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Passing of Dr J. T. Naismith felt deeply here in the city (November 28, 1939)
No full textArticle written by William Cavanaugh titled "Passing of Dr J. T. Naismith felt deeply here in the city," published by a Springfield newspaper on November 28, 1939 with the subtitle of "Basketball's inventor founded game right here at Springfield College; Memorial to him likely to start next year." Author interviews Springfield College president Ernest Best. Contains portrait photograph of James A. Naismith on the right margin.To learn more about Dr. James Naismith, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/64
Religious freedom and the security state
No full textIn opposing the contraceptive portion of the HHS mandate, the U.S. bishops have made a strong appeal to religious freedom. But might such an appeal prove detrimental to the Catholic Church\u27s endeavor to free itself from state interference? In this lecture, Dr. William Cavanaugh will explore the benefits and potential pitfalls of such an appeal in the broader context of U.S. politics and the security state.
William T. Cavanaugh is a Professor of Theology at DePaul University in Chicago where he specializes in Political Theology, Economic Ethics, and Ecclesiology. His degrees are from the universities of Notre Dame, Cambridge, and Duke. He is the author or editor of several books including The Myth of Religious Violence (Oxford, 2009), The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell, 2003), and Torture and Eucharist (Blackwell, 1998), and he is co-editor of the journal Modern Theology. Prior to joining the DePaul faculty, he taught for fifteen years at the University of St. Thomas.
Modernity, Ecclesiology, and the Nation-State: Oliver O'Donovan, William Cavanaugh, and the Locus of the Political
No full textConsidering the apparent decline of liberal democratic institutions in North America, this dissertation investigates how a contemporary theology of the modern, liberal state might be formulated. To address the current state of liberal democracy, I offer a close reading of the political theologies of Oliver O’Donovan and William Cavanaugh. I seek to analyze how each respectively understands the modern liberal state and, furthermore, where each identifies the locus of the political, namely, the necessary conditions, criteria, and commitments that allow concrete politics to take place in society. This task requires examining the concept of “politically direct ecclesiology” – that the church acts in direct response to God’s work in the world. This notion is in contradiction to the modern liberal democratic tradition that relegates religious commitment to private convictions withheld from the public realm. Both O’Donovan and Cavanaugh resist modernity’s attempt to maintain this unitary, neutral political space.
This project undertakes a careful reading of primary texts by each author brought into conversation with a range of classical political and ecclesiological claims and debates. I show that, for O’Donovan, the example par excellence of politically direct ecclesiology is found in the early modern liberal state (the legacy of Christendom), while for Cavanaugh, the church practicing its life together amid the world best typifies this embodiment. The thesis of this project, then, is that when the politically direct ecclesiologies of O’Donovan and Cavanaugh are juxtaposed, the locus of the political is revealed not only as the underlying distinction between them, but also the fundamental issue at stake in terms of how a contemporary theology of the modern state might be formulated.
The thesis concludes that O’Donovan, by locating the political in the apparatus of the modern state, does not satisfactorily address the problematic character of liberal democracy in North America today, in effect maintaining the status quo. Cavanaugh, however, in arguing that the church constitutes the political, provides a credible response to criticisms of the modern liberal project because it allows for multiple loci for political engagement. In a world rife with socio-political instability, Christian people being able to identify where they locate the political permits broader encounters with other communities so to foment possibilities for social change.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD
Science Sublime: The Philosophy of the Sublime, Dewey’s Aesthetics, and Science Education
No full textFeelings of awe, wonder, and appreciation have been largely ignored in the working lives of scientists and, in turn, science education has not accurately portrayed science to students. In an effort to bring the affective qualities of science into the classroom, this work draws on the writings of the sublime by Burke, Kant, Emerson, and Wordsworth as well as Dewey’s notion of aesthetic experiences to explore a new construct I have called the “scientific sublime.” Also described is a pedagogical approach developed to teach for the scientific sublime as well as the results of utilizing this approach
Sublime science : teaching for scientific sublime experiences in middle school classrooms
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Educational Psychology, 2005Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-147
Using Microteaching as Innovative Practice to Engage Students in Practice
No full textMicroteaching video analysis was implemented in our student teaching seminars to highlight effective teacher moves and their impact on student learning. By using videos with self and peer-review the student teacher can actually see what is happening rather than reflecting on what they thought happened. Effective strategies in the daily practice of their host teachers becomes visible and they learned to identify specific teacher and student moves in their own practice through clips of their own teaching. This practice shows promise for application to a variety of fields of study
Cam Cavanaugh oral history interview
No full textOral history interview with Cavanaugh, Cam. Interviewed by Mark Madison. Bill Koch was present.
