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Don\u27t Just Change The Channel: Why Pop Culture Matters to Feminism, Activism, and Social Justice
No full textAndi is the cofounder of Bitch Media. A longtime freelance writer and illustrator, Andi\u27s work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Ms., Mother Jones, Utne, BUST, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Women\u27s Review of Books, and Hues. She is a former pop-music columnist for the SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, and also contributed to the anthologies Young Wives\u27 Tales, Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women\u27s Friendships (both from Seal Press), and Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit(Crown). She is the coeditor of BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, and the author of Feminism and Pop Culture (Seal Press). Her new book on pop culture and the commercial co-optation of feminism, We Were Feminists Once, will be out in May 2016 from PublicAffairs. She speaks frequently on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities. Andi graduated from The Colorado College in 1994 with a B.A. in Fine Art that has proved to be more or less useless, though she did use it to secure a job designing rugs for Pottery Barn back in the day. She passes her non-Bitch hours watching television and embroidering portraits of dogs, often simultaneously. Her other interests include drawing, reading, hiking, and eating cheese.
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Modules for Introducing Macromolecular Chemistry in Foundation Courses
No full textA series of guided inquiry modules that introduces students to aspects of polymer chemistry is described. The modules address topics such as biomacromolecules, molecular weight, structure property relationships, and synthetic approaches, including step-growth and chain-growth polymerization as well as living polymerization. These materials are suitable for use in either a structure and reactivity sequence or a more traditional sequence in general chemistry, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry
James Franck, the Ionization Potential of Helium, and the Experimental Discovery of Metastable States
No full textIn 1920, James Franck together with Fritz Reiche and Paul Knipping found strong experimental evidence that the lowest lying triplet state in helium is metastable—an atom in this state cannot make a spontaneous transition to the ground state. Even though their evidence was entirely experimental, they tied their results almost inextricably to Alfred Landé’s 1919 model of the helium atom, and in the process, misunderstood the new theoretical selection rules of Adalbert Rubinowicz and Niels Bohr. In an additional complication, experiments of the English physicists Frank Horton and Ann Catherine Davies contradicted Franck’s. Although Franck’s result has held up, the reasons for the discrepancies remain unclear
The Oneness of God and the Diversity of Religions: A Jewish Perspective
No full textOne of Judaism\u27s most hallowed claims about the reality of God is what Jews refer to (after its first Hebrew word) as the Sh\u27ma: Hear, O Israel, the Eternal is our God, the Eternal is One (Deut 6:4). Deeply committed to the affirmation of God\u27s oneness, many Jews also share the belief of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) that diversity of religions is the will of God. In this lecture, Rabbi Sabath Beit-Halachmi will explain why she considers this belief not only compatible with but also demanded by the affirmation of God\u27s oneness.
Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi is president\u27s scholar and national director of recruitment and admissions at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati, where she also heads the Office of Community Engagement. Previously she taught on the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College and served as vice president and a faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute, also in Jerusalem, and she directed the Hartman programs for lay leadership, rabbinic leadership, and Christian leadership. Ordained in 1995 at HUC-JIR, Rabbi Sabath also earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York. The co-author of two books, Striving toward Virtue: A Contemporary Guide to Jewish Ethical Behavior (1996) and Preparing Your Heart for the High Holy Days (1996), Rabbi Sabath has published numerous articles, writes a monthly column in the Jerusalem Post, and lectures throughout North America on theology, gender, leadership, and Israel. She is currently writing a book on the future of covenant for Jewish peoplehood
Solmaz Sharif Literary Arts Institute Reading
No full textSolmaz Sharif, an award-winning writer and poet, will conduct a public reading at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Colman Theater at the Benedicta Arts Center, College of Saint Benedict.
Sharif will be discussing her first book, “Look,” which was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. Her reading is free and open to the public.
“Look” asks readers to see the ongoing costs of war through the loss of human lives abetted by the insidious use of everyday speech “weaponized” as military terminology. The title “Look,” for example, is derived from its military usage as the period during which a mine can be exploded.
In this virtuosic array of poems interspersed with terms from a dictionary used by the Department of Defense, Sharif turns the language back on itself to tackle issues of deep consequence around the world. Her poems reconstruct the experience for many, as they watched their loved ones perish as a result of war and conflict.
“Look” was one of The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2016; A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of 2016; the Washington Post’s Best Poetry Collection of 2016; one of The New Yorker’s Books We Loved in 2016; and the San Francisco Chronicle’s 100 Recommended Books of 2016.
Sharif was born in Istanbul to Iranian parents. The family immigrated to California when she was 11 years old.
After studying poetry at the University of California Berkeley, she received her master’s degree in fine arts from New York University. Sharif is currently a lecturer at Stanford University.
Sharif will also be residency Nov. 15-16 at CSB and Saint John’s University. Her residency is sponsored by the Literary Arts Institute (LAI) at CSB and by the Manitou Fund.
The LAI is a unique organization, founded in 1997, to foster creative writing, publishing and interaction between students and writers. LAI brings nationally recognized authors to the college for a visiting writers series (Writers Writing), promotes literary events, holds conferences (Inside Books), supports publications (S. Mariella Gable Prize), and encourages the artistry of fine letterpress (Welle Book Arts Studio).
With its local and national partners, such as Graywolf Press, LAI is able to bring writers and their work together with readers on campus, in Minnesota and beyond
Students’ Attachment Styles to their Professors: Patterns of Achievement, Curiosity, Exploration, Self-criticism, Self-reassurance, and Autonomy
Get PDFThis study explored whether professors for young adult college students could serve as caring and trustworthy attachment figures who fostered certain mindsets, perceptions of the self, and academic behaviors. A convenience sample of 89 first-year college students in introductory psychology courses completed an online survey. First, the study sought to replicate the established relationships between students’ achievement goal orientations and curiosity, exploration, self-criticism, and self-reassurance. Then, the study analyzed students’ attachment styles to their First-Year Seminar (FYS) professors in relation to achievement goal orientations to see if attachment style could then predict similar patterns of academic behaviors. Contrary to expectations, results suggest that student-professor attachment styles are not derived from student-parent attachment styles. Regarding academic behaviors, students with high avoidant and anxious attachment to their FYS professors perceive less autonomy support. Specifically, students high in avoidant attachment are more likely to self-criticize, while those high in anxious attachment self-reassure. Overall, students are bringing a unique quality to their professor attachments, and those with stronger avoidant and anxious attachments tend to exhibit greater maladaptive academic behaviors