I empathize with your grumpiness over curriculum difficulties. In the late 60s
when I began teaching, I was able to offer both an intro course on human origins
and evolution that included biological anth and archaeology, and one on cultural
with an ethnographic component. By the late 70s, however, the human origins died
(students deemed it simply too difficult--"too technical") and I settled for
teaching what I could of those two sub-disciplines in a five-field intro to
anthro course. The cultural course survived.

Though Phil is right about the decline in math and science education, I'm
inclined to believe that higher education in general was becoming too much for
increasing numbers of entering community college students. I didn't include any
real math in the course, but the details of classification and taxonomy for both
biological forms and archaeological finds seemed "just not worth students'
efforts." Though I'm a cultural anthropologist, I loved teaching that course,
and I feel strongly that the culture and biology of humanity's first 99 plus
percent of existence on the planet should be an essential part of an education.
And our discipline is the only place students can get it!

So I wish you the best of luck. Perhaps America will begin to tackle its
educational problems in earnest before you either give up in frustration or
retire.

Lloyd


On Jun 30, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Anthropmor wrote:

>
>
> But also because education is valued and the school day and school year are
longer. Too many of our students are turned off by math and science in K-12.
>
> I need to point out that those 2 statements don't necessarily belong together;
and every time I hear about the school year, and/or day being longer, I find
confliciting data.
> The Indians I've talked to agree with education being valued, but the "longer"
school day is parents enrolling kids in extra classes...for 1 example.
> Also, the value of education is shown by pay and respect- neither one of which
is abundant here.
> I've had the same probelms teaching Hardy Weinberg- I'm only average at math
myself, but Holy Cow! - many people were stymied by it. Except for the 10
percent who were bored... I don't know, I guess I'm grumpy about this because my
attempts at starting an Intro to Physical / Hum,an Origins class and an Intro to
Archaeology at my current place is being met with resistance
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Stein <stein39@...>
> To: SACC-L <SACC-L@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sat, Jun 30, 2012 4:17 pm
> Subject: Re: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...
>
> Possibly. But also because education is valued and the school day and school
year are longer. Too many of our students are turned off by math and science in
K-12. My grandson, who just completed 3rd grade, goes to a very fine public
school. They do a very good job in reading, but not so well in math. Someone in
education told us that most K-12 teachers are not well versed in math. Last year
I heard a speaker refer to a study that the turning point is Algebra 2. Before
that age students are facinated with science. At that point in time hoards of
students are turned off. I teach physical anthropology, and I used to derive the
Hardy-Weinberg equation and do simple problems--very elementary algebra. Now I
skip on by.
>
> Phil
>
> --- On Sat, 6/30/12, Anthropmor <anthropmor@...> wrote:
>
> From: Anthropmor <anthropmor@...>
> Subject: Re: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...
> To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, June 30, 2012, 1:25 PM
>
> think it is because their governments don't cripple them with debt?
> Mike Pavlik
>
> US to lose it's edge in science and technology. Next time you have an
opportunity to walk into a research lab, look around. Often the majority of
scientists working in these labs have been trained outside of the US.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Stein <stein39@...>
> To: SACC-L <SACC-L@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sat, Jun 30, 2012 10:49 am
> Subject: RE: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...
>
> There is a great deal of lip service given to critical thinking, but in
reality there is very little of it in the classroom, except, perhaps, in the
sciences. At my college we have very little if any anti-evolution sentiments, at
least overtly expressed. Maybe it's the California sunshine. But I'm shocked at
the the stuff people accept. And I'm not just talking about students. I belong
to a social science discussion group and I am constantly surprise at the lack of
understanding of scientic thinking. For example, people with PhDs (outside of
the sciences) accept the illogic of the climate change deniers. I'm afraid that
the rampent scientific illiteracy in the US will eventually cause the US to lose
it's edge in science and technology. Next time you have an opportunity to walk
into a research lab, look around. Often the majority of scientists working in
these labs have been trained outside of the US.
>
> Deborah, you're right on. We're not talking about belief systems. I tell
people that it really doesn't matter what you believe, whether it's the world is
flat, the moon is made of green cheese, or the world was created 10,000 years.
What is, is! And it doesn't really matter if you choose to belief otherwise as a
matter of faith. It really doesn't change reality. And I prefer to operate in
reality.
>
> Phil
>
> On Fri, 6/29/12, Deborah Shepherd <shephdj@...> wrote:
>
> From: Deborah Shepherd <shephdj@...>
> Subject: RE: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...
> To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, June 29, 2012, 5:40 PM
>
> I had many students who came to me and said a variation of, "Just so you
> know, I don't believe in evolution..." I would stop them right there and
> tell them that there is no "belief" about evolution. It is just a matter of
> honest and careful observation. I think many of them distrusted me for that
> startling statement, but it made some of them think a little.
>
> Deborah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Lloyd Miller
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 12:33 PM
> To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...
>
> Ha, good point, Frank. It also rankles me that so many from the media, as
> well as some who craft surveys, refer to the issue as "believing in
> evolution." This phrasing just reinforces the idea that evolution, like
> creationism, gods, or magic, is just something you either do or do not
> believe in. No one has yet asked me if I believe in "atoms" or "science."
> Maybe it will come to that.
>
> Lloyd
>
> On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Frank Lagana wrote:
>
> > What really irritates me is that these anti-evolution proposals are always
> presented as fostering "critical thinking". If critical thinking is really
> so important, why on earth would anyone be a republican?
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Lloyd Miller <lloyd.miller@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Sure, Tim, here it is.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Tim Sullivan wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hey Lloyd.
> > >> Hope your summer is going well. Can you send me that pdf? I am
> constantly looking for items that will shed light on our current state of
> ignorance. Sometimes they help me think of 'new angles' for presenting ideas
> to students, sometimes they simply provide an item for students to read and
> ponder, and sometimes they simply give me an excuse (well, not that I really
> need one) to go open a beer, sit on my patio and consider options for when I
> retire in a few more years.
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Tim
> > >> Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
> > >> Professor of Anthropology
> > >> Richland College
> > >> 12800 Abrams Rd.
> > >> Dallas, TX 75243
> > >>
> > >> 972-238-6959
> > >> tsullivan@...
> > >>>>> Lloyd Miller 06/28/12 11:02 AM >>>
> > >> If you're on SACC-L and would like the attachment (an essay in Nation
> Magazine on student ignorance about evolution and scientific thinking
> generally), email me individually and I'll send you a .pdf of it.
> > >>
> > >> Lloyd
> > >>
> > >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > Find out more at our web site http://saccweb.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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Dear Colleagues,

