Slideshow: Foley remodel makes room for events and memories
Pieces of political history are on display at the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service, thanks to recently completed renovations and additions.
CAS in the Media
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Prof invited to address national green chemistry conference
Faculty member Mark Stephan will speak this week at the 17th annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C. He was invited, in part, due to attention received as co-author of the award-winning book, “Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance.”
In Memoriam
Robert Owen “Bob” Johnson, 86, professor emeritus of English at WSU, passed away on June 3, 2013, at Bishop Place in Pullman. Alexander Hammond, also emeritus in the Department of English, expressed fond memories of Johnson’s welcoming him to the department in 1975 and of Johnson’s administrative support for the American Studies program, his bibliographical scholarship on the New Yorker magazine, and his “wicked play in the department’s poker game.”
Calculating Crimes
Perceptions of crime are shaped by a combination of personal experience and the media, says Michael Gaffney, associate director of the Division of Governmental Studies and Services at Washington State University.
A sense of imperiled whiteness
Richard King, professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies, says III Citadel — a walled city which may be built this summer in northern Idaho’s Benewah County — “fits a long pattern among Patriots, neo-Nazis, sovereigns and those with antigovernment agendas to prize the Pacific Northwest as an ideal location to escape from modern America.”
Quoted in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, Dr. King said that those lured by III Citadel may be experiencing “a sense of an endangered way of life, anchored in a sense of imperiled whiteness, especially as inflected by class, gender and sexuality.”