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Had one more confusion about the rerurn journey.
If I buy return ticket from Ljubljana to Zagreb do I need to take the train with same no.? As in there are 4 trains both ways during the day. So if I go from Ljbljana to Zagreb by train no. say EC 212, do I necessarily have to undertake return journey on EC 213 or any other train would be fine?
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Needed a small clarification.
As per Slovenian train website, one way fare from Ljubljana to Zagreb is 16.4 euros whereas return fare is 26.2 euros.
I wanted to know validity of the return ticket. As in does it have to be a same day return or can I return after say 3 day stay at Zagreb and still avail the return fare discount?
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BALTIMORE, Feb. 16, 2011 – Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) today announced that it is working to repair a six inch high pressure natural gas main that was struck by a contractor working in Frederick County. The incident occurred this afternoon in the 1200 block of Park Ridge Dr. in Mt. Airy. BGE crews are on the scene assessing the damage and canvassing the area to determine the extent of damage. Currently, natural gas service to approximately 250 customers has been temporarily interrupted and additional outages may be necessary in order for BGE to complete its work. The duration of the outage is unknown at this time. Using an automate telephone messaging system, BGE is working to notify affected customers and to advise them of next steps.
"BGE is making every effort to repair the damaged gas main while minimizing the number of customer interruptions," said Brian C. Daschbach, senior vice president of integrated field services for BGE. "It is estimated that repairs will take several hours. Once the work is completed, BGE will have to enter every affected home and business to turn the gas back on and relight natural gas appliances. We thank our customers for their cooperation and understanding."
Customers who lose natural gas service are reminded that if they choose to use alternative energy sources such as generators or space heaters, to follow the manufacturer's instructions and be sure to operate them in well-ventilated areas. Additional natural gas safety information can be found on www.bge.com.
BGE, www.bge.com, headquartered in Baltimore, is Maryland's largest gas and electric utility, delivering power to more than 1.2 million electric customers and more than 640,000 natural gas customers in Central Maryland. The company's approximately 3,000 employees are committed to the safe and reliable delivery of gas and electricity, as well as enhanced energy management, conservation, environmental stewardship and community assistance. BGE is a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, www.constellation.com, a FORTUNE 500 company also headquartered in Baltimore, with subsidiaries that generate, sell and provide other energy-related services to customers throughout North America.

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Advocating for Refugees in Immigration Reform Debate
Posted by HIAS – DC on Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 17:49 pm
"Immigration reform" has become a buzzword in Washington—and all over the country. Broad coalitions of legislators, business leaders, students, law enforcement officials, faith leaders, farmworkers, and human rights activists have been urging for reforms to our outdated system. We recently saw a huge victory with passage of an immigration reform bill out of the U.S. Senate … but the fight is far from over and we are in it for the long haul.
As the Jewish nonprofit agency that protects refugees, HIAS has also long advocated for immigration and refugee laws that are humane, enhance national security, and reflect our Jewish values of welcoming the stranger. Along with Jewish and interfaith partners, as well as other immigration and refugee advocates, HIAS pushes for reforms to the current system that are guided by our national interest, balanced with fairness, and compassion.
So after the Presidential election in November 2012—when it became clear that fixing our country's broken immigration system would be a priority for the Administration and for Congress—HIAS kicked its efforts into high gear.
Along with colleague organizations from Refugee Council USA (RCUSA), HIAS drafted a document of principles for comprehensive immigration reform and circulated this to government officials, urging that any discussion about reforms to our country's broken immigration system also include crucial and overdue improvements to the Refugee Program. HIAS also coordinated a letter from the Jewish community, which was sent to President Obama and Congress on the eve of Passover, calling for an immigration overhaul.
For HIAS, the top legislative priority for immigration reform is to streamline the process for admitting certain high-risk refugee groups, including Jews and other religious minorities fleeing Iran. This crucial policy change would preserve Senator Lautenberg's legacy of protecting persecuted religious minorities while creating new opportunities for other persecuted groups—with an emphasis on those seeking religious freedom—to receive protection.
Another main priority is elimination of the one-year filing deadline for asylum applications, which prevents many asylum seekers with a well-founded fear of persecution from receiving protection in the U.S. Other priorities include eliminating provisions that needlessly separate asylees and refugees from close family members, expediting the process for granting asylum to asylum seekers in expedited proceedings that clearly show they have been or will be persecuted, permitting qualified stateless individuals to apply for green cards, and making refugee adjudications abroad more fair and efficient.
In April, the bipartisan "Gang of Eight"—Senators Schumer (D-NY), McCain (R-AZ), Durbin (D-IL), Graham (R-SC), Menendez (D-NJ), Rubio (R-FL), Bennet (D-CO), and Flake (R-AZ)—introduced the "Border Enforcement, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013"—S. 744. This bill was far from perfect, but it was certainly a step in the right direction, offering a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, seeking to modernize the immigration system, strengthening our economy, protecting families, treating American and immigrant workers fairly, and beginning to address the broken refugee and asylum systems.
The bill went through intense scrutiny with the Senate Judiciary Committee "markup" process, including consideration of several amendments relating to refugees, asylees, and other vulnerable populations. During this process, HIAS and its colleagues weighed in with legislators, urging them to oppose changes to the base bill that sought to strike, limit, or delay important provisions intended to improve our laws, increase efficiency, and protect vulnerable populations. After having passed through the Committee with only minor changes, the bill then went to the full Senate. After debate, consideration, and adoption of the controversial Corker-Hoeven Amendment, S. 744 passed the Senate in late June by a margin of 68-32. All Senate Democrats voting in favor of the bill, along with 2 Independents, and 12 of the 46 Republicans.
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Väderöarna - "the Weather Islands"
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Visit Weather Islands, as far out as you can go in the archipelago outside Fjällbacka on the west coast of Sweden. In this breathtaking environment you can spend the day or stay for the night in one of the old pilot houses where you nowadays find a small guesthouse and a restaurant serving food from the surrounding sea.
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The Arizona Cardinals chose defensive tackle Dan Williams of Tennessee with the No. 26 overall pick in the NFL
The team needed defensive help at several positions, and nose tackle was certainly one of them. Last year's starter, Bryan Robinson, was not re-signed and Alan Branch was shifted to defensive end. That left Gabe Watson the only nose tackle on the roster.
The 6-foot-3, 327-pound Williams started all 13 games for the Volunteers last season with 70 tackles, 36 solos.
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Network World - Federal legislation introduced in the Senate this week would give President Obama the power to declare a cybersecurity emergency and then shut down both public and private networks including Internet traffic coming to and from compromised systems.
The proposed legislation, introduced April 1, also would give the President the power to "order the disconnection of any Federal government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national security."
Some critics of the bill say that phrase needs to be more clearly defined.
