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by Jennifer Johnston | Posted on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 ? 9:35 AM

Ernest Campbell

Ernest Q. Campbell, professor emeritus of sociology, former chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and dean emeritus of the Graduate School at Vanderbilt University, died July 28 at his home in Nashville. He was 86.

Campbell was instrumental in revitalizing his department and the Graduate School through the recruitment of a notable and diverse group of scholars and establishing graduate training programs that furthered the university?s mission. He was nationally known for his sociology research in race relations, desegregation and education.

?Ernest Campbell will be remembered for his academic legacy and contributions, but so much about him was about bigger and broader values that he passed on to the positions and places where he worked,? said current sociology chair Katharine Donato. ?He had a strong commitment to academic freedom and academic integrity, to doing the right thing at the right time, as well as to understanding what racial divisions were and how to break them down.?

Campbell grew up on a farm in rural Oglethorpe County, Ga., in a family that was passionate about education. He finished high school early, starting classes at Young Harris College on his 15th birthday. Transferring to Furman University, he majored in psychology with a minor in sociology and graduated in 1945.

Following graduation, Campbell and a friend boarded the Seaboard train in nearby Greenville, S.C., to visit graduate schools along the East Coast. He settled on the sociology program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his master?s degree.

Campbell began his teaching career at Berea College in Kentucky, then took a position at Mississippi Southern where he met Berdelle Taylor, whom he married in 1949. After teaching at the College of Wooster in Ohio, Campbell earned his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt in 1956, then taught at Florida State before pursuing post-doctoral studies at Harvard and accepting a faculty position with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Campbell returned to Vanderbilt in 1963 to chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. ?He was a tour de force in sociology,? said Donato. ?He did some exceptional hiring while he was here and brought in major scholars. He set about putting Vanderbilt on the map in sociology for the next 50 years.?

With his characteristic humility, Campbell once said his policy was to ensure that ?every sociologist I brought here was a better sociologist than I was.?

During his tenure as Faculty Senate chair in 1972, Campbell advocated a larger faculty role in major university decisions and increased emphasis on graduate education in order for the university to become a truly elite research university. His remarks, reported in the Vanderbilt Gazette, were titled ?The Faculty Role in Locating the Future of the University.? He also encouraged faculty to become more strongly engaged in research and scholarly publications.

Then-Provost Nicholas Hobbs asked Campbell to serve as Graduate School dean, a post he assumed in 1973. Campbell set about increasing the Graduate School?s resources and improving diversity among the students admitted. An important mission for him was attracting qualified African American students who were graduates of historically black universities.

?He helped strengthen graduate education at Vanderbilt, and that?s an important role for any great?university?to?be able to contribute to the ranks of the national professoriate through its doctoral training programs,? said Dan Cornfield, a member of the sociology department since 1980. After stepping down as dean and returning to teaching in 1983, Campbell retired from Vanderbilt in 1993.

Sociology department colleagues who interviewed him extensively in the months before his death noted that his tenure as a scholar and university administrator came during a significant historical period.

?Ernest Campbell was part of the important generation of U.S. sociologists based in the South whose contributions to the development of modern sociology, and the study of group relations in particular, were directly related to the unfolding of the Civil Rights movement, especially in the South,? Cornfield said.??His career evolved at a time when his generation of sociologists was increasingly professionalizing the discipline and also contributing to the formation of critical social interventions to create a more integrated society.?

During Campbell?s Ph.D. studies at Vanderbilt, the school superintendent in Oak Ridge, Tenn., learned of his scholarly interest in education and race and asked Campbell to study the outcomes of desegregation in that city. This subject became Campbell?s dissertation topic.

In his post-doctoral year at Harvard, he examined community conflict about public health issues, especially as related to race. Campbell spent time exploring issues of desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., particularly the role of ministers in influencing community attitudes. That work led to a book called Christians in Racial Crisis, published in 1959. It was one of his many scholarly publications.

