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An Examination Of The Death Penalty, Alexandra N. Kremer

The Downtown Review

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the use of execution through hanging, beheading, drowning, gas chambers, lethal injection, and electrocution among others in response to a crime. This has spurred much debate on whether it should be used for reasons such as ethics, revenge, economics, effectiveness as a deterrent, and constitutionality. Capital punishment has roots that date back to the 18^th century B.C., but, as of 2016, has been abolished in law or practice by more than two thirds of the world’s countries and several states within the United States. Here, the arguments for and against the death …

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 12, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: SHU Just the Facts Campaign -- Gregory Madrid to speak at Agape Latte -- Greek Life hosts spelling bee -- Is the death penalty effective, ethical, or unjust -- Is it the most wonderful time of the year -- Going Greek: bigger schools vs SHU -- Woman's bowling season progressing -- Football team members receive honors -- Wrestling team welcomes Jon Fausey to coaching staff -- Woman's club gymnastics road to Daytona

Colonized And Racist Indigenous Campus Tour, Robin Starr Minthorn, Christine A. Nelson

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

This article explores the macro-structural aspects of college campuses and environments to understand how higher education institutions have created, maintained, and justified hostile campus climates against Indigenous students. It uncovers the embedded racist and genocidal values that are often cherished through dominant campus tours. This includes addressing how an incomplete understanding of history leads to centering oppressive values that disenfranchise Indigenous students in higher education. Offered is an abbreviated interpretation of the concept of Power and Place (Deloria & Wildcat, 2001), centering critical Indigenous values in the assessment. The case study articulates the historical and contemporary aspects of space and …

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 11, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Pioneers tie for NEC championship -- Local burglary updates -- International education week -- Do students feel safe going out -- Woman in business event -- Black Student Union host first event -- Club football conference champs -- Equestrian team wins home show -- Swimming and diving raises awareness for epilepsy -- Marottolo reaches 100 wins as men's ice hockey coach

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 10, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Little Red's toy drive -- Midterm elections results -- Human trafficking a national and local issue -- SHU alumna on Bloomberg Live -- Student's biggest nightmare -- SHU remembers Kristallnacht -- Woman's volleyball playing in NEC tournament -- Men's basketball season underway -- Chestnut and Meachum receive NEC honors -- Rowing wraps up fall season at Mets

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: The two major candidates for governor of Connecticut are Democratic businessman Ned Lamont and Republican businessman Bob Stefanowski --Fairfield Chief of Police Gary MacNamara will be retiring and joining SHU to become the new Executive Director of Public Safety and Governmental Affairs --Nursing Students Petition for Graduation Cords --Perspectives: Zodiac Signs: Do you believe them? --Perspectives on social media and Instagram --November is Epilepsy Awareness Month / editorial by Bryana Cielo --According to SHU Pioneers website, at each home game The Outpost will feature a different local brewery --Through Asset 360 SHU was able to donate used desks, …

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Red Sox win world series -- Destiny Africa children's choir at SHU -- Hate-fueled crimes -- SHU hoops madness -- Grand re-opening of the Peak Creamery -- Tramps Like Us come to campus -- Men's rugby compete in conference championship -- Field hockey heads to MAAC tournament -- Wrestling team looks towards season opener -- Men's club ice hockey skates into season

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 7, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Annual Clergy report crime on campus -- SHU choir sings out against bullying -- Student government turkey drive -- Death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi -- Weird and oddly satisfying things -- Kanye West meets with Donald Trump -- 13 cross country runners set personal records -- Woman's bowling begins season --Swimming and diving season begins -- Equestrian fall season underway -- Men's ice hockey ties 5th in nation

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 6, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Midterm elections -- Do sick clouds lead to health problems -- College of Arts and Sciences conference 2018 -- Marching band performs in Clolumbus Day parade with Majorettes di Casperia -- Kavanaugh confirmed as Supreme Court judge -- Dunkin Donuts changes its name to Dunkin -- Sacred Heart career expo -- Julian Garritano selected in national lacrosse league draft -- Ice hockey season underway -- Woman's golf looks towards final event of fall season -- Men's soccer travels during conference play

“I’Ll Expect A W.P.A. Check In The Morning”: The Path Of The University Of Louisville School Of Law To Belknap Campus, Marcus Walker

Marcus Walker

The University of Louisville School of Law was located downtown for more than ninety years. Its previous location on Armory Place was the first obtained for the school’s solitary use, but the decades-old former hotel had a host of issues and quickly became a hindrance to the growing program. This article is an account of the hard work, misfortunes, technicalities, and at last the fulfillment of the funding and construction of the original 1939 School of Law Building.

