Silent Star: The Forgotten Film Career of Margarita Fischer

Childhood fame, a clandestine marriage, national popularity, nude photos, premature retirement from the public eye, a spouse's early death--the progression of silent film star Margarita Fischer's career from 1911 to 1927 was as colorful as the plot of any of her pictures. The moviegoing public loved Fischer's work. A June 1914 Photoplfly poll named her America's most popular actress, and American Beauty Films selected Fischer's face as one of the nation's most beautiful and recognizable to serve as its logo the same year.1 Her final film, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927), directed by husband Harry Pollard, was one of the most expensive and highly-hyped films then made by a major studio.

LET ALL THE PEOPLE WORSHIP: APPLYING INCULTURATION IN A MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY

The United States of America is growing more diverse, and its houses of worship are embracing this diversity to engage congregants and build membership. There is a tool to help worshiping communities to espouse diversity of cultures, namely Liturgical Inculturation. Liturgical inculturation, as defined by Anscar Chupungco, is the process whereby the texts and rites used in worship by the local church are so inserted in the framework of culture, that they absorb its thought, language, and ritual patterns. Incorporating the goals and functions of liturgical inculturation, worshiping communities can begin to re-evangelize themselves and celebrate unity through diversity. This document provides a framework of liturgical inculturation through the lens of the Mosaic Liturgy for a Roman Catholic Mass. The mosaic liturgy exhibits bits of various cultural traditions in the structure of the single rite. The three cultural groups that are the basis for this study are European Americans, Latinxs, and Francophone Africans. Spirituality and inculturation of Latinxs and Francophone Africans are discussed at length to educate the reader. To show how the mosaic liturgy works, two different Masses where the mosaic liturgy is applied are examined from the planning process through the execution of the Masses. In addition, two Roman Catholic parishes that have vibrant Hispanic and Francophone African communities are profiled to show churches that already use the mosaic liturgy

Editor's Note

After serving as the assistant editor for last year's issue of The Fairmount Folio, I blithely assumed the publication process would be much the same this year. I revised this thinking early in the semester and am grateful to all who contributed time, effort, and counsel to make my job easier.Dr. Helen Hundley, the supervising faculty member, was a great source of help and guidance throughout the entire process. I've decided to accelerate the publication process so that this issue could appear in May rather than in September as in the past. This schedule allowed authors and contributors to receive the results of their work before the end of the school year. As a result, each step in the process had to move along more quickly than we had originally planned. That we have achieved our goal of a May release is due to the flexibility and cooperation of numerous people along the way.I would like to thank Devin Brogan, a fellow graduate student who cheerfully agreed to serve as assistant editor without having any idea what would be asked of him. I was glad for his support.I would also like to thank the authors who submitted their work for consideration for publication in this volume of The Fairmount Folio. Their articles were subjected to board review, and the selection process was both rigorous and competitive. The review board valued and considered each piece, ultimately recommending six articles for inclusion in this issue. I thank the board members, Dr. James Duram, Dr. Helen Hundley, Dr. Ariel Loftus, Dr. Jay Price, and Devin Brogan, for their thoughtful service and editorial suggestions.Authors whose works were accepted were punctual and conscientious in ushering their work through these steps in the publication process. Their efforts made my task much easier and more enjoyable.Each year the Department of History grants paper awards in three categories, and The Fairmount Folio presents these unedited except for the format. Nathan Heiman's paper on the Bay of Pigs incident won the Rendell Award for work done in History 300, an undergraduate research and writing course. Joel Schaefer's study of the origins of the Salvation Army received the Fiske Hall Graduate Seminar Paper Award, bestowed on a semester-length research paper from a seminar course. Marsha Wiese's work on Greek drama had been accepted for publication by the review board and then also won the Fiske Hall Graduate Paper Award, given to a piece completed during a lecture course. Congratulations to all of these authors, who adapted swiftly to the compressed deadlines of the publication process.Besides printing the research works of students, The Fairmount Folio reviews materials of historical interest when possible. For this reason, I am glad to include a book review by Valancy Gilliam.The Department of History and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences deserve special thanks for supporting this project. History faculty and staff have been generous with their time and advice, and the college graciously allocates publication expenses.Finally, I thank my husband, Bill Head, an unfailing source of support. Theresa St. RomainMay 200

\u3ci\u3eState v. Grier\u3c/i\u3e and the Erroneous Adoption of the Punishment-Based Standard of Review for Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Based on All-or-Nothing Strategies

In June 2009, the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II, reversed Kristina Grier’s second-degree murder conviction in State v. Grier. The court concluded that Grier had received ineffective assistance of counsel because her attorney failed to request jury instructions for any lesser-included offenses, choosing instead to pursue an all-or-nothing defense strategy. That same month, Division I issued a contrary opinion, finding the pursuit of an all-or-nothing strategy reasonable. The Washington State Supreme Court has granted certiorari and will soon hear oral arguments in Grier. This Comment reviews federal and state courts’ approaches to questions of ineffective assistance of counsel involving all-or-nothing strategies and argues that, when the Washington State Supreme Court resolves State v. Grier, it should review attorneys’ strategic decisions under a highly deferential standard. This standard would align with state precedent and federal practice and would preserve trial attorneys’ discretion, provide defendants with a true adversarial process, and repair the split State v. Grier created

