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University Wind Ensemble Fall Concert, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

University Orchestra, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Scenes From The Contemporary Barcelona Stage: La Fura Dels Baus's Aspiration To The Authentic, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

In October 1983, just south of Barcelona at the annual Sitges Theatre Festival, beneath the railroad tracks in the claustrophobic space of a subterranean pedestrian passageway, La Fura dels Baus erupted into public view with an embryonic version of their first major spectacle, entitled Accions ("Actions"). The performance was conceived along the same aesthetic lines that continue to shape even the most recent work of this Catalan company. Accions consisted of a series of transgressive and, at times, startling exercicis pràctics ("practical exercises") intended to elicit an impulsive, visceral response from audience members. In their program notes, La Fura defined …

Museletter: December 1998, Gail F. Zwirner

Museletter

Table of Contents:

Semester Break Library Hours

New Faculty Publications

December Grads & Students Registered for the Clinics

Circulation Department Alert: Copier Jams

Saving the Trees: Network Printing Considerations

Beyond Rebooting: Computer Tip of the Month: Determining "Word Count"

Ur Jazz Ensemble With Howard Curtis, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

University Orchestra, University Choir, And Schola Cantorum, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Faculty Guitars, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Stability And Reconstruction For An Inverse Problem For The Heat Equation, Kurt Bryan, Lester Caudill

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

We examine the inverse problem of determining the shape of some unknown portion of the boundary of a region Ω from measurements of the Cauchy data for solutions to the heat equation on Ω. By suitably linearizing the inverse problem we obtain uniqueness and continuous dependence results. We propose an algorithm for recovering estimates of the unknown portion of the surface and use the insight gained from a detailed analysis of the inverse problem to regularize the inversion. Several computational examples are presented.

Uniqueness For A Boundary Identification Problem In Thermal Imaging, Kurt Bryan, Lester Caudill

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

An inverse problem for an initial-boundary value problem is considered. The goal is to determine an unknown portion of the boundary of a region in ℝⁿ from measurements of Cauchy data on a known portion of the boundary. The dynamics in the interior of the region are governed by a differential operator of parabolic type. Utilizing a unique continuation result for evolution operators, along with the method of eigenfunction expansions, it is shown that uniqueness holds for a large and physically reasonable class of Cauchy data pairs.

Panel Rejects Ninth Circuit Split, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Editorial Notes, Patricia Smith

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Rapid scientific and technological developments challenge professionals in all fields to keep pace with those changes. Keeping pace means changing decision-making processes, laws, and information management. The authors included in this issue of The Journal raise questions regarding what society and its biomedical professionals are to do when the abilities to perform procedures, share information, and impact lives move beyond the realm of the familiar and what is generally considered ethical.

Nqsi: Quality Schools Come From Quality People, Anita O. Poston, Thomas B. Lockamy, Gary L. Ruegsegger

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Since the time of the now fabled one room schoolhouse, American schools have undergone tremendous change socially, structurally, and instructionally. Our public schools are under the microscope like never before. Charter schools and tuition vouchers circle above public education like vultures. New special education regulations loom menacingly on the horizon. Prophets of doom are on every street comer and in every Internet chat room. The Virginia General Assembly has mandated higher standards and tougher discipline. Innumerable publications document both technology's explosion and the American family's implosion. Against this seemingly foreboding backdrop, a school district in Southeastern Virginia researched, designed, and …

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Richmond Public Interest Law Review

American Public Education: From One Room Schoolhouse to Global Classroom

Public Schools' Pyrrhic Victories Over Parental Rights, Michael Farris, Bradley P. Jacob

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

This article explores the historical roots of parental rights in education, and then demonstrates that Professors Uerling and Strope are quite correct when they declare parental rights in public education to be "almost extinct." Next, it examines the stark contrasts between the rights of public school parents and those of parents who choose private and home schooling. Finally, this article suggests that since the constitutionality of educational choice, including choices involving religious schools, has been established beyond any legitimate question, public school advocates and courts should rethink their position concerning parental rights within public education lest they contribute to the …

The Revolution In Higher Education, James V. Koch

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian born economist and social historian who spent a major part of his academic career at Harvard, was a cogent observer of how societies develop. His Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is still considered a classic. Schumpeter spoke of "perennial gales of creative destruction" (often technological) that shock societies and force change. The advent of electricity and the coming of the automobile illustrate technologies that created new power arrangements and destroyed or modified existing institutions. Higher education is now in the midst of a Schumpeterian "gale of creative destruction"--a revolution, many say. After almost 150 years of reliance …

The Greatest Evasion: Why Technology Won't Save Education, Kevin Mattson

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Americans place an enormous amount of faith in education=s power to solve social problems. Today, liberals tend to believe that education can improve our attitudes, making us less racist by broadening our perspective and knowledge of different people and cultures. Conservatives often argue that education can solve our economic problems by training citizens for jobs and increasing their capacity for upward social mobility. Indeed, President Clinton, who may be viewed as bridging liberal and conservative ideals, posed education as a solution to economic dislocation. His solution is to provide unemployed citizens with the necessary skills to find new forms of …

