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"This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling legislators to rigidly partisan voting blocs."
---Sam Popkin, University of California at San Diego
"No Middle Ground makes a significant contribution to the study of American parties and legislative politics."
---Matthew Green, Catholic University of America
Despite concerns about the debilitating effects of partisanship on democratic government, in recent years political parties have gained strength in state governments as well as in Washington. Whereas political machines of the past manipulated votes, today's machines determine which candidates can credibly compete in a primary.
Focusing on the history and politics of California, Seth E. Masket reveals how these machines evolved and how they stay in power by directing money, endorsements, and expertise to favored candidates, who often tend toward the ideological extreme. Masket argues that politicians are not inherently partisan. Instead, partisanship is thrust upon them by actors outside the government with the power to manipulate primary elections.
Seth E. Masket is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver.
For decades after its 1974 publication, David Mayhew's Congress: The Electoral Connection was considered the premier text for anyone wishing to understand how members of Congress behaved. The description was not a pretty one for anyone who believed in the value of party government. According to Mayhew, it was easiest to think of members of Congress as "single-minded seekers of reelection." Candidates, he found, didn't have much use for parties other than to help mobilize voters. Attention to party agendas didn't change much once politicians got into Congress, either. "To a remarkable degree," Mayhew noted, "members can successfully engage in electorally useful activities without denying other members the opportunity to successfully engage in them" (82). Why didn't members of Congress press a party agenda? Apparently, it was a matter of choice, and they chose not to. "American congressmen," Mayhew wrote, "could immediately and permanently array themselves in disciplined legions for the purpose of programmatic combat. They do not" (98). Any party battles that occurred were, for the most part, theater;members of Congress maintained strong friendships across party lines and hewed closely to the median voters in their districts. Reelection was far more important than the advancement of any ideological agenda.
Mayhew's descriptions were merely the most eloquent of an era of scholarship extending from the early 1950s to the early 1990s that depicted American politicians as nonideological poll-watchers, sticking closely to the median voter in their districts and avoiding any stances that would offend the general electorate. The beginnings of this period are marked by the American Political Science Association's report "Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System," which decried the lack of responsibility in the weak party system. "Alternatives between the parties are defined so badly," the authors claimed, "that it is often difficult to determine what the election has decided even in the broadest terms" (APSA 1950: 3-4). One of the last gasps of such depictions was Hill Rat, an entertaining tell-all from a former Capitol Hill staffer. As the author described congressional committee work, "You sit around a table and divide up the money. Anything that gets in the way of that process-philosophy, conscience, and so on-gets checked at the door" (Jackley 1992: 103).
The literature of this period generally describes a Congress full of ambitious, nonideological politicians. Interestingly, it closely charts an unusual period in congressional elections during which candidates actually tended, on average, to represent the median voter. An innovative study by Ansolabehere, Snyder, and Stewart (2001) demonstrated that, at least since the mid-nineteenth century, candidates for Congress have deviated strongly from their districts' median voters, stubbornly defying Downs's (1957) prediction of convergence. The exception seems to be a period from the late 1940s to the early 1980s.
Despite the relative oddity of this weak party period, its view of nonideological politicians is the one that is most ingrained in American popular culture. Notably, one of the most common epithets in modern political discourse is "flip-flopper," directed at those who appear to have no core beliefs. The essential plotline of 1990s political movies like Bullworth, Dave, and The American President is that a politician has lost his way, abandoning the issues and agenda that drove him to run for office in the first place, and is now "so busy keeping my job I forgot to do my job." Only when the politician has some sort of catharsis (a near-death experience, falling in love, etc.) does he remember to "fight the fights that need fighting," rather than the fights he can win (Reiner 1995).
This view of politics is hardly confined to Washington. Many state governments went through a similar period of weak partisanship, avoiding the most controversial issues in order to protect their political class. "I've been on a tour of state legislatures," humorist Mark Russell joked in 1991. "Mostly they are a bunch of fat white guys pretending to hurt each other" (Richardson 1996: 360).
The pretense, for the most part, is gone. The literature from that weak party era is difficult to reconcile with the modern Congress and state legislatures. Today, by virtual consensus, the parties in Congress and in many state legislatures have diverged (Poole and Rosenthal 1997). Candidates no longer converge on the median voter. They have returned to their old historical pattern of representing the ideologically extreme elements within their parties, despite the electoral risk that this strategy carries (Canes-Wrone, Brady, and Cogan 2002; Wright and Berkman 1986). While it was once common for members of different parties to call each other friends, today that almost never happens, and insults and even physical threats across party lines are becoming more common in Congress (Jamieson and Falk 2000).