Ms. Cavanaugh is the author of "Saving the Great Swamp", and was a board member of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
Name: Cam Cavanaugh
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Pre-Interview Discussion
This interview was conducted on May 18, 2000. Mark Madison (Mark), US Fish and Wildlife Service, Cam
Cavanaugh (Cam), author, Saving the Great Swamp, Bill Koch (Bill), US Fish and Wildlife Service were
present. The interview was conducted as part of an oral history preservation project by NCTC.
Mark
Copy of transcript promised to Cam and Bill Koch. Scholars here and NCTC want to know about this
unique refuge that was set up. We might use the book on display in the Wilderness Exhibit. Would like
to get the book republished. Only one other refuge they know of has a book written on it (Florida —
written by Refuge Manager).
Cam — Okay, well probably I should start by mentioning how I came to write this book.
I was a board member of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, but, before that I had been a
textbook editor. And so I talked to Dave Moore, I don’t know whether you have met him…he was for
many years, until recently, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, which was
an outgrowth of the Great Swamp Committee. And, I was on that Board, and, I was also a little bored
(b-o-r-e-d). (laughter) Not with the Board, but, with my life which had been a nine-to-five plus, and all
of a sudden I was retired, so, Dave Moore and I thought up this idea that maybe a book on the subject
would be appropriate, and, Dave had a wonderful secretary, called Katherine Bradshaw who is mentioned
in the introduction, and she said to me — she pointed to a file — a four-drawer file — I remember that
very distinctly, it was old and a little battered, and she said “In here are all the files for the Great Swamp
Committee, and very shortly they are going to be transferred to boxes like these, (temporary storage
type boxes) and they are going to go downstairs. And downstairs is a basement, very near a door, and
you know what happens to boxes that get in the way when they are near a door.” She said, “all of this is
going to be lost if somebody doesn’t put it down”. So, somebody turned out to be me.
And I made an arrangement that I would write, free, that I would donate my time and my services, if my
expenses were paid, if they found me a secretary to type, and, if the printing was a guarantee. And, that
was satisfactory to the Board of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
So then I started, and for me, research is always the fun part. I had a wonderful time going through
those files. I was reading everything. And then I went to the local libraries and I saw what they had
under the subject, and of course the subject was the fight to save the Great Swamp from a huge 10,000
acre, it was said, jetport, that the Port Authority, which was then the Port of New York, not even New
Jersey in the title. And, I scribbled away, you can imagine, I’ve got a great many notes, and, I started
writing. And the way I write is I talk into a tape recorder and then (‘cause I have lots of papers, and I
can add facts) I have somebody type it up for me. And then I start the editing process from there.
So, I happily went on this and suddenly I said, “it’s very funny, but there’s nothing in here about the
political side.” Now we know Peter Frelinghuysen was very involved in this, we know there was a Jetport
Site Association — where is the information about them.” And of course I had been seeing some
information in the files of the local libraries — I’d been seeing newspaper articles and things that were
obviously generated from another source. So I said, “where is the rest of the story?” and I was told,
“well I’m sorry we don’t have it because we were told by our lawyer (now you remember this was back in
the ’59 early ‘60s and there’s a great difference in attititude towards what non-profits could do and
couldn’t do) and their lawyer had told them that they couldn’t have anything to do with a political side, or
they (the Great Swamp Committee) would lose their non-profit status. A very rigid interpretation, but I
think valid to a certain extent for that period of time, of course. So, I stopped writing, I said “you cannot
tell the story if you only have half the information”.
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This is what Bill wanted me to mention to you, that I went a party, I believe it was at Dave Moore’s
house, I’m not positive, but there were a lot of Trustees there. And I was talking to somebody who
asked me “how’s the book going” and I said “I stopped it”, and I told them the reason.
