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CAS Honors Symposium Program, Fall 2023
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The Torch: Suffolk University College of Arts & Sciences Honors Program Newsletter, Spring 2023
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Reading Between the Lines of the IRA + IIJA Power Gaps
Full text linkTwo major pieces of legislation enacted during the Biden Administration – the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – devote hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to rapidly increase electrification throughout the United States. While this legislation provides substantial investment in infrastructure, it also demands action from different legal regulators. Renewable energy occupies a much larger land footprint than traditional electric power production. And land-use under the Tenth Amendment is within local and state, rather than federal, jurisdiction. To date, U.S. local land use regulation frustrates such national legislation. This article analyzes how these factors may impact the success of the IIJA and IRA
Suffolk Journal, vol.87, no. 6, 11/03/2023
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Suffolk Journal, vol.86, no. 13, 3/2/2023
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Singling Out Single-Family Zoning
Full text linkSingle-family zoning is increasingly under attack in both the popular press and scholarly journals. Critics highlight how zoning districts that allow only detached, single-family homes exacerbate racial and economic segregation and perpetuate wealth disparities. Although a few local and state legislatures have eased regulations to permit denser development in existing single-family neighborhoods, such neighborhoods remain the dominant component of American zoning. The power of local governments to impose zoning derives from the police power—traditionally understood as the power to legislate in furtherance of health, safety, and the public welfare. These traditional concerns seem to provide little justification for prohibiting duplexes and triplexes in single-family enclaves. Recognizing this, many early zoning proponents feared that courts would strike down exclusively single-family districts. They confronted criticism that such zoning was merely aesthetic in nature and any actual benefits it conferred were problematically limited to those wealthy enough to live in a single-family home.
This Article provides an intellectual and legal history of single-family zoning districts. While others have documented the history of zoning generally, the discrete justifications for single-family districts have not been closely examined. This Article explains how a number of prominent early supporters of zoning, through writings and speeches, formulated distinct arguments in defense of single-family districting and refined those arguments in the face of legal challenges. Supporters justified single-family zoning as one component of a comprehensive zoning regime grounded in careful consideration of a community’s existing needs and future demands. Because comprehensive zoning itself constituted a valid exercise of the police power, they argued, it rendered valid individual components, including single-family districts, that may not have been independently justified
An Overview of Sino-Indian Relations in the Last 15 Years
Full text linkIndia and China are emerging as two of the most powerful countries in the world, threatening the dominance that Western nations have known for so long in recent history. With a rich and dynamic history behind both of these nations, there are many geopolitical factors at play when analyzing the nature of their relationship. Previous media that is widespread in news and magazines have often painted one as a villain and the other as heroic, depending on its political stances. Through analysis of peer-reviewed journals, economic data from the respective governments and the Observatory of Economic Complexity, along with cross-sectional analysis of blogs and magazines, this paper will give a holistic analysis of the state of Sino-Indian relations in the past 15-year period
Beyond Standard Model: Electromagnetic Origin of Strong Interaction between Composite Structures Made of Basic Elementary ±e/3 Charges
Full text linkInteraction between spinning composite structures of quarks is considered. In simple variants of the quark structures, one basic elementary particle of charge of magnitude |e|/3 is on the axis of rotation and several basic particles of an opposite sign are revolving in the circular orbit about the axis. Each charge in the structure contributes to the electric field and electric potential around the structure. But only revolving basic particles contribute to the spin and to the magnetic moment of the structure. Equations for the axial electric field and the electric potential of each structure at points on its axis are derived. It is shown that with decreasing distance from a quark, the electric potential goes through zero and changes its polarity to the opposite. As a result, the interaction between oppositely charged up and down quarks changes from attractive at large distances between two different quarks to repulsing at some small distances between them. Hence, the electromagnetic interaction between an up quark and a down quark in a nucleon can switch between attraction and repulsion depending on the distance between the quarks. This is the type of behavior that is assumed in the Standard Model for the strong interaction between quarks, and we think the strong interaction is of electromagnetic origin
Syntax, Newsletter of the Suffolk University English Department, Issue 12, Fall 2023
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Innovation Resilience in Cities
Full text linkAchieving innovation has been a challenging task, as maintaining its momentum is akin to landing on the moon. What are the key ingredients that innovative cities need to possess to sustain their momentum, especially after experiencing economic setbacks?https://dc.suffolk.edu/ciclseries/1001/thumbnail.jp