The new version of Homo politicus is the eager party warrior; legislators recognize the advantages of partisan action and willingly engage in it. As with any other form of legislative organization, this one exacts a price: sometimes legislators must take stances that differ from their personal opinions or those of their constituents. A moderate Republican may feel that his party's deficit spending is endangering the country's fiscal standing and wish to oppose a tax cut, but he knows that he must stand with his colleagues. Similarly, a moderate Democrat may stand with his copartisans in opposing Social Security reforms even if he believes they are important for the program's long-term stability. Both these politicians recognize that they will, in the long run, do better, both in terms of their policy goals and their reelection efforts, if they stick with their party coalition. Even if they are derided for hackery, this is a decision that rational politicians will make.
Indeed, in recent years, an entire literature has evolved to explain why rational legislators would participate in strong parties rather than eschew them (Cox and McCubbins 2005; Aldrich 1995; Cox 1987; Cox and McCubbins 1993; Kiewiet and McCubbins 1991; Schwartz 1989; Volden and Bergman 2006). Parties, in this view, are "institutional solutions to the instability of majority rule" (Aldrich 1995: 72). Deliberative chambers are inherently chaotic-to get a bill passed, one must cobble together a majority and hold it together over numerous votes, any one of which could doom the bill. The easiest outcome in such a chamber is for nothing to get done. Parties, however, provide a solution. As standing coalitions that don't have to be constantly reassembled, parties make it possible for individual legislators to pass bills while providing a path for career advancement. Incumbents submit to parties because they make it easier to get legislative work done.
But why is it important to get work done? Cox and McCubbins elaborate on this with their theory of parties as legislative cartels (1993, 2005). According to cartel theory, politicians recognize that their reelection prospects rise and fall with those of their fellow partisans, so they seek to create and enhance their party's brand name, "the commonly accepted summary of the past actions, beliefs, and outcomes with which it is associated" (1993: 110). They do so by ceding power to a party leadership that can manipulate the legislative agenda, which it does in a way that helps their collective party reputation. Thus members can run in the next general election on a collective party label that resonates with a sizable chunk-ideally a majority-of the voters.
A key question, however, remains: Why has the behavior of politicians changed? Why are legislators who, by their nature, prefer to avoid real partisanship increasingly behaving as partisan warriors? This question is all the more puzzling since, as surveys show, voters increasingly claim to dislike parties and partisanship. If neither legislators nor voters like strong parties, who does?
As suggested in the introduction, these questions proceed from the wrong assumption: that parties are a function of politicians' preferences. When Aldrich (1995: 4) says that "the major political party is the creature of the politicians, the ambitious office seeker and officeholder," he is saying something of a piece with Mayhew's (1974: 98) claim that members of Congress "could immediately and permanently array themselves in disciplined legions for the purpose of programmatic combat" but "do not." Both, that is, are saying that we should look at politicians if we want to understand parties.
An alternative to this approach comes from the traditional party organization literature, which tends to see parties as hierarchical, patronage-based groups whose power lies in the control of nominations (Mayhew 1986; Dahl 1961; Kent 1924; Wolfinger 1972). The key to Mayor Richard J. Daley's power in Cook County, Illinois, for example, was his control over party nominations. Daley routinely slated candidates for every office from the board of aldermen to county judgeships to the congressional seats within the county limits, and these candidates just as routinely won nomination in direct primary elections. According to one ward boss, "He moves us around like a bunch of chess pieces. He knows why he's doing it because he's like a Russian with a ten-year plan, but we never know" (Royko 1971: 82). Daley also exerted considerable control over the Democratic Party's choices for governor and senate during his tenure, and his reputation as a kingmaker in Democratic presidential nominations during the 1960s is legendary (Mayhew 1986: 74-75).
Studying parties as organizations or machines that try to elect people helps us understand why the same politicians that are soulless poll-watchers in one era can be fierce party warriors in another. But it doesn't explain the dilemma at hand. That is, by virtual consensus, the party machines in the model of Daley's Chicago or Tammany Hall's New York don't exist anymore. Why would partisanship among elected officials increase as the machines go extinct?
