the medical organizations I had worked in for over 30 years before returning to college, and it helps me in the present to understand the organization of the colleges in which I teach ... not to mention how CSUDH functions (sometimes dys-functions!!). I have a greater respect for the problems administrators have --- and I understand the problems I had as a medical administrator ... too late, too late!!! --- especially liked the article on Beth Israel Hospital and their restructuring efforts pp 90-92. I just wish two of the hospitals I worked in had restructured while I was there, especially the business offices. From your classes, I better understand how the discourse in those hospitals was not governance but dominant (dominant among the top administrators, not middle management -- actually, no one ever asked us or listened to us). . . . I also better undertstand "organizations as cultures" -- subcultures. Often when I asked why something had to be done "that way" and not a different or new way, the answer was always, "that's the way we do things around here." And, those things, the status quo, were so firmly entrenched in the hospitals and in the mindset of the top administrators, that any effort toward change (betterment in my and my employees' minds) met deaf ears. The authors point out that"culture is both a product and a process ... it embodies accumulated wisdom ... it is constantly renewed and re-created as newcomers learn the old ways and eventually become teachers themsevles' (pp 243-244). I did not find this to be true in my medical experience, and I sincerely hope it is true in the colleges in which I teach. Actually, to date, I have found this to be true at Cerritos in the English Department ... wonderful folks there!. If I get into the Sociology pool (already applied), I'll let you know about that Department in the future. . . . I love this book, and if I ever teach social organization, I will keep it in mind if the department ok's it. Renee Decter Message No. 239 Renee, I like the book to. Glad you found the time to read it with all else that was going on this semester. The reason culture as process embodying accumulated wisdom doesn't work in the real world sometimes is one of the effects of bureaucratization. Bureaucratization makes up job descriptions so that everyone does the same thing the same way, and then the adversarialsim that Fellman talks about Fellman takes over in competition, acquisitiveness, and greed, until one finds oneself stuck in the bureaucratic rules. Part of what Weber meant by the "iron cage." jeanne
Easley, Antoinette L	good attendance, but need you to tell me what you're learning. Antoinette, your project on Saying "Thank you" was wonderful. The Dean noticed it particularly. I kept it in my office because we'd like to use it in some traveling exhibits this Spring.Antoinette, Rudi came to pick up your poster, but he said it was the one on saying Thank you, and I wanted to hold onto that for our travelling exhibit next semester to local schools, so he left itwith me. Would you like to be involved with that? That's a wonderful way to change kids' attitudes to saying thank you. Very imaginative and interactive. Did you include a paragraph cognitively relating it to class? If so, I've lost it I think in the email disaster. You might want to resend it to me later. jeanne
Garcia, Jesus	hello??? haven't seen you. Glad you're back.Jesus, please send me a message on your participation - I don't think I've got it. Maybe the email program failed again. Need evidence of learning, B until I hear from you. jeanne
Garfiaz, Veronica	need face for name; I know the name; need evidence for learning. B until I hear from you. jeanne
Gipson, Sherry Lynn	good response on transform_dom; I'd like you to let me know you see what I mean about the conflict in two wrongs with the double parking;
Haynes, Vanessa	thanks, I uploaded the LA Times on the Propositions; thank you for volunteering to help setup the exhibit; "It costs me about $1,700.00 per semester to complete 12 units or more. It will take approximatley two more semesters to complete. Now if I add the $1500 that I spent last semester the total is about $4-5,00.00 once I complete. A full time Sociology Instructor at the Community College level pay annually (10 months) is approximately $70,000. I will be able to make that money back in one month." Message # 777. Good way to break it down into a concrete format that is easily grasped. It's still scary for those who don't have the access to even that much money for investment. I'd also like to see it tied in to the accessibility of jobs after training and qualification is complete. What's the competition for and availability of those $70,000 jobs? How would we find out? Try the websites of the various disciplines. Abrief summary of this kind of analysis would make an excellent project for the exhibit. "Hello Vanessa, . . . I haven't forgot about you I still have the Domestic Violence Hotline numbers for you. Sorry I couldn't make it to class on Tuesday. I will be up in Jeanne's office on Mon. after 2:30 and I will be leaving at about 3:45 I have a class. If you can make it E-Mail me before Monday. . . .Thanks . . . Celia Piz. Message No, 1641"Celia, that's ok. Tuesday is the exhibit if you could make some copies for handouts and place a copy on line that would be nice. email me later ok I'll be waiting. hope you have a safe holiday...Vanessa" Message No. 1720 "Celia, I don't think that i can be there i'll be at work. but i think the hotline numbers are great. could you give a copy to jeanne so that she could place them on line (habermas) also could you please make some copies so that we can place them next to the display tuesday and wednesday.... i will be on campus about 4:30 p.m. tuesday to help maybe i'll see you then. thanks, vanessa haynes (women in poverty "grad")" Message No. 1721.This is a good example of working collaboratively over distance, finding alternative solutions, making things work on a commuter campus. Congratulations, you two. jeanne
