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Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society by Cécile Vidale

Reviewed by: Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society by Cécile Vidale Molly Olsen Cécile Vidale Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society. Williamsburg, Virginia: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 552 pp. 10 illustrations, 9 maps, 7 tables, notes, index. $49.95 cloth (ISBN: 978-1-4696-4518-6); $29.99 electronic (ISBN: 978-1-4696-4519-3). For those familiar with the caribbean and who also know New Orleans through its cuisine, architecture, or music, it may seem unsurprising that recent scholarly research should identify New Orleans as a Caribbean city. But in her latest book, historian Cécile Vidale has analyzed a rich array of documentary sources to provide abundant evidence of the historical similarities that New Orleans shares with the Greater Caribbean, in particular Saint Domingue and the Lesser Antilles of the French Caribbean. Caribbean [End Page 299] New Orleans specifically examines the racialization of society in New Orleans under the French regime from the founding of city in 1718 through the 1760s and the transfer of the city to Spanish rule. The book is an illuminating and often delightful portrait of a racially complex city of endless conflict that strived to define itself in the midst of myriad demographic influences. Scholars and non-academic readers alike will enjoy the finesse with which Vidale teases out compelling anecdotes from archival documents that hold the story of this beloved city’s rough beginning. As Professor of History and Director of the Center for North American Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Dr. Vidale brings to this book a deep historical understanding of the Mississippi Valley region as well as a critical Continental perspective on the French empire and its colonies in the Americas. Following her equally illuminating Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), Caribbean New Orleans is the result of Vidale’s decision to undertake a more exacting investigation of New Orleans’s place beyond its North American geographical milieu and reveal its historical affinity with the French Caribbean. Her work is a beautiful example of painstaking archival investigation that generates for the reader a sense of daily life in eighteenth century New Orleans, with a focus on racialized interpersonal relationships. With this book, Vidale has contributed to the labors of New Orleans archival scholars such as Gwen-dolyn Midlo Hall (among her many books, see Africans in Colonial Louisiana, LSU Press, 1992), who insists that any historical understanding of the city demands examination of the original documents in French, Spanish, and English, and Richard Campanella, geographer and prolific author of archive-based research on New Orleans (see, for example, Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008). Vidale’s investigative work in Continental archives is a welcome element of the book that helps readers to understand how New Orleans experienced the influence of the distant but omnipresent metropole. This critical examination of imperial documents complements the author’s extensive research in New Orleans libraries and collections as she interrogates French colonialism in the Americas. Indeed, an invaluable asset of the book is the meticulous annotation of all of the document sources referenced by archive, folio, and number that Vidale includes in her footnotes, details that will greatly assist any researcher wanting to investigate related topics. Regrettably, there is no full bibliography at the end of the book, and the index is limited, so readers and researchers seeking scholarly bibliographic references will need to rely on the extensive footnotes in each of the nine chapters. The various chapters of Caribbean New Orleans, each intriguing for its own thematic content, treat specific spaces and arenas of early New Orleans society where disparate populations mingled. Throughout, Vidale argues that one of the key elements that connects New Orleans to the Caribbean is the creation of a slave society in a port city that maintained power through a repressive [End Page 300] legal structure developed specifically to uphold white supremacy and systematically...

Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 1 by Peter J. Schmelz (review)