We gain some purchase on this question from a strain of literature known as conditional party government (CPG) theory, which has the virtue of focusing both on events within the legislature as well as on forces outside it. As this theory describes, legislative party leaders have an array of tools available to foster party discipline. They can enforce unit rule voting in the party caucus, they can employ party whips to cajole members, they can award office space, staff, or popular committee assignments to loyal party members, and they can deny such perks to mavericks. However, the theory continues, the leaders' ability to use such methods is conditional on electoral forces outside the legislature (Rohde 1991; Aldrich and Battista 2002; Aldrich and Rohde 2001; Rohde and Shepsle 1987). Specifically, if the electorate sends an ideologically coherent party contingent to Congress, that party can build on its coherence by enforcing discipline on roll call voting. An ideologically incoherent party, such as the post-World War II Democratic Party with its Northern liberals and Southern segregationists, will have little success in whipping its members into line.
It would seem that understanding these forces outside the chamber is at least as important as understanding partisan tools within the chamber if we truly want to comprehend what parties are and how they function. It is surprising, then, that more attention is not devoted to such extra-legislative forces, and all the more important that we try to understand them. So what are these forces that determine the partisan nature of our elected governments? From the literature, it would seem that there are two of them, voters and elites.
It was voters that Rohde was speaking of when he described "the exogenous influence of electoral change" (1991: 162) as a cause of polarization or depolarization in a legislature. That is, voters shift their preferences from time to time and vote accordingly. If a party's voters are relatively unified on a set of issues, they will tend to elect a coherent party contingent to the Congress, which will vote consistently as a bloc. If a party's voters can't agree on much, they will elect leaders who can't agree on much, either. As Rohde notes, a good deal of the variation in unity among the congressional Democratic caucus on civil rights votes can be explained by voters' shifting preferences on racial issues. Jacobson (2004) and Aldrich et al. (2007) also find that much (though not all) of the recent polarization of the congressional parties can be explained by the increasing homogeneity of congressional districts. Indeed, the whole literature on party realignments is predicated on the notion that voters' preferences will occasionally shift in a dramatic, often unanticipated way, forcing elected partisans to change their behavior or risk electoral defeat (Burnham 1965; Schattschneider 1942; Sundquist 1983; Rogin and Shover 1970). Thanks to shifting voter preferences, for example, officeholders in the mid-1850s could no longer equivocate on slavery, as the Whig Party had essentially done for decades. You were either with the slaveholders or you were against them. An officeholder who preferred Whig economic policies but supported the institution of slavery suddenly had to make a choice, and had to make it quickly.
This view that voters determine changes in party coherence and agendas has a hard time surviving Bartels's (2000) observation that shifts in voter partisanship tend to follow, rather than precede, shifts in congressional partisanship. It seems, that is, that voters follow the cues of party leaders rather than the other way around (Hetherington 2001). These objections strongly suggest the importance of the second category of extralegislative forces: outside elites. This term refers to activists, party bosses, interest groups, and other key political actors outside the government with a strong interest in affecting government behavior. These outsiders wield power over legislators through their control over party nominations and the resources needed to win them. If such outsiders serve as gatekeepers to holding public office, we would expect that shifts in external party coalitions will lead to important changes in legislative voting behavior, even if there has been no concomitant shift in mass voting behavior.
Historically, these outside actors have been able to alter politicians' behavior without changes in the preferences of the mass public. For example, some Democratic officeholders' embrace of civil rights in the late 1940s was not an adjustment to voter demands. Rather, the interest group Americans for Democratic Action essentially forced the issue of racial equality on President Harry Truman, whose nomination in 1948 was far from assured. Truman sided with the ADA and won the nomination, but this led to the Dixiecrats bolting the Democratic Convention in 1948 (Bawn et al. 2006). Similarly, recent literature has cast doubt on the designation of the 1896 election as a critical realignment of the electorate (Mayhew 2004; Bartels 1998; Stonecash and Silina 2005). There were few changes in electoral behavior around that period. Instead, it was a matter of political activists seizing power: Western silver-coinage advocates took control of Democratic nominations from eastern gold-standard supporters. Other examples of outsider-led (rather than electorate-induced) changes in party priorities include the creation of the Republican Party in the 1850s and the takeover of that party in 1964 by the conservative Goldwater wing. What is left of realignment theory is pretty well decimated by Mayhew's (2000) analysis, in which he concludes, "The claims of the realignments genre do not hold up well, and the genre's illuminative power has not proven to be great" (471). Specifically, valence issues (Stokes 1966) or even random coin-tosses will explain more of presidential election history than realignment theory will.
