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The Southern Quarterly recently published a special issue devoted to the work of Natasha Trethewey, US Poet Laureate and member of Southern Spaces's editorial board. As Southern Quarterly editor Philip C. Kolin notes, at forty-seven, Trethewey is "the youngest writer to have a special issue [of the journal] focused on her achievements."1 In an essay eulogizing the poet Seamus Heaney, Trethewey describes feeling a "calling to make sense of my South, with its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2 signaling how the southern and spatial contexts in which she grew up inform the themes she engages in her writing. Guest edited by Joan Wylie Hall, the Southern Quarterly special issue addresses themes of history, race, place, memory, and intertextuality through poems, an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays.
Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey that have previously appeared in publications in our journal. This special issue complements scholarship published in Southern Spaces analyzing Trethewey's life and work, including Jake Adam York's 2010 interview with Trethewey, and Coleman Hutchison's presentation "Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism," which charts how Trethewey and poets Elizabeth Alexander and C. S. Giscombe "conceive of, interrogate, and then steadfastly refuse the concept of the postracial in and for a post-emancipation society."3 Former Southern Spaces managing editor Katie Rawson compiled a bibliography of Trethewey's extensive contributions to our journal in a post congratulating Trethewey on her appointment as US Poet Laureate.
Copies of the special issue of the Southern Quarterly on Natasha Trethewey (volume 50, number 4) are available and may be ordered by following the instructions on the journal's "Order Back Issues" page. The journal has published the Natasha Trethewey issue's table of contents and introductions from the journal's editor and the special issue's guest editor on its website.
- 1. Philip C. Kolin, "Editor's Introduction: The Triple Crown," The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 5, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504edintro.pdf.
- 2. Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest Editor's Introduction: 'The Necessary Utterance'—Natasha Trethewey's Southern Poetics," The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 7, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504guestedintro.pdf.
- 3. Coleman Hutchison, "Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism," Southern Spaces, December 25, 2012, http://southernspaces.org/2012/three-poems-and-critique-postracialism.
"I'm tired of these categories." —Patricia Yaeger1
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who received a PhD in economics from Harvard University, asks, "How many American men are gay?" While this question is notoriously difficult to answer in any definitive way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz still finds a "consistent story" that suggests at least 5 percent of American men are "predominately" attracted to other men. Millions of these "gay men," he goes on to say, still live in the closet, and many, the "evidence suggests," are married to women.2
The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can be categorized, numbered, and made intelligible forms part of what Michel Foucault, in his History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, called the "deployment of sexuality."3 The "truth" of sex for Foucault is not found in individual identity; instead he insists that we must develop an "analytics" that views power as diffuse and capillary, refusing the perhaps too-easy notion that a power over sex can be wielded via a conquering "liberation" or dominating "affirmation" of one's own knowable, classifiable sexuality.4
|Participants march in the 2009 Memphis, Tennessee gay pride parade. Photograph by Debbie Ramone. Courtesy of Debbie Ramone.
Stephens-Davidowitz's Times opinion piece (and the larger work it suggests) explicitly places sexuality within this framework of exposure, intelligibility, and liberation that Foucault problematized. Stephens-Davidowitz returns us to the closet so that we may link hands with those who experience a "secret suffering" that "can be directly attributed to intolerance of [their] homosexuality" and walk with them into more tolerant climes and locales.5 The majority of these "secret" sufferers live in intolerant states, which according to Nate Silver, nearly all fall neatly below the Mason-Dixon line. The bottom six states, the "least tolerant," in descending order, are South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Of the twenty-three states listed as above the national average of "tolerance," not one is in the South.6 In more tolerant states, "the openly gay population is dramatically higher." Yet, these "less tolerant states" or "intolerant areas" prevent what Stephens-Davidowitz finds implicitly possible: a "perfectly tolerant world" in which a neat 5 percent of men could say they are "interested in men," which of course is different from saying they openly identify as "gay." Stephens-Davidowitz finds no reason to believe there are fewer gay-inclined men in less tolerant states, but there are "far fewer openly gay men," and therefore, "there is a clear relationship between tolerance and openness" about one's sexuality.7
Stephens-Davidowitz buys into a narrative with a history. Mississippi has long been described with an array of debasing superlatives, consistently occupying the proverbial bottom rung of the ladder in our national obsession with rankings. Writing in 1931, H. L. Mencken and Charles Angoff labeled Mississippi the "worst" American state; in 2014, Politico writer Margaret Slattery echoed this line of thought, implicitly labeling Mississippi both the "worst" and the "weakest" state in her ranking of the fifty US states from weakest to strongest. (Slattery even gives us a formula: "1 = Best.").8 The strongest state, Massachusetts, is ironically the most "fabulous" state, while Mississippi, most intolerant, is far from fabulous; it is, Slattery writes, a "failed" state. According to both Silver and Stephens-Davidowitz, Mississippi has failed the tolerance test; it is the most intolerant, the least fabulous, and therefore the most "closed." Despite a recent Daily Show segment, in which an incognito gay couple elicited surprisingly tolerant and enthusiastic (some might even say fabulous) reactions from some Alabama and Mississippi residents, Deep South states like Mississippi continue to be figured as containing the most occupied closets with doors shut.9
|Screenshot from The Daily Show segment "Last Gay Standing," 2013.
Nowhere is this association of Mississippi with intolerance more problematic than the final turn of Stephens-Davidowitz's piece, when he "get[s] tired of looking at aggregate data" and talks with a real person, an unnamed retired Mississippi professor in his sixties who "has always known he was attracted to men" but has remained in a sexless marriage to a woman for forty years. This professor, however, did at least once sleep with a male student of his in his late twenties.10 The assumption Stephens-Davidowitz makes here is that this sixty-year-old man cannot live his life openly because he is trapped in a place of intolerance. Place becomes the diagnosed pathology. In his attempt to classify and order gay men, he fails to analyze the fact that place is only one factor in the power grid that determines what is tolerated and what is not: in his neat map of the United States's tolerance, where is an analysis or mention of gender dynamics, age and generational differences, race, class, educational and healthcare disparities, and, perhaps most glaringly, religious beliefs? Where is a discussion of intersectionality? Stephens-Davidowitz's final scene leaves one very strong desire unexamined: what of the student in his late twenties in Mississippi who slept with his older professor? Does he feel trapped in his Mississippi-closet?
To open our eyes to the realities of Mississippi beyond "aggregate data" and shed some light on that twenty-year-old gay man's reality, let us return to the University. On October 1, 2013, a University of Mississippi performance of Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project 11 garnered national attention when unidentified audience members uttered homophobic comments. Originally exposed in the university's Daily Mississippian, national media outlets picked up the story as another example of Mississippi's intolerance. As an alumnus of the university, I can attest that Meek Auditorium, where the performance took place, is a small and intimate space—seating only 150—in which hate-speech would reverberate loudly. The actions of those audience members are inexcusable, but are they indicative of Mississippi's peculiar intolerance of homosexuality or a microcosmic snapshot of our national discomfort in directly facing the harsh realities of hate? Does such an example make Mississippi the most backward, the absolute worst?
|Stop the Hate. Bedsheet Angels march in the 2013 Atlanta Gay Pride Parade. Photograph by Nick Mickolas. Courtesy of Nick Mickolas.