I've been catching up on my online backlog of The Nation magazines and came
across a review by CUNY NY history prof. Richard Wolin in the May 21 issue of a
new book titled "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be" by Andrew Delbanco, a
Columbia U prof. of American Studies. While the book focuses on four-year
liberal arts colleges, the issues it raises are, I believe, equally pertinent to
community colleges and to our recent listserv discussion on the decline of
scientific education. Here are several excerpts from the review:

Many of our standard assumptions about the Western tradition, rationality and
science have been steadily undermined, not all of them justly. The twentieth
century will be remembered as an epoch of industrialized mass murder, confuting
the Enlightenment assumption that science and the improvement of humanity go
hand in hand.
  It would not be an exaggeration to claim that higher education has been
degraded to the status of an enfeebled auxiliary to reigning social and economic
interests. In a society such as ours, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville noted,
perpetually inclines toward majoritarian tyranny, a liberal arts education must
promote training in nonconformity.

If you get this message on SACC-L and would like the review, email me
individually, as before, and I'll send you the .pdf.

Best,
Lloyd











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fyi. - good presentation on "conceptualizing" race.
The New Search for the Biology of Race Anne Fausto-Sterling

Richard C. Francis, Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance.
W. W. Norton, $25.95 (cloth)

Ann Morning, The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about
Human Difference. University of California Press, $26.95 (paper)

Dorothy Roberts, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big
Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. New Press, $29.95
(cloth)





National Cancer Institute

Have you heard this one? A sociologist, a lawyer, and a biologist walk
into a bar, scoot their stools up to the counter, order drinks, and
begin to chat. Suddenly, a booming voice (God, the bartender?)
envelops them. “What is the meaning of race?” the voice asks.

see attachment...





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"In a society such as ours, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville noted,
perpetually inclines toward majoritarian tyranny, a liberal arts education
must promote training in nonconformity."



Such a great statement.



Deborah





From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Lloyd Miller
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 4:53 PM
To: Lloyd Miller
Subject: [SACC-L] book review on "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be"





Dear Colleagues,

I've been catching up on my online backlog of The Nation magazines and came
across a review by CUNY NY history prof. Richard Wolin in the May 21 issue
of a new book titled "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be" by Andrew
Delbanco, a Columbia U prof. of American Studies. While the book focuses on
four-year liberal arts colleges, the issues it raises are, I believe,
equally pertinent to community colleges and to our recent listserv
discussion on the decline of scientific education. Here are several excerpts
from the review:

Many of our standard assumptions about the Western tradition, rationality
and science have been steadily undermined, not all of them justly. The
twentieth century will be remembered as an epoch of industrialized mass
murder, confuting the Enlightenment assumption that science and the
improvement of humanity go hand in hand.
It would not be an exaggeration to claim that higher education has been
degraded to the status of an enfeebled auxiliary to reigning social and
economic interests. In a society such as ours, which, as Alexis de
Tocqueville noted, perpetually inclines toward majoritarian tyranny, a
liberal arts education must promote training in nonconformity.

If you get this message on SACC-L and would like the review, email me
individually, as before, and I'll send you the .pdf.

Best,
Lloyd

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Makes me think of an NPR interview recently in which a Congressman said there is
little if any reflection taking place in Congress where members stop, think, and
talk about where the country is going or should be going and about the issues
facing us.


From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Philip
Stein
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 11:50 AM
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...



There is a great deal of lip service given to critical thinking, but in reality
there is very little of it in the classroom, except, perhaps, in the sciences.
At my college we have very little if any anti-evolution sentiments, at least
overtly expressed. Maybe it's the California sunshine. But I'm shocked at the
the stuff people accept. And I'm not just talking about students. I belong to a
social science discussion group and I am constantly surprise at the lack of
understanding of scientic thinking. For example, people with PhDs (outside of
the sciences) accept the illogic of the climate change deniers. I'm afraid that
the rampent scientific illiteracy in the US will eventually cause the US to lose
it's edge in science and technology. Next time you have an opportunity to walk
into a research lab, look around. Often the majority of scientists working in
these labs have been trained outside of the US.

Deborah, you're right on. We're not talking about belief systems. I tell people
that it really doesn't matter what you believe, whether it's the world is flat,
the moon is made of green cheese, or the world was created 10,000 years. What
is, is! And it doesn't really matter if you choose to belief otherwise as a
matter of faith. It really doesn't change reality. And I prefer to operate in
reality.

Phil

  On Fri, 6/29/12, Deborah Shepherd
<shephdj@...<mailto:shephdj%40gmail.com>> wrote:

From: Deborah Shepherd <shephdj@...<mailto:shephdj%40gmail.com>>
Subject: RE: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com<mailto:SACC-L%40yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, June 29, 2012, 5:40 PM



I had many students who came to me and said a variation of, "Just so you
know, I don't believe in evolution..." I would stop them right there and
tell them that there is no "belief" about evolution. It is just a matter of
honest and careful observation. I think many of them distrusted me for that
startling statement, but it made some of them think a little.

Deborah

-----Original Message-----
From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com<mailto:SACC-L%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com<mailto:SACC-L%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
Lloyd Miller
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 12:33 PM
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com<mailto:SACC-L%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [SACC-L] Darwin still losing...

Ha, good point, Frank. It also rankles me that so many from the media, as
well as some who craft surveys, refer to the issue as "believing in
evolution." This phrasing just reinforces the idea that evolution, like
creationism, gods, or magic, is just something you either do or do not
believe in. No one has yet asked me if I believe in "atoms" or "science."
Maybe it will come to that.