Note, then, where this leaves us. Party leaders in a legislature may desire strong party behavior, but ultimately they are at the mercy of forces outside the legislature. And while voters may wish to control their elected officials, only a few key elites outside the legislature have the power over party nominations to determine just what the legislative parties will look like and fight for. But in order for these key elites to actually exert such control, they need to coordinate their activities. They need to be organized. So what does such an organization look like? What follows are two examples of modern party organizations in California. (Continues...)
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Extreme Partisanship 1
Chapter 1 The Modern Political Party 23
Chapter 2 The True Character of Politicians 54
Chapter 3 150 Years of Legislative Party Behavior 87
Chapter 4 A Visit to the Smoke-Filled Room 108
Chapter 5 Measuring the Power of Informal Party Organizations 160
Conclusion: The Price and Payoff of Parties 188
List of Interviews 205
References 207
Index 219


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Interim Director Appointed for Kent State's School of Library and Information Science
Stanley T. Wearden, Ph.D., dean of the College of Communication and Information at Kent State University, has announced the appointment of Jeffrey W. Fruit, professor of journalism and mass communication, as interim director of the School of Library and Information Science.
"Jeff has extensive administrative experience after 10 years of excellent service as the director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication," Wearden says in his announcement. "I am confident he will serve the school very well as we search for a continuing director."
Wearden says the university will post the search for a new director for the School of Library and Information Science later this month.
Fruit, of East Palestine, Ohio, served as director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication from 2002-2012, during which undergraduate and graduate enrollment increased significantly, two innovative online master's programs were launched (public relations and scholastic journalism), the school moved into a state-of-the-art 80,000-square-foot facility following a $21.5 million renovation and the school's funds in the university foundation quadrupled.
Fruit's research interests focus on the historic and current impact of technology on journalism, journalists and the broader media marketplace. He is co-author of The Training and Hiring of Journalists (Ablex, 1985) with Lee B. Becker and Susan L. Caudill. He holds a master's degree in journalism from the Ohio State University, where he also has passed general examinations toward an interdisciplinary Ph.D. He earned a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in journalism and history from Ohio Wesleyan University.
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A selection of 2013 Lilly Conference session videos are available for free on Kent State University's Faculty Professional Development Center's website at www.kent.edu/fpdc/educational_resources. The conference video page at the link requires users to log in with their Kent State credentials in order to access the videos. The Lilly Conference theme of 2013 was "Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning."
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The Kent State University Alumni Association reached new heights in 2013 in terms of attendance at association-sponsored events, sustained growth of alumni communications and increased volunteer participation. To highlight the numerous accomplishments during the past year, the Alumni Association has created a document for its members and friends: the 2013 Year in Review.
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Webinars Explore Making in Schools, Features Panel of Maker-Educators
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Making in K-12 Schools Webinars: Part 1, Wednesday, December 3 and Part 2, Wednesday, December 10, noon PST
To join the webinars, go to http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/
Join School of Education Assoc. Professor Jessica Parker, along with several Bay Area maker-educators as they discuss the role of "Making" in schools. Set up as a forum, these teachers will share stories from their own experiences in the classroom--from elementary up to high school--incorporating making into the curriculum and both creating and maintaining a culture of creativity
In Part 1 of the two part series, on December 3, the panel will focus on how to set things up to foster hands-on, interdisciplinary maker projects and events which successfully support student learning.
In Part 2, on December 10, they will discuss the kind of professional development that they themselves need as educators to implement these programs and adopt a 'maker mindset' as a teacher.
The Maker Movement
Making emphasizes learning-through-doing In a social environment. Maker culture emphasizes informal, networked, peer-led, and shared learning motivated by fun and self-fulfillment. Makers encourage taking risks and experimentation with materials from simple to high tech equipment, they set up opportunities to build and tinker and create. Robotics, woodworking, crafting, 3D printing, and machining are just a few examples of projects used in Maker Spaces all over the world top inspire through project-based learning.