REVIEWS 171 ultimately fell out of favour when it became increasingly dangerous to mention Russian icons or the avant-garde in the 1920s and ’30s. Murray’s essay does much to recover the impact his work had on the development of the Russian avant-garde and serves as an excellent ‘reminder of the cruelty and injustice of the Communist system’ (p. 228). In the volume’s final essay, Jennifer Brewin analyses the works of the Soviet Georgian painter Ucha Japaridze in terms of how he incorporated elements of Byzantine stylization and spiritual content connected with the Symbolist tradition into paintings that only seem to abide by the canonical tenets of Socialist Realism. By far the longest essay in the volume, the work sometimes suffers from trying to address too many themes at once. The section on images of women in Japaridze’s works and in Georgian culture, for example, could easily have been a gripping stand-alone article but was somewhat lost within the larger piece. This essay also felt slightly out of sync with the larger scope of the volume in that it referenced artworks which pushed well beyond the immediate aftermath of the revolution and the titular theme of ‘Russian Art’. Its inclusion makes one contemplate the volume’s overall periodization and its concentrated focus on the first decades of the twentieth century, to the detriment in particular of earlier periods. In the introduction to the volume, Hardiman and Kozicharow acknowledge this lacuna and briefly mention how major painters from the 1830s–70s (such as Aleksandr Ivanov, Vasilii Perov, Nikolai Ge and Ivan Kramskoi) foreshadowed other spiritually-oriented artists who came later. In the end, an essay on this earlier period would only have shown with greater force ‘the diversity of approaches among modern artists to the notion of spirituality’ (p. 31). This variety is the true strength of the volume as a whole; it is the range of artists, historians and collectors under discussion which truly show how vital the intersection between art and spirituality was under the condition of modernity. Department of Visual Arts Allison Leigh University of Louisiana at Lafayette Schmelz, Peter J. Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No. 1. Oxford Keynotes. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2019. xiii + 162 pp. Illustrations. Music examples. Tables. Appendix. Additional sources for reading and listening. Notes. Index. £10.99 (paperback). The latest book in the Oxford Keynotes series offers a thoughtful and detailed analysis of one of Schnittke’s best-known works and the piece that helped to make his compositions known in the West. The chapters follow the six parts of the Concerto Grosso No. 1: ‘Preludio’, ‘Toccata’, ‘Recitativo’, ‘Cadenza’, SEER, 98, 1, JANUARY 2020 172 ‘Rondo’ and ‘Postludio’; each of them begins with a brief but vivid description of the actual sounds or events of the movement, followed by an account of the background and context of the concerto grosso as a whole and, particularly, the part featured in the chapter. The last, ‘Postludio’, is the broadest, assessing not only this piece but the rise and fall of Schnittke’s reputation, both during his life and after his early death. Professor Schmelz, already known for his work on late twentieth-century and contemporary music, deals very readably with complex compositional, phenomenological and purely musical issues, enlivening his account of Schnittke’s world with a profusion of quotations from the composer himself, Western and Russian composers, critics and historians of music, several of them previously unremarked in literature of the subject. The author’s researches make this easily the most comprehensive account of a work that, apart from numerous concert performances, has been used in many different contexts from important films to a vulgarized version of it as malevolence at the quasi-historical opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. Polystylistic composing is likely to lead to many different, often contradictory interpretations. Amongst the best critics, following the pioneering work of Alexander Ivashkin, have been Svetlana Savenko, the violinists Gidon Kremer and Oleh Krysa, and, of course, Schmelz himself; some critics and members of the public, however, have shown themselves quite closed to Schnittke’s new sound world, most obtuse amongst them being...

CTX-8573, an Innate-Cell Engager Targeting BCMA, is a Highly Potent Multispecific Antibody for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