Here, the University of Mississippi once again comes to serve as the testing site for our national struggle to understand the complexities of hate, the different shapes of violence, and the challenges we face as a nation continuously confronted with difference. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Chaos ensued. On October 1, 2013, the Ole Miss Theatre company performed The Laramie Project. Chaos ensued. Although the physical violence and loss of life associated with James Meredith's integration of the university during the height of the civil rights movement and the verbal violence associated with the recent Laramie performance are not to be equated, both events provoke reflective questions we must ask ourselves: in fifty one years, to the day, what has changed at the University of Mississippi? And more importantly, what has changed in how we, as a nation, think about difference and the ugly truths a hatred of difference can manifest?12 (The recent defilement and attack of a campus statue memorializing James Meredith's legacy at the university demands that such questions be discussed. Here again, the University of Mississippi serves, according to a recent New York Times article, as a testing site for "confronting a challenge with deep and difficult roots.")13
The Laramie Project and the wider story of Matthew Shepard's murder are often seen as convenient stories, neat narratives, in the teaching of prejudice and tolerance. However, Shepard's is but one of the many stories of gruesome homophobic violence in this country. All of these stories—even Matthew Shepard's—contain "raw and inchoate stuff that resists easy telling" and lack "clear beginnings and resonant endings."14 In the US South alone—those states defined as the least tolerant—a number of horrific murders attributed to LGBTQ-related hate have occurred in the last thirty years.15 Lost in attempts to locate and label sexuality, thereby freeing people from their uncomfortable closets, many are unaware of stories like these, in which LGBTQ people led open lives in the South and succumbed to hate-violence. Yet, such violence and "intolerance" are far from exclusively southern, despite what Stephens-Davidowitz's non-"ideal" sources revealed. Stephens-Davidowitz admits that intolerance is a national problem with a higher prevalence in southern states, yet his overarching narrative is another link in the chain of pathologizing southern space via flawed statistical aggregation. If we tolerate the received narrative of southern space, we neither think critically nor do justice to the stories of real people outside of often biased and imperfect data.
|Stage set for Lafayette College's 2011 Production of The Laramie Project. Photograph by Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. Courtesy of Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College.
In 2012, according to a report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), the most at risk LGBTQ populations remained transgendered persons, people of color, and gay men. Stephens-Davidowitz confines his study to "gay men," without any mention of race or gender-identification. Gay cisgender men remain the most likely to report acts of violence they have survived. As such, a 2011 FBI report indicates that of the 20.8 percent of hate crimes based on sexual orientation, 57.8 percent of those reported were classified as anti-male homosexual bias.16 The NCAVP report reiterates the 2012 UCLA Williams Institute findings that "gay men experienced higher rates of hate motivated physical violence than lesbians, bisexuals, or other federally protected groups including Black people and Jewish people."17 According to the NCAVP report, of the twenty-five reported hate violence homicides related to LGBTQ identity in 2012, only one occurred in the "deep" South: Marquita Jones was murdered near Memphis, Tennessee, the tenth most intolerant state in the country according to Silver and Stephens-Davidowitz.
Shifting the narrative requires an understanding that for every Duck Dynasty, there is a Southern Poverty Law Center, a Rethink Mississippi; for every Phil Robertson, a Jesse Peel. Hate and intolerance are neither tied to place, rooted in the soil, unyielding and unchanging, nor are they manifested solely via physical violence. We must remain aware of the complexities of prejudice's functionality: how it "works not just through the viciousness of physical violence but also through the daily erosion of selfhood by the friction of widespread, casually expressed hatred."18 The casually uttered "faggot" or "queen" or "queer" in response to a dramatic production has consequences that resonate beyond the walls of Meek Auditorium at the University of Mississippi. In isolating Mississippi, and the larger US South, as the least tolerant, we put the South on stage to be disciplined and punished. How easy it was for the Mississippi audience to isolate Matthew Shepard on a stage and re-victimize him with a slur.
|ATL, Love, graffiti in Atlanta, Georgia's Krog Street Tunnel, February 17, 2014. Photograph by Eric Solomon. From Eric Solomon.
How easy it must seem for scholars and thinkers to look at data and isolate the South as the land of intolerance: how easy it is to label the worst, the weakest, the most backward. The harder but necessary challenge is to understand and help prevent the diffuse and far-reaching consequences of homophobic violence and intolerance. The harder work is to take the lessons learned from The Laramie Project inside Meek Auditorium into Oxford, Mississippi and the world at large. To paraphrase a great man, the harder work is to understand that people aren't born hating and can learn to love.
- 1. Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), ix.
- 2. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men are Gay?," The New York Times, December 7, 2013, accessed December 9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html.
- 3. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Volume One: An Introduction (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 78. The book's title is often translated as "Volume One: An Introduction."
- 4. Ibid., 8, 82–83.
- 5. Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?"
- 6. Nate Silver, "How Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Is Changing, and What It Means," The New York Times: FiveThirtyEight blog, March 26, 2013, accessed December 9, 2013, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/how-opinion-on-same-sex-marriage-is-changing-and-what-it-means.
- 7. Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?"
- 8. Margaret Slattery, "The States of Our Union ... Are Not All Strong: We Ranked All 50 from Fabulous to Failed," Politico Magazine, January 24, 2014, accessed February 3, 2014, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/states-of-our-union-are-not-all-strong-102547.html.
- 9. Madison Underwood, "In Alabama-Mississippi 'Intolerance-off,' The Daily Show Tests Reactions to a Gay Couple, Gets Surprising Reaction (Video, Poll)," AL.com, October 30, 2013, accessed February 20, 2014, http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/10/in_alabama-mississippi_intoler.html.
- 10. Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?"
- 11. Kaufman's play, written in collaboration with the Tectonic Theater Project, details reaction to Matthew Shepard's 1998 brutal murder in Laramie, Wyoming. Combining personal interviews with town residents, journals of the theater company's members as they engaged in these interviews, and media coverage, Laramie creates a complicated portrait of how a town responds to violence, hatred, and loss.
- 12. Legislatively, some things have changed while some remain the same. As Christopher Lirette noted in an August 6 bulletin on the Southern Spaces Blog, since 2011 Baton Rouge police have unlawfully arrested at least a dozen men based upon a still-on-the-books state level sodomy law that was ruled federally unconstitutional with 2003's Lawrence v. Texas. In 2003, eight of the fourteen US states with anti-sodomy laws still on the books were in the South. Baton Rouge reveals the everyday slipperiness of archaic sodomy laws. Similarly, although the 2009 Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act became the first all-inclusive federal bill, most southern states still do not include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected identity categories in hate crime legislation.
