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Connect with Faculty: ESPERANTO: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the International Language
No full textConnect with CSU Faculty, A Friends of the Library Series
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
11:30 am – 12:30 p.m.
Featuring Jeremy Genovese, PhD
Emeritus Associate Professor of Human Development and Educational Psychology
Presenting ESPERANTO: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the International Language
Location: Michael Schwartz Library Connection Lounge ((1st floor, near front desk)
The constructed language Esperanto was invented in 1887 to facilitate international communication and understanding. Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn with phonetic pronunciation and a simple, consistent grammar. The Esperanto movement grew rapidly but suffered a severe setback in the run up to the Second World War. The language was specifically condemned by Hitler. Stalin labeled it “the language of spies.” In recent decades, Esperanto has regained ground with the rise of the internet. Today the Esperanto movement is a growing transnational community of speakers who regularly communicate either virtually or in person.
This is a free event open to the campus community and the Friends of the Library
Amicus Briefs, Retired Senior Military Officers, and the Judiciary: A Unique Friend of the Court, in the Constitutional Construct of Civil and Military Relations
Full text linkMilitary organizations, and particular, small groups of retired flag officers (generals and admirals) have increasingly filed amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeal. Most prominent among these are the “Becton Brief,” a group of largely Vietnam Veterans who were concerned that the Court would end any ability of the higher education system to consider race in admissions. Named after Julius Becton, a retired Army general, Vietnam Veteran, and former FEMA director, the brief’s signatories included General Norman Schwarzkopf and Admiral William Crowe, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The brief had an impact on the Court’s shaping of Grutter v. Bollinger and since that time, other retired flag officers have tried to similarly shape judicial decisions through the “friend of the court” process. This past year, there were four amicus briefs in two significant decisions, Trump v. United States and Students for Fair Admissions Inc., v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
The quality of the four briefs, however, is marginal at best. The amici in all four of these instances are different than every other amicus signatory in two fundamental ways which gives rise to the need to analyze the dynamic of senior retired officers filing amicus briefs. First, when these amici argue that a constitutional or legal decision will have national security considerations, they have a practically unrivalled gravitas to do so. Secondly, they remain a part of the military establishment and are subject to presidential orders. This article does not argue for an end to the retired flag officer amicus brief and indeed, is premised on the argument that participation in the nation’s political and legal processes is an important right. After all, retired military amicus briefs can, in theory, prevent the misuse of “national security” by the government to argue a position on presidential authority. The article is based on the argument that the unscholarly nature and often skirting of history and law in the briefs is neither helpful to the courts or the status of the military and there should be a demand for amicus briefs with scholarly integrity to them
Cracking the Façade: Analyzing Ohio\u27s Don\u27t Say Gay Legislation as Disguised Discrimination Under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
No full textThe Ohio State Legislature is among the growing nationwide trend in attacking LGBTQ+ rights. Chief among these is Ohio House Bill 8, which claims to limit the types of content children encounter in schools. While the drafters cite this noble intent, the bill\u27s actual impact further harms queer students and teachers, who already bear heavier mental health burdens due to such legislation and its societal implications. This type of legislation recently originated in Florida, where it was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis in 2022 and garnered national media attention. As Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a near-identical bill in January 2025, the outcomes observed in Florida inform the constitutional analyses for the Ohio constituency. As in Florida, Ohio’s bill is left intentionally vague, banning “gender ideology” and “sexual concepts” in classrooms or constraining them to what is deemed age-appropriate without providing sufficient guidelines for what may be acceptable. The disparate impact of this legislation is rooted entirely in gender classifications, triggering intermediate scrutiny. The bill’s ambiguity creates a chilling effect on students’ First Amendment rights by restricting the ability to express gender non-conformity without the school disclosing such changes to their families, disregarding the child’s safety, and limiting the type of instruction children may receive in the classroom. Consequently, this compels schools to treat LGBTQ+ students and age-appropriate content differently from their heteronormative counterparts, inherently relegating those with queer identities as second-class citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process clauses
Keynote Session: Learning to Dream Again: Finding Solace in Unimaginable Futures
No full textAre we living in the futures that we once dreamed? Our classrooms, campuses, departments, colleagues, and workloads may be far from what we had expected — where the weight of change, uncertainty, and exhaustion is hard to bear alone. In this climate, it can be easy to overlook the small pockets of good, the quiet gestures of care, and the steady returns of showing up everyday. This is the quiet hum behind the cacophony of chaos.
