Whistle Blowers in the Collegiate Sports Programs
Joe McGlynn, (M.A., 2006), former graduate student at UNT and currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas, has co-authored a journal article with Dr. Brian Richardson. Joe and Dr. Richardson conducted a study on the experiences of whistle-blowers in the collegiate sports industry. Specifically, the research team interviewed individuals who had witnessed and reported ethical concerns in the collegiate sports programs which they were associated. Joe and Dr. Richardson write about the challenges of speaking out against unethical behavior in tightly-knit, powerful athletic cultures. Their article will appear in an upcoming edition of Management Communication Quarterly. The article is presently available at this link: http://mcq.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/09/04/0893318910380344.full.pdf+html
The citation for the chapter is:
Richardson, B. K., & McGlynn, J. (in press). Rabid fans, death threats, and dysfunctional stakeholders: The influence of organizational and industry contexts on whistle-blowing cases. Management Communication Quarterly.
Dr. Darrel Enck-Wanzer Publishes First Scholarly Book on the Young Lords
The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and other centers in Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the northeast and California. Part of the original Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panthers and Young Patriots, the politically radical Puerto Ricans who constituted the Young Lords instituted programs for political, social, and cultural change within the communities in which they operated.
The Young Lords: A Reader (NYU Press 2010) offers readers the opportunity to learn about this vibrant organization through their own words and images, collecting an array of their essays, journalism, photographs, speeches, and pamphlets. Organized topically and thematically, this volume highlights the Young Lords’ diverse and inventive activism around issues such as education, health care, gentrification, police injustice and gender equality, as well as self-determination for Puerto Rico.
In recovering these rare written and visual materials, Darrel Enck-Wanzer has given voice to the lost chorus of the Young Lords, while providing an indispensable resource for students, scholars, activists, and others interested in learning about this influential grassroots “street political” organization.
According to Juan Flores (a key founding figure of U.S. Latino studies), The Young Lords, “Offers a long-awaited introduction to the ideals and actions of this vibrant revolutionary organization. In so doing it opens a window on to the life of an entire community, and on a unique era of radical movement history. This carefully assembled collection promises to be the documentary sourcebook on the Young Lords Party for years to come.”
New York University Press was recently recognized as one of the most innovative university presses and one of the feistiest small presses in the country. The item can be purchased directly from NYU Press, Amazon.com and other book retailers.
