Interview with Dale Bumpers by Brien Williams

Biographical NoteDale L. Bumpers was born on August 12, 1925, in Charleston, Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas, and during World War II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps. After being discharged, he attended Northwestern University Law School in Evanston, Illinois, where he received his law degree in 1951. He then returned to Charleston, Arkansas, where he began practicing law the following year. He ran for the state House in 1962 but lost. In 1970, he made a successful run for governor of Arkansas. He was elected to the U.S. States Senate in 1974, where he served until his retirement in 1999. During his tenure in the Senate, he never voted in favor of a constitutional amendment. He is married to Betty Flanagan Bumpers, who has spearheaded efforts to immunize children through the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center. SummaryInterview includes discussions of: coming into the Senate in the class of ’74; how George Mitchell rose to be majority leader: 1988 majority leader race; the role of money in politics and campaign finance reform; comparing leadership styles of Senators Byrd and Mitchell; Howard Baker as majority leader; Women Against Nuclear War / Peace Links and Betty Bumpers’ role in the organization, and the amendment Bumpers proposed to declare a national Peace Day; Robert Dole as majority leader; Tom Daschle as majority leader and as Mitchell’s protégé; George Mitchell’s inner circle; the evolution of partisanship in the Senate; the invasion of Iraq in 1991; the idea of constitutional amendments and Bumpers’s stance against them; the effects of living through the Depression and World War II on Bumpers’s generation; Mitchell’s decision to leave the Senate; Bumpers’s defense of Bill Clinton during the impeachment hearing; Bumpers’s presidential ambitions and choosing not to run in 1984; and the Bumpers’ involvement in desegregating the school in Charleston, Arkansas

A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Texas Bays and Marine Species

Temporal and spatial analysis of marine species distributions within the Gulf of Mexico is important in recognizing trends as to how their population dynamics change. Recognizing these trends can help fisheries and bay managers take precautionary action to better manage species important to a system and prevent biodiversity loss. This paper explores (1) how the abundance of fish and invertebrate species across the 8 major Texas bays are changing over time and space; (2) the spatial variability between the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre bay systems depicted by Self-Organizing Map tools (SOM). Species observation data collected by TPWD for 7 bays in the Gulf of Mexico over 35 years (between 1982-2016) across three sampling methods (gillnet, bag seine, and bay trawl) for over 1200 species of fish and invertebrates were analyzed in the R Studio Programming environment. Linear regression and related analysis were performed on the fish and invertebrate species data to determine their changes across bays (space) and over time. SOMs were created to determine differences in environmental variables between the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre. The findings for this study will allow for updated species distribution trends to be recognized, and allow for the exploration of the use of SOM tools in marine species distribution analyses

Giving them what they need: An Emergent Framework for K-12 Support Systems That Promotes Equity in Student Success

The GAP Project is a K-12 academic success program delivered to student cohorts beginning in the seventh grade. The program uses a co-curricular, blended learning model. Students at the local colleges support the program as volunteers and interns that serving as facilitators and curriculum developers. The program seeks to generate a pipeline of student cohorts from local K-12 schools with increased college-going culture

Senator James O. Eastland; Russell B. Long; Kaneaster Hodges, Jr.; Dale Bumpers; J. Bennett Johnston; John Tower; Floyd K. Haskell; John Melcher; Herman E. Talmadge; Edward Zorinsky; Birch Bayh; Robert Dole; George McGovern; & Jesse Helms to James T. McIntyre, 3 May 1978

Copy typed letter signed dated 3 May 1978 from Eastland; Russell B. Long; Kaneaster Hodges, Jr.; Dale Bumpers; J. Bennett Johnston; John Tower; Floyd K. Haskell; John Melcher; Herman E. Talmadge; Edward Zorinsky; Birch Bayh; Robert Dole; George McGovern; & Jesse Helms to James T. McIntyre, Director of the Office of Management & Budget, re: Food for Peace program, grain & rice; 2 pages.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1010/thumbnail.jp

A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Texas Bays and Marine Species

Temporal and spatial analysis of marine species distributions within the Gulf of Mexico is important in recognizing trends as to how their population dynamics change. Recognizing these trends can help fisheries and bay managers take precautionary action to better manage species important to a system and prevent biodiversity loss. This paper explores (1) how the abundance of fish and invertebrate species across the 8 major Texas bays are changing over time and space; (2) the spatial variability between the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre bay systems depicted by Self-Organizing Map tools (SOM). Species observation data collected by TPWD for 7 bays in the Gulf of Mexico over 35 years (between 1982-2016) across three sampling methods (gillnet, bag seine, and bay trawl) for over 1200 species of fish and invertebrates were analyzed in the R Studio Programming environment. Linear regression and related analysis were performed on the fish and invertebrate species data to determine their changes across bays (space) and over time. SOMs were created to determine differences in environmental variables between the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre. The findings for this study will allow for updated species distribution trends to be recognized, and allow for the exploration of the use of SOM tools in marine species distribution analyses

Graduate, Spring-Summer 2007

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Graduate, Fall-Winter 2005

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