While at UNC, the Campbells welcomed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to their home when the civil rights leader visited Chapel Hill. Campbell studied the educational aspirations of white and black students in North Carolina in the early 1960s and received a call from the U.S. Office of Education asking him to serve as co-director of a project resulting from a mandate in the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 to study the effects of discrimination on race, sex and religion.

The scholars focused on education achievement and race, and the resulting large-scale study of nearly 800,000 students documented huge differences in test scores and achievement by race. The research additionally documented that the Southern region lagged significantly behind the rest of the nation in terms of education, especially in regard to race. The resulting study was dubbed the ?Coleman Report? after its principal author, James S. Coleman, and was published in 1966.

?We were able to demonstrate that black students who were in class with whites were doing significantly better than other black students,? Campbell said. ?It wasn?t our job to say what this means. Other people grabbed it and that became the argument for busing.?

In a 1975 Tennessean article, Campbell said that busing as a policy had misfired. ?The goals sought by large-scale busing are highly desirable, but the negative consequences of busing are larger than we thought,? he said at the time.

Campbell advocated efforts to increase contact among diverse groups in schools, institutions and neighborhoods. ?In my view,? he told the newspaper, ?it is very much in the national interest to preserve racial contact and prevent racial isolation and separation in public institutions.?

In later years, Campbell expanded his academic attention to the study of attitudes and predictors of alcohol use among students, especially in the transitional years between high school and college.

One of the pivotal experiences of his personal and professional life came in 1968 when the Rockefeller Foundation invited Campbell to travel to what was then the University of East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, as a visiting chair in sociology. He was impressed by the university?s accomplishments, despite limited resources, and by the seriousness and professionalism of his colleagues and students there. He wrote an article in Vanderbilt Alumnus magazine in which he recounted his experiences and called for greater involvement in Africa by the university.

Campbell was involved in numerous professional organizations. He was president of the Southern Sociological Society at the time of King?s assassination, rearranging the group?s agenda in response to King?s death. He also served as president of the Association of Graduate School Deans and served on the Council of the American Sociological Association. His on-campus leadership extended to membership on the University Research Council.

In retirement, Campbell remained active in social, political and environmental causes, and as an avid tennis player. The Campbells were among the first preservationist pioneers to restore a 19th-century home in historic Germantown, where, as master gardeners, they also transformed a barren downtown lot into a garden that remains an oasis for the community.

Campbell is survived by his wife, Berdelle, and their four children, John, Paul, Leigh and Scott, and seven grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Cumberland River Compact?or the Nashville Jazz Workshop.

Contact:
Jennifer Johnston, (615) 322-NEWS
jennifer.johnston@vanderbilt.edu


Source: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/08/ernest-campbell-dies/

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California-Davis (SID): Kings Basketball 101 to Feature Coach Les

July 31, 2013

DAVIS, Calif. - Sacramento Kings season ticket holders will have an opportunity to meet UC Davis men's basketball head coach Jim Les at the Kings Basketball 101 event at Sleep Train Arena on Wed., July 31.

The only individual invited by the Kings organization able to provide perspective as a player and coach at both the collegiate and professional levels, Les will share his experiences and expertise alongside current Kings staff members at this exclusive event.

In addition to various demonstrations, basketball fans in attendance will learn firsthand the unique challenges faced by professional basketball players, tasks and responsibilities assigned to each member of a coaching staff, nuances of designing and executing plays, strength and conditioning tips and more.

A third-round selection by the Atlanta Hawks at the 1986 NBA Draft, Les competed for seven seasons as a member of the Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Clippers, Kings and the Hawks. He led the league in 3-point field goal percentage (.461) during the 1990-91 season and was the runner-up to Chicago's Craig Hodges in the AT&T Long Distance Shootout during the 1992 NBA All-Star Weekend.

Currently preparing for his third season at the helm of UC Davis' men's basketball program, Les possesses a one-of-a-kind connection with the Sacramento. In addition to his four years as a player with the Kings, he also served as an assistant coach for the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs for three seasons.

