DOCSLIB.ORG

The Beacon, October 6, 2014 Florida International University

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Beacon, October 6, 2014 Florida International University Florida International University FIU Digital Commons The aP nther Press (formerly The Beacon) Special Collections and University Archives 10-6-2014 The Beacon, October 6, 2014 Florida International University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Florida International University, "The Beacon, October 6, 2014" (2014). The Panther Press (formerly The Beacon). 279. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_newspaper/279 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and University Archives at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aP nther Press (formerly The Beacon) by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University One copy per person. Additional copies are 25 cents. Vol. 26, Issue 24 fiusm.com Monday, October 6, 2014 CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE Trump brings beauty pageant to University PATRICK CHALVIRE Asst. Sports Director [email protected] Our students will gain valuable insight from this Come January, the University opportunity to intern with will host beauty queens from all and learn from this across the globe for the Miss world-class event. Universe Pageant. Business mogul Donald Mark B. Rosenberg Trump announced on Thursday, President Oct. 2 that the University would FIU host the 63rd annual Miss Universe pageant, while the city of Doral will host various other pageant events. Trump, who owns the beauty though it was understood that pageant and a golf course, resort the city simply had no venue and spa in Doral, had planned to large enough to hold the event. bring the pageant to Doral, but “I would also like to thank turned to FIU’s arena when in FIU,” said Boria. “Not having need of a larger venue. the venue in the city, I am proud The event is scheduled for Jan. to [have] another community 25 at the FIU U.S. Bank Century partner like FIU.” Arena, and will be broadcasted In September, when the city PATRICK CHALVIRE/THE BEACON to approximately 190 countries was deciding whether to help and territories. Although the On Thursday, Oct. 2, business mogul Donald Trump held a press conference in the Trump National fund the pageant, Doral Vice pageant will take place in 2015, Doral to announce that the Miss Universe pageant would be held at the University U.S. Bank Century Mayor Christi Fraga said she the winner will be crowned the Arena on Jan. 25, 2015. was against having the city and 2014 Miss Universe. taxpayers contribute money to Trump is also granting opportunity to intern with and receive scholarships and young “The real venue will be in the lavish event. $150,000 in scholarships to learn from this world-class people all over the world to be FIU, but Doral will host all the The pageant has many other first generation students and event,” said President Mark B. exposed to FIU.” beauty pageant [events] that they sponsors, including Baptist internship opportunities to the Rosenberg in an Oct. 2 a press Though the pageant itself will have here in Doral,” said Mayor Health South Florida and Badia School of Hospitality & Tourism release. “I’m delighted that take place on the Modesto A. Luigi Boria. Spices, along with other local Management. having the pageant on campus Maidique Campus, other events Boria had pledged to raise and iconic businesses. “Our students will gain will also make it possible for associated with the pageant will $2.5 million before knowing the valuable insight from this our first generation students to take place in the City of Doral. exact location for the pageant, SEE PAGEANT, PAGE 7 TEDx Student Health Services encourages students to love their bodies FIU ALICIA DOBSON coordination with the National Organization Contributing Writer for Women. [email protected] “FIU Love Your Body Week is a tickets celebration of NOW’s National Love Your When Keiran Ward, a senior majoring Body Day, a day when women of all sizes, in communications, first came to FIU as One day I looked in the colors, ages and abilities come together a student athlete, he quickly noticed that mirror, didn’t like what I to celebrate self-acceptance and promote on sale he was among the smallest players on the saw, and decided to make positive body image,” she said. football team. a change. Although NOW’s National Love Your FIUSM STAFF Pressured by coaches to gain weight, Ward Body Day focuses on women, FIU’s event [email protected] became motivated to make a change that was adds men to the mix. more than beneficial to his athletic career; it “We found that college men could also The University will host its was beneficial to his life as a whole. Atarhe Neal-Viegbesi benefit from this type of event, as they aren’t annual TEDxFIU event at the “The pressure didn’t push me into a shell Junior excluded from societal standards and body Biology Major Herbert and Nicole Wertheim – it pushed me to work harder and become image concepts,” Parris added. Performing Arts Center at the player I always wanted to be,” Ward said. During Love Your Body Week, student 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. Atarhe Neal-Viegbesie, a junior majoring services such as the Counseling and 13. in biology, told a similar tale when asked transform into the person she always wanted Psychological Services and the Victim Tickets are now on sale about the importance of body image. to be, physically and mentally. Empowerment Program will be tabling and at the performing arts center After years of feeling out of place and “I never wanted to be anyone else. It has providing speakers to make presentations online box office. Tickets are overlooked, she was sick of feeling like always been about improving myself,” she about a number of topics related to loving $35 for the public and $20 for a stranger in