This keynote is an invitation to slow down, take notice, and light the embers of possibility. We’ll reflect on the everyday practices that keep communities strong, the trust that makes real learning possible, and the power of staying connected—especially when the way forward isn’t clear. Rather than focusing on what brought us here and why, we’ll focus on where we can go next, even when we can’t quite imagine what comes next
HistoDX: Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Diagnosis Through Advanced Imaging Techniques
Full text linkBreast cancer is the second leading cause of mortality among women worldwide, highlighting the need for efficient histopathology-based screening methods for early diagnosis. This study introduces HistoDX, a deep learning framework to classify Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) using 277,524 histopathology image patches (50x50 pixels) from Paul Mooney’s IDC dataset on Kaggle, comprising No Cancer and IDC(+) classes. HistoDX employs a preprocessing pipeline with normalization, data augmentation, and class balancing via oversampling and weighted loss to address the class imbalance. A customized convolutional neural network, built on EfficientNetV2-B3 with additional layers, achieves 97% accuracy and a 0.91 ROC-AUC score on the test set. Validation on BreakHis (97% accuracy) and BACH (90% accuracy) datasets confirm generalizability, though detecting minority IDC(+) cases remains challenging. Low training and test losses underscore reliability. HistoDX empowers pathologists by enhancing diagnostic efficiency and minimizing subjectivity through effective class imbalance mitigation. Its robust performance across diverse datasets like BreakHis and BACH suggests readiness for clinical integration. Future research into advanced augmentation techniques, ensemble models, and whole-slide image analysis could further optimize accuracy, sensitivity, and scalability, paving the way for broader adoption in precision oncology
Waterfront Mapping Tool: Connecting the Development Dots
Full text linkThe Center for Economic Development, in collaboration with the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP), the City of Cleveland, Cleveland Metroparks, and Cuyahoga County, are excited to announce the launch of the “Waterfront Mapping Tool, Connecting the Development Dots”.
This is an interactive ArcGIS Online tool that tracks ongoing and completed economic, real estate and mobility projects along Cleveland\u27s lakefront and the Cuyahoga River, providing up-to-date information on project costs, timelines, and development phases. The intended goal is for the tool to serve as a comprehensive resource for planners and stakeholders, offering a clear picture of the waterfront’s transformation
Articulating Alternatives to the Anti-Politics of Blue Growth
No full textThis viewpoint article presents a critique of and response to the discourse of blue growth. First, we analyze the underlying logics of blue growth discourse through the lens of concepts from three key thinkers in development studies: James Ferguson, Kasia Paprocki, and James Scott. We draw on Ferguson’s concept of ‘anti-politics’, Paprocki’s concept of ‘anticipatory ruination’, and Scott’s insights on how high modernist ideology and the administrative ordering of nature and society are used as state-crafting tools, and show how similar processes play a role in assembling blue growth, using examples. Second, we explore an emergent counternarrative to blue growth - blue justice - and two bodies of thought and practice that provide complementary perspectives: ‘riverhood’, which we recast as oceanhood, and ‘rights of nature’. We contend that oceanhood and rights of nature can complement and extend prior blue justice critiques of, and reactions to, blue growth
“A Wonderful World?”: C&S’s Georgia Plan, Urban Renewal, and Historic Preservation in Savannah, Augusta, and Macon
No full textTrevelle Harp interview, 09 September 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, community organizer Mr. Trevelle Harp discusses his life in East Cleveland. He describes the contrasts between the vibrant community he remembered from childhood and the disinvestment he encountered in his college years. Harp explains his transition from a technical career to community organizing and outlines his work with the Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope, including campaigns addressing vacant properties and partnerships with internal and external organizations. He also reflects on efforts to improve Patterson Park, community engagement around the Huron Hospital closure, and broader initiatives related to resident leadership