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What\u27s Wrong with These Pictures? Race, Narratives of Admission, and the Liberal Self-Representations of Historically White Colleges and Universities
This Essay focuses on the interpretation of several iconic images used to represent racial inclusion at what the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has tellingly called “historically white colleges and universities.” All of the images come from schools in the Midwest, and, churlishly enough, a memorial in the law school publishing this Journal comes in for the most extended criticism. In mitigation, I conclude with discussions of my own institution, University of Illinois, whose use of a racist caricature of American Indians to rally its fans now makes it the (pun intended) chief offender among Midwestern universities where race and representation are concerned. However, while brief exploration of the connection between Illinois’s hideous anti-Indian symbolism and its professed racial liberalism ends this Essay, the larger focus is on images professedly designed not to entertain fans, but to “admit” students of color into the historically white institutions. The liberal narrative of admission that welcomes students of color to historically white universities comes, the Essay argues, at the high price of effacing the exclusionary past and present of such institutions. Thus, the notion recently advanced at Illinois that a racist sports symbol can be put into the service—or somehow has always been in the service—of multiracial education represents not so much a sharp break with the ways the historically white, but confidently liberal, university represents itself as an elaboration of such views
Preventing lower limb injuries : Is the latest evidence being translated into the football field?
There is accumulating international evidence that lower limb injuries in sport can be prevented through targeted training but the extent to which this knowledge has been translated to real-world sporting practice is not known. A semi-structured questionnaire of all coaches from the nine Sydney Australian Football League Premier Division teams was conducted. Information was sought about their knowledge and behaviours in relation to delivering training programs, including their uptake of the latest scientific evidence for injury prevention. Direct observation of a sample of the coach-delivered training sessions was also undertaken to validate the questionnaire. Coaches ranked training session elements directly related to the game as being of most importance. They strongly favoured warming-up and cooling-down as injury prevention measures but changing direction and side-stepping training was considered to be of little/no importance for safety. Only one-third believed that balance training had some importance for injury prevention, despite accumulating scientific evidence to the contrary. Drills, set play, ball handling and kicking skills were all considered to be of least importance to injury prevention. These views were consistent with the content of the observed coach-led training sessions. In conclusion, current football training sessions do not give adequate attention to the development of skills most likely to reduce the risk of lower limb injury in players. There is a need to improve the translation of the latest scientific evidence about effective injury prevention into coaching practices. © 2008 Sports Medicine Australia
The Lantern Vol. 44, No. 1, Fall 1977
• Onto My Love • Saturday Midnight • Michelle • Today • Firefly • Black Midnight • Bamboo Arms • Caesaropapism • A Day In My Life • I Only • For Stephen • April 18, 1958 to July 15, 1977 with Emphasis on July 15 • Ode to Little Sisters • Privacy Warning • For Susan, Someone I Used to Know • A Parting on the Night of June 26th • Infant\u27s Universehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1111/thumbnail.jp
Irregular sloshing cold fronts in the nearby merging groups NGC 7618 and UGC 12491: evidence for Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities
We present results from two \sim30 ks Chandra observations of the hot
atmospheres of the merging galaxy groups centered around NGC 7618 and UGC
12491. Our images show the presence of arc-like sloshing cold fronts wrapped
around each group center and \sim100 kpc long spiral tails in both groups. Most
interestingly, the cold fronts are highly distorted in both groups, exhibiting
'wings' along the fronts. These features resemble the structures predicted from
non-viscous hydrodynamic simulations of gas sloshing, where Kelvin-Helmholtz
instabilities (KHIs) distort the cold fronts. This is in contrast to the
structure seen in many other sloshing and merger cold fronts, which are smooth
and featureless at the current observational resolution. Both magnetic fields
and viscosity have been invoked to explain the absence of KHIs in these smooth
cold fronts, but the NGC 7618/UGC 12491 pair are two in a growing number of
both sloshing and merger cold fronts that appear distorted. Magnetic fields
