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Indigenous Voices And American Politics, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

President [Bush], in a convoluted response to a question on the meaning of tribal sovereignty (essentially the inherent right of indigenous nations to self-governance) posed by a minority journalist on August 6, told the 7,500 assembled journalists that "tribal sovereignty means that it's sovereign. You're a—you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities."

Nevertheless, these two statements by the leading presidential candidates are big deals for Indian nations. They provide a measure of overt national political recognition for several of the most …

Rerouting Schemes For Dynamic Traffic Grooming In Optical Wdm Mesh Networks, Wang Yao, Byrav Ramamurthy

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Traffic grooming in optical WDM mesh networks is a two-layer routing problem to effectively pack low-rate connections onto high-rate lightpaths, which, in turn, are established on wavelength links. In this work, we employ the rerouting approach to improve the network throughput under the dynamic traffic model. We propose two rerouting schemes, rerouting at lightpath level (RRAL) and rerouting at connection level (RRAC). A qualitative comparison is made between RRAL and RRAC. We also propose the critical-wavelength-avoiding one-lightpath-limited (CWA-1L) and critical-lightpath-avoiding one-connection-limited (CLA-1C) rerouting heuristics, which are based on the two rerouting schemes respectively. Simulation results show that rerouting reduces the …

Midwest Guardrail System For Standard And Special Applications, Ronald K. Faller, Karla A. Polivka, Beau D. Kuipers, Robert W. Bielenberg, John D. Reid, John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking Ph.D.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

Development, testing, and evaluation of the Midwest Guardrail System were continued from the original research started in 2000. This new strong-post W-beam guardrail system provides increased safety for impacts with higher-center-of-mass vehicles. Additional design variations of the new system included stiffened versions using reduced (half and quarter) post spacings as well as a standard guardrail design configured with a concrete curb 152 mm (6 in.) high. All full-scale vehicle crash tests were successfully performed in accordance with the Test Level 3 requirements specified in NCHRP Report 350: Recommended Procedures for the Safety Performance Evaluation of Highway Features. The research …

Exemptions Under Article 79 Of The Vienna Sales Convention, Peter Winship

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Four Arguments Against A Marriage Amendment That Even An Opponent Of Gay Marriage Should Accept, Dale Carpenter

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

In this article, the author argues against a federal constitutional amendment preventing states from recognizing same-sex marriages. As of now, a nationwide policy debate is underway on the merits of providing full marital recognition to gay couples. That debate is still in its infancy and is proceeding in a variety of ways, with divergent policy choices in the states. It should not be cut short by the extraordinary mechanism of a constitutional amendment that would substantially delay or permanently foreclose what may turn out to be a valuable social reform.

To summarize, the four main points the author makes are: …

Copyright Under Siege: The First Amendment Front, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Over the past decade, the law of copyright - traditionally an arcane and obscure specialty - has evolved into an extraordinarily controversial legal arena. To a significant extent, though not exclusively, this has been caused by the emerging clashes between copyright on the one hand and digital technology and the internet on the other. Some see copyright as the aggressor in the copyright wars, guilty of threatening the digital revolution, the internet, information policy, privacy, freedom of speech and the public domain. Much of this assault on copyright is culturally driven by the Internet's champions. Inevitably, this cultural challenge is …

Diatom Biostratigraphy Of The Cenozoic Glaciomarine Pagodroma Group, Northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica, Jason M. Whitehead, David M. Harwood, Barrie Mckelvey, Andrew Mcminn

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

In the northern Prince Charles Mountains glaciomarine sediments of the Pagodroma Group outcrop on Fisher Massif (Mt Johnston and Fisher Bench Formations) and at the Amery Oasis (Battye Glacier and Bardin Bluffs Formations), at locations 300 and 250 km south of the Amery Ice Shelf edge, respectively. Most of the Pagodroma Group consists of ice-proximal glaciomarine diamict, and a much subordinate (<2%) amount of more ice-distal mudstone. Microfossil biostratigraphy based upon in situ and glacially reworked diatoms constrains the ages of the four formations, and identifies at least six intervals of marine fjordal deposition. Sparse diatoms in Mt Johnston Formation diamicts indicate an Early Oligocene age. However, it is …

The Cultural Geographer's Interest In Regions, Robert Stoddard

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

Regions are important to cultural geographers. This is because regions help in understanding the spatial distributions of social phenomena. Like any classification scheme, a set of regions provides organisation to a large body of data. Although occasionally phenomena being studied may already be grouped into regions, this is not usually the case. Consequently, cultural geographers, whether engaged in research or teaching are frequently faced with the task of defining and delineating a set of meaningful regions. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to discuss some of the methodological issues that confront geographers when they organize their data into regions.

