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The College Voice, Vol. 62, No. 7 [October 15, 2025], Connecticut College

2025-2026

No abstract provided.

China’S Turn To Domestic-Led Growth: Replacing Consumption Taxes With Land Taxes?, Yilin Hou, Michael Kumhof, Lei Shao

Center for Policy Research

As part of its turn towards domestic-led growth China plans to stimulate consumption, including through a reduction in consumption taxes. We compare two model-based scenarios in which the revenue losses from lower consumption taxes are replaced by higher income taxes or higher land taxes. The model is carefully calibrated to recent Chinese data, including detailed fiscal data. We find that higher income taxes lead to significant losses in output and incomes, while higher land taxes lead to significant gains. These gains are increasing in the share of land in net wealth, a statistic for which better data would be invaluable.

Crim-Eviction: Eviction And Social Control At A Residential Tenancies Tribunal, Sarah Buhler

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Because eviction from rental housing can lead to highly negative outcomes, including homelessness, trauma, neighbourhood instability, and deepening inequities, it is important to understand the reasoning processes employed by tribunals when they wield the power of eviction. This article conducts a critical reading of decisions of the Office of Residential Tenancies, Saskatchewan’s residential tenancies tribunal, that deal specifically with urgent landlord applications for immediate eviction based on tenant behaviours that are alleged to be criminal, illegal, frightening, or dangerous. Coining the term “crim-eviction” to help describe this category of decisions, the article identifies that residential tenancies tribunals like the Office …

Reckoning With Queer History: The Canadian “Lgbt Purge” Case And The Limits Of Forgiveness, Daniel Del Gobbo

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The Canadian government has a long history of regulation, exploitation, and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S+) people. One of the most painful chapters in this history is the “LGBT Purge,” a term that refers to the expulsion of LGBTQ2S+ service members and employees from the Canadian Armed Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Federal Public Service between 1955 and 1992. The LGBT Purge was the subject of a class action lawsuit filed in 2017 that resulted in a settlement agreement in 2018. On a parallel track to the settlement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a …

Libel Via Language Models, Peter Wills

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article explains how developers and users of large language models (LMs) may be treated by English and Canadian libel law. LMs could be economically significant, and the liability environment they exist in will affect where they are developed, who accumulates wealth from their development, and who bears the burdens of any negative consequences of their development. Understanding the existing liability environment allows both developers and policy makers to make informed decisions—about which jurisdiction to offer services and what to prioritise, for the former, and about whether the existing law serves desired policy ends, for the latter. LMs also raise …

Sex Discrimination, Assimilation, And Austerity: The Untold Story Of Canada’S Indian Act, 1975-1985, Genevieve Renard Painter

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article is about the misunderstood history of a Canadian law for determining Indian status, the decades-long struggle to remedy sex discrimination in the law, and the significance of judges writing history. Since before Canada’s confederation until amendments to the Indian Act in 1985, Indian women, unlike Indian men, lost their Indian status if they married non-Indians. Even with the 1985 amendments, the law still disadvantaged people who traced their Indian status along the female line. Facing a challenge to the law based on sex discrimination, the government argued that the enduring disadvantage to women was the only way to …

The Law Of Racial Profiling, Terry Skolnik, Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert, Fernando Belton

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Racial profiling is one of the most enduring problems in policing. Yet it remains largely under-theorized, which generates important theoretical and practical implications. Racial profiling tends to be construed as an arbitrary detention rather than a form of unconstitutional discrimination. For this reason, the section 15 Charter right to equality plays little to no role in most leading cases on racial profiling. The legal framework that governs racial profiling lacks clarity and can be applied inconsistently. And the remedial landscape associated with racial profiling claims has evolved minimally. This article advances a novel approach to racial profiling that addresses these …

Disambiguating The Wrongs Of Racial Profiling In Policing And Championing Their Structural Remediation: A Reply, François Tanguay-Renaud

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

CANADIAN LAW JOURNALS have never been known for going out of their way to facilitate direct conversations between legal scholars working on cognate issues. However, if there is anything to the old liberal adage that the truth is more likely to emerge from the civil yet robust debating of competing ideas, the lack of opportunities for holders of rival views to respond, in real time, to each other’s arguments is deplorable. Therefore, I wish to commend the Osgoode Hall Law Journal for convening this timely scholarly exchange on the problematic phenomenon of racial profiling in Canadian policing and, more specifically, …

Racial Profiling And The Rule Of Law: A Reply, Terry Skolnik, Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert, Fernando Belton

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

THIS VOLUME OF THE OSGOODE HALL LAW JOURNAL (OHLJ) contains two articles—and two replies—that explore racial profiling and the law. This academic exchange comes at a crucial moment. In Attorney General of Québec v Luamba (“Luamba”), the Court of Appeal of Quebec affirmed that the statutory police power to conduct roving traffic stops is unconstitutional because it results in arbitrary detentions and unconstitutional discrimination, neither of which were justifiable in a free and democratic society.

