Friends Don’t Let Friends Hook Up Drunk

In the words of Coach Carr, don’t get drunk and have sex. Because you will get pregnant. And die. OK, so maybe that isn’t quite how the infamous “Mean Girls” quote goes, but it’s close enough. The “get slizzard and hook up” culture is huge on nearly every college campus, and, unfortunately, while doing “it” or getting close to doing “it” with some random guy on a Friday night seems like a good idea at the time, things aren’t usually quite so blissful the next morning. Or even the night of, when you get back to his place and sober up enough to realize he’s kind of creepy and you’re not as into him as you thought you were

The design of incentives for health care providers in developing countries : contracts, competition, and cost control

The authors examine the design and limitations of incentives for health care providers to serve in rural areas in developing countries. Governments face two problems: it is costly to compensate well-trained urban physicians enough to relocate to rural areas, and it is difficult to ensure quality care when monitoring performance is costly or impossible. The goal of providing universal primary health care has been hard to meet, in part because of the difficulty of staffing rural medical posts with conscientious caregivers. The problem is providing physicians with incentives at a reasonable cost. Governments are often unable to purchase medical services of adequate quality even from civil servants. Using simple microeconomic models of contracts and competition, the authors examine questions about: a) The design of rural service requirements and options for newly trained physicians. b) The impact of local competition on the desirable level of training for new doctors. c) The incentive power that can be reasonably expected from explicit contracts. One problem a government faces is choosing how much training to give physicians it wants to send to rural areas. Training is costly, and a physician relocated to the countryside is outside the government's direct control. Should rural doctors face a ceiling on the prices they charge patients?Can it be enforced? The authors discuss factors to consider in determining how to pay rural medical workers but conclude that we might have to set realistic bounds on our expectations about delivering certain kinds of services. If we can identify reasons why the best that can be expected is not a particularly good, it might lead us to explore entirely different policy systems. Maybe it is too hard to run certain decentralized systems. Maybe we should focus on less ambitious but more readily achievable goals, such as providing basic infrastructure.

Reflections on the Effects of Federalism on Opioid Policy

One thing we have seen today that we talk about in health law all the time is how the policy, the laws and institutions up at the 10,000 foot level, can so dramatically influence the personal, people’s lived experiences. Our speakers today have done a really great job of drawing out abstract institutional questions and also showing us how those questions have influenced the lives of real people in often tragic ways. Another thing we have seen that we talk about in administrative law all the time is the importance of expertise, especially given how hard it is to trace the impact of laws and institutions on real life. Thank you to our amazing experts who have come a long way to share with us great insights about the really important issue of substance use disorder, and showing us that there really are good answers and bad answers, and maybe even right answers and wrong answers. We have heard important insights about causes, effects, and real solutions that they and other researchers have produced by studying incredibly complicated problems in depth. These problems are nuanced and they are complicated and that is part of what makes expertise so valuable. Before we walk away, I would like to take a moment to dwell on a third theme, which is that knowing the right answer or having the expertise is not necessarily enough to get that answer executed in policy and then to have it impact people on a personal level. Experts certainly can and should try to persuade—and we have talked a bit about how best to do so—to figure out the answers and just go tell the people the answers and get them to vote, or tell policymakers the best way to handle the problem they face. But we have seen throughout the day that persuasion is often not enough, in part because of structural barriers that inhibit the ability of those with power or authority to be persuaded, or otherwise constrain or impede their choices even when they are persuaded

Reflections on the Effects of Federalism on Opioid Policy

One thing we have seen today that we talk about in health law all the time is how the policy, the laws and institutions up at the 10,000 foot level, can so dramatically influence the personal, people’s lived experiences. Our speakers today have done a really great job of drawing out abstract institutional questions and also showing us how those questions have influenced the lives of real people in often tragic ways. Another thing we have seen that we talk about in administrative law all the time is the importance of expertise, especially given how hard it is to trace the impact of laws and institutions on real life. Thank you to our amazing experts who have come a long way to share with us great insights about the really important issue of substance use disorder, and showing us that there really are good answers and bad answers, and maybe even right answers and wrong answers. We have heard important insights about causes, effects, and real solutions that they and other researchers have produced by studying incredibly complicated problems in depth. These problems are nuanced and they are complicated and that is part of what makes expertise so valuable. Before we walk away, I would like to take a moment to dwell on a third theme, which is that knowing the right answer or having the expertise is not necessarily enough to get that answer executed in policy and then to have it impact people on a personal level. Experts certainly can and should try to persuade—and we have talked a bit about how best to do so—to figure out the answers and just go tell the people the answers and get them to vote, or tell policymakers the best way to handle the problem they face. But we have seen throughout the day that persuasion is often not enough, in part because of structural barriers that inhibit the ability of those with power or authority to be persuaded, or otherwise constrain or impede their choices even when they are persuaded

