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Student News
2008-09 Academic Year
Aaron Buchhop
The Citadel’s Model United Nations (UN) team represented the Central African Republic at the annual competition held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, January 29 – February 1, 2009. The team was accompanied by Associate Professor Terry Mays of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice. Model UNs are organized to simulate the inner workings and bureaucracy of the United Nations with teams representing specific countries. Each team member sits in a different committee and represents the country in debates to produce consensus through resolutions in topics that range from security to the global environment. Approximately 100 schools from North America, South America, and Europe represented 200 countries and non-governmental organizations at the competition. The Citadel, in its only Model UN competition each year, is pitted against all of the United States Service Academies as well as the Ivy League schools while in Montreal. The 2009 team proved to be adept at utilizing the rules of procedure and debating the other delegates. The 2009 team members, all political science majors, included Justin Strickland, Matthew Millard, Kevin Stafford, and Aaron Buchhop. The Citadel delegates represented the Central African Republic in the United Nations’ Special Political and Decolonization (Stafford) and Disarmament and International Security (Buchhop) Committees as well as special sessions on Palestine (Strickland) and the Non-Aligned Movement (Millard). Stafford’s committee examined the issue of privatization of war through Private Military Companies. He noted, “Debating in the committee provided me with the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints on a critical issue in international politics and was a wonderful educational experience.” Millard remarked that his committee discussed and passed resolutions on human rights, South-South trade, and nuclear energy policy. Strickland added, “I will carry my experiences from the Model UN for a lifetime. Participating in discussions concerning the Israeli – Palestinian conflict gave me the opportunity to view the dilemma from many different viewpoints, some previously unknown to me.” The Citadel’s Model UN Team would like to thank The Citadel Foundation for the funding that makes the school’s participation possible.
Bryan Byler
Cadet Bryan Byler, a senior Psychology major from Charleston, presented his research at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 18-22, 2009. Cadet Byler was the recipient of one of several awards presented to the winning participants in the convention's undergraduate research competition. The undergraduate research competition is conducted at the meeting each year by Psi Chi, the national honor society for psychology. Out of 126 presentations in the competition, several were recognized as the most outstanding -- and Cadet Byler received one of these coveted awards, which included a monetary component as well. His project, titled "Testing a Developmental Model of Heroism: A Preliminary Study", was completed under the supervision of Dr. Chip Taylor and Dr. Conway Saylor. This is the third consecutive year that Citadel cadets have received one of these research awards at SEPA.
Parker Chapman
Cadet Parker Chapman, a history major from Decatur, Georgia, completed a Public History internship with the Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania this summer. The Army Heritage and Education Center (AHEC) is the nation’s premiere center for U.S. Army heritage focused on research, education and interpretation. It consists of three directorates: the renowned Military History Institute (MHI), the Army Heritage Museum, and Visitor and Education Services. Cadet Chapman’s internship was with Visitor and Education Services. This division provides the visitor with a variety of educational experiences through class room tours, continuing education programs, special events, workshops, on-site and off-site education programs and lectures.
During the internship, Cadet Chapman assisted with preparations for Army Heritage Day, provided assistance with numerous school programs, completed a web article for This Week in Army History, participated in a Gettysburg Staff Ride and began work on a reference guide for use on future staff rides. Cadet Chapman also aided in preparations for various lectures and seminars including a Perspectives in Military History lecture, the West Point Seminar and the annual convention of the Special Forces Association, as well as worked with conservators to remove a historic firearms exhibit and prepare it, along with historic art and paper items, for archival storage.
Meeting and escorting distinguished visitors is an important part of the AHEC mission and one of the key tasks of Visitor and Education Services. Cadet Chapman met Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson, Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, U.S. Army War College Commandant Major General Robert Williams (Citadel, ’74), and distinguished historians Dr. Carol Reardon and Dr. Brian McAllister Linn. He also attended a video-teleconference with General David Petreaus, Commanding General, U.S. Central Command.
AHEC offers a number of educational opportunities for interns designed to help them build their skills and resumes as historians, as the evidenced by the many outstanding experiences that Cadet Chapman had as an intern. Anyone interested in history internships at The Citadel should contact Dr. Jennifer Speelman, Associate Professor of History.
