Commissioner of Corrections Expounds on America’s Prisons

As students filed into Goldwin Smith Lewis Auditorium last Tuesday for GOVT 3141: Prisons, a different face than Prof. Mary Katzenstein, government, greeted them at the front of the room. Brian Fischer, commissioner of corrections for New York State, was brought in to talk about the Prison system in America.

“We talk about the structure of society that often ends up directing people to the prison system,” Katzenstein said of the class.

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Prof Recounts Kristallnacht Story on 70th Anniversary

Last night, Prof. Emeritus Edgar Rosenberg, English and comparative literature, recounted his childhood experiences of a night of terror, known to German Jews as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. Seventy years ago, on Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis destroyed synagogues, smashed Jewish shop windows and burned Jewish books, leaving German cities littered with glass, broken furniture, and strewn shop items. Gather 'round: Prof. Emeritus Edgar Rosenberg, English and comparative literature, shares his personal memories to commemorate the 70th anniversary in RPCC last night.

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Francis Fukuyama on the War in Iraq

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