- 13. Alan Blinder, "Racist Episodes Continue to Stir Ole Miss Campus," The New York Times, February 20, 2014, accessed February 22, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/us/racist-episodes-continue-to-stir-ole-miss-campus.html.
- 14. Beth Lofredda, Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), x.
- 15. Some of these deaths include the 1973 UpStairs Lounge attack; the bludgeoning of Billy Jack Gaither; Scotty Joe Weaver's partial decapitation; Sean W. Kennedy's beating; the murders of Marcel Tye, Duanna Johnson, Tiffany Berry, Ebony Whitaker, Brenting Dolliole, Githe Goines, and Marquita Jones; and lastly, the beating and burning of Marco McMillan in 2013. The stories of these murders, all occurring on southern soil, are indeed horrific, but they remain a few of the raw seams to a larger narrative of hate-based crimes in this country; they are painful examples, but far from representative of a particularly southern problem or the array of hate-based crimes that occur every year. For more information on hate crimes legislation, state by state, visit Lambda Legal, Human Rights Campaign, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. For information on LGBT rights in the US South and Hate and Extremism nationwide, visit the Southern Poverty Law Center. In addition, visit Robert T. Gonzalez, "An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets in America," io9, May 10, 2013, http://io9.com/an-interactive-map-of-racist-homophobic-and-ableist-tw-499908637 to view the 2013 "geography of hate" map, in which hate's spatiality seems divided along an East–West line rather than a North–South one.
- 16. "Hate Crimes Statistics 2011: Incidents and Offenses," FBI, 2011, http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2011/narratives/incidents-and-offenses.
- 17. Shelby Chestnut, Ejeris Dixon, and Chai Jindasurat, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2012 (New York: National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2013), 51, http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/ncavp_2012_hvreport_final.pdf.
- 18. Lofredda, Losing Matt Shepard, x.
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs.
|Hope, Southern Voice, November 9, 1995. Sketch of the Hope monument. Jesse R. Peel Papers, LGBT Collections, MARBL, Emory University.
"I fear it may be difficult to come up with another project which will be so full of meaning for me," gay rights activist Dr. Jesse Peel wrote in his journal The Camp Merton Chronicles in November 1995. Peel's project centered on the renovation of Atlanta's John Howell Park and a new statue to be installed in it. Titled Hope and designed by Felix de Weldon—the sculptor famous for designing the Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington DC—the planned sculpture depicted a man, woman, and child reaching for a matrix representing a cure for AIDS. The sculpture intended to memorialize those affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic that led to 573,800 reported AIDS cases in the United States between 1981 and 1996. Regarding the park renovations and the statue, Peel continued, "I have devoted heart and soul to JHP [John Howell Park] this last year and a half. We will complete the infrastructure work next spring and JHP will be ready to receive the world during the Olympics. Then in October the entire HIV/AIDS and Gay communities will come together to celebrate the installation of Hope."
In spite of the passionate efforts of Peel and his Build the Monument Foundation, the memorial never materialized due to a lack of private funding. Yet, while Atlanta has no official memorial to commemorate the struggles of the LGBT population in the wake of the AIDS pandemic, the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) at Emory University has pledged to collect historical materials that will raise awareness of the AIDS crisis and the larger history of LGBT Atlantans. One of the first acquisitions in this endeavor is Peel's manuscript collection. Originally from North Carolina, Peel moved to Atlanta in 1976 where, as a person with HIV, he experienced first-hand both the devastating effects of AIDS and the struggle of LGBT carriers to overcome persistent social stigma.
|Jesse Peel, MARBL Woodruff Room, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2012. Photograph by Bryan Meltz of Emory University Photo Video.
The Jesse R. Peel Papers chronicle his activism among the Atlanta LGBT population through personal correspondence, date books, and audiovisual materials. The backbone of the collection is Peel's personal diary, The Camp Merton Chronicles. A multi-volume work self-published locally and named for his Atlanta home, Camp Merton, it depicts Peel's experiences from the 1970s to the 2000s. The Camp Merton Chronicles is on display in Emory's Manuscript and Rare Books Library until May 16, 2014 as a part of the "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL" multimedia exhibit that includes stories and displays artifacts from the LGBT movement, including the AIDS crisis, in Atlanta.
The New Orleans-based Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most
comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history and culture. For the first time in its history, Amistad announced on December 3 that they will be adding New Orleans hip-hop and bounce music to their historic collection. "Recent donations by the NOLA Hiphop Archive and the Where They At project," Amistad's Director of Library and Reference Services, Chris Harter, says, "have placed the Center at the forefront of efforts to document and preserve materials that chronicle the development of these genres in New Orleans."1 The importance of including hip-hop and bounce in this collection, in a city where these musics are so often segregated as something different––considered unworthy of preservation or protection and support as cultural heritage––cannot be overstated.
|NOLA Hip Hop Archive logo, 2012. Image courtesy of Holly Hobbs.
The NOLA Hiphop Archive, which I founded in 2012, began as an effort to collect, document, and make publicly accessible oral histories of New Orleans' influential rappers, producers, and DJs who helped create and popularize hip-hop and bounce music traditions in the city and beyond. The collection currently consists of more than thirty videotaped interviews with the city's hip-hop and bounce artists and pioneers, including, among others, Mannie Fresh, Mystikal, Partners N Crime, Dee-1, Ricky B, DJ Raj Smoove, Keedy Black, Allie Baby, Nesby Phips, Sinista, DJ Quickie Mart, Nicky da B, DJ Rusty Lazer, and Queen Blackkold Madina, star of the Academy Award-winning Hurricane Katrina documentary, Trouble the Water.
The Amistad collection plans to be publically available and free of charge (either online or in person at Amistad) as a digital archive of oral histories in the spring of 2014. The NOLA Hiphop Archive just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund these efforts, and if successful, will allow the NOLA Hiphop Archive team to conduct further interviews, thereby adding a broader range of voices, perspectives, histories, and experiences to the collection. If funded, the archive team plans to add another thirty interviews to the Amistad collection by the end of 2014.
|Partners N Crime, Eastover, New Orleans, June 15, 2012. Photograph by Holly Hobbs. Courtesy of Holly Hobbs.
Countless members of New Orleans' creative communities lost their lives or were displaced by Hurricane Katrina, many of whom remain unable to return. Furthermore, while rap music is arguably Louisiana's most lucrative cultural export, in the most widespread images of "New Orleans music," the city's rappers, producers, and DJs that helped build the tradition remain largely invisible. These issues, coupled with the ongoing realities of corruption, marginalization, violence, police harassment, and discrimination, inspired a determination to help provide resources for and further acknowledgment of artists, adding to the growing body of documentation and public support of New Orleans community-based expressive art traditions. I am excited about the ways in which the archive may, in some small way, help to address these issues. There is also a wealth of potential for growth of the archive in the near future, which could include a brick-and-mortar museum space, a "hip-hop/bounce trail" (imagine a Mississippi Blues Trail-type project that begins as an interactive app but moves toward a physical reality), a community performance space, and a youth internship program.