"We are confident that the communication networks and the Internet would be so designated [as critical infrastructure], so in the interest of national security the president could order them disconnected.," said Leslie Harris, president and CEO at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), , which promotes democratic values and constitutional liberties for the digital age.
Harris and the CDT don't think such sweeping power is good news for anyone, including private networks that could be shut down by government order. Those same networks would be subject to government mandated security standards and technical configurations.
The bill says the president must have a comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy in place 12 months after the bill passes.
"This is pretty sweeping legislation," says Harris. "Seems the President could turn off the Internet completely or tell someone like Verizon to limit or block certain traffic," she said. "There is a lot to worry about in this bill."
In addition, an agency appointed by the President would control how and when systems are restored.
The power could conceivably extend to large service provider networks such as those run by Google, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and others who offer online services and applications to corporations and consumers.
"We are currently studying this legislation," said Dan Martin, a spokesman for Google. "Security has been a priority at Google from the beginning of the company – we recognize that secure products are instrumental in maintaining the trust our users place in us."
Proponents including officials from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) say the legislation is comprehensive and strong and reflects the need for thorough debate around digital security that is long overdue.
The bill was introduced by West Virginia Democratic Sen. John Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine.
Rockefeller said in a statement the bill loosely parallels the recommendations presented in December to Obama by a CSIS panel. The panel recommended naming an assistant for cyberspace and a National Security Council (NSC) director to coordinate government response to cyber threats.
The 51-page Rockefeller/Snowe bill calls for the appointment of a National Cybersecurity Advisor that reports directly to the President.
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Something fucking awesome happened in Cincinnati on July's Final Friday. A dude with a card table, some DJ stuff and a microphone (two turntables and a microphone, even) incited a random dance party with over 100 people around 1212 Main Street in Over-the-Rhine.
Music was pumping, and people flocked to it. I have never witnessed such an amassing of complete strangers and intimate friends. Plaid-clad hipsters were cutting loose with older, baggy-shirted locals. Drunk people who had tumbled out of bars were sweating out all the alcohol they had just paid for to Kool and the Gang. Everyone was incredibly, stupidly happy.
There was no reason for it. No social networking was involved. Nobody knew about it through a text or because they were Tweeted at or received a Facebook invite. It wasn't sponsored by Final Friday, and it wasn't even planned. DJ Alcatone, the awesome instigator, shrugged his shoulders when I asked him (over the Funk blaring out from two speakers), why he was playing music on a street corner in OTR. He said he just was. And people were just dancing.
There were three guys dancing in the middle of the damn street, stopping cars to gyrate in front of them. One was dancing intensely, and then he paused and directed traffic around other dancers. An SUV pulled up and four dudes sat on the edge of the car windows, took their shirts off, and held their arms in the air.
An entire two-block span of Main Street was filled with sweaty, writhing people. DJ Alcatone started a soul train in the middle of the crowd. There was a break-dancing competition, and seriously, who knew old people could get down like that? One guy did that thing where he contorted his whole body in the air, resting solely on his hand on the ground. (Yoga has not prepared me to attempt this.)
Cell phones crowded in the air, everyone snapping pictures of the "something" that was happening right in front of them. Cops drove by and didn't stop. The opposite side of the street was crowded with overflow dancers. A girl with an "I'm the bachelorette!" sash across her torso sashayed in front of cars, darting back and forth between the two sides. There was even a man with a broken leg in a wheelchair. Seriously. He was spinning on his wheels, grooving to the music.
It was like someone had pressed pause on every social, racial and economic stricture and preconception, and hit "play" for uninhibited, good-spirited, uplifting interaction. It was so simple, and no one stopped to think about it. No one stopped to consider "what it meant," or why it was happening, or how it could be better. Honestly, it couldn't have been better.
The police were called about two hours in, and were actually smiling when they told everyone the party had to end. That was probably the best time to have the party end — before everyone remembered themselves, the faces we all put on for the everyday world, the way we conduct ourselves around people we want to impress. No one was trying to impress anyone. Even the bad dancers (there were a few) were applauded. It was the fact that everyone involved stepped outside of themselves, without any catalyst or promise of reward, and for two hours, we just were.
To women, nothing says 'I Love You' quite like a big, fat cockroach on Valentine's Day. That's right, for just $10, you can name a special bug living at the Bronx Zoo after your sweetie - because like love, a cockroach is indestructible.
Cincinnati may be 20 years behind the times (according to that old adage), but no more than two months after New York's Dominique Ansel Bakery birthed the cronut — a magical, croissant-donut hybrid — the Queen City's already got local bakeries with our own varieties. Holtman's Donut Shop is serving up the pastry at its Loveland location and Savor Catering sells them at Roebling Point Books, Bow Tie Café and Left Bank Coffee (they even offer "croughnut holes!"). Better yet, the cronut is actually still trendy in its homeland, drawing long, early-morning lines and even high price scalping on Craigslist, so we're really not that passé after all!
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When Big Brother first made its U.S. debut in 2000, I recall being excited to witness some actual uncensored drama go down with an online companion to the television show (Oh innocent, early Internet era me). What would producers actually show? People peeing? Nipples? Sexy time? F-bombs? Now, of course, that's practically standard fare for a boring Housewives hour. More than a decade later, we still have Big Brother and it's still uncensored online, it's just a little surprising what's getting caught on camera. Basically, this bunch — Season 15 — is a group of bona fide racists, a bunch of regular Paula Deens. But we're not talking about backwoods idiots who don't know any better or politically incorrect Daniel Tosh wannabes. These are people who can't refer to their Asian roommate without listing off the Panda Express menu while making squinty eyes.
Fans have been upset that producers weren't showing any of this behavior on the actual telecast (these shining moments were only seen online), but some real gems were exposed on Sunday night's episode. Watch a roundup of This Week in Big Brother Racism, ya know, if you want to just hate humanity some more. With a title so innocent, who would have thought the show could expose so much evil?!
Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer finished its first season with a bang last week. The comedian's series, which has been picked up for a second season, was stellar — the perfect mix of stand-up, on-the-street interviews and sketches and, while it was clearly targeted to women, it was funny across the board. The episode closed with Amy's stand-up, where she brought out her opening act, Bridget Everett (the martini-guzzler seen in the finale's "Crazy Sex Tips" sketch). While the clip isn't available online now, Bridget performed a similar bit on an HBO special:
Skip to 3:30 for the song I've been shouting out the car at strangers for the past week. And yes, that's Ad-Rock in the back. Bridget Everett, marry me!
Breaking Bad's final episodes air starting Aug. 11, but will that be the end to all the Bad characters we've come to love? The rumors of a Saul Goodman spinoff are getting more and more credible as BB creator Vince Gilligan says he and producer Peter Could have a concept in development that they plant to seriously pitch once Breaking Bad comes to a close
Artist-type Steve Lovelace got a lot of attention last year for his
Corporate States of America map in which Lovelace selected a brand that best represented each of the 50 states.
