April 6, 1989

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

HOW TO MORE EFFECTIVELY PASS FEDERAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY LEGISLATION IN THE U.S.

This study’s purpose is to broadly assess and interpret the literature to reach novel conclusions on recommendations for strategies on how to pass federal climate change legislation in the U.S. more successfully in the future. This research is necessary, due to a gap in existing literature on how to successfully pass climate change legislation. Literature is abundant and there is a common understanding amongst the public on the factors and actors blocking climate change legislation in the U.S., but there is far less of a public and academic consensus on how to combat these anti-climate change actors and factors successfully. This study examines 25 peer reviewed academic journals and looks to uncover patterns revealed in the literature. The literature highlights the barriers of federalism and provides these as solutions to overcome the complexities built into the system. The study points to three prominent patterns in the literature recommending that in order for climate change legislation to pass, legislators, lobbyists, climate advocates, scientists, etc. must understand the complexity and interdisciplinary impacts of climate change and therefore the multifaceted approach needed in policymaking. Next, similarly, the literature points to the need for compromise in order for climate change legislation to pass in the U.S. at the federal level, recommending a focus on reframing issues as “energy security” or “sustainable development” so as to make them nonpartisan terms and please varying actors. Finally, and again similarly, the literature recommends that the climate change movement needs to broaden its framework in order to open up the movement to more actors to more successfully combat the strong, large, and wealthy counter-climate change movement

Operations Tempo and Turnover Intentions: An Exploratory Study of the Air Force\u27s Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Career Field and Development of the Air Force Civil Engineer Retention Questionnaire

From a managerial perspective, the attraction and retention of high-quality employees is more important today than ever before (Holtom, Mitchell, Lee, & Eberly, 2008). This continuing growth of importance with regards to retention has validated the efforts of many studies within the context of turnover to better understand the relationship between turnover and the factors that may influence the behavior. Employers want to know what the reasons are for employee turnover. However, more importantly is that once behaviors are identified the employers are then equipped with a better understanding of how this relationship can be controlled. This relationship also has significant importance within the military structure because of its difference when compared to other firms and organizations. As military operations continue to develop and requirements continue to grow, it is critical to maintain continuity through retention of experienced, high-quality members. The United States military relies solely on training and developing its young members to grow into the senior leaders of its organization; it does not recruit senior executives from outside the organization to function as the senior leaders. The uniqueness of this structure within the United States military expresses in itself the importance of retention and controlling turnover among its members. As a result to this unique structure, Congress, the Department of Defense, and military commanders are concerned by the increased rates of turnover (Huffman, Adler, Dolan, & Castro, 2005). The purpose of this study intends to address this concern

The Parthenon, January 23, 2018

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2016 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published two days a week. Physical issues are printed on Tuesdays and Fridays. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content