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 5, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: New Linda’s Containers: Saving the Planet or Inconvenient New Initiative? --The School of Communication and Media Arts has announced the annual Student Photography Exhibition, featuring junior Erica Condon and senior Erica Torrens, and presented by Professor Richard Falco (photos) --This fall season marks the 25th anniversary of the Sacred Heart University Marching Band --New Skull Session format allows fans to watch the band play and the color guard spin their whole field show on the new amphitheater steps. “We will also play school songs, patriotic selections, our field show with dances, and we even feature our new bagpipers,” …

Department Of History And Political Science Registration Newsletter Fall 2018, Department Of History And Political Science, University Of Southern Maine

Department of History and Political Science Registration Newsletter

In this issue:

• Political Science majors Shaman Kirkland and Hamdia Ahmed help organize March for Our Lives
• New World Languages Options
• Screening of the film “Of Many: Then and Now” and moderated discussion with Rabbi Yehuda Sarna and Imam Khalid Latif
• (De)Constructing Race, Equality, and Power at SPACE Gallery
• Registration information
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Fall 2018
• HTY/POS Internship Fall 2018
• Ron Schmidt's forthcoming book Reading Politics with Machiavelli

Spectrum, Volume 41, Number 4, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: An evening with Aly Raisman -- Kavanaugh controversy continues -- Hurricane Florence update -- New head of Greek Life -- SHU adds two new majors -- Choir director and students sing on Good Morning America -- U.S woman's open ends in controversy -- Woman's soccer kicks off conference play -- Merrimack College joins Northeast conference -- Heart-to-heart campaign moves to the pitch

Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 4, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: An Evening with Aly Raisman, Olympic gold medalist and former Team USA gymnastics captain --Hurricane Florence update --What is the Better Streaming Service? Spotify or Apple Music --New director of Greek Life, Nick Frias (photo) --SHU adds two new majors, Hospitality, Resort and Tourism Management and the Fashion Marketing and Merchandising major --Choir director Tome Cuffari and students back up Josh Groban on Good Morning America (photo) --Opening Thursday, Sept. 27 in the Little Theatre, SHU's Theatre Arts Program will perform their production, “As Bees in Honey Drown --Women's soccer kicks off conference play (photo) --SHU and its …

Hidden And Overt: Exploring Race And Other Identities In The Classroom, Colin Kelly

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

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Spectrum, Volume 41, Number 3, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Sean Kaschak to be Agape Latte guest speaker -- Seton Hall commemorates 25 years -- Lack of parking an issue on campus -- Silverman's Farm Fall Festivals -- Remembering Mac Miller -- Young gold team off to a great start -- Club football loses first game -- Woman's field hockey to return to Northeast Conference -- Woman's fencing recruiting

Spectrum, Volume 41, Number 1, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Announcing the Audrey Niblo Award -- CT Gubernational Race update -- President's Gala featuring 3OH!3 -- New Chaplains on campus -- West Campus renovations -- Cross country teams off and running -- NCAA implements new rule, taking away mandatory off day for athletes

The Lost & Found Game Series: Teaching Medieval Religious Law In Context, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context. The Lost & Found project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens in our pluralist democracy. The first game in the series is a strategy game called Lost & Found …

Mortar Board: A Century Of Scholars, Chosen For Leadership, United To Serve, Susan R. Komives, Virginia N. Gordon, Jane A. Hamblin

Purdue University Press Book Previews

Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society has a unique place in the history of higher education and indeed in the history of the United States. Founded in 1918, with inaugural chapters at Cornell University, University of Michigan, The Ohio State University, and Swarthmore College, Mortar Board was the first national organization to honor senior college women. Before women had the right to vote in the United States, Mortar Board members were leading their society to prominence across the country. In a real sense, Mortar Board grew up with the US higher education system and grew in step with women’s …

“I’Ll Expect A W.P.A. Check In The Morning”: The Path Of The University Of Louisville School Of Law To Belknap Campus, Marcus Walker

Faculty Scholarship

The University of Louisville School of Law was located downtown for more than ninety years. Its previous location on Armory Place was the first obtained for the school’s solitary use, but the decades-old former hotel had a host of issues and quickly became a hindrance to the growing program. This article is an account of the hard work, misfortunes, technicalities, and at last the fulfillment of the funding and construction of the original 1939 School of Law Building.

