Meet the New Boss : The New Judicial Center

A document entitled ‘Guidelines on Constitutional Litigation’ published in 1988 by the Reagan era Department of Justice is the springboard for Professor Tushnet\u27s discussion of the Supreme Court\u27s new center. The Guidelines urged Department of Justice litigators to foster a nearly exclusive reliance on original understanding in constitutional interpretation and to resort to legislative history only as a last resort. The Guidelines also advised Department of Justice litigators to seek substantive legal changes including more restrictive standing requirements, an end to the creation of unenumerated individual rights, greater constitutional protection of property rights, and greater limits on congressional power. The discussion begins by viewing the Guidelines\u27 characterization of Supreme Court jurisprudence as an indication of the Court\u27s old center. The discussion then examines the Court\u27s subsequent development to reach an understanding of the Court\u27s new center. Professor Tushnet finds that although the Court at times seemed to entertain some views espoused by the Guidelines, the present Court\u27s center is remarkably like the Court\u27s center in 1988. Original understanding remains only one method of constitutional interpretation -not even the most important one - and legislative history continues to play a role in statutory interpretation. Furthermore, changes in Court\u27s jurisprudence involving standing, unenumerated rights, and congressional power remain limited (though there appear to be greater constitutional protections of property rights). The only notable difference is that the present Court has developed doctrines that could swing constitutional interpretation toward the approach taken by the Guidelines should newly appointed Justices want to endorse that approach. But for now the current Court is much the same as before

The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection for Data Release Nine

The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), a five-year spectroscopic survey of 10,000 deg^2, achieved first light in late 2009. One of the key goals of BOSS is to measure the signature of baryon acoustic oscillations in the distribution of Ly-alpha absorption from the spectra of a sample of ~150,000 z>2.2 quasars. Along with measuring the angular diameter distance at z\approx2.5, BOSS will provide the first direct measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe at z > 2. One of the biggest challenges in achieving this goal is an efficient target selection algorithm for quasars over 2.2 < z < 3.5, where their colors overlap those of stars. During the first year of the BOSS survey, quasar target selection methods were developed and tested to meet the requirement of delivering at least 15 quasars deg^-2 in this redshift range, out of 40 targets deg^-2. To achieve these surface densities, the magnitude limit of the quasar targets was set at g <= 22.0 or r<=21.85. While detection of the BAO signature in the Ly-alpha absorption in quasar spectra does not require a uniform target selection, many other astrophysical studies do. We therefore defined a uniformly-selected subsample of 20 targets deg^-2, for which the selection efficiency is just over 50%. This "CORE" subsample will be fixed for Years Two through Five of the survey. In this paper we describe the evolution and implementation of the BOSS quasar target selection algorithms during the first two years of BOSS operations. We analyze the spectra obtained during the first year. 11,263 new z>2.2 quasars were spectroscopically confirmed by BOSS. Our current algorithms select an average of 15 z > 2.2 quasars deg^-2 from 40 targets deg^-2 using single-epoch SDSS imaging. Multi-epoch optical data and data at other wavelengths can further improve the efficiency and completeness of BOSS quasar target selection. [Abridged]Comment: 33 pages, 26 figures, 12 tables and a whole bunch of quasars. Submitted to Ap

Meet the New Boss: An Honors Faculty Member Weathers Administrative Change

The author reflects on the role of honors faculty in effectively responding to short- and long-term administrative change, discussing the value of resistance to deleterious administrative decisions and offering advice for successfully navigating cyclical administrative shifts in honors

‘Meet the new boss … same as the old boss?’:technology, toil and tension in the agrofuel frontier

Agrofuels are increasingly sourced and sold as a socially and environmentally beneficial solution to oil dependence. The promotion of sugar-derived ethanol as a substitute for petroleum has thus been key to state development and international trade policies by Brazil and the European Union, respectively, and subsequent investment by leading energy and food transnational corporations has transformed socio-spatial relations in the new sites of production. Brazilian rural worker testimonies, however, point to large-scale labour exclusion rather than reform and a deepening, rather than disruption, of historic power inequalities in the sector. Labour contestation challenges a converging institutional discourse of responsible technological innovation and social upgrading associated with emerging commodity chains and the ‘green’ economy. Although corporate and statutory response has been market-orientated certification and ‘more technology’ the idea of the ‘techno-institutional fix’ provides a power relation-attentive analysis that invites the further exploration of socially committed alternatives to food and energy production

Beijing Replaces Washington’s Dominant Position in Latin America: Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss?

Ceteris paribus, 2015 onward should be the years of China’s consolidation of its presence in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in the commodity-exporting MERCOSUR countries. The South American integration process became obsolete and irrelevant. China has gained dominant position in all Southern Cone economies. Domestic policy mistakes will strain China-Latin American relations over time. Latin nationalism and populism politics will resurface. This time against China. The reality is that, in this new century, China is not the problem but rather the only solution for Latin America

Can a \u27Dumb Ass Woman\u27 Achieve Equality in the Workplace? Running the Gauntlet of Hostile Environment Harassing Speech

Sandra Bundy may have guessed that her new job with the District of Columbia Department of Corrections would be a challenge. What she may not have expected was that she would have to meet the challenge under very different conditions than those faced by her male coworkers. Ms. Bundy\u27s work was continually interrupted by one of her supervisors, who kept calling her into his office and forcing her to listen to his theories about how women ride horses to obtain sexual gratification. He repeatedly asked Ms. Bundy to come home with him in order to view his collection of pictures and books on this topic. Another supervisor repeatedly propositioned her, asking her to come with him to a motel or on a trip to the Bahamas. None of Ms. Bundy\u27s male counterparts, in contrast, had to listen to their boss\u27s sexual fantasies and proposals. When Ms. Bundy tried to remove this gender-based obstacle to her job performance by reporting it to a third supervisor and pleading for help, he only exacerbated the problem, telling her that any man in his right mind would want to rape you, and asking her to have sex with him. Ms. Bundy successfully sued the Department of Corrections for sexual harassment in violation of Title VII, the federal statute outlawing workplace discrimination. The implicit holding of the Bundy case-that speech alone can create a discriminatory hostile work environment-went unquestioned for many years. Recently, however, defense attorneys have challenged the constitutionality of this principle, arguing that a prohibition on discriminatory workplace expression violates harassers\u27 First Amendment rights

The Echo: April 17, 1951

This Week’s – Staff To Elect Echo Heads – Chorale Sings This Weekend – Last Lyceum Series Features ‘Gypsies’ In Shreiner Auditorium Friday Night – Students Attend Philosophy Conf. Open House – Banquet Boasts New Features – Speech Club Holds Forensic Festival – Graduate Exam Given To Seniors – Editorials – Who’s Boss? – Drop In For A Visit – The Things I Hear – Calendar – Cornerstone – Student Council Diary – It’s A Man’s World – In The Know – Class Track Meet – Thinlies Trump Rose Poly – Trojans To Open Home Season – Quakers Down TU Tennismen – Bow To Quaker Team – ICC Invades TU For Field Day – Weatherman Refuses To Play Ball – Golfers To Clash With Ravens -- Ho-Hum! A Dissertation on Yawns – Men Advised To Apply For Deferment – Scoop Offered On Summer Jobs – Mrs. May Displays Art – I. U. Symphony Director “Dies” – Dr. Jones Attends Conf. – Classified Adshttps://pillars.taylor.edu/echo-1950-1951/1024/thumbnail.jp