PAIDEIA VOLUME 3 | FALL 2015 THE JOURNAL OF KCC READS EDITORIAL STAFF: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Maureen E. Fadem | English SECTION EDITORS: LAYOUT: Irina Pistsov | KCC Graphic Artist ARTWORK: Madeline Sorel | Art PHOTOGRAPHY: Farin Kautz | KCC Graduate, Class of ‘12 Niaz Mosharraf | KCC Graduate, Class of ‘14 Catherine McConney | KCC Graduate, Class of ‘15 ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Jay Bernstein | Library Kevicha Echols | Health JoAnne Meyers | Office of Communications & Gov’t Relations Robert Schacter | Office of the Associate Provost Diana Treglia | Health ASSISTANT EDITORS: Robert Gutenmakher | KCC Student Jamila Wallace | KCC Student EDITORIAL STATEMENT: PAIDEIA: The Journal of KCC Reads is the annual publication of the common reading program at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. The journal publishes work on adopted common reading texts by students of the college. Given that the program’s first priority is student enrichment, all KCC students are welcome to submit work for publication. We consider any work completed by a student of the college, at any level, as long as it engages the current year’s common reading text in a thoughtful way that contributes meaningfully to the conversation on the book. In the main, work published in Paideia will have been presented at the annual KCC Reads Annual Student Conference, held each year in the Spring semester and featuring scholarship by hundreds of students in various formats and from multiple disciplinary standpoints. KCC Reads is part of the Coordinated Undergraduate Education Initiative (CUE) at Kingsborough, overseen by Associate Provost Dr. Reza Fakhari (room M-386 | 718-368-5029). PAIDEIA The Journal of KCC Reads Volume 3 | Fall 2015 PAIDEIA IS THE ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF KCC READS, THE COMMON READING PROGRAM AT KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | CUNY KCC READS IS PART OF THE COORDINATED UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION INITIATIVE (CUE) AT KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OVERSEEN BY ASSOCIATE PROVOST DR. REZA FAKHARI. WWW.KBCC.CUNY.EDU/KCCREADS | [email protected] CONTENTS EDITOR’S LETTER CRITICAL INTERSECTIONS: THE CAST AND CREW OF THE PROF. MAUREEN FADEM | ENGLISH ......................................5 HOT L BALTIMORE CONNECT WITH JUST KIDS ...................52 THE INAUGURAL LECTURE SEPT. 17TH, 2014 INTRODUCTION: PROF. PAUL RICCIARDI | KCC FACULTY.......53 PROF. PAUL RICCIARDI | COMMUNICATIONS & MILA MARTINEZ | KCC STUDENT, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF PERFORMING ARTS ................................................................8 ADAM ABDELIZIZ, ANGELA AUGUSTE, BRENDA PAGE, AND PATRICK JOHNSON ....................................................................53 THE FALL ADDRESS NOV. 20TH, 2014 PROFESSOR CATERINA Y. PIERRE | ART .............................13 SWANS, JOURNEYS AND JUST KIDS: KCC GRADUATES WEIGH-IN ON PATTI SMITH’S MEMOIR ..............................54 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 KCC READS CONFERENCE: INTRODUCTION: LAURA GLAZIER-SMITH | OFFICE OF JUST KIDS BY PATTI SMITH ALUMNI RELATIONS .............................................................54 MAY 4 AND 5, 2015 JOEL ALEXANDER | KCC ALUM, CLASS OF ‘11 ....................56 MARINE & ACADEMIC CENTER ROTUNDA FARIN KAUTZ | KCC ALUM, CLASS OF ‘12 ...........................56 ZANIB AHMAD | KCC ALUM, CLASS OF ‘14 .........................57 A FACULTY FORUM TEACHING ‘KCC READS’, ‘READING’ JUST KIDS.................19 “CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE”: PROF FADEM’S HONORS STUDENTS PRESENT ON INTRODUCTION: PROF. MAUREEN FADEM | ENGLISH ....... 21 INTERSECTIONS OF THE ARTIST, THE SELF AND PROFESSOR MADELINE SOREL | ART ..................................22 THE CITY IN JUST KIDS ........................................................58 JAY H. BERNSTEIN | KCC LIBRARY ......................................25 PROFESSOR JASON LEGGETT | HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY INTRODUCTION: MAUREEN FADEM | KCC FACULTY ..........59 AND POLITICAL SCIENCE .....................................................28 SANA MIAN | KCC STUDENT ................................................60 PROFESSOR PAUL RICCIARDI | COMMUNICATIONS & BILLIE JEAN DELPY | KCC STUDENT ...................................60 PERFORMING ARTS ..............................................................29 NICHOLAS MANCINI | KCC STUDENT .................................. 