NOTE:  As of May 2006, this website will not be updated.

E. Wilma van der Veen, Ph.D.

Activist, educator, sociologist

Welcome to my website.  I welcome suggestions and comments, so please feel free to email me. Enjoy the voyage.  Thanks for visiting. To contact me, email me at wwolfvan@yahoo.com  

Remember - strive to be compassionate in all you do and think and feel. 

Current course offerings (Winter 2006)

Note modification in office hours.  New office hours are Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-3:15, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:30.

NOTE:  The grading scheme that I have published in my syllabi is to be changed to reflect SMU's grading policy as stated in the University regulations, pg. 27 of the Calendar.  In particular the change refers to A- being assigned for grades 80-89, instead of B+ being assigned for 80-84 as is written in my syllabi.  Thus the modified grading scheme is as follows:

A+          96 - 100%               B+           77 – 79                    C+           67 – 69                    D             50 – 59

A             90 – 95                    B             74 – 76                    C             64 – 66                    F              0 – 49

A-           80 – 89                    B-            70 – 73                    C-            60 - 63

Projects and issues I am active in or interested in

Some quotes I find particularly enlightening during these times:  

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." 

Gandhi

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem."                              Howard Zinn

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."                  Dwight D Eisenhower

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."                                                                                                                                           Margaret Mead

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals."                                                                                             Albert Einstein, Monthly Review, 1949

"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power". Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

"The price good people pay for their indifference to public office is to be ruled by evil men" ... Plato

"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power"... Benito Mussolini

"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." -Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1945, Germany

So what are you doing to make this world a more peaceful place?

Previous course offerings

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