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Where in the World is the Black Educator? Teacher Shortage as Manufactured Crisis
Get PDFThis exploration of “teacher shortage as manufactured crisis” uses five narratives from the archives that have arisen from one Midwestern (but still, decidedly, Border South) urban center: the St. Louis, Missouri, region. These narratives are an attempt to tap into Sankofa while looking toward a more just and equitable futur
LMDA New and Noteworthy, October 2020
Get PDFContents include: Dismantling Anti-Black Linguistic Racism in Shakespeare: A Field Guide; 2020 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive; New Directions in Dramaturgy@Calshakes; Dramaturgy the Phoenix; ATHE 2021 // Austin, TX; Upcoming Regional Events; Region Facebook Groups.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1062/thumbnail.jp
LMDA New and Noteworthy, September 2020
Get PDFContents include: Letters from the President/Past-President; Awards and Grants 2020 Recipients; Review; Dramaturgy the Phoenix; Upcoming Regional Events; Region Facebook Groups.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1063/thumbnail.jp
LMDA New & Noteworthy, May 2020
Get PDFContents include: #LMDA2020 // Conference Countdown; Managing Life and Work in the Time of COVID-19: Thoughts from the LMDA Executive Committee; The Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive: Learn from the best. Work with the best; Regional Events; Your Dramaturgy Ad Here; Pandemic Response: Resources for Artists in the U.S. and Canada (link).https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1033/thumbnail.jp
Replacement Policies in Semantic Database Caching
Get PDFEfficient data management is vital any organization that access databases. Because computers’ hard drives are slow, the more data that is stored, the longer it takes to access useful information. To improve the speed of data retrieval, caching is technique that can be used to store frequently-used results in fast levels of computer memory. By storing query results in a cache, we can narrow the search of future database queries and improve the speed of similar queries. However, most systems are not able to reserve large chunks of memory for this cache storage. A cache replacement algorithm can limit and control the amount of memory the cache consumes by determining which cache entries to remove in order to make space for new entries. This research finds the most efficient replacement policy for our cache that provides an acceleration to database queries without requiring an exorbitant amount of memory
Comet
Get PDFComet was born from the author\u27s Fulbright year living and walking in South Africa in the first year of President Nelson Mandela\u27s term in office. The poem takes on race from the uncomfortable perspective of a Jewish, working class, white woman
Disorientation : Its Theoretical Underpinnings and Its Political Potential at the University of Puget Sound
Get PDFFor over half a century, student activists have been developing publications called ‘Disorientation Guides’ as a means for challenging the prevailing image of the University as a center for progressive education. Among countless other things, the guides provide a material and ideological critique of the University and seek to elevate the autonomy and power of the student body. They also serve as a useful resource for preserving institutional memory in order to illuminate the consistences in activist histories and student resistance movements. Future students can thus become informed, in their efforts to affect change and confront the University at systemic and institutional levels, by the University’s historical injustices.
This capstone project, a three-part podcast, features interviews with Rachel Greiner and Skylar Bihl that illuminate the blistering potential for Disorientation work at the University of Puget Sound. The project takes as its theoretical basis both the academic field of Critical University Studies and historical instances of student resistance to the University, and contends that the impetus for creating a Disorientation Guide is derived in equal measure from a profound sense of disillusionment and disenfranchisement inherent to being a student and also from a sincere yearning for democratic alternatives to the present and a reimagining of fundamental social and political conditions
LMDA New and Noteworthy, November 2020
Get PDFContents include:W ithout Borders: Dramaturgy in the New Decade; The Making of UNTITLED: A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY ABOUT SERIOUS DRAMA An adventure in dramaturgical partnership; (Don\u27t) Stop the Press, or Publishing In The Pause; Upcoming Regional Events.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1061/thumbnail.jp
Unclaimed and Unknown: Examining Hart Island
Get PDFSince the American Civil War, Hart Island, New York has been a site of mass burials. With over 1 million bodies buried on the island, it is the largest potter’s field in the United States. By examining memorialization, grievability, and social death, Hart Island can be understood as an example of how each of these concepts affect human lives, and human deaths
Solitary Confinement and Intersubjectivity: Social Liminality in Prison
Get PDFThis paper focuses on the practice of solitary confinement in the United States carceral system, applying the theoretical lenses of Lisa Guenther and Victor Turner. Aligning firsthand accounts of those who have undergone solitary confinement as primary source material with these theoretical frames, the paper ultimately argues that the experience of solitary confinement functions as a site of social liminality, which produces an effect of both physical and structural invisibility. The end result is an intensive form of state-sanctioned social death