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The Washington Post recently featured Assistant Professor of Politics and Government David Weiden’s new book, Sorcerers’ Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court. In the book, published by NYU Press, Weiden and his co-author Artemus Ward examine the question, “Do clerks make actual decisions, which are then imparted to justices, or are clerks only research assistants, carrying out the instructions of the decision makers, the justices?” Weiden and Ward then reveal the unique relationship between clerk and justice as sometimes being more than just informational. The book’s provocative hypothesis is that Supreme Court clerks have not only written judicial opinions, but have also made significant decisions about cases. “Based on judicial working papers and extensive interviews, the authors have compiled the most complete picture to date of the transformation of Supreme Court law clerks from stenographers to ghost-writers,” said Dennis J. Hutchinson, editor of The Supreme Court Review.
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Technical Writing student
Anthony De Stephano with
Expand Your Horizons participants | Students in Dr. Lee Brasseur's technical writing courses recently developed take-home instructions for one hundred fifth to eighth grade girls who attended the annual Illinois State University Expanding Your Horizons conference on March 25 at the Bone Student Center. The girls, who came from different parts of the state, attended the annual conference to learn about topics and careers in math, science, and technology. Expanding Your Horizons started sixteen years ago at Illinois State in response to the lack of women entering higher education programs and careers in such fields as the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. For Dr. Brasseur’s students, this conference presented an opportunity to reach out to the community, something they gladly embraced.
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There are now two great reasons for staying in Bloomington/Normal this summer: expanded summer school courses and The National Women’s Music Festival, which will be held on the Illinois State University campus on July 6-9, 2006. The event is the oldest running women’s festival in North America, which attracts approximately 3,000 attendees annually. The festival features twenty to thirty musical artists—almost all of which are women performers or women-fronted bands—from all musical genres who will perform on three to four stages. In addition to music, the festival features theatre performances, dances, drum circles, workshops, and vendors from all over the country. The National Women’s Music Festival’s first home was at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1974. Since then it has been hosted at the Indiana University and Ball State University. The event is produced by the non-profit organization Women In the Arts, Inc. and should be a major summer happening on the Illinois State campus.
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A group of men, students in instructor Jodi Hallsten’s Communication 223 Small Group Processes class, organized and led a walk around the University Quad on Friday, April 7, to raise awareness about violence against women. In addition to the walk, the men handed out white ribbons on the Quad throughout the week. The ribbons signify men’s commitment to ending violence against women.
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| TV-10 | A new television show produced by Illinois State University’s student-run TV-10 and Extended University will highlight upcoming campus events and campus-based outreach activities that benefit the local community. The show “College & Main” airs on Mondays at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. following the TV-10 newscast on Insight Cable Channel 20. Each half-hour installment of “College & Main” features interview segments that promote performing arts events, public lectures, recreation activities, fundraisers, conferences, and other University outreach events. The program seeks to encourage campus and community participation in University events.
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| Dr.Gardenia Harris |
African-American women are 23 times more likely than white women to be diganosed with AIDS. Why? That is just one question Gardenia Harris, Assistant Professor of Social Work, is attempting to answer. In a research project entitled “Risk for HIV among Middle-Age African American Women,” Harris and her collaborators are exploring risk-taking behavior of and preventative practices for middle-age African American women with respect to potential HIV infection. “This is an important area of study,” said Harris. “We need to develop intervention in order to keep African American women from continuing to be over represented in this population.”
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