A six-game UC Davis men's basketball ticket package starts as low as $60; season tickets for all 15 home games cost just $135 for the general public, $90 for UC Davis faculty, staff, retirees, CAAA members and only $75 for children 17 and under.?To secure the best possible seats for the upcoming season,?click here, call?Melissa Tinsley at (530) 752-1047 or contact her by e-mail at?mtinsley@ucdavis.edu.


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Country Music Singer Randy Travis Discharged From Texas Hospital

PLANO, T.X. -- Country music star Randy Travis has been discharged from a Texas hospital.? He had been hospitalized for three weeks for congestive heart failure which led to a stroke.?

Travis' publicist says the musician has been moved to a therapy center.? Travis is alert and has been talking with family members.?

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NBA Draft 2014: l???anno che verr

Andrew Wiggins, l'oggetto del desiderio di tutte le franchigie che l'anno prossimo proveranno a tankare pur di prenderlo...

Andrew Wiggins, l?oggetto del desiderio di tutte le franchigie che l?anno prossimo proveranno a tankare pur di prenderlo?

Il mercato NBA si sta pian piano raffreddando e si possono gi? tracciare linee guida per la prossima stagione. Se si valutano le potenzialit? dei 30 roster, l?elemento che salta immediatamente agli occhi ? sicuramente la predisposizione, o presunta tale, di moltissime squadre ad affrontare una stagione ?di transizione?, in gergo, si preparano a ?tankare?.

In sintesi, sono squadre senza molte velleit? di playoffs che punteranno ad avere un record negativo cos? da massimizzare le probabilit? di avere una scelta alta nella lotteria del draft 2014.

La filosofia di puntare ad un prospero futuro sfruttando un presente amaro sembra essere stata adottata da diversi team anche blasonati, basti pensare ai Celtics o addirittura ai Los Angeles Lakers.

A rendere questa stagione livellata verso il basso ? sicuramente l?appetibilit? dei nomi che verranno selezionati il prossimo anno. C?? gi? chi lo paragona il prossimo draft a quello del 2003, reso storico da scelte quali i big three di Miami e Carmelo Anthony.

In un anno le situazioni potranno variare in maniera inaspettata ma comunque, sfruttando il mock draft offerto da nbadraft.net, andiamo ora a valutare le papabili prime scelte per il prossimo draft.

1 ? Andrew Wiggings

Classe ?95 , canadese , come Bennett prima scelta di quest?anno, ricopre il ruolo di Ala Piccola. Possiede un buon fisico, 201 cm di altezza, 90 kg e 210 cm di apertura di braccia.?Il prossimo anno militer? come??freshman?a?Kansas.

Giocatore completo, dotato di grande elevazione, spesso protagonista di Alley-oop, ball-handling non ancora maturo ma con potenzialit? infinite. E? capace di crearsi un tiro dal palleggio ed ? anche un ottimo tiratore dal perimetro.

Estroso nei passaggi, ? dotato di una buona visione di gioco. Deve migliorare la fase difensiva e soprattutto mostrare capacit? da Leader, capacit? essenziale per essere una stella NBA.

2- Jabari Parker

Classe ?95, nativo di Chicago. Anch?egli come Wiggings Ala piccola.??Alto 203 cm, pi? pesante (108 kg) rispetto a Wiggings, meno esplosivo e con medesima apertura di braccia (210 cm). Militer? come?freshman?a Duke, universit? dalla quale ? uscita la prima scelta di 2 anni, quel Kyre Irving selezionato dai Cleveland Cavaliers.

Giocatore molto competitivo, lodato per essere sempre concentrato sulla partita e con una grande aggressivit? che spesso sopperisce ad un atleticit? non ai massimi livelli. Pezzo forze della casa il palleggio, ottimo repertorio di?esitazioni e crossover. Nonostante abbia un ottimo jumper dalla media non cerca praticamente mai il tiro dall?arco.

Paragonato a Carmelo Anthony ne ricorda le movenze ma sembra meno scorer e pi? passatore.?Oltre all?atletismo deve cercare di limare alcune sbavature difensive, in NBA l?aggressivit? non ? sempre sufficiente.

