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CSUSB professor participates on panel on missing and murdered Indigenous persons
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
James Fenelon, professor of sociology and director of CSUSB’s the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies, will participate in a panel discussion on the POWER Act presentation about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis and pro bono legal opportunities to empower Native American survivors of domestic violence.
The presentation will take place at 4 p.m. Sept. 12 in person at the George E. Brown Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse, 3470 12th St. in Riverside, or virtually. Registration is required and can be done online at the POWER Act Panel RSVP Form.
Inland Empire must take these steps as big trucks ditch diesel, study says
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/Southern California News Group
Sept. 6, 2024
Kimberly Collins, executive director of the William and Barbara Leonard Transportation Center and a professor of public administration at Cal State San Bernardino, co-authored a new study by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State that calls for robust infrastructure to support truckers switching from diesel-fueled engines to battery-powered vehicles.
“It’s an exciting time. It’s a time of transition,” said Collins.
“But with that, we need to have really good flows of information and communication so that everyone really understands what the transition means and how to access it,” Collins said. “Also, more work needs to be done to support the transition.”
Viewpoint: Trump and name-calling in political discourse
Claremont Courier
Sept. 5, 2024
Jennifer Andersen, professor of English, wrote an opinion piece about the use of name-calling in political discourse and how in ancient Rome, the statesman, lawyer and philosopher Cicero “often used humor (including nicknames) in law court or senate speeches to lighten up the atmosphere.”
In comparing the modern-day use of name-calling by one presidential candidate, she wrote, “Cicero had a sense of rhetorical decorum and understood that while playful nicknames could help criticize vices and point out crimes, they also raised a problem of the appropriateness, moderation, and decorum of legal and political speech.”
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