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2018-03-15-New Employees, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Chairs, Stairs, And Automobiles: The Cultural Construction Of Injuries And The Failed Promise Of Law, David M. Engel

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 5 in Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, Anne Bloom, David M. Engel & Michael McCann, eds.

Aisos: A Reproducible Model For Institution-Wide 3d Imaging, Colin Mcfadden, Samantha Porter

Library Technology Conference

In an effort to make emerging 3D and 2D technologies available to a broad range of users, an interdisciplinary group at the University of Minnesota came together to build AISOS, the Advanced Imaging Service for Objects and Spaces. This facility enables anyone at the institution, from undergraduates to members of the faculty, to engage with technologies like photogrammetry, structured light scanning, gigapixel macro imaging, and reflectance transformation imaging. By establishing the facility outside the traditional departmental or collegiate environment, we have demonstrated a model by which novel uses can emerge. The AISOS model, which emphasizes high levels of service and …

Was There Something Unique To The Japanese That Lost Them The Battle Of Midway?, James P. Levy

Naval War College Review

We military historians have a tendency to obsess over the causes of victory and defeat in war. Like economists, we have a profound desire to identify those ac- tions that ensure success or generate failure, and like economists we are not overly good at it. At best, we can state the obvious, as when the disparity of forces between two opponents is extreme, or ascertain certain verities, like “It is good to have the better trained troops,” or “Keep your troops better equipped, fed, and rested than your opponent’s.” At worst, this obsession with winning and losing can lead to …

Letters To The Editor (Resurrecting This Historical Section): Redefining Anthropology?, David Lempert

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

Editor’s Note

The lifeblood of science and social science is competition among ideas in healthy debate testing scholarly standards and findings. In recent years, as standards have begun to disappear in social science and as journals begin to advocate for doctrine in place of social science and discipline, the opportunity to challenge colleagues (and editors) to adhere to disciplinary standards has also disappeared. Many journals have simply eliminated Letters to the Editor sections and discussions. Others have moved discussions to on-line pages where discussions often deteriorate into short emotional reactions or factional in-fighting in place of constructive scholarly debate to …

Returning Discipline To The Discipline: A Model Procedure For Reviews In Anthropology, Social Sciences, And Other Related Disciplines, David Lempert

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

This piece uses participant observation of and research into disciplinary procedures to reveal that review policies in anthropology, other ‘social sciences’, and related disciplines have become arbitrary and politicised with little to protect professional standards of a discipline and to avoid conflicts of interest that prejudice scholarship. To address the problem, this piece takes the initial step towards establishing procedural standards. The piece offers a model procedure to incorporate in journal article and book publisher review policies, applying legal approaches to anti-corruption and procedural fairness along with key human resources principles to measure skills and competence. It also applies best …

The Nonsense And Non-Science Of Political Science: A Politically Incorrect View Of ‘Poly-T(R)Ic(K)S’, Polly Sly

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

The purpose of this short essay is to highlight the failures in contemporary Political Science by sketching a small model of what the discipline would look like if it were in fact a “discipline” driven by scientific questions and methods responsive to public benefit rather than to indoctrination and control. Rather than simply accept, on faith, the “expert” assurances of quality, or the subject labels or claims of “inclusiveness” and “representation”, this essay offers some questions and alternatives that the educated public can use to hold the discipline to its mission and to assure that it is not simply serving …

An International Legal Scholar’S View On “Is Economics In Violation Of International Law? Remaking Economics As A Social Science”, Ugo Mattei

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

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Is Economics In Violation Of International Law? Remaking Economics As A Social Science: Parts I-Iv, David Lempert

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

This piece is in four parts following this abstract, the Table of Contents and a Short Introduction.
Part I: Is Economics in Violation of International Law? Part I applies a set of systematic international legal principles found in international law to the doctrines of “neo-classical” mainstream economics to test whether the discipline is consistent with those legal principles or would be held to be in violation if brought to trial in an international court of law. The conclusion of this legal analysis is that the discipline is in violation.
Part II: Is there a Current Social Science of Economics in …