Jerome R. Clemons, Jr.
Jerome R. Clemons, Jr., a graduate student in the Master of Social Science program has been asked to present a paper at the Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference to be held this October in Vancouver, Canada. Clemons' paper deals with the preservation of Lowcountry sweetgrass basket weaving and focuses on the rich tradition of the sweetgrass basket weaving craft, African- American Lowcountry culture and Charleston history. The paper was originally submitted in Dr. William Bloss's CRMJ/PSCI 500 Seminar in Social Science course. Clemons' will give a 30 minute presentation during the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities session of the conference.
Robert Gervasio
Criminal Justice majors Robert Gervasio of Lindenhurst, New York and Chris Martinelli, of Brigantine, New Jersey coedited the book Street Policing: Field Research and Hard to Reach Populations. This book is the product of considerable effort by several students and consists of a collection of articles based on their research projects in a policing seminar directed by Professor Robert McNamara.
Ian Johnston
Ian Johnston (Spanish, 2009) studied through the University of Virginia in Valencia, Spain.
JD Lathers
JD Lathers, a French [primary] and history major, has been admitted to the Master of Arts program at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for Fall 2008 at the Bologna, Italy campus. He also received a CAORC/DoS grant to study intensive Turkish for two months this summer.
Jessica Maas
Political Science major Jessica Maas of Richmond, Texas, will represent the Department of Political Science & Criminal Justice and Professor Terry May's Multinational Peacekeeping class at a humanitarian crisis exercise in Macedonia in May, 2009. The program is "exercise-based" with the students establishing a refugee camp and hospital in the field (literally) within a Zone of Separation between two warring factions played by the Macedonian army. The purpose of the program is to provide practical experience to Cadet Maas's classroom knowledge of humanitarian relief operations.
John Taylor Marcus
Cadets John Taylor Marcus and Julius Grady Siler, both of Greenville, South Carolina, have been awarded English teaching assistantships by the French Ministry of Education for the 2009-2010 academic year. Only 50 such awards were granted for this period. Marcus, a Palmetto Fellow with majors in French and English, will teach in the Montpellier school district where he studied last spring at Universite Paul Valery. Siler, a Palmetto Life Scholar majoring in Political Science and French will teach in the Grenoble district.
Chris Martinelli
Criminal Justice majors Robert Gervasio of Lindenhurst, New York and Chris Martinelli, of Brigantine, New Jersey coedited the book Street Policing: Field Research and Hard to Reach Populations. This book is the product of considerable effort by several students and consists of a collection of articles based on their research projects in a policing seminar directed by Professor Robert McNamara.
Matthew Millard
Matthew Millard interned at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center's Operations Office in Ottawa. The Citadel is the only college with this program at the PPC. The internship is for one month, following the completion of a multinational peacekeeping course at The Citadel.
The internship allowed Cadet Millard to apply what he learned in The Citadel’s multinational peacekeeping course and observe the operations of an international peacekeeping training center. His duties at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center (PPC) allowed him to learn more about the organization and its mission to provide peacekeeping training to military personnel and civilians from across the globe. While at the PPC Operations Office, Millard shadowed the staff to learn more about their personal responsibilities. He attended coordination meetings between the PPC and other organizations including the US State Department and the African Contingency Operations, Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program and participated in internal meetings concerning future peacekeeping training operations being planned by the PPC. He also participated in internal meetings concerning organizational funding and the shifting trends in multinational peacekeeping. As a final project, along with Cadet Justin Strickland, he researched and wrote a study for the PPC that looked at the origins, issues, and trends associated with gender-based violence in Darfur.
