**September 1, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CAREERS IN HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:

Jones, Elka. \"Careers in Homeland Security.\" Occupational Outlook
Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Summer 2006, 13 pages\... Accessed at:

[[http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2006/summer/art01.htm]{.underline}](http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2006/summer/art01.htm)

\[Summary: \"This article describes homeland security careers. The first
section discusses the range of employment opportunities-highlighting
places of employment and general types of work. The second section
provides a glimpse into what it might be like to work in homeland
security by focusing on three specific occupations: Border Patrol
agents, emergency management directors, and analytical chemists. The
third section suggests ways to find more information.\"\]

\(2\) DISASTERS WAITING TO HAPPEN:

King, Robert P. \"Corps Keeping The Lid on Dike Data.\" Palm Beach Post,
August 27, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2006/08/27/m1a_DIKE_0827.html>

\[Excerpt: \"The Army Corps of Engineers is refusing to release detailed
historical information about leaks in the Herbert Hoover Dike {around
Lake Okeechobee}, saying the data could prove useful to terrorists or
saboteurs. But one South Florida congressman and a state-hired dike
expert disagree, saying the data could help inform residents about the
dangers they face from the leak-prone berm around Lake Okeechobee. They
say the information also could shed light on whether the corps is
focusing its repair efforts on the sections of dike most in need.\"\]

\(3\) FEMA:

Radelat, Ana. \"FEMA Head Disputes Criticisms Agency Hasn\'t Improved
Since Katrina.\" Shreveport Times (LA), August 28, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060828/NEWS01/608280317/1002/NEWS>

\(4\) GLOBAL WARMING:

Washington Post. \"Action in California - While Washington Stalls on
Climate Change, the Governator Has Negotiated a Breakthrough.\"
September 1, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101449_pf.html>

\(5\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Dominguez, Alex. \"AP Poll: Fine Years On, Concerns Linger Over Sept.

11, Aftermath.\" Associated Press, August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8JRF3SG0.html]{.underline}](http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8JRF3SG0.html)

\[Excerpt: \"At Penn Station in Baltimore, the message has become so
timeworn {be on lookout for terrorists} that the newsstand is seeking
profit from paranoia fatigue. T-shirts and mugs are for sale emblazoned
with a spread eagle surrounded by the words \"U.S. Department of
Homeland Security\" and above the message \"Report Suspicious Activity -
1-800-1984\" - a reference to George Orwell\'s novel \"1984\" about
living in a totalitarian state in which Big Brother is always
watching.\"\]

FCW.Com (Federal Computer Week). \"Homeland Security Special Report:

Looking Back,\" September 1, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.fcw.com/specials/homeland/]{.underline}](http://www.fcw.com/specials/homeland/)
Includes:

\* Arnone, Michael. \"A Work In Progress - Experts Debate Whether the
Creation of DHS Boosted Technology Programs as Expected.\"

\* Joch, Alan. \"Terrorists Brandish Tech Sword Too - Five Years After
the 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Law Enforcement and Terrorist Groups Bring
New Levels of Sophistication to the Ongoing Game of Digital Cat and
Mouse.\"

\* Moore, John. \"Technology Trap: Is Our National Obsession With
Technology Causing Us to Misdirect Our Terrorism-Fighting Efforts?\"

\* Dorobek, Christopher J. \"Editorial: Changing Everything.\"

Helft, Miguel. \"Case Studies In Terror: Should the Government Treat
Terrorism Like a Biz-School Problem?\" Fortune Magazine, August 31,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384702/index.htm?section=money_latest>

\[Excerpt: \"What if the way we think about homeland security - phone
taps, color-coded threat levels, and screeners - is myopic? What if the
government could prevent attacks and bolster its disaster-response
planning by emulating companies with expertise in flipping burgers or
serving their customers faster?\"\]

Lester, Will. \"Poll: One-Third of U.S. Fears New Attack.\" Associated
Press, August 31, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15404845.htm]{.underline}](http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15404845.htm)

\[Alternative title: \"Poll: Most Americans Not Fearful of Terrorist
Attack.\"\]

Physicians For Social Responsibility. \"U.S. is \'Dangerously
Unprepared\'

for Nuclear Terror Attack; New Physicians for Social Responsibility
Report Says Better Planning Could Prevent Thousands of Deaths.\"
Washington DC: PSR Press Release, August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.psr.org/site/DocServer/Good_PSR_Nuclear_Terrorism_News_Release_Printing.doc?docID=801>

\[Far cry from days when PSR pooh-poohed any nuclear-weapon related
threat. See next reference for the report.\]

Helfand, Ira et al. The U.S. and Nuclear Terrorism: Still Dangerously
Unprepared. Washington DC: Physicians For Social Responsibility, August
2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=StillDangerouslyUnpreparedCopy>

\(6\) INTERN:

Met today with Jessica Shueling, a disaster management student at
Millersville University of Pennsylvania in Lancaster and with her
adviser, Dr. Henry Fisher III. Discussed the possibility of an
internship for Jessica with the EM HiEd Project this semester starting
next Friday for one day a week for the length of the semester.

Discussed projects where her assistance would be needed and appreciated.

If all goes well, Jessica will start next Friday.

\(7\) KATRINA AND RECOVERY:

King, Rita J. Big Easy Money: Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast.