Lloyd

On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Frank Lagana wrote:

> What really irritates me is that these anti-evolution proposals are always
presented as fostering "critical thinking". If critical thinking is really
so important, why on earth would anyone be a republican?
>
> Frank
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Lloyd Miller
<lloyd.miller@...<mailto:lloyd.miller%40mchsi.com>> wrote:
>
> > Sure, Tim, here it is.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Tim Sullivan wrote:
> >
> >> Hey Lloyd.
> >> Hope your summer is going well. Can you send me that pdf? I am
constantly looking for items that will shed light on our current state of
ignorance. Sometimes they help me think of 'new angles' for presenting ideas
to students, sometimes they simply provide an item for students to read and
ponder, and sometimes they simply give me an excuse (well, not that I really
need one) to go open a beer, sit on my patio and consider options for when I
retire in a few more years.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Tim
> >> Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
> >> Professor of Anthropology
> >> Richland College
> >> 12800 Abrams Rd.
> >> Dallas, TX 75243
> >>
> >> 972-238-6959
> >> tsullivan@...<mailto:tsullivan%40dcccd.edu>
> >>>>> Lloyd Miller 06/28/12 11:02 AM >>>
> >> If you're on SACC-L and would like the attachment (an essay in Nation
Magazine on student ignorance about evolution and scientific thinking
generally), email me individually and I'll send you a .pdf of it.
> >>
> >> Lloyd
> >>
> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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I just saw a piece on the PBS News Hour tonight that showcased Alan Alda's
efforts to make science more understandable to young people, and apparently he's
been quite successful, according to the young students interviewed and observed
on the program. Maybe there's hope!

Lloyd

Alda used to do a Smithsonian-something television show with 3 or 4 segments
in an hour. (Ann will know!) He had one on primate intelligence that I
showed to my students once.



Deborah



From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Lloyd Miller
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:44 PM
To: SACC ListServ
Subject: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue





I just saw a piece on the PBS News Hour tonight that showcased Alan Alda's
efforts to make science more understandable to young people, and apparently
he's been quite successful, according to the young students interviewed and
observed on the program. Maybe there's hope!

Lloyd





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I think you're thing of the Scientific American Frontiers show he did for PBS
(http://www.pbs.org/saf/).  I use some of those episodes in my various classes.
There are a couple dealing with primate behavior ("Prime-Time Primates", "Chimp
Minds" and "Chimps R US"), and a number that I show in archaeology ("Coming Into
America",  "Unearthing Secret America" and "The Secret Canyon"). The episodes
are viewable from the PBS website, and some can be purchased for a couple of
bucks through iTunes (I load them onto my iPad, so I can show them whenever it
seems appropriate). They're engaging, and Alda does the "wow! that's so cool"
thing without it being annoying. As my students would say, I <3 Alan Alda.

Katrina
--
Katrina Worley

History: special people in special places at special times.
Anthropology: everyone else the rest of the time...




On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Deborah Shepherd wrote:

> Alda used to do a Smithsonian-something television show with 3 or 4 segments
> in an hour. (Ann will know!) He had one on primate intelligence that I
> showed to my students once.
>
> Deborah
>
> From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Lloyd Miller
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:44 PM
> To: SACC ListServ
> Subject: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue
>
> I just saw a piece on the PBS News Hour tonight that showcased Alan Alda's
> efforts to make science more understandable to young people, and apparently
> he's been quite successful, according to the young students interviewed and
> observed on the program. Maybe there's hope!
>
> Lloyd
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>



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As I reflect from retirement, I discovered that though I loved anthropology,
I had begun to see myself as an educator first...then I realized that
viewing myself as an "anthropologist" and as a "professor" in an "academic
culture" too often presented me with cultural barriers toward learning and
educating...barriers which slowed the learning process for myself and
students. Cultures of course, present us with beliefs, values and identities
which often resist fast-paced change and adaptive learning.

I suggest that resistance toward math and science in the US is in part a
cultural problem with both students and faculty on all levels, beginning in
K-12...in India, math is taught as a language necessary for understanding
science and taught early on, without isolation from other subjects, by
teachers that know what they are doing. In the U.S., if you are lucky enough
to get a trained math teacher, you get her or him in junior high school and
the subject  is often isolated from other subjects.  Our academic culture,
our educational culture, and our professional teaching culture all seem to
deny the need for "teachers" to be fluent in the language, methods,
techniques, practices and applied theories of education.  (I would add
multicultural education, of course) In my fourth year of teaching at
community college, I found myself in an applied education doctoral program
that was pragmatic and learning/learner focused. It was amazing, but as it
was applied, I found my that my doctorate was disrespected by my
'colleagues' in the academy, even in SACC. I tried to share some of the
applied research papers that I wrote, without much success until I just
shared some of the techniques that worked with some new faculty...they found
success and it spread. When I did workshops on new ways to understand race
and human variation, I was shocked to find that the strongest resistance to
learning came from ministers, social workers and TEACHERS.  It is about
power over the process which we believe is owned by US.  ...SO, THOSE OF YOU
WHO DENY THE VALIDITY OF WEB LEARNING...AS WELL AS THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO
SEE SUCCESSFUL TEACHING OF MATH AND NOW SCIENCE, AND EVEN HISTORY...PLEASE
EXPLORE KHAN ACADEMY...I HAVE DONE A NUMBER OF HIS TECHNIQUES (BEFORE
READING THEM) AND FOUND THAT THEY WORKED, THOUGH I ALSO FOUND THAT I COULD
NOT FIND PROFS WHO WOULD LISTEN TO THE RESULTS. TRY IT, AND YOU WILL LIKE
IT.  Here is a sample to explore...it is aimed at K-12, but the methods are
perfect for web learning in community colleges, and show how to make web
learning more effective than most classroom learning...supportive contact
and timely learning support by the prof. is absolutely necessary, of course.
How to use this toolkit

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If you're interested in using Khan Academy at your school or in your
classroom, then these resources are for you.

Khan Academy can be used in many wonderful and creative ways, and we're
always thrilled to hear about how it's helping to enhance student learning.
Many of the suggestions in the toolkit come from classrooms currently
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classrooms to-date, other techniques may work better in your classroom. As
you discover methods that work well for you, please add them to our FAQs!

