DOCSLIB.ORG

Students Learn What It Means to Be a Leader

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Students Learn What It Means to Be a Leader VOL. 26... NO. 4 TORCHBCC.COM DECEMBER 2017 Missed Connection: WiFi and Service Issues Remain JEREMY NIFRAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER Across Bergen Community College, students are always connected — whether it be for leisurely activities, such as using social media and watching Netflix, or for educational purposes, such as typing an important paper on Google Docs, or checking Moodle for class assignments. In addition, many students call and text each other on a daily B-Wing basis for a variety of reasons. Beautification In the information age, the constant use of the internet and wireless communication is pg 2 a way of life around campus, which makes the growing issue of poor Wi-Fi and cell service much more problematic. The lack of cell service is most apparent in the college’s oldest building, Ender Hall. Itamar Mahal, a student at Bergen who takes a government course at Ender Hall, views the building as a “dead zone” for service. :[\KLU[ZVM[LUZ[Y\NNSL[VÄUKYLSPHISLPU[LYUL[HJJLZZVUJHTW\Z1LYLT`5PMYHZ “The service in [Ender] is the school], you start to lose cell When I do, it’s very slow, and provider you have, whether it never sustained, and we lose service. I know for a fact that I think something needs to be be Verizon, AT&T or others,” it all the time,” Mahal says. around the registration area, improved,” said Ribeiro. Beebe said. “The school needs to install there’s barely any reception Tyler Beebe, the Technical According to Beebe, something to change that over there,” said Kadesh. Systems Manager in Bergen’s Verizon has been working around here.” Hudson Ribeiro, a student IT department, said the to improve the cell service Ben Kadesh, another who frequently comes to the problem with cell service at the Pitkin Center building Measurements student at Bergen, has Pitkin Center library to study, is mostly the fault of the and presumably, Ender Hall. experienced service issues, believes changes need to be providers. He suggests that anyone who of Success even at the main Pitkin made to solve these issues. “We don’t provide the has service problems around Education Center. “Whenever I come here, I cell service on campus, and campus should contact their The further you go [into can almost never get service. it would depend on what provider. pg. 6 *65;05<,+657(., StudentsCHARLIE LEPPERT Learn What It Means to be a Leader LAYOUT EDITOR Early in the morning capabilities, and patience, of Saturday, November 11, forcing them to work as a students boarded a bus at team to accomplish their goals Bergen Community College and respect all of the possible and drove out to Hands In 4 solutions presented by their Youth’s Camp Vacamas in peers, valuable skills in all West Milford. The sprawling student leadership positions. camp is home to obstacle After the activities for the courses, a beautiful lake, and day were completed, students various gymnasiums and broke up into smaller groups to conference rooms. review what they felt they had Every year, the Office of learned that day before coming Day of Student Life offers this retreat together as a whole again to to help student leaders develop express their definitions of Transgender important skills to aid them leadership and what they had Awareness in their leadership roles. This learned. is the first year the retreat has Fritz Batista described been hosted at Camp Vacamas. leadership as “an opportunity Students began the day to help others stand out.” pg. 10 with warm-up exercises as Similarly, Greg Kahanec, a whole before being split a member of the Chess Club, into teams, engaging in team said that leadership means building exercises and trust “putting yourself aside to let exercises, such as trust falls, other succeed.” before lunch. Rafila Naveed, who works After lunch, the individual in the Office of Student Life, groups worked as teams to said he believes a leader is complete various obstacle someone “who makes the courses with both physical and whole group work.” mental challenges. One such This theme of selflessness challenge had a team lined up and cooperation as central to standing on a log, and they had leadership skills continued to line up according to various throughout the group criteria without speaking or discussions. leaving the log. Greg Fenkart, the Another required students Coordinator of Student Life, Students using the “giant skis,” an exercise in cooperation, since every- Bergen Cross to first obtain a tire swing quoted Professor Win Win one on them must move in sync to move them at all. This was just one from the center of a zip line Kyi, the Faculty Advisor to Phi of many team-building exercises. // Erick Moreno Country Finishes where it was suspended, then Theta Kappa Honors Society, them invaluable skills of Student Life and Conduct Strong send each individual team who says “We have two ears leadership and cooperation who advised students that “If member across the zip line to and one mouth, so we should to their leadership positions there is anything you bring the other side of the course listen twice as much as we on campus as well as their back with you today let it be pg. 20 without touching the ground. speak.” everyday lives. a new friend, a new skill, and These obstacles challenged As students took the bus The takeaway from the day all those little things you bring the students’ problem- back to Bergen’s Paramus was probably best summarized with you.” solving abilities, cooperative campus, they brought with by Rachel Lerner, Dean of DREAMers Defend Stress Free Week at DACA Bergen pg. 4 