(Ohio got Wendy's. JBCs for all!) Now, he's done it with booze.
Quick question: WTF is Hoppin' Frog?!
Last week was all about callin' bitches on online. Prime example No. 1: The Vegan Sellout site — which has since been wiped from the web — a forum for calling out vegan/vegetarians who do not practice what they preach (i.e. people who "hold secret barbecues," gave up the lifestyle to wear leather or claim to be vegan but eat meat on occasion). Whether this was a product of veg saboteurs or the most pretentious, backwards-thinking vegans ever is yet to be determined. Over in the Hamptons, James Cuomo is getting loads of credit for forming a Facebook group called "Douche spotter," aimed at targeting weekenders who infiltrate Hamptonites' homeland with their nasty rat faces every summer. I'm typically all for calling out bad parking jobs and fashion nightmares (these make up most of the photos), but not so that some waspy a-holes can feel better about themselves. Ironically, Cuomo definitely looks like a douche himself. Join the group here, and see why it totally warranted a GD New York Post story.Hey, people with voluntary restrictive diets and/or East Coast upbringings: Mind ya bidness!
Better late than never obsession: British sci-fi dark comedy, Misfits. It's everything I wish True Blood still was, only in the U.K. instead of Louisiana. Young delinquents + freaky storm + crime + super powers + sex + camp = I'm on the third season and I haven't even been watching for a week! Thanks, Hulu!
Texas gym teacher Deal Irby wore the same ensemble on every school picture day for 40 years! Meanwhile, I can barely fit into my T-shirts from four years ago. BRB, gonna go drink my lunch now.
Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards melted the face off the Internet, so if you're still trying to form an opinion and sift through gif reactions, or you're one of those people pretending you don't know what the VMAs are — the Moonman has been around since 1983 and the VMAs have been pooping out pseudo-controversy for just as long. You know what they are. Sit back down — don't worry, momma's here.
If you really don't watch the VMAs, it's important to understand that the V and A do not matter — MTV rarely plays music videos, as we all know, and no one ever remembers who actually wins the Mooman by the end of the night. The respected academy of critics are teens who vote for whichever marginally talented star tweets the most. You watch for the pop culture experience — whether it's Fiona Apple's "bullshit" acceptance speech, the Britney-Madonna kiss or Beyonce's baby bump announcement, crazy shit goes down at the VMAs. And this year was no different.
The big draw of the night was Lady Gaga's big comeback. It's been two years since a big performance and release, and Mama Monster also is back from a hip injury that kept her out of the public eye for a bit. Gaga opened the show with her new single, "Applause," which was welcomed by audience boos (those turned out to be staged. Gaga — go figure.). The performance looked like some kind of jazzy, art school, off-broadway number, complete with dudes in leotards and onstage weave and costume changes, ending in LG in a big ass brown curly wig, a mermaid shell bra and thong. Her body was siiiiick (eat it, haters) and it was nice to see her look/act like a human — this is not the meat dress-wearing, alien goth princess, Jo Calderone Gaga. This is ARTPOP Gaga.
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She seemed a little more down-to-earth, if that's possible? Like she was having fun, and not taking it too seriously. Which is good, because her new song is in a fucking Kia commercial.
Next up is the kind of moment that makes careers
and ends presidencies. Just kidding. It's just Miley! So I (like every human
with access to the Internet) detailed my roller coaster of emotions when I first
watched Miley Cyrus' video "We Can't Stop." And I must say, I have no problem
with MiCy growing up and changing directions. Alternatively, I have no problem with her being a completely fake, manufactured product (cut to Lady Gaga —Government Name: Stefani Germanotta — looking like the normal girl she
actually was less than a decade ago, on an episode of Boiling
Points. Most pop stars were once Hannah Montanas before their producers gave them "molly"
and a rejected Rihanna beat, OK?).
I have no qualms with her getting an fierce haircut and wearing denim diaper shorts and juxtaposing her former good girl image with her current hot lady looks. But there's a difference between shifting from Country to Pop or Disney kid to edgy starlet and purposefully quashing your saccharine image by motorboating a woman's thonged butt on TV just for the shock factor. I see you Miley, and I will not respond to you.


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Emil Kraepelin diagnosed the paranoid, catatonic, and hebephrenic forms of dementia praecox, a disease he created.
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In my view, Dr Angell's assertions reflect both a serious misunderstanding of psychiatric diagnosis, and—equally important—a failure to address the core philosophical issues involved in her use of the terms "subjective," "objective," "behaviors," and "signs."
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Electroconvulsive Therapy: The Second Most Controversial Medical Procedure
ECT, like abortion, is surrounded by controversy and strong opinions on both sides. Fortunately, for those of us who practice ECT, the discussion is not quite as heated nor the risks as high as for our colleagues in ob-gyn.
ECT Today: The Good It Can Do
Dr Stone's vivid description of the military's abusive use of ECT 50 years ago -- while compelling to read from an historical perspective -- should in no way be confused with ECT today.
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Changes to the Libvirt Virtualization Library
Version 0.4.0 of libvirt, a free library for administration of virtualized operating systems has just been released.
The new features in this release include authenticated remote access via the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). The Framework Policy Kit is used for local access.
The libvirt library, on which tools such as Red Hat's Virtual Machine Manager are based, supports Xen and other virtualization technologies such as QEMU, KVM and OpenVZ. The new version now supports CD changes under Qemu and KVM.
On top of this the developers have improved portability. The library can now be built on Windows thanks to Cygwin and Mingw. They have also improved the API for the NUMA memory architecture and removed various bugs.
Libvirt is licensed under the LGPL and can be used in combination with Python and C programs. On top of this, there are Libvirt bindings for Ruby, OCaml and Perl. The software is available as a source code tarball, and as binary and source RPMs here. Debian packages have not yet been updated to the new version.
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KDE Announces Software Compilation 4.13
New release comes with better semantic search and improvements to Kontact.
Coverity: Open Source Code has Fewer Defects
Annual code quality report shows FOSS is more secure at all project size levels.
An Even Smaller Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced an even smaller version of the tiny computer that will fit into a DIMM slot.
Freaky Privilege Escalation Attack
A new class of problems lets a malicious app pre-configure an invisible privilege update.
Facebook Rolls Out New PHP-like Programming Language
New Hack language adds static typing and other conveniences.
Fedora Announces Innovative Crytography Policy System
New crypto policy system will offer easier configuration and more uniform security.
Shuttleworth Calls for Declarative Firmware
Ubuntu founder denounces insecurity in proprietary, close-source software blobs.