Viewing hip-hop and bounce music in New Orleans as expressive art forms worthy of support should not be a radical orientation. Amistad is taking one big, progressive step in the right direction. The Kickstarter campaign can be found here. Please consider donating to this exciting project.
About the Author
Holly Hobbs is currently completing her PhD at Tulane University and is writing her dissertation on post-Katrina hiphop and recovery in New Orleans. She has also worked as a promoter, artist manager, and musician within the New Orleans hiphop community since 2008. She is a writer for the popular music website, The Smoking Section, and the Knowla Encyclopedia of Louisiana History, Culture, and Community.
- 1. Christopher Harter, "Help Support Amistad's Expansion of Music-related Holdings with Hiphop Collections," Amistad Research Center, December 3, 2013, http://amistadresearchcenter.blogspot.com/2013/12/help-support-amistads-expansion-of.html.
This month, Southern Spaces sent out our annual readership reports to authors who have published with the journal. These reports provide statistics on pageviews and unique readers over the past year. This year we also added cumulative totals for pageviews and unique readers since 2008, when we began tracking visits to our site with Google Analytics.
As a digital open access journal, Southern Spaces is committed to supporting our authors in communicating the value of their publications to tenure and promotion committees. Members of such committees may not have experience evaluating digital publications and may be inclined to undervalue them—even though, in our case, publications undergo the same rigorous standards of review as equally selective print journals. Southern Spaces pieces also have some advantages over print publications. Our site is well optimized for search engines, and we promote our publications to an interested audience through our Facebook and Twitter accounts. This ensures that many of our authors' pieces earn a wide readership.
We think that our readership reports attest to the benefits of open access publication and engagement with social media, and we hope they help convey such benefits to our authors and their tenure and promotion committees. In the hope of starting a conversation about how digital scholarly publications contribute to tenure and promotion, we are sharing details of Southern Spaces' readership reports process in this post.
|Southern Spaces visits, September 1, 2012–August 31, 2013. Screenshot from Google Analytics.
The screenshot above illustrates daily unique visits to Southern Spaces over the past year. From September 1, 2012–August 31, 2013, we averaged about 11,250 visits per month, with a peak of 1,823 visits on February 4, 2013.1 Since 2008 our readership has increased every year. Our total this year of 135,192 unique readers represented a 15.6% increase over the previous year.
|Readership report email template, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces.
We extracted information on page views and visits from Google Analytics for each Southern Spaces publication. We sent each author an email to pass this information along. In past years we have drawn on Google Analytics to compile statistics on each piece's readers over the previous year. This year we decided that we would also send cumulative statistics demonstrating each publication's readership since we began tracking site visits in 2008. We are hopeful that this additional information will paint a more accurate picture of the wide readership and reach of many of our publications.
|Share bar for "North Carolina: A State of Shock" by Dan T. Carter, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces.
There are several ways in which we take advantage of the accessibility of our open access format to spread the word about our publications. We promote our pieces through social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook, an RSS feed, and an email listserv. We hope that these efforts help bring the scholarly work in the journal to a broad readership that extends beyond the limits of the academy. We have recently added a share menu to the upper right-hand corner of Southern Spaces publications as a first step toward providing robust altmetrics for our publications. We also use our blog to discuss contemporary issues concerning the US South and the digital humanities, highlighting relevant Southern Spaces publications. Finally, we regularly feature past publications that speak to contemporary concerns in the "featured" section of our homepage, another way our pieces continue to find readers long after they are published.
|Southern Spaces tenure and promotion survey, 2013. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces.
In addition to highlighting statistics, we asked each author for feedback on how we might better measure and communicate the benefits of publishing in a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open access platform such as ours. In a three-question survey, we asked our authors to share their experiences using Southern Spaces publications for tenure and promotion and solicited suggestions for information or services we could provide to assist with this.
We consider our readership reports to be an important part of our advocacy for open access publishing. As these reports demonstrate, publishing in open access venues helps scholarship reach a large and engaged audience and facilitates dissemination across the social web. We hope that these reports help our authors gain academic credit for their open access and digital publications.
- 1. During the same period, Southern Spaces attracted roughly 14,000 pageviews per month, 167,587 in total.
On Monday, November 11, residents of the city of Atlanta were surprised to learn that their baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, will move to a new suburban stadium in 2017. When the lease on the team's current home at Turner Field expires in 2016, the Braves will move to a new ballpark at the northwest intersection of I-75 and I-285 in Cobb County.
|Turner Field, April 6, 2013. Photograph by Zpb52. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
The Braves moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee in 1966 and have played in downtown Atlanta ever since their arrival. Before they began playing at Turner Field in 1997, the home of the Braves was Atlanta-Fulton Stadium; this ballpark was demolished and transformed into parking spaces when the team moved to Turner Field. The ballpark was named after team owner and CNN founder Ted Turner, who purchased the team in 1976.
The Associated Press reports that the Braves have long expressed dissatisfaction with Turner Field. As Maria Saporta wrote in the Saporta Report, an absence of neighborhood development, limited parking facilities, and the fact that the closest Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) station is a mile away contributed to the Braves' unhappiness with their current facility. Atlanta Braves vice president of operations Mike Plant stated, "We . . . recognize that what is insurmountable is we can't control traffic, which is the No. 1 reason why our fans don't come to more games. . . . We are underserved by about 5,000 parking spaces." Many Atlanta residents are concerned that the new stadium site will not be easily accessible via MARTA. As Edward A. Hatfield has noted, residents of Cobb County, an epicenter of suburbanization and white flight in the Metro-Atlanta region, have long opposed government spending on public transportation.
In a press conference and statement Mayor Kasim Reed explained the lack of an agreement to keep the Braves in downtown Atlanta, citing demands by the Braves for "hundreds of millions of dollars" in new infrastructure spending. Reed argued these would have left the city "absolutely cash-strapped" and exacerbated the current backlog of planned infrastructure projects. He also announced plans to redevelop the Turner Field site, promising "one of the largest developments for middle-class people that the city has ever had."
|Distribution of Atlanta Braves fanbase and location of Turner Field and proposed new stadium, November 2013. Map courtesy of the Atlanta Braves.
|Percentage of metro Atlanta white residents by 2010 census block group, 2013. Data from Social Explorer.
Forbes contributor Maury Brown claims that the new stadium will follow a current trend in stadium development in the United States. As teams build new ballparks with smaller capacities, ticket prices rise as demand increases. Furthermore, according to the Associated Press, census data reveals that the team is moving to a much wealthier area that is in the heart of the team's fan base. Median household income in the proposed area in Cobb County sits at approximately $61,000, with a poverty level of 8.6 percent. This contrasts dramatically with the median household income of $23,000 and nearly forty percent poverty level in the neighborhood around Turner Field.
|Centennial Olympic Stadium, 1996. Photograph by Edwin P. Ewing, Jr. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library, 1485.
