Tomorrow

[Milly Contreras]

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend tomorrow and I really wanted to. But I had a family emergency occur today and will be having to take the day off tomorrow to accommodate. Hope you guys enjoy and if there is a way that pictures could be taken that would be awesome. Also do we email our presentations to this email or two the professor? Thanks. Happy Holidays everybody.

-Milly

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[Betsy Wissinger]

Hi all, 

I set up a wiki on our website so that you can upload your work to our BB site. 

Hope it works for you. Check on the site to find the instructions of how to do it. I hope everyone does, so that we can all enjoy your rich and interesting work at our leisure, instead of in the short format that we had last week. 

Milly you will be missed. Our numbers are dwindling. I hope if we are only 3 tomorrow, they will still be willing to do the tour! 

We can't take pix in the exhibition, they were adamant about that. Sorry! 

Since we won't see you, take care and have a good holiday! 

All best, 

EW 

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Elizabeth Wissinger PhD 

Associate Professor of Sociology 

BMCC/City University of New York 

what I have been up to: 

(newest member of the Editorial Board: 

http://www.feministpress.org/wsq

(speaking:

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/costume/conference2012

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2012/05/12/detail/crime-fashion-and-television

(editing:

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/44465

(quoted:

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/05/pre_teen_runway_models_tracking_the_trend_.html

[Betsy Wissinger]

Hi Milly, 

So the grades are up. I loved your magazine. It represented a huge amount of creativity and work on your part. For the most part you did a good analysis. and did very good research. Your idea was original. Your use of class materials was not as deep as I would have hoped, but then again, you took on a giant project by constructing this lovely graphic final product. 

So overall you did a very good job and produced an interesting and innovative piece of work. You asked good questions. I have to let you know, however, that at the graduate level, you will want to try to step up your game in terms of verbal expression. Your writing is vivacious and to the point, which is great, something that is hard to accomplish, but there were certain idiomatic uses that were more colloquial than what one would want to see in graduate level writing. 

(For instance, you mentioned one of the theorists was 'discussing on' a topic, which is not correct usage. There were a few sentence fragments. There were a couple of sections where several paragraphs in a row were reproduced verbatim in the next few lines, so that you were repeating yourself. Sometimes word choice needed adjustment (like in the Jennifer Lopez section, you mentioned her outfit was 'revealing nothing to the imagination,' where I think you might have meant 'leaving nothing to the imagination'). Since, revealing nothing in fact means she was covered up.  

These may seem like petty details, and indeed they are subtleties that other professors might not mention, but I think they could mean the difference between an A and an A- in your future career at the Grad Center. I think you have tremendous potential and so took the extra time to talk to you about this, so that moving forward you might pay particular attention to this issue, and so prevent being judged unfairly, since the content of your work is very promising, so why let errors in expression get in the way of getting that content taken at its true worth? 

So, the research was great, overall presentation AMAZING, writing style was wonderfully direct and engaging, graphics were excellent, questions were very well positioned. It was just some of the verbal expression that might need tweaking. There weren't even that many examples of a problem, but from what I know the academic world, and even one grammatical error can delegitimate what you are saying, so I took the risk of letting you know my reaction to it, so that in the future, you can proof read and copy edit your work to the point where it can shine through on its considerable merit and not be sidelined by minor details like word choice. 

Take care, and hope your New Year is off to a great start. 

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Milly Contreras <mill...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Elizabeth Wissinger PhD 

Associate Professor of Sociology 

BMCC/City University of New York 

what I have been up to: 

(my new book! 

Fashioning Models:

http://www.amazon.com/Fashioning-Models-Image-Text-Industry/dp/1847881548

(Editorial Board: 

[Milly Contreras]

Thank you very much professor for the comments. I really appreciate the feedback, I'm never completely confident in my work and know I can improve. Definitely was a tough first semester and I'm trying to get the hang of things. It's been a while since I've written academically. Thanks for the great class. 

-Milly

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[Elif Kavakci]

She was such a lovely person, so sad to hear the news. :(

Elif

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From: GOLD, MATTHEW 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:42 PM
To: Koutsis, Katherine
Subject: In Memoriam: Ayeshia Medlin

Dear MALS Faculty and Students,

It is with sorrow and regret that I pass along the news that Ayeshia Medlin, a student in the MALS program, passed away recently. Jonathan Dobbs, Ayeshia's husband and himself a former MALS student, sent us the attached obituary, along with the following message: 


"I can say that Ayeshia's studies were important to her. We can attest to the quality of the faculty but also to the fact that they are supportive & caring of the students (even us older ones). As I was also a student in MALS program (through Ayeshia's encouragement) I can say that the Grad Center was an important part of our life.  Ayeshia would come home after class and I would always want to know about the class discussions. It was not uncommon for her to ask me to read some of the assigned work just for discussion at the dinner table. So I want to say thank you on so many levels."


In commemoration of Ayeshia's life and her time with us, the MALS Program will present its first annual thesis prize in Ayeshia's memory. Before she passed away, Ayeshia had just found a thesis advisor of her own, and we hope that this prize honors her academic promise and her dedication to her studies.

I know you will join me in sending our collective condolences to Ayeshia's family. Should any member of the MALS community want to pass a message on to the family, please send it to me at mg...@gc.cuny.edu

Sincerely,

Matt
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Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Acting Executive Officer M.A. Program in Liberal Studies Graduate Center, City University of New Yorkhttp://liberalstudies.gc.cuny.edu

[Milly Contreras]

Omg I can't believe it. So sad. She was really nice and a good person. Wow. 

- Milly

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[Luisina Silva]

It's so sad. I cant believe it! I remember the last day of class she said she was so happy she was done with classes and she only had her thesis left. So sad. My thoughts and prayers for her family.

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