New TLS Attack Takes the S out of HTTPS
Vulnerability affects many Linux web servers
Munich Adopts Kolab
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President William D. Adams, September 8, 2009
Faculty and administrative colleagues, returning students, and—above all else today—members of the great class of 2013 and transfer and exchange students—welcome to Colby and to this assembly, the traditional and highly ceremonial start to the academic year.
Knowing how important traditions are to students, I want to begin by remarking briefly on the tradition we continue here today.
Each new class of Colby students is welcomed in this way, and in this place, to the Colby community and experience. We have been doing this for a very long time and in very much the same way. Faculty lead the way, dressed in formal academic regalia. This is the first, or nearly the first, of your many encounters with them. Their presence symbolizes the heart of the enterprise and what we are up to here—students and teachers gathered together in extended conversation about the world and what matters. Of all the encounters you will have at Colby, the ones with faculty will surely be the most important.
We will return to this place on the eve of your graduation for the Baccalaureate service, when the president and faculty, looking very much as we do now, will bid you farewell. These are the symbolic bookends of your experience with us. And they suggest a kind of symmetry to your Colby academic careers that I know you will appreciate by the time they are concluded.
Every class of Colby students begins and ends its time here in this way, but this is distinctive—indeed it is unique—in one very important respect. For in 2013, the year of your Commencement, we will be celebrating Colby's 200th birthday. The Class of 2013 is the only one that will have the distinction of graduating in that momentous year. You are the bicentennial class.
As we approach the bicentennial moment, there will be plenty of public reflection on Colby's long and distinguished history, and so I won't burden you now with lots of facts. But as a way of introducing you to what we're up to here, I'd like to say a few things about what has remained constant over the past 200 years, and also what has changed, in obvious and not so obvious ways. I promise to relate these things to what is surely the most pressing question on your minds: now that I really am in college, as opposed to thinking about it, what can I expect?
So much has changed in Colby's fundamental circumstances and its surroundings over the past two centuries that it's hard to imagine that anything remains the same. Think, for a moment, about what Waterville and central Maine must have been like in 1813. If you thought it was hard getting here today, imagine how hard it would have been 200 years ago. Colby's first president, Jeremiah Chaplin, arrived by boat on the Kennebec River, which explains the otherwise completely mysterious fact that a replica of his ship, the Sloop Hero, sits atop the library tower in the form of a monumental weathervane. The voyage from Boston to Waterville took nearly one month.
Chaplin, a Baptist minister and an alumnus of Brown, was hired to run the place, teach religion, and ensure the good behavior of students. He didn't have a lot of help. Indeed for the first several years he had no help at all. There were roughly a dozen students in those years, and Chaplin taught them all. The course of studies included grammar, arithmetic, geography, logic and, of course, theology—lots of it. A second faculty member was hired in 1821 to teach languages. During his 15 years as president, Chaplin handed out diplomas to a grand total of 84 students.
You'll be relieved to know—I certainly am—that the president no longer teaches theology. Even so, and for reasons I can't quite fathom, some students do appear inclined to think of me as a minister.
It's hard to imagine that this college bears any resemblance to the one Chaplin and his students struggled to create. And yet, what they were doing then, and what we are doing now, is fundamentally the same thing, in several important ways. I want to talk briefly about two of them: intellectual empowerment and community.
Throughout Colby's history, our elemental hopes for students have remained constant. It's your intellectual growth—the growth of your minds and your capacity to think and to communicate—that most concerns us, and it is to that growth that we are most energetically and constantly committed. And so should you be, if you hope to get that maximum benefit from the time you spend here.
You will experience this growth in all kinds of interesting ways, no two exactly alike. Colby's academic program is remarkably rich, and each of you will come to know it from a slightly different angle.
We certainly hope and expect that you will grow from your exposure to specific disciplines and programs. It may be that your intimate acquaintance with biology, or computer science, or art, or economics, or Chinese—and in some cases more than one of these—will set you on a path that leads to a career. Whether it does or doesn't, we are very sure that your learning a great deal about one or more areas of human knowledge is a very good and necessary thing.
But as important as your deep acquaintance with specific subjects here will be, it is not the most important aspect of your academic experience and intellectual development. Our deeper hope and expectation is that wherever you end up in Colby's interesting array of programs, each one of you, and in very much the same ways, will experience a more general kind of intellectual empowerment that will serve you throughout your lives after Colby.
Nearly 20 years ago, Colby's faculty agreed to describe these capacities under the rubric of the "Colby Plan," ten precepts that encapsulate our vision of what a liberal arts education is all about. The faculty is talking once again about these precepts and whether or not they adequately convey our contemporary understanding of a liberal education. But I urge you to look carefully at the precepts, now and periodically as you make your way through Colby. As you do so, I hope you will ask yourselves how you are doing in terms of the specific learning objectives the precepts set forth.
Of all the intellectual powers we hope you will acquire here, three are especially important for you to keep track of: your ability to write and to speak with clarity, conviction, and power; your ability to think about and through complex problems and issues—to analyze, criticize, synthesize, and integrate; and finally, your ability to exercise your imaginations and creative powers.
These basic capacities—to communicate, to think, to imagine and create—are among the enduring and most fundamental goals of the liberal arts experience. As your teachers, we need to be thinking constantly about how our specialized interests and work are exercising and enlarging those capacities. As students, you need to be constantly checking in on and evaluating your progress. Nothing will matter more in your lives after Colby than your ability to communicate, to think, and to imagine and create. Together, these capacities form the most elemental meaning of your intellectual empowerment.
What we as teachers know is that the principal obstacle to the sort of empowerment I am describing is passivity. Nothing is more certain to constrain your growth here than the notion that you will learn by way of quiet osmosis—by sitting attentively in lectures, seminars, and laboratories and listening politely to others. Listening matters greatly in certain ways and moments—I will come back to this shortly—but the real key to intellectual empowerment is engagement.
By that I mean in part a certain attitude on your part—inquisitive, curious, eager, excited. But engagement also implies your involvement in certain activities. First and foremost on the list are the opportunities Colby offers you to engage faculty and to work directly with them in real and consequential forms of scholarship. You will find that your academic programs are loaded with other opportunities for engagement—advisory groups, discussion groups, lectures, and manifold opportunities to participate in informal intellectual encounters outside the classroom. You will also find opportunities to engage in practical learning and public service of various kinds—in Waterville, central Maine, and beyond—where the work of the classroom gets tested against the material of the real world. Your investment in these activities will be returned to you again and again, and nowhere more meaningfully than in the permanent fortification of your basic intellectual capacities.
