The Class of 2007
To accommodate the largest graduating class in College history, John Jay had to hold two commencements at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden on May 31. More than 1,600 members of the graduating class of 2,500-plus attended one of the two ceremonies with the 5,000-seat venue filled to capacity each time. Honorary doctorates were awarded to Patricia Cornwell, the internationally acclaimed fiction writer; Richard Delgado, one of the leading Latino legal scholars in the United States; and Deborah Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, an advocate for historical accuracy in the wake of holocaust deniers. The senior class gift was a contribution to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund at Virginia Tech, where 32 students and faculty members were killed by a troubled student. President Jeremy Travis said the tragedy "touched the heart of our student body, which experienced its own immeasurable loss as a consequence of September 11th. The valedictorian was Kevin Green, an immigrant from Guyana. The salutatorian was Ulrike Kucharczyk, a native of Germany. (For more about them, see Student Highlights. To meet the valedictorian from the Class of ‘72, see the Alumni Spotlight.)
Policing Across Borders
John Jay President Jeremy Travis and Ambassador Leonidas Evangelidis signed a three-year agreement outlining the College's partnership with the Center for Security Studies at the Greek Ministry of Public Order on June 11th. The partnership will focus on "Policing Across Borders: Strengthening the Role of Law Enforcement in Global Governance.” The project will bring together law enforcement officers from Greece and the wider Balkan region to examine terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking and migrant smuggling. "Thanks to the generosity of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation,” said Travis, "we are able to launch what I hope is the beginning of a long and productive partnership that will foster greater cooperation between nations on critical law enforcement challenges to the global community.” The signing ceremony took place in the "Pavlos Bakoyannis” Hall of the Ministry of Public Order in Athens, Greece. Professor George Andreopoulos, Director of the Center for International Human Rights at the College, will direct the project.
Become a Paralegal
The Paralegal Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice offers a certificate program that will prepare you to practice in New York State. This course of study is a well-defined skills-based program, allowing you to complete the program in five months. Beginning in September, you can take the course on weeknights or on Saturdays. Alumni receive a 10% discount. For more information, visit our website at www.jjay.cuny.edu/ce or call 212-237-8663.
Of Headspace and STR Primers
In April two John Jay seniors, Nubia Ducasse and Angelica Vargas, won first place for their outstanding research projects in the Natural Sciences category at the 15th Annual Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program Student Research Conference held in Lake George. Ducasse won for a poster presentation titled "Short Tandem Repeat (STR) DNA Analysis: Comparing Low Copy Number (LCN) DNA Amplification of the CSF1PO STR Locus Using Min I STR Primers and Conventional STR Primers” -- a process for improving DNA profiles when only very small amounts of degraded DNA are available. Developing a cost-effective and highly accurate analytical method for identifying illicit drugs in urine samples was the subject of Vargas's poster project titled, "Headspace Liquid-Phase Microextraction of Methamphetamine and Amphetamine in Urine by an Aqueous Drop.”
On the Edge: Transgression and the Dangerous Other
Thursday, Friday, August 9 & 10, 2007
This two day interdisciplinary conference will celebrate intellectual and artistic transgression that will focus on devising a new concept for criminology that can grasp the phenomenology of everyday life, its experience of joy, humiliation, anger and desperation, the seductions of transgression and the appeal of the vindictive, the myriad forms of resistance and the repressive nature of acquiescence. The conference will bring together national and international scholars, students and artists from a variety of disciplines.
Early Registration (until July 14, 2007)
1-Day fee: $15
2-Day fee: $25
Late Registration (July 15 - August 8, 2007)
1-Day fee: $15
2-Day fee: $30
For more information and to register, go to http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/ontheedge/ or contact Carla Barrett at ontheedge2007@jjay.cuny.edu or call 212-237-8680.
Space is limited, so please register early.
