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- UCF professor claims racial profiling, says police called her 'drug user, crack head and liar'
- Possum Philosophy: Crossing paths
- Parenting Philosophy Defined by Culture
| UCF professor claims racial profiling, says police called her 'drug user, crack head and liar' Posted: 31 Aug 2010 08:51 PM PDT An investigation into allegations that several UCF police officers racially profiled a mixed-race professor has expanded to include a review by the Orlando Police Department, the ACLU and the NAACP. University of Central Florida spokesman Grant Heston said school officials asked OPD's Professional Standards Division to conduct a probe into claims that four white campus officers stopped philosophy professor Jennifer Lisa Vest on Aug. 9 based on her race and not a traffic infraction. She alleges the UCF officers pulled her over on Alafaya Trail near campus around 9 p.m. purportedly for a broken tail light. Vest said her light was not broken. She alleges the officers called her a "drug user, crack head and liar" in front of passing students. The professor also claims the officers searched her car without probable cause and kept her from taking her chest pain medication during the alleged incident. "[UCF police] made statements to the effect that there were no limits to their authority," Vest wrote in an e-mail she sent to faculty and students. She asked the Police Department to clear her record, train the officers on civil rights; disability, medical, race, and gender issues, as well as issue her a public apology. Heston said the university considers this an "urgent matter and will use whatever resources are needed to proceed with these reviews." UCF officials would not release the police report about the traffic stop because it is under investigation. Court records show she received a $114 fine for an Aug. 9 traffic infraction described as having "no or improper tag or tailights." Vest said she filed a grievance with the university's Faculty Union, as well as complaints with UCF police, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, her e-mail shows. The university hired Vest, of Chicago, as an assistant professor in 2004, UCF records show. Her salary is $54,913. She has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. She could not be reached for comment Tuesday. According to Vest's MySpace profile, she considers herself a "mixed blood" poet of Native American heritage, a philosopher and human-rights activist. She often reads her poems on racism, discrimination and mixed-race issues across the country and at local coffee shops. In a 2008 interview about racial issues on the university's televised program UCF Expressions, the soft-spoken professor said she considered her mixed-race background "a gift, but there's a lot of challenges that come with it … everywhere I go, there's somebody who's got a problem with me racially or culturally." A video on her YouTube page shows her reading a poem titled The Picnic in 2007 at Natura Coffee and Tea near UCF. The poem recounts the story of her and a friend being racially profiled by a police officer. The buzz generated by the allegations spawned the Facebook page, Stop UCF Police. Readers can post comments about alleged harassment by UCF officers or their thoughts on Vest's allegations. Some UCF students interviewed Tuesday said the allegations were disturbing. "I am not familiar with professor Vest, but I don't find the allegations hard to believe," junior Sandra Fellisha said. "There's a sense among some students that campus police are not very fair." Freshman Mikell Urino called the allegations "worrisome." "If they [campus police] treated a professor like that, I can imagine how one of us could be treated," Urino said. "It's just a shame." Walter Pacheco can be reached at wpacheco@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-6262. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Possum Philosophy: Crossing paths Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:45 PM PDT By ROBERT "ROCKY" CAHILL/Columnist Wednesday, I took my mother-in-law to Wally World to pick up a few things she needed. Due to health problems, she no longer drives (which is probably for the best, both for her and her fellow drivers.) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Parenting Philosophy Defined by Culture Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:29 AM PDT
Canada, France and Italy were compared because the countries have commonalities: Latin languages, Catholic history and advanced industrialization. Questionnaires were answered by adolescents whose parents were born in their country of residence. Teens were asked to describe parents according to emotional bonding, communication, frequency of conflict, rules, discipline and tolerance of friend-related activities. "Parents are perceived as emotionally bonded by teens from all three countries, yet perception of parental control contrasted between Italy and Canada. Of all three countries, Italian mothers and fathers are perceived as using the most constraining practices," says first author Michel Claes, a University of Montreal psychology professor. "Italian parents are seen as more demanding in rules and authorizations. They take more punitive actions when rules are broken and are less tolerant of peer socialization. They uphold family regulations and require their adolescents to ask for authorizations until a much later age." "Our study found Canadian parents to be the most tolerant. They had less rules and less disciplinary actions," says Dr. Claes. "Canadian mothers and fathers were seen as less punitive, less coercive and more tolerant than French and Italian mothers." The French were found to parent in a moderate style. French fathers, however, were perceived by teens as emotionally distant, rigid and prone to intergenerational conflict. French mothers, for their part, were reported to foster closer bonds as their children grew into adolescence. In all three countries, teens experienced a gradual decrease in behavioral control between the ages of 11 and 19: fathers and mothers reduced requirements and disciplinary constraints. "Our study found parental control is dictated by social codes and culture-specific values, which promote certain parental practices and proscribe others," says Dr. Claes, noting that Canadian parents value a democratic conception of education that promotes independence and negotiation, while European parents, especially Italians, advocate for obligations and respect for parental authority. Source: University of Montreal
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