The Constitution on the Campus

This article is the text of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, delivered by Professor Wright at the Vanderbilt University School of Law in April, 1969. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., left a large part of his estate to the United States at his death in 1935. By Act of Congress in 1955, the disposition of the property was entrusted to a Permanent Committee, which, among other projects, sponsors the, annual Hohnes Lectures by a distinguished legal scholar. Professor Wright has brought to this topic both profound constitutional scholarship and wide experience in dealing with related problems at his university. His thesis is that the Constitution is and should be applicable to the college campus. Subject to reasonable and nondiscriminatory regulations, the first amendment applies with full vigor to student expression. The student is protected by the due process clause in disciplinary proceedings, but the courts will recognize as being within due process any institutional procedure which is fair and reasonable and which reliably determines the issues. Professor Wright concludes with a discussion of what these developments mean to the modern university

Amendments to the Federal Rules: The Function of a Continuing Rules Committee

No development in American procedural history in the last century has exceeded in importance the adoption by the United States Supreme Court in 1938 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. These rules, the product of a distinguished Advisory Committee, introduced a system and a philosophy differing as markedly from the code pleading then in vogue as code pleading, in its day, had differed from common-law pleading. This new system has worked well in the federal courts, so well indeed as to stimulate a reexamination of procedure in many of the states, with nearly a dozen jurisdiction shaving already adopted the concepts introduced by the Federal Rules. Changes in the Federal Rules are, therefore, of significance not limited to those who practice in the federal courts. The amendments are likely to be seriously considered by the states which have emulated the federal practice, and which may well wish to incorporate the new provisions in their local systems. The amendments are significant to states where groups are pressing for adoption of the Federal Rules. Indeed such amendments are of importance to lawyers everywhere who are interested in procedural reform

Calibration of a photomultiplier array spectrometer

A systematic approach to the calibration of a photomultiplier array spectrometer is presented. Through this approach, incident light radiance derivation is made by recognizing and tracing gain characteristics for each photomultiplier tube

What is the best treatment for infants with colic?

Infantile colic, defined as excessive crying in an otherwise healthy baby, is a distressing phenomenon, but there is little evidence to support the many treatments offered. Several small studies report some benefit from use of a hypoallergenic (protein hydrolysate) formula, maternal diet adjustment (focusing on a low-allergen diet), and reduced stimulation of the infant. While dicyclomine has been shown to be effective for colic, there are significant concerns about its safety, and the manufacturer has contraindicated its use in this population. An herbal tea containing chamomile, vervain, licorice, fennel, and balm-mint was also effective in a small RCT, but the volume necessary for treatment limits its usefulness (strength of recommendation: B, inconsistent or limited-quality patient-oriented evidence). The one proven treatment is time, as this behavior tends to dissipate by 6 months of age

Exploring attention-based explanations for some violations of Hick’s law for aimed movements

Choice reaction time generally increases linearly with the logarithm of the number of potential stimulus–response alternatives, a regularity known as Hick’s law. Two apparent violations of this generalization, which have been reported for aimed eye movements (Kveraga, Boucher, & Hughes, Experimental Brain Research, 146, 307–314, 2002), and arm movements (Wright, Marino, Belovsky, & Chubb, Experimental Brain Research, 179, 475–496, 2007), occurred when the indicator stimulus was an abrupt change at the location that was the target of the to-be-made movement. We report two experiments that examined and rejected the hypothesis that these abrupt-onset indicator stimuli triggered a shift in exogenous attention and that this led to unusually small uncertainty effects. Each experiment compared this indicator stimulus with a single alternative: Experiment 1 tested an indicator stimulus at all locations other than the target; Experiment 2 tested a central pointer to the target. Neither alternative led to an uncertainty effect for pointing responses that was of the size typically observed for other responses using the same stimuli

Measuring Information Leakage in Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses

Tor provides low-latency anonymous and uncensored network access against a local or network adversary. Due to the design choice to minimize traffic overhead (and increase the pool of potential users) Tor allows some information about the client's connections to leak. Attacks using (features extracted from) this information to infer the website a user visits are called Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks. We develop a methodology and tools to measure the amount of leaked information about a website. We apply this tool to a comprehensive set of features extracted from a large set of websites and WF defense mechanisms, allowing us to make more fine-grained observations about WF attacks and defenses.Comment: In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '18

Sleep-Wake Actigraphy and Light Exposure During Spaceflight - Short

Sleep-Wake Actigraphy and Light Exposure During Spaceflight - Short (Sleep-Short) will examine the effects of spaceflight on the sleep of the astronauts during space shuttle missions. Advancing state-of-the-art technology for monitoring, diagnosing and assessing treatment of sleep patterns is vital to treating insomnia on Earth and in space

What are Inclusive Pedagogies ? What must faculty do differently to teach inclusively?

At the 2016 All Campus Forum President Hinton called for us to create an ecosystem of inclusion at CSB/SJU. Faculty members\u27 work with students is central to creating such an ecosystem, but what, after all, do we mean by inclusion? In this presentation, FYS and Humanities Mellon cohort members provide an overview of our evolving understanding of inclusive pedagogy, the research that supports it, as well as examples of such pedagogies that we are implementing in our fall 2016 courses