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Action Pénale Et Action Disciplinaire: The Origins And Current Activities Of The Criminal And Disciplinary Law Committee Of The International Society For Military Law And The Law Of War, Frank Rosenblatt

Journal Articles

The pinnacle events of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW, or Society) are the Congresses. Occurring triennially, the Congresses are the Society’s largest meetings and academic exchanges. The Congresses usually attract hundreds of participants – especially military legal officers, academics, and government officials – from countries around the world. The Congresses, more than any other fora, have grown to become the places to ‘see and be seen’ and to exchange ideas on military law and the law of war.

Model Minority Perceptions: The Lived Experiences Of Asian American Women In Collegiate Sports, Anna Ponzio

Pitzer Senior Theses

This study examines the impact and the implications of the model minority myth in the lives of Asian American women athletes. It draws on thirteen semi-structured, in-depth interviews with women currently competing in college sports who grapple with their intersectional identities as Asian American athletes and as women. I analyze the effects of the model minority expectations through individual internalization of the myth and its associated ideologies. This study looks at the ways that they are physically perceived as female athletes and the racialized nature of sports through the objectification of their appearances. Additionally, it explores the parental influence on …

Queer Survival Amidst Hiv/Aids, Covid-19 And Homelessness, Julia Young

Pitzer Senior Theses

The treatment and survival of a society's marginalized peoples reveal the true impacts of a pandemic. An analysis of homeless queer youth during the HIV/AIDS and SARS-CoV-2 crises lays bare the systemic failure of the United States government to provide equitable healthcare.

I compare the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics in queer homeless youth to demonstrate the dangers of disease moralization via a sociocultural analyses of disease stigma and responsibility politics. Utilizing syndemic theory I draw on the synergistic relationship between disease and illness to describe the unique challenges queer homeless youth face. A syndemic framework is applied to address common …

Growing Meat On Plants: Using Intermediate Cbd-Rgd Fusion Proteins To Improve Bovine Satellite Cell Attachment On Cellulose-Based Scaffolds, Julian Cohen

Pitzer Senior Theses

Cellular agriculture is an emerging technology aiming to replace existing methods for animal agriculture with tissue engineering and cell culture-based technologies. Cultured meat falls within this purview, using a biomimetic approach to recreate animal muscle tissue through tissue engineering. In the attempt to diminish the necessity of animal-derived materials within this process, plant-based scaffolds can be used as a substrate upon which stem cells are cultured. Due to the unfavorable environment of cellulose for mammalian cell-surface proteins, the approach was taken of coating cellulose nanofiber films with a fusion protein composed of a cellulose binding domain (CBD) protein and the …

Beyond The Technical Dimensions Of Water: Community-Based Efforts For Water Justice In The High Desert, Ella Meyer

Pitzer Senior Theses

Water injustice is a result of the co-constitution of water and power from the global to the local level. In the small High Desert town of Adelanto, CA, concerns over the water quality and its association with overall quality of life incentivized a collaborative project to investigate dealings of water. A multidimensional analysis of the water system uncovers an instance of water injustice that is complex and linked to water issues regionally in the Inland Southern California area, as well as globally. Globalized discourses, climate change, global capitalism and flows of immigration are some of the global processes linked to …

Finding A Place For Women Of Color: An Examination Of Definitions Of Inclusion, Neoliberalism, And Their Effects On Women Of Color In Higher Education, Xochitl Husted

Pitzer Senior Theses

This qualitative study analyzed the ways in which definitions of inclusion differ among classroom actors within discussion based classrooms at Cactus College, a predominately white, small, private, liberal arts college in Southern California. The purpose of this investigation was to determine how variations in definitions of inclusion affect the experiences of women of color in higher education. The results of this study indicated that all definitions of inclusion, regardless of respondent demographics, were embedded with democratic values. These democratic values included: acknowledgement, rhetoric, participation, engagement, community, belonging, and understanding. However, women of color conceived acknowledgement differently, compared to their white …

The Heirloom As Evidence: Investigating The Colonial Trace Preserved Within My Family’S Sandalwood Box, Olivia Meehan

Pitzer Senior Theses

This paper accompanies my senior art exhibition Picturing the Colonial Trace. Pulling from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars, I theorize the practice of critical white auto-ethnography through visual interrogations of family heirlooms. The heirloom as evidence holds within its form a colonial trace. I investigate this trace through my creative practice, revealing the environmental, economic, and interpersonal histories of the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. My art disrupts my family’s narrative of a benevolent British Empire and redirects attention to the silences of my family archive. This thesis proposes a potential model for white scholars of Environmental …

Uni Wrestling 2022-23, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--- 2022-23 Schedule
--- Big 12 Conference
--- Head Coach Doug Schwab
--- Coaching Staff
--- 2021-22 Roster
--- Roster
--- 2021-22 Results
--- All-time Records
--- Lettermen

Uni Men's Basketball Media Guide 2022-23, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

Introduction --- 2
The Panthers --- 8
Coaching Staff --- 26
Staff Profiles --- 34
2021-22 Review --- 37
History --- 49
Postseason History --- 71
Results --- 92