her own skin. Seeking more stressed. your body. students. There is a limit of than just a physical change, Neal-Viegbesie In an effort to emphasize the importance of All week long, the events will take place two tickets per person. sought confidence and self-esteem. being comfortable in your own skin, Student in and around the GC Pit. Students can expect For more information, “One day I looked in the mirror, didn’t like Health Services is dedicating an entire to learn about reducing the risk of cancer, students can contact event what I saw, and decided to make a change,” week to promoting positive body image and self-affirmation, nutritional guidance, self- organizers Eduardo Merille at she said. self-acceptance. care and much more. [email protected] or Deborah Inspired by the loss of very close loved Ebonie Parris, the wellness coordinator From Oct. 7 to 9, Student Health Services O’Neil at [email protected]. one, Neal-Viegbesie began to develop new for Student Health Services, is dedicated health and fitness habits that helped her to keeping students positive and healthy in SEE BODY, PAGE 2 2 The Beacon – Monday, October 6, 2014 NEWS fiusm.com NATION & WORLD Largest student organization BRIEFS holds finance opportunities Health officials try to track DESTINEY BURT potential,” said Ruiz-Paiz. Although the organization started 100 people who may have been in Staff Writer The group provides a mentorship out to specifically help business contact with Ebola patient [email protected] program, “Toastmasters” to practice students, it has opened up to accept public speaking and Tech Group to students from any major who want to Government health officials said Thursday they Alejandro Porras, a junior finance educate on the use of technology in become involved and network in the were tracking down as many as 100 people who major, considered his career goals business. business world. may have had contact with a contagious Ebola when he chose to join the Association Every Friday ALPFA invites one With support from school of patient and were forcing four adults to be isolated of Latino Professionals in Finance and at home. State and county officials executed a Accounting during fall 2013. communicable disease control order to force four Porras, president-elect of ALFA unidentified people, believed to be adults, to remain Tech Group, said he was seeking an inside the Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric organization that could streamline him Duncan developed Ebola symptoms. The order to a secure job while meeting other allows health workers to monitor the apartment’s I have encountered several mentors along the way occupants daily. Five children and an unknown students with shared values. number of adults share the apartment at The Ivy “ALPFA allowed me to make who have helped me come out of my shell and are in Vickery Meadow in northeast Dallas. The apart- friends with like-minded individuals constantly encouraging me to reach my fullest potential ment, where Duncan had been staying since Sept. and connect with people who push me, 20, still contained potentially contaminated mate- compete with me and ultimately strive rial Thursday, health officials acknowledged. to become more balanced individuals Marcela Ruiz-Paiz together,” said Porras. Senior Nuclear waste dump in As the biggest student business Accounting New Mexico is expected to organization on campus, ALPFA offers opportunities for students to network reopen by 2016 and gain professional skills that are essential in the business world. accounting and one finance firm to accounting and the Student Government The U.S. Energy Department expects to Marcela Ruiz-Paiz, a senior present job, internship opportunities. Association, 52 of the most active resume operations at its shuttered nuclear majoring in accounting, also joined the Members dress in business attire to members travelled for free to attend the waste dump in New Mexico by early 2016, organization in fall 2013, and said it has interview with or receive information ALPFA Annual Convention in Orlando about two years after two serious acci- helped her grow both personally and from company representatives.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— Extensions of Remarks E632 HON
    E632 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 16, 2008 But in the gathering that I attended the next A PROCLAMATION HONORING Seung-Hui Cho’s information been handled day on campus, I saw a remarkable trans- COACH LINDA HOBART FOR properly he would have been prevented from formation. I saw a community touched by the COACHING THE TUSCARAWAS purchasing the weapons used in the shooting. deaths of 32 people—students and professors COUNTY ROCKETS SPECIAL Responding to pressure from these citizen ad- all—turned into a friendship community unlike OLYMPICS BASKETBALL TEAM vocates, Congress passed the NICS Improve- anywhere else. And then the world began TO WINNING THE OHIO DIVISION ments Act, a law providing funding to States to sharing its hopes that the Almighty would IV STATE BASKETBALL CHAM- insure that mental health records are added transmit healing to each and every person PIONSHIP efficiently to the national background check touched in some way by the heartbreak that system. had befallen Virginia Tech. HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE This week, I had the pleasure of meeting yesterday with a survivor of the Virginia Tech One cannot help but reach out to our fellow OF OHIO massacre. Her name is Lily Habtu. Lily was man at times such as those like April 16, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES shot in the jaw and arm during the violent 2007. The magnitude with which the globe Wednesday, April 16, 2008 melee. She described how the events of that embraced Virginia Tech in its ultimate time of Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: day have forever changed her life.