pg. 3 2 EWS N THE TORCH VOLUME 26 ISSUE 4 DECEMBER 2017 NEWS BCCYOO RA KIM Secretary Beautifies B-Wing CONTRIBUTING WRITER If anyone had classes in the B-Wing prior to the spring semester, they would know that the hallway lacked a certain pizazz. Sandra Haan, Secretary of the Mathematics department, has taken the necessary steps to make the B-wing look more lively. There were plenty of plants and pieces of artwork placed around the hallway that made a world of difference. The artwork mostly features scenes from nature, but it is an overall diverse collection. Haan’s daughter helped to contribute some of the paintings. The paintings depict serene surroundings that fill the viewer with peace. Who wouldn’t want to feel a sense of peace on their way to class? Then, there’s the B-wing conference room, which used to have rusting filing cabinets and drab curtains, but both of those pieces of furniture are long gone. They have been replaced by a stunning array of African violets and :VTLYLJLU[PTWYV]LTLU[ZVU[OL[OPYKÅVVY@VV9H2PT a thoughtfully decorated bookshelf. incense sticks and a convenient shelving her job. The next time you walk down the Anyone holding a conference in this unit to put purses or bags on spruced up And who could forget the polished B-Wing, make sure to check out the room will definitely notice the positive the otherwise unaesthetic bathroom. bulletin boards? There’s colorful paper lovely decorations. The difference is change in the environment. When asked why she chose to framing, the posters and advertisements subtle, but makes the environment The faculty bathroom in the B-wing undertake this project, Haan simply on the boards which gives them more much more visually pleasing and has experienced some minor renovations said, “I just wanted the hall to look a of a pop. Not to mention, they don’t overall increased the quality of the as well. The addition of wall decals, bit nicer.” She certainly accomplished look messy from too much clutter. hallway. Bergen Internet Connection Issues “IT isn’t in charge of the cell *65;05<,+-9647(., service; that’s mostly up to the cell He says these students resort to using phone providers. If the providers get their own hotspots or data because they enough feedback from customers about don’t know how to connect to the WiFi problems at Ender Hall, they can reach network. out to us and say ‘We’d like to do “I know some of my ESL students some work on the building;’ and that aren’t aware of how to connect to the it’s worth putting a new cell site over network to begin with,” Karahan says. there,” said Beebe. “Someone should put up a poster Aside from the concerns over around the school that instructs how cellphone service, the Bergen Wi-Fi to connect using their Bergen portal network has also had its own share of accounts. This way, it saves them time complaints and issues. Many students and effort. If you were to walk into the around campus have complained of ESL class and ask around if they’re connectivity issues during the busiest connected to the Wi-Fi, 80 percent hours on campus, which could most would say ‘no.’” likely be attributed to the large amount He continued to say that many ESL of traffic on the network. students require Wi-Fi to finish their “During different times of the homework, as they cannot complete day we have a lot of users. We nearly their work on their own and frequently doubled our bandwidth in the past require assistance. year,” Beebe claims. “The more people Karahan said, “Sometimes ESL stream video, watch Netflix, and play students need help and can’t work on games, the more bandwidth will be grammar-dependent work, such as used. At this point, it’s very rare that essays, on their own without having to we max out […] if that does happen, it go the library.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • FULL-PAGE NY TIMES AD DEMANDS ANTIFA REVOLUTION to OVERTHROW TRUMP Coup Against Trump Ad Appears in NY Times’ National Edition
    THE ALEX JONES RADIO SHOW LISTEN NOW WATCH NOW WATCH LIVE BREAKING STORE FULL-PAGE NY TIMES AD DEMANDS ANTIFA REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW TRUMP Coup against Trump ad appears in NY Times’ national edition Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - NOVEMBER 1, 2017 2332 Comments The New York Times published a full-page ad calling for a “revolution” to overthrow President Trump on Nov. 4. The ad, which appears near the front of the newspaper’s national edition, demands nationwide protests that won’t stop until the Trump administration is “driven from power.” “Join with the thousands who will gather in cities and towns across the country,” reads the ad. “A movement of protests that continue every day and night, growing until we become millions… determined now to stop until this regime is driven from power.” The ad was written by Refuse Fascism, a communist group funded by George Soros which took responsibility for shutting down a conservative event hosting journalist Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley in Feb. #Antifa buys a full page ad in @nytimes calling for overthrow of Trump! MSM says this doesn’t exist. #Nov4 #msmFAIL pic.twitter.com/I47cNsCmE2 pic.twitter.com/I47cNsCmE2 — Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 1, 2017 It’s ironic how the Times, which operates under the press protections guaranteed by the First Amendment, sold ad space to a group which bragged about denying First Amendment rights to a journalist. The Times was already under fire for its bias against the Trump administration as revealed by a series of sting videos produced by Project Veritas, which caught the newspaper’s editors discussing how they help set up the media’s anti-Trump narrative.
