Saint Joseph Seminary College

Consequences are presented from flume experiments regarding bed scour at rock vanes and bendway weirs constructed of loose rock placed on sand bed channels. The experiments involved three flow discharges adjusted to replicate approximately the rising limb of a hydrograph and two bed-material sizes (a medium sand and a very coarse sand) subject to live-bed and clearwater scour. Observations show that these structures shortened due to rock dislodgement triggered by relatively modest contraction scour, which undermined the toe of the crest tip of these loose rock structures, causing the tips to become geotechnically unstable. Additionally, flow dislodgment of rock destabilized by tip slope failure further shortened the crest length of these structures and decreased tip slope. Displaced rock partially armored the scour zone and, thereby, affected scour depth and thalweg development. The experiments illustrated thalweg development as flow rate increased. Design dimensions are given for rock vanes and bendway weirs.

The religious architecture of the 20th century is a field relatively little addressed in recent architectural historiography, particularly in Brazil. Evidently, there is a wide, indepth and consecrated bibliography about churches from the colonial period, with emphasis on the Baroque Mineiro; in addition to the Jesuit missions of the South, the baroque and neoclassical churches of Rio, Bahia, Belm and the interior of So Paulo.

The terms "experiential learning" and "learning communities" both appear on current lists of high impact practices in higher education. But while internships have consistently been the subject of pedagogical study over the past fifty years, the study of learning communities, after an initial flurry of activity in the 1990s, declined precipitously. With our institution's Washington D.C. Summer Study Program as its focus, this study proposes to use qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze the quality of students internship experiences, asking the question How does an internship completed within a learning community increase a student experiential learning and subsequent civic engagement? We also hope, through focus groups, to better understand the underlying causal process between the students experiences and their subsequent civic engagement and long-term career success.

Sovereignty provides the legal basis for tribal casinos in the United States. However, since the industry’s rapid growth (valued at $34 billion for 2019), courts are now revisiting decades-old precedents in federal Indian law to reinterpret policies in ways that add new constraints to tribal sovereignty. Because tribal casinos often employ large numbers of non-Native Americans, tribal casino labor relations have become a new arena for contests over the boundaries of tribal sovereignty. This article investigates recent tribal casino labor relations court rulings (e.g. Little River, Soaring Eagle, and Pauma) through the lens of settler colonialism in order to understand new revisions to legal precedents. It argues that settler colonialism continues to underlie federal policies and that the growth of tribal casinos reveal that the federal government may intervene to undercut tribal sovereignty.