Hinduism [In The Great Plains], Robert Stoddard

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

Hinduism is the Western name given to a religious tradition developed over thousands of years in India. Because it has no creed or major institutional structure, it is intricately intertwined with societal systems, and some scholars declare that it is impossible to separate Hinduism as a religion from other aspects of Indian society. This means it is virtually impossible to define precisely what constitutes the Hindu religion, especially when transferred into a different cultural setting such as the Great Plains.

A Preferred Vision For Leading The Secondary School : A Reflective Essay, Chad David Wolf

Graduate Research Papers

As I reflected on past experiences in my life, I found myself in a position of leadership. Interestingly, one ofmy earliest leadership experiences happened around the age of ten. The neighborhood I grew up in had several families with children. It was natural back then for us to play outside most of our free time. As children, it was not unusual for us to have times when no one could make a decision on what we would do that day. On many occasions, I found myself being selected to make the decision for the group. My childhood years were the …

The Use And Disclosure Of Protected Health Information For Research Under The Hipaa Privacy Rule: Unrealized Patient Autonomy And Burdensome Government Regulation, Stacey A. Tovino

Faculty Articles

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Investing Trust Assets: Prudence Redefined, Mark R. Gillett

Faculty Articles

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A Vision For Administering An Elementary School, Karen L. Thorpe

Graduate Research Papers

My philosophy of educational leadership has developed from the experiences I have had over the course of my lifetime. It began with the values taught to me by my parents and has continued to build to the present. My parents provided a caring and secure family life for my four siblings and me. Neither my mother nor my father had the benefit of much formal education. Neither was able to graduate from high school because they had the obligation to contribute income to their families during the depression. Perhaps the hardships they lived through were the basis of the values …

Regarding History As A Judicial Duty, Harry F. Tepker

Faculty Articles

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“Never Again,” Again: Darfur, The Genocide Convention, And The Duty To Prevent Genocide, Jamal Jafari

Human Rights Brief

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Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain: Upholding The Alien Tort Claims Act While Affirming American Exceptionalism, David C. Baluarte

Human Rights Brief

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The Participation Of Afghan Women In The Reconstruction Process, Laura Grenfell

Human Rights Brief

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Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Tim Curry, Nerina Cevra, Jennifer Podkul

Human Rights Brief

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Updates From The International Criminal Courts, Malissa Khumprakob, Tejal Jesrani, Mario Cava

Human Rights Brief

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Center News/Faculty And Staff Updates, Christian De Vos

Human Rights Brief

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International Legal Updates, Swati Rawani, Sabrina Balgamwalla

Human Rights Brief

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Ethnic Conflict In Plateau State: The Need To Eliminate The Indigene/Settler Dichotomy In Nigeria, Nabila Isa-Odidi

Human Rights Brief

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United Nations Update, Nicole Trudeau

Human Rights Brief

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How Not To Wage A Counter-Insurgency: Nepal, The Maoists, And Human Rights, John Norris

Human Rights Brief

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International Legal Updates, Sara Ibrahim, Patricia Staible, Meghan Stewart

Human Rights Brief

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Women's Inheritance Rights In Africa: The Need To Intergrate Cultural Understanding And Legal Reform, Abby Morrow Richardson

Human Rights Brief

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Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Patricia Staible, Kristin Edison, Lilah Rosenblum

Human Rights Brief

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Alumni Profile, Josh Kruskol

Human Rights Brief

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Development Of The African Human Rights System In The Last Decade, Vincent O. Nmehielle

Human Rights Brief

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International Response To Internal Displacement: A Revolution In The Making, Francis Deng

Human Rights Brief

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