Letter Written by Katherine Trickey to Her Folks Dated January 15, 1944

First part of letter typed [Transcription begins] WAC Det. IRTC Camp Wheeler, Georgia Sat. 15// January 1944 Dear Folks, I got your nice letter, Mother, last night. To answer some of your questions, I can’t really tell what I think of it alll yet; it is too new to form any real opinions on. The weather is loosy. (sic) Deliver me from having to spend many winters in Georgia. It rains nearly all the time and is very cold and damp. We wear our heavy overcoats and still shiver most of the time. If and when the sun comes out it is failry (sic) warm but that is so seldom one forgets about it in between times. The country is not at this time of the year at all attractive. There is a great deal of sand and little foliage arund (sic) the camp. Our barracks is in a stretch of sand with no trees anywhere near. I’m afraid it will be terribly hot in summer and it is windy and cold now. Most of the girls have very bad colds, but I have been lucky in that respect so far. I guess my living at camp so long this last year has toughened me for this half outdoors living. It compares with our climate when we have a wet cold last of October and first of November just before the snow comes. The trees and grass are dead and everything is dirty looking as it is at home before the snow comes, but down here they never have the snow to cover it up; it is like this for months---Me, I don’t like it, I’d rather have snow. As far as the job goes, this one I’m on now is just routine and not enough of it to keep me busy at all; but the captain who interviewed us yesterday said that I would be changed shortly so I’m not worrying about it at all. This is a brand new outfit of WACs here. They keep coming in a few at time and until the whole detachment is here nothing much will be done about placing the girls on their permanet (sic) jobs – just now they are using us wherever they can to keep us busy and to get some routine jobs done. I’m sending home a picture of our company at basic training; it is not as good as I hoped it would be; the photographer was too far away so that the people are too samll (sic) in it; however with a mangnizying (sic) glass it might be pretty good as apparently most of the girls took (a) fine picture. The C.O’s is no where near as good looking or very attractive looking. It is now 10.00A.M. and we have typed just two furlough(s) – (five minutes a piece) all this morning and there are two of us on the job. I’ll sure be glad when and if they change me to something that is busier. (switches to handwriting) Some just came in so the Corporal is going to type them. He is as bored as I am. He is a nice chap from Ohio. The clipping about the Bangor Airport is interesting. I wonder if the girls will be transferred or jut let out. I guess I’m just as well off here. -2- There hasn’t been much to write about since my last letter. I went to bed early Thursday night. Last night we had a talk from the WAC captain from Birmingham, Alabama who is next in command above our lieutenant in the WAC 6 (?) After the talk we cleaned the barracks for this morning’s inspection. I felt like working and scrubbed all the evening. You should see me down on my hands & knees with a GI Brush scrubbing floors. Maybe that job Aunt Grace turned down at the bank will still be available for me when I get out of the service. I’ll be right in trim for it. Marjorie’s sister wrote her that she was going to clean house when Marjorie came home on furlough so Marjorie wouldn’t get our of practice during her furlough. The boys have lost the bottle opener and are having a grand time trying to open their coke bottles on the edge of a table. They nearly all have coca colas in the middle of the morning and again in the afternoon. -3- I have been using my spare time here in the office to type up some form letters to send out to our basic company members so as to let them know where we are and in hopes they’ll answer and tell us about themselves. I’ll enclose a copy so you can see it. That picture of Evelyn didn’t look natural. I doubt if I would have recognized it. Do you want it back? I am also enclosing a Sample copy of a Furlough Paper so you can see what I’m doing. Love Kay [Transcription ends