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St. Luke's employees and health care providers will show you respect, maintain your dignity, and make you feel as comfortable as possible while you are receiving care from us. Good health care is a partnership. You have the right to participate in the development and implementation of your plan of care, and we want you and your family to make informed choices in that process. You can help by providing accurate and timely information to your health care providers, asking questions, and following your individualized care plan.
Respect and Consideration
Our staff will tell you their names and will call you by your name. We will listen when you have a problem. We will answer your questions. If you do not understand what we tell you, please let us know.
Patients have the right to receive or restrict visitors within clinically necessary or reasonable restrictions. We ask that you and your family show respect for other patients, visitors, and staff, and follow our policies regarding no smoking, cell phone use, infection prevention, and safety.
We will close the door, close the curtains, or ask your visitors to leave the room during an exam. Because St. Luke's is a clinical education site for health care students, they may be involved in your care. If health care students are in your room or involved in your care, you have the right to know why.
You have the right to keep your stay in the hospital a private matter. When you are admitted to the hospital, you will be given a choice as to whether others will be allowed to know that you are in the hospital. Please talk with your family before making this decision. If you choose to keep your hospital stay private, we will honor your decision and no one will be told that you are a patient in the hospital. This means we will be unable to accept any flowers, mail, or telephone calls for you.
If you desire private telephone conversations, you have the right to access the space and a telephone appropriate to your needs, as long as this does not interfere with the care, treatment, and services being provided to you.
Information about you and your care will be kept confidential (private). Your medical records are private and only you or other authorized people or agencies are allowed to see them. You have the right to see and obtain copies of your medical records. To obtain your records, you will need to give us a request in writing. It may take a few days for us to make your medical records available. (Read St. Luke's Joint Notice of Privacy Practices for more information.)
When you are admitted to the hospital, you have the right to have your doctor, a family member, or other person of your choice notified right away.
Communication (Illness/Injury)
St. Luke's staff and health care providers will tell you about your condition and treatment, and how well your treatment is working. When it is appropriate, this information will also be shared with your family. If it is not medically possible for you to provide the name of a family member, this information will be shared with an appropriate person on your behalf.
If you require special accommodations for vision, hearing, speech, language, or cognitive impairment, please tell Admitting staff or your nurse and we will do everything possible to meet these needs. There is no charge for these services.
Consent and Decisions About Your Care
You have the right to get information from your doctor about your illness and treatment. This will help you make decisions about your care. Before you have a treatment or procedure that requires your consent, your caregiver will make sure that your doctor has answered all of your questions about the treatment or procedure. If you have more questions, please tell your caregiver.
You have the right to say "no" to any treatment. If you do not want the treatment, you will be told what could happen to your health as a result. You may be asked to sign a form telling us that you do not want the recommended treatment.
You, or when appropriate, your family will be told about unexpected medical problems or outcomes that have a bad effect on your health or may later have a bad effect on your health.
Discharge Planning
All admitted inpatients are screened by our Case Management staff for discharge needs. If you are admitted to the hospital as an inpatient, you have the right to request a discharge planning evaluation at any time, whether or not you screen high risk for discharge needs. Upon request, the hospital will arrange a discharge planning evaluation by a qualified staff member.
Research is an important part of finding better treatments. As a patient at St. Luke's, you may be asked to participate in research or a clinical trial for your illness or treatment. We will tell you about the risks and benefits of participating in the research. We will first get your permission (informed consent) by asking you to sign a form that tells us you understand the research or clinical trial and that we have your permission to proceed. You have the right to say "no" to research or clinical trials. Saying "no" will not affect the quality of the traditional care and treatment you will receive.
Medication Safety
You have the right to know the name of all drugs ordered by your doctor, the dosage, the reason they are being given, and the known possible side effects. To help your caregivers ensure safety, always check to make sure that the drug and the dosage are correct. If you believe the drug or the dosage is wrong, tell your caregiver. Be sure to tell your caregiver about any other drugs, herbal products, food supplements, or vitamins you are taking. Also tell your caregiver if you are allergic to any foods or medicine.
Equipment Safety
Patients and their family members and visitors should never touch or adjust medical equipment. If you need help, please use the call light.
Pain Management
We want you to be as comfortable as possible. Your caregiver will work with you to control your pain. If you are in pain, please tell your caregiver.
You have the right to be cared for in a safe setting and to be free from all mental, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse; neglect; retaliation or humiliation; exploitation or harassment from staff, students, volunteers, other patients, visitors, and/or family members. We also expect our patients and their family members to not abuse or harass our employees or any other person at St. Luke's. Anyone who is abusive or harasses others may be asked to leave St. Luke's or find care elsewhere.
Protective and advocacy services may be called for free at the following phone numbers:
Child Protection Reporting
Idaho Domestic Violence Hotline
Adult Protection Reporting
Office of Civil Rights
State Council on Developmental Disabilities
Restraints and Seclusion
You have the right to be free from restraints and seclusion unless your physician orders restraints and/or seclusion to help keep you or others safe.
Advance Directives
Advance Directives are documents, such as a Living Will, a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, or a Declaration for Mental Health Treatment. These documents allow you to name the person you would like to make health care decisions for you and the kind of care you would like, in accordance with Idaho Statutes, if you are unable to tell us your wishes at a later date. You may ask about Advance Directives when you are admitted to the hospital or at any time while you are in the hospital. You have the right to have your Advance Directives included in your medical record, and to have hospital staff and physicians follow your wishes. If you have an Advance Directive, we encourage you to provide a copy to your nurse and discuss your wishes with your physician, in addition to making a copy available for your record.
Beliefs, Values, and Preferences
You and your family have the right to have your cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, and personal values, beliefs, and preferences respected, as long as they do not harm others. If you would like to speak with a hospital chaplain or other member of the clergy, please tell your caregiver. If you have spiritual beliefs regarding specific medical treatments, please discuss these beliefs with your physician.
Non-Discrimination and Program Accessibility
St. Luke's does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or ability to pay for care; patients will receive the care they need and everything that is ordered by a physician. In addition, St. Luke's facilities and all of its programs and activities are accessible to and useable by disabled persons, including, but not limited to, persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, or blind, or who have other sensory impairments.
Code of Ethical Business and Professional
St. Luke's has policies to make sure that decisions about patient care are not influenced by monetary arrangements among insurance companies, hospital managers, doctors, employees, or any others who may be involved in patient care.
Concerns Regarding Your Care
St. Luke's patients are involved in decisions about care, treatment, and services provided. Family members may be involved in the decision-making, with permission from the patient or surrogate decision-maker. Patients can freely voice complaints and recommend changes without being subject to coercion, discrimination, reprisal/retaliation, humiliation, or unreasonable interruption of care, treatment, and services.
If you have concerns or complaints about your care, we will try to address them quickly and fairly. We ask that you discuss your concerns with your caregiver or, if you prefer, with a hospital manager.
If you are not satisfied with the way we answer your concerns, please contact Patient Relations by phone, email, or mail, and we will look into your concerns. Please specify the location where you received services.