and/or viscosity may be able to suppress the growth of KHIs at the cold fronts
in some clusters and groups, but clearly not in all. We propose that the
presence or absence of KHI-distortions in cold fronts can be used as a measure
of the effective viscosity and/or magnetic field strengths in the ICM.Comment: ApJ, accepted. Uses emulateapj styl
Ram pressure stripping in elliptical galaxies: I. the impact of the interstellar medium turbulence
Elliptical galaxies contain X-ray emitting gas that is subject to continuous
ram pressure stripping over timescales comparable to cluster ages. The gas in
these galaxies is not in perfect hydrostatic equilibrium. Supernova feedback,
stellar winds, or active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback can significantly
perturb the interstellar medium (ISM). Using hydrodynamical simulations, we
investigate the effect of subsonic turbulence in the hot ISM on the ram
pressure stripping process in early-type galaxies. We find that galaxies with
more turbulent ISM produce longer, wider, and more smoothly distributed tails
of the stripped ISM than those characterised by weaker ISM turbulence. Our main
conclusion is that even very weak internal turbulence, at the level of <15% of
the average ISM sound speed, can significantly accelerate the gas removal from
galaxies via ram pressure stripping. The magnitude of this effect increases
sharply with the strength of turbulence. As most of the gas stripping takes
place near the boundary between the ISM and the intraclustermedium (ICM), the
boost in the ISM stripping rate is due to the "random walk" of the ISM from the
central regions of the galactic potential well to larger distances, where the
ram pressure is able to permanently remove the gas from galaxies. The ICM can
be temporarily trapped inside the galactic potential well due to the mixing of
the turbulent ISM with the ICM. The galaxies with more turbulent ISM, yet still
characterised by very weak turbulence, can hold larger amounts of the ICM.
[Abridged]Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in MNRA
A deep Chandra observation of the poor cluster AWM4 - II. The role of the radio jets in enriching the intra-cluster medium
We use a Chandra observation of the poor cluster AWM4 to map the temperature
and abundance of the intra-cluster medium, so as to examine the influence of
the central radio galaxy on its environment. While the cluster core is
generally enriched to near-solar abundances, we find evidence of super-solar
abundances correlated with the radio jets, extending ~35 kpc from the core of
the central dominant galaxy NGC 6051 along its minor axis. We conclude that the
enriched gas has been transported out of the central galaxy through the action
of the radio source. We estimate the excess mass of iron in the entrained gas
to be ~1.4x10^6 Msol, and find that this can be produced in the core of NGC
6051 within the timescale of the AGN outburst. The energy required to transport
this gas to its current location is ~4.5x10^57 erg, a significant fraction of
the estimated total mechanical energy output of the AGN, though this estimate
is dependent on the degree of enrichment of the uplifted gas. The larger
near-solar abundance region is also compatible with enrichment by metals mixed
outward from NGC 6051 over a much longer timescale.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 11 pages, 6 figure
Is the abundance of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii relevant to Crohn's disease?
Reports that bacteria within the Firmicutes phylum, especially the species Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, are less abundant in Crohn’s disease (CD) patients and supernatants from cultures of this bacterium are anti-inflammatory prompted the investigation of the possible correlations between the abundance of F.prausnitzii and the response to treatment in patients with gut diseases and healthy controls. In a randomized, double-blind trial, faeces were collected from healthy volunteers, and from patients with active CD, ulcerative colitis (UC) and irritable bowel syndrome before and after treatment. The levels of F. prausnitzii DNA in faecal suspensions were determined by PCR. Treatment by an elemental diet was effective, resulting in decreases in both the Harvey and Bradshaw index (P<0.001) and the concentrations of serum C-reactive protein (P<0.05). The total levels of F. prausnitzii in faecal samples from CD patients at presentation were lower than those in the other groups both before and after the treatment. There was no correlation between F. prausnitzii abundance and the severity of CD before treatment. Clinical improvement unexpectedly correlated with a significant decrease in the abundance of F. prausnitzii, especially the A2-165 subgroup (P<0.05). Our data suggest that a paucity of F. prausnitzii in the gastrointestinal microbial communities is likely to be a minor aetiological factor in CD: recovery following elemental diet is attributed to lower levels of gut flora
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