    [Show full text]
  • Libertarian Marxism Mao-Spontex Open Marxism Popular Assembly Sovereign Citizen Movement Spontaneism Sui Iuris
    Autonomist Marxist Theory and Practice in the Current Crisis Brian Marks1 University of Arizona School of Geography and Development [email protected] Abstract Autonomist Marxism is a political tendency premised on the autonomy of the proletariat. Working class autonomy is manifested in the self-activity of the working class independent of formal organizations and representations, the multiplicity of forms that struggles take, and the role of class composition in shaping the overall balance of power in capitalist societies, not least in the relationship of class struggles to the character of capitalist crises. Class composition analysis is applied here to narrate the recent history of capitalism leading up to the current crisis, giving particular attention to China and the United States. A global wave of struggles in the mid-2000s was constituitive of the kinds of working class responses to the crisis that unfolded in 2008-10. The circulation of those struggles and resultant trends of recomposition and/or decomposition are argued to be important factors in the balance of political forces across the varied geography of the present crisis. The whirlwind of crises and the autonomist perspective The whirlwind of crises (Marks, 2010) that swept the world in 2008, financial panic upon food crisis upon energy shock upon inflationary spiral, receded temporarily only to surge forward again, leaving us in a turbulent world, full of possibility and peril. Is this the end of Neoliberalism or its retrenchment? A new 1 Published under the Creative Commons licence: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Autonomist Marxist Theory and Practice in the Current Crisis 468 New Deal or a new Great Depression? The end of American hegemony or the rise of an “imperialism with Chinese characteristics?” Or all of those at once? This paper brings the political tendency known as autonomist Marxism (H.
    [Show full text]
  • 2016 International Artist Exchanges' Creative
    Photo: Laura Chichisan Why Support International Exchange among Artists? A Decade of Tracking the Economic, Cultural and Social Benefits of Doing So TransCultural Exchange’s Conferences on International Opportunities in the Arts Economic Impact Analysis and Program Evaluation 1 Why Support International Exchange among Artists? A Decade of Tracking the Economic, Cultural and Social Benefits of Doing So ______________________________________________________ Evaluation Staff Submitted by Carol Van Zandt/Mary Sherman Layout Carol Van Zandt/Siyi Yang Previous Surveys’ Research and Editing Support by Marie Costello, Tanya Gruenberger, Lindsay Ladner, Fahrin Zaman Online Survey Tool and Methodology Developed for TransCultural Exchange: Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth TransCultural Exchange would like to thank the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston Cultural Council and National Endowment for the Arts for the funding to help produce this publication. Correspondence and inquiries should be addressed to: TransCultural Exchange The Artist Building at 300 Summer Street, #36 Boston, Massachusetts, 02210 617.670.0307 [email protected] 2 TransCultural Exchange’s Conferences on International Opportunities in the Arts Economic Impact Analysis and Program Evaluation Table of Contents FORWARD p.6 1.00 INTRODUCTION p.10 1.10 SUMMARY 2.00 ECONOMIC IMPACT AND SURVEY EVALUATION p.30 2.10 Methodology 2.11 Process Evaluation 2.12 Survey Evaluation 3.00 ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS p.32 3.10 Overview 3.11
    [Show full text]
  • Poison and Revenge in Seventeenth Century English Drama
    "Revenge Should Have No Bounds": Poison and Revenge in Seventeenth Century English Drama The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Woodring, Catherine. 2015. "Revenge Should Have No Bounds": Poison and Revenge in Seventeenth Century English Drama. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463987 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA “Revenge should have no bounds”: Poison and Revenge in Seventeenth Century English Drama A dissertation presented by Catherine L. Reedy Woodring to The Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of English Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts May 2015 © 2015 – Catherine L. Reedy Woodring All rights reserved. Professor Stephen Greenblatt Catherine L. Reedy Woodring “Revenge should have no bounds”: Poison and Revenge in Seventeenth Century English Drama Abstract The revenge- and poison- filled tragedies of seventeenth century England astound audiences with their language of contagion and disease. Understanding poison as the force behind epidemic disease, this dissertation considers the often-overlooked connections between stage revenge and poison. Poison was not only a material substance bought from a foreign market. It was the subject of countless revisions and debates in early modern England. Above all, writers argued about poison’s role in the most harrowing epidemic disease of the period, the pestilence, as both the cause and possible cure of this seemingly contagious disease.