Plenty Good Room: Using Negro Spirituals to Bridge the Racial Divide

In 2020, the United States experienced a global pandemic and the murder of Mr. George Floyd. With the murder of Floyd, many churches were confronted with the racial divide in the United States. This thesis is a response of one community, the Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Plano, Texas. Using the folk song of Black Americans, namely the Negro Spirituals, as the foundation of an ethical-theological framework, this thesis poses one way for addressing the anti-Black structure prevalent in the Catholic Church in the United States of America. This work progresses from despair to hope, addressing the link between the institution of Slavery and the Negro Spirituals, providing an overview of Catholic documents on racism and reconciliation, and illustrating a theology of accompaniment championed by Pope Francis, to provide strategies on addressing the racial divide

Fire of Divine Unity: Col 1: 24-7

Paul invites all people into a oneness with Christ and each other. It is a requirement in the Christian journey. The Holy Trinity is a communion of persons as One and we as the church are a communion of persons as one body of Christ. It is only by God’s Love that we can share in the inner life of the Holy Trinity, participating in a holy intimacy beyond our imagination. This Divine unity with the Holy Trinity and others is made possible through Mary’s heart, the Eucharist, and our willingness to undergo unavoidable sufferings for the sake of Christ and the Church just like Paul. The fruit of these transformative difficulties is Christ Himself being revealed in His glory in others. We need Christ in others to be saints and to be able to enkindle the fire of Divine unity in others. Christ needed Mother Mary and so do we. She continually allows the Love and communion of the Holy Trinity to come forth into this world, through her heart, into ours. Mary can help us to be vulnerable to one another as we are in the midst of our suffering. We can become open to being in communion with one another as we endure our afflictions. The death and resurrection of Christ transforms these times of darkness into entrances into the depths of His heart. We become more known by God and others when we can receive God’s Love together as one as we suffer. The way to enter into this union is through the gentleness of Mary and the gift of the Eucharist. We are made holy as we relinquish our distrust of God while gently and continually receiving the Eucharist with Mary’s openness to Divine Love. As we partake in the Body and Blood of Christ, in communion with our brothers and sisters in Christ, the Resurrection takes place in us. Other people who were also created by God will have a gentle breeze blow the kindling coals in their spirit and they will begin to become alive with this fire of Divine unity. The revelation of God’s glory will glimmer as the Kingdom of God unfolds in our midst. The beauty of Holy Communion with God and our brothers and sisters will make any suffering we endured a joy. As Christ needed Mary to bring about the Kingdom of God on earth, so do we need others to help us participate in the Christian life. We need Christ in one another to persevere through the sufferings that befall us on our journey. Paul encourages us with holy encouragement to see the gift of sharing in the Cross of Christ for our brothers and sisters. This Divine unity makes it easy to allow our difficulties to go from bitter to bittersweet as we remain with one another in the mystery of being made holy together. We participate as one body in the Paschal Mystery and the Love of God is made manifest on earth in us

The Contemplative Gift in the Life of the Church

Church leaders and other members of the Mystical Body of Christ can avail themselves more to the contemplative gift while undergoing the Paschal Mystery as a team and cultivating spaces of encounter and communion with people in the Church and in the world for deepening union with God and further entry in the process of divinization. Members of the Mystical Body can be more sensitive to the presence of God within themselves and others through devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus that offers an entryway for Divine Love to take captive the affections of the will as the contemplative gift is increasingly activated from within each person. This way is shown through the Holy Family and their common spiritual life which offers a model of Church that invites all people to share in their oneness of heart rooted in the Trinity to be love as one family of God

Constraining an Ocean Model Under Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Using A Gravity‐Derived Bathymetry

Getz Ice Shelf, the largest producer of ice shelf meltwater in Antarctica, buttresses glaciers that hold enough ice to raise sea level by 22 cm. We present a new bathymetry of its sub‐ice shelf cavity using a three‐dimensional inversion of airborne gravity data constrained by multibeam bathymetry at sea and a reconstruction of the bedrock from mass conservation on land. The new bathymetry is deeper than previously estimated with differences exceeding 500 m in a number of regions. When incorporated into an ocean model, it yields a better description of the spatial distribution of ice shelf melt, specifically along glacier grounding lines. While the melt intensity is overestimated because of a positive bias in ocean thermal forcing, the study reveals the main pathways along which warm oceanic water enters the cavity and corroborates the observed rapid retreat of Berry Glacier along a deep channel with a retrograde bed slope

Evolution of Alu Subfamily Structure in the Saimiri Lineage of New World Monkeys

Squirrelmonkeys,Saimiri,arecommonlyfoundinzoologicalparksandusedinbiomedicalresearch.S.boliviensisisthemostcommon species for research; however, there is little information about genome evolution within this primate lineage. Here, we reconstruct the Alu element sequence amplification and evolution in the genus Saimiri at the time of divergence within the family Cebidae lineage. Alu elements are the most successful SINE (Short Interspersed Element) in primates. Here, we report 46 Saimiri lineage specificAlusubfamilies.RetrotranspositionactivityinvolvedsubfamiliesrelatedtoAluS,AluTa10,andAluTa15.Manysubfamiliesare simultaneously active within the Saimiri lineage, a finding which supports the stealth model of Alu amplification. We also report a high resolution analysis of Alu subfamilies within the S. boliviensis genome [saiBol1]