The notion of tinkering and Making has become popular world-wide and is now truly a movement capturing the imagination of young and old, across cultures and disciplines. Maker Media, based here in Sonoma County, has been the hub and helped build this movement around the world with their publications and their Maker Faire events.
This global community consists of inventors, artists, engineers, and many other types of people with all kinds of backgrounds. This movement is taking many in the direction of successful independent creativity that is allowing for outside the box thinking and knowledge expansion and growth.
This kind of thinking is a great fit for project based learning and creative problem solving curriculum in schools, as well as creative and artistic development.
The Maker Educator Certificate Program
This webinar is hosted and produced by the National Writing Project's Educator Innovator initiative (educatorinnovator.org), and is affiliated with the Maker Educator Certificate Program offered by The Startup Classroom at Sonoma State University. The certificate program offers a selection of mini courses to help educators of all kinds (not just school teachers) learn how to start and maintain MakerSpaces in their own setting, and become part of a network of Maker Educators.
To learn more about the Maker Educator Certificate Program visit www.thestartupclassroom.org/maker-course/
The Day in the Life of a Multiple Subject Student Teacher
Byon October 13, 2014 11:50 AM
By Guest Author: Jared Candelaria
Editor's note: This guest blog article is one in a series written by students in the Multiple Subject Credential Program, intended to offer a glimpse into the life and work of a credential candidate in our program. Candelaria completed the program in Spring 2014.
My day as a student teacher starts when I wake up at 6:00 a.m. Immediately, I start to think about the lesson plans I have done that prior weekend. As I drink a cup of coffee, I look over my daily lesson plans and wonder how effective they will be that day. I arrive at my teaching placement site around 7:30 a.m and about 7:45a.m. I start to feel a little nervous about the start of my day. As students trickle into the classroom, I greet them at the door with a smile; and after the bell rings, I say, "Time to begin our day, class".
In the classroom not every day is the same. Obviously, the content of the lessons are different and each student is unique. Because no two students are the same and have individual needs, everyday is filled with new challenges. Teaching multiple subjects daily is one of the many challenges I face not only because of the knowledge requirement but also because I must find ways to relay that knowledge to a variety of learning abilities. Some days these challenges are easy to overcome and other days lessons simply fail. No matter the outcome, each day is a learning experience for me and because I care, these experiences will allow me to grow as a teacher.When the last bell rings and the students are gone, it is time to reflect. I am sure student teachers are overwhelmed by these feelings. I might feel discouraged, happy, excited, sad, or disappointed; but no matter the feeling, tomorrow is another day. A day you continue with the successes and correct the missteps with the help of your mentors. As a student teacher in the Multiple Subject Credential Program, always keep in mind the reason why you entered it. It was to help students reach their potential; and by remembering this, it will allow you to face the classroom challenges and eventually overcome them so that you can be successful. To learn more about becoming an elementary school teacher and the Multiple Subject Credential Program at Sonoma State University, read more online or drop by and visit us on the ground floor of Stevenson Hall, Suite 1078.
Math Educator Megan W. Taylor on KQED to Discuss Innovative Professional Development Models for STEM Teachers
Byon October 8, 2014 12:18 AM
Today's KQED public radio program Forum with Michael Krasny brought together education experts to discuss the best models and reforms in teacher preparation programs. Sonoma State School of Education's Asst. Professor Megan W. Taylor was a featured guest on the program along with SFSU's former Dean of Education Betsy Keane, Stanford's Linda Darling-Hammond, and EdSource executive director Louis Freedberg.
The radio discussion was prompted by a new report from EdSource entitled "Preparing World Class Teachers". This particular report is intended to highlight the most promising reforms to create a more effective teaching workforce. The article suggests that such induction programs could benefit from innovation and reform.
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Megan Taylor, Asst. Prof. of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education at Sonoma State is a sought-after expert in mathematics education, teacher development, and curriculum design in the Bay Area and beyond. Her recent work with Sonoma Valley School District is notable. Taylor worked with Sonoma State University teacher candidates and ElevatEd fellows (undergraduate and graduate students in Math and Science) at Adele Harrison Middle School in early September as part of a year-long pilot of a professional development school partnership between Adele Harrison and the Sonoma State University School of Education.
