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The History of Permanence
No full textThe poems in The History of Permanence are startling in their inclusiveness, juxtaposing history, science, myth, and popular culture with a narrative thread that rises from memory. Groups of distinctively individual poems alternate with long poem sequences that range from one based upon the difficulties of genius to one that contemplates the wondrous things that literally fall from the sky to the tile sequence, a meditation on the desire for permanence. Gary Fincke, through twelve books of poems published over twenty-four years, has built a reputation for his skill at combining the realism of personal narrative with the realism of the fantastic precisely imagined. As Robert Cording, author of Against Consolation and Common Life says, “Gary Fincke finds the words for that lone, long labor of our lives that shapes who we become and readies us for those moments when the ‘possibility of happiness/surprise[s] us.’ He combines the empathy of Philip Levine for our ordinary lives and the thinking intelligence of Carl Dennis. His great gift, like Levine’s and Dennis’, is the way he so casually connects his own life to those worlds, his poems always convincing the reader with their intelligence, with their subtle wit and humor, and with their deep feeling as they simultaneously strive for a history of permanence and comically acknowledge our human failures.” His poems have appeared frequently in nearly every well-regarded journal, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Missouri Review, the Kenyon Review, the Georgia Review, and the Gettysburg Review. Reprinted in Harper’s, the Pushcart Prize volumes, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, he has won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Poetry Book Prize and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine. He is the Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University, where he directs the Writers Institute.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1016/thumbnail.jp
Greg Haklar
No full textMy commitment to social order, to equality of opportunity, and to a sense of brotherhood among all persons has long fueled my desire to work in law enforcement. As a senior completing a sociology and psychology dual major, it seemed important to me to not only learn the sociological and criminological theories that drive the field of law enforcement and policing, but also to have opportunities to work side-by-side with law enforcement professionals. Through my association with the Adams Center, I was granted two separate opportunities to do just that. Initially, I participated in an Adams Center-sponsored internship with the Lehigh County Sheriff’s Office. That position granted me extensive access to the criminal courts in Lehigh County, to the legal proceedings occurring there, and to the legal actors participating in those proceedings. The internship offered an opportunity to collect ethnographic and interview-type data over the course of a three-month summer break during the 2009 academic year. Focusing specifically on county-level legal actors in proceedings involving pro se criminal defendants, the data I collected in this context later constituted the focus of an analysis for my senior research project. During summer 2010, I was selected by Michael Smyth, director of the Adams Center, to participate as lead research assistant from SU on county data collection efforts for the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission’s County Parole Guideline Research Initiative. As part of my duties on this project, I spent several months working in adult probation departments and other facilities across the state to complete instruments designed to measure variables related to sentencing and parole revocation in five Pennsylvania counties. I was also responsible for the security of the data as well as for supervising other students involved in data collection. In conjunction with data collected by other research teams across the state, the data the team collected will be used to inform moves to mitigate the effects of the state’s super-punitive sentencing policies. Both of the opportunities the Adams Center provided me have broadened my interests in criminal justice and allowed me to apply course material from my sociology major to real-world situations. In addition, they have given me the chance to work in capacities related to my future career path, and provided graduate-level work experience that strengthens my ability to continue my education at the master’s or doctoral level.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/adams_scholars/1008/thumbnail.jp
Weimar Culture Revisited
No full textFaculty-authored chapter: Blue angel, brown culture : the politics of film reception in Göttingen, by David Imhoof This essay joins others in studying the vibrant, explosive, yet ultimately doomed culture of Weimar Germany. It details the political implications of Josef von Sternberg’s pathbreaking “Blue Angel,” the film that launched Marlene Dietrich’s career and rewrote assumptions about women in cinema. Although Germans from across the political spectrum liked the movie, this study of how it was received demonstrates that ultimately “The Blue Angel” strengthened male control of public life and bolstered the growing Nazi movement.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1006/thumbnail.jp
Brittany Seymour
No full textOne of the greatest opportunities I was given at Susquehanna University was provided through the Adams Center for Law and Society. I was selected by Michael Smyth, the director of the center, to participate in county data collection efforts for the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission’s County Parole Guideline Research Initiative. To work in this capacity, it was required that I pass Penn State’s IRB training requirements related to the protection of human subjects and sign an agreement related to the proper handling of confidential materials. As part of my duties on this project, I spent several weeks working full-time in different county-level adult probation departments to complete instruments intended to measure variables related to sentencing and parole of offenders in Pennsylvania. In conjunction with data collected by other research teams across the state, the data our team collected will be used to inform moves to mitigate the effects of the state’s super-punitive sentencing policies. Informed by the various experiences described above, I have now set my sights firmly on a career in academia. I hope to one day join a university faculty where I will conduct research of my own and mentor other students in sociology. My experiences working as a researcher under the auspices of the Adams Center have been invaluable in preparing me for such a future and for making me a more desirable applicant to grad school as well. My Adams Center research position has already opened many doors for me, and I expect that it will continue to serve me well as I continue on with my academic and professional careers.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/adams_scholars/1012/thumbnail.jp
The Value of Countermarketing Information to Smokers: Evidence from Field Auctions
Get PDFInformation about cigarettes can help smokers come to an informed decision about what cigarettes to purchase. Countermarketing information, which helps counter potentially biased marketing information, can fill this void, but little is known about the value of this information to smokers. In this paper, we use data from experimental auctions to estimate the value of countermarketing information to smokers. We find that countermarketing information has significant value to smokers who have been exposed to marketing information from tobacco companies, but we find no evidence it provides value to smokers not exposed to marketing informatio
Improving the Nutrient Content of Food through Genetic Modification: Evidence from Experimental Auctions on Consumer Acceptance
Get PDFThis paper assesses consumers’ acceptance of nutritionally enhanced vegetables using a series of auction experiments administered to a random sample of adult consumers. Evidence suggests that consumers are willing to pay significantly more for fresh produce with labels signaling enhanced levels of antioxidants and vitamin C achieved by moving genes from within the species, as opposed to across species. However, this premium is significantly affected by diverse information treatments injected into the experiments