Henderson, Kristine	good participation on transform_dom; I can barely afford tuition now. They are making education more of a privilege than a right. They need to provide more scholarships to students and make them or accessible to students at any age. I can't apply for financial aid because they say that I make too much money, yet sometimes I can't afford groceries. Something is wrong with the system.message #520; something wrong with the system means a need for change in the dominant discourse; now what are we learning in naked space discourse that we could apply to the tuition issue, collectively, not each voice alone and isolated? "Thank you Delphene for the information. I think with work and school we all get caught up in our lives that we do not follow changes that could possibly effect us directly. I will keep this in mind for the future and try to make an effort to stay more informed. I am happy that we have places like the discussion board to keep us abreast of current news/events." Message # 868. I agree, Kristine. It's near impossible to keep up with all the issues that do concern us; and I agree that the discussion group helps, especially as you've all become so adept at sharing links and information. "This was an interesting discussion. I was on habermas.org. and I read Transform Dominant Discourse on Library Quiet. My mom is a librarian at USC and she has brought up so many of the points that Carly brought about and habermas addressed for me. The library has become more of a meeting place and a small coffee shop. I am going to forward my mom all these transform messages on Library Quiet." Kristine Henderson. Message No. 2242. Wonderful, Kristine. Maybe your Mom will have some suggestions for us. This is how empowerment is built, through networking and being oppen to the ideas of others.
Hernandez, Amber	know your name and activity, but need face; people park their cars with their > emergency lights on blocking other people's car??i live at an > apartment complex where parking is a struggle and I can't tell you > how many times i come home at night to see 2 or 3 cars parked on the > side of other cars blocking them in all the meanwhile with their > emergency lights blinking away; message #493; important issue; now we need to put together a project that will draw attention to it and change the dominant discourse, which seems to be "whatever you can get away with"; I was thinking about doing a project regarding double parking with the emergency lights, but I can't seem to grasp a concrete way of conveying that in a project as well as using theory..I was also interested in the chess board you wanted to construct. "Hello. I had to write an evaluation plan about the effect of the Home Depot Center on CSUDH for a class that I have, and by the looks of it, it seems that there are still many questions as to how it benefits the students. This is my first semester at this school and I am not familiar with the proposed benefits of building the HDC on the CSUDH campus, but I do feel that the students do have the right to know exactly how any one of us can benefit from the HDC if that was one of the original intentions AND if we are paying for it in tuition fees! I haven't even been inside the HDC. Can I as a student have access to the center? Probably not. What are we able to use the HDC for? Also, is there a soccer game scheduled for Dec. 6th? Can you imagine the parking situation????? Amber, what did you include in your assessment plan? I think we'd all like to know."This class has been a wonderful experience. Thanks for making me feel like I have a voice my first semester here at CSUDH. I have been able to understand others perspectives through illocutionary discourse and have made it a point to change the dominant discourse in our society. Thank you for creating a forum for students' voices to be heard and in turn creating the possibility for change. Thank you for empowering our class. Amber Hernandez." Message No. 2063. Amber, you gave a very nice summary here of the goals of the course. I'm glad it met our needs, for I think that faculty as much as students need this kind of illocutionary discourse. jeanne "I worked on the project "Education Refracted Through Social Class" along with Stephanie Winchester and Amber Hernandez. This project contrasted schools located in poverty areas vs schools in higher income areas. Schools located in poverty areas had less funding, less computers or none, not enough after school acitivites and no fundraisers. We also discovered that most of the schools in poverty had a high teacher turnover. Most instructors had recently graduated from college and had little or no experience. When compared with schools located in a higher income area we seen the complete opposite. There were more computers, alot more parent teacher involvement, such as parents volunteering at schools. More fundraisers for the school. There was also new edition textbooks and better playground equipment. In conclusion the schools located in affluent areas were more organized and funded thus creating a better education for children in these areas.. . . . What I learned. Jeanne I have learned so much in your class. I learned that you have to speak up and not let others in society walk over you. I learned that voting is one way to do this. If I would have never enrolled in your class I probably would have never voted and that would have meant not getting my family to get up an vote as well. I have also learned that everyone holds different views in life and that everyone should respect them no matter how differentthey may be from your own. Jeanne I think you are a great professor and I love the way you get all of us students involved in discourse. You have a unique teaching stlye, but I must say it works. I can say, I learned more from this class than any other thissemester. Thank you! Inez Mayor. Message No. 2015.
