Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Professor Frank Schuben. College of Criminal Justice Police Discretion is Key to o Caliber Force Criminal Justice Professor Fronk Schubert grew up in en ocodemic ofnnosphere, oc- tuolly many academic atmospheres, as his fomily traveled the United States and Europe while his father taught in many col- leges and universities. This exposure to the world of ocodemio influenced his decision to come to Northeastern in the fall of 1976. An assistant professor in the College of Criminol Justice, he has been oworded the school ' s teaching aword twice. Schubert has noticed some changes in the quality of students since he began teaching in the College of Criminal Justice. The College is attracting some very high caliber students. I hove students that come in from high schools to attend the lectures becouse they ' re interested in low. Schubert ' s interest In police discretion was first aroused at the University of Wisconsin where he was studying low. I became attached to two professors w ho were heavily involved in teaching ond research In criminol justice at the University of Wisconsin ond so I joined a progrom there colled the Police Intern Pro- grom and between my first and second Phoro by Mike Gotch yeors of low school I went out to Portland, Oregon and was on intern for the Multinomo County Sheriff ' s Office for the summer. I hod my first reol close look at policing and I really got Into it. By my third year in low school one of my professors come up to me and said, Gee Fronk, there ' s on opening as the Chief Civilian Assistont in Doyton, Ohio with the most progressive police odministrotor in the United Stote.s ' . Schubert interviewed for the position and became on admlnistrotive assistant to the Chief of the Doyton Police Depart- ment, but not before graduating from the University of Wisconsin ' s Low School and being accepted to that state ' s Bar Associa- tion. The chief ' s name was Robert M. Idieburger whose picture still hongs in Schubert ' s book-lined office today. We had a unique collection of people under him and we ' ve all gone our separate ways. Schubert has several textbooks in his office which contain information and doto generoted by that unique nucleus of the Dayton Police Department in the early 1970 ' s. So I hod four amazing years with a very amazing mon. I just can ' t begin to ex- ploin the significance of those four years. He attrocted a group of reformed people around him, oil of whom have gone on from there to do very importont work in criminal justice across the country. We all went our seporote ways and hove con- tinued in vorlous capacities in criminal justice. It was just on amazing opportunity and unbelievable. Schubert felt that after four years in Doyton it was time to move on profes- sionally, never hoving intended to stay in Doyton permanently. Flok had been directed towards me because I hod gone directly from low school to police ad- ministration and there I was teaching police officers about search and seizure, lows of arrest, and I hod never been to court. So the time come to go to court. Schubert went bock to Wisconsin and became on Assistant District Attorney in a rural county there. In the next two years he prosecuted 25 criminal jury coses, oil the way from attempted murder-one down ond received tremendous ex- perience with court proceedings. After being a prosecuting attorney for two years, Schubert felt the urge to move on again. Part of the reason I was ready for Q change was that I grew up in on academic family and I hod grown up on college campuses all ocross the country. I ' ve lived all over the country, actually, ond overseas. We moved from Syracuse to UCLA to Howard to Rutgers to Franklin and Marshall to Michigan State In suc- cessive years. So I ' ve moved extensively. My dad hod o Fulbright Scholarship in Nor- way so I went to high school in Norway. I started college at the University of Howaii and finished my undergraduate work at Michigon State, which is where I really wanted to go. I hove always wanted to teach ond I was at Q point where I decided that if I ever wonted to teoch it would hove to be now or else it wasn ' t likely to happen, i begon looking oround in June of 1976 and Northeastern University hoppened to be the best ploce thot hod on opening. Criminal justice is a brood area with many facets, os defined by Schubert: It ' s police policing themselves, developing stondords, planning, determining what ' s right and wrong, it ' s the keystone to train- ing. Someone has to coll the signals for how we ought to operate, what we wont to do, and what kind of practices we wont to pursue ond what sort of gools we wont to follow. In Schubert ' s office there is o box con- taining 60 neotly filed use-of-force policies from town and city police departments all across the country, which he is currently onolyzing ond compiling and may put into o book. It is one of his first research projects, ond he has on undergroduote helping him compile the doto. Police discretion and policy-making and rule-making, is something which continues to be of primory interest to me. — Louis Hmieleski

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Students receive pamphlets or rhe Cardiovascular Health and Exercise Center booth. NU student learns about cardiovascular fitness or Wellness Fair. componenr, and rwo, exercise. Hope suggests a Wellness Club be developed so srudenrs con turn to rheir peers to discuss stress. Hope soys she hos always been involved in wellness issues. After she attended o University of Wisconsin conference a few years ago focusing on the concept of wellness, she decided to start o similar progronn here at North- eastern. Today, there is o lot more push for self- responsibility. This is because of economics — the idea of every man for himself — and becouse of a renewed interest in growth and development. In effect, by gaining wellness, you are saying Tm in control. ' However, there ore limitations, Hope adds. Financial issues are on aspect, espedolly for students at on enormous University such as this. You hove limited control, but you hove choices. It ' s important to re- member that a lot of other people ore in the some boot. ' ' Hope would like to see on an- nual Wellness Fair. She would also like to see the life-style assessment quiz become port of the medicol exam required of oil freshmen. Then we could evaluate the statistical data and hove the students recognize where they ore right now in terms of wellness. . The purpose of the survey also would ultimately reduce the attrition rote at the University. Hope feels there is a reol need among students and facul- ty member to develop poten- tiol, and both the University ' s ad- ministration and department ore extremely supportive The com- mitment is there, soys Hope. To become aware and not give up when the first door is closed, is the key. It ' s very easy to do that. Believe it or not, this is what really mokes the difference. — Maureen Muenster You must look Qt the different areas in your life; then determine the one that doesn ' t fit.

