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Fox to deliver Klein Lecture on school shootings
If campus shootings in the United States today were compared to those in past decades, the numbers would tell a story different from the panicky headlines and “giddy” minute-to-minute television reports that make the crimes seem more commonplace, says Lipman Family Professor James Alan Fox.
Fox, an internationally known criminologist, will talk about mass shootings on campuses in this year’s Robert D. Klein University Lecture, “Making Sense of School/Campus Shootings: Policies, Practices and Prevention.”
The lecture begins at 3 p.m. March 27 in 240 Egan.
Electronic edition, Vol. 1 No. 9, Mar. 5, 2008
Interim CJ dean to lead ‘up and coming’ college
Chester Britt arrived at Northeastern in summer 2006, the same week as President Joseph Aoun.
Hired as an associate professor in the College of Criminal Justice, Britt was lured from his department chairmanship at Arizona State by a college that’s seen nationally as “up and coming” and a university whose direction he admires.
Boston students to convene on campus for Model UN
Nearly 150 Boston public school students will debate Kosovo’s independence as members of the Boston Model United Nations Conference, to be held Friday on Northeastern’s campus.
The students will gather in West Village F for opening ceremonies at 8 a.m., and hear from Walter Carrington, who served as ambassador to both Senegal and Nigeria and was Africa regional director of the Peace Corps.
In other news
• Jack McDevitt, associate dean of criminal justice, pooh-poohs the theory that iPods are behind a rise in violent crime.
• Music professor Judith Tick will deliver the inaugural lecture in a new Library of Congress series.