Justice Impacted Mothers: An Autoethnographic Study Exploring The Impacts Of Quality Prison Visitation With Children, Sarah E. Gore

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

This study explores the impacts of in-person visitation at correctional facilities and how the quality of this contact affects relationships between justice impacted mothers and their children. Little is known about these nuanced lived experiences as revealed by qualitative data and from someone who is mothering during incarceration. The literature on maternal incarceration is vast, but relies heavily on quantitative data. Existing research indicates facility visits, particularly those of high quality, offer constructive benefits such as reductions in maternal recidivism rates. However, separation during incarceration has shown higher risks for adolescent substance abuse, behavioral, and academic struggles. This study expands …

“I (Still) Need Help On Many Things”: A Writing Center Replication Study Of First-Generation College Students’ Writing Challenges And Cultural Capital, Red Douglas, Ashley Cerku, Isabelle Lundin, Mary Gallagher, Xavier Iriarte, Sophia E. Williams, Kaylie Williams

The Writing Center Journal

Research has increasingly addressed first-generation (FG) students both in and outside the center (Baelemian & Feng, 2013; Bond, 2019; Denny et al., 2018; Ward et al., 2012), but there remains a need to address this unique student population from the perspective of critical theory. In a replication study of Bond’s 2019 “‘I Need Help on Many Things, Please’: A Case Study Analysis of First-Generation College Students’ Use of the Writing Center,” we examined the needs and perceptions of self-reported FG students in a writing center at a large, regional, public R2 university in the Midwest. We gathered preexisting digital data …

الحياة على محّك التقنيّة: مقاربة لاهوتيّة - أخلاقيّة لمسؤوليّة الإنجاب, جوسلين عوّاد, الأب إدغار الهيبي

Horizons et Conjonctures

Life at Stake in Technology: A Theological-Ethical Approach to Procreative Responsibility

In an age when artificial intelligence and genetic engineering shape life's origins, human procreation stands at a decisive threshold. This article offers theological and ethical reflection on human agency before technological power. Beyond biomedical concerns, it examines how digitization unsettles freedom, dignity, and divine providence. Drawing upon Catholic tradition—from Augustine to John Paul II—it proposes renewed theology of co-creation, wherein human creativity becomes participation in life-giving. Through Imago Dei and moral discernment, it contends that progress must serve life, not fabricate it. Christological ethics can guide reproductive technologies toward …

Role Of M6a Mrna Methylation In Plant Defense, Rakesh Srivastava, Niraj Lodhi

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

N6-methyladenosine (m⁶A) is the most abundant and dynamic RNA modification in eukaryotic messenger and non-coding RNAs, playing a pivotal role in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The coordinated actions of m⁶A writers, erasers, and readers influence transcript stability, immune activation, and pathogen suppression. Growing evidence indicates that m⁶A fine-tunes the expression of defense-related genes, modulates RNA processing events, and is frequently hijacked by pathogens and pests to promote virulence. Notably, the dual role of m⁶A in enhancing plant defense and facilitating pathogen adaptation highlights its significance in the host–pathogen arms race. …

Conversion Of Failed Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty To Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty Yields Similar Pain And Functional Outcomes To Primary Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty But Has A Higher Baseplate Failure Rate: A Matched Cohort Study., Kevin A Hao, Trevor G Simcox, Keegan M Hones, Jonathan O Wright, Thomas W Wright, Tyler Lamonica, Bradley S Schoch, Joseph J King

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: To investigate whether patients who initially underwent anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA) for glenohumeral osteoarthritis and were subsequently revised to reverse TSA (rTSA) due to rotator cuff failure or glenoid loosening ultimately attained a similar clinical outcome compared with those who underwent primary rTSA and identify predictors of poor outcomes in the former population.

Methods: We did a single-center retrospective review of 63 shoulders who underwent revision rTSA after primary aTSA that failed due to glenoid component loosening (n = 32), rotator cuff failure (n = 24), or recurrent instability (n = 7). Pain and functional outcomes at minimum …

Against Settlement In Transnational Business And Human Rights Litigation, Hassan M. Ahmad

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

In “Against Settlement,” Owen Fiss argued that settlement may not always be the optimal result of civil suits, particularly those that involve novel or ambiguous areas of law or ostensible power imbalances. That work spurred a range of scholarship around the merits and demerits of settlement. And although the settlement versus litigation debate is now almost four decades old, its currency persists in common law systems in which courts are, at times, called upon to expand or even re-envision doctrines or procedural rules. This article revisits that debate. It applies “Against Settlement” to transnational business and human rights litigation that …

Doing Away With Racial Profiling In Policing Without Doing Away With The Rule Of Law, François Tanguay-Renaud

