A Justice Site

NEWS and Announcements Site Map
Previous Issue: Volume 20, No. 10, Week of July 25, 2004
Mirror Sites: CSUDH - Habermas - UWP
Play - Archives - Daily Site Additions
Search Site Topic Index - Search Site Index

WWW www.habermas.org

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: July 31, 2004
Latest Update: August 4, 2004
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

Topic of the Week:

As We Go Down Life's Paths Together

July 31, 2004

I just had to share these penguins with you. They reminded me of me and Arnold, not running marathons or loping down the beach anymore, but kind of tottering along enjoying it all. And off on the horizon there's our unicorn. We screwed up, made wrong decisions, wasted some things, harmed some others, but every path we followed was exciting, especially when I skied down the double diamond slopes before he found them!

My little drawing program wouldn't let me finish the underdrawing. No, I don't know why. Who's got the time for little things like that. I've got to get the site map ready, and all the course shared readings for the Fall. But when I saw these two, I just had to stop long enough to put them into the world I was seeing. They capture so wonderfully how I feel sometimes when I try to bounce up and start off again. And yet, I still love the sight of them. Life should be together, with someone(s). Else we lose some of those wonderful memories.

That reminds me that gerontology needs recognition of its own on our site map. And the minor matter that I left criminal justice off the site map. Sorry, I was distracted by a unicorn. They stop by more often lately on this new path I've found. I agree with Ruether, it's all inter-related.

And just for the record, I absolutely won't accept hell fire and damnation for anyone. If torture is wrong, and I'm convinced that it is, then why would you want to torture forever two old folks wandering along the beach, reminiscing about all the wonderful things in life? We have this life. And this is how I want to live it. I'll listen in good faith for illocutionary purposes to hell fire and damnatiion, to the apocalyptic retribution. But I'm sorry, I take in every cat and dog that I can. How could I leave out humans?

And together, Susan and I take in all the unicorns, too. They do stop by more often on this new path we've found lately.

NEWS and Announcements:

EVENT

Urban Legends: The City in Maps - Di's Maps on Sow in Bay Areea
August 6-21, 2004 at the Oaklandish Gallery, 411 2nd, between Broadway and Franklin, Jack London Square, Oakland, http://www.oaklandish.org

Panel Discussion, "Maps & the City," August 12 at 7:30pm

"Two of the Twin Cities (St. Paul/Minneapolis) Knowledge Maps, The Smell Map (Twin Cities Odorama) and the Sound Map (50 Stories and 456 Decibel Readings) by the Design Institute http://design.umn.edu have been chosen for a juried exhibition on "cities represented through the language of maps," organized by City|Space http://www.city-space.org , a group of urban designers, planners, artists and ecologists who aim to "engage Bay Area audiences in complex and challenging questions about the cities we inhabit..." This exhibit also features another 20 works in diverse media (picked from over 60 submissions) from Seattle, New York, Rotterdam, London, Tokyo and Berlin."

Sharon Irish, Ph.D.
School of Architecture
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jeanne will try to make the panel discussion. We'll be in San Francisco. Looks like we should include some map making in our Naked Space Exhibits.

Conference in New Orleans in September: Held Over

• Naked Space: A Safe Forum for Merging the Academy and the Community Presentation Submitted to 2004 Annual Conference on Race, Gender, Class, hosted by Southern University at New Orleans, on September 23-25, 2004. New Orleans. Conference Website. Program is at end of file. We're about half an inch from the bottom under Politics, which seems appropriate. Once again, they've given us a whole session to ourselves. Not so great for networking, but we'll wave a lot. jeanne

Open Access Discussion Threads

Summer 2004

• Thread on Biopower: Paradigm Shift to Biopolitical Power?
  Thread opened on Wednesday, August 4, 2004.

Debriefing the Naked Space Exhibit

Summer 2004 Project

This IS A Hypertext Project Map
For The Naked Space Exhibit "Freeing the Feminine Other" in May 2004
Link on Section Titles for Hypertext Poem and Contents.

• Poster from the Gallery Exhibit
  

• Table of Contents
• Hypertext Poem: Freeing the Feminine Other
• Debriefing Readings for the Hypertext Project: "Freeing the Feminine Other" Many new readings added. The discourse goes on.

Academic Support

• A Range of Sources on Global Events

  Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times - The National Review
  Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Sierra Club - The Guardian
  Wall Street Journal -The Weekly Standard - The Nation
  Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - The Washington Post
  Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor
  

  Indymedia - Mother Jones - BBC News - New Profile
  Progressive Sociologists Network Environmental Working Group

• Mentoring

  • Index of Tutoring Files
  • Index of ReWrite Suggestions

  • Online Tutoring for our classes
  • Template to guide you through shared reading preparations. Print a copy and use it for a guide.
  • Sample to guide you through shared reading preparations.
  • On Being Intimidated at First Discussion Questions I Wish I'd Thought of Then
  • Student Learning Style Survey Understanding how you, as an individual, learn. Essential to answerability in learning. Link from the Ted Nellen Website.
  • Finding a Measure of Learning that Fits You
  • Standards in Grading The Five C's.
  • Pat's summer schedule

    What Are You Reading? Sessions for Fall 2004

  • Introduction to Shared Reading Sessions
  • Template for Preparing Shared Reading in Fall 2004 Example on Night Workers.
  • Index List of Shared Reading Sessions
  • Readings for Scheduled Session 1

    Shared Reading Suggestions, many with templates already filled in.