Jennings, Shaneah LaDrena	"Coming into both of my classes (Soc 595 and Soc 367) I began with hesitation. Many times I found myself being somewhat lost not knowing what was really being talked about, even after reading the articles. Within the first month, things began to fall into place. I loved the fact that I had two classes with you back to back. A lot of the times what was discussed in Soc 595 was carried over into Soc. 367. Here I was able to experience many people's thoughts and opinions about various issues (from our Community, to the elections, to how we should manage our time). This form of dominant, elocutionary, and governance discourse made me for once in my college experience "think outsode of the box". As a graduate student, so many times we have been given articles to discuss, so that we can present them to our classes. Once we have presented them, we are able to hear our peers opinions, but in the end, the final say and opinion would always find a way back to our original thought. I have never really taken into consideration another person's opinion as I did in these classes. I also love how the naked space exhibit tied the class together. It was a perfect way to end our classes. It gave us as students a chance to use this exhibit not only as a governance discourse, but it also gave us a open forum to have many issues and points brought out. Doing my project on WOmen being abused (the effects it has on children) and WOmen being abused in prisons, gave me the oppurtunity address my concerns without having to beat anyone over the head with it, or say a word.. . . Thanks! I've enjoyed these classes!! P.S. My favorite line from you that I now incorporate into my life "There is no 1 truth or perspective"
Krause, Rudi R	good attendance and participation; would like some substantive reflection of affect and its separation in illocutionary discourse; Although you are quite vocal in class, you rarely acknowledge the theoretical and topic positions I ask to be included in the curriculum. You tell me things like "All the things you talk about, I actually do," and jab your finger at one of your "books" or at your art work. I am not in the habit of tolerating such breaches of protocol in permitting answerability within my class. Yes, the Other may speak, but the rules of intercourse are that the Other must also listen and respect the rules of courtesy if negotiation is to be on a fair playing field. I see no evidence of listening or acknowledgment of me as an Other. So if you're going to present your artwork at the exhibit, I insist that you clarify for me the message intended. If that message is, as some in the class have suggested to me, to blame homosexuality in either a moral or physical way for AIDS, that message is in direct conflict with my teachings of answerability, accountability and transformation of dominant discourse. If that is so, I will not permit the artwork in the exhibit. Contrary to your cries of censorship, this is based on my demand that all perspectives of an issue be offered in an educational setting. Please clarify your message before the exhibit. jeanne Rudi, I don't have time right now to go into your very specific demands for being treated differently from everyone else. Your conspiracy theories, books, whatever are irrelevant to an understanding of what I am teaching with respect to the transformation of dominant discourse, answerability, illocutiionary discourse, and empowerment through making your voice heard. I don't even know if you know waht all those terms mean, and you have chosen not to tell me. Oh, yes, I hear you. Because you shout over me, and do not listen. I did not tell you to do more than anyone else. The respect project does not owe its origins to you. I already knew how to spell RESPECT, thank you. And I still don't clearly know whether the poster message that I censored was homophobic, which would have been a one-sided perspective, inappropriate for a learning environment. I offered you the B to go away and quit haranguing me, not because I think you completed the tasks for which I asked. I do respect that you are not illiterate; but I do not respect your inability to listen in good faith and communicate with the Other. I WILL NOT give an A to someone who refuses to acknowledge and/or hear in good faith what I teach. Sorry. My class. My standards. You want fascism and outshouting the other, go get your own class. jeanne
McFadden, Cheryl A	enjoyed talk with you in cafeteria; reflected a better understanding of the kind of project we can introduce in exhibit; Need evidence of learning. B until I hear from you. jeanne
Mohammed, Nuru M	Need evidence of learning revised. B until I hear from you. jeanne
Nettles, Carol A	know the name; need the face; need evidence of learning. B until I hear from you. jeanne
Norick, Kathleen M	Have material; will put up. Would help to hear from you. jeanne
Peinado, Irma	See you and hear from you; hope for more after election;
Rosser, William Anthony	good attendance and participation; would very much appreciate some substantive communication that you understand when I take an opposing position to your comments - like whether Rudi should be able to continue on affect level, and another topic I've forgotten since then; I don't think your thesis will serve as a project for the class; nor do I think the class has been in anyway limited to the children's books and means of explaining this theory to students by my lecture on Thursday. Let's talk.