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Since the turn of the millennium, Canadian appellate courts have been investing increasingly systematic efforts in demystifying and curtailing racial profiling in policing. These judicial efforts have so far been focused on the application of the legal criteria for arrest and detention as well as their regulation under section 9 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In this article, I contend that this unidimensional approach is unsound and outline a corrective path forward. First, I argue that the prevailing judicial understanding of what racial profiling is and how it affects the lawfulness of arrests and detentions has the …

Turning Waste Into Fertilizer: Aloe Vera Leaf Shavings Improve Plant Growth And Support Soil Fertility In Organic Systems, Isaiah Edward Jaramillo, Carine Cocco, James Jihoon Kang, Chu-Lin Cheng, Engil Pereira

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

The Aloe vera industry discards large amounts of outer leaf tissue (“shavings”), creating an opportunity to repurpose this byproduct as a sustainable fertilizer. This study evaluated whether aloe shavings can serve as a plant-based alternative to compost in organic Aloe vera production. A field trial in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas tested three treatments: aloe shavings (applied to supply 39 kg N ha−1), organic compost (39 kg N ha−1), and a non-fertilized control. Laboratory incubations further assessed nitrogen mineralization and microbial respiration. Aloe shavings significantly enhanced vegetative growth: leaf number increased from 5.7 to 12.3 leaves per plant …

Iran And Its Proxies: Attribution And State Responsibility, Jennifer Maddocks

International Law Studies

Iran has invested heavily in proxy militias since the regime's founding in 1979. In the decades that followed, groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, Shi'a militias in Iraq and Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen have projected Iran's influence across the region. Today, Iran's proxy network is considerably weakened due to Israel's military actions following October 7, 2023, and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. Yet the Houthis' attacks on Israel and against Red Sea shipping demonstrate how Iran's support to these groups continues to facilitate their conduct in violation of international law. This article examines Iran's potential …

Development And Justification Of The Structurally-Free Rod Design For Composite Spindles Of Vertical-Spindle Cotton Picking Machines, Nortoji Baratovich Baratov

Technical science and innovation

At present, the light industry constitutes a significant share of the economies of leading countries around the world. Notably, the cotton industry holds a prominent position within the light industry sector. The cultivation of cotton fiber and the harvesting of mature crops without compromising fiber quality represent complex and delicate processes. In order to carry out these operations rapidly and efficiently, various cotton harvesting machines have been developed based on projects proposed by numerous researchers. Among these, the vertical spindle cotton picker is recognized as one of the earliest machines created for this purpose. Since its invention, the vertical spindle …

A Comprehensive Assessment And Benchmark Studyof Large Atomistic Foundation Models For Phonons, Md Zaibul Anam, Ogheneyoma Aghoghovbia, Mohammed Al-Fahdi, Lingyu Kong, Victor Fung, Ming Hu

Faculty Publications

The rapid development of universal machine learning potentials (uMLPs) has enabled efficient, accurate predictions of diverse material properties across broad chemical spaces. While their capability for modeling phonon properties is emerging, systematic benchmarking across chemically diverse systems remains limited. We evaluate six recent uMLPs—EquiformerV2, MatterSim, MACE, and CHGNet—on 2429 crystalline materials from the Open Quantum Materials Database. Models were used to compute atomic forces in displaced supercells, derive interatomic force constants (IFCs), and predict phonon properties including lattice thermal conductivity (LTC), compared with density functional theory and experimental data. The EquiformerV2 pretrained model trained on the OMat24 dataset exhibits strong …

Wave Impacts On Vertical Cliffs: Insights From Laboratory Experiments And Field Observations, Yaxiong Shen, Colin N. Whittaker, Catriona F. Thompson, Alison C. Raby, Adam P. Young, Mark E. Dickson

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Many engineered and natural coastal structures suffer frequent damage from wave impacts. Motivated by field observations of wave impacts on coastal cliffs, we undertake controlled physical experiments with synchronised measurements of wave properties and their impacts on a vertical structure representing a cliff. Laboratory experiments using focused wave groups show that, in the investigated scenarios, large impacts occur within a relatively narrow phase range (−30° to 35°), covering ∼20% of the full phase range. Our irregular wave experiments indicate that ∼30% of waves break onto or near the cliff face, although not all these breaking waves result in large impacts. …

Consensus-Based Disease Definitions For Endocrine Immune-Related Adverse Events Of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Ling Zhu, Huda Al-Bahadili, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an important class of cancer treatment. Endocrine immune-related adverse events (E-irAEs) account for a significant proportion of irAEs in ICI-treated patients. Diagnosing E-irAEs accurately and timely can be challenging in the absence of clear categorization and standardization across oncology, endocrinology and other specialties. While existing guidelines provide some broad directions to diagnosis and management, they lack clarity on irAE-specific symptom evaluation and work-up, as well as assessment of severity. These limitations can then impact triage, time-sensitive management and care escalation to specialists such as oncoendocrinologists. The objective of this study was to develop consensus-based statements …

Arbitrary Detention Powers And Section 1 Of The Charter: Two Critical Blind Spots In Luamba, François Tanguay-Renaud

All Papers

In the 2022 case of Luamba c Procureur général du Québec, the Superior Court of Quebec held that a police power to conduct roving random stop of motorists for the purpose of checking for traffic offences infringed ss 9 and 15 of the Canadian Charter in ways that were not saved under s 1. This decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal (“QCCA”) and the Supreme Court (“SCC”) has now granted leave to appeal to the AG Quebec.