Effects Of Food Insecurity On College Students’ Mental Health During The Coronavirus Pandemic, Kailee Schultz

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

Over 10 percent of US households were food insecure in 2019. COVID-19 aggravated food insecurity in the US, both by making it worse for already-food insecure households and pushing additional households into food insecurity. College students represent a demographic with unique food security challenges. For this group, food insecurity is often linked to changes in academic performance and mental health. The overall objective of this study is to analyze food insecurity among households with college students during the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, this study will (1) characterize food insecurity among households with college students and (2) examine the impact of food …

Rhetorical Criticism Of Trevor, Alexis Johnson

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

Released in 1994, the short film, Trevor, shares the story of a 13-year-old boy as he navigates the complexities of sexual orientation in America. Written by James Lecesne, the short film incorporates his personal experiences with growing up as a queer individual in the LGBTQ+ community and the socio-political concerns of rising suicide rates of LGBTQ+ youth. Throughout the film, Trevor must traverse the intricacies of sexual orientation in 1981, while facing a lack of support from his parents, and harsh criticism from his friends and peers. Trevor, as a rhetorical act, holds great significance in the United States with …

A Point Of Honor: Drengskapr In Þorsteins Þáttr Stangarhǫggs, Noah R. Mincheff

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

Þorsteins þáttr Stangarhǫggs, or “The Tale of Thorstein Staff-Struck” is an atypical piece of Norse short prose that likely originates from a mid-13th century oral tradition.1 Although the tale employs many of the common saga motifs, such as elaborate genealogies, and the plain prose of the genre, this perceived simplicity and objectivity is deceptive. Early 20th century scholars in particular, such as Vilhelm Grønbech, in their efforts to define the essence of the Icelandic Sagas, rightly identify numerous key themes in Icelandic literature but fail to acknowledge those themes as anything more than “aesthetic indulgence”.2 Such themes as honor, fate, …

Sanford Patient Navigation Program For Children With Medical Complexities (Cmc): A Vital Initiative To Help Minimize Costs And Maximize Family Satisfaction In Cmc’S, Carolyn Ann Blatchford

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

It is no secret that medical costs are rising. However, for families with children who have medical complexities, the financial burden is just the beginning of challenges faced daily. However, programs are beginning to develop aiming at minimizing the challenges these families face. One of these initiatives’ hospitals continue to improve is the use of care coordination or patient navigation efforts. The Sanford Patient Navigation Program is a new hospital initiative reflecting care coordination models across the country designed to better serve children with medical complexities in our communities. The project examined the first two cohorts of the Sanford Patient …

The Struggle For American Public Space, Emma Martin

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

In this paper, I delve into America's relationship with public space. Through literature review, critical analysis, and case studies, I answer the research questions: what is public space in America, and does it need to be improved? According to literature and experts, public space does not have a concrete definition; instead, it is a concept that evolves as people change and time passes; public space in 1890 was very different from public space in 2020. And in 2020, there has been a consensus by experts that public space is endangered by increased privatization and a disregard for public space's importance. …

Telehealth Simulation And Education Impact On Student Knowledge, Leah Schmitt

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

Background: One of the most recent improvements to the everchanging healthcare is telehealth. Telehealth is used by about 70% of healthcare providers across the United States. It is used to reach patient populations such as those in rural locations or with limited resources. Telehealth can improve patient outcomes and encourage quality patient care. However, many nursing schools include programs to educate students on the utilization of telehealth. Purpose: In undergraduate and graduate nursing school, do telehealth simulations and education improve student knowledge? Methods: A review of literature was completed using the databases: EBSCOhost, PubMed, and CINAHL. Key words searched included …

The Techniques Of Studying And Other Variables Impact On Initial Drug Card Exam Pass Rates, Kyle Shapcott

Schultz-Werth Award Papers

The Techniques of Studying and Other Variables Impact on Initial Drug Card Exam Pass Rates is a study performed on the Top 200 Drug Card Exams presented to professional pharmacy students at South Dakota State University. The study utilized Fisher's exact test with a 0.05 significance value to find statistical significance in a variety of categories relating to different variables that were suspected to impact the pass rate of the exams. These variables included pharmacy work experience, place of work, first exposure to the exam content, and others. Data for this study was collected through a survey that 93 current …

In Memoriam, Orrin Glenn Hatch (1934-2022)

BYU Studies

At the passing of Senator Orrin G. Hatch on April 23, 2022, BYU Studies joins in honoring this outstanding public servant, who has been called “the most important Utah politician since Brigham Young.” Senator Hatch served seven terms in the United States Senate (1977 to 2019), the longest period in office of any Republican. During his tenure, he presided over three major Senate committees: Labor and Human Resources, Judiciary, and Finance. In 2017, he also was elected to the position of president pro tempore of the Senate.

