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1, No. 1 - November 28, 2001 Faculty-Staff Activities Bill Jones, sports information coordinator, was one of four people honored Nov. 13 as a "Hometown Hero" by the Saratoga County Convention and Tourism Bureau. The event recognized local people who actively worked to bring large conventions and meetings to the Saratoga Springs area for at least 100 room nights within the past year. Tourism industry experts note that convention delegates spend an average of $752 over a three-day stay for such items as lodging, food, transportation, and admission to attractions. Jones, president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association, coordinated the group's conference June 4-8 at the Holiday Inn in Saratoga Springs. Approximately 200 attended. David Karp, assistant professor of sociology, gave the keynote address, "Images of Community Restorative Justice," at the seventh annual Vermont Corrections Institute meeting in July at Vermont Technical College. Last May in Albany, he gave an invited presentation titled "Restorative Community Justice" at the annual conference of the New York Association of Alternative Sentencing Programs and the New York Association of Pre-Trial Service Agencies. He gave a second invited presentation, "What's Going on Around the Country in Juvenile Justice?" (with Janelle Cleary and Patti Donohue) during Dispute Resolution Week sponsored last May by the Ulster-Sullivan Counties Mediation Program in Kingston, N.Y. Also during May he led community restorative board training at the Berrien County Juvenile Court in St. Joseph, Mich. At the spring annual meeting of the Justice Studies Association at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., Karp; Beau Breslin, assistant professor of government; and Matthew Ufford '02, a sociology major; made a presentation titled "Restorative Justice in the Classroom and on Campus." Reg Lilly, associate professor and chair, Department of Philosophy, was co-director of the International Phenomenological Symposium July 15-21 in Perugia, Italy. At the conference he delivered a paper titled "The Topology of Disparates." In addition, he attended the Heidegger Conference in New York City last May. His web site, "Resource Page for Readers of Maurice Blanchot," (Click here for Resource Page), was featured by Andre Chabin in La Fete de l'Internet, organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Joel Smith, associate professor of philosophy, presented a workshop on "Kierkegaard and Buddhism" June 11 at the Fourth International Kierkegaard Conference at St. Olaf College. Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology, was invited by Prime Minister Said Musa of Belize to visit that country Sept. 17 to discuss how examining human motivations might promote peace. The trip was the culmination of an initiative launched in May by Solomon and Greg Bennick of Seattle aimed at understanding human behavior in order to promote world peace. Titled "The World Leader's Project," the effort involved letters by Solomon and Bennick to every world leader on the planet, requesting a meeting to discuss the psychology of human motivations toward violence. The WLP draws on the work of the late cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Solomon, a foremost researcher of "Terror Management Theory," and Bennick, a longtime human-rights activist, believe that discussing Becker's concepts at the highest levels of government will create a trickle-down effect that could significantly affect life on earth. Thus far, leaders from Ecuador, Israel, and Croatia have expressed interest in meeting with Solomon and Bennick. Gordon Thompson, associate professor of music, read his paper "Orientalist Rock" at the annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Detroit, Mich. The paper deals with Edward Said's ideas about a Western pattern of defining Asia and the blossoming of "raga rock" in mid-60s London. At the same meetings, the board of the Society for Asian Music promoted Thompson to vice president, with primary responsibility for membership. Robert C. Turner, assistant professor of government, and Gregory Thall '02 presented a paper (funded by a Skidmore Collaborative Research Grant) at the Northeast Political Science Association Panel on Presidency Research, titled "Reforming the Electoral College: The Political and Partisan Implication of the District System (or Maybe Nebraska and Maine Have the Right Idea)." Turner also presented a paper, "The Political Economy of Industrial Recruitment Strategies: Do Smoke-Stack Chasing and Vote-Chasing Go Together?" at the Midwest Political Science Conference Panel on State-Level Comparative Public Policy. Publications & Exhibitions Roy Ginsberg, professor of government, is the author of a new book, The European Union in International Politics: Baptism by Fire, published by Rowman & Littlefield. For details, check the Rowman & Littlefield web site Catherine Golden, professor of English, published "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? Victims, Villains, and Vigilantes in Gilman's Detective Novel" in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 22, No. 1, September 2001. Denise D. Knight is co-author. Deb Hall, assistant professor of art, has a number of past and new works on exhibit at Aimie's Lobby Gallery, 190-194 Glen St., Glens Falls, through Dec. 31, 2001. The exhibition features earlier traditional photographic works and new "technological combines" -- such as digital Iris prints -- which include photographs, often with the addition of drawings, paintings, found objects, and type. Mark Huibregtse, professor of mathematics, has had a paper, "A description of certain affine open subschemes that form an open covering of Hilb," accepted for publication by the Pacific Journal of Mathematics. Charles Joseph, professor of music and associate dean of the faculty, is the author of a new book, Stravinsky Inside Out, published by Yale University Press. For details, click here: http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/075375.htm David Karp, assistant professor of sociology, is the author of "Harm and Repair: Observing Restorative Justice in Vermont," to be published in a forthcoming issue of Justice Quarterly. Deborah Rohr, associate professor of music, is the author of a new book, The Careers of British Musicians, 1750-1850: A Profession of Artisans, published by Cambridge University Press. For details, click here: http://uk.cambridge.org/music/catalogue/0521580951/ Gordon Thompson, associate professor of music, is the author of an article titled "Let Me Take You Down...to the Subdominant: Tools of the Establishment and Revealing the Establishment," published in Beatlestudies 3: Proceedings of the Beatles 2000 Conference (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). The article outlines changes in the song "Strawberry Fields Forever" between John Lennon's original sketches, through the different recorded versions, and to the final composite edit, with a discussion of how different individuals contributed to the song's evolution. Robert C. Turner, assistant professor of government, published a policy paper with the Rockefeller Institute titled "A Framework for Cluster Based Economic Development Policies," available at http://www.rockinst.org/ The
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