Critiquing the Center: The Role of Tutor Evaluations in an Open Admissions Writing Center

Though created to give its inhabitants the feeling of comfort, structure, and control, suburbia has been co-opted by postmodernists seeking to crack its modernist façade to reveal the hybridity, fragmentation, and hegemony at its commodified heart (Silverstone). The in-between-ness of suburbia, that liminal zone between the country and the city, has its academic counterpart in the writing center, a complex site of social, material, and discursive relations that construct experiences on all levels of academic life. Like the suburb, a writing center can be seen as an example of Edward Soja’s “third space,” a part of institutional geography, yet located at a crossroads of many different, overlapping, and conflicting rhetorical and ideological ecosystems. Long Island, New York is the birthplace of the suburb and so its promises of luxury, centrality, and ease inform the lives of Long Islanders, young and old. The Suffolk County Community College Writing Center services the biggest community college on Long Island, with 25,000 students enrolled; the Writing Center sees about 2,000 of these students every semester.University Writing Cente

A Vision-Based Algorithm for UAV State Estimation During Vehicle Recovery

A computer vision-based algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle state estimation during vehicle recovery is presented. The algorithm is intended to be used to augment or back up Global Positioning System as the primary means of navigation during vehicle recovery for UAVs. The method requires a clearly visible recovery target with markers placed on the corners in addition to known target geometry. The algorithm uses clustering techniques to identify the markers, a Canny Edge detector and a Hough Transform to verify these markers actually lie on the recovery target, an optimizer to match the detected markers with coordinates in three-space, a non-linear transformation and projection solver to observe the position and orientation of the camera, and an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) to improve the tracking of the state estimate. While it must be acknowledged that the resolution of the test images used is much higher than the resolution of images used in previous algorithms and that the images used to test this algorithm are either synthetic or taken in static conditions, the algorithm presented does give much better state estimates than previously-developed vision systems

Book Review

Reviewing: Civil Justice and the Jury by Charles W. Joiner (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962)

Military Action in Labor Disputes

Generally, we may say that the executive power to initiate military action is commensurate with the emergency. If the situation is grave, the civil courts may be closed and a military commission appointed by the governor to substitute for the judiciary. In all events the power is potentially a vast one. Discriminate, ly applied it bargains a temporary suspension of rights for a restoration of law and order

Malarial Hemoglobinuria.

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We Must Grow Our Own Artists: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, Northern Arizona\u27s Early Art Educator

What were Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton’s contributions to the progressive education movement and the Indian arts and crafts movement in the Southwestern United States at a time when the region was still very remote? Artist, author, amateur ethnographer, educator, and curator; these were but a few of the talents of Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, co-founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona and early art advocate on the Colorado Plateau. This study investigates how Colton contributed to the progressive education movement and the Indian arts and crafts movement through the work that she did at the museum. There, she labored to increase public awareness of the importance of art education and to revive Native American arts on the Colorado Plateau. Using an extensive collection of archival material in the Colton Collection at the Museum of Northern Arizona, as well as oral history interviews, this historical study provides a nuanced analysis of Colton’s life as an educator. Colton’s influence is not well known today, but her professional contributions merit recognition, giving her a place in the history of American education. This study reveals how Colton’s efforts fit within the context of the work of her contemporaries in Santa Fe and Taos, and within the progressive education movement, from the then relatively remote outpost of Flagstaff. Much can be learned from Colton’s work that is relevant to the field of education today. Her ideals and writings about art education will resonate with opponents of No Child Left Behind. Colton’s work as one of northern Arizona’s earliest art educators contributed to a better understanding of the culture of the various peoples of the Colorado Plateau and to the preservation of Navajo and Hopi traditions through education. Colton made notable contributions to the Indian arts and crafts movement, museum education, and the progressive education movement. A woman of firm convictions and ideals, Colton was strong-willed, and complex, a multi-faceted person with a broad range of interests which she pursued with passion and commitment. This study crosses the boundaries of several disciplines, including educational history, museum studies, women’s studies, educational biography, Native American studies, and art education