Finding Internet Resources

• Andre Gunder Frank's Site
• Paul Brians' Site at Washington State University.
• Nicholas Burbules' Page on Philosophy and Theory At The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought Well organized list of links by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Aigam Search Engine New directory developing. Has some interesting sites. jeanne
• Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage in Melbourne, Australia

Evaluating Internet Resources

• Evaluating Hoax Email with samples, including an old one about charging for email that's going around again. Link updated March 29, 2004.
• Evaluating Internet Resources Library Site at University of North Carolina. Don't forget to question. This is a good detailed source. Link checked March 29, 2004.

Using Academic Language and Visuals Effectively

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Search:

Today's Word: From the Word.A.Day Site

Dictionary of Critical Sociology
Maintained by Robert E. Mazur, Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Sociology.

Words of Art: Front Page
Wonderful Fine Arts dictionary at Okanagan University College in Canada.
Will cover many of the terms social theory shares with literary theory.

Citation Styles Citing Internet Sources for Social Science Papers: A Quick Note.

APA Style Style sheet for Psychology. Good reference for proper rules of citation.

Twenty-five Easy Steps Toward a Correctly-Formatted Paper or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MLA by Keith O'Neill. Style sheet for humanities.

Internet Mission Photography Archive

and Careers

• Job Potential:

  • Up soon.

• Resumes:

  • College Journal Resume Suggestions . . . Backup

• Letters of Recommendation:

  • Letters of Recommendation: How to get me to respond to your request. Many of you need letters. If you will follow this format, I can do them quickly and make them good.
  • Dog Letters If you do not give me adequate information, but do manage to get my attention, you may end up with a dog letter. That is a letter that says that you work well with people, that you are enthusiastic, that you persist at getting things done, and that everyone likes you. Of course, my dog gets along well with people, brings his ball to them, is enthusiastic, and persists at getting them to take his ball. Everyone likes my dog. That's a dog letter. It's so general it could be about my dog. jeanne

• Reports and Studies on Employment and the Job Market
  • Two Johns Equal One America? CBS News. Dominant Discourse. July 9 2004. Backup.

Play:

Eric Draper/Agence France Presse - Getty Images
President Bush, on his expensive mountain bike in Texas last week before his most recent accident.

Steven Senne/Associated Press
Senator John Kerry, on his even more expensive road bike in May.

• Culture Wars, on Two Wheels By Carles McGrath. New York Times. Week in Review. Published: August 1, 2004. Backup. This is a delightfully funny article. I disagree with President Bush on his entire social and political philosophy and strategy. But after reading this article, I gotta admit I like him. Even Arnold likes him. If he appeared at our kitchen door like one of our cats, we'd let him in.

  Sometimes it's hard to deal with cognitive dissonance. If I dislike your political philosophy, I must dislike you to be consistent. That's crazy. I'm still just as adamantly opposed to the destruction of safety nets and to poorly planned and executed wars. I'm even opposed to wars. They kill people, and I like people. But the side of the man I see in this article is one I can relate to. Arnold and I have raced motorcycles, climbed the mountains and hills, and splattered ourselves all over the countryside. I could never do anything as coolly as Kerry appears to be able to ride his road bike. I'd probably fall off while waving. I drove my first bike straight into a tree. Come to think of it, I drove my first motorcycle straight into a tree, but had sense enough to jump off. And after all that, my first California license was for driving a motorcycle. I'm lots more like Bush than Kerry.

  Maybe that's what they meant in that poll where they asked "Who'd you rather have a beer with?" The choice of "beer" over "drink" already says it all. It's a sit down and put your feet up and laugh and share kind of thing. Not a formal party. See how easily you can bias polls by the way you ask the questions?

  I still disagree profoundly with the Republican lack of safety net, lack of concern for the underdog, and arrogance in being so sure they're right (knowingness). But that doesn't mean I have to dislike Bush as a person. I liked the guy in this article. I'd enjoy sitting down with him and laughing. That doesn't mean I should vote for him. We're not electing bike pals. We're electing a president. But don't be dismayed if you find that your feelings aren't always consistent. Nothing is. We live in a complex world.

Sneaky Strokes and Good Dogs

Whenever something happens in class that works out well, that inspires you, that helps in studying, whatever, take a few minutes to send us an e-mail. We'll post it where all of us can learn from it, including other teachers.

Include:

• A sentence or two about what you want to share with us.
• The name of the teacher whose class you were in.
• The name of the class.
• The name of the school. We're not picky. We'll honor teachers in any school, any level. This might be a good idea to help young children learn to say "thank you" and encourage meaningful practice in all our schools. We could even start with pre-school. This is a skill needed in answerability. To discover that what you think matters is to end silencing. Even home schooling. You can send photos or drawings, too.

• See the first entries at Sneaky Strokes and Good Dogs

You can also send an email to the Who to Take Site:

• Who To Take at Cal State Dominguez Hills
• Who To Take - Colleges in General

---

---

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.