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Taking (Equal Voting) Rights Seriously: The Fifteenth Amendment As Constitutional Foundation, And The Need For Judges To Remodel Their Approach To Age Discrimination In Political Rights, Vikram D. Amar

Notre Dame Law Review

This Essay explores the relationship between twentieth-century voting-discrimination amendments and the Fifteenth Amendment’s antidiscrimination groundwork on which these later developments built. In particular, it examines ways in which the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, whose text and ratification conversations tightly track those of the Fifteenth Amendment, has been underimplemented, if not completely ignored, in recent debates and cases that are ever-more crucial to the meaning of political-rights equality under the Constitution. It ends by urging courts to take more seriously the similarities between the Twenty-Sixth and Fifteenth Amendments in adjudicating disputes involving facial or de facto age discrimination in political rights realms.

The Work Is Not Done: Frederick Douglass And Black Suffrage, Bradley Rebeiro

Notre Dame Law Review

Since antiquity, political theorists have tried to identify the proper balance between ideals and pragmatism in political and public life. Machiavelli and Aristotle both offered prudence as an approach, but with different ends in mind: stability and the good, respectively. Among the many contributions Kurt Lash’s two-volume set on the Reconstruction Amendments provides to present-day discourse, it supplies the careful reader an answer to this timeless question by highlighting the role of Frederick Douglass in public deliberation over the Fifteenth Amendment. In this Essay I argue that Amer-ican abolitionist, social reformer, and statesman Frederick Douglass illustrates and enacts the Aristotelian …

Understanding Terminations For “Disability-Caused Misconduct” As Failures To Provide Reasonable Accommodation, Michael S. Verdichizzi

Notre Dame Law Review

The Note proceeds as follows. Part I provides a primer on the sorts of disability discrimination the ADA prohibits, with a special focus on the three types of claims one may bring under the act: disparate treatment, disparate impact, and failure to accommodate. Part II explores the current state of the misconduct issue in the disability discrimination context and demonstrates the circuit split by way of case analyses. Part III presents the principal argument of this Note, that uncontroversial canons of statutory interpretation demonstrate the erroneousness of the majority view, that the majority view hinders the ADA’s objective of equal …

21cleo Research Team Draws On Critical Race Theory For New Peer Reviewed Article, 21cleo Research Team

21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts

21CLEO Research Blog Post No.24

Full Issue, Spring 2022, In The Ords

In the Ords: CSUMB Literary Arts Journal

No abstract provided.

Emerging Works Program, Collin College

Theatre Programs

Program for Emergine Works.

An Evaluation Of Security In Blockchain-Based Sharing Of Student Records In Higher Education, Timothy Arndt, Angela Guercio, Yonghun Chae

Information Systems

Blockchain has recently taken off as a disruptive technology, from its initial use in cryptocurrencies to wider applications in areas such as property registration and insurance due to its characteristic as a distributed ledger which can remove the need for a trusted third party to facilitate transactions. This spread of the technology to new application areas has been driven by the development of smart contracts – blockchain-based protocols which can automatically enforce a contract by executing code based on the logic expressed in the contract. One exciting area for blockchain is higher education. Students in higher education are ever more …

Analyzing Extreme Cases: How Quantile Regression Can Enhance Our Ability To Identify Productivity Stars, Evan Theys

Doctoral Dissertations

Recent research suggests that individual productivity may not be normally distributed and is best modeled by a power law, a form of a heavy-tailed distribution where extreme cases on the right side of the distribution affect the mean and skew the probability distribution. These extreme cases, commonly referred to as “star performers” or “productivity stars,” provide a disproportionately positive impact on organizations. Yet, the field of industrial-organizational psychology has failed to uncover effective techniques to identify them during selection accurately. Limiting factors in the identification of star performers are the traditional methods (e.g., Pearson correlation, ordinary least squares regression) used …

A New Surgical Technique For Salvage Of Post-Operative Proximal Junctional Failure In Pediatric Patients–A Case Series, Mason Fawcett, Richard M. Schwend

Research at Children's Mercy Month 2022

Background: PJF is a known complication following posterior spinal fusion surgery and can be most simply defined as any adverse event necessitating surgical revision of the proximal instrumentation of the spine. PJF is associated with pain, decreased neurologic function, infection, and increased morbidity. Very little literature exists on this topic in children or on specific surgical techniques for revision surgery.

Methods: The revision technique involves extending the spine instrumentation proximally with paired sets of sublaminar bands used as anchors. The bands are gradually and sequentially tightened, bringing the spine into a corrected sagittal position. Patients who underwent this …

Addressing Moral Distress: A Call To Action For Nursing, Angie Knackstedt, Cathy Cartwright

Research at Children's Mercy Month 2022

Nursing is caring and complex, committed to patients and families, as well as the profession and society. Nurses experience the stress of witnessing pain, suffering, and injustices that violates their moral values – personally and professionally – creating moral distress. Moral distress is the experience of not being able to act in accordance with one’s core values, the feeling that it is nearly impossible to do so or that one’s actions did not result in the intended outcome due to institutional constraints. Over time if moral distress is not mitigated, it has a crescendo effect that can lead to burnout, …

Onboarding Program Eastern Band Of Cherokee Indians - Needs Assessment Summary, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Other QIC-WD Products

Exploration of Needs

The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) worked with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Family Safety Program (FSP) to conduct a needs assessment. A variety of information was explored to learn about the current workforce and the agency’s child welfare workforce practices, including 1) recruitment, hiring, and retention metrics and processes, 2) organizational culture and climate, and 3) other workforce processes and initiatives, such as onboarding, mentoring, supervision, performance management, and employee recognition. More specifically, four major types of information were considered: 1) objective administrative data; 2) subjective perceptions of staff and supervisors, gathered …

Mp Infrastructure Zambia Limited V. Matt Smith And Kenneth Barnes Caz Appeal No. 102/2020, Chanda Chungu

SAIPAR Case Review

No abstract provided.