3- Marcus Smart

Nato nel 1994 giocher? il proprio anno da Sophomore alla Oklahoma State nonostante per lui si parlasse di draft gi? lo scorso anno. Alto 1,93 m e pesante 99 kg.

Mentalit? da vincente e vero e proprio leader della squadra, per la posizione balla in un limbo fra la 1 e la 2, nonostante ci? in NBA dovr? adattarsi visto il fisico non abbastanza atletico per essere una SG di livello. Resta comunque una PG atipica, paragonabile a James Harden o pi? semplicemente a Victor Oladipo, seconda scelta dell?ultimo draft.

Abile nell?uno contro uno, meccanica di tiro gi? solida e buono scorer. Altruista ma non molto fantasioso nei passaggi. Nonostante un ottimo tiro dalla distanza necessit? di uno step per affermarsi in NBA. Non eccelle rispetto a molti giocatori in quanto alle qualit? singole ma oltre ad una grande leadership ? veramente completo in ogni aspetto del gioco.

4 ? Julius Randle

Nonostante sia un ?94 come Smart arriva al college un anno in ritardo rispetto al giocatore di Oklahoma. Alto 206 cm e pesante 110 kg vanta un apertura di braccia di 208 cm. Giocatore molto atletico ed adibito al ruolo di Ala, sia essa grande o piccola. Molto forte sotto canestro e con grande abilit? in palleggio, nonostante ci? preferisce arretrare e concludere dal perimetro, dove sfruttando l?ottimo jump shot ha smosso moltissime retine alla High School.

Deve cercare di migliorare il gioco in post e soprattutto l?abilit? con la mano destra, ci? sembra anche piuttosto facile in quanto si parla di Randle come di un ragazzo ligio al dovere e pronto al sacrificio.

5 ? Willie Cauley-Stei

Classe 93, unico centro assieme a Kaleb Tarczewski fra le prime 10 scelte dei vari mock draft.? Alto 213 cm e pesante 108 kg, notevole l?apertura di braccia di ben 219 cm. Era gi? considerato uno fra i 20 migliori prospetti dello scorso draft ma ha preferito rimanere come Sophomore a Kentucky.

La sua carriera NCAA ha cominciato a brillare il 12 Febbraio dello scorso anno, quando dopo una comunque ottima stagione alle spalle di Nerlens Noel, all?epoca considerata la scelta n?1, prese il posto dello stesso Noel infortunatosi nel tentativo di stoppare un avversario. Convincente pi? come giocatore difensivo che offensivo.

Ottime cifre a rimbalzo e nella percentuale di tiro dal campo, che per? viene sminuita dalla media punti di 8,3 punti a partita, cifre compensate dalle 2,1 stoppate messe a referto lo scorso anno ad ogni allacciata di scarpe.

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Snowden leaves neutral confines of Moscow airport, enters Russia

Edward Snowden has finally escaped his month-long Moscow airport purgatory and arrived in Russian territory, according to the Associated Press. The NSA whistleblower had already been granted temporary asylum by the Putin-led government after Bolivia and Venezuela also offered to take the fugitive, and was awaiting paperwork in order to leave Sheremetyevo Airport. The NSA's arch-enemy will granted a year's stay, according to his Russian lawyer, and will be able to re-apply to remain after that. Now that his Russian residency has been established, most press outlets expect a strong reaction from the US government after it assured Moscow that Snowden wouldn't face the death penalty if deported. For its part, Russia said it has no intention of handing over the man who blew the lid off the pervasive PRISM monitoring program.

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Twitter account of Thomson Reuters hacked by Syrian activists

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One of the images tweeted from the @ThomsonReuters account by the Syrian Electronic Army.

The group of hackers calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army appears to have compromised the official Twitter account of business news agency Thomson Reuters, posting a series of political cartoons depicting the ongoing civil war in Syria.