Currents: Odd American Music. Music From The Odd Decades: Teens, 30s, 70s, 90s., Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Faculty Jazz Combo, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Family Weekend Concert, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Homage To Catalan Theater: Introduction, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

The Catalan stage is presently experiencing one of the most exciting, dynamic, and extraordinary periods in its modern history. Following decades of contentiousness, there is finally a harmonious rapport between the visually oriented theater of images and the textually oriented theater of the word, between the theater of collective creation and that in which the role of the author is essential. On the whole, the theater of contemporary Catalonia is characterized, not by the provincialism often ascribed to regional minority cultures, but rather by its cosmopolitan, international, and even transnational proclivities. Barcelona, the cultural and political hub of this region, …

Finding Cyclic Redundancy Check Polynomials For Multilevel Systems, James A. Davis, Miranda Mowbray, Simon Crouch

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

This letter describes a technique for finding cyclic redundancy check polynomials for systems for transmission over symmetric channels which encode information in multiple voltage levels, so that the resulting redundancy check gives good error protection and is efficient to implement. The codes which we construct have a Hamming distance of 3 or 4. We discuss a way to reduce burst error in parallel transmissions and some tricks for efficient implementation of the shift register for these polynomials. We illustrate our techniques by discussing a particular example where the number of levels is 9, but they are applicable in general.

Museletter: October/November 1998, Gail F. Zwirner

Museletter

Table of Contents:

OPAC -- Not a Treaty, Just a Valuable Research Tool by Sally Wambold, Technical Services Librarian

New Faculty Publications

New Employees Join the Law Library

Beyond Rebooting: Computer Tip of the Month: Eliminating Banner Pages

Legal Research Refreshers and Computer Training Sessions

First Monday in October: Listserv available for U.S. Supreme Court Updates

Law School Creates Latino Law Students Association

Brandon Quarles Moves Home to Texas

1998-99 Student Assistants

Going-Concern Audit Report Recipients Before And After Sas No. 59, Marshall A. Geiger, Kannan Raghunandan, D. V. Rama

Accounting Faculty Publications

In an attempt to provide information to make an evaluation on whether the requirements under SAS No. 59 have had any significant effect on auditor reporting decisions, a study was conducted that examined companies receiving going-concern modified reports before and after the implementation of SAS No. 59. We wanted to assess whether auditors were issuing going-concern modified reports to clients exhibiting different levels of financial stress and also whether the bankruptcy rate of such companies was different after the adoption of SAS No. 59.

A Grand Notion For Power-Center Lawyers, Porcher L. Taylor Iii

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

Like leaders of so many administrations before them, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, both lawyers, surrounded themselves with an inner circle composed mainly of lawyers-turned-political advisers and policy bureaucrats.

Some would argue that lawyers and politics are a bad brew. But lawyers trust lawyers so much that some will steadfastly defend their political bosses, even if that means being key players in the potential cover-up of a crime. In their skewed minds, accusations of crimes by leaders of the opposing political party are merely biased power politics.

Music For Clarinets, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Russell Wilson, Piano, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

The Colored Girl In The Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers By Brenda Chester Doharris (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Brenda Chester DoHarris's The Colored Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers joins the company of some of the most memorable works of Caribbean literature, those classic accounts of coming-of-age, such as George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, Michael Anthony's The Year in San Fernando, Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Zea Edgell's Beka Lamb, Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, and Beryl Gilroy's Sunlight on Sweet Water. Like most of the bildungsromans - and …

Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, And Firm Performance, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

This paper examines the connection between layoffs, executive pay, and stock prices. Firms that announce layoffs in the previous year pay their CEOs more, and give their CEOs larger percentage raises than firms which do not have at least one layoff announcement in the previous year. However, the likelihood of announcing a layoff varies dramatically along with other dimensions, for example firm size, which are also correlated with CEO pay. Once firm-specific fixed effects are controlled for, the CEO pay premium for laying off workers disappears. In addition, there is a small negative share price reaction to layoff announcements.

Museletter: August/September 1998, Brandon D. Quarles

Museletter

Table of Contents:

Welcome New and Returning Students by Timothy L. Coggins, Director & Associate Professor

Gail Zwirner Joins Library Staff

Reference & Computer Help Desk Hours

Legal Research Refreshers and Computer Trainings

Lexis & Westlaw Training

Changes in the Library During the Summer

Exceptions to the Law Library's Regular Hours, Fall Semester, 1998

Law Library Carrel Policy

Who Are You, Class Of 2001, Michelle Rahman

Who Are You Class of...Orientation Speeches

“Once again we express a sincere welcome to the class of 2001 - all 168 of you.”

Hold on to your socks - 54% of this entering class is female -14% more than last year when only 40% of the class were women. The class's average age is slightly over 25. One of you is 21 and one of you is 72. Twenty-four of you are married.”

“Thirteen of you have advanced degrees.106 - 59% have been out of school at least one year and one of you graduated from their undergraduate school 53 years ago.” “Who is the woman …