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Month of June 2002 

Sean Aday, assistant professor of media and public affairs, was mentioned in an article published in the Presidential Studies Quarterly on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.

John Banzahf, professor of law, appeared on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Moneyline” to discuses his advocacy campaign against junk food suppliers (June 4). He was also quoted in the London Independent (June 4), the British Medical Journal (June 14), The Straits Times (Singapore) (June 15), and U.S. News and World Report on the same topic.

 

Paul Butler, professor of law, discussed the Moussaoui case on Fox News Channel.

 

Christopher Cahill, assistant professor of chemistry, appeared on “NBC Nightly News” and CNBC regarding new developments in the anthrax case (June 25).

 

William Chambliss, professor of sociology, appeared on the “NBC Nightly News” regarding the increase in the national crime rate (June 23).

 

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, was quoted in an Associated Press story on the use of Sign Language as a foreign language elective (June 2).

 

Mary Cheh, professor of law, was quoted in the National Law Journal (June 10).and the Fulton County Daily Report (Atlanta) (June 11) on terrorism suspects having access to lawyers. Finally, he appeared on CNN’s “Talk Back Live” on the Pledge of Allegiance issue (June 26).

 

Robert Cottrol, professor of law, discussed the latest death penalty rulings with Voice of America.

 

Charles Craver, professor of law, was quoted in BusinessWeek on service providers insisting on arbitration to settle lawsuits (June 10). He also commented on American Disability Act in the The National Law Journal (June 17) and Fulton County Daily Report (Atlanta) (June 20). Finally, he was quoted in the New York Law Journal on the National Labor Relations Board (June 27).

 

Amitai Etzioni, GW University Professor, was quoted in a New York Times article on a federal court panel striking down a law requiring libraries to filter the Internet for material harmful to minors (June 1); he also wrote an op-ed on the same topic that appeared in Tulsa World (June 16). His op-ed on Middle East violence appeared in the Christian Science Monitor (June 17). Finally, he was quoted in a Washington Post story on lost and found policies in elementary schools (June 15).

 

Christopher Fedo, assistant professor of geology, was quoted in the Dallas Morning News on his study about his study that looked at billion-year-old rocks in Greenland (June 3). His research was also featured in The New York Times (June 4).

 

John L. Glascock, professor of finance, was quoted in the China Post on the securitization of real estate markets (June 29).

 

Jeffrey R. Henig, director of the Center for Washington Area Studies, was quoted in The Washington Post about D.C. population figures (June 6).

 

Seyyed Hossein, professor of Islamic studies, and his book, “The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity,” were mentioned in The San Francisco Chronicle (June 15).

 

Karl Inderfurth, professor of the practice of international affairs, ESIA, was quoted in Newsday, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post Dispatch (June 9), L.A. Times, The Baltimore Sun, and U.S. News and World Reports about the showdown between India and Pakistan.

 

Philip Jacks, professor of art history and architecture, was quoted in The New York Times on European architectural tours (June 13).

 

Frederick Jacobsen, clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was quoted in a New York Times story on antidepressants (June 30).

 

Darryl Jenkins, director of the GW Aviation Institute, was quoted in an AP story (June 3) and The San Diego Union-Tribune (June 4) regarding a decrease in flight delays. Jenkins was also quoted in Newsweek, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 16), and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (June 11) on US Airways. On the topic of government loans to airlines, he was quoted in the St. Petersburg Times (June 14) The New York Times (June 26) and in an AP story (June 28). His paper on travel site bias toward certain venders was cited in The Record, Bergen County, NJ (June 30); and his paper on failed airlines was cited in The National Post (Canada) (June 5).

 

Ivy Kennelly, assistant professor of sociology, was quoted in a Washington Times story on closing the gender gap with high school math and science scores.

 

Lawrence Mitchell, professor of law, analyzed Worldcom’s accounting scandal on Fox News Channel, Bloomberg, VOA, Dutch Radio, Kiplinger's and the L.A. Times. Mitchell also discussed Arthur Andersen in The Houston Chronicle (June 22) and the Globe and Mail (June 10); and the Martha Stewart scandal in The Washington Post (June 27), New York Daily News (June 17), and Toronto Star (June 28).  He was quoted in The Washington Post on corporate ad campaigns (June 8); and the Globe and Mail on President Bush’s speech on corporate scandals (June 29). Finally, he weighed in on the Adelphia downfall in the Buffalo News (June 4).

 

Todd Peterson, professor of law, was quoted in the Legal Times on Miguel Estrada's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (June 3).

 

Jerrold Post, professor of the practice of political psychology and international affairs, ESIA, was quoted in a New York Times story on the psychology of world leaders (June 29).

 

Bernard Reich, professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor about Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak pressing Bush for Palestinian state (June 5).