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|(208) 381-1420 or 1-800-579-0061
|(208) 580-2662
|(208) 814-9600
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|(208) 630-2275
|Wood River:
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190 E. Bannock Street
Boise, ID 83712
Our goal is to provide a written response to your concerns within thirty (30) days or sooner of receipt. In the event we are not able to fully investigate and respond to your concern within this timeframe, we will communicate any delays to you in writing. Please be assured that we will investigate all concerns and respond as quickly as possible. You may also file your concern independently with:
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PO Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0036
(208) 334-6626
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Joint Commission
One Renaissance Blvd.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
(800) 994-6610
Livanta, LLC
PFCC-Q10 Program
9090 Junction Drive, Suite 10
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
If you are not satisfied with the care provided by your caregiver (doctor, nurse, therapist, assistant), you have the right to ask to be cared for by another doctor from our medical staff or you may ask for a different nurse, therapist, or assistant. We will do everything we can to get you a different caregiver, but there may be times when this is not possible.
Billing and Financial Information
As a not-for-profit organization, St. Luke's maintains an "open door" policy. This means we will give you the hospital care you need, even if you cannot pay your bill.
Patient Financial Services staff will help you make arrangements to pay your bill. If you do not understand your bill, we will be happy to explain it to you. Financial assistance programs are available if needed, including access to government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. You can access our financial assistance policy available online at http://www.stlukesonline.org/billing. For assistance with your bill, please contact us at:
|Treasure Valley:
|(208) 706-5618 or 1-855-890-3403
|(208) 587-8401
|(208) 814-7500 or 1-855-890-3401
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|(208) 630-2212 or 1-888-236-4643
|Wood River:
|(208) 706-2333 or 1-855-890-3403
Please leave valuable items, including jewelry and money, at home. If you do bring these types of items to the hospital, please talk with Admitting staff or ask your nurse to have them placed in a secured area (Security Department or hospital safe).
Your nurses and other caregivers are here to assist in meeting your medical and support needs. That is why we ask that patients and their family members keep track of personal belongings such as clothes, dentures, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. Please let your nurse know as soon as possible if any personal item is missing and every effort will be made to find it. We are sorry that St. Luke's cannot replace lost or damaged personal property.
Visitation and Support
Visitation of patients is an extremely important aspect of St. Luke's "Family Centered Care" philosophy. Visitation depends on the patient's condition, the activity of the unit he or she is on, the prevention of infection and at the discretion of the health care team. St. Luke's strives to ensure designated visitors enjoy full and equal visitation privileges consistent with patient privileges and will not restrict, limit, or otherwise deny privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
You have the right to designate an individual for the following categories:
- Patient Representative
- Support Person
Patient Responsibilities
In addition to the preceding rights, you must accept certain responsibilities in order to receive maximum benefit from your stay at St. Luke's.
You are responsible:
- For providing, to the best of your knowledge, accurate and complete information about present complaints, past illnesses, hospitalizations, medications, and other matters related to your health.
- For reporting your perceived risks in your care and/or unexpected changes in your condition.
- For participating in the formation of your treatment plan and for following the plan for care, service, or treatment as prescribed.
- To express any concerns you have about your ability to follow and/or comply with the prescribed treatment plan.
- For asking questions when you do not understand what you have been told or what you are expected to do.
- For the consequences and outcomes, if you do not follow the care, service, or treatment plan.
- To communicate with health care providers about your pain management, help health care providers measure your pain, and report pain and the effects of pain management interventions to your caregiver.
- For being considerate and respectful of the rights of other patients and staff, and of the property of others and the hospital.
- For following the rules and regulations of the hospital concerning patient care and conduct. Please help us control noise and disturbances, and follow the smoking policies.
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Ames was arrested Friday after a homeowner on Baxter Avenue called to report that an unknown man was in his upstairs apartment.
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Remember, you're entering to win a SECTOR 4 for the iPhone 4S/iPhone 4, the SECTOR 5 for the iPhone 5 is coming later!
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CONCORD, N.C. – One of the biggest dirt karting events of the year will be set to go off once again this December 27-29 at the Daytona International Speedway quarter-mile Flat Track, located outside turns one and two of the DIS superspeedway.
The WKA Daytona Dirt World Championships, which last year boasted over 825 entries between two days of racing, will take center stage in the dirt karting community during the final days of the year at the World Center of Racing.
With many racers eagerly waiting details on this year's event, officials are pleased to announce the class structure for senior classes at this year's Dirt World Championships.
Similar to last year, a full slate of Briggs Animal and Clone divisions will be offered. They will be as follows.
- Box Stock Medium (350#)
- Box Stock Heavy (375#)
- Box Stock Super Heavy (400#; max kart weight 200#)
- Box Stock Senior (375#)… age 35 and up.
- Animal Medium (350#)
- Animal Heavy (375#)
- Animal Super Heavy (400#; max kart weight 200#)
- Animal Senior (375#)… age 35 and up.
- Gas Animal (375#)
- PRO GAS ANIMAL (375#)… $2,000 AND race-ready Animal to win.
- Champ Lite (410#) Animal only
- FCKL Senior Champ Mix (425#) BP Clone or Animal, no restrictor on either
- PRO CHAMP (425#) Animal only… $500 TO WIN
Officials have plans and all intentions to run 2-cycle classes – one each day – at this year's event. Details are being finalized on the pair of 2-cycle classes that will be offered, and details will be announced soon.
Junior class structure will be announced later this week.


