Miscellanies of K0−Kˉ0 K^0 - \bar{K}^0 mixing and BK B_K

We have computed $B_K$, using two different methods with staggered fermions on a $16^3 \times 40$ lattice at $\beta = 5.7$ with two dynamical flavors of a mass 0.01. % Using an improved wall source method, we have studied a series of non-degenerate quark antiquark pairs and observed no effect on $B_K$, although effects were seen on the individual terms making up $B_K$.Comment: 4 pages (latex, including 8 postscript figures, uuencoded gzip-compressed tar files), Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) Lattice 9

Lee v. Macon County Board of Education: The Possibilities of Federal Enforcement of Equal Educational Opportunity

Lee v. Macon County Board of Education shows the evolution of the role of the three branches in enforcing the equal protection clause in public education in Alabama. All three branches initially acquiesced in the separate but equal doctrine. The executive and the judicial branches rejected the doctrine in Brown, but the legislative branch remained silent until 1964. Despite Congress’ failure to authorize a federal role in desegregation, the Department of Justice was an active participant in Lee beginning in 1963. When Congress finally did act in 1964 to authorize such suits, it encumbered the authorization with severe limitations. Congress also created a parallel enforcement mechanism, in Title VI of the 1964 Act. In later years, Congress and the executive have emphasized general reform of education as the answer, in legislation such as No Child Left Behind. My paper explores the role of the federal government in the statewide desegregation of Alabama’s public schools. Federal court litigation in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education led to an extraordinary remedy and illustrates the potential for the Departments of Justice and Education to play a key role in reviving the quest for equal educational opportunity through desegregation

Lehan K. Tunks—A Tribute

Lee Tunks came to New Jersey as Dean of the two Rutgers Law Schools (Newark and Camden) in 1953 and served until 1962. Rutgers Law School had been only recently created; it had come into being in 1948 (from the merger of several municipal and private schools) as the law school of the contemporaneously created state university, Rutgers University. Lee\u27s charge and purpose was to build a major state law school. He had to position the school as a high priority claimant upon university resources: to effect large increases in library collection and staff, to break his faculty\u27s salaries free from the university pattern, to acquire research and administrative resources, all of which generated disputes within the university. He led the faculty to decisions that entangled the newly visible public institution in external fights with bar, alumni, or the legislature. There was one year in which Newark admissions standards were so boosted as to cut the entering class by almost 50%, and there was a several-year campaign to drop the school\u27s evening division as beyond its resources. All these disputes were intensified by the dedication and passion with which Lee pressed his positions, but it was the same dedication coupled with a superior tactical sense which saw them mostly won on Lee\u27s terms

Is it better to learn how to ‘hear’ the sounds of a new language, or practice saying them? (OASIS Summary)

Lee, B., Plonsky, L. & Saito, K. (2019). Is it better to learn how to ‘hear’ the sounds of a new language, or practice saying them?. OASIS Summary of Lee, B., Plonsky, L. & Saito, K. (2020) in System. https://oasis-database.org/concern/summaries/hx11xf416?locale=e

Lehan K. Tunks—A Personal Recollection

What follows are some observations about Lee Tunks, formed during my several years of assisting him with deaning duties at the Law School, and during the years since when we have been faculty colleagues and friends. I always think of Lee as a law school dean. Perhaps that is because he was a dean when I first met him. Perhaps it is because what I really know about deans and deaning I learned first from him. Whatever the cause, he seems to me to be one of those people destined to be a law school dean. I have known many fine deans since those days, but most feel the job is one they didn\u27t plan on having and one they will someday (hopefully soon) be well rid of. By contrast, Lee Tunks seemed to the manor born