STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ Political Science and International Relations
Spring 2019 Semester Scheduling
A few notes for the Spring 2019 Semester:
• Don’t forget to meet with your advisor well before your registration time. Come to the meeting with a preliminary IMPORTANT schedule. Email addresses for faculty on p. 6. DATES: • Students may take either POL 401 or LAM 493 to satisfy their seminar requirement. 10/22, 11/6 • American Foreign Policy will meet Mondays from 3:30-6:20. PSIR CLUB • Don’t forget to meet with your advisor well before your SUB 414, 6:00pm. 11/22 topic: registration time. Come to the meeting with a preliminary DACA. schedule.
10/23 Internships FILM SCREENING: THE City Internships UNAFRAID 6:00pm, LC 102. See p. 2 for details. City offers Winter, Spring and Summer Programs in 9 locations:
10/24 London, Paris, New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Chicago, Los HAWK THE VOTE Angeles, Boston & San Francisco. Hasbrouck Quad, 11:00-3:00pm. See p. 4 for details. Stop by. All programs feature a series of career-readiness classes, workshops 10/25 and events centered around an internship placement at a leading TOWN HALL WITH ANTHONY DELGADO company in an industry of interest to a student. SUB Multipurpose room, 4:00pm. Sponsored by Democracy Matters. Our programs are open to students from any year and with any major, and they may choose a placement in one of 9 career fields: 10/26 UNITED NATIONS DAY Banking & Financial services; Consulting & Professional services; Human Rights at the SUNY Law & Politics; Technology & Engineering; Marketing, Advertising & Global Center. See p. 3 for details. PR; Media, Entertainment & Journalism; Art, Fashion & Design; Start-ups & Entrepreneurship; Charities, NFPs & NGOs. 11/1 WHAT’S AT STAKE? Election talk, Honors Center, Check them out online: https://city-internships.com/apply 4-6pm. See p. 2 for details.
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Screenings The Unafraid
The Amnesty International Student Group and the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program invite you to to the screening of the documentary The Unafraid. The documentary follows three immigrant students and their struggles to get a college education in the US. This is an amazing opportunity for everybody to engage in a very important conversation. A panel discussion follows the film.
Tuesday October 23 6:00pm LC 102
Talks 10 Critical Issues in Next Month’s Election
The Departments of Sociology, Political Science, and the SUNY New Paltz chapter of Democracy Matters present What's At Stake For You? 10 Critical Issues in this Election & Beyond Joan Mandle Democracy Matters Thursday, November 1 4:30-6:00pm Honors Center Light refreshments will be served
Join Joan Mandle in a talk discussing key issues in this election cycle and beyond, including climate change, the rising cost of college, corporate power, gun violence, big money in politics, DREAMers, the state of our democracy, and more. Explore the power of students to change our country and our world!
Dr. Mandle is Executive Director of Democracy Matters and Professor Emerita of Sociology at Colgate University.
Democracy Matters is a non-partisan campus-based national student organization that works to get big private money out of politics and people back in.
Made possible with funding from Campus Auxiliary Services
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The Big City United Nations Day: Human Rights, Close To Home
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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS NEWPALTZ.EDU/POLISCI QUICK FIX 22 OCTOBER 2018 Talks Mapping Police Violence
SAM SINYANGWE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 MAPPING 6 p.m. | LECTURE CENTER 100 POLICEVIOLENCE (to date) It’s not about crime. 2018: Police killed 852 people. Buffalo, NY Orlando, FL 2017: Police killed 1,147 people.* VIOLENT CRIME RATE 12 PER 100k VIOLENT CRIME RATE 9 PER 100k There were ONLY 14 DAYS in 2017 people people where police did not kill someone. 0shot 15shot and killed by Buffalo police and killed by Orlando police Black people are most likely to be 2013–2016 2013–2016 killed by police. There is no accountability. of cases in 2015 have not resulted in any officer(s) involved 3x 99% being convicted of a crime. more likely than white people Police killings per 1 million population NO CRIMINAL CHARGES OFFICER(S) CHARGED OFFICER(S) CONVICTED
Sam Sinyangwe is a data scientist, social analyst, Where you live matters. and co-founder of We the Protesters who works with communities of color to fight systemic racism through Black men are 7 times more cutting-edge policies and strategies. As protests emerged likely to be killed by police in in the wake of 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Oklahoma than Georgia. Ferguson, MO, he connected with Ferguson activists 7x DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie, and Brittany Packnett to develop policy solutions to address police violence in America. Together, they co-founded Mapping Police of the 100 largest U.S. city police departments kill Violence, a research collaborative focused upon collecting comprehensive higher rates data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in black men at than the U.S. murder rate. communities, and Campaign Zero, a platform to advance 13 data-driven solutions to end police violence. Sam grew up in Orlando, FL, and has been involved MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE in community organizing and advocacy since he was in is supported by funds from Friends of The Benjamin Center and the College of Liberal Arts & high school. He graduated from Stanford University in Sciences. This event is co-sponsored by the Resident Hall Student Association, the SUNY 2012 where he studied how race and racism impact the New Paltz Educational Opportunity Program and the Diversity & Inclusion Council, Student Affairs, and the Departments of Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology. U.S. political system.
All data captured 10/12/18. mappingpoliceviolence.org
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Department Where to find people.
Name Email Office
Benjamin, Gerald [email protected] HAB 704
Dowley, Kathleen [email protected] JFT 920
Kassop, Nancy [email protected] JFT 812
Lefkowitz, Joel [email protected] JFT 400
Lipson, Daniel [email protected] JFT 810
Mauceri, Phillip [email protected] JFT 314
Miller, Jeff [email protected] JFT 816
Minkoff, Scott [email protected] JFT 320
Ozler, Ilgu [email protected] JFT 912
Pampinella, Stephen [email protected] JFT 902
Schwartz, Jonathan [email protected] JFT 1016
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