Gold, Silver, And Grain, Shinji Takagi

BYU Studies

In this paper, I discuss, from the perspective of a monetary economist, the operational aspects of the system of fixed prices for gold, silver, and all kinds of grain described in the Book of Mormon (Alma 11:3–19), based on internal evidence, economic logic, and historical precedents from antiquity. Previous authors have noted several unique features of the Nephite system, which was purportedly created by king Mosiah in the early first century BC. For example, John Welch, approaching the system strictly as one of weights and measures, argued that, in this otherwise binary system (in which denomination increases by a multiple …

Oracles Of God, Ryan S. Gardner

BYU Studies

When President Russell M. Nelson read the “Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Bicentennial Proclamation” at the 190th annual general conference on April 5, 2020, several articles appeared explaining this newest proclamation in the context of its predecessors. These articles revealed that these historically and spiritually valuable documents were not readily accessible in a single digital repository.

Covenant Language In Biblical Religions And The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

BYU Studies

Because twenty-first-century public discourse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seems to feature the language of covenant more and more often, it may be helpful to step back and reexamine the scriptural and historical backgrounds for covenant theology and terminology. When the Restoration took shape in the first half of the nineteenth century, it was dependent primarily on the language of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible and contemporary Protestant teachings for a context in which to interpret the language of Joseph Smith’s revelations and the Book of Mormon. After two centuries of modern linguistic …

Sally In Three Worlds: An Indian Captive In The House Of Brigham Young, By Virginia Kerns (Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2021), Julia Harrison

BYU Studies

In Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young, Virginia Kerns relates the story of the settlement of Utah through the life of Sally, a Pahvant Ute woman who lived in Brigham Young’s household. On its surface, the book is a narrative of the life of one woman, but Kerns argues that “a single life can illuminate an entire cultural and social world, or reveal an unremarked but vital part of the human story.”

A New Witness To The World, By Robert A. Rees (Salt Lake City: By Common Consent Press, 2020), Lane Welch

BYU Studies

This book provides a series of essays that analyze and contextualize the text of the Book of Mormon while providing Professor Rees’s faithful perspective on the text. Though each essay stands on its own as a separate work, the later essays, handling the context of Joseph Smith’s work as a nineteenth-century American writer, do reference and build off one another. These later essays handle the backgrounds and processes of various American writers contemporary to Joseph Smith, providing an effective survey of the literary milieu into which the Book of Mormon first entered; the earlier essays are more focused on the …

An Experiential Pathway To Conversion, Robert K. Christensen, Matthew D. Wride, Neil R. Lundberg

BYU Studies

Joseph Smith’s formal education did not extend beyond the third grade. His life did not extend beyond the final years of his thirties. The person he became and his work in restoring the gospel of Jesus Christ, however, extend into eternity. John Taylor observed that “Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.”

Sacred Space, Jacqueline Price

BYU Studies

My painting is about how an ordinary space can be made sacred when we invite the heavenly and earthly realms to align more closely. As a young woman reading her scriptures looks up towards heaven for inspiration, light and the Spirit of God fall upon her, and a connection is made.

Gethsemane, Darlene Young

BYU Studies

I want to tell the story. But— there is no approaching this, strange crux of everything.

Holy Places, Merrijane Rice

BYU Studies

I watch the sunset from the corner of Country Mill and Western Drive and note how rooflines echo Frary Peak on Antelope Island—bent pyramids black against the sky and rimmed with light like glowing magma.

Seeing, Dave Nielsen

BYU Studies

Grandpa Lewis is losing his sight. None of us knows what he can or can’t see.

Terrible Revolution: Latter-Day Saints And The American Apocalypse By Christopher James Blythe, Tona Hangen

BYU Studies

When a costume-clad man wielded a Captain Moroni “title of liberty” flag at the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021, it was a notable reminder that revolutionary end-times ideology has a long and evocative presence in the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and adjacent religions. Christopher Blythe’s timely and wide-ranging book explores these themes across time, geography, and even denominational boundaries. He defines apocalypticism both as a distinct Jewish- Christian scriptural literary form found in Hebrew and Christian texts and malleable perfectionist ideology embracing “catastrophic millennialism,” to borrow Catherine Wessinger’s coinage. In brief, apocalyptic rhetoric …

Joseph Smith For President: The Prophet, The Assassins, And The Fight For American Religious Freedom By Spender Mcbride, Jordan T. Watkins

BYU Studies

In Joseph Smith for President, Spencer McBride provides an illuminating and reader-friendly account of Joseph Smith’s presidential campaign. McBride, who is a scholar of American religious and political history and an associate managing historian of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, firmly situates the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within antebellum contexts. In doing so, he contributes to a body of scholarship that examines the early Saints’ experiences in ways that shed light on and correct assumptions about American historical developments. In one recent example, which addresses some of the same themes, Benjamin E. …

Mormon Studies: A Critical History By Ronald Helfrich Jr., Roger Terry

BYU Studies

This short but dense critical history of Mormon studies is unique in several ways. First, author Ronald Helfrich Jr. is a self-described “Gentile” scholar who spent “probably far too many years,” including a year as a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University, researching and writing this history. Second, the book is surprisingly thorough. I have been the editorial director at BYU Studies for the past sixteen years and thought I had a fairly decent grasp of Mormon studies, past and present, but Helfrich repeatedly describes the work of historians and other scholars with whom I …