Introduction: Current therapies for multiple myeloma (MM), such as immunomodulatory agents, proteasome inhibitors, stem-cell transplantation, and monoclonal antibodies against tumor-associated antigens have greatly improved patient survival. However, MM remains an incurable disease as most patients will eventually relapse. Recent advances in targeted T-cell therapies have shown promise in clinical trials but the adaptive immune system may be insufficient to eradicate all MM clones. In contrast, treatments harnessing the innate immune system have been relatively underdeveloped in MM despite evidence suggesting a role of innate immunity in the efficacy of existing therapies. Innate or innate-like cells, such as NK and γδ T cells, have the potential to display strong anti-tumor activity, and strategies aimed to improve or re-direct their cytotoxicity represent a new opportunity for cancer immunotherapies and a complementary approach to existing therapies. Here we describe the preclinical characterization of CTX-8573, a novel multispecific antibody that targets B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) on tumor cells and promotes potent cytotoxicity by NK and γδ T cells through engagement of the activating receptors NKp30 and CD16a. Method: Bispecific constructs were generated by appending two common-light chain compatible anti-NKp30 Fab fragments to the C-terminus of an anti-BCMA IgG1 antibody containing an afucosylated Fc for enhanced CD16a engagement. To test the effects of targeting NKp30 alone, variants were expressed with an aglycosylated Fc to eliminate CD16a binding. In-vitro assays were performed with primary NK or γδ T cells to determine innate-cell activation, cytokine production, proliferation, and target-cell cytotoxicity against tumor cell lines with a range of BCMA expression levels. In-vivo efficacy studies were performed in multiple humanized mouse models and pharmacokinetics and safety were evaluated in Cynomolgus monkeys. Results: CTX-8573 is highly expressed in CHO cells with minimal aggregation and displays stability, solubility, and binding to BCMA and NKp30 equivalent to the parental monoclonal antibodies. By engaging NKp30 and CD16a, CTX-8573 promotes potent cytotoxicity of BCMA expressing target cells by NK and γδ T cells with >100 fold reduced EC50 compared to the corresponding BCMA monoclonal antibody control. CTX-8573 also demonstrates robust killing of low BCMA expressing cell lines including RPMI-8226 where monoclonal BCMA antibodies lack activity. An aglycosylated variant of CTX-8573 lacking CD16a binding maintains cell killing activity, demonstrating that engagement of NKp30 alone is sufficient to promote innate cell activation and cytotoxicity, although activity is enhanced by CD16A engagement. Furthermore, CTX-8573 maintains its cytotoxic activity in presence of soluble BCMA or BCMA ligands APRIL and BAFF. CTX-8573 does not induce innate cell activation, cytokine production, or killing in the absence of BCMA expressing target cells, supporting a wide therapeutic window. Additionally, unlike daratumumab, CTX-8573 does not induce NK-cell fratricide. In-vivo, CTX-8573 demonstrates anti-tumor efficacy in multiple humanized mouse models including killing of low BCMA expressing cell lines. In Cynomolgus monkeys, CTX-8573 displays standard biphasic pharmacokinetics with a 16 day β-phase half-life and has no evidence of systemic immune activation as measured by C-reactive protein levels. Lastly, NKp30 expression is maintained on bone marrow NK cells from MM patients including the presence of a significant NKp30+CD16a- subpopulation. Conclusion: CTX-8573 represents a novel class of bispecific antibodies that promote potent tumor cell killing by NK and γδ T-cells through engagement of the activating receptors NKp30 and CD16a. CTX-8573 demonstrates strong anti-tumor efficacy in vitro and in vivo, a wide therapeutic window with no evidence of systemic toxicity, and monoclonal-like pharmacokinetics and manufacturability. Together, these data highlight the potential of CTX-8573 as a novel treatment for MM either alone or as a complement to existing therapies. Disclosures Watkins-Yoon: Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Guzman:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Oliphant:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Haserlat:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Leung:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Chottin:University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Employment. Ophir:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Vekeria:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Nanjappa:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Markrush:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. McConaughy:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Wang:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Schilling:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Kim:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Wu:Compass Therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Liu:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Rogers:University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Employment. Villinger:University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Employment. Gong:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Hamilton:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Bobrowicz:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Schuetz:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Schmidt:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership. Draghi:Compass therapeutics LLC: Employment, Equity Ownership.

Service learning: A method of instruction for community health content in nursing curriculums

Service learning methodology provides students with opportunities to apply classroom learned content in a real world setting, while offering services to the community. The Department of Nursing Education of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette incorporates service learning strategies through a clinical assignment called Community as a Client. This assignment is discussed in this article to incorporate research methodologies, evidence based practice, intervention creation and implementation based on data collection, for inclusion in nursing programs.