John Jay College
899 Tenth Ave., NYC
Graduate Center (CUNY)
365 Fifth Ave., NYC
Staten Island Yankees vs. Coney Island Cyclones
Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:00 Pre-game Picnic
2:00 Game Time
Please join the John Jay College Alumni Association for a day at the ballpark. At 1:00 PM join us for a pre-game picnic including all-you-can-eat hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled chicken, chips, pasta salad, and baked beans. At 2:00 PM the game begins. Children 12 and under can run the bases after the game.
Cost: $30, which includes a $5.00 donation to the John Jay College Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. Payment should be sent to: John Jay College Alumni Association, 555 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019
For more information, click here. To pay by Visa or MasterCard, call Sharice Conway at 212.237.8547.
Staten Island Yankee Stadium
75 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
Sunday, September 9, 2007 9:00 AM
The JOHN JAY JAYWALKERS TEAM is now officially registered for the 2007 Komen Race for the Cure. Join the fight against breast cancer. Last year the JAYWALKERS won the award for the largest team in the College/University category. Let's do it again.
Click here to view the team page for JOHN JAY JAYWALKERS
For more information, contact the JAYWALKERS Team Captain, Irene O'Donnell, at iodonnell@jjay.cuny.edu or 212-237-8540.
Central Park West
New York City
Patrick Carroll (BS '72)
First in his class! It was true when he graduated from transit police training. It was true when he graduated from the New York City Police Department academy in the mid '60s. It was also true in 1972 when Patrick Carroll, the Police Commissioner of New Rochelle, graduated from John Jay College and was the valedictorian of his class.
Carroll recalled that you had a lot of police officers going to John Jay at that time under the Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP), a federally funded program to encourage police officers to attend college. "The guys were very competitive.” Although a college education was not required for promotion at the time, "you had the influence of Commissioner Patrick Murphy who was a strong believer in higher education for police. I wasn't a ‘natural,' I really had to put in the hours. I stayed away from most of the police science courses. Instead I took a lot of psychology, sociology and criminal justice. The degree was not only critical for my career, but it also set the tone for me and my children. My parents were from Ireland and I was the only one to graduate college. It set the standard for the family. College opens minds and it opens doors.”
Carroll spent 28 years with the NYPD where he served as the Commanding Officer of the Emergency Services Unit; the 75th Precinct in East New York, Brooklyn; the 79th Precinct in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; and the 108th Precinct in Woodside, Queens. He retired from the department with the rank of Inspector.
In 1993 he became Police Commissioner for the City of New Rochelle, NY -- a city he describes as a microcosm of New York City with a diverse population of ethnic, racial and economic backgrounds. Under Carroll's direction, the New Rochelle Police Department recently became the only municipality in New York State to ever win the coveted Webber Seavey Award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The city had a rash of nightclub openings and on the weekends there would be 3,000 kids pouring onto the streets. "Before you knew it, we had all kinds of assaults, vandalism and complaints. We put in a cabaret law and a nuisance abatement law that was modeled after the one in NYC and we started the Downtown Task Force that included a number of agencies like fire and housing. We closed 22 premises in a couple of years.”
So how do you make a good community better? For Carroll, it is embodied in the Japanese term kaizen -- the relentless pursuit of incremental improvement. He uses it at his monthly Compstat meetings when he asks his officers, "Since our last meeting, how have you made New Rochelle a better place to live.” His strategy has certainly paid off. Among cities with a population of 70-80,000, New Rochelle is ranked one of the safest in the country, in Westchester County and in New York State.
Graduating with a 3.997 grade point average and both a bachelor and master degrees in public administration, Kevin Green was the valedictorian for the Class of 2007. He came with his family to the United States in 1980 from Guyana. During his senior year in high school, Green enlisted in the U.S. Army and served a tour of duty in Iraq. He was reactivated in the wake of the September 11 th terrorist attacks and has served in Korea, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Kuwait. He is currently a sergeant in the New York Army National Guard. A 31-year-old native of Dresden, Germany was the salutatorian. Ulrike Kucharczyk came to America 10 years ago leaving behind a career in banking to pursue a bachelor's degree in international criminal justice. She graduated with a 3.968 grade point average and hopes to join a federal law enforcement agency.
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