Friday, May 8, 2015

Groups for group evaluations

If you do not see your name here, send me an email ASAP with your name and your group name
W for Win: Sara-Ruth Gabriel; Stephen Poblete; Michelle Kim; Visar Berisha, Maulford Smith; Greg (?); Natasha Wright
$QUAD: Amirah Grady; Eva Suliman; Damarr Gordon, Daniel Parisi, David Teitelbaum
Awesome: Ryan Rumph; Lezah Calvin; Manpreet Chahil; Dawit Taddesse; Khalif Milton
Angry Birds: Maria Nasios; Pierre Bolden; Kaiwen Zhang; Brian Kang; Rashad Williams-Dorsey
Group 4: Malin Niklassen; Dan Naughton; Christina Bijou; Yasmeen Brown; Alina Cooper; Sara Millan; Greg Battista
Lucky 7s: Karen; Jess; Sam; Jeremy; Ivan; Makeda Solomon
Group 2: Madalyn Mahoney; Sam Humbel; Elizabeth Matthew

Thursday, May 7, 2015

The Price of Nice Nails

http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBjlxRu?a=1&m=en-us

By SARAH MASLIN NIR | The New York Times | The New York Times - ‎7‎:‎59‎ ‎AM

Monday, April 20, 2015

Friday class and make-up assignment

I will be out of town this Friday (April 24). In place of class, students will be expected to complete the following assignment:

1) Watch a movie in which inequality is a theme.
2) Comment on that movie here.

Students will receive credit for two comments and those two comments will not count against the five for the semester.

Have a nice weekend.


Movie Comments

Make your movie comments below

Monday, April 13, 2015

Enough with Scandinavia

Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them. - MSN News

A good example of how money and resources can be used to influence what research gets done.

Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them.

Amber Hall, The Takeaway

PRI - PRI - ‎Monday‎, ‎April‎ ‎13‎, ‎2015

Back in the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control provided funding for studies on gun violence. The NRA was not pleased. "[Our research] underwent peer review and was thought to be very solid and worthwhile research," says Dr. Fred Rivara, who was part of the team that researched gun violence. "The CDC stood by our research — they had funded it...


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