The gift that grows

"Thousands of visitors, from thirty-six states and twenty foreign nations, have signed the guest register at the J. C. Penney Foremost Guernsey Farm at the University of Missouri. What these people saw during their visits is one of the greatest breeding herds on one of the most modern dairy farms in the nation."--Page 2By Patricia Sellers ('56)

Why University Teacher Preparation Programs Should Provide A New Set Of Personal Constructions Of Mathematics Through Math Content Courses For Elementary Teachers

Teacher preparation programs are in danger of seriously under-preparing elementary teachers to teach mathematics for understanding if they wait to provide students with evidence of effective mathematics teaching methods in the mathematics methods courses.  With strong traditional beliefs about how mathematics ought to be taught and their determination to be able to explain mathematics to elementary children, the methods course is much too late to change preservice teachers’ perceptions of mathematics or how to teach it.  If we want to change the way they teach mathematics, we must do it in their mathematics content courses.  In the content courses, we have a chance to provide them with positive and successful personal mathematics constructions.  Only when they learn to become active problem-solvers, can they teach others the importance of interactive problem solving as a means of truly understanding mathematics.  It is only through their own experience with mathematics that they can come to appreciate the value of a student-centered environment for learning and to appreciate how a teacher’s desire for control can stifle true learning

Free Yezidi Foundation Public Memo – Lafarge Case

This memorandum supports the Free Yezidi Foundation’s (FYF) filing in the Lafarge Case concerning allegations of complicity in crimes against humanity, including genocide. The Lafarge Corporation continuously operated its factory and, moreover, financially contributed to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (IS, ISIS, Daesh) between 2013 and 2014, inclusive of the period between 3 August 2014 and 19 September 2014. During those weeks, and represented in a timeline annexed to this memorandum, international and French media, international organizations, and governments extensively reported on and condemned IS acts committed against the Yezidi population that could constitute crimes against humanity under the French Criminal Code (FCC), as well as under customary international law. Accordingly, FYF, as Civil Party in the Lafarge Case, presents certain factual and legal bases of crimes committed against Yezidi victims and survivors that could demonstrate Lafarge’s knowledge of, and complicity in, crimes against humanity

Impact of Emotional Disturbance on Crime among Latinos in Texas

Latinos are a minority population who are largely stereotyped as violent and vulnerable to committing crimes in America. While Latinos’ vulnerability to committing crimes is attributed to multiple factors, little attention has been drawn towards the relationship between Latinos’ emotional disturbance and probability toward perpetrating or preventing crime. The rational choice theory, trait theory, and biological theory were used to show relationships between emotional disturbance and cognitive processes underlying recidivism that are common among Latinos in Texas. This study investigated the impact of emotional disturbance on decision-making processes among Latinos in Texas as a motivator or deterrent to engage in crime. An explorative qualitative research approach was adopted. Five professionals working in the criminal justice system in Texas were interviewed. Data analysis was done thematically and findings were presented in a narrative format based on Braun and Clarke’s model for thematic analysis. Themes regarding discrimination, racial stereotyping, emotional stability, increase in criminal behavior, unfairness in the criminal justice system, high incarceration of Latinos, and mitigation effects emotional disturbance were prevalent in the findings. It emerged that emotional disturbance has a relationship with criminal behavior activities among Latinos living in Texas, although, it is triggered by poverty, stereotyping, and discrimination. It is recommended that the criminal justice system in Texas should embrace community programs aimed at improving the living standards of Latinos. Texas should amend the Texas Labor code Chapter 21 to include more stringent measures that will mitigate discrimination against Latinos

Time to Enumerate the Slave Trade as a Distinct Provision in the Crimes Against Humanity Treaty

The proposed Draft articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity under consideration at the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth Committee (Legal) are bereft of a distinct provision to address the international crime of the slave trade