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Sanctuary in the City of Brotherly Love: Probing the Effectiveness and Broader Implications of Philadelphia’s Sanctuary City Policies
Get PDFAmidst the already fraught politics of immigration, “sanctuary” policies, whereby state and local law enforcement agencies limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities to varying degrees, have emerged as a particularly contentious issue. This paper sifts past the political vitriol surrounding the issue of “sanctuary” and uses original survey research in Philadelphia to answer a straightforward question: Are these policies working? That is, are the city of Philadelphia’s sanctuary policies actually building trust between its undocumented residents and local law enforcement, thereby laying the groundwork for higher rates of crime reporting and safer communities? My results from a survey (with a telling embedded treatment effect experiment) of undocumented Philadelphians indicates that the city’s sanctuary policies are in fact serving their intended objectives. When coupled with the recent debates in the state legislature surrounding the issue of “sanctuary,” my results beg difficult questions regarding the development of American federalism and the proper division of authority between states and municipalities
Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development
No full textThe violence which colonialism brought into reality must not only be processed by those who suffered from it, but also by those who committed it. We claim that this process of becoming decolonial has two parts: Africans can engage in continued adseredition – derived from the Latin expression, reditio ad se, to come back to oneself – and the Western world has to desuperiorize its self-understanding and actions. To demonstrate this, this chapter juxtaposes two texts: the 1956 Congolese Manifesto of Conscience Africaine and, 2017 The New European Consensus on Development. The Manifesto exemplifies the African commitment to its own liberation, while the superioristic understanding of development permeates the neo-liberal solutions which the New Consensus offers. Philosophically speaking, development is a non-issue in its superiorist understanding for African philosophers. It is a philosophical issue solely because the Western world continues to impose itself on Africa. The author argues that for the West, it is time to write a Manifesto of the Western Conscience in which the West studies itself and initiates a new philosophical Enlightenment that would force its praxis to adhere to its moral theories and foster an Africa-centric approach to development
Faculty Meeting Minutes – September 2, 2021
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Faculty Meeting Minutes – September 9, 2021
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, September 9, 2021
Faculty Meeting Minutes - December 2, 2021
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, December 2nd, 2021
Interview with MichelleLynette Hughes, March 8, 2021
No full textMichelleLynette Hughes was interviewed on March 8, 2021, by Devin McKinney about her early life, her education at Gettysburg College, and her subsequent professional life.
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search
Interview with Donna Burke, January 15, 2021
No full textDonna Bourke was interviewed on January 15, 2021, by Devin McKinney about her early life, her education at Gettysburg College, and her subsequent professional life.
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search
Assessing and Mapping the Spatial-Temporal Change in Forest Phenology of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest using Moderate Resolution Satellite
No full textThis study focuses on coastal forests in Kenya that have some of the highest variety of flora and fauna, specifically Arabuko Sokoke Forest. Arabuko Sokoke Forest is located 110 miles north of Mombasa and 18 kilometers south of Malindi. This forest is known to be a worldwide biodiversity hotspot that is home to endemic and rare plants and animals. Within the Arabuko Sokoke Forest ecosystem, there are two main issues that challenge the conservation of the area. First, there has been more competition for land, primarily for agriculture and development. Second, there is an increase demand for forest resources due to the rise in population. Therefore, this study aims to assess the spatial-temporal change in forest phenology over time around Arabuko Sokoke from 2003-2020 using the remotely sensed Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) and ground information. The specific objectives are to map spatial-temporal changes in forest phenology over the last 18 years of Arabuko Sokoke Forest; and to analyze the change of vegetation condition in combination with ground experiences to understand pressure and drivers of changes in order to develop future policy actions to minimize the deterioration. Based on the problems posed in Arabuko Sokoke Forest, I hypothesized there will be an immense change in vegetation phenology in the last 18 years driven mostly by climatic changes in addition to anthropogenic pressures. MODIS images were used to map the environmental changes over 5 distinct seasons: annual, long dry season (DJFM), long rainy season (AMJJ), short dry season (AS) and short rainy season (ON) from 2003- 2020. The vegetation condition index (VCI) was mapped in QGIS to visually represent the trends of each season over 18 years. Many of the years were consistent in trends in terms of vegetation health. The years 2007, 2016, 2017, and 2020, there were significant VCI trends with either low or high VCI grades, different than the other years. 2016 and 2017 in across all 5 seasons appeared to have low VCI grades. However, 2007 was found to have high VCI grades in multiple seasons. Although there may have been anthropogenic impacts at play, it was found that temperature had the largest influence in terms of changing the VCI over time. Future research poses that there should be an investigation of the exact causes of these VCI trends that were mapped. For instance, were they influenced by anthropogenic impacts, limited precipitation, poor policies, climate change, the influence of disease and how biodiversity would be impacted based on these drivers
From Uneven Bars to Uneven Barriers: The Marginalization of Black Women in Gymnastics
Get PDFEspecially in sports that are societally regarded as feminine, such as gymnastics and figure skating, Eurocentric beauty standards are an unspoken feature of the game. Undergirded in ethnic disparities within gymnastics are financial and aesthetic barriers for black women, specifically. This essay will explore the sport of gymnastics as a case study to demonstrate the ways in which black women have historically been excluded from ‘feminine sports.’ I argue that black female gymnasts have been historically marginalized from mainstream gymnastics on the basis of finances and white conceptions of femininity, both two components crucial to success in the gymnastics realm
The Complex Relationship between Jews and African Americans in the Context of the Civil Rights Movement
Get PDFThe Civil Rights Movement occurred throughout a substantial portion of the twentieth century, dedicated to fighting for equal rights for African Americans through various forms of activism. The movement had a profound impact on a number of different communities in the United States and around the world as demonstrated by the continued international attention marked by recent iterations of the Black Lives Matter and ‘Never Again’ movements. One community that had a complex reaction to the movement, played a major role within it, and was impacted by it was the American Jewish community. The African American community and the Jewish community were bonded by a similar exclusion from mainstream American society and a historic empathetic connection that would carry on into the mid-20th century; however, beginning in the late 1960s, the partnership between the groups eventually faced challenges and began to dissolve, only to resurface again in the twenty-first century