The History Of Massachusetts Transfer And Articulation Policies In Contexts Of Evolving Higher Education System Structure, Coordination, And Policy Actors, Daniel De La Torre, Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

Community colleges carry out dual missions providing occupational and collegiate preparation in local communities across the United States. These institutions prepare students for advanced study via transfer policies that lead to enrollment in baccalaureate institutions. State higher education systems use transfer and articulation policies to strengthen academic pathways between two-year and four-year institutions. These policies rely on established governance to facilitate student transfer between sectors. The transfer and articulation literature stresses the importance of statewide policy guidelines, yet little has been written about the process of transfer policy development involving state higher education governance and policy groups and actors. The …

Hark Upon The Gayle: A Depiction Of The Experiences Of The First Women Students At William & Mary, Yi Hao, Lisa Milne

The William & Mary Educational Review

As William & Mary celebrates the 100th anniversary of admitting women students as the first public college in Virginia to institute a co-educational system, this paper explores the life and times of the women who have shaped the College’s legacy for future women students. In researching the first women at William & Mary, we have found historical documentation, such as personal papers (letters and surveys) from both women students of the class of 1918 and a prior researcher; the Flat Hat, a student-run newspaper at the College; meeting minutes from the College Board of Visitors; William & Mary President Lyon …

Shhhh!, Donna M. Druery

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

Shhhh! is a historical analyses of the quietness America seeks so that its citizens (and the world) will not know/learn of the origins of history and culture of its citizens descended from Africa.

Introducing The Historical Newspapers Of South Carolina Online Database, Kate F. Boyd

Faculty and Staff Publications

For ten years we have been scanning South Carolina newspaper from microfilm and making them available online. Most of this time we made them available through the Library of Congress' Chronicling America database with NEH funding. When that funding ended, we need to find another way to continue making small South Carolina newspapers searchable online. With support from the Library Information Technology department, we now scan microfilm and index the content completely in-house. This presentation introduces this new workflow that the Libraries' Digital Collections Department has adopted.

The Presbyterian Enlightenment: The Confluence Of Evangelical And Enlightenment Thought In British America, Brandon S. Durbin

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Eighteenth-Century British American Presbyterian ministers incorporated covenantal theology, ideas from the Scottish Enlightenment, and resistance theory in their sermons. The sermons of Presbyterian ministers strongly indicate the intermixing of enlightenment and evangelical ideas. Congregants heard and read these sermons, spreading these ideas to the average colonist. This combination helps explain why American Presbyterians were so apt to resist British rule during the American Revolution. Protestant covenantal theology, derived from Protestant reformers like John Calvin and John Knox, emphasized virtue and duty. This covenant affected both the people and their rulers. When rulers failed to uphold their covenant with God, the …

We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro

Works of the FIU Libraries

This paper analyzes a shifting landscape of intellectual freedom (IF) in and outside Florida for children, adolescents, teens and adults. National ideals stand in tension with local and state developments, as new threats are visible in historical, legal, and technological context. Examples include doctrinal shifts, legislative bills, electronic surveillance and recent attempts to censor books, classroom texts, and reading lists.

Privacy rights for minors in Florida are increasingly unstable. New assertions of parental rights are part of a larger conservative animus. Proponents of IF can identify a lessening of ideals and standards that began after doctrinal fruition in the 1960s …

Benefits Of Veterans’ Oral History On Gifted Students, Katelyn Watkins

Honors Theses

To combat boredom and negative sentiments, all students need to be provided with engaging experiences in history. This is especially the case with gifted students. One strategy that has proven beneficial to students is oral history, which brings people who have lived through history into the classroom. Research supports the use of oral history in the classroom; however, research on the benefits of veterans’ oral histories on gifted students in particular is scarce. This study describes research on how a veteran’s oral history might benefit gifted students. Qualitative research methods consisting of case study and narrative research were used. The …

Spectrum, Volume 40, Number 10, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Annual academic festival showcases student research -- Shooting at YouTube headquarters -- SHU announces new superintendent program -- Game design program ranked as one of the best in trhe US -- Dunkin Donuts announces new snack -- Dance team competes at Daytona nationals -- Men's rugby do community service during spring slate -- Men's volleyball wraps up season

Spectrum, Volume 40, Issue 10, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Sacred Heart’s annual Academic Festival, to be held April 20 and organized by the Committee for Undergraduate Research, is the finale of all the activities regarding undergraduate research at the university --Sacred Heart University will introduce their new (093) state certification program in Fall 2018 for educators seeking to become future superintendents of public schools across America --Princeton Review has ranked SHU's gaming program as one of the best in the country for their undergraduate and graduate game design programs --Sophomore Christina Magliocco will be participating in the Girls Who Invest online program --“In the Heights” : A …

Public Education For Democracy: Teaching Immigrant And Bilingual Children As Equals, Luis E. Poza, Sheila M. Shannon

Faculty Publications

This theoretical essay offers a genealogical analysis (Foucault, 1975) that problematizes the idea of “public” with respect to schooling immigrant and bilingual students. “Public” has been reconfigured in ways that privilege hegemonic whiteness, resulting in policies and practices such as standardized testing, for example, that primarily evaluate, sort, and penalize (Foucault, 1975) schools serving these students. We contend that testing’s pernicious impacts stem from a raciolinguistic project of American identity (Flores & Rosa, 2015). Educators, adapting to the tests (Freire, 1974), cement linguistic and racial hierarchies. Referencing classrooms from our teaching and empirical work, we argue for teacher education that …