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California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Soka University Japan, Transcend Art and Peace
Created: October 29, 2001
Latest Update: February 22, 2002

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People are still adding the class, so this is not a final roster. I've included thesis project students, too, so I won't have to keep separate reports of learning. BIGKESH@aol.com

  1. Acone, Patricia
    Soc 370?, Soc 596?
    e-mail: pacone@csudh.edu
    February 21, 2002: Pat, sorry that you've been so sick. We're struggling with working out the details of distance work, but we're managing to connect. Take care and get well soon.

    February 7, 2002: Sagwa's up, and I have several more files waiting to upload. Yes, I, too am intrigued by the Enron Collapse, and I'll add that to our list of possible social issues.

  2. Beasley, Mary Akor Soc 370
    e-mail: hotbody5000@yahoo.com
    February 21, 2002: Missed you Wednesday, Mary. WRITE to me. We don't want to let things fall behind, especially because I'll be leaving in early May.

    February 7, 2002: Thank you for stopping by on Wednesday afternoon. I love your new curls. And your enegy filled the office. We'll get you set up by next week.

  3. Berry, Nyree Soc 370 repeatable e-mail: bnyree526@aol.com
    February 21, 2002: Nyree, I missed you and Lashana on Wednesday. If you two miss me, will you please be sure that you get together. Betty Melton will let you into my office, and I'll teach you to use my computer. But don't turn into field mice, please.

    February 7, 2002: Stories from Jamaica. Nyree, you can take Soc. 370. It is a repeatable course.

  4. Boone, Kasie Soc 370? e-mail: kasieboone@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Kasie, I didn't see you on Wednesday. WRITE to me. I want to keep everyone up to date, so we won't have any work left undone when I leave in May.

    February 7, 2002: E-mail returned on February 8, 2002.

  5. Boykin, Marlene
    Soc 370 or Soc 595?
    e-mail: MBOYKINQ@aol.com
    February 21, 2002: Marlene, good to see you Wednesday. I'm counting on you and Jaime to chair the session for ACJS on Saturday morning, March 9 at Disneyland. Both of you have good skills for directing a panel. In the Open House a year ago, some participants were so excited they resisted Jaime's attempts to keep them calm. In public discourse, we want to recognize the emotion attached to these arguments, but we need a strong hand in controlling that emotion so it doesn't lead to confusion of the arguments and issues. I'd like you and Jaime to get together and talk about how you'll do that.

    February 7, 2002: Missed you on Wednesday. Will catch up to you tomorrow, because we have to have the offices completely functional for next week.

  6. Bradley, Dunbar
    Soc 370?
    e-mail: . . . xxxx
    February 21, 2002: Dunbar, I keep getting messages that you're on your way up to my office, but you never get there. Are you registered for the class? WRITE to me! I don't want you falling behind in the work.

    February 7, 2002: Registered? I need an e-mail address!

  7. Briggs, Michael
    Soc 370 - repeatable
    e-mail: lastlaugh3000@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Michael, WRITE to me! Wes came in on Wednesday, but he was sick. We sent him home in the interest of community health. I want to be sure your work with me is finished if you should have to leave early in the semester.

    February 7, 2002: Michael, where are you? I keep getting messages from other people, and I'm getting your e-mail, but I missed you on Wednesday. See you next week, and WRITE TO ME!

  8. Cain, Kara
    Soc 370
    e-mail: karamc2000@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Kara, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you about Thursday. I have far too much writing to do to come in another day. But there are lots of us who are there on Thursday. I want you to just pick someone who can meet with you to catch you up on our face-to-face sections on Wednesday. And then WRITE to me! You're real good at that.

    February 14, 2002: I was delighted to see you yesterday. Glad you were able to fit us in - hope I didn't make you late. Things were a little hectic as today was the last day to add. Let's be sure that we find you someone to do practice arguments with. We'll use the listserv for that.

    February 7, 2002: Missed you on Wednesday, Kara. I think you might want to consider the social issue of teaching young children for peace and social justice.

  9. Clark, Helen
    Soc 370
    e-mail: UBMEC@aol.com
    February 22, 2002: Helen, Good for you. You're reacting to the material on site.

