“Setting the Free Thinker Free”: The Use of an Activist Archive to Analyze a Pivitol Moment in the History of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

This article draws extensively on an activist archive held at the University of Witwatersrand in order to analyze an important historical struggle within the South African Communist Party (SACP). A critical history of the crucial debates taking place within the SACP in the late 1990s is constructed from this archival material in order to explore the expulsion of Dr. Dale T. McKinley from the Party in 2000. The article argues that the expulsion of McKinley was a pivitol moment in the history of the SACP, and helps us understand the post-apartheid trajectory of the Party. Expelling McKinley fulfilled the SACP leadership’s goal of managing dissent at the rank-and-file level, and ensured that the Party’s loyalty to the ANC would remain an integral aspect of its strategy and tactics. Moreover, the use of this activist archive was absolutely essential in (re)constructing this critical story about the Party’s history

2011-2012 New Music Festival

Sixth Annual New Music Festival Thomas McKinley, Composer-in-Residence Lisa Leonard, Director Monday, November 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm Spotlight: Young Composers Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 7:30 pm Contemporary Forum Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm Spotlight 2: Thomas McKinley Commissioned Work Double Visions for Clarinet, Violin, Cello & Piano by Thomas Lawrence McKinley. The full score is displayed in the Creative Works collection.https://spiral.lynn.edu/conservatory_newmusicfest/1005/thumbnail.jp

Polymeric drift control adjuvants for agricultural spraying

The movement of a pesticide or herbicide to an off-target site during agricultural spraying can cause injury to wildlife, plants and contamination of surface water. This phenomenon is known as spray drift and can be controlled by spraying during favorable environmental conditions, and by using low drift nozzles and drift control adjuvants (DCAs). Polymeric DCAs are the most common type of DCA and function by increasing the droplet size produced during spraying. There are, however, two main drawbacks of polymeric DCAs; they are prone to mechanical degradation during spraying which reduces their performance and they can produce oversized drops which reduces the efficacy of the spray. In this trend article, existing DCA technology is reviewed including the mechanism through which they function. This then provides a platform for the discussion of novel polymeric architectures which have currently not been applied in DCA formulations

David Collins and Brett Perry in a Joint Recital

This is the program for the joint recital of senior composter David Collins and junior percussionist and senior composer Brett Perry. Mr. Collins was assisted by the OBU Brass Choir, the OBU Percussion Ensemble, and the OBU Flute Ensemble. Mr. Perry was assisted by Jamie Fowler, Paula McKinley, Kimberly Wright, Dan Beard, Carlos Ichter, Lori Reeves, Janine Reeves. Both Mr. Collins and Mr. Perry were assisted by the OBU Band. This recital took place on April 4, 1983, in the Mabee Fine Arts Auditorium

Performing Arts Class: April 30, 1982

This is the program for the Performing Arts Class recital, held on April 30, 1982, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. It featured the Clarinet Trio comprised of Mary Alice Chambers, Julia Gray, and Paula McKinley. Additionally, the following students performed: alto saxophone player Tony Smith, baritone Steve Cooper, baritone Dave Ekstrum, baritone Doug Johnson, tenor Rusty Hart, soprano Terri Vanlandingham, baritone John Hossler, baritone Larry Killian, baritone David Wilcox, tenor Mitchell Gray, baritone Arthur Broadbent III

Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling

Over the 1980s there were sharp increases in the return to schooling estimated with conventional wage regressions. We use both a signaling model and a human capital model to explore how the relationship between ability and schooling could have changed over this period in ways Chat would have increased the schooling coefficient in these regressions. Our empirical results reject the hypothesis that an increase in the upward bias of the schooling coefficient, due to a change in the relationship between ability and schooling, underlies the observed increase in the return to education over the 1980s. We also find that the increase in the return to education has occurred largely for workers with relatively high levels of academic ability.

The Naval War Board of 1898

The early months of 1898 witnessed the explosion of Maine and additional inducements for war. The Naval War Board, which first made its appearance in late March was summoned to arrange strategy for the impending hostilities. After some personnel shuffling it was finally composed of Montgomery Sicard, Arent. S. Crowninshield, and Alfred T. Mahan. The Appendix to the Bureau of Navigation of 1898 insists that the Naval War Board “throughout the war acted as an advisory board” and so do all scholars of the period. David Trask, for instance, in his benchmark work The War with Spain, also asserts that it “served simply as an advisory body to the Secretary of the Navy. It had no executive authority, although it undertook certain administrative duties … it did not decide the movements of any force at sea.” Recent scholarship refutes these views. After careful analysis of primary sources I suggest that the Naval War Board was the primary mover of the Spanish-American War. Under its aegis it amassed an amazing degree of power and for the most part directed naval, military, diplomatic, and domestic efforts. In almost constant session, both day and night, it was regularly in communication with President William McKinley

The Constitution in the Supreme Court: Contracts and Commerce, 1836-1864

Continuing a study of the first hundred years of constitutional litigation, Professor Currie explores the decisions of the Taney period respecting the Contract and Commerce Clauses. Though early decisions of the Taney Court seemed to portend a departure from the nationalism of its predecessor, the author argues that the impression was largely misleading. In general, for example, the Court under Taney proved rather sympathetic to contract rights. In Commerce Clause cases, after being badly split, the Court was able to agree on a longlasting formula that acknowledged an implicit limitation on state power; and although in the Taney period the Court never clearly struck down a state law on Commerce Clause grounds, it found other ways to protect the interest in unobstructed commerce