Even as we focus on intellectual empowerment, we are also intensely aware that intellect severed from moral energy and passion is cold and lifeless. It's not our job to advance any particular set of values in our teaching; indeed, as I will suggest in a moment, a necessary part of our work is to inspire you to question beliefs and certainties, including your own and those of others around you. But please do not confuse such questioning with moral cynicism. Our desire is not that you come away from Colby without conviction, but that your convictions become more thoughtful and reasoned, and that you understand the broader context in which values and value systems originate, develop, and interact.
One moral sensibility that I am sure we would all agree is essential to the sort of educational experience we aspire to provide is your inclination to be involved in the world around you. Whatever the object of your public enthusiasms, you should know that the desire to influence events, along with the skill to do so, belong among the fundamental goals of liberal learning. Your generation's emergent idealism—your desire to make a difference—is in this sense a very good thing, and I hope it will continue to grow while you are with us.
Here, too, there is a striking link to Colby's early history. In the early 1830s, the Colby community was swept up in the anti-slavery movement that was gathering momentum and followers across New England. Colby students led the way here in Waterville, inspired in part by the example of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a graduate of the class of 1826 and one the great abolitionists of his era. The Lovejoy Building is named for Lovejoy, who became America's first martyr to freedom of the press. Look for information about the Lovejoy Convocation, to be held later this month, to learn more about him.
President Chaplin was critical of the anti-slavery movement, and his skepticism ultimately cost him the confidence of the student body and the Board of Trustees, leading to his resignation in 1833. But – I assure you -- you needn't run the president out of town to find ways of connecting to the world outside the campus. Indeed, I think you will find support in this regard from me and from most others here who care about your education.
The third thing we hope and expect for you here at Colby is the experience of a deep and lasting sense of community. In one way that prospect is not hard for you to grasp. As orientation and COOT veterans, you have some sense by now of the potential for building friendships here at Colby. I can assure you from my work with alumni that the relationships you build in the coming years will endure for the rest of your lives.
But there is another, somewhat broader and deeper sense of community available to you here. It includes your close friends and your feelings for one another, of course, but it also includes all of your contemporaries here on Mayflower Hill. It even extends, in ways I think you will come to understand and value, to those who have preceded you.
Somewhere near the heart of this sense of community is the solidarity and affection that flow from having experienced together, and in one place, the important intellectual and personal changes I've been trying to describe. These feelings will be evident to you in the pride you take in your class and in your attachment to this campus, which figures so prominently in the memories and feelings of virtually every alumnus and alumna.
Sooner or later, these elemental feelings of solidarity and affection will extend to fellow graduates of Colby from every class and generation.
As I mentioned the day you arrived, everything you see and experience here on this campus connects you to students who have gone before you and who, as alumni, continue to care about this place and to support it in many different ways. You have begun to meet them already. They are present in the buildings that carry their names, in the classrooms they have equipped with technology, and in the programs they have made possible. Soon you will begin to meet them in person, when they return for homecoming this fall and other gatherings of various kinds. I urge you to introduce yourselves.
What you share with this extended Colby family, in addition to the experience of Mayflower Hill, of course, is the excitement of having been part of an important and thrilling intellectual enterprise—of belonging to a community devoted to exploring ideas, to investigating the past, to valuing artistic and cultural expressions of various kinds, to exploring and debating important political topics and social issues, to investigating and understanding every facet of the natural and human worlds around us. There was a time when all of these things would have been identified under the rubric "the life of the mind." But the adventure we are engaged in is every bit as much about the world as the mind—about what's happening around us, about the things that we and others care about, about the meaning of it all.
This sense of common involvement in something that really matters—in an educational enterprise conducted at the highest level—is exciting, exhilarating, and dynamic. I hope you will come to feel its full force, for no college experience is really complete without it. But it will demand certain things from you.
The first is an appetite for new ideas and a tolerance for intense but civil debate, exchange, and disagreement. When large and important topics are at issue, the family discussion here can be noisy and a little raucous. And indeed it should be, for we cannot really understand ourselves or the important questions of the day without challenging one another and ourselves.
But this appetite for debate and exchange must always be tempered by our common commitment to respect one another. Even when you disagree most energetically, even heatedly, your capacity to summon a fundamental regard for one another is essential to continuing our work together. We may disagree with one another, but we must always have an eye to the more fundamental things we have in common.
As important as it is, respect will not protect you from feeling a certain level of discomfort, at times deeply personal, as you make your way through Colby. Inevitably, and especially in your interactions with one another, your fundamental assumptions and beliefs are going to be challenged here. That's the way it should be. If everything you currently think about the world remained comfortably in place throughout your time here, we would have failed you in a serious way. You need to remember that. And you also need to be able to engage in the hard but rewarding work of staying open and engaged in spite of your discomfort.
This is where listening comes in. Your capacity to listen, really listen, to one another is terribly important. I predict that at some point someone's words or beliefs will strike you as so wrong-headed, so entirely off-base and clueless, that you will want to walk away, never mind listen. But that is precisely the time to catch yourselves and summon your best listening skills.
The flip side of listening, of course, is speaking to others in a way that invites their listening, conversation, and further response. You can't really benefit from new and unfamiliar people or ideas unless you are prepared to get to know them. That requires real exchange, conversation, dialogue. And conversation demands patience and persistence. It also demands a way of expressing yourselves that invites response and that is from the outset respectful.
What's ultimately implied here is a delicate balancing act between two very powerful values. Because our educational mission requires the unconstrained exploration of ideas and the questioning of received wisdom, we place an extraordinarily high value on the freedom of expression. But it's terribly important to remember that our commitment to free expression is not a license to say whatever comes into our heads, in any tone of voice, no matter how smart or compelling or important it might seem. The academic freedom that we value and protect exists along side our concern for community; the one is incomprehensible without the other. At times these values exist in uneasy tension. But one never trumps the other.
Respect, curiosity, tolerance for discomfort, and the capacity to engage in extended conversations about demanding, perhaps threatening, topics—these are some of the requirements of membership in a community of learners, teachers, and truth-seekers. This is at once a different enterprise, and certainly a more delicate enterprise, than we confront as citizens of the public world. That public world is a pretty rough place at times, and it must have a very high degree of tolerance for even the most offensive utterances. But at Colby we can and do have different and higher standards of behavior. Those standards are not enforced by codes and or explicit regulations. But they are and should be made evident in the personal and institutional expectations we have of ourselves and one another, and by a kind of candor in our inter-personal relations about what is appropriate and inappropriate, respectful and hurtful, civil and uncivil. I am sure you will live up to these expectations.
In this particular dimension of community, Colby is a fundamentally different place than it was when Jeremiah Chaplin sat around the table with students here nearly 200 years ago. Our appetite for questioning authorities of all kinds—intellectual and political—far exceeds the appetite that characterized the College in those days. Even more important, we are a far more diverse community than the Colby of the 19th century. Indeed, we are far more diverse than the Colby of a few decades ago.