  10. Coulter, Millie
    Soc 370
    e-mail: ladebee93@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Millie, I haven't seen you! WRITE to me. I'll have more up on theses projects soon.

    February 7, 2002: Thank you for coming by on Wednesday. I'll have a review of your thesis project up by next week.

  11. Dang, Cao
    1 unit Grad. Indep. Study
    e-mail: caodang1120@hotmail.com
    February 7, 2002: How about you e-mail me your plans for readings this semester?

  12. Delgado, Laura
    Soc 370
    e-mail: lynn_jr@prodigy.net
    February 21, 2002: Laura, I missed you on Wednesday. Kerry told me of the computer problems you were having. Stay in touch with Kerry, so you won't get lost.

    February 11, 2002: I look forward to seeing you Wednesdaay, Laura.

  13. Gilmore-Jones, Carolyn
    Soc 370
    e-mail: regginea@msn.com
    February 21, 2002: Carolyn, I know it's hectic. But you have to WRITE to me. I will be leaving in early May. I can't afford to have any of you behind in your work. And I want you to go to the ACJS meetings in March. We have to plan that. Stay in touch.

    February 7, 2002: Got your e-mails, but missed you on Wednesday. Write to me! E-mailed you on February 8, 2002.

  14. Hall, Wesley
    Soc 370 - repeatable
    e-mail: lilwes73@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Wes, we're sorry you were sick. But we don't want to catch it. Thank you for not coming in. Feel better and WRITE to me. I don't want you to get behind.

    February 7, 2002:Missed you and Michael on Wednesday. Now that we've settled on Wednesdays, perhaps you and Michael and I, and anyone else that's going to focus on the computer software should set up a special time for that. We'll use the computer in the Dear Habermas office across the hall from mine. Hop to! You've got a lot to learn.

  15. Hill, Lashana
    Soc 370?
    e-mail: lashanah90806@yahoo.com
    February 21, 2002: Missed you guys on Wednesday. I know you can write. I even know you like to write. So, WRITE to me. You can even do it on the listserv. Then you can just publish the listserv, yes?

    February 14, 2002: Missed you and Nyree and Keyana on Wednesday. Please be sure that you are getting together for oral practice on your own. I'll send out instructions soon. Meanwhile, WRITE to me! And I'm supposed to get a copy of the novel you guys wrote.

    February 14, 2002:Good to see you on Wednesday. I'm hoping that you will help form a practice group when several of you can meet. And I'm glad that most of you can catch me on Wednesday.

    Andrea Perea-Solis added the course on your recommendation. Because she is new to our classes, I need you to be sure to spend some time with her to bring her up to date. I hope that you will include her with your group for practice.

    February 7, 2002: Registered?

  16. Holliday, Angel
    Soc 370
    e-mail: AHolliday@mednet.ucla.edu
    February 21, 2002: Angel, I haven't seen you. Please check with Keyana and Lashana, and stay in touch. February 7, 2002: Registered? Keyana said you were going to, I think. You two will probably want to work as partners. Maybe with LaShana, too?

  17. Hundley, Keshia
    Soc 370
    e-mail: BIGKESH@aol.com
    February 21, 2002: Hi, Big Kesh. Got your message and was particularly impressed that you remembered all the answers would be on the site. Added that little smart ass remark to the article for ACJS.
  18. Kemp, Berthena
    Thesis Project
    e-mail: Sustabert@aol.com
    February 21, 2002:Dear me, Berthena, you're going to make me crazy. E-mail is so important for us to communicate. Don't ever wait a whole week again. If you don't hear from me, something is wrong. Call Betty Melton and ask her to alert me.

    I'll get up my notes from our session yesterday sometime this afternoon. I'll link it here when I put it up. February 8, 2002: Thank you for coming by on Wednesday. I look forward to receiving thesis excerpts from you. Is this your current e-mail address? We need to stay in touch.

  19. McLaughlin, Rebecca (Mac)
    Soc 370?
    e-mail: RLC_McLaughlin@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Mac, why don't we give you graduate theory credit next Fall. Then we won't have to worry about how to manage this when I'm not officially teaching. That means you'll need to get in touch with Jaime Shepherd and Marlene Boykin and Tyron Turner for clues on how we're handling this for graduate students.