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Future models: We're really excited about working with teachers and
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some of the ideas we're hoping to see:

   a.. Mixed-age classes
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students could learn topics below or above grade level, depending on their
needs)
   c.. Significant use of real-world problem-solving and meaningful
project-based learning
   d.. Cross-disciplinary courses
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katrina Worley" <kworley@...>
To: <SACC-L@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue


>I think you're thing of the Scientific American Frontiers show he did for
>PBS (http://www.pbs.org/saf/).  I use some of those episodes in my various
>classes. There are a couple dealing with primate behavior ("Prime-Time
>Primates", "Chimp Minds" and "Chimps R US"), and a number that I show in
>archaeology ("Coming Into America",  "Unearthing Secret America" and "The
>Secret Canyon"). The episodes are viewable from the PBS website, and some
>can be purchased for a couple of bucks through iTunes (I load them onto my
>iPad, so I can show them whenever it seems appropriate). They're engaging,
>and Alda does the "wow! that's so cool" thing without it being annoying. As
>my students would say, I <3 Alan Alda.
>
> Katrina
> --
> Katrina Worley
>
> History: special people in special places at special times.
> Anthropology: everyone else the rest of the time...
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Deborah Shepherd wrote:
>
>> Alda used to do a Smithsonian-something television show with 3 or 4
>> segments
>> in an hour. (Ann will know!) He had one on primate intelligence that I
>> showed to my students once.
>>
>> Deborah
>>
>> From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
>> Lloyd Miller
>> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:44 PM
>> To: SACC ListServ
>> Subject: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue
>>
>> I just saw a piece on the PBS News Hour tonight that showcased Alan
>> Alda's
>> efforts to make science more understandable to young people, and
>> apparently
>> he's been quite successful, according to the young students interviewed
>> and
>> observed on the program. Maybe there's hope!
>>
>> Lloyd
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
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>
> Find out more at our web site http://saccweb.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
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Alan Alda hosted Scientific American Frontiers.  I happened to walk by Dennis
Stanford's office a few years ago when Alda was interviewing him.


From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Deborah Shepherd
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 9:02 PM
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue



Alda used to do a Smithsonian-something television show with 3 or 4 segments
in an hour. (Ann will know!) He had one on primate intelligence that I
showed to my students once.

Deborah

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Lloyd Miller
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:44 PM
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Subject: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue

I just saw a piece on the PBS News Hour tonight that showcased Alan Alda's
efforts to make science more understandable to young people, and apparently
he's been quite successful, according to the young students interviewed and
observed on the program. Maybe there's hope!

Lloyd

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Yes, that's right. The heat fried my brain several days ago. Hope everyone
is doing okay.

Deborah

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Katrina Worley
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Subject: Re: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue

I think you're thing of the Scientific American Frontiers show he did for
PBS (http://www.pbs.org/saf/).  I use some of those episodes in my various
classes. There are a couple dealing with primate behavior ("Prime-Time
Primates", "Chimp Minds" and "Chimps R US"), and a number that I show in
archaeology ("Coming Into America",  "Unearthing Secret America" and "The
Secret Canyon"). The episodes are viewable from the PBS website, and some
can be purchased for a couple of bucks through iTunes (I load them onto my
iPad, so I can show them whenever it seems appropriate). They're engaging,
and Alda does the "wow! that's so cool" thing without it being annoying. As
my students would say, I <3 Alan Alda.

Katrina
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Katrina Worley

History: special people in special places at special times.
Anthropology: everyone else the rest of the time...




On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Deborah Shepherd wrote:

> Alda used to do a Smithsonian-something television show with 3 or 4
> segments in an hour. (Ann will know!) He had one on primate
> intelligence that I showed to my students once.
>
> Deborah
>
> From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Lloyd Miller
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:44 PM
> To: SACC ListServ
> Subject: [SACC-L] Alan Alda to the rescue
>
> I just saw a piece on the PBS News Hour tonight that showcased Alan
> Alda's efforts to make science more understandable to young people,
> and apparently he's been quite successful, according to the young
> students interviewed and observed on the program. Maybe there's hope!
>
> Lloyd
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>



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I found this column to be thought provoking and a great description of our
current political discourse.
Chuck Ellenbaum

Sent from my iPhone
>
> I copied this from the editorial page of today's Chicago Tribune on July 2nd.
>
> Leonard Pitts
>
> July 2, 2012
>
>
>
> "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with
Downsyndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his
bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of
productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
>
> Sarah Palin, Aug. 7, 2009
>
> The death panels are back.
>
> Sarah Palin's vision of a dystopian society in which the elderly and infirm
would be required to justify their continued existence before a jury of federal
functionaries has been widely ridiculed since she first posted it on Facebook
three years ago. It was designated "Lie of the Year" by Politifact, the
nonpartisan fact-checking website, something that would have mortified and
humiliated anyone who was capable of those feelings.
>
> Last week, Palin doubled down. "Though I was called a liar for calling it like
it is," she posted, "many of these accusers finally saw that Obamacare did in
fact create a panel of faceless bureaucrats who have the power to make
life-and-death decisions about health care funding." Note that that's not
actually the claim she made in 2009. Of course, Obamacare, aka the Affordable
Care Act, was upheld by theU.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, which must gratify
Team Obama.
>
> But we are not here to discuss that. Neither are we here to litigate Palin's
claim about "death panels." That you could fertilize the Great Lawn of Central
Park with that lie has been well established. No, we are only here to ask
whether that matters, given the increasingly obvious impotence of fact.
>
> Not long ago, if you told a whopper like Palin's and it was as thoroughly
debunked as hers was, that would have ended the discussion. These days, it is
barely even part of the discussion. These days, facts seem overmatched by
falsehood, too slow to catch them, too weak to stop them.
>
> Indeed, falsehoods are harder to kill than a Hollywood zombie. Run them
through with fact, and still they shamble forward, fueled by echo chamber media,
ideological tribalism, cognitive dissonance, a certain imperviousness to shame,
and an understanding that a lie repeated long enough, loudly enough, becomes, in
the minds of those who need to believe it, truth.
>
> That is the lesson of the birthers and truthers, of Sen. Jon Kyl's "not
intended to be a factual statement" about Planned Parenthood, of Glenn Beck's
claim that conservatives founded the Civil Rights Movement, and of pretty much
every word Michele Bachmann says. It seems that not only are facts no longer
important, but they are not even the point.
>
> Rather, the point is the construction and maintenance of an alternate
narrative designed to enhance and exploit the receiver's fears, his or her sense
of prerogatives, entitlement, propriety and morality under siege from outside
forces.
>
> This is the state of American political discourse, particularly on the
political right, where a sense of dislocation, disaffection and general
been-done-wrongness has become sine qua non, coin of the realm, lingua franca of
the true believers — and of their true belief in the desperate need to turn
back the unrighteous Other and his unwelcome change.
>
> To score Palin for being unfactual, then, is to bring boxing gloves to a knife
fight. The death panels are not about fact. They are about fear and the
shameless manipulation thereof for political gain.
>
> The result of which is that Americans increasingly occupy two realities, one
based on the conviction that facts matter, the other on the notion that facts
are only what you need them to be in a given moment. That ought to give all of
us pause because it leads somewhere we should not want to go. When two realities
divide one people, the outcome seems obvious.
>
> They cannot remain one people.
>
> Tribune Media Services
>
> Leonard Pitts is a syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C.
>
> lpitts@...