The Citadel’s Model United Nations (UN) team represented the Central African Republic at the annual competition held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, January 29 – February 1, 2009. The team was accompanied by Associate Professor Terry Mays of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice. Model UNs are organized to simulate the inner workings and bureaucracy of the United Nations with teams representing specific countries. Each team member sits in a different committee and represents the country in debates to produce consensus through resolutions in topics that range from security to the global environment. Approximately 100 schools from North America, South America, and Europe represented 200 countries and non-governmental organizations at the competition. The Citadel, in its only Model UN competition each year, is pitted against all of the United States Service Academies as well as the Ivy League schools while in Montreal. The 2009 team proved to be adept at utilizing the rules of procedure and debating the other delegates. The 2009 team members, all political science majors, included Justin Strickland, Matthew Millard, Kevin Stafford, and Aaron Buchhop. The Citadel delegates represented the Central African Republic in the United Nations’ Special Political and Decolonization (Stafford) and Disarmament and International Security (Buchhop) Committees as well as special sessions on Palestine (Strickland) and the Non-Aligned Movement (Millard). Stafford’s committee examined the issue of privatization of war through Private Military Companies. He noted, “Debating in the committee provided me with the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints on a critical issue in international politics and was a wonderful educational experience.” Millard remarked that his committee discussed and passed resolutions on human rights, South-South trade, and nuclear energy policy. Strickland added, “I will carry my experiences from the Model UN for a lifetime. Participating in discussions concerning the Israeli – Palestinian conflict gave me the opportunity to view the dilemma from many different viewpoints, some previously unknown to me.” The Citadel’s Model UN Team would like to thank The Citadel Foundation for the funding that makes the school’s participation possible.
Michael Nethkin
Graduate student Michael Nethkin attended Indiana University’s Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL) in 2008 were he studied the Croation language intensively for a period of several weeks. More information on Nethkin's experience and the SWSEEL program can be found here. The School of Humanities and Social Sciences was proud to help support Nethkin's experience.
Jared Newman
Jared Newman (Spanish/Criminal Justice 2008) was awarded a grant by Spain's Ministry of Education and Science to work from October-May 2008 as a Language Culture Assistant in Spain.
David Rawlinson
David Rawlinson a Political Science major was named a White House Fellow. For more information on this program, click on this link to the White House Fellows website.
Julius Grady "Jayson" Siler
Cadets John Taylor Marcus and Julius Grady "Jayson" Siler, both of Greenville, South Carolina, have been awarded English teaching assistantships by the French Ministry of Education for the 2009-2010 academic year. Only 50 such awards were granted for this period. Marcus, a Palmetto Fellow with majors in French and English, will teach in the Montpellier school district where he studied last spring at Universite Paul Valery. Siler, a Palmetto Life Scholar majoring in Political Science and French will teach in the Grenoble district.
Kevin Stafford
The Citadel’s Model United Nations (UN) team represented the Central African Republic at the annual competition held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, January 29 – February 1, 2009. The team was accompanied by Associate Professor Terry Mays of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice. Model UNs are organized to simulate the inner workings and bureaucracy of the United Nations with teams representing specific countries. Each team member sits in a different committee and represents the country in debates to produce consensus through resolutions in topics that range from security to the global environment. Approximately 100 schools from North America, South America, and Europe represented 200 countries and non-governmental organizations at the competition. The Citadel, in its only Model UN competition each year, is pitted against all of the United States Service Academies as well as the Ivy League schools while in Montreal. The 2009 team proved to be adept at utilizing the rules of procedure and debating the other delegates. The 2009 team members, all political science majors, included Justin Strickland, Matthew Millard, Kevin Stafford, and Aaron Buchhop. The Citadel delegates represented the Central African Republic in the United Nations’ Special Political and Decolonization (Stafford) and Disarmament and International Security (Buchhop) Committees as well as special sessions on Palestine (Strickland) and the Non-Aligned Movement (Millard). Stafford’s committee examined the issue of privatization of war through Private Military Companies. He noted, “Debating in the committee provided me with the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints on a critical issue in international politics and was a wonderful educational experience.” Millard remarked that his committee discussed and passed resolutions on human rights, South-South trade, and nuclear energy policy. Strickland added, “I will carry my experiences from the Model UN for a lifetime. Participating in discussions concerning the Israeli – Palestinian conflict gave me the opportunity to view the dilemma from many different viewpoints, some previously unknown to me.” The Citadel’s Model UN Team would like to thank The Citadel Foundation for the funding that makes the school’s participation possible.
Daniel Parker Stevens
Criminal Justice major Daniel Parker Stevens of Columbia, South Carolina co-authored a piece on Latino Gangs which will be published in the Encyclopedia of Race, Crime & Ethnicity from Sage Publications. The article is the result of an independent study and is co-authored with Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Catherine Burton.