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Women ' s issues central in Hoff s life During the summer of 1985 while the rest of the Norrheosfern community was sweating to deoth attending classes, Pro- fessor Lee Ann Hoff from the College of Nursing, was attending the United Nations JnternationQl Women ' s Conference in Kenya. In 1975 the United Notions declared o decade to study the status of women, discrimination against them and to discover why women were so far behind in the world. In 1960 on international conference was held in Copenhagen to monitor what research was being done. This summer ' s conference wos to discover how for women had gone in the post 10 years. Hoff was not a member of the U.S. delega- tion led by Moureen Reagan. She at- tended the port of the conference colled Non-Governmental Organizations Forum 85 (NGO Forum 85). This port was at- tended by women from all over the world who were concerned about and studying women ' s issues. Groups such as the YWCA and the International Women ' s Studies Orgonizotion were also in attendonce. Hoff ' s recent research activities include the development of a feasibility study regarding violence ogoinst women and women ' s health issues in Kenyo. Port of this project included attending the con- ference in Kenya. One of the reasons I went through the University was to find out if I could over there on o larger scale. I wanted to heor the views of Kenyan women and find what the climate was politically, she said. The decision to attend this conference and conduct the feosibility study wasn ' t something that just come to Hoff one doy when she was drinking her morning coffee. It stems from o longstanding interest in women ' s issues. Originally trained os a psychiotric nurse, Hoff discovered through her professional work in nursing and suicide prevention that women crisis victims were often treated as the perpetrators of the trauma they hod suffered. One of my jobs as o doctoral student was troining Boston Police Officers how to deol with high risk crisis situations such as suicide, child abuse, rope and battered women. One of the things that impressed me the most was the much less than desirable attitudes of police officers towards rope victims and bettered women. Aside from being exposed to violence ogainst women and women ' s health issues in her chosen field Hoff also hos some very personal reasons for her active interest. During the 1970 ' s I wos the second per- son in command at o major mental health ogency in the state of New York. The per- son above me resigned and it was r ie iymbo on This medallion represents rhe theme of Intetnationol Women ' s Conference wtiich was. peace, equality and development. supposedly token for granted that I was the only person within even o ballpark of being qualified to take his place but in- stead of appointing me they appointed o white mole occountont. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ogreed that Hoff hod been discriminated against ond a suit was filed in the federal court system. I lost the cose. We oppeoled it all the way up to the sec- ond highest court in New York City ond the ponel of judges didn ' t even wont to hear it, sold Hoff. I reolly understand why most women don ' t bother to protest because of what you hove to go through to prove it. It took seven years and over $20,000 most of which was just costs. Here I was, I hod all these credentials ... it was practically o given that it was sexual discriminotion. A federal office hod already ogreed with me but the judge still ruled ogoinst me. Instead of becoming bitter and disillu- sioned Hoff threw herself into her disserto- tion which is entitled, Violence Against Women: A Social-Cultural Network Analy- sis. The thing that saved me wos my dissertation. It always helps me to accept something emotionally if I con understond intellectually why a thing is the way it is. The other thing that helps is having o political strategy through which one con do something about the problem on o long ronge bosis. I feel like I ' m doing thot by the various things that I do. Hoff teaches o course colled. Contem- porary Issues in Nursing, which brings together what students learn in doss and whot they experience in clinicol ond on co-op. Since nursing is one of the largest professions in the medical field and it is largely female, the status of women is par- ticularly pertinent. In the way of political action, most of what I do in my dosses is consciousness rais- ing. That ' s the first step to chonging anything. I bring it down to the personol level and I ' m very careful obout how I in- troduce the material to students. I don ' t go jamming it down people ' s throats because you ' ll turn people off. I ask the students questions like, ' Do you believe in equal poy for equal work? ' and they all respond ' Oh yeah!, ' Then I ask, ' If you hove children, if you don ' t hove some already, do you think thot the fathers should take on equal shore In child raising? ' ' Oh yeah! ' they shout. Then I relate it to their work and ask, ' Do you think thot the way that you ' re treated by physicians has anything to do with the fact that you ' re o woman? ' ' Oh yeohl ' Then I soy, ' Well I guess you ' re o feminist. ' Prior to this they didn ' t wont to subscribe to being o feminist because it ' s supposed to be something bod. Hoff tends to ploy down the fact she is very involved in feminist issues because she finds it gives people the wrong impres- sion of her. I would never soy, ' I ' m o feminist. ' What I usually soy is I ' m a human being who happens to hove o strong perspective when interpreting o problem. It doesn ' t mean that I hote men or some of these other myths people think feminism is about. As for as the future goes Hoff is very op- timistic. This is hord to comprehend con- sidering that throughout the world women, minus the unaccounted childcore ond housework, which they get no credit for, still do % of the world ' s work, eorn 1 10 of the world ' s income and own only 1 100 of the world ' s property. I don ' t get tired because I hove o strong sense of conviction. I ' m- on eternal optimist but I h ove some doto to base my optimism on. One of those focts come from the NGO Forum 85 this post summer. You can ' t get 14,000 women together in one spot where they leorn what ' s happening with oil the other women, their sisters, and stop thot momentum. These women ore going to do something on their own bock in their own countries one way or the other. ' ' — Kotheri ne Croteou 29