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Thanks for this, Chuck. As usual, Pitts nailed it! He used to be featured often
on the op ed pages of the Des Moines Register, and I would copy and save nearly
all of his pieces. I haven't seen him there for a while and note that apparently
he's no longer with the Miami Herald. Perhaps that's why. In any case, he's
always been one of the columnists I'd most want to chat with over a beer.
Lloyd


On Jul 3, 2012, at 11:37 PM, r G Ellenbaum wrote:

> I found this column to be thought provoking and a great description of our
current political discourse.
> Chuck Ellenbaum
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > I copied this from the editorial page of today's Chicago Tribune on July
2nd.
> >
> > Leonard Pitts
> >
> > July 2, 2012
> >
> >
> >
> > "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with
Downsyndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his
bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of
productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
> >
> > Sarah Palin, Aug. 7, 2009
> >
> > The death panels are back.
> >
> > Sarah Palin's vision of a dystopian society in which the elderly and infirm
would be required to justify their continued existence before a jury of federal
functionaries has been widely ridiculed since she first posted it on Facebook
three years ago. It was designated "Lie of the Year" by Politifact, the
nonpartisan fact-checking website, something that would have mortified and
humiliated anyone who was capable of those feelings.
> >
> > Last week, Palin doubled down. "Though I was called a liar for calling it
like it is," she posted, "many of these accusers finally saw that Obamacare did
in fact create a panel of faceless bureaucrats who have the power to make
life-and-death decisions about health care funding." Note that that's not
actually the claim she made in 2009. Of course, Obamacare, aka the Affordable
Care Act, was upheld by theU.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, which must gratify
Team Obama.
> >
> > But we are not here to discuss that. Neither are we here to litigate Palin's
claim about "death panels." That you could fertilize the Great Lawn of Central
Park with that lie has been well established. No, we are only here to ask
whether that matters, given the increasingly obvious impotence of fact.
> >
> > Not long ago, if you told a whopper like Palin's and it was as thoroughly
debunked as hers was, that would have ended the discussion. These days, it is
barely even part of the discussion. These days, facts seem overmatched by
falsehood, too slow to catch them, too weak to stop them.
> >
> > Indeed, falsehoods are harder to kill than a Hollywood zombie. Run them
through with fact, and still they shamble forward, fueled by echo chamber media,
ideological tribalism, cognitive dissonance, a certain imperviousness to shame,
and an understanding that a lie repeated long enough, loudly enough, becomes, in
the minds of those who need to believe it, truth.
> >
> > That is the lesson of the birthers and truthers, of Sen. Jon Kyl's "not
intended to be a factual statement" about Planned Parenthood, of Glenn Beck's
claim that conservatives founded the Civil Rights Movement, and of pretty much
every word Michele Bachmann says. It seems that not only are facts no longer
important, but they are not even the point.
> >
> > Rather, the point is the construction and maintenance of an alternate
narrative designed to enhance and exploit the receiver's fears, his or her sense
of prerogatives, entitlement, propriety and morality under siege from outside
forces.
> >
> > This is the state of American political discourse, particularly on the
political right, where a sense of dislocation, disaffection and general
been-done-wrongness has become sine qua non, coin of the realm, lingua franca of
the true believers — and of their true belief in the desperate need to turn back
the unrighteous Other and his unwelcome change.
> >
> > To score Palin for being unfactual, then, is to bring boxing gloves to a
knife fight. The death panels are not about fact. They are about fear and the
shameless manipulation thereof for political gain.
> >
> > The result of which is that Americans increasingly occupy two realities, one
based on the conviction that facts matter, the other on the notion that facts
are only what you need them to be in a given moment. That ought to give all of
us pause because it leads somewhere we should not want to go. When two realities
divide one people, the outcome seems obvious.
> >
> > They cannot remain one people.
> >
> > Tribune Media Services
> >
> > Leonard Pitts is a syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C.
> >
> > lpitts@...
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>



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The truth never matters to people who think they're fighting some sort of holy
war.
A few weeks ago I stopped into a bar somewhere in southern Illinois for a quick
beer. There were five citizens (definitely not one percenters) discussing what
they're going to do if Obama wins in November . The usual litany of right wing
complaints(he was born in Kenya, he's really a Muslim, he's setting up death
panels, etc). If Obama does win, there's going to be another civil war and
they'll be there on the front lines with their guns. I was outnumbered so didn't
dare to say a word.
Just loose barroom talk? Probably...but
it was still rather disturbing.

Frank

Sent from my iPhone

For those interested  in archaeology, or maybe global warming, or perhaps
ice......my July, 2012 column for the on-line 'Anthropology News' was published
to the web today. It is about archaeology in the lands of ice and snow (glaciers
and ice patches).



http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2012/07/08/a-bit-of-a-crisis-in-archa\
eology-in-the-lands-of-ice-and-snow/



Carry on.



Bob


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Collection Manager (Curator/Archivist I) in Archaeology

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SACCers,

I hope you are all having restful and productive summers. (Can those two things
go together? I hope so.) I thought some of you would be interested in the
summary of the recent AAA Exec Board (EB) meeting, sent to the Section
Presidents by Leith Mullings (current AAA President) and Vilma
Santiago-Irizarry, Section Assembly Convenor. There is some interesting stuff in
here, particularly regarding fee structures, recognizing Senior Anthropologists,
and an emerging project with the Smithsonian.

Take care,
Laura

************************

Dear all,

We hope all is well with you and that you are looking forward to a productive
yet restful summer. As anticipated, we wanted to share with you the outcome of
the AAA Executive Board spring meeting, 18-20 May 2012, in Alexandria, Virginia.
As usual, the EB addressed a series of institutional issues and situations, many
of which you, as SA leaders, have addressed while others represent significant
organizational decisions on long-standing projects.

Your annual reports reflected continuing concerns about membership, costs and
finances, relations within the AAA and with other professional organizations,
meeting-related problems and conditions, the future of print and electronic
publication, and the state of the discipline. In the AAA's organizational
context, we believe these topics represent interrelated rather than discrete
issues or conditions; neither are they amenable to easy solution but are largely
on-going and even structurally inherent in our institutional processes.  While
no single EB meeting, obviously, can hope to address or even encompass all of
them, several of the actions taken at the EB's spring meeting represent
productive responses for their management. Institutional support and public
outreach remain important goals for the EB. As is usual practice, specific
concerns have been referred to the pertinent AAA staff or unit.