    [Show full text]
  • Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy
    Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy, 2012–2014 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article-abstract/24/4/182/5489530 by guest on 07 August 2019 Yini Zhang1, Dhavan Shah1, Jordan Foley1, Aman Abhishek1, Josephine Lukito1, Jiyoun Suk1, Sang Jung Kim1, Zhongkai Sun2, Jon Pevehouse3, and Christine Garlough4 1 School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA 3 Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA 4 Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA This study focuses on the outpouring of sympathy in response to mass shootings and the contesta- tion over gun policy on Twitter from 2012 to 2014 and relates these discourses to features of mass shooting events. We use two approaches to Twitter text analysis—hashtag grouping and super- vised machine learning (ML)—to triangulate an understanding of intensity and duration of “thoughts and prayers,” gun control, and gun rights discourses. We conduct parallel time series analyses to predict their temporal patterns in response to features of mass shootings. Our analyses reveal that while the total number of victims and child deaths consistently predicted public griev- ing and calls for gun control, public shootings consistently predicted the defense of gun rights. Further, the race of victims and perpetrators affected the levels of public mourning and policy debates, with the loss of black lives and the violence inflicted by white shooters generating less sympathy and policy discourses.
    [Show full text]
  • Auditing the Cost of the Virginia Tech Massacre How Much We Pay When Killers Kill
    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/M ASSOCIATED THE AR Y AL Y ta FF ER Auditing the Cost of the Virginia Tech Massacre How Much We Pay When Killers Kill Anthony Green and Donna Cooper April 2012 WWW.AMERICANPROGRESS.ORG Auditing the Cost of the Virginia Tech Massacre How Much We Pay When Killers Kill Anthony Green and Donna Cooper April 2012 Remembering those we lost The Center for American Progress opens this report with our thoughts and prayers for the 32 men and women who died on April 16, 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. We light a candle in their memory. Let the loss of those indispensable lives allow us to examine ways to prevent similar tragedies. — Center for American Progress Contents 1 Introduction and summary 4 Determining the cost of the Virginia Tech massacre 7 Virginia Tech’s costs 14 Commonwealth of Virginia’s costs 16 U.S. government costs 17 Health care costs 19 What can we learn from spree killings? 24 Analysis of the background check system that failed Virginia Tech 29 Policy recommendations 36 The way forward 38 About the authors and acknowledgements 39 Appendix A: Mental history of Seung-Hui Cho 45 Appendix B: Brief descriptions of spree killings, 1984–2012 48 Endnotes Introduction and summary Five years ago, on April 16, 2007, an English major at Virginia Tech University named Seung-Hui Cho gunned down and killed 32 people, wounded another 17, and then committed suicide as the police closed in on him on that cold, bloody Monday. Since then, 12 more spree killings have claimed the lives of another 90 random victims and wounded another 92 people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time when deranged and well-armed killers suddenly burst upon their daily lives.
