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Rove issue to re-emerge?
Gerard Heather, professor of political science, appeared live July 17
on the KRON 4 News for a discussion on how the allegations that presidential
adviser Karl Rove leaked classified information to members of the press
will affect President Bush. "There are going to be other things
that begin to drive this a little bit off the news," Heather said. "By
August you're going to have a nomination of a Supreme Court judge and
that's going to move this ... to the background ... But I think the
grand jury is due to issue its final report in October which will mean
it will re-emerge."
The media and the self
KQED radio "Forum" host Michael Krasny, professor of English,
discussed the importance of media literacy with BECA professor Michelle
Wolf on the Aug. 3 edition. "It [media literacy] means the ability
to access, evaluate, analyze and communicate media messages in a variety
of forms," Wolf said. "Self-conception is profoundly shaped
by information in environments of all kinds, but because of the proliferation
of mass media, media are impacting the sense of self more deeply than
ever before. A big part of how you see yourself is in terms of how you
think other people see you."
Upwelling late but welcome
William Cochlan, senior research scientist at Romberg Tiburon Center
for Environmental Studies, reported in an Aug. 7 Marin Independent
Journal article that despite earlier concerns about the West Coast
oceanic ecosystem, "the food chain is totally back to normal." A
late upwelling of warm waters in the Pacific Ocean had some scientists
fearing a major disruption of the food chain, but Cochlan and other
researchers who spent part of the summer analyzing Pacific waters found
the delay did not create a major disruption. Cochlan's comments were
also picked up by the Associated Press and appeared in newspapers --
in print or online -- across the country.
Free trade costs more for some
Krasny discussed the implications of free trade with Latin America on
the Aug. 10 edition of "Forum" with Abdiel Onate, professor
of history and director of Latin American area studies. "We have
to be careful about the benefits of free trade," Onate said. “From
the point of view of the less developed societies, like those of Central
America whose productivity levels are very low, it is not in their
interest to have free trade. How can they compete with top-of-the-line
producers in the U.S. or in Europe?"
Working with would-be writers
An Aug. 21 San Francisco Chronicle Magazine article on Bay Area creative
writing programs featured comments by SFSU faculty Michelle
Carter and Maxine Chernoff. "I need to make what happens in a classroom
interesting to me," Carter said. "If not, it won't be interesting
to anyone." Carter avoids the peer critique mode of teaching creative
writing. Chernoff explained why creative writing courses can be valuable
for aspiring writers. "There's someone to show you ways to do
something you might not have thought of yourself, who engages you,
and you're going to do it more quickly with better results," she
said.
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