This diversity has many dimensions. It includes our ethnic and cultural differences, our diversity of national origins—witness the flags of nations that decorate this ceremony today—and our differences of belief, values, and thought, among other things.
This diversity is a very good thing, of course, for we are convinced that our differences enhance dramatically the educational experience we are able to provide. So appreciating and valuing our differences is part of the College's agenda, and it must be part of yours as well.
This sounds easy, but in practice it can be very hard, for really valuing our differences necessarily throws us outside our comfort zones and into other zones where unfamiliar assumptions and perspectives prevail.
Being able to listen carefully for and to those different assumptions and perspectives is vital. And so too is your continuous awareness of the fact that your own experience of the world is neither universal nor identical to the experiences of others. All of this implies, and finally requires, real sensitivity on your part, and a certain thoughtfulness and deliberateness in the ways you interact with one another.
In addition to these several senses of community, I hope that you will develop a strong sense of place at Colby. As some of my earlier comments suggest, I have no doubt that you will become very attached to the place called Mayflower Hill—this campus in all of its physical expressions. The loyalty and attachments of Colby alumnae are strongly influenced by memories of this remarkably beautiful campus, and yours will be too. This is one very important dimension of the sense of place that I hope will grow in you and remain with you after you leave.
But there is another dimension of place that really matters and that I urge you to get to know—one that lies just outside the physical boundaries of the campus. That place is bound up with Colby's history; I hope that it will become a part of your history here, as well.
During the time of the Great Depression in the 1920s and 1930s, Colby's leadership became increasingly concerned about the viability of the College in its original campus setting on the banks of the Kennebec River, just north of the intersection of what is now College Avenue and Main Street. That location was at the time surrounded by the railroad, the river, and the rapidly growing Waterville community, then a thriving mill town. In a moment of both courageous vision and desperation, the president and Board of Trustees resolved to move the campus to an entirely new location.
The story of Colby's migration to Mayflower Hill is a long and interesting one. You can find it compellingly told in the history of Colby written by former Dean of the College Earl Smith. The bookstore has copies, and the library does too. The key moment in that story was the decision by the town officials and a group of interested citizens to purchase three farms just on the edge of town, which were subsequently donated to the College. It was an act that probably saved Colby for those of us who came after and who have benefited from its strength and excellence.
Because our lives on Mayflower Hill are so intensely focused on our work with one another, it's sometimes hard to recall the ties that bind us to Waterville and central Maine. But your experience here will not be complete if you do not develop a sense of place that includes this community.
As you already know from one of your exercises during orientation, there are several ways you can pursue this sense of place. The first is the easiest—make your way, often, to downtown Waterville and explore Main Street. As you do so, keep in mind that you are not in a shopping mall or a big box store complex. It's infinitely more interesting than that and vastly more real.
A second and much more substantial opportunity will come in the myriad forms of civic engagement and community service afforded by Colby-Waterville connections. I recommend this form of engagement not simply because I feel that you have contributions to make—you surely do—but also because I know how much you can learn from getting to know your neighbors and being involved in their lives. I know you will find them welcoming of your interest and engagement.
A third opportunity comes in the form various venues the College provides for you to explore this beautiful and fascinating region of Maine. Whether it's skiing at Sugarloaf, or trips to Portland and Augusta, or visits to the coast and nearby lakes, a great deal is in store for you if you take the time and make the effort to get out.
You will notice the common theme running throughout these remarks—your initiative, energy, engagement. Your teachers, and all others on the campus who support their enterprise, are ready and waiting for you. But we need you to connect to us and this environment with all the energy and passion that you can muster.
Several years from now, when we meet again in this place, you will be on the verge of assuming your places in the world beyond the campus. Between now and then, you have a singular opportunity, one that will never be repeated in your lifetimes, to focus on learning and to develop your talents, interests, and basic capacities.
Welcome to Colby, then, and to this community of intellectual life, friendship, exploration, and discovery. I will see you again, right here, in May 2013 to offer some perspective on what you have experienced. In the meantime, don't hesitate to stop by my office, to talk to me when you see me on the campus, or ask me to lunch. I'll buy. We're all teachers here, in our own ways, and I'll do my best to be involved in your lives in helpful and appropriate ways.
Good luck, thanks for listening, and have a wonderful first year at Colby.


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Jess Hoover, Miami, Junior
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Finishing Time: 17:13.6
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Jarrod Genther, Ohio University, Sophomore
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Finish in Event: Third
Finishing Time: 14:59.2
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Finish in Event: Tied for Second
Finishing Time: 20:40.0
Clayton Murphy enjoyed a strong collegiate debut, tying for second place overall at the Tommy Evans Invitational, which served as the Zips' first meet of the 2013 season. The freshman was the first Zips across the line, finishing the four-mile race in 20:40. As a team, the Zips men defeated three of four competing squads, including Kent State, Marshall and Youngstown State in dual-meet scoring. Moore competed against 41 other runners and was just five second off the winning pace of 20:23, set by YSU's Eric Rupe.
Austin Coneys, Buffalo, Sophomore
Event Name: Harry Lang Invitational
Finish in Event: 12th
Finishing Time: 20:50
Sophomore Austin Coneys picked up his best career finish on Saturday at the Harry Lang Invitational as he came in 12th place out of 43 entrants in 20:50.60. Coneys led his team to a second place finish as he finished the highest of six Bulls that recorded top-25 finishes.
Juli Accurso, Ohio, Senior
Finish in Event: Fourth
Finishing Time: 17:30.4
Senior Juli Accurso was the top Bobcat finisher at the Miami Invitational.
Maria Moore, Akron, Junior
Finish in Event: Second
Finishing Time: 18:35.0
Maria Moore picked up where she left off last season with a second-place finish individually at the 45th running of the Tommy Evans Invitational last Thursday at Firestone Metro Park. In all, the junior clocked a 5K time of 18:35 which was just three seconds behind the winner, Malone's Tina Oprean. Additionally, Moore's mark was just one second off her winning pace of 2012. Moore was competing against of field of 45 runners from Kent State, Youngstown State, Malone and Marshall.
Chrissy Clarkin, Buffalo, Junior
Finish in Event: second
Finishing time: 15:47.2
Chrissy Clarkin picked up the highest finish for any Buffalo runner on Saturday at the Harry Lang Invitational, taking home a second place finish out of 39 runners, in 15:47.20. Clarkin was only eight seconds behind 1st place and was one of two Bulls to finish in the top four. Clarkin's effort led the Bulls to a second place team finish in the season opening event.
Leah Raffety, Northern Illinois, Redshirt Freshman
Event Name: NIU Open
Finish in Event: first
Finishing Time: 19:29.85
Redshirt freshman Leah Raffety opened the 2013 season with a win at the NIU Open. Leading the NIU pack that placed six Huskies in the top seven, Raffety broke the tape with a time of 19:29.85 despite the hot conditions.