And Tony Arno, who was a Board Member, he was not in our conversation — he was talking with
somebody else — he wheeled around and he said “I have saved all of those”. Because his boss had been
the Chairman of the Jersey Jetport Site Association. Halleluiah! And, interestingly enough, that was also
in a four-drawer-battered cabinet that Tony Arno had been taking around, he was with a bank getting
larger and larger — and faithfully, he was dragging this around. He didn’t even trust me to take them
home. He gave me a little desk and copying privileges. I don’t know where those files are now, but I
don’t have them. He’s gone to Arizona, so maybe they’re there (laughter).
And another big part was the interviewing. The first person I interviewed was Helen (Fenske), you can
imagine she’d be the perfect person. And I’m sure she’s told you a great deal about what was going on.
And, Helen and I had lunch together, we had not known each other before, and I thought to myself,
Helen is the one that should be writing this book. But she told me she felt she didn’t have the time and
there was much else that she would rather do. And she was extremely generous at that time and
throughout whenever there was something that I needed. And she told me who to talk to. You’ll
probably notice that there’s a very long list of people I thanked (xeroxed). In fact when I went to the
man who was going to publish this he said “do you have to thank all these people?” and I said “yes, I do
have to thank all these people” because without their point of view…and everyone had a slightly different
view point, of course, they had different interests and had gone into it for different reasons, and so, this
list of course, is a longer list than Helen gave me, but she gave me a good list to start with.
And I just started calling up people, and I think two things helped. One, I was a Board Member and I
was doing this not commercially, I think that made people feel better about me, and consequently I was
often invited for tea by the ladies, and we just sat in their homes, usually, and many of them were still
living in the homes that would have been destroyed because the airport would have been there. The
story was always “my house would have been on runway number six (laughter). So that was very
interesting. And then I wrote letters to people like Stuart Udall and John Gottschalk and got very nice —
usually phone calls back— and that was great. My husband got a large charge out of it — hey you got a
phone call from Washington D.C. again, and George Batt, who is no longer living, actually heard that I
was coming out to California to accompany my husband on a business trip, and invited me to stop by,
and we had a wonderful long lunch, and he told me about his role. He had been President of the Jersey
Jetport Site Association — so people we very forthcoming.
Another thing that might interest you is the emotion the still exists today. The daughter-in-law of James
Kellogg, who was the Chairman of the Port Authority, is on the Board of the New Jersey Conservation
Foundation, and she told me that her husband, her son of the Chairman, still occasionally had
somebody— occasionally— come up and blast the son for the father. Now here we have a husband who
is very supportive, his wife who is on the Board, who really felt uncomfortable. There was a big event at
Drew University, and he said “I was afraid somebody would come up and take it out on me”. I mean,
people still are so angry about what happened.
My book is not an angry book, I think you would agree, purposefully, because I wanted it to be a
teaching tool. I wanted to describe a citizen action. If I had included all the anger and whatever, I think it
would have not been the right book for the future. But I did get a letter from a man who interviewed
who chastised me very seriously for not having brought out the great anger. The greatest anger, I think,
being Tobin obviously, but against the governor, Governor Meyner, and of course I didn’t particularly
want to bring that out too strongly, of course you have this Republican/Democrat thing.
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But anyway, that’s the biggest criticism that I got of this book— that it wasn’t angry enough.
Mark — the villain that comes across in the book is of course, the Port Authority. It’s a monolithic, rather
colonial type thing.
Cam — Yes, yes, and of course, Mr. Tobin, who was a good Irishman, did not like to be told. I’m sure
Helen mentioned to you that every time Mr. Tobin came out with a comment of some sort, the Great
Swamp Committee was delighted because…
…she actually did mention they waited for him to say something stupid.
Yes, that’s right, this is the best thing that could be in the media. A counter-attack when he was quiet,
was a little harder. People would sort of forget, as people do. It’s not really a problem, you know, it’s
too ridiculous. It’s not really going to happen. And I think that that was something that could always be
fought against, you know, it is ridiculous, but it could happen.
I have neighbor, I still have, and he’s a nice young man, who worked for the Port Authority. And he
heard that I was writing this book, and he said “now, would you like to come in to the Port Authority to
the World Trade Center.” And he said, “Now, I can’t get you an appointment with Mr. Tobin”. As a
matter of fact, I think Mr. Tobin was gone by that time, and I forget the name of the new director there,
but he said “I could probably get you to the library, after all the library is supposed to be public”….all the
files were supposed to be public.