Urban Insertion Projects for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The Community Design Work Shop (CDW) is an Institute within the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The CDW has been involved with the community urban design projects in architecture and planning for over twenty years. During this time, the CDW has been involved with the small town projects that promoted the revival of their downtown areas and neighborhoods along with the large infrastructure designs for interstate highways and major arterials for Municipalities and the State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. The CDW was engaged in restoration projects for small towns following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastation in 2005. Additionally, the CDW has completed multiple projects for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where the CDW team proposed the design, developed the construction documents and was involved with supervising the building construction. The purpose of the CDW is to function as an outreach Institute to the community for urban design and provide the graduate architecture students an opportunity to gain practical experience with real world design problems. The paper will focus on the process of engaging the university’s administration and students in charrettes and public meetings. Working as a team, the CDW produces the design, develops the construction documents and consults with local architects and engineers. The paper discussion will highlight three of the CDW’s projects: The University Bike Path – which links the University Research Park to the main campus completed in 2014; the redesign of the main campus Quadrangle completed in 2017; and the University International/Cultural Space, currently in progress. These three projects demonstrate how the public can be engaged in a design process; how the student learning benefits of all the students, the public, the development of the design show the construction process to completion.

Hold On

Research Article| August 01 2019 Hold On Liz Green Liz Green Liz Green is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is the coordinator of the New Orleans branch of a San Francisco-based reading series called Why There Are Words. A licensed therapist (LPC), Liz is also a member of the Milena Theatre Group. Her work has appeared in journals such as Forklift, Ohio, H_NGM_N, and anderbo.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (2019) 21 (2): 115–122. https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.21.2.0115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Liz Green; Hold On. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 1 August 2019; 21 (2): 115–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.21.2.0115 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressFourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Michigan State University Board of Trustees Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Judge rules in favor of university

Case name: Purcell, et al. v. Tulane University of Louisiana, et al., No. 16‐1834 (E.D. La. 12/17/18).

Judge rules in favor of university

Case name: Purcell, et al. v. Tulane University of Louisiana, et al., No. 16‐1834 (E.D. La. 12/17/18).

CLOSING THE LEAK: KEEPING LATE-DECIDING STUDENTS IN THE PIPELINE TO BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CAREERS.

With the increased competitiveness of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs, the continuously accelerating rate of technological innovation and development of new global means of communication, and the evolving face of the local, national, and global job markets, choosing a long-term career has become a challenge for many. More and more students opt to take a gap period in their education, pre- or post-college, for soul searching to determine their future path or for improving their skills and competitiveness for successfully applying to academic institutions. Even though such gap years can lead to more mature and determined students, they often derail the educational path of the individual by leading to loss of interest or to new commitments which hinder going back to school. Engaging students in academic and skills training programs that keep them within the academic environment and provide them with exposure to the benefits of higher education has been shown to increase their persistence, leading to an increased rate of attaining higher-level degrees. A number of United States (US) federal funding agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have programs such as the Bridges to Baccalaureate Program (support for easing a student's transition from a 2-year junior or community college to a 4-year baccalaureate-granting institution) and Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP, support for recent college graduates from underrepresented groups or disadvantaged backgrounds to strengthen their research skills and academic competitiveness for pursuing a doctorate degree in the Biomedical Sciences). At Xavier University of Louisiana (Xavier), we have developed a post-baccalaureate technician program under Project Pathways (the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD)-funded Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Program), that provides research experience and training in soft skills to recent Xavier graduates to increase their preparation and competitiveness for graduate programs. The BUILD Technicians also receive both mentee and mentor training and serve as near-peer mentors to undergraduate students in their labs, increasing their scientific identity and preparing them for their future role as graduate teaching assistants. Here, we report the lessons learned from this program and how its differences from other post-baccalaureate programs, including those under the NIH PREP umbrella, have led to improved outcomes for Xavier graduates gaining admission to graduate programs in the Biomedical Sciences.