    [Show full text]
  • DRIVE out the TRUMP/PENCE REGIME! the Trump/Pence Regime Is a Fascist Regime
    A Call to Action: In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a NO! Fascist America! DRIVE OUT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME! The Trump/Pence Regime is a Fascist Regime. Not insult or exaggeration, this is what it is. For the future of humanity and the planet, we, the people, must drive this regime out. Donald Trump and Mike Pence have assembled a vicious cabal that has put forth positions and begun initiatives which demonstrate that they fully intend to shred political and social norms with catastrophic consequence. Because Trump has his finger on the nuclear trigger, the Trump/Pence Regime is more dangerous to the world than even Hitler. Fascism has direction and momentum. Dissent is piece by piece criminalized. The truth is bludgeoned. Group after group is demonized and targeted along a trajectory that leads to real horrors. All of this has already begun under the Trump Regime. History has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late. Millions of people, outraged by this regime, took to the streets delivering a stinging rebuke to Trump the day after the inauguration. Protest and resistance continues against the many attacks on the people by the Trump/Pence administration. This must grow broader, deeper, and more determined. This resistance is righteous and necessary, but it is not sufficient. We must recognize that the character of fascism is that it can absorb separate acts of resistance while continually throwing the opposition off balance by rapidly moving its agenda forward. The Trump/ Pence Regime will repeatedly launch new highly repressive measures, eventually clamping down on all resistance and remaking the law… IF THEY ARE NOT DRIVEN FROM POWER.
    [Show full text]
  • Ray Kurzweil Reader Pdf 6-20-03
    Acknowledgements The essays in this collection were published on KurzweilAI.net during 2001-2003, and have benefited from the devoted efforts of the KurzweilAI.net editorial team. Our team includes Amara D. Angelica, editor; Nanda Barker-Hook, editorial projects manager; Sarah Black, associate editor; Emily Brown, editorial assistant; and Celia Black-Brooks, graphics design manager and vice president of business development. Also providing technical and administrative support to KurzweilAI.net are Ken Linde, systems manager; Matt Bridges, lead software developer; Aaron Kleiner, chief operating and financial officer; Zoux, sound engineer and music consultant; Toshi Hoo, video engineering and videography consultant; Denise Scutellaro, accounting manager; Joan Walsh, accounting supervisor; Maria Ellis, accounting assistant; and Don Gonson, strategic advisor. —Ray Kurzweil, Editor-in-Chief TABLE OF CONTENTS LIVING FOREVER 1 Is immortality coming in your lifetime? Medical Advances, genetic engineering, cell and tissue engineering, rational drug design and other advances offer tantalizing promises. This section will look at the possibilities. Human Body Version 2.0 3 In the coming decades, a radical upgrading of our body's physical and mental systems, already underway, will use nanobots to augment and ultimately replace our organs. We already know how to prevent most degenerative disease through nutrition and supplementation; this will be a bridge to the emerging biotechnology revolution, which in turn will be a bridge to the nanotechnology revolution. By 2030, reverse-engineering of the human brain will have been completed and nonbiological intelligence will merge with our biological brains. Human Cloning is the Least Interesting Application of Cloning Technology 14 Cloning is an extremely important technology—not for cloning humans but for life extension: therapeutic cloning of one's own organs, creating new tissues to replace defective tissues or organs, or replacing one's organs and tissues with their "young" telomere-extended replacements without surgery.