In the program Taylor facilitated teacher candidates and ElevatEd Fellows as they observed lessons across the classrooms of the math teachers at the school, with an eye on rich classroom discussion, then participated in structured debriefs with each other and the teachers they observed.
Principal Mary Ann Spitzer, Director of Curriculum & Instruction Karla Conroy, and ElevatEd CEO Zach Levine observed and participated in the work as well, reflecting the belief that teacher education "takes a village."
As discussed on KQED's Forum on October 8, this experience is part of a long-term effort by SSU to strengthen the partnership between the mentor teacher and the student teacher candidate. The strong partnership is formed through key strategies, making the clinical experience for its students more effective and the return for mentor teachers more substantial.
Another new innovative initiative, the CalCorps program strives to be the "gold standard" in teacher education and professional learning for secondary STEM teachers in California, guiding new teachers for a full 6 years from pre-service to in-service teaching. (much longer than the standard one year credential program plus two years of induction that most teachers experience)
CalCorps focuses on creating the first, research-based, practice-focused, long-term program for the recruitment, education, support, retention, and development of outstanding STEM teachers. CalCorps is different from other models because it provides a cohesive trajectory of professional experiences for new a teacher that spans the moment they choose the profession to their 6th full-time teaching year. Find out more at: http://calcorps.squarespace.com.
To learn more about professional, university and research based teacher credential programs visit us at www.sonoma.edu/education
Why Learn About Being an Entrepreneurial Educator--an #Edupreneur?
Byon June 13, 2014 11:38 AM
Guest Blogger Dr. Paul Porter, SSU Professor of Educational Leadership
Educators + Entrepreneurialism = Edupreneurialism
"Edupreneurialism?" Just another term or something meaningful? As an instructor in this course The Entrepreneurial Educator, of course, I lean towards the term having great meaning. For too many years educators have avoided any ties to business, and business has criticized education's graduates. This artificial separation has led to neither side being able to benefit from the depth and wisdom of the other. Every business must see itself as a learning organization. Every school and student must see themselves as a bit more like a business.
If we are to truly move to 21st century learning and embrace the concepts of the Common Core, our students (and teachers) must begin to think of themselves not as passive recipients of knowledge but as finders and shapers of their own future. In the course we explore the concept of every student and teacher seeing themselves as an "economic unit of one," not in just a financial sense, but with the belief that each student must, early in their education, begin to see themselves as responsible for developing themselves, for marketing themselves, for discovering their passions and for aligning these passions and interests with the realities of today's world. This is not a task for a career project as a senior in High School, but a way of thinking that needs to be nurtured at an early age.
Come and join us in exploring this concept. Begin looking at yourself as an entrepreneurial educator. Our course begins on June 23 and is hosted on Canvas.net. Enrollment is free.
FREE Summer Science and Math Foundational Level Institute for Teachers
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The Institutes offer both a content methods course and content review to prepare and assist teachers to pass the CSET's. Participants will earn 5 units of credit and will only need cover the cost of their own books.
For more information about the Foundational Level Mathematics Institute, please visit sonoma.edu/education/smtri/foundationalmath. Information on the Foundational Level Science Institute can be found at sonoma.edu/education/smtri/foundationalscience


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different increases on same pay ballot sheet - correct?
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Posted August 25, 2011 at 9:01AM
My Union has just sent around ballot sheets with different offers for different positions. eg chairman 2%, secretary 1.5, clerk 1%. I feel that morally this is wrong because if I vote no for my increase I am also voting against someone elses. Also there are more clerks than chairmen (positions changed to protect the innocent). Conversely, if it was the same increase across the board it'feels' OK.
Morals and feelings aside, is it legally correct?
They have been asked but I am interested in others views. Thank You
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Posted August 25, 2011 at 9:53AM
"if it was the same increase across the board it 'feels' OK"
No it does not - that increases the differential between top and bottom pay scales. Better to go for a flat value increase eg £1 an hour.
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Posted August 25, 2011 at 10:47AM
Don't worry about it and carry on.
They probably forgot to mention the fat bonus that the chairman gets plus the free company car etc.etc.
Some Rail workers have just turned down a 5% rise because they do not think it is enough and I have to agree with them.
Inflation somewhere near 4.5% so you should be looking for that or above.
if you are happy with 25 go for it.
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Posted August 25, 2011 at 4:07PM
Thanks Folks but I am asking about the legality of having different increases on the sam ballot sheet, the chairman does not exist and it is an example only.
