Economic Discrimination; Denial of Social Security Benefits Premised on Gender-Based Classification is Unconstitutional; Violates Equal Protection; Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld

After his wife\u27s death, Wiesenfeld applied for social security survivor benefits for himself and his infant son. While he was able to obtain benefits for his son under 42 U.S.C. Section 402(d), he was denied benefits under Section 402(g) because those benefits were available only to widows and surviving divorced mothers. When his application was denied, Wiesenfeld brought suit in federal district court to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief,\u27 contending that the gender-based classification of 42 U.S.C. Section 402(g) violated equal protection as found within the due process clause of the fifth amendment.\u27 A three-judge district court panel granted relief finding that the different treatment mandated by 42 U.S.C. Section 402(g) unjustifiably discriminated against women wage-earners by affording their survivors less protection than is provided the survivors of male wage-earners

Alien Registration- Ahern, Kenneth M. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Sarcenic Civilization in the Middle Ages

Of all the older nations who have carried their arms across vast continents,whose fleets have swept the seven seas, and who have left ineffaceable marks of their achievements on the pages of History, and enriched the world of thought by their discoveries and speculations,the Sarcens stand to us the nearest in time. The modern world is still working with the legacy they left behind,with the intellectu­al wealth they stored for their successors. It is, therefore a matter of regret that in the West a knowledge of their history should be so limited and more than this,that an entirely unfounded and erroneous conception of their civili­zation is so prevalent among the masses. How few among a group of present day High school students would even dream of tracing their chemistry experiments back through the centu­ries to the Sarcens. But what is even more deplorable, comparatively few of their teachers would do it. It is too often thought that Sarcenic civilization was nothing ore than a semi-barbarism characterized chiefly by religious fanaticism. In fact some sociologists condemn the Asiatic mind as incapable of real culture. Spiegel in his Antiquities of Iran says that the Semetic mind is not capable of mastering science or poetry or art. That they are ill-fitted for politics because they have no political idea except that of the family and therefore oscillates between unlimited despotism and complete anarchy, Apart from music his one faculty is religion, his and similar beliefs must be traced to one of two causes: either the author was unconsciously and involuntarily ignorant, of the facts or he purposely perverted the truth for some unknown personal purpose. In either case it is deplorable, inexcusable and plainly sins against fairness and justice to the race they thus condemn. Asiatic culture may differ from European, Sarcenic civilization may not identify itself with Anglo-Saxon or Germanic but does this difference this variation prove anything about the essentials? Logically it merely proves that civilization may be manifest in various forms depending on existing circumstances. This conclusion we all admit. The assumption that the civili­zation of Arabia did not at any time approach and equal if not surpass the recognized culture of other peoples is wholly unwarranted by historical facts. It is true they progressed in civilization as all other nations have pro­gressed and it is also true that their culture declined, and again we may add,as all the nations of antiquity have declined

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: United States Immigration Law and Policy as Applied to Filipino-Amerasians

In 1982 the United States Congress passed the Amerasian Immigration Act, 8 U.S.C. section 1154(f). The 1982 Act provides preferential immigration status to children in Asia fathered by U.S. service personnel in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, and Thailand. Congress passed the 1982 Act because of the poor economic and social conditions experienced by Amerasians in their homelands. The 1982 Act, however, excludes Amerasian children from the Philippines. Equity dictates that if Congress provides preferential immigration status to one group it should grant those same rights to groups who are similarly situated. Amerasians in the Philippines experience similar economic deprivation and social discrimination as those Amerasians provided for under the 1982 Act. This Comment argues that Congress should amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and grant Filipino-Amerasians preferential immigration status under their own Filipino-Amerasian Immigration Act. This Comment also asserts that critical changes must be made to the regulations promulgated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in order to streamline Amerasian immigration

The Exodus, Then and Now

Barnabas Ahern reflects on how the exodus of Israel, the exodus of Christ and the exodus of the Christian all form a unity and compenetrate in harmony

Mutations in Drosophila enabled and rescue by human vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) indicate important functional roles for Ena/VASP homology domain 1 (EVH1) and EVH2 domains

Journal ArticleDrosophila Enabled (Ena) was initially identified as a dominant genetic suppressor of mutations in the Abelson tyrosine kinase and, more recently, as a member of the Ena/human vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) family of proteins. We have used genetic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches to demonstrate the functional relationship between Ena and human VASP