    [Show full text]
  • The Subjectivity of Revenge: Senecan Drama and the Discovery of the Tragic in Kyd and Shakespeare
    THE SUBJECTIVITY OF REVENGE: SENECAN DRAMA AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRAGIC IN KYD AND SHAKESPEARE JORDICORAL D.PHIL THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND RELATED LITERATURE SEPTEMBER 2001 But all the time life, always one and the same, always incomprehensibly keeping its identity, fills the universe and is renewed at every moment in innumerable combinations and metamorphoses. You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you have risen already - you rose from the dead when you were born and you didn't notice it. Will you feel pain? Do the tissues feel their disintegration? In other words, what will happen to your consciousness. But what is consciousness? Let's see. To try consciously to go to sleep is a sure way of having insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a beam of light directed outwards, it lights up the way ahead of us so that we do not trip up. It's like the head-lamps on a railway engine - if you turned the beam inwards there would be a catastrophe. 'So what will happen to your consciousness? Your consciousness, yours, not anybody else's. Well, what are you? That's the crux of the matter. Let's try to find out. What is it about you that you have always known as yourself? What are you conscious of in yourself? Your kidneys? Your liver? Your blood vessels? - No.
    [Show full text]
  • The Singularity Is Near Vsnk$All.Qxd 7/7/05 11:16 AM Page Ii
    vsnk$all.qxd 7/7/05 11:16 AM Page i The Singularity Is Near vsnk$all.qxd 7/7/05 11:16 AM Page ii ALSO BY RAY KURZWEIL The Age of Intelligent Machines The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (with Terry Grossman, M.D.) vsnk$all.qxd 7/7/05 11:16 AM Page iii RAY KURZWEIL The Singularity Is Near VIKING vsnk$all.qxd 7/7/05 11:16 AM Page iv VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi–110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2005 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 10987654321 Copyright © Ray Kurzweil, 2005 All rights reserved Photograph on p.
    [Show full text]
  • Thinking Between Heidegger and Dōgen
    echoes of no thing Before you start to read this book, take this moment to think about making a donation to punctum books, an independent non-profit press, @ https://punctumbooks.com/support/ If you’re reading the e-book, you can click on the image below to go directly to our donations site. Any amount, no matter the size, is appreciated and will help us to keep our ship of fools afloat. Contri- butions from dedicated readers will also help us to keep our commons open and to cultivate new work that can’t find a welcoming port elsewhere. Our ad- venture is not possible without your support. Vive la Open Access. Fig. 1. Hieronymus Bosch, Ship of Fools (1490–1500) echoes of no thing: thinking between heidegger and dōgen. Copyright © 2018 by Nico Jenkins. This work carries a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, which means that you are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and you may also remix, transform and build upon the material, as long as you clearly attribute the work to the authors (but not in a way that suggests the authors or punctum books endorses you and your work), you do not use this work for commercial gain in any form whatsoever, and that for any remixing and transformation, you distribute your rebuild under the same license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ First published in 2018 by punctum books, Earth, Milky Way. https://punctumbooks.com ISBN-13: 978-1-950192-01-4 (print) ISBN-13: 978-1-950192-02-1 (ePDF) lccn: 2018968574 Library of Congress Cataloging Data is available from the Library of Congress Book design: Vincent W.J.
