ROTC Ban mulled again

An article discussing the pressure at URI to ban the ROTC for it’s discrimintory policie

Book Review Vernon Subutex (1&2 vols) by Virginie Despentes Paris

On the surface, Vernon Subutex is an engaging thriller about the purgatorial existence once a life of sex, drugs and punk rock has faded. French rock icon Alex Beach is dead in a bathtub due to a drug overdose. His death seems as clichéd as his betrayal of punk rock sensibilities when he embraced fame and pop culture status. His fans are devastated, but his death has a particular impact on Vernon Subutex. Alex was not just his best friend, but also his financial benefactor after his record store - a Parisian icon in its own right - becomes another victim to a post-Napster music industry. Vernon was a man of the scene in the ‘80s and ‘90s but without the record store he falls into obscurity, becoming isolated and exclusively cyber-connected. Keeping his internet subscription had been his most important financial obligation after rent, but now that Alex is gone his life changes dramatically: he\u27s kicked out of his apartment brusquely with little regard by his landlord and forced to couchsurf among his estranged friends until he eventually ends out on the streets. Then begins an urban manhunt as word spreads that Subutex possesses the last known recorded interview of Alex Bleach. What will it reveal

A Survey and Comparison of Current Follow-Up Practices and Curriculum in Special Education Programs in the State of Washington

The study surveyed twenty-six districts in the State of Washington that had developed high school special education programs. These districts were surveyed to determine the amount of follow-up that had been conducted in high school special education programs and to provide an evaluation of the program in the districts in which follow-up studies have been conducted

Technological and Institutional Crossroads: The Life and Times of Adolf A. Berle Jr.

In this paper, I examine the life and times of Adolf A. Berle Jr., perhaps the most influential scholar in the field of corporate governance. Specifically, I examine his contribution in light of the technological and institutional changes that occurred in the late nineteenth century—changes that were germane to his thinking and understanding of corporate governance. I argue that, despite his perspicacity, he failed to appreciate the changing role of corporate officers—that is, from that of fiduciary agent to that of visionary, founder, and essential element in corporate success. Put differently, in the early twentieth century, the key asset in the large, modern corporation was its officers’ ability to manage and control several large-scale, vertically integrated lines of business. This paper will show that this was reflected in the composition of the Board in the post-WWII period where officers dominated and in corporate control in general

Managers, Learning And The Multinational Firm: Theory And Evidence

This thesis examines the question of managerial/organizational advantages as a cause of foreign direct investment (FDI) and thus as the basis of multinational enterprises (MNE\u27s). Three approaches to this question are taken: historical, analytical, and empirical. Historically, managerial/organizational advantages as a cause of MNE\u27s is traced back to the early work of Southard and Phelps in the 1930\u27s. Analytically, three models of embodied-in-managers, intangible assets are advanced, of which two are non-strategic. In the strategic model, foreign direct investment is shown to be a dominant strategy when entry by former managers (defectors) is threatened. These models make use of Penrose\u27s notion of managerial constraint. Also, two models of the R & D/advertising MNE are provided.;These models yield a number of predictions which are tested against data on four hundred and fifty U.S. firms, obtained from Standard and Poors\u27, Moody\u27s, and U.S. Department of Commerce. Various measures of managerial/organizational efficiency, R & D, advertising, plant costs and tariffs are constructed, and regressed against measures of firm multinationality. The tests are performed using a general sample and a Canadian and European subsample. The results are encouraging. Measures of managerial/organizational ability are found to have the predicted effect on U.S. foreign direct investment

Housing in Harlem: An Investment in the Future

I propose to demonstrate that a housing community in the spirit of the Modern Movement can be placed in Harlem so as to provide safe housing that gives a sense of identity to the residents and which will provide an urban link between Morningside Heights and Harlem so that Morningside Park will no linger pose a threat to the community

On the Origins of The Modern Corporation and Private Property

The Modern Corporation and Private Property (MCPP) by Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Gardiner Means, published in 1932, is undisputedly the most influential work ever written in the field of corporate governance. In a nutshell, Berle and Means argued that corporate control had been usurped by a new class of managers, the result of which included (1) shareholder loss of control (a basic property right), (2) questionable corporate objectives and behavior, and (3) the potential breakdown of the market mechanism. In this paper, I examine the origins of MCPP, paying particular attention to the authors’ underlying motives. I argue that shareholder primacy was not the principal motive. Rather, the principal underlying motive was the well-documented growing gap between potential gross domestic product (GDP) and actual GDP in the 1920s, a problem they, like myriad other period writers, attributed to managerial behavior—in short, a breakdown of governance. In this regard, MCPP should be seen as analogous in scope to the period writings of Thorstein Veblen, Paul Douglas, Henry Ford, Edward Filene, Rexford Tugwell, and many others in the 1920s