    [Show full text]
  • Bishops United Urges Assault Weapons Ban, Prayers of Lamentation
    Dear Diocesan Family - I am posting below the statement from the group Bishops United Against Gun Violence, which we issued this past Friday regarding the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida. "Bishops United" is an association of approximately 70 bishops in The Episcopal Church and I am a charter member of that group. It is clear that a statement along the lines of what we have released in the wake of past mass shootings is no longer satisfactory or sufficient. Such tragedies as these must never be permitted to lapse into what could easily be seen as routine. This is why we are calling for specific action steps. Please give this statement your every consideration and your deepest prayers as our nation tries to come to terms with the awful reality of gun violence besetting our society during these times. Of course, we welcome your circulating this statement as widely as possible. With the very courageous - and most impressive - response from the students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, we may be turning a corner with respect to the public's response to this particular shooting. We can certainly hope and pray, but it is my hope that we will do much more than that. Surely there are some concrete steps that can be debated and passed by the U.S. Congress. And perhaps these action steps will make something of a difference. The status quo with respect to guns in our society and culture must not be allowed to stand! Faithfully yours, Bishops United Urges Assault Weapons Ban, Prayers of Lamentation The heart of our nation has been broken yet again by another mass shooting at an American school.
    [Show full text]
  • Thoughts and Prayers” Reverend Bill Gause Overbrook Presbyterian Church 19Th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 11, 2019
    “Thoughts and Prayers” Reverend Bill Gause Overbrook Presbyterian Church 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 11, 2019 Introduction: Today I might make somebody mad. That’s not my intention. Some people say they don’t want to hear politics from the pulpit. But what we call “politics” is really just the way we deal with real problems in our community like hunger, and health care and justice for all through a system of government. Issues that are “political” are really issues of life, and Jesus dealt with those kinds of issues, too. So just because elected officials have politicized an issue, doesn’t mean Jesus wasn’t concerned about it too. I say this because last week while I stood here talking to you about Mary and Martha and about making time to sit at the feet of the master to learn from Jesus, news was breaking of a mass shooting in Dayton; this just hours after news came of a mass shooting in El Paso Texas. We need to talk about that. We need to turn to Jesus for guidance. There is no better time than while sitting in the presence of God to do that. Today I might make somebody mad. But that is not my intention. I hope if I do, you will take the time to talk with me about it. First Scripture Reading: Isaiah 2:2-4 2In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it.
    [Show full text]
  • Smokes Angelloaded 3205 Tweets
    Smokes_Angel loaded 3205 tweets Hide Replies Hide Retweets Change User • RT @Bay_St_Wiseguy: @therealroseanne @LizCrokin @rtoberl @jerrypane13 @JackPosobiec @popstherock33 @jimEastridge1 @Smokes_Angel @DrMartyFox… Nov 26, 2017 • RT @Ventuckyspaz: @AnonScan Wanted to mention that this video was created by: https://t.co/RA5tiUxvSp It would be cool to send him a messag… Nov 26, 2017 • @JulianAssange @laurilove Fact: If this crime took place in the US against another foreign country that person woul… https://t.co/5NBSipQH05 Nov 26, 2017 • @JulianAssange @laurilove https://t.co/DiwLK6QeJG Nov 26, 2017 • @JulianAssange @laurilove https://t.co/uFbN88xnT1 Nov 26, 2017 • RT @JulianAssange: Mann: My UK partner @laurilove could be saving the world from cyber attacks but instead he faces a 99-year prison senten… Nov 26, 2017 • RT @FreeLauriLove: Dont let the injustice of the DOJ crucify our geeks, stand up and speak out for a #FreeLauri & a #TrialAtHome https://t.… Nov 26, 2017 • RT @FreeLauriLove: If a US citizen hacks a UK computer he is tried in the US why then is the US extraditing #FreeLauri ? #TrialAtHome http… Nov 26, 2017 • @oriolanix @OriolOrfila @JulianAssange You are welcome Nov 26, 2017 • 365 videos of Spanish violence against Catalonia https://t.co/42pBk3WUDc Nov 26, 2017 • @r2sCat I got it already as Julian posted it and a friend from Catalonia shared with me. You are welcome Nov 26, 2017 • @JulianAssange #FreeAssangeNow https://t.co/ikXYZl2qyN Nov 26, 2017 • @JulianAssange There was a time the Middle East was beautiful. Extremists
    [Show full text]
  • Thoughts and Prayers -- Do They Crowd out Charity Donations?*
    Thoughts and Prayers -- Do They Crowd out Charity Donations?* Linda Thunströma Abstract For centuries, scholars have examined what motivates prosocial behavior. In the U.S., prosocial behavior is routinely accompanied by thoughts and prayers. Yet, the impact on prosocial behavior of such gestures is unknown. We examine how thoughts and prayers affect charity donations to victims of a major public risk -- natural disasters. Our analytical framework suggests both thoughts and prayers increase empathy for those receiving such gestures, which may positively impact donations. However, we also find that prayers on behalf of others are regarded as helpful to recipients – we identify them as a moral action -- which can generate a counter-veiling substitution effect on donations. On net, our framework suggests prayers crowd out donations to natural disaster victims, while thoughts do not. We test these predictions in three incentivized experiments with Red Cross donations to hurricane victims. Consistent with our model, our main experiment finds prayers reduce donations, while thoughts do not. Two follow- up experiments find results are robust to alternative hurricane locations but may be sensitive to other frames -- we find no impact of thoughts or prayers on donations when donations are capped at small amounts. Nevertheless, our results provide the novel insight that prayers may have important effects on material aid in the wake of public catastrophes (in two out of three experiments they crowd out donations), which highlights the importance of research on the impact of prayers on prosocial behavior. Keywords: thoughts; prayers; natural disasters; prosocial behavior; charity donations; moral actions *The author thanks Ben Gilbert, Stephen Newbold, Shiri Noy, Jason F.
