Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation

[Excerpt] “In the 1950s and 1960s, the southern states struggled to respond to the civil rights decisions being issued by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the new civil rights laws being passed by Congress. The judicial battleground for this perfect storm of evasion and massive resistance was found in the “old” Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which encompassed the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. In the “old” Fifth Circuit, a minority of liberal appeals court judges—sympathetic to the civil rights movement—used all legal and administrative power at their disposal to make sure that the federal district and appeals courts were complying with the U.S. Supreme Court’s mandate in Brown v. Board of Education. In their ground-breaking book A Court Divided: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Politics of Judicial Reform, political scientists Deborah J. Barrow and Thomas G. Walker carefully examined the political behavior of these aforementioned liberal appeals court judges and found evidence that Elbert Parr Tuttle, the Fifth Circuit’s chief judge from 1960 to 1967, was manipulating, or “gerrymandering,” the assignment of appeals court judges to both three-judge district court panels, and three-judge appellate court panels to guarantee that the panels had at least two liberal judges who would enforce the Supreme Court’s desegregation rulings.

Palynological Correlation of Atokan and Lower Desmoinesian (Pennsylvanian) Strata Between the Illinois Basin and the Forest City Basin in Eastern Kansas

Palynological correlation is made between Atokan and lower Desmoinesian strata in the Illinois basin and the Forest City basin in eastern Kansas. Spore data from previous studies of coals in the Illinois basin and other coal basins are compared with data from spore assemblages in coal and carbonaceous shale bands in a core drilled in Leavenworth County, Kansas. Correlations are based on first and/or last occurrences of 31 species common to the Illinois basin and eastern Kansas and on significant increases or decreases in abundance of several of those taxa. The oldest coal, which is 26 ft (8 m) above the top of the Mississippian, is early Atokan (early Westphalian B) in age and is approximately equivalent to the Bell coal bed in the Illinois basin. The Riverton coal bed at the top of the studied interval in Kansas is early Desmoinesian (early Westphalian D) and correlates with about the Lewisport coal bed in the Illinois basin. Three coal beds near the base of the Pennsylvanian in three cores drilled in Cherokee County, Kansas, which were also studied, range in age from late Atokan to early Desmoinesian. As in other coal basins, Lycospora, borne by lycopod trees, greatly dominates the lower and middle Atokan spore assemblages in coals and shale, but spores from ferns, especially tree ferns, significantly increase in abundance in the upper Atokan and lower Desmoinesian. The pattern of change of dominance among Lycospora pellucida, L. granulata, and L. micropapillata in middle Atokan (Westphalian B-C transition) that has been demonstrated earlier in the Illinois basin and eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, also occurs in eastern Kansas. At least 10 species of spores, which appeared in the middle Atokan in other parts of the equatorial coal belt, also appeared at this time in eastern Kansas. Most of these species have their affinities with the ferns, which were adapted to drier habitats than lycopods. Thus, the climate may have become a little drier in the equatorial coal belt during middle Atokan

Ultra-high speed electro-optical systems employing fiber optics final report

Ultrahigh speed electro-optical systems employing fiber optic

Stillbirth and loss: family practices and display

This paper explores how parents respond to their memories of their stillborn child over the years following their loss. When people die after living for several years or more, their family and friends have the residual traces of a life lived as a basis for an identity that may be remembered over a sustained period of time. For the parent of a stillborn child there is no such basis and the claim for a continuing social identity for their son or daughter is precarious. Drawing on interviews with the parents of 22 stillborn children, this paper explores the identity work performed by parents concerned to create a lasting and meaningful identity for their child and to include him or her in their families after death. The paper draws on Finch's (2007) concept of family display and Walter's (1999) thesis that links continue to exist between the living and the dead over a continued period. The paper argues that evidence from the experience of stillbirth suggests that there is scope for development for both theoretical frameworks

Book Review of The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World

This book review examines the impact a leader has once they set a tone of positivity. It examines the importance of a leader\u27s mindset, as it will be the determination of success for an organization. A single individual has the power to change the culture of an organization to allow for improvement within the organization. This book shows the strategy of positive leadership and how it can create a transformative workplace