So he made an appointment for me, there was a stack of consultants reports all nicely printed out. Some
of them I was familiar with because I had seen the in the libraries. Some were entirely new to me. The
librarian there, the message she was trying to get across to me was how seriously they had considered
other sites. Well, I was already learning that you could do what you want to with consultants, and that
you could plan to have something come out so it is negative or positive, depending on what you intend,
and so these wonderful glossy reports, I could just go the conclusion and immediately could tell this site
was much to far from New York, and even if the Great Swamp was not mentioned, you knew the
impression you were supposed to get.
But the great thing about that day was that I was introduced to the secretary who had been Austin
Tobin’s secretary, and she is still the secretary of the new executive director, and she proudly brought
out a copy of a speech that Austin Tobin had made to the Chamber of Commerce of New York, way after
people thought everything was quiet and it was not going to be a problem, and that the Refuge idea was
going to take over. In this speech he’s still talking about a jetport — you know where. And she asked
me if I would like a copy, and I said “Oh please, that’s a wonderful speech”. Of course, she had no idea
who I was, and that was the agreement that I had made with my neighbor that we would not discuss
anywhere in the building, at lunch or anywhere, why I was so interested.
Mark — it would be interesting to see if this book ever made it into their library.
Cam — It would be very, very interesting, but somehow I can guess. (laughter)
In the beginning this jetport was only to be intra-continental, as I said in the book, and so to begin with
it sounded like a nutty idea, you would go from Kennedy, which was then Idlewild, and drive across the
bridge or come across the tunnel and then catch another plane to take you to California. I mean, right
away it just…
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Este Stoll, who was very much involved in this, and I know you recall his name, once said to me that he
thought that the driving reasoning the beginning for putting an airport out here was that there had been
some serious accidents over the city of Newark, and people were scared to death, because they knew
those bigger planes were already on the drawing boards, and they would be a matter of time, and so
they were looking for another area.
And so, in the beginning, there was perhaps agreement, but when people began to realize, it wouldn’t be
just this area, but it would be the surrounding area. Where do you put the oil refinery tanks, where do
you put the motels for people to stay, what is there?
I don’t know whether Helen mentioned to you about Route 287? Route 287 is a very nice, very busy
expressway, and it was discovered by some nosy people that there were several exits and entrances
planned in Harding. You can get off in one place in Harding from 287, you have to get on Blackberry
Lane from another place. It’s not made to be convenient for commuters. Now, something entirely
different was planned, including an entrance and exit at Glen Alpin Road, where the Jockey Hollow is,
which would have been a very convenient direct route. People began to figure out how to stop other
things from happening. Because if you make the access more difficult, then, one more reason that this is
not the right place for the jetport.
Now, I wonder if I’m telling you what you are interested in knowing.
Mark — You are.
Cam — Bill mentioned that this is the First Wilderness Area in the Refuge System. The fact that it took
almost nine years is quite incredible too, I think. And I don’t know whether that’s a standard for
successful citizen actions today.
Mark - It’s actually quick for a Wilderness Area. This was the first one in the Interior. One thing you
might not have known, that we found out from another oral history, is that Fish and Wildlife was actually
dragging its feet on Wilderness designations for existing Refuges.
Jim Gillette talked to us, who was working on the Wilderness designations, and we had 10 years to
determine whether these would be wilderness areas or not, I forget what the acreage was, but, roadless
areas on wildlife refuges. We were supposed to make designations on all of these. Basically, the division
that had set these things up didn’t do much of anything for eight years, and then the Director came down
and said, “look, you have two years to do all of these, or we’re out of compliance” and so he said “the
division worked like mad, and then they shut down after 10 years.” If new refuges come in, we consider
if they’re Wilderness-qualified, like Alaska, and so on. But really, we had to do the backlog of how ever
many refuges we had in 1964, and look at these areas that might have been applicable, and part of it
was, we didn’t want to do it. He said the general feeling was not particularly positive in D.C. because we
couldn’t do wildlife management in a Wilderness area, and in some ways, that was seen as tying our
hands, so, we were ambiguous towards the designation too.
Yes, I can see that, and I can see it today in the congress, that you have the people from out west who
say “now, that’s not Wilderness, come out to our place.”
And the National Park Service is having the same problem. I’ve just recently gone off the Board of the
Washington Association, which is connected with the Morristown National Historical Park, and I know the
trouble that they have getting finances and getting support, because, a National Park is what’s out
there— in the west, and it’s not in New Jersey. It’s a problem, it’s a way of thinking that I suppose will
always exist.