    [Show full text]
  • R. Sterling Haring, DO, MPH Education
    Name: R. Sterling Haring, DO, MPH Education: • Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), BA (Russian) 2009 • Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), MPH (Health Policy) 2014 • Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (Bradenton, FL), DO 2015 • Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), DrPH (Health Policy) 2020 (anticipated) Nonclinical training: • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA), Epidemiology trainee, 2015 • Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA), Fellowship (Public Health Policy), 2016 • University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano, CH), Fellowship (Comms/quality), 2017 Clinical training: • Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr (Nashville, TN), Internal Medicine Internship, 2018 • Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr (Nashville, TN), PM&R Residency, 2021 (anticipated) Licensure and Certification: • Evidence-Based Medicine Certified, 2019, Spine Intervention Society • DEA/ DATA 2000 X-waiver, 2019, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry • Certified in Public Health (CPH), 2014, National Board of Public Health Examiners • Certified Addiction Specialist (CAS), 2010, Florida Certification Board Academic Appointments: • Fellow, Harvard Medical School, 2015-2016 • Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, 2015-2016 • Fellow, University of Italian Switzerland, 2016-2017 • Senior analyst, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2017 Hospital Appointments • Research Fellow, Dept of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2015-2016 • Resident, Dept of Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr, 2017-2018 • Resident, Dept of
    [Show full text]
  • Student Advocate Toolkit
    STUDENT ADVOCATE www.CeaseFirePA.org [email protected] TOOLKIT 215.923.3151 TOOLKIT TAKING A STAND CONTENTS: • Gun Violence in CeaseFirePA is a statewide organization Schools working with mayors, police chiefs, faith leaders, • Major Events community organizations, and individual • Statistics Pennsylvanians to take a stand against gun violence. Through outreach, education, coalition • How to be an building, and advocacy, we work to reduce gun Advocate violence and gun tragedies in our communities, • Solutions stop the flow of illegal guns onto our streets, and • Message keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. • Audience If you think you have the right to safety in your • Advocacy in school and “Thoughts and Prayers” aren’t enough Action for you, we are here to help you advocate for yourself and bring about change and legislation • Issues that will keep you safe. • Bills to support • Bills to oppose Thoughts& Prayers Legislation and Change 1 STUDENT ADVOCATE TOOLKIT TAKING A STAND AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE Gun Violence in Schools The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is one of nearly 300 school shootings in the US since 2013. The history of gun violence in schools dates back to at least 1966, with the five deadliest attacks detailed below: Timeline Aug. 1, 1966: A student and former Marine sharpshooter climbed University of Texas, to the top a tower on campus. He killed 14 people Austin, Texas and wounded 31 more. Before the attack on campus, he killed his wife and mother. April 20, 1999: Columbine High Two students killed 12 of their peers and a teacher.