Justin Strickland
Justin Strickland interned at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center's Operations Office in Ottawa. The Citadel is the only college with this program at the PPC. The internship is for one month, following the completion of a multinational peacekeeping course at The Citadel.
The internship allowed Cadet Strickland to apply what he learned in The Citadel’s multinational peacekeeping course and observe the operations of an international peacekeeping training center. His duties at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center (PPC) allowed him to learn more about the organization and its mission to provide peacekeeping training to military personnel and civilians from across the globe. While at the PPC Operations Office, Strickland shadowed the staff to learn more about their personal responsibilities. He attended coordination meetings between the PPC and other organizations including the US State Department and the African Contingency Operations, Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program and participated in internal meetings concerning future peacekeeping training operations being planned by the PPC. He also participated in internal meetings concerning organizational funding and the shifting trends in multinational peacekeeping. As a final project, along with Cadet Matthew Millard, he researched and wrote a study for the PPC that looked at the origins, issues, and trends associated with gender-based violence in Darfur.
The SHSS joins in congratulating Cadet Justin Strickland for his acceptance into the MA in Peace Operations program at George Mason University. This program is the best Peace Operations program in North America and rivals those in Europe. It is an extremely tough program to enter and applicants are generally expected to have 3-5 years of field experience prior to being accepted into it. Associate Professor of Political Science Terry Mays has interfaced with the director of the program since 1999 and worked with him on a Board formed by the Pearson Peacekeeping Center in Canada. Over the years, he has developed an appreciation for the quality of students at The Citadel. Peace Operations is the generic term for peacekeeping and other military operations mandated by an international organization or peace treaty in support of a peace process.
Cadet Strickland has diligently prepared himself to be competitive for this program through scheduled and independent study course work in general peacekeeping studies, African-mandated peacekeeping, African Security issues, and international organizations as well as our internship last summer at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center. Cadet Strickland met with Dr. Mays his freshmen year and expressed a desire to develop a better understanding of peacekeeping operations. His acceptance to GMU’s MA program is certainly a testimony to his diligence since then. It is quite a coup for The Citadel to place a student into this MA program without field experience.
Cadet Strickland’s eventual goal is to serve in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations. Dr. Mays firmly believes that his diligence and personal drive will earn him a position there and only further enhance the reputation of The Citadel in the field of peace operations.
The Citadel’s Model United Nations (UN) team represented the Central African Republic at the annual competition held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, January 29 – February 1, 2009. The team was accompanied by Associate Professor Terry Mays of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice. Model UNs are organized to simulate the inner workings and bureaucracy of the United Nations with teams representing specific countries. Each team member sits in a different committee and represents the country in debates to produce consensus through resolutions in topics that range from security to the global environment. Approximately 100 schools from North America, South America, and Europe represented 200 countries and non-governmental organizations at the competition. The Citadel, in its only Model UN competition each year, is pitted against all of the United States Service Academies as well as the Ivy League schools while in Montreal. The 2009 team proved to be adept at utilizing the rules of procedure and debating the other delegates. The 2009 team members, all political science majors, included Justin Strickland, Matthew Millard, Kevin Stafford, and Aaron Buchhop. The Citadel delegates represented the Central African Republic in the United Nations’ Special Political and Decolonization (Stafford) and Disarmament and International Security (Buchhop) Committees as well as special sessions on Palestine (Strickland) and the Non-Aligned Movement (Millard). Stafford’s committee examined the issue of privatization of war through Private Military Companies. He noted, “Debating in the committee provided me with the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints on a critical issue in international politics and was a wonderful educational experience.” Millard remarked that his committee discussed and passed resolutions on human rights, South-South trade, and nuclear energy policy. Strickland added, “I will carry my experiences from the Model UN for a lifetime. Participating in discussions concerning the Israeli – Palestinian conflict gave me the opportunity to view the dilemma from many different viewpoints, some previously unknown to me.” The Citadel’s Model UN Team would like to thank The Citadel Foundation for the funding that makes the school’s participation possible.
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Left to right - Kevin Stafford, Matthew Millard, Aaron Buchhop, and Justin Strickland (head delegate)
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