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Helen, I’m sure, told you about Mr. Dodge. I never knew him, he was no longer living when I started
working on this book. Without Mr. Dodge, I really do think…
I went into the Morris County Courthouse, and looked at those deeds… I had heard rumors that he was
getting friends to buy pieces of land in their name, with his money, and that he was going to call the
shots as to where it was going to go. But, I thought it was a good idea to just double-check, and sure
enough, there were enough names that I knew who corroborated this very quiet and excellent plan.
I was wondering, how many houses are still in life-estate on this refuge.
Bill — that’s an increasing number, we’ve probably, within the last couple months, added two. There
are two more, that would have been added on the same day, but we had some final details—those will
probably be added before the summer gets into swing.
We probably have about eight current life-use reservations. There were a lot that were retired. The
ones that you’re talking about. There is one that in recent years, I got here in ’84 and we have probably
acquired about 8 in that time. There was one, Virgil Quick, who lives right on Long Hill Road, it’s the only
one we have in Harding Township, it’s right by the boardwalk. It’s interesting, because the house is on
the west side of the road, and the barn is on the east side of the road, in the Wilderness, so that is the
last remaining structure that we have in our wilderness area.
Mrs. Quick grew up in the Swamp, and she’s probably an interesting person to talk to. Those buildings
will stay there until that life-estate reverts to complete control of the Fish and Wildlife Service, then we
will have no choice, everything on the east side of the road will have to be taken down. We can think
about what we want to do and maybe retain the house and use it for something because it is out of the
Wilderness area. But, out of all the buildings in the Wilderness area, those are the last structures,
everything else has been taken care of, however, Whitebridge Road, we have been closing in on that.
We’ve got about eight life-use reservations, all of which we’ve gotten since ’94, and it’s closing in,
because we own all around it, and these are in-holdings, and some of the folks are just recently retired,
so we’ll have them, but we can buy the property at a lot less, and they’ll take care of it, so, it’s saving the
taxpayers money.
It’s really wonderful for these people because they were all willing sellers, they get to live there, they’ve
come to us, and they get some money up front. They only have to keep insurance on the house. We’re
not a “landlord/tenant” deal, we don’t collect rent, they just get a reduction based on their age from the
full evaluation. It’s very popular. In Long Hill Township, due to a petition from our neighbors supporting
us, got a resolution passed in the town to help support our land acquisition, they waved those taxes,
people no longer have to pay taxes. It’s a real popular thing. People are knocking on our doors as
interested sellers. So, we’ve gotten about 8 or 9, I may have missed one off the top of my head.
Cam — That’s wonderful. At some point, maybe 2015 or something, you’ll have the whole area?
Bill — I doubt it because it’s willing-sellers only. Some people within our approved acquisition boundary,
which probably includes at least another 2000 acres to what we currently own. Not everybody is going to
be willing in the next 15 years. But in the big picture, maybe 2050 or 2100, we would own it all. It’s a
long term plan.
In 2003, we are scheduled for a Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP). And we will revisit our
acquisition boundary; I already have plans to expand. It was expanded in ’87 when we did our Master
Plan EIS, it was expanded from about 430 acres to 2430 acres, and that was with a lot of public support.
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They said, “You’ve got to have more land for authorization for acquisition because we were fighting
development issues. We’d battle for something for two years, and we’d win the battle, but lose the war.
It would happen just outside our boundary where we had less to say about it.” And we said, “Well, that’s
enough of that, lets expand the boundary” and we did.
Mark — it’s quite a change from the book where you had all these isolated areas that your were trying to
connect.
Cam — yes, that wonderful map shows just those little…
Bill — we still have some of that, but the holes are disappearing, and some getting smaller, and also
around the perimeter is pushing out. We’re running out of exterior because development is closing in on
us, and there are some places where we can’t go any further out.
Cam — this map of the Watershed shows this.
Mark - Do you think this was a uniqu
Making Enemies: The Imagination of Torture in Chile and the United States
No full text Through a comparison of the use of torture by Chile under General Pinochet and the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, the author argues that one of torture's primary purposes is the fostering of a certain kind of social imagination of who our enemies are. The author then briefly suggests how communities of faith can resist this imagination. </jats:p
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