News and Announcements

Hello Fellow DWCers,

Welcome to 2004! I'm writing to wish you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. May we all get perfect teaching evaluations, the grant proposal of our dreams, finish our graduate degrees, make associate or full professor, or find the job of our dreams in this new year! Here's just a bit of member news to start out 2004. Check back for an expanded "Member News" section in the next installment of the DivisioNews.

Warm Regards,
Amy D'Unger

Congratulations to Dorothy Schulz. She was just promoted to full professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In addition to this, she is finishing off a book manuscript for Praeger on women police chiefs and sheriffs that is due out in the fall. You can e-mail her to say "CONGRATULATIONS" at dschulz@jjay.cuny.edu

A fellow New Yorker, Roslyn Muraskin has also been very busy. She has several books coming out, including:

1. Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century, 4th edition by Prentice Hall. With over 36 chapters, it is the biggest and most complete text that deals with issues of Gender and Diversity; Terrorism; Technology; Prisons; Police; Critical Issues (Victim's Rights - Patriot Act) and more.

2. Key to Correctional Issues: Lock 'Em Up and Throw Away the Key, brand new by
Prentice Hall.

3. Media and Criminal Justice: Truth or Fiction?, also by Prentice Hall with a colleague who writes for the New York Times.

In her role as an editor, Roz is also looking for some submissions, including:

1. Anyone wishing to be a guest editor or write chapters for the Women's Series for Prentice Hall

2. Anyone wishing to submit articles and/or thematic issues to A Critical Journal of Crime, Law, and Society published quarterly by Routledge.

If you're interested, you can contact her at Roslyn.Muraskin@liu.edu

Rebecca (Becky) Petersen reports that, even after receiving tenure and promotion at the University of Texas-San Antonio, she has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University (located in north suburban Atlanta with a student population of 18,000). You can contact her to say hello and congrats at rpeterse@Kennesaw.edu.

Dear Crabby

Dear Crabby,
Say what you will about the ASC, but wasn't it nice that the Adam's Mark Hotel in Denver had pro-choice stickers in all the hotel rooms?
A Feminist Faculty

Dear Feminist Faculty:
I hate to burst your bubble, but those little stickers of the hangers with the circle and slash through them were actually on the wall above the vents to let us know we weren't supposed to hang anything on the vent.
Crabby

Dear Crabby:
I've had one of those obnoxious men in my class this semester who counters everything I say. Yesterday I told the class that I wasn't going to take any excuses for people missing the exam other than police records or ambulance reports. He said, "What if I've had a night of unbelievable passion?"
Tired of Frat Boys

Dear Tired:
Tell him to write with his other hand.
Crabby