EB actions included the following:

1.   Changes in membership dues to begin in the 2013 budget year were approved
at the EB spring meeting. .They are structured as an income-based sliding scale
that addresses concerns about affordability while protecting the AAA's financial
viability.  Based on your annual reports, while membership appears relatively
stable, some sections have been impacted by declining numbers. Others reported
benefitting from the relatively new undergraduate membership category, which has
been retained and kept at the same rate in the new dues structure. Early
induction into the AAA also represents the development of a professional habitus
that bodes well for future AAA growth, participation, and leadership. The SAEC
and the EB favorably noted NASA's initiative Emerging Leaders in Anthropology
Program (ELAP), directed to develop engaged disciplinary leadership and
practice: it aims to allocate funding for mentoring, student meeting attendance,
and governance training, all of which should generate greater recruitment and
participation.

The income-based sliding scale applies across membership categories, thus
addressing issues related to "ability to pay." For example, the lowest income
category, in which the rate is decreased by 15 percent from the 2009-2012 rates,
is now open to all categories of members. Members who have incomes below $75,000
will have little or no increase in dues. The increase for those above that
income level will be between $10 and $19. The ASA request for a flat membership
fee for retirees was seriously considered. Extending the lowest income tier to
all categories, including retired members, would accommodate retired members
with limited income. We would like to acknowledge our senior colleagues'
contribution to the discussion over membership fees and categories. Ultimately,
this restructuring should help membership recruitment.

To express institutional and disciplinary appreciation for our senior
colleagues, the EB approved the establishment of a program to honor long-term
AAA members. Activities contemplated include an online profile series,
distinctive lapel pins and meeting badges, podcast chats on their lives and
works, and a "life of learning" reception and session at the meetings. This
program is slated to begin in September with letters to senior colleagues and a
questionnaire for information and input.

Annual meeting attendance appears to be on an upward curve, indicating the
significance they have acquired in the discipline's professional life. The
Montréal meeting established a new registration and attendance record, and this
year's meeting, even at this stage, promises equally robust numbers as total
registrants, total paper submissions, international submitters and the number of
countries represented have already broken previous records.

Both the new dues structure and burgeoning meeting attendance rates bode well
for continued membership recruitment which should, hopefully, benefit all
sections. More importantly, although the EB authorized the continuation of the
Executive Program Committee in its current form (the appointed Executive Program
Committee and the Program Committee comprised by section editors) for another
year, it approved the creation of a Task Force to consider all aspects of our
annual meeting: finances, waivers, registration fees, collaboration and
co-sponsoring, scheduling, and session formats, among other concerns. This Task
Force is expected to do its work over this coming year and will report to the EB
in May 2013. In light of this, the SA resolution concerning the establishment of
a one-day registration fee was tabled, and will be considered by  the new Task
Force Both the SA and the SAEC will be called on for input into this initiative.

2. Another long-standing initiative-the revision of the AAA Code of Ethics-has
also reached a productive end as the EB voted to approve the recommendations of
its Ethics Subcommittee, chaired by Vice President and President Elect, Monica
Heller. As many of you may remember, the review process began in 2009 with the
appointment of an Ethics Task Force. The Task Force submitted its draft to the
EB   in November 2011, after extensive consultation, research,
information-gathering, discussion, and drafting that included live blogs and
online input from AAA membership, not  only its leadership or governance units.
The EB appointed a Subcommittee on Ethics (that included the SA Convenor), which
posted the Task Force draft,  soliciting additional comments and feedback during
January2012, in a last round of consultation with members. After further
discussion and revision, the subcommittee consulted with key members of the
Committee on Ethics and the original Task Force as well as other EB members.

The discussion at the EB spring meeting thus represents an intense and inclusive
process of consultation that honored and acknowledged our members' investment in
ethical practices. The revised code, now to be known as Principles of
Professional Responsibility, will be submitted to the membership for approval.

3. The EB extensively discussed publication issues within the context of fluid
and dynamic conditions in publishing that will need to be addressed through a
multipronged approach. You are already aware that the Association Communications
Committee, chaired by Alisse Waterston, is developing initiatives intended to
protect the viability of the AAA's publication program.  Despite its current
financial health resulting from the terms of our contract with Wiley-Blackwell,
journals are moving away from the traditional subscriber model and are being
impacted by new technologies of user access and interactive modes, shrinking
institutional budgets, and a rapidly increasing number of journals.

The EB approved a series of requests from the Association Communications
Committee, including CFPEP's recommendation to explore and implement, as a pilot
project, an open access digital journal drawing from past and current articles
in AAA journals that may be of public interest. The EB also authorized
establishing a strategic fund for the future of publications. It could be funded
by taking 10% off the top of the guaranteed publishing revenue: 5% would come
from the AAA publication revenue that is used to sustain the Publishing Office,
American Anthropologist, and Anthropology News, and 5% from the publishing
sections' revenue. Returns from this special fund would provide sections and the
AAA with resources to be applied toward jointly determined long range planning
activities.

4. Acknowledging disciplinary diversity, the EB approved the continuation of
four interest groups but also the establishment of the new Interest Group on
Digital Anthropologies as well as the application for section status from the
Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy, which has now become the
Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP).

As a point of information, the EB received a preliminary report on the SA's Task
Force on Sections and Interest Groups, discussing a series of emergent
recommendations that will be further explored by an expanded SA Task Force in
the fall. This initiative has grown in weight, given the SA's expansion and the
growing intellectual diversity of the discipline.

The EB also authorized the President to sign a letter of intent to negotiate
merger with the Society for Economic Anthropology, currently an autonomous
organization. If these negotiations are successful, this organization will be
incorporated into the AAA as a new section.

The Association Operations Committee, whose Subcommittee on Ethnic and Racial
Discrimination has organized a series of meeting events addressing issues of
exclusion in the discipline, proposed the creation of a Task Force to respond to
the recommendations of the Commission on Race and Racism and identify specific
actions to implement them. It is specifically tasked with addressing the
original CRR charge to pinpoint "best practices."

Other organizational changes include the imminent departure of our Executive
Director, Bill Davies, who will be resigning early in 2013. The EB authorized
the President to appoint a search committee and to select and engage a search
firm. The Search Committee is composed of former Presidents Don Brenneis and
Alan Goodman, distinguished colleagues T.J. Ferguson and Johnetta Cole, and AAA
Deputy Executive Director and CFO, Elaine Lynch. Vice President and
President-Elect Monica Heller will chair the search committee.

