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Bridging the Divide: The Legal Profession's Ongoing Diversity Gap
No full textThis senior project investigates a persistent diversity gap within the legal profession amid renewed political resistance to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in 2025. Despite decades of progress, the field remains overwhelmingly white and male, with marginalized communities facing systemic barriers to entry, advancement, and leadership. The project explores how underrepresentation, cultural assimilation pressures, and federal rollbacks on DEI programs continue to challenge the legal profession's pursuit of equity and justice through data analysis, historical context, and interviews with attorneys.Purchase College SUNYJournalismBachelor of ArtsDaly, Ross A
In Between: Finding New Identity in Ancient Tradition
No full textThis thesis explores and celebrates new connections to my Tibetan heritage. Being disconnected from a young age, I learned through my painting practice how to redefine my relationship to my culture. Taking inspiration from old traditional work and stories passed down in my family, I am able to learn and reinvent what these things mean to me through material exploration and a very personal studio practice.Purchase College SUNYPainting and DrawingBachelor of Fine ArtsLin, Cynthi
Praise The Toschrid
No full textA printmaking thesis about my experience of wanting to join the military for many years do to social, political, and spiritual external factors and mental health.Purchase College SUNYPrintmakingBachelor of Fine ArtsSwainston, Ro
Mirrors of Reality in Fantasy
No full textReaders who enjoy fantasy literature often turn to these works as a means of escape. However, beyond the entertainment, these novels often reflect real-world political and societal issues. This paper explores how fantasy novels depict complex struggles such as social inequality, power structures, and moral dilemmas of good vs. evil faced in our current society. It is argued that these fictional narratives do more than critique society - they have potential to radicalize the reader's beliefs. Through these works, the portrayal of resistance and injustice that fantasy novels show the readers can act as a driving force for challenging social norms and ideological transformation. In all, fantasy can be used as a form of escapism, however, it can provoke social change and influence radicalization of thought in the real world.Purchase College SUNYArts ManagementBachelor of ArtsShue, Jordan E
"The Brotherhood and the Battle: Race, Labor, and Media in the Fight for Justice"�
No full textThis Senior Project paper examines the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, exploring how media representation, political strategy and grassroots organization efforts had shaped the unions struggle for legitimacy. Focusing on Asa Philip Randolph's leadership, it traces the BSCP's transformation from a marginalized labor force to a nationally recognized force and highlights its broader impact on African American Labor Rights.Purchase College SUNYHistoryBachelor of ArtsKeller, Lis
Competitive Balance in eSports: A Comparison Between Open and Closed Leagues
No full textBetween the 2010s and 2020s, many eSport leagues were created in the spike of popularity for video gaming, capitalizing on the newly populated community of gamers. For these leagues to be a success, matches amongst professional teams must be competitive to ensure fans are entertained. To understand the competitive nature of eSports, I analyze the league structure of the game League of Legends in NA (LCS) and EMEA (LEC) regions between 2013 and 2024, focusing on the switch from open to closed formats, comparing the competitive balance before and after franchising. The results show that the switch to closed leagues increases the within-season balance in both the LCS and LEC. However, the between-season balance has only shown improvement in the LCS and the opposite effect for the LEC.Purchase College SUNYEconomicsBachelor of ArtsChikish, Iulii
Phases of Life
Full text linkFeatures and faces evoke a sense of emotion or feeling. I feel like I rarely see any faces that look like mine in Sculptor. A piece missing from familiarity within artwork. Symbolizing representation of the "forgotten." Which I choose to highlight in my work, the faces that can resemble some you know, maybe a family member or even yourself. Self- representation is the drive for the work created. Faces and face masks are so powerful in other parts of the world. I explore that power with my pieces finding my roots and origin of the artist who came before me.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of ScienceOwens, Rache
Biblically Accurate Negro Fortnite Battle Pass Skin
Full text linkThe internet is not neutral, and to conceptualize a digital future means the apolitical (white) avatar of the transhumanist of old is no longer a viable model of longing. But if one seeks to envision a Black virtual existence, one must ask what happens when blackness becomes uploaded. Unfortunately, case studies of various internet celebrities and memes teach us that control of digital visage wains upon integration, and even when that loss of control is utilized to the benefit of the person, iteration of digital self still ultimately swears fealty to the digital status quo. What I propose through my work is a future for black flesh that bubbles, throbs, and is uploaded to the cloud. But the cloud is not free, nor are the rare earth metals that fuel the devices that get us there. Hundreds of years of racial baggage lie in the fiber optic cable of an Ethernet connection, a passage to the beyond in which the self must be compressed to meet its data constraint. Hair becomes a juncture, an alternative passage of information - a jerry-rigged solution to the inevitability of the USB port. I offer an alternative destined to fail in its execution of transference, a scenario in which the body is unable to fully upload due to its baggage, its blackness, its queerness, corruption, a virus unable to breach the mainframe of the system with proper virus protection.Purchase College SUNYSculptureBachelor of Fine ArtsGilmore, Katherin
Science Fiction Dystopia: Reflecting Society
Full text linkScience Fiction shows us the possible future that could happened for exploration into a new world and better advance technology to live with. But will happen if our future would led into a dystopian world because of own faults for the consequences we made and the disasters that come to us. When we watch old and current science fiction dystopian films, we see that it is a message of that these films are warning us about and how we as a society should wake up and focus on good possibilities that we must act right now.Purchase College SUNYCinema and Television StudiesBachelor of ArtsFabian, Rachel C
"Singing Through Barriers: Doo-Wop and the Sound of Social Change in 1950s New York"
Full text linkThe project explores the emergence of doo-wop music in postwar New York City with a focus on the Bronx as a youth cultural expression developed during racial segregation and economic inequality. During the 1950s, young people from different racial backgrounds and social classes formed vocal harmony groups at schools and churches along with other local institutions. Through oral histories alongside televised performances and academic research, as well as archival materials, this study demonstrates that doo-wop music reflected transformative urban social dynamics beyond being a form of entertainment. The research examines important development sites of this music genre found at Morris High School and St. Anthony of Padua School. This section examines how integrated music groups such as Norman Fox and the Rob-Roys operated together with Black and Italian American musical interactions and assesses the impact of Black female groups, including The Chantels and The Shirelles. This research builds upon Matthew Pessar Joseph's studies of interracial male groups by adding a focus on gender dynamics and the impact of local institutions within specific spaces. This research examines how radio broadcasts, television programs, and independent recording companies enabled neighborhood music to enter mainstream culture while demonstrating its ability to question and reshape social divisions in New York during the 1950s.Purchase College SUNYHistoryBachelor of ArtsBenmergui, Leandro D