An overview of handheld sun photometer measurements of atmospheric aerosols in New Orleans, Louisiana: A case study of the Xavier university study site

Aerosol optical depth (AOT) was measured at Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA, 29.96° N, 90.11° W and 3m above sea level) using a GLOBE handheld sun photometer. The measurements were done at two different wavelengths, 505nm and 625nm. The measured values were used to extrapolate the AOT values for wavelengths 667nm, 551nm, 532nm and 490nm at the XULA site. The measured and calculated AOT values were then compared with values from the nearest AERONET station at Wave CIS site 6 (AERONET, 28.87° N, 90.48° W and 33m above sea level), which is 60 miles south of XULA. In this study we tracked the annual and daily variations of AOT for a 12-month period from September 2017 to August 2018. These data show good qualitative agreement between the two stations in the 12-month period. Both sets of data show distinct peaks in February and May. Both sets of data show low AOT values in the winter months and high AOT values in the summer months. The hourly AOT variations averaged over the 12-month period was also investigated for the XULA site. The data show two peaks, one at 9:00 am and another at 3:00pm. We also compared AOT data from two independently calibrated GLOBE sun photometers at the XULA site. The data show that the two instruments are in excellent agreement. The R-squared value for the 505nm channel is 0.92 and the R-squared value for the 625nm channel is 0.95.

Measurement of Aerosols Optical Thickness of the Atmosphere using the GLOBE Handheld Sun Photometer.

Here, we describe the measurement of aerosol optical thickness using the GLOBE handheld sun photometer. Aerosol optical thickness (AOT) was measured at Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA, 29.96° N, 90.11° W and 3 m above sea level). The measurements were done at two different wavelengths, 505 nm and 625 nm. AOT measurements were done 6 times a day (7 AM, 9 AM, 11 AM, solar noon, 3 PM and 5 PM). The data shown in this paper are the monthly average AOT values taken at solar noon. During each measurement time; at least five values of the sunlight voltage V and the dark voltage Vdark are taken for each channel. The mean for these five measurements is taken as the average for that measurement time. Other meteorological data such as temperature, surface pressure, rainfall and relative humidity are also measured at the same time. The whole protocol is completed within a time span of 10-15 min. The measured AOT values at 505 nm and 625 nm are then used to extrapolate the AOT values for wavelengths 667 nm, 551 nm, 532 nm and 490 nm. The measured and extrapolated AOT values were then compared with values from the nearest AERONET station at Wave CIS site 6 (AERONET, 28.87° N, 90.48° W and 33 m above sea level), which is about 96 km south of XULA. In this study we tracked the annual and daily variations of AOT for a 12 month period from September 2017 to August 2018. We also compared AOT data from two independently calibrated GLOBE handheld sun photometers at the XULA site. The data show that the two instruments are in excellent agreement.

All for One And One for All: Coordinating the Resources of Individual Student Research Training Initiatives in Biomedical Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Xavier University of Louisiana has a national reputation for producing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates who go on to obtain MD and PhD degrees. According to a 2013 National Science Foundation report, Xavier is ranked first in producing African American graduates who go on to receive life sciences PhD degrees, fifth in the nation in producing African American graduates who go on to receive science and engineering PhD degrees, and seventh in producing African American graduates who go on to receive physical sciences PhD degrees. Xavier is currently third among the nation's colleges and universities in the number of African American graduates enrolled in medical school, according to data compiled by the Association of American Medical Colleges, and ranked first in the number of African American alumni who successfully complete their medical degrees. The success of Xavier's graduates is due to a combination of university-based student support initiatives and externally funded programs, in particular, the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD), Maximizing Access to Biomedical Research Careers (MARC) U*STAR, and Research Initiative in Scientific Enhancement (RISE) programs. These three programs, funded by the Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD) Division at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), offer select trainees undergraduate research opportunities, support mechanisms, and a variety of activities designed to improve their potential for success in graduate school. The BUILD, MARC U*STAR, and RISE programs work closely together and with the University to leverage the resources provided by each in order to provide the best experience possible for their students with a minimum of redundancy of effort. This chapter focuses on the program components and how the programs work together.