@ThomsonReuters began tweeting the hacked content at 6:33PM ET, posting seven pictures over a period of about 35 minutes. The content remained up for over an hour; the account was suspended at about 7:45PM ET. Other aspects of Thomson Reuters and the Reuters news agency, such as the websites or other Twitter accounts, were unaffected.

The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for a number of hacks, mainly Twitter accounts of press agencies. The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, and Associated Press all had their accounts hijacked and fake or Syrian nationalist content posted.

Syria's state-controlled Internet service provider pulled the plug on the SEA's operations in May, and little has been heard from the group since then, at least until today.

Thomson Reuters offered the following statement to NBC News regarding the hack:

Yesterday evening the @thomsonreuters Twitter account was hacked. In this time, unauthorized individuals posted fabricated tweets of which Thomson Reuters was not the source. The account has been secured and restored.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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New Android phones you should know about

Unless you stay glued to the latest smartphone news, it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with all of the Android phones that have been announced and released recently. As we enter the fall season we?ll see some new gear from Apple, but until then we can take a look at some new Android phones on the market today.

The thing that is both cool (and occasionally frustrating) about Android phones is that they are made by such a wide group of manufacturers. This means that the companies are always sticking the latest and greatest in their phones, but it also means that they need to do some clever things with software in order to compete with other phones being released using the same OS. As a result, each manufacturer has their own unique set of features that they use to sell their products. This is cool if you love playing with all the new Android phones that seem to come out every week, but it can make choosing a new smartphone complicated.

This guide will help you tell these shiny new Android phones apart, and choose for yourself which is the right choice.

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Motorola Droid Mini, Droid Ultra, and Droid Maxx

As the first carrier to try an exclusive branding for certain Android phones (and the only carrier who still thinks it is a good idea), Verizon Wireless and its Droid line have made a permanent mark on the Android ecosystem. Phones that bear the Droid branding are Verizon exclusives, and come with a unique set of wallpapers, notification, and ringtones? and typically a healthy dose of bloatware courtesy of Big Red. Motorola has now made a permanent arrangement with VZW so that all future Droid phones will be made with the big M on the back. The most recent release was not one but three Android phones, each with their own unique form factor and feature set.

Motorola?s three Droid phones are all alike on the inside, but their outsides are build for three very different kinds of users. The 4.3-inch Droid Mini is built to serve the user who wants a smaller profile phone that still has higher end specs. The Droid Ultra is the next phone in a long line to claim their chassis is the thinnest in the land, while sporting a 5-inch screen and a 10MP camera. The Droid Maxx is the workhorse of the family, with a massive 3500mAh battery that promises 48 hours of battery life. Each of these phones is packing the Motorola X8 computing system, with a kevlar unibody design and a water repellant nano-coating.

The interesting thing about the new Droid line is that they intentionally try not to compete in raw specs. They claim a superior feature set and user experience and claim that their dual core chipset is just as capable as the quad core seen in flagships like the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. Verizon has been sure to give the new Droid line plenty of space in their stores and plenty of coverage in their advertisements, but it is still too early to tell just how successful this line of phones will be.

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HTC One Mini

Joining in the increasingly popular opinion that 4.3-inches for a phone is ?mini? despite being slightly larger than the iPhone 5 is HTC with the shrunken variant to the very popular One phone. The HTC One Mini is not going to win anyone over on raw horsepower, but the comfortable unibody design for the One feels just as comfortable in the hand when shrunken down a bit.

If you subtract the IR port from the power button, the NFC panel from the back, and the image stabilizer from the Ultrapixel camera from the HTC One proper, you?ve got a pretty good idea of what you?re going to get from the Mini variant. The power for HTC?s latest phones comes from the combination of comfortable to hold hardware and a completely unique take on Android. The same version of Android with HTC Sense can be found on the One Mini, delivering Blinkfeed and BeatsAudio optimizations to enhance the mobile experience.

It?s pretty clear that HTC?s hardware and software optimizations are here to stay, and if you?re a fan of the One but wish it were a tiny bit smaller you may find yourself quite happy with the One Mini.

Next page: New Android phones from Samsung and Motorola?

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