Ruiz, Angela Irene	Irene, we'll get this up over the break. jeanne
Sykes, Mia	Need evidence of learning. F until I hear from you. jeanne
Sylvis, Penny A	excellent participation; good selfreflection and sharing of details to clarify concepts; wow! i agree with u that hopefully the we get the facts straight, but are u saying that every felon belongs behind bars for "25 YEARS TO LIFE" because thtat's what voting no will be , right? i can't see it.maybe u should read it again. that's also another form of contributing to the idea of prison system for profit. message 484; i must say that the commercials alone are very strong and leave out alot of info regarding the prop. and the law.i see this as a real black and white issue and that's not a commom thing for me . i' am usually very much in the gray area; message #513; I think there's another way to see this, Penny. you're seeing the vote itself as black and white, but that's because you're seeing the underlying circumstances as so complex. Yes? "i just read ur message and wanted to tell u that i'm sorry about the xperience with ur husband and that i have so much info. on that and a lot has been at very personal levels. i could probably answer just about any thing u may need to know..and i have a ton of resources." The reaching out and sharing of information is one of the means of transforming discourse. "on ur comment about doing comps. is a concern of mine. i've had my required courses for my degree for a while and have been trying to do the comps. for a few semesters. i just can't get into it and now, i realize why...i simply would much rather do a project or maybe thesis and now about two years later..with the cuts and all i don't beleive i can even get the support or the actual required 3 persons from the dept. to work with me. Now that i finaly figured out that this is what i want to do.i don't think i will be able too and so now it's another trip to dr. B.'s office for the new comp. questions. this could be considered one of those problems at CSUDH for whoever is working on that project." Message No. 1689. Now, Penny, this is an instance in which many of you have expressed disconfort with the measure, but you guys have not yet gotten together to talk with the faculty about the kind of measure being used. Testing sucks. I agree. But what would work better? I don't think it would be nearly so nettlesome and discouraging if the comps questions bore some relation to the issues you are most interested in for your thesis. Perhaps the faculty could provide questions that they might want to ask at an oral thesis exam, and you could study those and answer them as an essay question set for comps. Here is a good opportunity for governance discourse. "I just read what Jason wrote about being so "black and white" before taking your class or classes. I'm impressed that one semester could have such an impact. I think the reason this caught my attention is because i know so many people with strong "black & white, tunnel vision" perspectives on just about everything. i like talking to people with those views because i am the total opposite (very gray) and i'm not afraid to use what i've learned to try and let them see other sides. i have found lately that "empathy" is key, here and can be very effective when we use what we've learned and present it to people in a very careful, empathic and tactful way. I may have my own personal struggles that i'm dealing with myself, but i have found that over the past year or so I have received confirmation that using these approaches are very effective. i have received feed back from so many people that i don't even know, that it really works..and when u can use these skills to help someone else feel better and they, in turn let you know that they are grateful , it helps a little to take our mind off of our own struggles. i would also like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a great New Year!!!! Penny. Message No. 2322. Penny, maybe sometimes people are very near to noticing the gray areas, the black and white thinking just hangs over from dominant discourse and what Fellman calls "obsessive adversarialism. In that case it doesn't take much to help them make the breakthrough. That seems to me to indicate that if the dominant discourse itself were to begin changing towards non-adversarial, illocutionary kinds of inter-relations that maybe we could see a rapid transformation in our social community. Evangelical Christians have done this for each other. The trouble is they've left the rest of us out. Now if we could just convince them that their warmth and caring needs to go to each and every human, different or no, maybe they could transfer their evangelical learning to non-adversarialism. The Dalai Lama would approve, I'm sure. jeanne
Talanoa, Melody Kay Elizabeth	I know you brought your exhibit in Thursday, but I didn't get much time to review it with you. At the exhibit. jeanne "-I believe that the issues that had the biggest impact on me, were dealing with the issues of respect and dominant discourse. Respect with regards to dominant discourse, helped me create the gallery piece that I created entitled the "Mirror." What I was trying to get people to understand from the work, was to really think about who they are from their own opinions, and not from what the world tells them who they are. I wanted them to step outside themselves, as I did, to look at the world from another perspective. . . . -What I learned from dominant, elocutionary, and governance discourse, was that one could "exist" in the world, and yet still be able to "think" for themselves. To be "free" in our own thinking. To be able to be true to their own beliefs, and yet still "respect" what others had to say, even if they did not agree with what was being said. That an individual could create "change" in a world in which often tells us that we cannot.. . . -All of these things helped me try to better understand who I really am, and to respect others for who they really are as well. thank you." Message No.2089. The mirror piece was extremely creative, Melody, and fit well into the exhibition. A large part of understanding the Other is understanding myself. "wanted to post to you the projects that I did or help do for the Naked Space Gallery: 1. Group project with Kasie Boone and Stephanie Thorne; 2. The "Mirror"-an intro-spective piece on self reflection in the world; 3. The "Life Chances Game"- a game board that explores one's life opportunites and set backs when it comes to race, socio-economic,wealth, material property etc." Message No. 2088. Thanks for letting me know. It helps. jeanne