5. Public outreach continues to be an important priority for the EB. For the
last five months, the EB subcommittee on funding the next public project has
pursued funding and potential collaborators for all three of the front-running
projects (immigration, the people we count on, and health) No single theme has
emerged as a clear front-runner, but we continue to look for funding. Our search
to date makes us wonder about a single theme encompassing all three of the
front-runners.

At the same time, President Leith Mullings, Treasurer Ed Liebow, EB member Ana
Aparicio, Bill Davis and Damon Dozier have been involved in conversations with
the Smithsonian Museum. The Museum is in the planning stages of   developing a
multi-year project, Americans All This initiative, still in the planning stages,
will focus on post- 1492 immigration/ migration in what is now the U.S. They
hope to present this in a global context, raising such questions as how the
nation is constructed, its boundaries of inclusion and exclusion, its processes
of incorporation and displacement, and how immigration represents a fundamental
sociocultural dynamics in US society.

"Americans All" will involve extensive consultation with communities and
scholars, and will result in educational toolkits, a significant presence at the
2015 National Folk Life Festival, and an exhibit at the National Museum of
American History beginning in 2016.

The Smithsonian, familiar with our work through the RACE exhibit, is interested
in a collaborative relationship with us. EB member Ana Aparicio is spearheading
conversations with them to explore the overlap between an AAA-sponsored project
on people in motion and the Smithsonian initiative and how a mutually
accommodating initiative could be developed, with the caveat that we maintain
our contribution as an AAA-sponsored public education project.

Though the Smithsonian project is likely to be strongly US-centered and may not
be invested in a longer history of immigration, they do intend to invoke global
population flows. We are also committed to addressing the topic from the
perspective of our four fields and multiple practices.

Nevertheless, the EB agreed to continue to explore the possibilities of this
partnership.  We will be developing a working group and tentatively planning an
October workshop. Should we decide to go ahead with this project there will be a
well-worded Memorandum of Understanding specifying the parameters of this
relationship. The Smithsonian has expressed interest in participating in this
year's Annual Meeting and we look forward to continuing our exploration of this
important initiative with your input and collaboration. Please contact Ana
Aparicio; a-aparicio@...<mailto:a-aparicio@...> and Ed
Liebow-LiebowE@...<mailto:Liebow-LiebowE@...>, with a copy to
Leith
Mullings-Leith.Mullings@...<mailto:Mullings-Leith.Mullings@...>
, with any suggestions, ideas or input for the project.

The EB also noted the SA resolution concerning the television shows Digger and
American Digger and conveys its appreciation for your public advocacy in this
matter. The EB also noted that the President sent letters to both networks in
early March. These are posted on the AAA website. Though the response from the
networks has not been entirely satisfactory, the publicity provided the occasion
for educational outreach about ethical archaeological practices.

In addition, a letter underscoring the value of anthropology in medical
education, cosigned by the Presidents of the AAA and the SMA was sent to the
MCAT advisory committee. The EB is resolved to continue monitoring the misuse of
our discipline and looks forward to working with committees, the SA leadership
and sections

Finally, the EB accepted a report on the creation of a new website resource,
This Is Anthropology, targeting high school and undergraduate students and their
parents by presenting anthropology in a jargon-free, accessible multimedia
format. This initiative was the outcome of the widespread concerned caused by
Florida governor's dismissal of anthropology as a valid major and other such
expressions  minimizing the value of anthropology in public media The project
design team, chaired by EB member Jason Miller, has developed an interactive
website consisting of five sections that include information about the four
fields, professional practices and careers, anthropological training, world
anthropologies, and a searchable database in which individual anthropologists
can post professional profiles summarizing their work. This last feature will
have a map in which to geocode projects and upload photographs, videos, and web
links. Although intended for a lay audience, this project will also be an
informational and networking resource for our members and our graduate students.
transparency, increasing diversity, and fostering collaboration across
governance units. We are also concerned with strengthening external and internal
relationships, especially in view of the diversification and
internationalization of the AAA. We also commend and greatly appreciate your
collegiality and good will in accepting the charge of SA leadership. Please let
us know if you have any queries or responses to any of these issues.

Sincerely,


Leith Mullings                                                             Vilma
Santiago-Irizarry
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President, AAA                                                           SA
Convenor, AAA

If you have a photo of yourself in the field, please consider sending it to the
AAA for their new web project, "This Is Anthropology."

Laura

*****************************

>> The American Anthropological Association seeks photos of anthropologists in
"the field" for use in the new website, This is Anthropology. We hope to collect
a wide variety of images of anthropologists in action who represent the breadth
of our field and the diversity of our discipline.
>>
>> Submission Details
>>       • We seek photos that primarily feature an anthropologist, although
other additional individuals present in the photo are allowable if the submitter
has permission to use the image in this way.
>>       • Photos should be in .JPG or .TIFF format. We recommend submitting
high-resolution images, up to 5MB.
>>       • Photos can be submitted online at:
http://www.aaanet.org/customcf/anthro_pics/index.cfm.
>>       • The deadline for consideration is 5pm on Friday, July 27, 2012.
>>
>> About the New Site
>> This is Anthropology, designed primarily for a lay audience of students and
parents, features information about anthropology, about anthropological careers,
the skills we use and how to become an anthropologist. It also features the
ability for anthropologists themselves to make profiles and use an interactive
map to list projects, affiliations and the schools they attended.
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>> Questions:
>> Please contact Jason Miller at jemille3@....
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>> Jason E. Miller, MA
>> Instructor, Anthropology
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>> Doctoral Candidate, Applied Anthropology
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>> University of South Florida
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>> Office Location: SOC 15G
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>> Mailing Address: 4202 E Fowler Ave, SOC 107
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>> e: jemille3@...

