The Wooster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1950-04-20

This edition includes an article on the radio station WCW which is to return to the air with an anything-can-happen show by James Grissinger, Winford Logan and Donald Shanower. Another article is a continuation in a series of career counseling articles, focusing specifically on the weekend panels featuring careers in communication. Another article describes the Spring Concert of Secular Songs which was conducted by the Wooster Chorus. In attempt to cut traffic congestion, an article discussed the administration’s plan of towing away cars that were not claimed by their owners. The Student Senate discussed their plans of bringing about a fair system of evaluating and rating professors on campus in a manner that would prove to be productive in another article in this edition. Advertisements from local businesses fill up large sections of the last couple pages of the newspaper.https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1941-1950/1213/thumbnail.jp

Restaurant Growth in Lawrence, Kansas, 1950 to 2007

Data gathered from city and telephone directories provide a frame for understanding changes in types of restaurants and their geographic patterns in a Midwestern university town. I display this information using GIS at ten-year intervals and add a personal dimension via interviews with longtime community members and restaurant owners. Population increase and a general trend of eating outside the home explain the general restaurant growth. Through time, diversity in ethnic restaurants increases and chain establishments expand rapidly. Restaurants always have been concentrated along or near arterial streets. Most were at downtown locations in the 1950s. Then came a move toward the periphery followed by a recent revival of the central business district. Changes in Kansas liquor laws in 1987 that allowed establishments to sell liquor by-the-drink and proprietors to open microbreweries bolstered the local restaurant business

Final Design for a Comprehensive Orbital Debris Management Program

The rationale and specifics for the design of a comprehensive program for the control of orbital debris, as well as details of the various components of the overall plan, are described. The problem of orbital debris has been steadily worsening since the first successful launch in 1957. The hazards posed by orbital debris suggest the need for a progressive plan for the prevention of future debris, as well as the reduction of the current debris level. The proposed debris management plan includes debris removal systems and preventative techniques and policies. The debris removal is directed at improving the current debris environment. Because of the variance in sizes of debris, a single system cannot reasonably remove all kinds of debris. An active removal system, which deliberately retrieves targeted debris from known orbits, was determined to be effective in the disposal of debris tracked directly from earth. However, no effective system is currently available to remove the untrackable debris. The debris program is intended to protect the orbital environment from future abuses. This portion of the plan involves various environment from future abuses. This portion of the plan involves various methods and rules for future prevention of debris. The preventative techniques are protective methods that can be used in future design of payloads. The prevention policies are rules which should be employed to force the prevention of orbital debris

The Cowl - v.80 - n.14 - Jan 28, 2016

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 80 - No. 14 - January 28, 2016. 24 pages

Collective-Action Repertoires in Five French Provinces, 1789-1914

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The Cowl - v.57 - n.7 - Nov 5, 1992

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 52, Number 7 - November 5, 1992. 24 pages

The Cowl - v.78 - n.17 - Mar 6, 2014

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 78 - No. 17 - March 6, 2014. 24 pages

Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers

Lethal autonomous machines will inevitably enter the future battlefield – but they will do so incrementally, one small step at a time. The combination of inevitable and incremental development raises not only complex strategic and operational questions but also profound legal and ethical ones. The inevitability of these technologies comes from both supply-side and demand-side factors. Advances in sensor and computational technologies will supply “smarter” machines that can be programmed to kill or destroy, while the increasing tempo of military operations and political pressures to protect one’s own personnel and civilian persons and property will demand continuing research, development, and deployment. The process will be incremental because non-lethal robotic systems (already proliferating on the battlefield) can be fitted in their successive generations with both self-defensive and offensive technologies. As lethal systems are initially deployed, they may include humans in the decision-making loop, at least as a fail-safe – but as both the decision-making power of machines and the tempo of operations potentially increase, that human role will likely but slowly diminish. Recognizing the inevitable but incremental evolution of these technologies is key to addressing the legal and ethical dilemmas associated with them – U.S. policy for resolving those dilemmas should be built on these assumptions. The certain yet gradual development and deployment of these systems, as well as the humanitarian advantages created by the precision of some systems, make some proposed responses – such as prohibitory treaties – unworkable as well as ethically questionable. Those features also make it imperative, though, that the United States resist its own impulses toward secrecy and reticence with respect to military technologies, recognizing that the interests those tendencies serve are counterbalanced here by interests in shaping the normative terrain – the contours of international law as well as international expectations about appropriate conduct – on which it and others will operate militarily as technology evolves. Just as development of autonomous weapon systems will be incremental, so too will development of norms about acceptable systems and uses be incremental. The United States must act, however, before international expectations about these technologies harden around the views of those who would impose unrealistic, ineffective or dangerous prohibitions – or those who would prefer few or no constraints at all