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News about Cheating, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Jul. 29, 2015
Michael Powell Sports of The Times column discusses New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's insistence that he knew nothing about deflated footballs in 2014 playoff game in light of NFL findings that he ordered destruction of cell phone which may have contained evidence against him. MORE
Jul. 28, 2015
Memo released by New York City Education Dept says former Teachers College Community School principal Jeanene Worrell-Breeden, who committed suicide on April 17, acknowledged that she forged answers on students' state English exams because students had not finished tests. MORE
Jun. 30, 2015
Thirteen Metro-North employees are charged with cheating and helping others cheat on train conductor and engineer exams; 12 are arrested and plead not guilty; four of accused are fired and nine are suspended. MORE
Jun. 17, 2015
Tyler Kepner On Baseball column muses on where to draw line between fair and unfair gathering and sharing of information about teams and players; cites FBI investigation into whether St Louis Cardinals broke into proprietary database of Houston Astros and holds that such a move would definitely cross line. MORE
Jun. 14, 2015
Gray Matter column by Kevin A Hassett and Stan A Veuger describes their study, published by American Enterprise Institute, into so-called Deflategate controversy over New England Patriots violating rules by using deflated footballs; suggests that report commissioned by NFL about controversy is unreliable. MORE
Jun. 1, 2015
Editorial argues that retraction by journal Science of poorly-vetted study finding that gay political canvassers could change voters' views on same-sex marriage underscores need to address alarming uptick of cheating and fraud in scientific and academic papers; calls on scientific community to create more robust data validation process, and recommends increased federal funding for investigation of fraudulent research. MORE
May. 29, 2015
Federal prosecutors unveil 35-count indictment against 15 Chinese nationals who stand accused of complex conspiracy to cheat college entrance examinations and gain student visas; scheme involved fake passports and test-taking imposters, largely in Pittsburgh area. MORE
May. 21, 2015
New England Patriots owner Robert K Kraft announces that he is accepting NFL's decision to fine his team $1 million and forfeit two draft choices as part of discipline for deflated footballs scandal; NFL commissioner Roger Goodell believes Kraft's decision to accept punishment is not tied to quarterback Tom Brady's appeal. MORE
May. 15, 2015
David Waldstein On Pro Football column says that New England Patriots, in attempt to convey inconsistencies in Theodore V Wells's report detailing team's apparent deflation of footballs to suit quarterback Tom Brady, release lengthy rebuttal--setting team on course directly at odds with league. MORE
May. 15, 2015
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady formally appeals his four-game suspension for his role in deflated footballs scandal; NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says he will hear appeal. MORE
May. 13, 2015
Jere Longman On Pro Football column holds that NFL's four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is ridiculous given long tradition of teams and players in all sports trying to gain advantage by manipulating equipment. MORE
May. 13, 2015
Theodore V Wells Jr, director of NFL-commissioned investigation into whether New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady conspired to underinflate footballs, rejects suggestions that his report was biased. MORE
May. 12, 2015
NFL suspends New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for four regular-season games without pay, charging that Brady deliberately violated league rules by scheming to deflate footballs in 2014-15 AFC championship game; also fines Patriots $1 million and takes away two future draft picks; move signals rare and significant rebuke to Brady, considered one of most popular and successful quarterbacks in league. MORE
May. 11, 2015
New England Patriots fans in Boston show support for team and quarterback Tom Brady, accused of conspiring with two Patriots employees to deflate footballs in AFC championship game against Indianapolis Colts. MORE
May. 8, 2015
Jim McNally, part-time locker room attendant for New England Patriots officials, appears to be central figure in team's ball-deflation scandal; joins long list of clubhouse aides and hangers-on who have helped sports players cheat. MORE
May. 8, 2015
Deflated ball scandal is just latest example of New England Patriots cheating at the game; several former incidents noted. MORE
May. 8, 2015
William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column urges NFL to make an example out of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady by serving him a harsh penalty for eroding standards of competition by cheating. MORE
May. 8, 2015
Several experts in sports law, management or ethics share their thoughts on how NFL should discipline New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady for their role in deflating footballs. MORE
May. 8, 2015
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady attends discussion at Salem State University, his first public appearance since report about 'deflategate' was released; says he will address report's claim that he was generally aware of Patriots personnel deflating footballs to gain an advantage. MORE
May. 7, 2015
NFL releases report on so-called 'Deflategate' scandal, concluding that staff of New England Patriots tampered with game-day footballs during 2014-15 AFC championship playoff game; asserts that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady surely had some awareness that air had been released from balls, making them easier to grip; findings taint Patriots' Super Bowl title and tarnish legacy of one of most elite quarterbacks in NFL history. MORE
May. 7, 2015
Michael Powell Sports of The Times column ponders whether NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will suspend New England Patriots beloved quarterback Tom Brady after release of report detailing team's apparent deflation of footballs. MORE
May. 7, 2015
Juliet Macur Sports of The Times holds that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's legacy is now up for debate after investigators find that he was likely aware of deflated footballs used during AFC championship game against Indianapolis Colts. MORE
May. 7, 2015
Scientists around the country respect Princeton physics professor Daniel R Marlow and his conclusion that New England Patriots almost certainly tampered with footballs by improperly deflating them to help team win playoff game against Indianapolis Colts. MORE
May. 7, 2015
Theodore V Wells Jr, one of best-known trial lawyers in public corruption and insider trading cases, led investigation into case of New England Patriots deflated footballs. MORE
May. 1, 2015
Judge Jerry W Baxter reduces sentences for three former Atlanta administrators in cheating case from seven years in prison to three. MORE
Apr. 15, 2015
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry W Baxter sentences eight of 10 educators convicted of racketeering in Atlanta public school cheating scandal to prison terms of up to seven years; unexpectedly stiff sentences are handed down after educators refused to take sentencing deals that were predicated on their acceptance of responsibility and waiver of right to appeal. MORE
Apr. 14, 2015
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry W Baxter urges prosecutors and defense lawyers to work out appropriate sentencing deal for 10 Atlanta public school educators, all convicted of racketeering and other charges in one of nation's largest school cheating scandals. MORE
Apr. 6, 2015
Many college and university administrators are implementing anti-cheating technologies as they expand online course offerings, which they say is important to give online learning legitimacy; rise of automated student analysis services, like software Proctortrack from Verificient Technologies that uses web camera to monitor students, is raising questions of efficacy and propriety. MORE
Apr. 2, 2015
Fulton County Superior Court jury convicts 11 of 12 Atlanta educators accused of racketeering in standardized test cheating scandal; felony carries up to 20 years in prison; many of defendants are also convicted of other charges that could add years more to sentences; 2013 indictments followed years of questions about how Atlanta students had significantly improved scores on statewide test. MORE
Mar. 17, 2015
Closing arguments begin in trial of 12 Atlanta educators accused of cheating in connection with significant increases in Atlanta public school test scores; prosecutors accuse defendants of endemic cheating and criminal misconduct that includes racketeering; educators could face decades in prison if convicted. MORE
Mar. 14, 2015
Joe Nocera Op-Ed column contends NCAA, in condemning Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim for pattern of academic fraud among players, is abusing its considerable power; holds while team is guilty of violations, NCAA has exaggerated those offenses for some unknown reason. MORE
Mar. 10, 2015