Integration of a Social Needs Program into an Urban Student Run Free Clinic

Background/Problem Statement The Cass Clinic in Detroit, MI is a student-run free clinic (SRFC) that provides care for an underserved, underrepresented population. Our patients experience a high incidence of chronic health conditions accompanied by poverty, homelessness, and food insecurity which complicate care. Integrating social well-being into primary care creates a two-pronged approach to improving patient outcomes: medical care and disease prevention. A social needs program was implemented at Cass Clinic in order to address such social determinants of health. Methods A social needs screening modality was created and integrated into a medical encounter triage form. Two AAFP social needs screening questions were asked to identify and triage patients who may benefit from social needs services. After triage, patients were connected with social needs personnel to assist with personally identified short or long-term goals, such as obtaining a bus pass or low-income housing assistance. Results Implementation of this initiative was achievable with limited challenges. Of all patients surveyed (n=12), 42% reported concern at least some of the time with their current food and/or housing situation. All patient social needs visits (n=4) addressed diverse social determinants of health including housing insecurity (n=4), clothing (n=3), food insecurity (n=2), and bus pass/transportation (n=1). Discussion To provide holistic healthcare and assist in the long-term management of chronic medical conditions, SRFC should identify and address social determinants of health. Integrating social well-being serves a vital role in the prevention and management of chronic health conditions

Rising While Black: A Qualitative Study on Black-led Gentrification and Socioeconomic Mobility in Central Harlem

Nationwide cities are working to revitalize urban spaces and to slow and reverse the trend of suburban flight. Schools and neighborhoods are at the heart of this mission, with some arguing that education policy is housing policy. Essentially, where there is segregated housing there is segregated schools and that economic and racial diversity in schools is a consequence of economic and racial diversity in neighborhoods. For minority children, living and going to school in mixed-income and racially diverse populations leads to better economic success in adulthood than when minority children live and go to school with majority low-income and high-minority populations. This research has influenced both housing and education policy to support the development of mixed-income and racially diverse schools and neighborhoods. As such policy and practice continues to encourage gentrification, including that of black gentrification, what role does the black gentrifying population play on neighborhood and school equality for low-income black students? Herein lies the objective of the present research. While existing research addresses the role of class on educational equality for low-income black students, it does so without specific scrutiny of the role of the black middle-class on education and neighborhood equality for low-income black students.Thus, the following research questions: (a) how can black gentrification impact education equality for low-income black students?; (b) if controlled for income, does race matter in obtaining educational equality?;(c) how can urban planning impact mixed income black neighborhoods and schools? This research used face-to face in-depth interviews and focus groups to evaluate experiences, perceptions, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes about the research topic

Wycliffite Influence in an Age of Political and Religious Turmoil: A Reassessment of Jack Upland, Friar Daw\u27s Reply, and Upland\u27s Rejoinder

Jack Upland, Friar Daw’s Reply, and Upland’s Rejoinderparticipate in the development and transmission of poetic visions, depicting a world in decline in which friars play a central role. Jack Upland, a Wycliffite prose treatise written between 1390 and 1400, attacks friars as vanguards of Antichrist. Friar Daw’s Reply is a point-by-point fraternal response to Jack Upland written in alliterative verse, composed in either 1419 or 1420 and by a member of the London Blackfriars. Upland’s Rejoinder, a verse rebuttal written in the margins of Friar Daw’s Reply, dates to approximately 1450 and was composed by a Lollard sympathizer. Known as the “Upland series,” these poems respond to nearly two centuries of Latin antifraternal writing including the proto-reformation efforts of William of St. Amour, Richard FitzRalph, John Wyclif, while also following in the secular poetic tradition of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower, who wrote against friars and the decay of human society

Ki Peppers in a Senior Composition Recital

This is the program for the senior composition recital of Ki Peppers. This recital took place on May 1, 1994, in the McBeth Recital Hall in the Mabee Fine Arts Center