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Switch hitter
Despite move to Democrats, Specter likely to vote outside the fold
April 28,
2009 --
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter's decision to switch his allegiance to the Democratic Party will likely raise further questions about the Republican Party's ability to appeal to moderate voters, but Democrats should realize that Specter will remain fairly independent in his voting on key issues, including ongoing opposition to pro-union "card check" provisions, suggests Steven S. Smith, a congressional expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Broadening social science's scope
Social Thought & Analysis finds new home in American Culture Studies
Aug. 29,
2006 -- Social Thought & Analysis (STA), an interdisciplinary degree program in Arts & Sciences, has moved to American Culture Studies, according to Henry L. "Roddy" Roediger III, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and dean of academic planning in Arts & Sciences.
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Highly competitive fellowship program
Washington University's John Bowen one of 16 nationwide selected a Carnegie Scholar
Nov. 11,
2005 -- John R. Bowen, Ph.D., the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a 2005 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corp. of New York. Bowen, who also is chair and professor of Social Thought and Analysis in Arts & Sciences, is one of 16 scholars nationwide selected in this highly competitive fellowship program.
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Warning shot fired
Democrats' closing of Senate session offers taste of tactics for battling Supreme Court nomination
Nov. 2,
2005 --
By invoking a little known procedural rule to force a closed session of the Senate on Tuesday, Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid put Republicans on notice that Democrats are prepared to use similar tactics, such as the filibuster, in pending Supreme Court nomination battles, suggests WUSTL congressional expert Steven Smith. Reid's move "was a shot across the bow," says Smith.
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Fettering filibusters
Republican threats of "nuclear option" put United States at brink of parliamentary war, suggests congressional expert Steven Smith
Feb. 2,
2005 --
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is playing with fire when he suggests that Republicans will deploy the so-called "go nuclear" option to prevent Democrats from using filibusters to block controversial judicial nominations expected to reach the floor in mid-to-late February, says congressional expert Steven S. Smith.
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Tsunami relief
Aceh province can rebuild, but United States needs to assist volunteer groups, says Indonesian expert
Feb. 2,
2005 --
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| John Bowen doing fieldwork in Sumatra, Indonesia, in the late 1970s. |
Despite suffering large loss of life and devastation of cities and villages from the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami, Aceh province in Indonesia can rebuild. And at the same time, the United States can burnish its image among Indonesians — tarnished over the invasion of Iraq — by supporting Indonesian volunteer groups in the rebuilding process, says a sociocultural anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis who lived in Aceh for five years and has studied its people and culture since 1978.
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Addressing important social issues
School of Social Work spring lecture series begins with Melvin Oliver Feb. 7
Jan. 20,
2005 --
The George Warren Brown School of Social Work's spring lecture series addresses a broad spectrum of issues from elder care to the future of social policy. The series will kick off Feb. 7 with a lecture by Melvin Oliver, Ph.D., titled "Can We Preserve the Progressive Soul of Asset-Based Social Policy?" Oliver is a professor of sociology and dean of social sciences in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. All lectures will be held at noon in Brown Hall, Room 124.
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St. Louis and beyond
Inequalities in schools and neighborhoods focus of daylong conference Feb. 27
Feb. 18,
2004 -- Social inequalities in schools and neighborhoods will be addressed by leading national scholars as well as prominent local scholars, experts and activists during a daylong conference Feb. 27 at Washington University. WUSTL's Program in Social Thought & Analysis (STA) in Arts & Sciences is sponsoring the conference, titled "Inequalities in Schools & Neighborhoods: St. Louis and Beyond."
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