Symposium Introduction: The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What\u27s Right

I wrote The Myth ofMoral justice,\u27 primarily, as a moral critique of the legal system. In examining the rituals and practices of the law under moral criteria-its obsessive focus on zero-sum contests, its dedication to cold rules and procedural technicalities over human emotion, its failure to acknowledge the spiritual pain of those who come before it, its inability to create an atmosphere where apologies, reconciliation, and the restoring of moral balance to relationships is possible, its preference for judicial economy over truth, its privileging of secrets and indifference to lies, and its failure to promote an atmosphere of mutual caring and connection by not imposing a duty to rescue-the book is an indictment of the legal system for smugly believing that the correct legal result is necessarily consistent with the right moral outcome

Problems of the Metamorphic and Igneous Rocks of the Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert region, as defined by Baker (1911, pp. 335-336), is the region of desert plains, mountains, and valleys comprising the extreme southwestern portion of the Great Basin (fig. 1). It lies entirely within California, including parts of San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Kern Counties, and embraces an area of approximately 160,000 square miles. Its climate is arid, and the drainage is interior. Because much of the geology of this region is imperfectly known, any discussion of the regional aspects of the metamorphic and igneous rocks must take the form of a progress report. The relatively few published geological reports describe more or less widely separated areas, involve investigations of widely differing scales and qualities, and in general have not been coordinated parts of any broad, systematic program of research. Knowledge of the geology thus is peculiarly spotty, and some apparently critical areas and subjects have been completely neglected. Present knowledge provides a basis for some conclusions, but at the same time it points to numerous problems awaiting solution. This paper is written in an attempt to focus attention upon some of these interesting unsolved problems, as well as to collate the conclusions already reached by various workers

Welcoming Remarks

Welcoming remarks and overview of the program of the Symposium

The Secrets of Notakto: Winning at X-only Tic-Tac-Toe

We analyze misere play of impartial tic-tac-toe---a game suggested by Bob Koca in which both players make X's on the board, and the first player to complete three-in-a-row loses. This game was recently discussed on mathoverflow.net in a thread created by Timothy Y. Chow

Baseball Strikes and the Demand for Attendance

Professional baseball has experienced numerous work-stoppages over the last 30 years, including three which resulted in the cancellation of games. Existing estimates of the demand for attendance at Major League Baseball games has found that only those events which caused the loss of games influenced attendance. This paper revisits the issue of whether strikes affect attendance and finds that even those lockouts and strikes that do not cause games to be canceled are associated with significantly lower attendance. Moreover, despite dramatic differences in the severity of the three strikes that canceled games, one cannot reject the hypothesis that the effects are the same. Finally, the evidence here suggests that attendance is adversely affected by events leading up to negotiation of a new Basic Agreement between the players and the owners.sports attendance, strikes