61 RUTH RINCHER | KCC STUDENT ..........................................62 STUDENT CONFERENCE .......................................................33 “SINCE I MADE IT HERE / I CAN MAKE IT ANYWHERE”: THE AGE OF FORCES: A MULTIMEDIA CELEBRATION DISCUSSING JUST KIDS WITH PROF FADEM’S INSPIRED BY JUST KIDS .....................................................................34 HONOR’S STUDENTS ............................................................64 INTRODUCTION: PROFESSOR D.L. ANDERSON | KCC FACULTY INTRODUCTION: WENDY CHU | LIBRARY ............................64 ANUM BAKHAR | KCC STUDENT ..........................................37 RICARDO MEDINA | KCC STUDENT ......................................66 REN WEI HE AND HAORAN LI | KCC STUDENTS ..................38 UZAIR ARSHAD | KCC STUDENT ..........................................67 REGINALD SMITH | KCC STUDENT ......................................38 GABRIELLE RIOS | KCC STUDENT ........................................69 DAVID RUBENFELD-TORRES | KCC STUDENT ....................38 JULIET FORDE | KCC STUDENT ............................................39 AMERICAN DREAMS: STUDENTS OF THE MEN’S RESOURCE JIM ELGUIRA | KCC STUDENT ..............................................40 CENTER UNPACK PATTI SMITH’S JUST KIDS .....................72 YAJAIRA CARTER | KCC STUDENT .......................................41 VARIOUS KCC STUDENT AUTHORS .....................................41 INTRODUCTION: MICHAEL P. RODRIGUEZ | THE MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER ..............................................................72 PROF. JANOWSKY’S STUDENTS EXPLORE THE CRITICAL RASHIDI ASHMAN | KCC STUDENT .....................................74 IMPLICATIONS OF PATTI SMITH’S JUST KIDS KHALID MURAD | KCC STUDENT .........................................74 PROFESSOR STEVE JANOWSKY | KCC FACULTY, AND HIS KCC STUDENTS .....................................................................42 OF RESILIENCE & HOPE: STUDENTS MEMBERS OF THE KCC READS COMMITTEE OFFER PERSONAL RESPONSES TO PROF. SOREL’S STUDENTS PRESENT: JUST KIDS .............................................................................76 ILLUSTRATING KCC READS ..................................................46 INTRODUCTION: MAUREEN FADEM | KCC FACULTY ..........76 INTRODUCTION: MADELINE SOREL | KCC FACULTY ..........46 ANNA SACERDOTE | KCC STUDENT .....................................78 SOFIA LIGNOS | KCC STUDENT ............................................48 JAMILA WALLACE | KCC STUDENT ......................................78 NICOLE JOHNSON | KCC STUDENT .....................................50 JAZMIN PREYOR | KCC STUDENT ........................................80 MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH | KCC STUDENT ..........................50 CATHERINE MCCONNEY | KCC STUDENT............................51 EXAMINING THE CRITICAL POLITICAL-LEGAL ISSUES OF PUBLIC ART WITH PROF. LEGGETT’S STUDENTS ..............82 INTRODUCTION: JASON LEGGETT | KCC FACULTY ............83 SAMANTHA SOWIZDRAL | KCC STUDENT...........................84 CODY HAYLES | KCC STUDENT ............................................84 ERIK WIGGINS | KCC STUDENT ............................................85 BREAKIN’ IT DOWN: PROF FADEM’S FALL 2015 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE STUDENTS MAKE SENSE OF JUST KIDS ...........................................................86 INTRODUCTION: KEVICHA ECHOLS | KCC FACULTY ..........87 TRISHA GUSTAVE | KCC STUDENT .......................................88 KARON THOMPSON | KCC STUDENT ..................................89 SHAHZOD SAYDALIEV | KCC STUDENT ...............................90 ANNA MAKOGON | KCC STUDENT ....................................... 91 RECEPTION CELEBRATING CINCO DE MAYO: HOSTED BY: PROF CAROL DURST-WERTHEIM & STUDENTS OF CULINARY ARTS CLASS: TAH 43, CATERING EVENT MANAGEMENT, SPRING ‘15 CAROL DURST-WERTHEIM | KCC FACULTY, AND HER KCC STUDENTS .....................................................................94 THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS, ACADEMIC YEAR 2014 - 2015: MAY 5TH, 2015 “WE ARE ALL JUST KIDS” LENNY KAYE | KEYNOTE SPEAKER ......................................98 ILLUSTRATIONS: MARIA BYLINKINA | KCC STUDENT .....................................14 SUSAN REIGER | KCC STUDENT ...........................................23 SARIF NYANGAMUKENGA | KCC STUDENT .........................24 RACHEL VAND | KCC STUDENT ............................................27 SOFIA LIGNOS | KCC STUDENT ............................................48 NICOLE JOHNSON | KCC STUDENT .....................................50 CATHERINE MCCONNEY | KCC STUDENT............................51 ELENA KAMESH | KCC STUDENT .........................................58 VANESSA FARIA | KCC STUDENT .........................................65 GARVIN GITTENS | KCC STUDENT .......................................73 FRONT COVER ART: DIMITRI MARTIROSYAN BACK COVER ART: JUSTIN TROTMAN EDITOR’S LETTER: “I learned from [Robert] that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”. ~Patti Smith, Just Kids As with the little reflective moment quoted above, we gained much this year from the wisdom contained in Just Kids by Patti Smith. We learned a lot. We talked a lot. We did a lot, on campus, in connection with Smith’s wonderful memoir slash artist how-to-guide slash LGBTQI object lesson