Letter Written by Katherine Trickey to Her Folks Dated March 18, 1944

[Transcription begins] 18 March 1944 Dear Folks, Received your letter yesterday. I find that you say you have difficulty thinking of any news to write the same as I have difficulty. This will be a short note as I really haven’t anything to write about. I went to the Library and the Basketball Game Thursday night. We lost badly. Friday after class we got excused from drill (Marjorie and I) and went to the hospital to see Calista again. She had a bad day Thursday and had asked for us but we hadn’t got the message soon enough to go Thursday night. Her nerves had given way but Friday she seemed cheerful again. I am going to Macon tonight. (after supper). She[Shall] stay in bed till noon tomorrow if possible. I’ve got plenty to read if I wake up and I shall buy something for breakfast so that I’ll not have to get up until dinner time. I washed this noon so I have few responsibilities for tomorrow. In the afternoon, it will depend upon the weather. If it is good, we’ll go somewhere for a bus ride probably. Marjorie has to work in the morning. Next week-end, Marjorie and I are planning to get a week-end pass and go to Atlanta. We hope to get off Friday afternoon if we can get out of going to class and drill Friday night. We are going to write today for reservations at some hotels in Atlanta and hope we can find one somewhere. Everyone in any of the camps in Georgia who can do so goes to Atlanta for the week-end so it is pretty crowded there as well as having many Army installations right in the city anyway. If things go well, I expect to be a Corporal by Tuesday next week. I’ll let you know of course. It will give me a little more pay, but I hope that I can get higher rating than that soon. If we can just get started on the ratings maybe they will be easier to get. A Corporal gets 66 a month.; so with insurance $7.40 and bonds$3.75 and laundry $1.50 out I’ll still have some to save for my furlough. Everyone is furlough conscious here as someone is either going or coming from a furlough all the time. They spread it out so that only a few will be on furlough at a time of course. I guess Marjorie and I will be among the last. However she is not planning on the same time I am as she would rather wait until later in June. I would also except that I would like to get back before the Brewer school closes if possible. It looks pretty definite now but of course anything may happen between now and then. Leaving here the 6 June and getting in Bangor or Lewsiton[Lewiston], Thursday P.M. sometime. Presumably I’ll have a stop over of about four hours in Washington. Maybe I can see Uncle Ted and Walt then. I hope so. The months really go past very, very fast so it won’t be long. 11 weeks. We do like our walk at noon. We seem to have more time than we did when we ate with the boys as we don’t have to stand in the mess line so long. This noon I did a washing and yesterday I had a chance to lie down for almost half an hour. We just walk; we don’t have to march thank goodness. I did pay income tax.$54.11. With about 1350 to pay next March. This is longer than I expected it to be. Will write again Monday or Tuesday. Loads of Love to All of you. Kay [Transcription ends

THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF CELIE IN ALICE WALKER’S THE COLOR PURPLE

The objectives of this research are to reveal the factors that cause Celie to become a lesbian and to describe Celie‟s homosexual identity development. The researcher used sexual orientation, lesbianism and other related theories to answer the formulated research questions. The method used in this research is qualitative content analysis. The subject of this research is a novel entitled The Color Purple by Walker. The data are some phrases, clauses, and sentences related to the factors that cause Celie to become a lesbian and process of Celie‟s homosexual identity development. The key instrument of this research is the researcher herself employing sexual orientation theory by Giddens and lesbianism theory by Rich as explained in the conceptual framework. Sexual orientation and lesbianism are used as the grand theories for the analysis. The indicators made are based on the employed theories to gain the research data. To gain the trustworthiness, the researcher used data triangulation technique by crosschecking the data with her consultants and other researchers. The findings of the research show two important points. First, the factors that cause Celie to become a lesbian are psychological and social/environmental factors. Second, Celie‟s homosexual identity development process covers four stages: sensitization or emergence, identity confusion, identity assumptiopn and first relationship

On Being Old Codgers: A Conversation about a Half Century in Legal Education

This conversation, conducted over three evenings, captures some of our thoughts about the last half century of legal education as both of us near retirement. We have edited the conversations so as to eliminate verbal stumbles and present our ideas more coherently, slightly reorganized a small part of the conversation, and added a few explanatory footnotes. However, we have attempted to keep the informal tone of our discussions

The Hero Who Overslept

"We all love a lie in, but the alarm clock is definitely ringing. The time has finally come to throw back the duvet and leap into this playfully unhinged show about finding the hero under the covers. It’s a sincere and heartfelt invitation to defy indifference and experience a new, tender love story for our long-neglected earth, one in which we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. In a never seen before mix of climate science, psychology, philosophy and surrealist dance, our unlikely heroes strive to remake themselves in preparation for an overdue remaking of the world. These quirky ‘Clark Kents’ of climate change will shake your inner snooze button awake, so come see a performance that stretches what’s possible in an hour but will be a lifetime in the living.