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SHU in the news “… Thomas Healy, a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School, tells the remarkable story of how … [Oliver Wendell] Holmes was persuaded to change his mind about the meaning and reach of our most fundamental safeguard.” — Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times Sunday Book Review, of Thomas Healy’s The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind — and Changed the History of Free Speech in America.
“Activists saw the home as a private place where families lived and loved. It was not a workplace. In fact, housework was maybe not work at all.”
“It was not in the remit of the [U.N.] report to assign blame for this atrocity, the like of which has not been seen since Saddam Hussein gassed his Kurdish citizens a quarter century ago.
— Vanessa May, College of Arts and Sciences, NPR’s Academic Minute, explores the politics around unprotected labor and domestic workers.
— S. Azmat Hassan, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Huffington Post, on the U.N Inspector’s report on the use of chemical weapons near Damascus in August 2013, and slow pace of diplomacy in the Syrian civil war.
“He was a man of great simplicity, down to earth, a man of the people. … Francis of Assisi spearheaded a great evangelization movement of the 13th century. He embraced a new way of being religious in the world.” — Monsignor Raymond J. Kupke, Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, U.S. News & World Report, on the Italian friar as a possible inspiration for the name the new Pope selected.
“I like to say it is a win/win. The businesses walk away with good insights about their customers or they’ve gotten, say, eight recommendations and five of them are truly actionable.” — Adam Warner, Stillman School of Business, New Jersey Business, on the value of the Center for Market Research for both student marketability and aiding the business community.
“On big-weather chase days in Oklahoma, the scene is like a traveling weather-geek circus combined with big-game hunt.” — Mark Svenvold, College of Arts and Sciences, The New Yorker, discusses the American fascination with chasing tornadoes.
“The only lamentable fact is that China’s legal system is still so flexible that it permits what looks like a Hollywood movie with the CCP leadership as the director, Bo Xilai as the lead actor, and a satisfied audience.” — Zheng Wang, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Diplomat, on Chinese politician Bo Xilai’s trial, as the verdict was announced.
“They are essential to advancing the science of nursing, building collaborative partnerships with other sciences, and improving the health of the communities they serve.” —Mary E. Fortier, College of Nursing, American Nurse Today, on the ways that Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees are advancing the nursing profession.
“At times, schools resemble Category 5 hurricanes with high winds of academic rhetoric, downpours of unfunded mandates, and floods of students with unrelenting socioeconomic and learning challenges. Charged with navigating this stormy weather responsibly are the often-beleaguered school principal and district superintendent.” — Charles Mitchel, College of Education and Human Services, The Lens, Center for Empowered Leadership, in an article about listening to our higher coach.
“Astonishing as it may sound, the man who has been appointed ‘conservator’ to restore the Columbus statue [in Buenos Aires] was the same man who 40 years earlier had been in charge of restoring the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron before its final burial in 1974.” — William Connell, College of Arts and Sciences, i-Italy NY and Clarín, on the politics surrounding Christopher Columbus in South America.
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