    February 7, 2002: Do you want credit, Mac? We'll have to ask Susan how to do it. I'll try to talk to the Dean this week. Mac, I'm thrilled you got Mautumn up, but I still can't figure out how to get to it from a link! Eek!

  20. Maduakor, Martins
    Soc 370
    e-mail: ladebee93@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Martins, you and Agnes and Rose were doing a fabulous job of getting advocacy and the law straight on Wednesday. I like that your questions showed intense concentration. I'll have the second part of that lecture up soon. But write to me!! You're relying on my remembering everything you say and do. Put it down in writing. That helps. And read these reports so that you catch it if I miss some of what you're doing or learning. February 7, 2002: I like your suggestion of a topic on the difficulties of inequality before the law when the law and dominant discourse are changing, as with domestic violence and rape. Let's start a thread on this.

  21. Morris, Patricia
    Soc 370
    e-mail: woowoo26@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Patricia, we need our Security Officer in charge of terrorists! Where are you? WRITE! and follow the site on moot court.

    February 7, 2002: Sent e-mail on February 8 to check on whether you're going to add moot court.

  22. Myers, Beverly
    Soc 370 repeatable
    e-mail: bamyers@aol.com
    February 21, 2002: Beverly, remember long ago when you fussed at me that you deserved a higher grade in moot court because you had done x, y, and z, and I hadn't given you credit for them? Let's not go that route again. WRITE to me! Keep me informed about what you're doing. I get nervous when you guys turn into field mice. And the site is taking too much time for me to go field mouse hunting.

    February 7, 2002: Missed you on Wednesday. The whole moot court page is up now, so you can check out what you missed.

  23. Owens, Ebony
    Soc 370
    e-mail: ebonymowens@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Ebony, I missed you on Wednesday. Please check in. And WRITE ro me. I want to be sure you have at least one partner for practicing oral presentations.

    February 15, 2002: Ebony, go to the moot court page and catch up on the reading. We'll be building on what we did last semester in theory. I've added you to the listserv. See you next Wednesday.

  24. Partika, Kerry
    Soc 370
    e-mail: kerry422@msn.com
    February 21, 2002: Glad to see you Wednesday, Kerry. And that was a good question about what if we don't finish the project. We won't. I can guarantee that. But in the process of trying, we learn a great deal, so that in the next project we will come a little closer to success. The project on connecting with Zambia is a good example. We probably won't have a solid connection by May. But we will have a record of the many things we tried, the loopholes, the difficulties, so we'll be more successful over the summer and next Fall.

    February 7, 2002: Zambia and networks and ? Congratulations on your friend's baby last Wednesday. We'd be glad to have you work on the Zambian network. But you might want to consider a different focus. Let me know.

  25. Perea-Solis, Andrea
    Soc 370
    e-mail: apereasolis@yahoo.com
    February 21, 2002: Andrea, it's really important that we catch you up. Do WRITE to me, and try to catch me on Wednesday.

    February 7, 2002: Hi, I look forward to meeting you.

  26. Powell, Janet
    Soc 370
    e-mail: TARSWORLD@aol.com
    February 21, 2002: Janet, I haven't seen you since the first week of the semester. No field mice! I don't have time this semester to go out and hunt you guys down. WRITE to me!

    I know, I know, you have this wonderful journal, and you just figured you'd bring it by sometime. No, no, no. I want you to WRITE to me, so I know what you're doing. And I want my copy of last semester's journal.

    February 7, 2002: I was very impressed by your journal from theory class in the Fall. I think it would be a good idea if you worked on the social issue of inclusion in public discourse, and used your journal to illustrate your arguments.

  27. Russaw, Thomasina
    Soc 370
    e-mail: TRussaw@MercuryMedia.com
    February 7, 2002: Thomasina, I saw you Wednesday, but you weren't there when I got free to talk to you. I figured you must have had to go somewhere. WRITE to me! Then I know we're OK.

