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Prof. Fox and alumna publish on smoke litigation

Posted on Feb 20, 2004

Christine Perrucci
'03
and Richard Fox, associate
professor of political science, are authors of “Nowhere to Hide: The Judicial
Response to Secondhand Smoke Litigation” in the winter 2004 issue of The Judges Journal, the quarterly of the
Judicial Division of the American Bar Association (Vol. 43, No. 1). The
article, based in part on Perrucci's senior thesis, found that while judges
have mixed views on legal claims about secondhand smoke, they are increasingly
likely to embrace the idea that the right to smoke “ends at your neighbor's
nose.”

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Prof. Ueno writes on gender in Japan

Posted on Feb 20, 2004

Junko Ueno,
assistant professor of Japanese has written an article, “Gender Differences in
Japanese Conversation,” to be published in Intercultural
Communication Studies Journal.

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Prof. Feffer writes on Philly housing movement

Posted on Feb 20, 2004

Andrew
Feffer
,
associate professor of history, has written an article on the housing movement
in Philadelphia, “The Land Belongs to the People: Reframing Urban Protest
in Post-Sixties Philadelphia,” which appeared in Van Gosse
and Richard Moser's The World the Sixties Made, an edited collection of
essays on politics and culture in recent American history (Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 2003). Another article by Feffer on Philadelphia history,
“Show Down in Center City: Staging Redevelopment and Citizenship in
Bicentennial Philadelphia, 1974-1977,” is due out in the Journal of Urban
History
in May of this year.

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Alumnus recalls time with ’84 hockey team

Posted on Feb 20, 2004

Craig Blum '86, wrote a heartwarming note to members of
the Athletics Department to thank them for honoring him at a recent tribute to
the 1983-84 hockey team, the first team to make it to an NCAA hockey finals.

“You guys really made me feel welcome, even though I was
just a scrub,” he wrote. “During the reception, I began to feel more and more
uncomfortable about the prospects of going out to center ice to be honored.
However [you and the team] insisted I belonged out there with everyone else in
the team photo.”

“When I was a senior in '86, Charlie [Morrison, head
coach] asked me to stay on for the rest of the varsity season to practice,
which ended up being two months. I was the only one he asked, but he made it
clear, 'Blummer, I'd like to have you practice, but the only way you'll play is
if someone gets hurt.' I tried for two months to hurt someone on the ice, but
my 150 pounds didn't make a dent. I then tried some off-ice tactics, but
everyone was extremely resilient. I never did get to play, but as the season
got extended into the ECAC playoffs, and then the NCAA tournament, I really
began to feel a small part of the team.

“I remember having my locker next to Curt Cole '86, captain.
One day he told me, 'Blummer, you are part of this team, now.' That meant a lot
to me at the time, even if I didn't tell him that. I got to travel with the
team and I was even announced as a healthy scratch a bunch of times.”

“Since those two special months in February and March of
1986, I never regained that same feeling, even at alumni game after alumni
game.

“That is, until Saturday night. I still feel that I didn't
deserve to have Eric Hornick '86 announce my name and say a few nice words
about me, and then walk out to center ice and receive that commemorative stick.
However, not one person let me know that, and I just wanted to let everyone
know how much I appreciated that. So, that's what it feels like to be on the
ice at Achilles Rink at night …”

Blum, of Freehold, N.J., is vice president of sales for a
small manufacturing company in the adhesives and sealants industry. He and his
wife, Kerrie, have two sons, Jared and Tyler.

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Activists to speak on China and American IT

Posted on Feb 20, 2004

Harry Wu

Harry Wu, activist and former
political prisoner of China,
and Ethan Gutmann, journalist and author, will co-present a talk, “China's
E-Police State:
American IT Companies and American Values,” on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. in the F.W.
Olin Center
Auditorium.

Their talk is sponsored by Union's
East Asian Studies program and the Department of Political Science.

Wu, activist and former political
prisoner in the People's Republic of China,
is the foremost U.S.
campaigner against the human rights violations committed by the Laogai system.
Beginning when he was 23 years old, Harry Wu served 19 years in the Laogai
prison system for criticizing the policies of the Chinese Communist Party.
Since his release he has worked to expose the human rights abuses of the Laogai.  In research-gathering trips across China,
posing undercover as a U.S.
businessman or police officer, Wu has documented Laogai camps, detention
centers, and instances of Laogai produced goods being exported to the U.S.
He serves as the executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation. He has
also authored three books on the Laogai including: The Chinese Gulag (1992); Bitter
Winds – A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
(1994), and Troublemaker – One Man's Crusade Against
China's Cruelty
(1996).

Gutmann is the author of Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire, and
Betrayal
(Encounter Books, 2004). He is a visiting fellow at the Project
for the New American Century.

In his recent essay in The Weekly Standard, “Who Lost China's
Internet?,” Gutmann explored U.S. corporate complicity in Chinese Internet
censorship, and the transfer of surveillance technologies to Chinese state
security, while calling for a combined public and private response to China's
Internet crackdown. He has also written extensively on security issues, the
growth of Chinese nationalism, and the U.S.
business scene in Beijing for Investor's Business Daily, the Washington Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and other
publications.

For the last several years, Gutmann
was based in Beijing, serving as a
senior counselor for APCO China, the leading public affairs firm in China.
He also worked with Beijing Television as an executive producer. Previously, he
was chief investigator for the America's
Voice Television network in Washington,
and a foreign policy analyst for the Brookings Institution. He received both
his BA and his master's in political science and international relations from Columbia
University.

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