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Prison Parts: The Theological-Ethical Problem of Using Prisoners as Living Organ Donors
Get PDFThis paper is a theological and ethical reflection of Massachusetts House Bill 2333, which would reduce prison sentences on the condition that state prisoners donate bone marrow or an organ. Looking specifically at agency and bodily integrity as the two facets of imago Dei that are implicated by House Bill 2333, I address the crucial question: Does House Bill 2333 distort the dignity of prisoners as imago Dei by incentivizing living prisoners to donate their body parts in exchange for freedom? Using Margaret A. Farley’s justice framework articulated in Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (2006), this paper: (1) argues that House Bill 2333 deforms the imago Dei of prisoners and the Christian concept of love of neighbor; and (2) proposes the Scandinavian Prison Model as a possible restoration of imago Dei and love of neighbor. House Bill 2333 objectifies prisoners, treating them as a means to address the organ shortage in Massachusetts, and raises various issues relating to ethics, morality, the body, and the law. However, the Scandinavian model, with its emphasis on freedom, bodily integrity, and relationality, promotes just love, treating prisoners as human persons and ends in themselves
A Break from the Past or A Link in the Chain?: The Republican Party from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump
Get PDFThe election of Donald Trump appeared to be a rejection of Republican orthodoxy. That someone who targeted the previous idols of Republican beliefs about free trade, protectionism, immigration, and welfare could have so completely won over the Republican voter base was notable. However, that Republican base had changed substantially since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Where white college graduates have traditionally voted more Republican, and those without a college degree were more Democratic in this era, this dynamic had switched by 2016. In this thesis, I ask two questions: First, how has the Republican Party changed its ideological and policy stances from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump? Second, to what extent have changes in the electorate driven this change? This paper will be a longitudinal study of the changing trends of the Republican Party through its platforms and help expand on the scholarship of how changes in the electorate impact policy stances. Is there a future for the cult of personality of the Republican Party post-Donald Trump
Radical Love: Embracing Connection and Dismantleing Shame
Get PDFIt is essential to maintain love, care, and connection in the face of oppressive systems. There needs to be a call for bravery to get through the challenges that many face, Costa Rica being one of them
Leading with Love
Get PDFThe travel experience to Costa Rica, how love is important in these travel experiences. Community is something to be thankful for, being able to learn to protect your communities
Introduction
Get PDFInside the introduction of Pure Vida: Reflections from Costa Rica , readers will find an illustration by Leyna Tran, “Meet the Team” section and a detailed table of contents, guiding readers through this edition
\u3cem\u3eOgletree v. Cleveland State University\u3c/em\u3e and the Future of Remote Learning
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic placed an unprecedented strain on schools. With students and teachers confined to their homes, school administrators were charged with the unenviable task of finding a way to restore some semblance of normalcy as quickly as possible. The solution was standing in plain sight: take an already existent technology and use it to connect educators to their students on a massive scale. The result: the virtual ubiquity of remote learning tools in schools and universities. But while remote learning software undoubtedly propped up the imperiled education sector, it did so at a cost. In requiring their students to embrace this technology, schools were effectively strongarming their pupils into forfeiting personal privacy in exchange for the privilege of staying in school. Leagues of students and pundits voiced their opposition to what they believed was an impermissibly coercive practice, but Aaron Ogletree, a student at Cleveland State University, went a step further. After his university required him to submit to a scan of his room before he could proceed with an exam, he sued the school in federal court for violating his Fourth Amendment rights. His claim was novel, but the court saw merit in it, agreeing that the university’s policy of conducting pre-exam room scans was an unreasonable search violative of the Fourth Amendment and ruling in Ogletree’s favor. Time will tell whether this shot across the bow to public universities that lean too heavily on remote proctoring technology is an aberration or the first of many judicial holdings of its kind. In the meantime, universities would be wise to learn from the mistakes of Cleveland State University, lest they, too, find themselves in the crosshairs of a disgruntled student with a preternatural awareness of his constitutional rights
Reflecting on Local Ecological Stewardship, Care, and Action across Two Decades of Research
Get PDFIn this perspective, we draw from 20 years of implementing the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP) to show how civic actors provide capacity and local knowledge needed for effective decision-making and implementation in the face of multiple interconnected stressors, including climate change and inequality. Urban areas are striving to achieve sustainability and resilience goals while advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. There is broad recognition that systematic change cannot be achieved via single sector solutions. Rather, just and equitable sustainability and resilience outcomes will be achieved through multi-sector, trans-disciplinary efforts led by diverse and inclusive partnerships. Processes of collaboration between groups and across sectors can foster trust and social cohesion to build adaptive environmental governance capacity. Hindering these outcomes is a lack of approaches for identifying civic groups and their networks, understanding their roles in the larger governance system, and harnessing their capacities systematically and at landscape scales. STEW-MAP was developed to address this gap in a natural resources management context and has been applied in 20 locations across the Americas. Synthesizing key insights for practitioners and researchers, we identify the critical role of civic organizations in collaborative, networked governance, while highlighting inequities that affect this stewardship work. We reflect on how stewardship mapping has been used as a decision-support, networking, and visualization tool and identify future research and practitioner directions that fully acknowledge the persistent role of civic groups in caring for the environment and enlivening democratic practice
Adjusting for Participation Bias in Case-Control Genetic Association Studies for Rare Diseases
No full textCollection of genotype data in case-control genetic association studies may often be incomplete for reasons related to genes themselves. This non-ignorable missingness structure, if not appropriately accounted for, can result in participation bias in association analyses. To deal with this issue, Chen et al. [7] proposed to collect additional genetic information from family members of individuals whose genotype data were not available, and developed a maximum likelihood method for bias correction. In this study, we develop an estimating equation approach to analyzing data collected from this design that allows adjustment of covariates. It jointly estimates odds ratio parameters for genetic association and missingness, where a logistic regression model is used to relate missingness to genotype and other covariates. Our method allows correlation between genotype and covariates while using genetic information from family members to provide information on the missing genotype data. In the estimating equation for genetic association parameters, we weight the contribution of each genotyped subject to the empirical likelihood score function by the inverse probability that the genotype data are available. We evaluate large and finite sample performance of our method via simulation studies and apply it to a family-based case-control study of breast cancer
Cat Hannula
No full textCat Hannula (she/her/hers) is the Social Sciences Librarian at Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where she is a member of the Research & Instruction team. Her research interests include student engagement in libraries, the first-year student experience, and trauma-informed librarianship.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/irdlconference-committee/1011/thumbnail.jp