    [Show full text]
  • Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and The
    Copyright © 2019 by Rachel Maddow All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. crownpublishing.com CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Maddow, Rachel, author. Title: Blowout / Rachel Maddow. Description: First edition. | New York : Crown, [2019] | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019026915 (print) | LCCN 2019026916 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525575474 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525575498 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Gas industry—Corrupt practices. | Gas industry—Corrupt practices—Russia. | Gas companies—Corrupt practices. | Tillerson, Rex, 1952—Ethics. Classification: LCC HD9581.A2 M33 2019 (print) | LCC HD9581.A2 (ebook) | DDC 338.2/7285— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/ 2019026915 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/ 2019026916 ISBN 9780525575474 Ebook ISBN 9780525575498 Cover design: Michael Morris Cover images: Gregor Schuster/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images (statue); Antagain/iStock/Getty Images (fire); Michael Morris (oil) v5.4 ep Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction: In a Surrealist Landscape Chapter One: Splendor and Fragrance Chapter Two: The Genie Chapter Three: Stolen Goods Chapter Four: Charlie Hustle Chapter Five: Thunder Up! Chapter Six: Rex Shrugged Chapter Seven: A Risk Management Problem Chapter Eight: Poster Boy Chapter Nine: Practical Realities Chapter Ten: Who Does That? Chapter Eleven: The Other
    [Show full text]
  • Methodological Appendix I – XII for “Whose Lives
    Methodological Appendix I – XII for “Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy, 2012- 2014.” Yini Zhang, Dhavan Shah, Jordan Foley, Aman Abhishek, Josephine Lukito, Jiyoun Suk, Sang Jung Kim, Zhongkai Sun, Jon Pevehouse, and Christine Garlough. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Appendix I We collected the event data from three distinct sources. The MSA is collected based on online news media sources. The GVA database is based on a combination of online news sources, police media outlets, and police blotters. The USA Today database is based on the Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) from the FBI. While no individual event dataset claims to be exhaustive, they represent three diverse levels of source selection (news media, local police reports, and FBI- reported data) and each have their own form of source validation. When coding for race, coders first reviewed event source data for a police report or news organization that explicitly identified the race of the victim. Phenotypical attributes were only used in combination this kind of contextual information. If there is any ambiguity, coders deferred to marking as race unknown. In rare cases where multiple shooters were present (N = 3), both shooters were of the same race. Appendix II Two steps were taken to collect the relevant data. First, general search strings—“gun,” “shooter,” “shooting,” “firearm,” “second amendment,” “2nd amendment”, “nra”—were used to capture relevant content comprehensively. The search strings yielded 75,271,571 tweets. The second step reduced noise in the harvested dataset. Two coders were assigned to produce an exclusion list containing words and phrases marking irrelevant tweets.
    [Show full text]
  • Narratives of Faculty Sensemaking During Campus-Carry Policy Enactment
    FROM “THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS” TO PRACTICE: NARRATIVES OF FACULTY SENSEMAKING DURING CAMPUS-CARRY POLICY ENACTMENT By Nathaniel W. Cradit A DISSERTATION Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education – Doctor of Philosophy 2017 ABSTRACT FROM “THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS” TO PRACTICE: NARRATIVES OF FACULTY SENSEMAKING DURING CAMPUS-CARRY POLICY ENACTMENT By Nathaniel W. Cradit The 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech is one part of a decades-long increase in the frequency of gun violence on U.S. college and university campuses (Drysdale, Modzeleski, & Simons, 2010; Ferraro, 2015). The events at Virginia Tech also served as a catalyst for the spread of so-called “campus-carry” laws, or acts of state policy which permit concealed firearms on postsecondary campuses (Aronowitz & Vaughn, 2013; Birnbaum, 2013; Grayson & Meilman, 2013). Despite opposition from the higher education sector, and evidence demonstrating that increasing the number of firearms in a public space increases the likelihood of future gun violence (e.g., Ayres & Donohue, 2003, 2009; Cummings et al., 1997; Duggan, 2001; Helland & Tabarrok, 2004; National Research Council, 2005), Texas became the eighth state to enact campus carry on August 1, 2016. As a relatively new policy area, limited empirical data exist regarding the effects of campus carry on higher education. This study’s purpose was to identify whether the new campus-carry law in Texas had any educative influence upon the postsecondary learning environment by examining the ways faculty made sense of the new law before and during its enactment. Data were collected during the final three weeks of the fall, 2016 term at one university to explore whether and how the first semester of legal concealed weapons influenced faculty teaching and research decisions.
    [Show full text]