Thorn, Stephanie K	"We have bigger and better things to discuss, such as AIDS, obesity, poverty, the war in Iraq, homelessness, teenage pregnancy, and drugs and alcohol abuse, rather than this "baloney" that people feel the need to write about. It's not productive and I would much rather not have to read these negative comments that are dominating my mailbox online. It's all about being positive because I truly feel that that is the first step towards making a difference in our world. Let's kill 'em with kindness . . . Message # 796" Good listing of topics for issues for the exhibit, Stephanie. I like your idea of killing them with kindness . . . may it work! And I'd like to include the idea of discourse as making a difference in our projects. "The process was very interesting and I have learned so much. What's the most important part is that it doesn't really matter who you are for, Democrat or Republican, politically. It matters that you get out there and lend some support to the causes that you care about. If you get one person out there to the polls to vote, that can make all the difference in the world. Message 797" Good point Stephanie. We're not after consensus. We're after respect for one another. I feel better just hearing your story. Let's hope we can get that across in our exhibit. "wanted to post to you the projects that I did or help do for the Naked Space Gallery: 1. Group project with Kasie Boone and Stephanie Thorne; 2. The "Mirror"-an intro-spective piece on self reflection in the world; 3. The "Life Chances Game"- a game board that explores one's life opportunites and set backs when it comes to race, socio-economic,wealth, material property etc." Melody. Message No. 2088.
Tucker, April Nicole	"This class has really gave us some powerful tools that I believe will help us throughout life.The power to hear and be heard. (illicutionary and governance discourse). In addition to make a change where we can ( even if it is within ourself)- She let us know that it is okay to go against the masses (the dominant discourse) and go with the facts, the realities, those things that others maybe scared to do because your not suppose to. So I am going to look further into this issue and maybe make this my fight to make sure justice get served somewhere in the future. April Tucker" Message No. 2140. You're absolutely right about that, April. The tools of illocutionary and governance discourse are the most powerful means available to us if we seek social justice. jeanne
Williams, Cheryl Lynn	"I'm Cheryl Williams, the one with the "I Am Somebody" exhibit for our Naked Space. Your class opened my eyes to a lot of things happening around the campus at Dominquez Hills. The exhibit was wonderful and very educational. I enjoyed your lectures and willingness to help students with problems. I hope to get into your religion class in the Spring. Hopefully this E-Mail gets to you as I am also waiting to receive my grade for Moot Court and Grad Women and Poverty." Cheryl williams. habermas.org Cheryl, I'm glad you attended 370 because it did give us a chance to talk. You have taken a frightening experience and turned it into a way to empower others going through similar experiences. I love your dolls. If you ever decide to sell them, let me know. I'd love to buy one, especially for such a wonderful cause. I know you're never going to believe the syllabus which says you have an A, so I'll just tell you here. You have an A. To sign up for the religion session in the Spring do Independent Study. Betty Melton in the Soc. office will help you. peace, health, and joy, jeanne
Williams, Rameruis D	Sorry, I missed the name on Thursday; not sure I knew my own that day;
Williams, Shon O	good attendance, albeit with absences to pursue other field work; would appreciate some substantive indication that you have adequate grasp of transforming dominant discourse and what we mean by naked space; presentation on brother's need for support; Lots of people are interested in helping with your homeless project. Work with me on setting up a communication center for that.
Wilson, Camilya M	I need a face to go with the name; I went and re-read the information on it and came to the conclusion that it must be legal to lie or shall I say "distort the truth" in these commercials. One of the commercials against prop 66 specifically states that 26,000 rapist, murderers and child molesters will be released from prison if 66 passes. That's not really true. Some cases will be re-evaluated, but that doesn't neccessarily mean release. message 483; real good response to discourse over different validity claims. go read it again and gather more information. good response, Camilya. Camilya, I need more evidence of your learning. B until I hear from you. jeanne
Wilson, Charles Franklin	Confusing you with another Charles. Need evidence of learning. F until I hear from you. jeanne
Witherspoon, Kaye Myisha	Sorry you were hurt. Hope you're OK. A based on oral discussion with the parking group. jeanne