Madeleine Orr
Madeleine Orr, Sport Management Department, made 2020’s class of Top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders. Sponsored by Corporate Knights, with support from Telus, there were two requirements listed when nominations were opened to the public: nominees must be under age 30 and either work in Canada or be a Canadian working abroad.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke to the Monroe County Bar Association on “Gun Violence—What to Do” on March 21 in Rochester, N.Y.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had his article, “Taking a Closer Look: LGBTQ Characters in Books for Intermediate-grade Children,” published in Children and Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, one of four original members of the weekly television program, “The Ivory Tower Half Hour,” was on hand to commemorate the program’s 10th anniversary on the air, as noted on the program’s broadcast on Sept. 7. “The Ivory Tower” is a weekly public affairs program broadcast at 8 p.m. on Fridays on WCNY-TV, Syracuse, N.Y. The panelists, consisting of college faculty from central New York universities including Syracuse University, Cazenovia College, Colgate University and Onondaga Community College, discuss the events of the week, and close each program with A’s and F’s. According to Nielsen ratings, “The Ivory Tower” has the highest viewership of any local program broadcast on any local television station in Central New York.
Robert J. Spitzer
Robert J. Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk titled “It’s All Academic: The Meaning of the Second Amendment Versus Heller,” at a conference on “The Second Amendment: Its Meaning and Implications in Modern America,” held Jan. 18 at Lincoln Memorial University School of Law in Knoxville, Tenn.
Paul Arras
Paul Arras, Communication and Media Studies Department, had an article titled “Art Bell’s Open Forum: Conspiracy Talk on Coast to Coast AM and its Legacy in the Internet Age” published in August in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, received word that four of her poems were published in Altered Reality Magazine. They include “The Conjunction: Jupiter Pursues Venus,” “Things That Go Bump & Smile In The Night,” “Brunch, Spaceship Side” and “Atopic Catastrophi.” In addition, her poem “Once Upon a Time” will be in the upcoming issue of The Poet’s Haven Digest in the edition themed “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...” It will be published on Dec. 15.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor emeritus of political science, is the author of a new book published by Oxford University Press. Titled, The Gun Dilemma: How History is Against Expanded Gun Rights, the book examines the new, more aggressive gun rights movement that has resulted in an expansion of Second Amendment rights by the Supreme Court in 2022. Through an exploration of a gun past that is mostly unknown, forgotten, or distorted, the book demonstrates that gun regulations were the default in America’s early history, a lesson that resonates with the contemporary effort to expand gun rights. Among the subjects examined are assault weapons, ammunition magazines, silencers, public gun carrying, and the Second Amendment sanctuary movement. This book is Spitzer’s 16th, and sixth on gun policy.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, has had three book reviews published. Her review of Racism and the Olympics, by Robert G. Weisbord, was published this summer in the Journal of Sport History, a peer-reviewed journal. The Sport Literature Association published her reviews online of Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League, by Douglas M. Branson, on July 17, and Wartime Basketball: The Emergence of a National Sport During World War II, by Douglas Stark, on Sept. 6.
Madeline Orr
Madeline Orr, Sport Management Department, was recognized by Forbes as one of the top 30 under 30 in the sports category for being one of the first researchers to dive into the impact of climate change on sports.