AKD 2011

April 13, 2011
Posted by Jay Livingston

Montclair had its annual AKD induction ceremony a week ago. This year, fourteen students joined – a good number, especially considering that this year we raised the minimum GPA.

(Click on the photo for a larger view.)

From left to right:

• Malgorzata Slusarek
• Courtney Artz
• Lisa M. Applegate
• Jesenia Rivera
• Irina Gavdanovich
• Anthony DeLello
• David Stever

Seven students weren’t able to attend (or couldn’t get there till after the photo-op)

• Lauren Breem
• Concetta Cardellicchio
• Staycee Marshall
• Seth Mendez
• Cassandra Moran
• Jenna Pariso
• Gabrielle Walker

Our speaker was Peter Moskos, author of Cop in the Hood, and (just out today) In Defense of Flogging. His talk was “The Wire, for Real: My Year as a Cop Baltimore's Eastern District,” but the real theme, not quite explicitly stated, was the wrongheadedness of the war on drugs. Peter makes his point with macro data (his slides included graphs of crime rates and incarceration rates) and ethnographic data (photos of the hood with its boarded-up buildings, desolate streets, grafitti (some of them very amusing) and the kids who sell drugs.

You can get more of Peter’s take on all this in his book, or at his Website.