Making Room for Fat Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education

Sizeism is often called the last acceptable form of prejudice in our social world. Weight discrimination has been widely documented in job searches, doctors’ offices, promotions, wage gaps, education, and even courtrooms. Despite decades of critical weight scholarship, little research has been done on fat higher education employees. Using the critical theory and the fat studies theoretical framework, this phenomenological study explores bias, prejudice, and discrimination experienced by fat student affairs professionals on college campuses. Four overarching research questions were identified and focused on the following topics: the limitations of physical space on college campuses, perceptions of available resources, stereotypes of fat bodies, and discrimination against fat employees. Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted, and six salient themes emerged involving health consequences, lack of support, and prejudice in the workplace—all of which are leading to participants’ interest in leaving higher education. To combat this, participants noted that they practiced self-advocacy, formed support groups, and helped raise awareness around issues of fatness on campus. Participants also noted resources that should be added within higher education to increase job satisfaction. This study adds to the literature the experiences of fat student affairs professionals, as well as the policies and practices that impact their recruitment and retention within the field of higher education

Evaluation of V-22 Tiltrotor Handling Qualities in the Instrument Meteorological Environment

The purpose of this thesis is to document the handling qualities of the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft in instrument metrological conditions (IMC) and recommend procedures for V-22 operations in IMC. This evaluation was conducted in the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland local flying area in accordance with Naval Aviation Systems Command test plan V22-TP-012/02. Test flights consisted of basic instrument maneuvers, en route instrument navigation, instrument approaches, and simulated single engine missed approaches. All maneuvers were conducted under day visual meteorological conditions. En route navigation and instrument approaches were also conducted under simulated IMC using a helmet-mounted hood, and actual IMC. Handling qualities were evaluated for nacelle angle configurations of airplane mode at 0o nacelle, conversion mode nacelle angles of 30o, 45o, and 61o nacelle, and vertical takeoff and land (VTOL) mode at 80o nacelle. The handling qualities associated with nacelle angle transitions between airplane mode, VTOL mode, and intermediate nacelle angles were also evaluated. The author participated in this test as a test pilot, basic instrument maneuvers, en route instrument navigation, instrument approaches, and simulated single engine missed approaches. The stability offered by the fly by wire flight control system resulted in favorable stability and handling qualities for constant nacelle configurations in IMC. The capability to change configuration between airplane mode and VTOL mode or an intermediate nacelle configuration greatly increased flexibility to meet the demands of heavy air traffic or adverse weather conditions during IMC operations. Challenges to handling qualities in the IMC environment included altitude deviations during large nacelle angle changes and the requirement of the pilot to change control strategy for different nacelle configurations. The author concluded that each nacelle configuration had unique characteristics, which could be used to meet the demands of a given operating environment. While one nacelle configuration exhibited better handling qualities for instrument approaches, other nacelle settings were preferable to meet the demands of heavy air traffic, low ceilings, degraded visibility, and single engine emergencies. It was concluded the pilot should be given the flexibility to choose the best nacelle configuration to meet the demands of the prevailing flight conditions

Fast/Fresh Food: Feed Syracuse Communities

Industrial agricultural practice coupled with urban planning and infrastructural development over the past century has placed an unfair environmental burden on low income urban communities across the United States of America. As Majora Carter explains in her 2006 TED talk titled “Greening the Ghetto,” race and class correlate directly with the availability of parks, space and quality of public programming, as well as proximity to undesirable things such as highways, dumps, power plants, distribution centers etc. Furthermore, the development of said highways, distribution centers and the like has precipitated the exodus of economic opportunity including healthy food programming from the accessible urban realm marginalizing the low income communities at their core because of these boundaries and barriers to success. “Economic degradation begets environmental degradation which in turn begets social degradation,” (Carter) so it should be no surprise that the result is a continually deteriorating low income urban realm that is poverty stricken and crime ridden, with little educational or economic investment. All of these environmental burdens together promote the unhealthy diet and lifestyle that characterizes many low income low income urban communities which also contributes to the tax and healthcare burdens experienced by the middle and upper socioeconomic echelon

The Ticker, April 3, 2017

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York

Improving Accessibility of Public Transport Information for the Blind

Information that sighted commuters take for granted in Copenhagens public transportation network is often inaccessible to people who are blind or partially sighted. We identified potential improvements to the accessibility of transit information to recommend to the Danish Association of the Blind. We determined the main challenges blind and partially sighted people face when accessing transit information; observed the current accessibility of the system; and evaluated accessible solutions to identify the best potential improvements. Based on our findings, we recommend expanded use of audio announcements, stricter regulation for bus operators, increasing the accessibility of mobile phone applications, and the implementation of beacon technology in the bus system