Interstate 49 Connector: Urban and Sustainable Design

The Interstate 49 Connector project is an approximate 5.5-mile segment of limited access, highway development plan needed for continuous access between an interstate route and a Federal- Aid highway system. The project is part of a proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) highway that will connect Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. At present, I-49 transitions into a four-lane highway with little control access. Connecting Interstate 10 and Highway 90 into a continuous arterial will link two economically beneficial interstate routes, and concurrently provide citizens of southern Louisiana with a safe, emergency evacuation route. In 2014, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Community Design Workshop (CDW) was contracted to work with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD)/Lafayette Connector Partners (LCP) Team to address the proposed I-49 Connector project in Lafayette, Louisiana. Acting as a think tank to the consultant planning firms, the CDW provided support at community group-work meetings, public meetings and used the studio for uncovering and exploring issues of Urban Design and Sustainable Design. During the past four years, the CDW has run eight graduate studios to study two primary areas designated as the Northern Entry Gateway into the city and the Core Area around the downtown and traditional neighborhoods. Each area, taken from an urban, contextual perspective and environmental perspective, has its own unique character and physical makeup.

The pedagogy of design and technology at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans

Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) is a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. As an Historically Black University (HBCU), the university serves a diverse community of students in which many are first generation college graduates. Students enrolled in Design courses at XULA are studying in Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Art programs and majoring in subjects such as Computer Science, Physics, Mass Communication, Art, Business, and Science. The interdisciplinary student environment offers a unique opportunity for collaboration and peer learning, whereby students are able to share diverse perspectives on a topic by relating design processes to their fields of study. In laboratory practice, students work on independent and collaborative projects in Product Design and User Experience by developing work through a design process from ideation to production.

American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh by Wilson D. Miscamble

Reviewed by: American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh by Wilson D. Miscamble James L. Heft SM American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh. By Wilson D. Miscamble, CSC. New York: Image Books, 2019. 464 pp. $28.00. The dramatic changes in Catholic higher education in the United States since the early 1960s generate fascinating case studies for researchers interested in understanding how Catholic tradition has been understood, changed, and debated within a particular institutional setting—the Catholic university. Except for Norman Francis, the president from 1967 to 2014 of Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically black and Catholic university, no Catholic university president had to navigate these turbulent waters of change for as long as Father Theodore M. Hesburgh did, the president of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana from 1952 to 1987. Father Wilson D. Miscamble, a historian and also, like Hesburgh, a member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, assumed the formidable task of chronicling and evaluating Hesburgh’s leadership during those thirty-five years and beyond, until Hesburgh died on February 26, 2015, at the age of 96. Miscamble divides his book into two parts, one ad intra and the other ad extra: the first part focusing on the impact of Hesburgh’s leadership at Notre Dame, and the second on Hesburgh’s relationship with U.S. presidents and popes. As a historian of American foreign policy since World War II and of the role of American Catholics in twentieth-century public life, Miscamble is especially well-positioned to explore Hesburgh’s interactions with U.S. presidents. For those of us who have lived through these decades, this section of Miscamble’s book evokes vivid memories; for those who are younger, they will be highly informative. Miscamble is most at home writing about corridors of political power in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century. Miscamble recognizes that Hesburgh was a dynamic and influential leader, committed to raising the academic quality of Notre Dame and to serving the country he loved. Yet, he describes Hesburgh’s legacy as [End Page 85] conflicted. Joining the liberal forces in the church when he dissented publicly over Humanae Vitae published in 1968, Hesburgh argued for greater reform in the church. His service on presidential task forces to end poverty and racism, and to promote nuclear disarmament and scientific research, further cemented his reputation as a liberal. Miscamble believes that Hesburgh became so enmeshed in the liberal elite establishment that he was unable to interpret the “signs of the times” correctly. Miscamble concludes: [Hesburgh] never sufficiently grasped, as did Pope John Paul II, how the individualism, utilitarianism, and secularism of later modernity represented such a threat to his religion. Nor did he grasp how some of the very liberal elites who lionized him bore a deep-seated hostility to the faithful living out of religious principles” (376). For Miscamble, the 1967 Land O’Lakes Statement was a “declaration of independence” of the Catholic university away from “formal ecclesiastical control” (92). Miscamble never explains what “formal ecclesiastical control” should look like. He believes that its authors, Hesburgh leading them, defended an ill-conceived demand for academic freedom which functioned “without any restraints” (102). Institutional autonomy and academic freedom, however, are complex issues that require more careful analysis than Miscamble gives them. Miscamble never acknowledges that three years after Hesburgh stepped down as Notre Dame’s president, Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, actually affirmed as essential for a Catholic university both institutional autonomy and academic freedom (with appropriate qualifications). Except for the expectation that theologians request a mandatum from the local bishop to indicate that they are authentic Catholic theologians, Ex Corde did not in fact require any formal ecclesiastical control. Miscamble’s critique of Hesburgh gets personal. He thinks Hesburgh craved the approval of “liberal elites,” both in the secular academy and in government. Beyond just listing Hesburgh’s numerous prestigious awards from prestigious universities and his service to many presidents of the United States, Miscamble judges that Hesburgh “relished...