The Quiet “Purge” Of Jews And Jewish Thinking In American Social Science, Brooks Duncan

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

This article uses the method of ethnic stratification analysis and participant observation to raise questions about what appears to be one of the hidden ethnic transformations that has occurred in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology in the past two decades; the replacement of Jews. Jews, who were among the founders of and became “over-represented” in these disciplines, have now been replaced with other minorities through a process of selection based on “representation”. Along with the use of these disciplines for overall university quota filling, in order to promote statistics for hiring of underrepresented groups, has come the loss of …

Professor Rip Van Winklestein Applies For A Teaching Job ... And Finds His Disciplines (And Much Of Social Science) Have Disappeared, Brooks Duncan

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

What if you woke up one day and found that your entire discipline, to which you had sacrificed years of your life, had suddenly disappeared … not because it had become obsolete but because it had been replaced by advocacy and indoctrination, and that nobody seemed to notice or care, as if it had happened by design? It happened to me….

Foreword: The Death Of Social Sciences In An Era Of Multicultural Corporatism (‘Neo-Liberalism’): With Efforts At Resuscitation, David Lempert

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

This foreword is in four separate parts:
Part I: Inspiration for the Special Issue: A Personal Story: This section describes the inspiration for this issue, in a tale of the author’s experience with social science over the past 40 years. It offers some general observations and theories about what has happened to the social sciences from a personal perspective over time. (pages 2 to 19)
Part II: The Concept for this Special Issue of Catalyst and the Reality of Critiquing and Restoring Social Science: This section is what one generally finds in an introduction to a special issue, describing the …

Volume 8, Issue 1, Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

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The Bates Student - Volume 148 Number 15 - March 14, 2018, Bates College

The Bates Student

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Undocumented Students From Mexico And State Policy Variation Of Post-Secondary Education: Social And Economic Factors Affecting State Politics, Aki Hirotani

Open Access Theses

The Federal government is the primary level of government controlling immigration. Yet, the rapid growth of the immigrant population, documented and undocumented, in the United States and the Federal government’s inability to pass immigration reform has forced states and local governing bodies to pass their own immigration policies. Conflicting perspectives on the recent influx of immigrants have made immigration a controversial topic in the United States. Such divergent perspectives have also generated concerns regarding access to federally funded resources for undocumented immigrants, particularly higher education, defined as education beyond the secondary level, such as college or university. The goal of …

Notes From Underground: Fugitive Ecology And The Ethics Of Place, Sarah L. Lincoln

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this essay, I argue for “fugitive gardening” as a form of “poaching” or “resignifying,” a radical appropriation of hegemonic spaces and practices that both deconstructs the logics of mastery and hygienic possessiveness that underpin colonial culture, and articulates what we might call a fugitive ecology: a dispossession of self in relation to the environment, a refusal to conceive of land, soil or planet in terms of property. Fugitive gardening sets itself in opposition to the prisons, camps and forts that index South African political history, restorying place, environment, and the self as grounds for community formation, dialogue and cooperation. …

Characterizing The Phylogenetic Specialism-Generalism Spectrum Of Mammal Parasites, A. W. Park, M. J. Farrell, J. P. Schmidt, S. Huang, T. A. Dallas, P. Pappalardo, J. M. Drake, P. R. Stephens, R. Poulin, C. L. Nunn, T. J. Davies

Faculty Publications

© 2018 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. The distribution of parasites across mammalian hosts is complex and represents a differential ability or opportunity to infect different host species. Here, we take a macroecological approach to investigate factors influencing why some parasites show a tendency to infect species widely distributed in the host phylogeny (phylogenetic generalism) while others infect only closely related hosts. Using a database on over 1400 parasite species that have been documented to infect up to 69 terrestrialmammal host species,we characterize the phylogenetic generalism of parasites using standard effect sizes for three metrics: …

A Spatial Analysis Of Ceramics In Northwestern Alaska: Studying Pre-Contact Gendered Use Of Space, Katelyn Elizabeth Braymer-Hayes

Dissertations and Theses

Activities and production among ethnographic Arctic peoples were primarily divided by gender. This gendered division of labor also extended to a spatial segregated pattern of the household in some Arctic cultures. Other cultures had a more gender-integrated spatial pattern of the household. There have been very few archaeological studies of gender in the Arctic, and even fewer studies of gendered use of space.