    February 7, 2002: I liked your detailed questions on the current complexity of race issues in the U.S. Yes, we do have to broaden our perspective to include a much more extensive group than sociology's tranditional black/white perspective. Perhaps you would like to suggest a moot court issue on race.

  28. Seeman, Rose
    Soc 370?
    e-mail: xxxx
    February 21, 2002:Rose, I was delighted with your work on Wednesday. You're doing a good job of transferring theories to practical everyday situations. And it's clear from our discussions that you are reading extensively. February 8, 2002: Delighted to have you join us. Looking forward to your adding health concerns to our issues.

  29. Shakoor, Malika
    Not formally registered.
    e-mail: truthnoir@yahoo.com
    February 7, 2002: Contributing member of the Dear Habermas board. Not registered because of an overload.

  30. Shepherd, Jaime
    Soc 370 - repeatable
    e-mail: shepherd71@earthlink.net
    February 21, 2002: Jaime, I was grateful to see you on Wednesday, and I'm sorry that we had so little time to share. I would like for you and Marlene to chair the panel at ACJS on Saturday morning, March 9. Both of you are good at that, and your skills will complement hers. More on this later.

    Jaime, see also my comments to Marlene. February 8, 2002: We'll be meeting on Wednesday afternoons, in the offices. Are you going to try to actually do some of the filming for your project?

  31. Simpkins, Agnes
    Soc 370 - repeatable
    e-mail: xxxx
    February 21, 2002: Agnes, you've gotta get to a computer. I worry that you are going to miss something, and I worry especially that I can't get intermittent messages to you. At least get an e-mail address at school, so that you can pick up messages when you come in to school.

    You were doing some good conceptual linking in our dicussion on Wednesday, and I liked the example you gave of social injustice when police on the scene of a domestic violence incident take the children present outside, where the adulta involved in the scene can't hear them, and question the children about what took place. Both you and Martins suggested that the police questions are suggestive and confuse the children. Good point. Agnes, if you are particularly interested in that we might follow up by discussing techniques for interviewing children in such cases. That might serve well for community workshops. February 14, 2002: Still need an e-mail address for the listserv. February 7, 2002: Good to see you last Wednesday. If e-mail continues to be a problem, perhaps I can set up an account for you in the office.

  32. Smith, Samantha
    Soc 370?
    e-mail: baby_soo@onebox.com
    February 21, 2002: Samantha, Glad you got in touch with me. I added you to the listserv, and you are welcome to take the course even though you won't get to see me on Wednesdays. February 7, 2002: Registered? E-mail? Old e-mail address not working.

  33. Turner, Tyron
    Soc 370
    e-mail: tyron1000@netzero.net
    February 21, 2002: Hello! I missed you, and Charles. WRITE to me! I don't like it when we lose touch, and I haven't heard from you since I responded to your theory question.

    February 7, 2002: Sorry I missed you guys Wednesday evening. We'll work out a time to make sure that doesn't happen again.

    February 8, 2002: I would very much like the idea of having you and a few of the other advanced students help with the editing of the briefs for moot court. For now, take a look at the first article we submitted, Building Discourse in the Aftermath, and at the first draft of that article. We'll use that as a model for the other briefs. Writing is easier when you just get the ideas down, as we did in the first draft, and then go back to add end notes and polish the conceptual linking. I'll develop a format to guide us in doing this.

  34. Wimberly, Jolie
    Thesis Project
    e-mail: joliewim@hotmail.com
    February 21, 2002: Jolie, I got your review of literature files. Will get back to you as soon as I can. Nag me, if I'm slow.

    February 7, 2002: Jolie's thesis precludes registration, but moot court and thesis projects are sharing this semester.

    February 8, 2002: You did an excellent job of your abstract. I'm pleased that you just dove into the writing.

  35. Woolen, Keyana
    Soc 370 - repeatable
    e-mail: keywoolen@aol.com
    February 21, 2002: Keyana, missed you on Wednesday. WRITE to me! I don't want any of you to fall behind, and I want to know that yoare getting together for oral practice.

    February 7, 2002:Sorry that I missed you on Wednesday. Did another of our friends have a baby Wednesday? Will see you next week.