Maximizing Mentoring: Enhancing the Impact of Mentoring Programs and Initiatives Through the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development at Xavier University of Louisiana.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development (CAT+FD) at Xavier University of Louisiana (Xavier) is the stage for a unique model for multiple levels of mentor training and mentoring. The model is made up of four essential components that are necessary to enhance the outcomes of any mentoring initiatives. First, the Institution must be committed to supporting mentoring intitiatives with institutional resources and maintaining a culture that promotes the importance of mentoring for institutional success. Second, mentoring efforts must be directed through a trusted institutional unit that has earned the respect and buy-in of the institutional community. Well-trained people who are committed to developing expertise in effectively administering mentoring initiatives make up the third element of this model. The model is complete with the addition of evidence-based mentoring practices, initiatives and programs that provide the institutional community with resources, training and support for their mentoring. At Xavier, the mentoring culture that was established at the institution's founding has been formalized through a variety of initiatives targeting students, faculty and staff. These initiatives are administered from CAT+FD, a center with a 25-year history at Xavier and a campus reputation of expertise, excellence and trustworthiness. The work of two CAT+FD staff members, the STEM Educational Improvement Specialist (EIS) and the Faculty-in-Residence for New Faculty (FIR), is described in this chapter. The EIS directs a variety of mentoring initiatives focused on students, faculty and staff, while the mentoring initiatives overseen by the FIR are specifically geared towards supporting new faculty.

Synthesis of 2,2’-Bipyridine Via a Phosphorus Extrusion Reaction

The formation of carbon-carbon bonds has long been a synthetic goal for chemists. This has lead to the development of many novel and highly synthetically useful reactions. One of the most notable reactions to form sp2 C - sp2 C bonds has been the cross-coupling reaction.1 Although these transformations have been very well studied and have recently produced a Nobel Prize, these transformations suffer from two drawbacks.1 First, they often require expensive and exotic transition metal complexes and second, the reaction conditions often require inert or anhydrous conditions.1 Therefore, any reactions which can substitute these reactions that do not require expensive metals or can be run under less sensitive conditions are in great demand. Our research group in conjunction with the Wicker group at Southeastern Louisiana University has developed a phosphonium species that we are exploring as a novel precursor for the formation of 2,2’-bipyridine and its derivatives. 2,2’-bipyridines and their derivatives are of increasing interest to the chemistry community due to their unique properties as ligands.2 However, the majority of syntheses of these species rely on the use of cross coupling reactions to form unsymmetrically substituted bipyridine species. Our protocol, once optimized, will allow us to form these species without the use of cross-coupling reactions.

Couldn’t Have a Wedding without the Fiddler: The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island

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Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good

Book Review| October 01 2018 Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good. By William Cheng. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-472-05325-4. Paper. Pp. xix, 160. $24.95. Everette Scott Smith Everette Scott Smith Southeastern Louisiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2018) 36 (3): 394–397. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.3.0394 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Everette Scott Smith; Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good. American Music 1 January 2018; 36 (3): 394–397. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.3.0394 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.