 

Walter Reich, the Elliott School’s Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, reviewed “The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust” by Richard Rhodes in the New York Sunday Times Book Review section (June 30).

 

Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law, appeared on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” about church and state issues (June 27). He also wrote on op-ed on the same issue that was published in The New York Times (June 28).

 

Sara Rosenbaum, Harold & Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Care Law & Policy, appeared on NPR’s “Morning Edition” to discuss efforts in Congress to pass a Patients Bill of Rights (June 21). She was also quoted on the same issue in The Wall Street Journal (June 21) and Modern Healthcare (June 24). Finally, an article she co-wrote on managed care was published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

 

Howard Sachar, professor of history and international affairs, authored an op-ed on the Middle East conflict that appeared in the Jerusalem Post (June 20).

 

Stephen Saltzburg, Howrey Professor of Trial Advocacy, Litigation, and Professional Responsibility, was quoted in an AP story (June 12) on U.S.-born terror suspect Jose Padilla. He also appeared on CNN’s “Special Report With Aaron Brown” on the Moussaoui case (June 25). Finally, he was quoted in an AP story on changed in FBI surveillance rules (June 26).

 

Roger Schechter, professor of law, was quoted in The Las Vegas Review-Journal on the state of Nevada’s use of “The Simpsons” in add campaigns to fight the Yucca Mountain Project (June 27).

 

Sam Simmens, assistant director, Biostatistics Center Medical Center Unit, was quoted in an AP story and The Hartford Courant on Gulf War illness (June 25).

 

James Starrs, professor of law and forensic sciences, was quoted in an AP story (June 22) and The Harrisburg Patriot (June 27) about prisoner suicide case in York, Pennsylvania He was also quoted in The Boston Globe on the mystery surrounding the death of explorer Meriwether Lewis (June 17).

 

Carl Stern, Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, was quoted in The Dallas Morning News about President Nixon, 30 years after Watergate.

 

Dave Swartz, GW chief information officer, was quoted in the publication CIO on the use of education to bolster online security (June 1).

 

Peter Swire, visiting professor of law, was quoted in a San Diego Union-Tribune story about technology companies looking to sell security devices to the U.S. government (June 3).

 

Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, appeared on MSNBC to discuss the Pledge of Allegiance issue and several times on “Fox Special Report with Brit Hume” for a series of Supreme Court round ups (June 10, 21, 24). He also made two appearances on “The O’Reilly Report” – first to talk about FBI wiretapping (June 4) and next to discuss an involuntary manslaughter case (June 14). Turley was also quoted about FBI wiretapping in The Washington Post (June 3). He was quoted about new airport security laws in the publication National Defense (June 1); in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on a case involving Area 51 (June 15); in The Rocky Mountain News on plutonium shipping rights (June 13); in The Star-Ledger on a new EPA report on global warming; in the Times Union (Albany) on holding terrorism suspects in military jails (June 16); and in Roll Call on Hill oversight of intelligence collection. He wrote an op-ed on the FBI investigating a brothel in New Orleans that appeared in The Cincinnati Post (June 11); and op-eds on the death penalty that appeared in The Record (Bergen County, NJ) (June 23) and the Times Union (Albany, NY) (June 25).  Finally, he discussed the Moussaoui case on ABC “World News Tonight,” (June 13), NPR (June 13), The Washington Post, The Star-Ledger (June 3), The Los Angeles Times (June 8), CNN (June 12), Boston Globe (June 16), Denver Post (June 19).

 

Law School Dean Michael K. Young discussed the U.S. record on religious freedom in The Desert News (June 22).

 

C-SPAN covered the first day of panels for the ESIA Summer Institute on International Affairs. The session examined the crisis in South Asia over Kashmir.

 

A GW report on English for Speakers of Other Languages was mentioned in The Washington Post (June 10).

 

GW was mentioned in a Newsweek story on the continued popularity of New York and Washington, D.C. as a place to study for graduating high school seniors.

 

GW was included in a Washington Post story on the temporary housing market for incoming summer interns. Seth Weinshel, director of GW summer housing, was quoted in the story. June 1

 

The Hartford Courant covered a study conducted by the Veterans Health Administration in the federal Department of Veterans Affairs and GW’s School of Public Health regarding Gulf War illness.

 

GW was mentioned in a Christian Science Monitor story about terrorism worries not deterring college bound students from choosing urban campuses (June 11).

 

The Washington Post covered a forum hosted by GW featuring Benjamin Bradlee and Bob Woodward to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.

 

GW Washington Forum programs for the month of June included a discussion of summer travel with Darryl Jenkins and Sheryl Spivack, associate professor of tourism studies; author Patricia Thomas about her book on the AIDS vaccine; a dialogue on conflict management in the Middle East with University Professor Amitai Etzioni; and highlights of the washingtonpost.com forum commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.

 

-GW-

 

 

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