    [Show full text]
  • LGBTQ+ GUIDE to COMIC-CON@HOME 2021 Compiled by Andy Mangels Edited by Ted Abenheim Collage Created by Sean (PXLFORGE) Brennan
    LGBTQ+ GUIDE TO COMIC-CON@HOME 2021 Compiled by Andy Mangels Edited by Ted Abenheim Collage created by Sean (PXLFORGE) Brennan Character Key on pages 3 and 4 Images © Respective Publishers, Creators and Artists Prism logo designed by Chip Kidd PRISM COMICS is an all-volunteer, nonprofit 501c3 organization championing LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion in comics and popular media. Founded in 2003, Prism supports queer and LGBTQ-friendly comics professionals, readers, educators and librarians through its website, social networking, booths and panel presentations at conventions. Prism Comics also presents the annual Prism Awards for excellence in queer comics in collaboration with the Queer Comics Expo and The Cartoon Art Museum. Visit us at prismcomics.org or on Facebook - facebook.com/prismcomics WELCOME We miss conventions! We miss seeing comics fans, creators, pros, panelists, exhibitors, cosplayers and the wonderful Comic-Con staff. You’re all family, and we hope everyone had a safe and productive 2020 and first half of 2021. In the past year and a half we’ve seen queer, BIPOC, AAPI and other marginalized communities come forth with strength, power and pride like we have not seen in a long time. In the face of hate and discrimination we at Prism stand even more strongly for the principles of diversity and equality on which the organization was founded. We stand with the Black, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latinx, Transgender communities and People of Color - LGBTQ+ and allies - in advocating for inclusion and social justice. Comics, graphic novels and arts are very powerful mediums for marginalized voices to be heard.
    [Show full text]
  • Here Has Been a Marked Uptick in White Nationalist Activity in the National Sphere
    FFRROOMM SSTTUUDDEENNTT PPOOLLIITTIICCSS TTOO CCAAPPIITTOOLL IINNSSUURRRREECCTTIIOONN THE INTENSIFICATION OF EXTREMISM AT UCLA AND BEYOND From Student Politics to Capitol Insurrection: The Intensification of Extremism at UCLA and Beyond Grace Johnston-Glick and James Nee (National); Lacy Green and Gavin Quan (State); Brandon Broukhim and Talla Khelghati (UCLA) Edited by Erin Onarecker With support from David N. Myers, Maia Ferdman, and Ann Major March 2021 This report is a follow-up to the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy report from November 2019 All is Not Well in the Golden State: The Scourge of White Nationalism in Southern California Preface In June 2020, the Luskin Center for History and Policy released a report “All is Not Well in the Golden State: The Scourge of White Nationalism in Southern California.” Produced by a team of undergraduate researchers from UCLA, the report provided extensive background to and mapping of the rise of extreme white nationalist activity in the region and state. Since the release of that report, there has been a marked uptick in white nationalist activity in the national sphere. The tumultuous final month of the Trump presidency, especially prompted by the false claim of a stolen election and culminating in the January 6 Capitol assault, pushed from the margins to the center of public attention a loose coalition of far-right actors, often motivated by conspiracy theories such as QAnon, some of whom are intent on violent insurrection. The highly polarized political climate—and even extremist expressions—have now made their way to college campuses in the United States, including to UCLA.
    [Show full text]
  • The Myth of Timethe Beginning Of
    the myth of TimeThe Beginning of By Gabriele Veneziano COPYRIGHT 2004 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. String theory suggests that the BIG BANG was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state Was the big bang really the beginning of time Or did the universe exist before then? Such a question seemed almost blasphemous only a decade ago. Most cosmologists insisted that it simply made no sense—that to con-? template a time before the big bang was like asking for directions to a place north of the North Pole. But developments in theoretical physics, especially the rise of string theo- ry, have changed their perspective. The pre-bang universe has become the latest fron- tier of cosmology. The new willingness to consider what might have happened before the bang is the lat- est swing of an intellectual pendulum that has rocked back and forth for millennia. In one form or another, the issue of the ultimate beginning has engaged philosophers and theologians in nearly every culture. It is entwined with a grand set of concerns, one fa- mously encapsulated in an 1897 painting by Paul Gauguin: D’ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous? “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” The piece depicts the cycle of birth, life and death—origin, identity and destiny for each individual—and these personal concerns connect directly to cosmic ones. We can trace our lineage back through the generations, back through our animal ancestors, to early forms of life and protolife, to the elements synthesized in the primordial universe, to the amorphous energy deposited in space before that.
    [Show full text]