In this thesis, I evaluated the existence of this gendered use of space in pre-contact Northwest Alaska. I also evaluated the existence of discrete activity spaces. I drew from both ethnoarchaeology and gender/feminist archaeology to both construct …

Penetrasi Negara Terhadap Kelembagaan Adat Nagari Pariangan Di Era Otonomi Daerah, Yayan Hidayat

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Tulisan ini menjelaskan tentang pola dan dinamika hubungan negara terhadap lembaga adat Nagari Pariangan dalam otonomi daerah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana negara memainkan pola penetrasi melalui institusi formal, hukum, kebijakan publik, dan proses politik dalam hubungan negara dengan Nagari. Kami menemukan kondisi tersebut karena, pertama, kepentingan negara untuk secara intensif mengendalikan sumber daya alam dan ekonomi di Nagari. Kedua, kepentingan pemerintah daerah untuk menciptakan stablisasi politik sebagai kebutuhan inti pembangunan ekonomi di era otonomi. Penetrasi dan transformasi Nagari berdampak pada penyederhanaan Nagari menjadi birokrasi modern sehingga sesuai dengan kepentingan negara. Pendekatan historical institusionalisme digunakan sebagai alat …

The Culture Of Windows, Ivor Samuels

Focus

Windows are a fundamental element for both architecture and urban design. Ivor Samuels discusses the impact of daylight on housing practice, particularly in the United Kingdom. He claims that while the focus of research and regulations seem to be on sustainability and energy conservation, cultural context, privacy, and surveillance are equally important in planning and urban design. He calls for more interdisciplinary work in the study of the relationships between daylight, architecture and urban form.

Finder Of The Forgotten And The Unfindable, Kenneth W. Mulder

Sunland Tribune

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Full Issue, Sunland Tribune

Sunland Tribune

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The Indian Mound, J. Raymond Williams

Sunland Tribune

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Key West's Tall Ship, L. Glenn Westfall

Sunland Tribune

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Full Issue, Sunland Tribune

Sunland Tribune

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In Place: March 12, 2018, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

In PLACE is a newsletter designed to keep the Linfield College community apprised of information related to PLACE activities, as well as ways to bring the program into classes. Included in this issue:

• Spotlight On: Leadership and the Liberal Arts Skills Development Series
• Upcoming Events
• The Last Weeks in PLACE

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 14, March 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

16 Arts & Sciences Students Earn Departmental Honors In 2018, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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A Naturalist’S Guide To The Great Plains, Paul A. Johnsgard

Zea E-Books Collection

This book documents nearly 500 US and Canadian locations where wildlife refuges, nature preserves, and similar properties protect natural sites that lie within the North American Great Plains, from Canada’s Prairie Provinces to the Texas-Mexico border. Information on site location, size, biological diversity, and the presence of especially rare or interesting flora and fauna are mentioned, as well as driving directions, mailing addresses, and phone numbers or internet addresses, as available. US federal sites include 11 national grasslands, 13 national parks, 16 national monuments, and more than 70 national wildlife refuges. State properties include nearly 100 state parks and wildlife …

Humans Thrived In South Africa Through The Toba Eruption About 74,000 Years Ago, Eugene I. Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A. Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane, Thalassa Matthews, Curtis W. Marean

Geoscience Faculty Research

Approximately 74 thousand years ago (ka), the Toba caldera erupted in Sumatra. Since the magnitude of this eruption was first established, its effects on climate, environment and humans have been debated1. Here we describe the discovery of microscopic glass shards characteristic of the Youngest Toba Tuff—ashfall from the Toba eruption—in two archaeological sites on the south coast of South Africa, a region in which there is evidence for early human behavioural complexity. An independently derived dating model supports a date of approximately 74 ka for the sediments containing the Youngest Toba Tuff glass shards. By defining the input of shards …