Report released by NCAA finds community center Oneida Family YMCA aided in widespread cheating at Syracuse University; says center's chief executive officer Hank Leo and youth sports coordinator Jeff Cornish, both closely tied to college's men's athletics programs, helped players get credit for fake internships and other handouts, and also funded non-players; findings are from years of investigations into allegations of university's elaborate system for circumventing rules governing college athletics. MORE
Mar. 3, 2015
Legal team of Beverly L Hall, former superintendent of Atlanta public schools who was awaiting criminal trial for her alleged involvement in conspiracy to change students' standardized test results, says she has died after suffering from breast cancer. MORE
Jan. 29, 2015
Experts and laymen alike across nation are speculating about deflated football scandal surrounding the New England Patriots following their AFC Championship victory; issue has received extensive media attention, with many seeing it as a proxy for the issue of cheating in sports, and others arguing that it has been overblown. MORE
Jan. 24, 2015
NFL is investigating whether New England Patriots intentionally deflated balls it used in AFC championship game against Indianapolis Colts, which Patriots won to advance to Super Bowl, opening up discussion on gamesmanship and cheating. MORE
Jan. 24, 2015
Sports betting website Covers finds that New England Patriots exceeded spread 80 percent of time in wet conditions over past 12 seasons, compared with 56 percent in dry conditions during same period; analysis comes as NFL investigates whether Patriots intentionally deflated ball used in AFC championship game against Indianapolis Colts. MORE
Jan. 24, 2015
NFL confirms that footballs used by New England Patriots during AFC championship game against Indianapolis Colts were underinflated, but has yet to determine whether it was intentional. MORE
Nov. 11, 2014
Former Georgia Gov Sonny Perdue testifies during trial of 12 Atlanta public school educators who prosecutors accuse of participating in cheating plot; says wrongdoing was pervasive and that academic officials tried to impede public accounting of it. MORE
Nov. 2, 2014
Matt Richtel Applied Science column examines research showing that people are more likely to lie or cheat in the afternoon and evening, when their brains are tired. MORE
Oct. 30, 2014
Educational Testing Service, company that administers SAT tests around world, says it is withholding scores for thousands of Chinese and South Korean students following cheating allegations; announcement comes just days before early application deadlines for most American colleges and universities. MORE
Sep. 30, 2014
Criminal trial begins for 12 public school educators in Atlanta accused of conspiring to change student's test scores in effort to protect their jobs and win favor and bonuses from administrators begins; all have pleaded not guilty. MORE
Aug. 29, 2014
Notre Dame reserve safety Eilar Hardy will join four higher-profile football players being held out of practice and competition during investigation into accusations of academic fraud. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
Bruce Koloshi of Summit, NJ, pleads guilty to cheating at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut and is sentenced to the 10 months he has served in prison since his arrest; he is also barred from all casinos in the state; Koloshi, who marked cards with supposedly invisible ink that only he could see with special contact lenses, faces felony charges in Louisiana for doing the same thing. MORE
Aug. 20, 2014
Notre Dame, a top college football program known for academic rigor, is wrestling with allegations that four of its football players cheated in class. MORE
Aug. 16, 2014
Notre Dame football team benches KeiVarae Russell, DaVaris Daniels, Ishaq Williams and Kendall Moore while school investigates incident of what it is calling 'suspected academic dishonesty.' MORE
Aug. 11, 2014
Jury selection is set to begin for 12 former Atlanta Public Schools employees accused of conspiring to alter and boost students' standardized test scores; scandal in Atlanta is one of a number that have surfaced around the country, as standardized testing has become more central to the effort of identifying weaknesses in public schools and in distributing merit pay to teachers. MORE
May. 9, 2014
Pennsylvania Atty Gen Kathleen Kane says a principal and four teachers at Cayuga Elementary School in Philadelphia promoted cheating on standardized tests for five years by providing answers to students and improperly reviewing questions before administering the tests. MORE
Apr. 18, 2014
Court of Arbitration for Sport exonerates six officials who were implicated in a judging scandal, annulling a decision by the governing body for rhythmic gymnastics; cheating was said to have occurred in 2012 in testing rooms across Europe, where judges were seeking to qualify to officiate at elite competitions like 2016 Summer Olympics. MORE
Apr. 13, 2014
Concerns that high number of students are failing to abide by university honor codes has prompted some institutions to adopt new measures to dissuade cheating; for some, failing honor code is distressing indicator of changing societal ethics. MORE
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New York City Task Force Targets Cheating by Teachers and Principals
After several reports of cheating by teachers and administrators in city schools came to light this summer, the education department announced it would create a task force to confront the issue.
August 5, 2015, Wednesday
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Long Before Patriots Scandal, N.F.L. Was Rocked by High School Ringers
In 1925, four high school students were recruited to fill out a team's depleted roster, leading to a rout, the sale of a franchise and penalties all around.
August 5, 2015, Wednesday
MORE ON CHEATING AND: Football , Cheating , National Football League , Chicago Cardinals
Tom Brady Suit to Be Heard in New York
Brady and the players' union filed their suit in Minnesota. But the N.F.L. already had filed papers in New York.
July 31, 2015, Friday
MORE ON CHEATING AND: Football , Brady, Tom , Cheating , National Football League , Suits and Litigation (Civil) , Minnesota , New England Patriots , New York City
Court Fight Presents Risks for Tom Brady and N.F.L.
The next phase of the showdown between Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and the N.F.L. has moved into the courtroom.
July 30, 2015, Thursday
MORE ON CHEATING AND: Football , Brady, Tom , Cheating , National Football League , National Football League Players Assn , New England Patriots
Hey, Tom Brady, Here's How You Destroy a Cellphone
In the wake of news that Tom Brady allegedly destroyed his cellphone to hide evidence from the N.F.L., we asked readers for advice on effective methods.
July 30, 2015, Thursday
MORE ON CHEATING AND: Football , Brady, Tom , Cheating , Cellular Telephones , National Football League , New England Patriots
Making Missteps as Tom Brady Scrambles in Suspension Fight
Legal questions will continue to be overshadowed by ethical questions, not only for Brady but also for fans who blindly defend him.
July 30, 2015, Thursday
MORE ON CHEATING AND: Football , Brady, Tom , Cheating , Goodell, Roger , Kraft, Robert K , National Football League , New England Patriots
N.F.L. Upholds Tom Brady's Ban; Cellphone's Fate Helped Make the Call
N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld the four-game suspension of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for his role in the deflation of footballs used in the A.F.C. championship game.
July 29, 2015, Wednesday
MORE ON CHEATING AND: Football , Brady, Tom , New England Patriots , Cheating , Goodell, Roger , National Football League
Tom Brady Hands Off the Dirty Work
Insisting he was innocent, the Patriots quarterback had an underling destroy potentially damaging evidence: his cellphone and 10,000 text messages, the league said.
July 29, 2015, Wednesday
MORE ON CHEATING AND: Football , Brady, Tom , National Football League , Cheating , Cellular Telephones , New England Patriots
Harlem Principal Said She Forged Test Answers, Education Dept. Says
The principal, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden of Teachers College Community School, said she had done so because students had not finished the exams, according to a memorandum released Monday.
July 28, 2015, Tuesday
City Invalidates Test Scores of Third Graders at Harlem School
The Education Department invalidated the results of the state exam taken by third graders amid allegations of testing improprieties by the principal of the Teachers College Community School.
July 27, 2015, Monday
How Would You Destroy Your Cellphone?
You're Tom Brady. You have potentially incriminating text messages. Quick — how do you destroy your cellphone in a way that effectively obliterates all the text messages?
Roger Goodell Ruling on Tom Brady's Appeal
N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell issued a a 20-page statement Tuesday upholding the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
The Biggest Cheats in Team Sports
A list of some of the most famous and unusual cheating scandals in team sports from around the world.
Investigative Report on A.F.C. Championship Game Footballs
The investigative report into accusations that the New England Patriots improperly deflated game balls in last January's A.F.C. championship game.
Google Accused of Cheating Competitors
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's competition commissioner, accused Google of distorting Internet search results and began an antitrust investigation into its Android mobile operating system.
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