2021-2022 Conservatory Class Of 2022, Luis Pulido, Mingyue Fei, Robiyakhon Akromova, Kayla Bryan, Kari Jenks, Rosie Rogers, Aaron Small, Xiaoxiao Wang, Yue Yang, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Jannina Eliana Pena, Marina Machado

Other Student Recitals

No abstract provided.

The Incorporation Of The Republican Guarantee Clause, Jason Mazzone

Notre Dame Law Review

This Article makes the case for understanding the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate the Republican Guarantee Clause of Article IV. Incorporation shifts the focus of the Guarantee Clause from the interests of states to the interests of citizens; from protecting popular sovereignty as a political ideal to safeguarding more specifically rights that citizens hold and exercise in a republican system. Once incorporated, the Guarantee Clause should be understood to require states themselves to maintain a republican form of government and to act to correct departures from republicanism within their own governing arrangements. In addition, an incorporated Guarantee Clause informs the meaning …

The Information Edge - Library Newsletter - May 2022, Sarah Burns-Feyl, Jennifer Rosenstein

University Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

News From The Flock, Vol. 2022 Issue 8, Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society

Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Teaching Assembly Programming Through Video Games, Kaden Ven Gryphon

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Critical Effect Of Barium Solubility In A Binary Liquid Mixture, Jason Scott Mote

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Rocket Performance With Different 3d-Printed Nozzle Extensions, Shivani Kamlesh Patel

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Modeling Xrism Observation Of Spectral Line Broadening In The Perseus Cluster Outskirts, Jack Shepard Phillips

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Biol 335 Pathophysiology: Bracketology: Disease Edition, Meredith A. Rowe Ph.D.

Open Educational Resources

This project was designed for use in BIOL 335 Pathophysiology, an elective course for which Anatomy & Physiology I and II are prerequisites. The project is based on a single-elimination bracket where progression to the next round is decided by vote of the class, but the votes are independent of student grades. As individual students are “eliminated” by the voting process, they are assigned to work with another student who is still “in,” so the groups gradually become larger as the project progresses. There are two graded assignments for each round: one is a presentation, and one is a written …

A Lake, Not An Ocean, Matthew Kimball

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

On Waiting, Shawn Gollnick

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Cracks, Hunter Murphy

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Occupied, Morgan Marrazzo

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Pal Norte, Grand Valley State University Undocumented Student

Undocumented Students’ Cartoneras Collections

This cartonera details the personal experiences of a GVSU student who identifies as undocumented. The cartonera details the student’s journey to el Norte and the sacrifices family members have made to remain in the United States. The student details the tradeoffs and feelings of exclusion they have experienced, ending with a declaration to speak their truth for all who came before and those who will come after.

Biol 352 Cell Biology: Journey From The Center Of The Cell, Meredith A. Rowe Ph.D.

Open Educational Resources

This project is intended to be a long-term, scaffolded project across an entire semester course. Due dates are spread throughout the semester, and points are distributed as the professor deems appropriate across the sections of the project.

Length-Based Risk Analysis Of Management Options For The Southern Florida Usa Multispecies Coral Reef Fish Fishery, Jerald Ault, Steven G. Smith, Matthew W. Johnson, Laura Jay W. Grove, James A. Bohnsack, Gerard T. Dinardo, Caroline Mclaughlin, Nelson M. Ehrhardt, Vanessa Mcdonough, Michael P. Seki, Steven Miller, Jiangang Luo, Jeremiah Blondeau, Michael P. Crosby, Glenn Simpson, Mark E. Monaco, Clayton G. Pollock, Michael W. Feeley, Alejandro Acosta

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Exploitation impacts and management options for 15 coral reef fish species central to the commercial and recreational fisheries of the southern Florida USA coral reef ecosystem were evaluated using a length-based risk analysis (LBRA) framework. Population abundance-at-length composition data were obtained from several regional federal-state sampling programs. These and updated life history demographic data were integrated into a length-based numerical cohort model to generate LBRA fishery sustainability metrics from a probabilistic perspective. Three of five groupers, eight of eight snappers, and two of two grunts were below the 40% spawning potential ratio (SPR) stock sustainability minimum; ten of these …

A Survey Of Prosecutorial Philosophies And Their Effects On Sentencing, Bryan Briones

Honors College

In the criminal justice system, prosecutors (also known as District Attorneys) are granted discretion. Discretion gives prosecutors the ability to choose which cases to pursue, what plea deals to offer, and the suggested sentence for the crime. However, in the real world, prosecutors do not have as much power as many believe they do. While they do work in an important role, the media, T.V, movies, and even social media platforms have created a general misconception. In researching prosecutorial discretion, an attempt will be made to disprove any misconceptions and seek to educate society. The purpose of this study is …

Through The Needle’S Eye: Capitalist And Evangelical Considerations In Martin Scorsese’S The Wolf Of Wall Street, Emma Conatser

Honors College

No abstract provided.