A Session on the Inside: Lessons from the Legislature

Inspired by a drive to instigate widespread and environmentally-sustainable change, this paper explores the powers and processes shaping public policy in Washington State through a reflection of the legislative internship. A recounting of personal experiences and observations in light of knowledge gained during ten weeks of academic, civic, social, and emotional learning offers a ‘behind the scenes’ peek at the 2023 Legislative Session with the hope of informing future efforts to influence policy and practice. The reflection opens with a description of the Washington State Legislature, an overview of intern duties, and a summary of the academic resources used to help identify and analyze key themes that characterize the state’s policy making process. What follows is a discussion and analysis of three such themes: 1) constituents often misunderstand the extent of legislative powers and activities, 2) political party loyalty and influence are the main drivers of policy, and 3) persuading others to sign on to a movement requires an understanding of the values and experience shaping their perspective and connecting these to the end goal. Highlighting a need for improved public education, communication, and engagement on matters both civic and environmental, the paper concludes with a hopeful reminder that we can change the world through the consistent practice of empathy, learning, and diverse fellowship

Letter to Peggy Martin regarding award of the Lucile Elliott Scholarship, March 15, 1984

A letter from Sally Wambold to Peggy Martin accepting the Lucile Elliott Scholarship awarded to her

Water: Arizona\u27s Ticking Time Bomb

For a landlocked state dominated by desert, Arizona has done an exceptional job supporting tremendous development and population growth with limited water resources. However, as climate change and anthropogenic environmental degradation further stress the region’s already-strained water resources, the future of Arizona’s still-growing populace hangs in the balance as current water policies and practices are proving inherently unsustainable. Despite an abundance of literature citing the consequences of a liberal attitude towards water in an arid climate, a myopic focus on promoting Arizona’s economic and political growth has resulted in the state’s modern need to adopt previously-unseen conservation measures in order to assure its future survival. Through a review of the history of its water resources, key policies shaping their use, and potential options to address increasing water scarcity, this article lays out a general overview of Arizona’s present water situation and describes the uphill battle it faces to achieve sustainability. A holistic analysis of various policies and practices impacting the state’s water resources highlights numerous pitfalls to and opportunities for enhanced water conservation. This article suggests that a comprehensive approach of greater market incentives, regulation, and education is necessary to remedy this current government failure. If the people and landscape of Arizona are to survive a future dictated by climate change, there must be a fundamental shift in attitudes towards water such that it is valued and efficiently utilized the way a precious, increasingly limited resource should

Email to Catherine Lemann regarding SEAALL membership dues procedures, April 4, 2001

An email from Sally Wambold to Catherine Lemann discussing procedures for providing SEAALL membership dues notices

Note to Diana Osbaldiston regarding vendors, December 13, 1999

A note to Diana Osbaldiston from Sally Wambold enclosing a letter regarding vendor electronic banking

Report on objective ride quality evaluation

The correlation of absorbed power as an objective ride measure to the subjective evaluation for the bus data was investigated. For some individual bus rides the correlations were poor, but when a sufficient number of rides was used to give reasonable sample base, an excellent correlation was obtained. The following logarithmical function was derived: S = 1.7245 1n (39.6849 AP), where S = one subjective rating of the ride; and AP = the absorbed power in watts. A six-degree-of-freedom method developed for aircraft data was completed. Preliminary correlation of absorbed power with ISO standards further enhances the bus ride and absorbed power correlation numbers since the AP's obtained are of the same order of magnitude for both correlations. While it would then appear that one could just use ISO standards, there is no way to add the effect of three degrees of freedom. The absorbed power provides a method of adding the effects due to the three major directions plus the pitch and roll

Tied Agents within the ECSPR Regime

The European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regime allows the intermediation of securities, loans and other admitted instruments for crowdfunding purposes up to five million Euro. Crowdfunding offers above five million Euro continue to be subject to national crowdfunding regimes, which may be regulated under MiFID. The authors discuss how existing MiFID licenses can be used in parallel to a license under ECSPR, with a focus on tied agents who operate under a so-called liability umbrella (investment firm or credit institution) holding a MiFID license. In Germany, the law implementing MiFID states that tied agents can operate “solely [in the name,] for the account and under the liability of” an investment firm or credit institution acting as liability umbrella. This raises the question, whether a tied agent can hold a license under ECSPR itself at the same time. However, the authors argue that both MiFID and ECSPR as well as the intent of the German legislator provide for the fact that one can hold an ECSPR authorization and at the same time be appointed as tied agent of a MiFID investment firm or credit institution

Three delivery systems for middle school computer literacy curricula

This graduate paper, Three Delivery Systems for Middle School Computer Literacy Curricula, investigates three delivery systems for computer literacy curricula in a middle school setting. The computer literacy curriculum at the middle school level is constantly being updated and changed to accommodate new technology and to implement new and effective teaching methods. There are few guidelines that are available when investigating computer literacy curriculum at the middle school level, but a variety of options do exist for the delivery of whatever curriculum a teacher selects. This review examines several delivery systems for middle school computer literacy curricula and explores the strengths and limitations of each. The delivery systems investigated are cooperative learning techniques, simulations, and instructional drill and practice methods. The author also investigated how a combination of these methods can be used with young adolescents in a middle school environment