CorpWatch, August 17, 2006, 45 pages. Accessed at:

[[http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14023]{.underline}](http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14023)

Whorinskey, Peter. \"Few Katrina Refugees Have Returned \-- Experts
Begin To Worry Damage is Permanent.\" Washington Post, August 28, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/15380244.htm]{.underline}](http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/15380244.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"\...even among New Orleanians who have enough money to
rebuild\...some are daunted by the possibility that their neighborhoods
will never return to life, and that the city will for financial reasons
suspend services such as police and fire protection there. The trouble
is that the city has yet to settle on a rebuilding plan. A committee
appointed by Mayor C. Ray Nagin developed a conceptual plan in January,
but it was never carried out. The City Council tried coming up with a
plan, too. In July, city leaders announced that they were taking a new
tack, setting up another panel to develop rebuilding plans. \'It was
just the perfect storm of bad policy,\' said Reed Kroloff, the
architecture dean at Tulane University, who worked on the mayor\'s first
rebuilding plan. \'If you wanted to kill a city, this was the way to do
it. \... God help the people of modest economic circumstances waiting
from Nashville, Tenn., wondering if they can ever come home\'.\"\]

\(8\) MANAGING CATASTROPHE \-- GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY COURSE:

Received today from Dr. Janet Benini, affiliated with George Washington
University in DC, a copy of the syllabus for her \"Managing
Catastrophe\" course she is teaching to a standing-room only class at
GWU. Given early success of this course, plans are to teach it again
next semester, perhaps at Georgetown University. Forwarded the syllabus
to the EMI Webmaster for upload to the EM HiEd Project website \--
Syllabi Compilation section \-- where it should be accessible shortly.

\(9\) MITIGATION:

Urban, Ron. \"Managing Floodplains Key To Reducing Flood Damage.\" Times
Herald-Record (NY), August 28, 2006. Accessed at:
<http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060828/OPINION/608280310>

\(10\) PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE:

Tanner, Robert. \"Governors Take Guard Appeal to Rumsfeld.\" Associated
Press, August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_on_re_us/governors_guard]{.underline}](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_on_re_us/governors_guard)

\[Excerpt: \"The nation\'s governors sought help Thursday from Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in
Congress to give President Bush more control - and governors less - over
the National Guard during disasters.\"\]

\(11\) WAR ON TERROR:

Aaronovitch, David. \"Violence in Search of a Cause: What a Famous Book
Tells Us About Terrorism.\" Timesonline (London), August 29, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22369-2332346,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22369-2332346,00.html)

\[Note: Author wonders if Truman Copote\'s \"In Cold Blood\" might offer
clues as to why some, particularly those home-grown, commit terror \--
the murderers manifested \"a lack of real sympathy,\" a \"constant
feeling of envy, a sense of lost entitlement, without any real notion of
their own responsibility for their predicaments/\" Also present was
\"their sense of self-pity\" and a \"lifelong history of erratic control
over aggressive impulses.\" Posits that Richard Reid (wanna-be shoe
bomber) \"was violence in search of a cause, not the other way around.\"
Also check out reader commentary on the article \-- at the end of the
piece.\]

Crosby, Greg. \"Democracy and Islam Won\'t Work.\" Politicalmavens.com,
September 1, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2006/08/31/greg-crosby-2/]{.underline}](http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2006/08/31/greg-crosby-2/)

\[Excerpt: \"The thwarted airliner attacks last month prove that
democracy does not add up to peace when it comes to Islamist-jihadists.
Most of the terrorists arrested were British citizens, some 2nd
generation. If, after being born and raised in a free, western
democratic nation, they still want to kill innocents, slaughter women
and babies, destroy the state of Israel, initiate a new holocaust
against Jewish people, and eradicate Western Civilization from the face
of the earth, then no amount of democracy will ever change that.\"\]

Gilmore, Gerry J. \"Bush: Anti-Terror War Represents Epic Struggle of
Ideas.\" American Forces Press Service, August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=657]{.underline}](http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=657)

Rumsfeld, Donald H.. \"New Enemies Demand New Thinking - The Secretary
of Defense Clarifies and Expands On What He Said In His Recent Speeches
About Appeasing Extremists.\" Los Angeles Times September 1, 2006.

Accessed at:
<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-rumsfeld1sep01,1,4033745.story?coll=la-news-comment>

Salt Lake Tribune. \"The Bloody Shirt: Administration Launches a
Campaign of Fear\" (Editorial). August 31, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4269804]{.underline}](http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4269804)

Silva, Mark. \"Bush: War on Terror is \'Ideological Struggle of the 21st
Century.\" Chicago Tribune, August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-060831bush,1,5583273.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true>

\[Excerpt: \"As the Bush administration works to portray an American
struggle with \"radical\" Islamic terrorists as the historic successor
to 20th Century wars against fascism and communism, the president is
pointing to the upcoming fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as a
reminder of when this 21st Century war came ashore in the U.S. Yet
observers say the president\'s new offensive appears more precisely
timed for the start of a fall election campaign in which the war in Iraq
has become a pivotal issue in congressional and Senate races as the
Republican Party struggles to maintain control of Congress.\'}

Van Natta, Don Jr., Elaine Sciolino and Stephen Grey. \"Details Emerge
in British Terror Case.\" New York Times, August 27, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/europe/28plot.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1156824000&en=09d0e2102978e4b1&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin>

Zoll, Rachael. \"U.S. Muslims Warn of Threat From Within.\" Associated
Press, August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-muslims-threat-within,0,6259761.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines>

\[Excerpt: \"\'This sentiment of denial, that sort of came as a fever to
the Muslim community after 9-11, is fading away,\' said Muqtedar Khan, a
political scientist at the University of Delaware and author of
\'American Muslims.\' \'They realize that there are Muslims who use
terrorism, and the community is beginning to stand up to this\'.\"\]

B. Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, N-430

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

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