Paige Foster, Junior, Kent State
Event Name: Tommy Evens Invitational
Finish in Event: fourth
Finishing Time: 18:42.0
Paige was the best finisher for Kent State for both the men's and women's team.


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The Jewish Theological Seminary ("JTS") is committed to the principle that discrimination and sexual harassment will not be tolerated in the JTS community. This principle extends to faculty, staff, students and applicants for admission and employment, and applies, as well, to the conduct of all visitors, invitees and vendors, contractors or consultants who do business with JTS. This principle is to be observed in employment practices, personnel policies, financial assistance, educational programs activities and housing matters. This policy also explicitly encompasses the goal that all members of the JTS community -- faculty, staff and students – must be able to work and study in an atmosphere that discourages discrimination and sexual harassment by colleagues, supervisors, teachers or peers.
Discriminatory treatment, insensitive or derogatory language or actions based on factors as such as an individual's actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other categories protected by law, are offensive and prohibited at JTS. Behavior which involves discriminatory treatment can be considered demeaning, coercive or depending upon the circumstances, threatening and intimidating. This policy applies to students and employees of JTS, as well as persons seeking status as a student or employee at JTS, except that only Jews are eligible for admission to the Rabbinical and Cantorial Schools.
Members of the JTS community are encouraged to report any incidents of discriminatory treatment promptly to any of the administrators listed in this policy. Individuals may also seek guidance from the individuals listed in the policy if they have any questions about discriminatory treatment, harassment or bias related crimes. JTS will undertake an investigation of a complaint of discriminatory treatment in accordance with this policy and will make a determination whether disciplinary action is warranted.
JTS has included the topic of discrimination in its programming for students, together with information about harassment, bias related crimes, sexual assault and campus safety. Any member of the community may obtain additional information from the Office of Student Life.
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is defined as any conduct directed toward an individual or group based on gender that is sufficiently persistent, severe or pervasive as to alter the individual's employment conditions, educational environment, or living environment, and that creates an intimidating, offensive or hostile environment for employment or education.
In determining whether alleged conduct constitutes sexual harassment, it is necessary to examine all of the relevant information available, including the nature of the conduct, whether such conduct is unwelcome, whether such conduct is persistent, pervasive or severe, and the context in which the alleged incidents occurred. Unless the conduct is severe, a single incident or isolated incidents of offensive sexual conduct or remarks generally do not create a hostile environment, which generally requires a showing of a pattern of offensive conduct. Sexual harassment can take many different forms, including:
Verbal: sexual innuendo, advances and other suggestive or derogatory comments, humor or jokes about sex or gender-specific traits, sexual propositions, insults, threats, written innuendo or suggestive comments, humor or jokes, in email, on social media sites, in hard copy or oral communication.
Nonverbal: suggestive or insulting sounds and gestures, leering, whistling, displaying sexually suggestive objects, pictures, cartoons, calendars or computer screens.
Physical: unwanted or unnecessary physical contact (e.g. brushing, patting, pinching), unwanted sexual advances, coerced sexual intercourse, stalking. Sexual violence (including rape, sexual assault, sexual battery and sexual coercion) is prohibited sexual harassment under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Depending upon the factors referred to above, the following conduct is probably not sexual harassment in violation of JTS policy:
The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has defined sexual harassment. The definition, while not dispositive, provides descriptive guidelines that may be helpful in clarifying what is considered sexual harassment:
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors or verbal, nonverbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when:
Sexual harassment may involve women being harassed by men, men being harassed by women, or harassment between persons of the same sex.
In order to provide information about bias-related crimes, crime prevention and reporting procedures, JTS has incorporated this topic into its orientation programs for new students and in the materials distributed to resident students. Students are also alerted about events that affect their security and the security of the community when the need arises.
Applicable Procedures
Several basic premises underlie the structure of these procedures and are intended to govern their application. First, the primary goals of this policy are to provide immediate response to an incident of discrimination or sexual harassment, provide appropriate redress for the victim and prevent similar incidents in the future. Punishment of the offender or retribution is not a primary goal, although in significant cases appropriate action may include, but is not necessarily limited to, one of the following: a recommendation of counseling, oral or written reprimand, discipline, suspension, dismissal, termination of employment or participation in an academic program. . Second, a member of the JTS community who exhibits singular or isolated acts of conduct perceived as discrimination or sexual harassment may simply lack the sensitivity to know these actions are creating discomfort or may be humiliating to others. Accordingly, any member of the JTS community who becomes aware of such activity may want to sensitize the individual directly in a discreet and confidential manner. Third, these matters are unusually sensitive, and additional harm can be caused to the victim, the alleged offender, and potential witnesses by inappropriate publicity.
1. Informal Resolution (Step One)
Initially, any member of the JTS community who thinks he or she has been subject to discrimination or sexual harassment may want to consider seeking a resolution of the problem informally and unofficially, through communication directly with the person concerned. . If the individual does not wish to try an informal approach or such an approach is not possible or does not resolve the matter, the individual should promptly bring the problem to the attention of any one of the Designated JTS Officials listed at the end of this policy. Complaints under Title IX should be brought to the attention of Diana Torres-Petrilli, the JTS Title IX Coordinator.
At the initial discussion between the individual who believes that he or she has been subject to discrimination or sexual harassment (the Complainant), and one of the Designated JTS Officials listed below, the Complainant may request that his or her identity be kept confidential while the individual decides whether or not to file a charge. The Seminary shall maintain the confidentiality to the extent feasible with its obligations pursuant to this policy.
One does not have to be the direct target of the discrimination or sexual harassment to report it to a Designated JTS Official who shall investigate the complaint consistent with these procedures if appropriate.
In addition, an individual who has the option of bringing a charge of discrimination or sexual harassment in more than one forum (such as a charge against a student in the Joint Program with Columbia which could be brought either at Columbia or at JTS) has the right to elect a forum in which to pursue his or her complaint. If the individual does not elect to pursue a complaint at JTS, the individual should nonetheless provide information to JTS about the charge.
In the initial meeting with one of the Designated JTS Officials, the nature and context of the incident need to be explored. The Designated JTS Official should discuss with the Complainant the procedures under this policy. If the Complainant decides to proceed, the Complainant must submit a written statement to the Designated JTS Official. The statement should contain specific details and be signed. JTS reserves the right to investigate allegations in the absence of a written complaint under appropriate circumstances.
Complaints should be presented as promptly as possible after the alleged discrimination or sexual harassment occurs. Normally, complaints should be brought to the attention of one of the Designated JTS Officials within a period of two months after the incident occurs. Prompt reporting is encouraged; the longer the amount of time that elapses, the more difficult it is to investigate the alleged harassment. An investigation may be postponed, however, at the request of the Complainant, for a reasonable time, such as until after a term ends or an examination is completed.