In this comment, I seek expose two blind spots in the s 1 analysis carried out by lower courts: (1) …

The Use Of Social Prescribing And Community-Based Wellbeing Activities As A Potential Prevention And Early Intervention Pathway To Improve Adolescent Emotional And Social Development: A Systematic Mapping Review, Siobhan B. Mitchell, Lucy Cartwright, Alex Gude, Alison Bethel, Harriet Hunt, Jane R. Smith, Daniel Hayes, Marcello Bertotti, Paul Jarvis-Beesley, Vashti Berry, Kerryn Husk

Peninsula Medical School

BACKGROUND: Social prescribing (SP) initiatives which aim to connect individuals to community-based assets have received increased research and policy attention, however schemes have mostly centred on adults. There is little research examining how social prescribing might work for children and young people (CYP), and specifically, what pathways into social prescribing look like for this group.

METHODS: We conducted a systematic mapping review to understand what social prescribing pathways look like for CYP. Searches were carried out in February 2022. We reviewed published journal articles and grey literature on pathways for CYP accessing activities or services in the community. We synthesised …

Morality Of Medieval Magic In Medicine, Jacob Mudd

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the late medieval and early Renaissance eras, attitudes towards science, religion, and magic were in upheaval. The Reformation was heavily critiquing Catholicism as being too closely related to magic, there were pushes for leaving long-held beliefs behind in favor of newer science, and society as a whole was in a massive period of change. One of the places all three topics intersect is medicine. Normal medicine during this period was often ineffective, furthering the need for people seek out magical cures, which were in turn often intertwined with religion. By looking at the question of whether it would have …

Cleaning The House: Radical Domesticity And Patriarchal Resistance In We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Ava Hanley

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in The Castle follows Merricat and Constance Blackwood, wealthy sisters who have poisoned and murdered a majority of their family members and live an isolated, independent lifestyle in their family mansion. Once ruled by their family's patriarchal control and obsession with wealth, their house transforms into a space where domestic rituals such as cooking, cleaning, and preserving food become sources of independence and empowerment. Throughout the novel, patriarchal forces attempt to reassert control through the villagers, who ridicule the sisters for their defiance of social norms, and through their cousin Charles, whose intrusion mirrors …

Cybersecurity In Donald Trump’S 2024 Presidential Election Campaign, Julia Celestino

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Cybersecurity is of growing importance in America today, yet discussion about cybersecurity in Trump’s 2024 election campaign was limited. This paper discusses how the role of cybersecurity in Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign was limited by cybersecurity issues from his first term which continue to damage public support for his campaign, the unpopularity of cybersecurity among voters, and an effort to encourage collaboration with technology companies. Focus is on a timeframe from November 15, 2022 to April 30, 2025 (the date Donald Trump announced his candidacy to his 100th day in office). Ultimately, cybersecurity issues see more policy outcomes when …

‘Until The Lord Shows Us A Better Way’: Ellen G. White And The Issue Of Regional Conferences, Jones R. Clifford

Ellen White and Current Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.

The Humanity Of Christ Debate – What Did Ellen White Teach?, Woodrow Whidden

Ellen White and Current Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.

Microclimatic Conditions In Shulgan-Tash Cave (Southern Ural, Russia): Implications For The Preservation Of Eastern Europe’S Largest Paleolithic Art Collection, Olga Chervyatsova, Rayan Akhmedyanovb, Nailya Saifullina, Ludmila Kuzmina, Mihael Kotov, Yuri Dublyansky

International Journal of Speleology

This study presents the results of a long-term investigation of the microclimatic conditions in Shulgan-Tash Cave (Southern Urals, Russia), which hosts the largest assemblage of Upper Paleolithic paintings (ca. 16.3–19.6 ka) in Eastern Europe. The cave exhibits two distinct seasonal ventilation regimes – winter and summer – differentially influence its two levels of galleries. In the Lower Level, which contains 83% of the images, near-atmospheric CO₂ concentrations persist year-round, and temperature variations associated with seasonal infiltration events are minimal (1.0–1.3°C). By contrast, the Upper Level, including the decorated Hall of Paintings, is affected by downdrafts of CO₂-rich …