Obligatory service is not service

Service is not just helping another person in an hour of need, but rather it is helping another in any hour, ignoreing our own selfish gains from taking up the act. In this sense, therefore, service cannot by meaning, by compulsory

The Clash of Civilizations: Classical & Modern Definitions of Heroism in Vergil’s Aeneid

To conceive of Aeneas as anything but a hero is to perceive of the clash of two civilizations; the mind of the modern reader and that of a Roman epic poet ultimately require some form of reconciliation. The vehicle for this understanding is the consideration of historical and social contexts. These are useful not only in decoding ancient literature, but also in a world that is swiftly becoming increasingly more global. In the face of this trend, it is necessary to equip ourselves with the tools needed to interact with one another with mutual understanding—the same tools used everyday for something as simple as reading

The Structure of US Food Demand

An exactly aggregable system of Gorman Engel curves for U.S. food consumption is developed and implemented. Box-Cox transformations on prices and income nest functional form. The model nests rank up to rank three. The model is estimated by nonlinear three-stage least squares with annual time series data on 21 foods, 17 nutrients, age and race demographics, and the distribution of income for 1919-1941 and 1947-2000. Results are consistent with full rank three. Point estimates for the Box-Cox parameters on income and prices are 0.86 and 1.09, respectively, strongly rejecting zero and one in both cases. No statistical evidence of serial correlation, specification errors, or parameter instability is found.Aggregation, food demand, functional form, parameter stability, rank, specification errors

From Grammatical to Global: The WAC/Writing Center Connection

In a 1999 essay reporting a synoptic history of writing center theory and practice, Elizabeth Boquet honestly laments her feelings of boredom with writing center scholarship up to that time. Since, it seems, everything has been said and done, she asks the pointed question: “What is being left out of our discussions on teaching writing by our failure to account for the work of the writing center in a critically intellectual manner?” (479). She goes on to suggest that newer, fresher stories wait to be told: “Other stories can be brought to light, stories which write the developments of the contemporary writing center in theoretically sophisticated ways, stories that consider the critical capacities of networking, of linking writing centers with WAC programs, of placing peer tutors in classrooms” (479). If we look to scholarship (stories) on the WAC/writing center connection we will find that strong interdisciplinary connections between writing centers, writing classrooms, and the university at large already exist. In order for these more theoretically sophisticated stories to be told to their fullest dramatic potential, however, WAC/writing center connections need to continue to be investigated, researched, and reported on.University Writing Cente

SCU Personal Librarian Program Winter 2016 Transfer Student Survey Responses

Santa Clara University Library piloted a Personal Librarian Program for Transfer Students during the Winter 2015 quarter, and then launched the full program in Fall 2015. In February of 2016, we sent a survey to all of the active students in the program; these data come from the 15 responses

A longitudinal study of phonological processing skills and reading in bilingual children

French/English bilingual children (N=40) in French language schools participated in an 8-month longitudinal study of the relation between phonological processing skills and reading in French and English. Participants were administered measures of phonological awareness, working memory, naming speed, and reading in both languages. The results of the concurrent analyses show that phonological awareness skills in both French and English were uniquely predictive of reading performance in both languages after accounting for the influences of cognitive ability, reading ability, working memory, and naming speed. These findings support the hypothesis that phonological awareness is strongly related to beginning word reading skill in an alphabetic orthography. The results of the longitudinal analyses also suggest that orthographic depth influences phonological factors related to reading

WHEN IS EXPENDITURE "EXOGENOUS" IN SEPARABLE DEMAND MODELS?

The separability hypothesis and expenditure as an exogenous variable in a system of conditional demands are analyzed. Expenditure cannot be weakly exogenous in a system of conditional demands specified as functions of the prices of the separable goods and total expenditure on those goods. Furthermore, expenditure is uncorrelated with the residuals of the conditional demand equations only when severe restrictions are satisfied. Therefore, expenditure will seldom be strictly exogenous. Econometric methods are presented for the consistent and efficient estimation of the unknown parameters when expenditures is correlated with the residuals and when it is not.Demand and Price Analysis,