The Designated JTS Official shall then make such investigation as may be necessary and appropriate to gather the facts, including interviews and requests for written information from the Complainant, the alleged harasser and witness(es), if any. In that investigation, the Designated JTS Official shall, at all times, respect the sensitivity of the situation and the confidentiality rights of both the Complainant and the accused, consistent with the need for a thorough fact-finding. A recommended resolution, in writing, should be proposed within a reasonable time period, generally not to exceed twenty (20) school days, in a matter consistent with the need for privacy and discretion; a copy of the resolution, if accepted by the parties, shall be retained in Counsel's office for an appropriate period after a finding is made. The Complainant or the alleged harasser, if unsatisfied with the resolution proposed by the JTS Official, may request, within two weeks of receipt of the resolution, in writing to that JTS Official, that the complaint be referred to more formal procedures (Step Two). A Complainant may elect, during the informal process, to proceed to the Formal Resolution.
2. Formal Resolution (Step Two)
A complaint concerning an employment situation not settled at the Step One informal resolution, and which is not addressed by an applicable procedure in a collective bargaining agreement, shall be directed to a review panel appointed jointly by the Vice Chancellor/Chief Operating Officer and the Director of Human Resources. Any complaints other than those concerning an employment situation, namely student/student, student/faculty, faculty/faculty and staff/student matters, shall be directed to a review panel of three members of the JTS community, selected jointly by the Provost and the Dean of Student Life.
In each instance, the panel shall consist of any three members of the JTS Community, and shall include a student if a student employed at JTS is the Complainant or the alleged harasser. The panel shall invite parties to the dispute to appear to explain their position and to raise any questions for any adverse witnesses. The panel may conduct its own informal inquiry, call its own witnesses and gather whatever information it seems necessary to assist it in reaching a determination as to the merits of the allegation. Each person affected by the inquiry will be afforded a full opportunity to be heard and shall have the right to be accompanied by an advisor, who shall not be an attorney. Once such a determination has been reached, it shall be communicated in writing to both parties and the Chancellor for action. A brief summary of the basis for the determination will be available to either party upon request. The panel's conclusion on the merits of the allegation shall be final and not subject to further review. If the Chancellor is not able to accept the recommendation of the panel, the recommendation shall be remanded back to the panel for clarification or modification. The panel's decision and the final determination shall also be retained by Counsel's office.
The Review Panel should initiate its activities within fifteen (15) school days of receiving the complaint. Actual hearings should start with thirty (30) school days after the Review Panel starts handling a complaint, and hearings and fact finding should conclude within thirty (30) school days. A determination of the Hearing Panel should be available to the parties and the Chancellor within twenty (20) days after the conclusion of the Review Panel's hearings and fact finding. These time frames may be extended for reasonable periods for good cause or at the request or mutual agreement of the parties.
No one at JTS may take any adverse action in any way against a person making a claim of discrimination or sexual harassment in good faith. However, any student, faculty or staff member who exercises bad faith and brings false, malicious or frivolous charges may be subject to disciplinary action.
It is JTS' responsibility to provide educational programs on discrimination or sexual harassment for all interested members of the JTS community. JTS also makes available counseling services and referrals to outside professionals through the Office of Student Life.
There are circumstances where the policies administered by JTS, including this one, will take into consideration the beliefs and practices of Conservative Judaism.
It is the responsibility of the Chancellor to implement and monitor this policy.
The Designated JTS Officials under this policy are as follows:
|Director of Human Resources
Ms. Diana Torres-Petrilli
(212) 678-8011
Room 110 Unterberg
|Assoc. Dean, The Rabbinical School
Rabbi Lisa Gelber
(212) 678-8814
Room 503 Brush
|Dean, Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz
(212) 678-8827
Room 513 Brush
|Dean of Student Life
Ms. Sara Horowitz
(212) 678-8838
Room 209 Unterberg
|Assoc. Dean, List College
Ms. Rebecca Grabiner
(212) 678-8826
Room 513 Brush
|Director of Student Life
Ms. Ruth Decalo
(212) 678-8915
Room 209 Unterberg
|Dean, The Davidson School
Dr. Jeffrey Kress
(212) 678-8030
Room 530 Brush
Executive Vice Chancellor/Chief Operating Officer
|Dean, The Rabbinical School
Rabbi Daniel Nevins
(212) 678-8907
Room 509 Brush
Dr. Alan Cooper
(212) 678-8065
Room 505 Schiff
|Associate Provost
Dr. Stephen Garfinkel
(212) 678-8042
Room 508 Schiff
|Implemented: January, 1993
|Last Update: April 2014


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International Social Survey Program: National Identity, 1995 (ICPSR 2474)
Principal Investigator(s): International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Formed in 1983, the group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. This collection, which focuses on national identity, contains data from Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, the Slovakian Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Respondents were asked to comment on various topics regarding national identity, such as how "close" they felt to their respective countries, national pride, their nations' relations with other countries, and their nations' treatment of immigrants and minority groups. Those queried were asked to describe the pride they felt towards their countries' accomplishments in the following areas: political influence, economics, social security, science and technology, sports, the arts, armed forces, history, and treatment of others. A series of questions probed for respondents' views regarding international relations, including foreign trade restrictions, international problem-solving attempts, foreign language education, the purchase of land by foreigners, the nationality of television programs and movies, and the benefits of membership in regional international organizations. Respondents were also asked to assess their countries' treatment of minority groups and immigrants. Topics covered the preservation of minority traditions, the impact of immigrant groups on crime, the economy, the job market, cultural openness, special provisions for political refugees, and the citizenship process. Demographic variables include age, sex, education, marital status, personal and family income, employment status, household size and composition, occupation, religion, social class, union membership, political party, political orientation, race, ethnicity, language fluency, demographics of community, and citizenship.
Access Notes
This data collection has been deaccessioned; it is no longer distributed by ICPSR. The data are currently available at International Social Survey Program: National Identity, 1995.
Study Description
International Social Survey Program (ISSP). INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SURVEY PROGRAM: NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1995. ICPSR release. Koeln, Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung [producer], 1998. Koeln, Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02474.v1
Persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02474.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: attitudes, cultural identity, cultural influences, economic conditions, foreign policy, immigrants, international relations, minorities, national identity, national prestige, national pride, nations, political influence, public opinion
Geographic Coverage: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Global, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United States
Time Period:
- 1995
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The data file is in SPSS export format.
The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.
The data dictionary, bivariate frequencies, and full question text portions of the PDF codebook are also provided in ASCII format.
This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity.
Original ICPSR Release: 1998-06-25