Hi All:

Here is a link to a story on PRI's The World about a grad student who spent
a year without palm oil:

http://www.theworld.org/2012/07/french-student-palm-oil/



--
Diane


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Hi- I was wondering if anyone has come across a good book about Harrapan or the
Indus valley?
   Thanks Mike Pavlik


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Those who teach about race may find the following blog post interesting.



http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/07/23/teaching-race-anthropology/



Bob






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Thanks for this, Bob. I have used some of the articles mentioned in this but
there are a few with which I am not familiar. I teach a Race, Religion and
Science in American History course at UT Arlington in the Spring, and some of
this may be of use.
  Tim
Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Richland College
12800 Abrams Rd.
Dallas, TX 75243

972-238-6959
tsullivan@...
>>> Bob Muckle  07/23/12 12:30 PM >>>
Those who teach about race may find the following blog post interesting.



http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/07/23/teaching-race-anthropology/



Bob






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On Sunday The LA Times started a 5-part series on over-population, including a
general overview of historic population growth, youth bulges, India, China,
contraception, etc. You can access all five articles at
www.latimes.com/populationrising. I plan to use all 5 in my cultural anthro
course this fall. There are some video clips that go with the articles.
Linda Light


________________________________
From: Tim Sullivan <tsullivan@...>
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [SACC-L] teaching race


 
Thanks for this, Bob. I have used some of the articles mentioned in this but
there are a few with which I am not familiar. I teach a Race, Religion and
Science in American History course at UT Arlington in the Spring, and some of
this may be of use.
Tim
Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Richland College
12800 Abrams Rd.
Dallas, TX 75243

972-238-6959
mailto:tsullivan%40dcccd.edu
>>> Bob Muckle 07/23/12 12:30 PM >>>
Those who teach about race may find the following blog post interesting.

http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/07/23/teaching-race-anthropology/

Bob

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AAA Seeks Professional
Fellow<http://blog.aaanet.org/2012/07/23/aaa-seeks-professional-fellow/>

The AAA is hiring!

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is seeking to bring a post doc
anthropologist on staff to lead its academic and practicing relations program.
This is a two-year fellowship that will provide an opportunity for an
anthropologist to work with AAA leadership and staff to conduct research,
identify and develop new programs and services for members. Candidates should
have a PhD in anthropology. The fellow will work at the offices of AAA located
in the DC metropolitan area. Start date is fall 2012. Stipend is $50,000 per
year plus benefits.

For more information on this fellowship opportunity go to
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4853112.32. To apply please send a cover
letter and CV/resume to aaajobs@....

Thanks Linda. I will check it out.
  Tim
Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Richland College
12800 Abrams Rd.
Dallas, TX 75243

972-238-6959
tsullivan@...
>>> Linda Light  07/24/12 10:28 AM >>>
On Sunday The LA Times started a 5-part series on over-population, including a
general overview of historic population growth, youth bulges, India, China,
contraception, etc. You can access all five articles at
www.latimes.com/populationrising. I plan to use all 5 in my cultural anthro
course this fall. There are some video clips that go with the articles.
Linda Light


________________________________
From: Tim Sullivan
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [SACC-L] teaching race



Thanks for this, Bob. I have used some of the articles mentioned in this but
there are a few with which I am not familiar. I teach a Race, Religion and
Science in American History course at UT Arlington in the Spring, and some of
this may be of use.
Tim
Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Richland College
12800 Abrams Rd.
Dallas, TX 75243

972-238-6959
mailto:tsullivan%40dcccd.edu
>>> Bob Muckle 07/23/12 12:30 PM >>>
Those who teach about race may find the following blog post interesting.

http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/07/23/teaching-race-anthropology/

Bob

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I apologize to those of you who are diligently trying to vote in our run-off
election for Treasurer. The website has been experiencing some problems and the
AAA is working on it. I will let you know via the list serv and facebook when
they are resolved and you can vote.

Laura

I saved it too...
On Jul 24, 2012, at 8:28 AM, Linda Light wrote:

> On Sunday The LA Times started a 5-part series on over-population, including a
general overview of historic population growth, youth bulges, India, China,
contraception, etc. You can access all five articles at
www.latimes.com/populationrising. I plan to use all 5 in my cultural anthro
course this fall. There are some video clips that go with the articles.
> Linda Light
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tim Sullivan <tsullivan@...>
> To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 1:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [SACC-L] teaching race
>
>
>
> Thanks for this, Bob. I have used some of the articles mentioned in this but
there are a few with which I am not familiar. I teach a Race, Religion and
Science in American History course at UT Arlington in the Spring, and some of
this may be of use.
> Tim
> Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
> Professor of Anthropology
> Richland College
> 12800 Abrams Rd.
> Dallas, TX 75243
>
> 972-238-6959
> mailto:tsullivan%40dcccd.edu
>>>> Bob Muckle 07/23/12 12:30 PM >>>
> Those who teach about race may find the following blog post interesting.
>
> http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/07/23/teaching-race-anthropology/
>
> Bob
>
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> Find out more at our web site http://saccweb.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

Linda,
Thank you!
________________________________________
From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] on behalf of Linda Light
[ldlight10@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:28 AM
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [SACC-L] LA Times series

On Sunday The LA Times started a 5-part series on over-population, including a
general overview of historic population growth, youth bulges, India, China,
contraception, etc. You can access all five articles at
www.latimes.com/populationrising. I plan to use all 5 in my cultural anthro
course this fall. There are some video clips that go with the articles.
Linda Light

________________________________
From: Tim Sullivan <tsullivan@...<mailto:tsullivan%40dcccd.edu>>
To: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com<mailto:SACC-L%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [SACC-L] teaching race


Thanks for this, Bob. I have used some of the articles mentioned in this but
there are a few with which I am not familiar. I teach a Race, Religion and
Science in American History course at UT Arlington in the Spring, and some of
this may be of use.
Tim
Timothy L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Richland College
12800 Abrams Rd.
Dallas, TX 75243

972-238-6959
mailto:tsullivan%40dcccd.edu
>>> Bob Muckle 07/23/12 12:30 PM >>>
Those who teach about race may find the following blog post interesting.

http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/07/23/teaching-race-anthropology/

Bob

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Hello SACCers-
I wanted to let you know that I will be leaving AAA.  It has been my
pleasure to part of AAA for the past 13 years.  I hope that you all know
how much I have tried to support the efforts of our community college
faculty.  I'll be available to you through September, so please do not
hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or if I may be of
assistance.

I know the meetings in San Francisco will be a wonderful gathering.  Cheers!

Kathleen
Kathleen Terry-Sharp
Director, Academic Relations and Practicing and Applied Programs
American Anthropological Association


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The website is working now, please follow the link sent by Kim Baker to vote if
you are a SACC member. Thank you!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 24, 2012, at 8:51 AM, "lauratgonzalez" <ltgonzalez@...> wrote:

> I apologize to those of you who are diligently trying to vote in our run-off
election for Treasurer. The website has been experiencing some problems and the
AAA is working on it. I will let you know via the list serv and facebook when
they are resolved and you can vote.
>
> Laura
>
>


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