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Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American
members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who
petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four
demands: access to the same academic tutoring made available to
their white teammates; better medical care for all team members;
starting assignments based on merit rather than race; and a
discernible effort to racially integrate the coaching staff, which
had been all white since 1898. The players’ charges of racial
disparity were fiercely contested by many of the white players on
the team, and the debate spilled into the newspapers and drew
protests from around the country. Mistakenly called the "Syracuse
8" by media reports in the 1970s, the nine players who signed the
petition did not receive a response allowing or even acknowledging
their demands. They boycotted the spring 1970 practice, and Coach
Ben Schwartzwalder, a deeply beloved figure on campus and a Hall of
Fame football coach nearing retirement, banned seven of the players
from the team. As tensions escalated, white players staged a
day-long walkout in support of the coaching staff, and an enhanced
police presence was required at home games. Extensive interviews
with each player offer a firsthand account of their decision to
stand their ground while knowing it would jeopardize their
professional football career. They discuss with candor the ways in
which the boycott profoundly changed the course of their lives. In
Leveling the Playing Field, Marc chronicles this contentious moment
in Syracuse University’s history and tells the story through the
eyes of the players who demanded change for themselves and for
those who would follow them.
"Quite simply, a tour de force--a wonderful synthesis of history
and criticism."--Daniel Czitrom, author of "Media and the American
Mind" "A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of American
televsion."--"American Studies International" In "Demographic
Vistas," David Marc shows how we can take television seriously
within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms.
To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic
history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to
focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious
students and casual viewers alike. This updated edition includes a
new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author
that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism
has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new
final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of
over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's
greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex
technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online
services. From reviews of the first edition-- ""Demographic Vistas"
analyzes television in the tradition of a Gilbert Seldes or Michael
Arlen. Exhibiting fluency in television history, theories of
culture, and American literature, the book offers a thoughtful,
idiosyncratic interpretation of television's life so far in
American culture."--"Critical Studies in Mass Communication" "Marc
does a good job of drawing links between the American literary
tradition and television themes, which illustrate that television
texts are not isolated from the critical mainstream of American
creative efforts. . . . These links illustrate that television
texts offer themselves to much the same analytical forms as any
other literary endeavor."--"Southern Speech Communication Journal"
David Marc is Adjunct Professor, Annenberg School for
Communication, University of Southern California, and Visiting
Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of
California, Los Angeles.
In the face of climate change, knowledge of the global carbon
balance is critical. A free global GPP product is available from
the MODIS satellite sensor. Its algorithm is based on a biome
specific maximum Radiation Use Efficiency (RUE) value. On a small
spatial scale, local growing conditions create a high spatial
variability in RUE which the biome specific RUE value in the MODIS
GPP algorithm does account for. As a result, MODIS GPP has often
been found unreliable at local and regional scales. An alternative
method is to remotely estimate RUE by means of the Photochemical
Reflectance Index (PRI). Various studies have already found strong
correlations between PRI and RUE in Mediterranean and boreal
forests. The objective of this study was to investigate the usage
of the PRI as an estimator for RUE for the purpose of monitoring
GPP with MODIS data in temperate forests. A GPP dataset was
established for the Veluwe forests in The Netherlands for 2002-2006
by using MODIS data and the PRI as estimator of RUE. The results of
this study support the thesis that on a small spatial scale MODIS
GPP is unreliable and that accuracy can be improved using the PRI
approach.
The gift of the land of Israel by God is an essential element in
Jewish identity, religiously and politically. That the gift came at
the expense of the local Canaanites has stimulated deep reflections
and heated debate in Jewish literature, from the creation of the
Bible to the twenty-first century. The essays in this book examine
the theological, ethical, and political issues connected with the
gift and with the fate of the Canaanites, focusing on classical
Jewish texts and major Jewish commentators, legal thinkers, and
philosophers from ancient times to the present.
This volume focuses on the relationship between the rise of the
multi-media environment-television and electronic media-and the
decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print
literacy, and the disintegration of historical consciousness. David
Marc is as mad as hell about some things, and he's not going to
take it any longer. He finds that most university humanities
programs remain top-heavy with embittered careerists who would
rather deny the evidence than admit that, with the rise and popular
acceptance of mass media, their most cherished interests, their
techniques, and skills have become archaic. New students are
treated as if they read and write as often, and for the same
purposes, as their counterparts before the rise of the television
camera, telephone, and communications satellite. Professors get
paid. Students receive diplomas. And yet, humanities courses are
the joke of the campus. In analyzing the decline of the humanities
on college campuses, Marc covers a wide range of issues, including
political correctness, the growing tolerance of academic cheating,
and institutionalized grade inflation.
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