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Posted August 25, 2011 at 4:26PM
Not sure about legality, but from a balloting point of view it's not totally clear.
The grade that's entitled to 2% may be happy, but a person at a grade getting 1% may not.
The different pay increases may well be down to equalising pay across similar job roles.
Last year my wife received a 5% increase to bring her pay in line with someone doing the same job in a different department
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Posted August 25, 2011 at 7:18PM
Morals and feelings aside, is it legally correct?
The answer to your question is yes.
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Posted August 26, 2011 at 1:27AM
Thanks FE,
Have also asked the union.
I still doesn't seem right that my vote may change the outcome of someone with a differnt offer or the reverse,which happened to me.
I was offered a mere one fifth of that presented to others in my workforce. They voted yes and we were outnumbered as all others on my level all voted no, at least if the Ballot had been seperate the extent of our feelings would have been known.
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Posted August 26, 2011 at 2:06AM
You're not being asked to vote for/against the raise that you have been offered, rather you are being asked to vote for the negotiated offer as a whole...
So the actual yes/not vote is on the question; "Do you accept the offer that has been negotiated?"
And then there is an explanation of what the offer is, with a breakdown of the parts.
If my assumption/understanding is correct, (and of course it may not be!), then I can't see anything wrong, legally or morally.
That's not to say that the offer is correct or moral, just that the vote is!
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Posted August 27, 2011 at 12:44AM
That's not to say that the offer is correct or moral, just that the vote is!
Well said Simsy
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Philip Roth's Legacy at 80
The author and others speak in a new film about his life and work
Tomorrow, Philip Roth will celebrate his 80th birthday, a milestone that has already launched a thousand tributes to the most decorated and well-regarded living American writer. From high and low, they've appeared in print, digital, tourism initiatives and now, most notably, film. (For an academic flourish, Tablet's own Liel Leibovitz and Adam Kirsch will be anchoring a Roth panel tonight.)
If you suffered through Elegy, The Human Stain, or any of the ersatz film adaptations of Roth's books, you'd be right to fear anything peddling itself as a celluloid representation of Roth or his work. In spite of any possible Post Traumatic Roth Disorder, Philip Roth: Unmasked is here and worthy of a fan's time.
The film–playing now at New York's Film Forum, but soon to debut on the PBS American Masters series on March 29–is the joint project of William Karel, a French filmmaker, and Livia Manera, an Italian journalist. And how, you might ask, can the legacy of America's greatest living writer possibly be entrusted to two ineffably European pairs of hands? The same was asked about Blake Bailey, whom Roth chose as his biographer despite being, as Roth himself mentioned, a gentile from Oklahoma. Bailey responded to the suggestion with this bon mot:
"I pointed out that I'm not an aging bisexual alcoholic with an ancient Puritan lineage and I still managed to write a biography of John Cheever."
Karel and Manera don't require such defenses. Their voices are completely obscured in the 90-minute film and they were clearly knowledgeable enough to convince Roth to give them access to both him and some of his good friends, all of whom appear prominently in the film. As a result, you are treated to Roth relaxed and inspired, the unexpected star of his own tribute.
Roth runs you through his career from his early discovery of literature to penning Goodbye, Columbus and straight through to his recently announced retirement. For those unfamiliar, Roth describes the amazing fury that surrounded the publication of Portnoy's Complaint, which catapulted Roth beyond the literary ether and into the American firmament. A word cloud of Roth's contributions to the film would probably yield a lot of "death" and "shame," but despite the macabre talk, it's tough not be charmed watching Roth having such a good time.
Others chime in too: Friends like actress Mia Farrow, a Roth neighbor and confidant, as well as Bob Heyman, Jane Brown Maas, and Martin Garbus, who befriended Roth in high school, college, and the army respectively. They appear to construct a composite Roth–warm, self-lacerating, frighteningly sharp, and fiercely loyal. For the many unable or unwilling to differentiate Roth from his charged fictitious alter egos, each anecdote works to strip away from–or unmask as it were–what's commonly assumed about the man.
The documentary also tasks critics and writers like Jonathan Franzen, Claudia Roth Pierpont, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander with demystifying Roth's fiction itself. Long accused of single-note sexual fixations, misogyny, and misanthropy, the panel collectively absolves Roth of literary wrongdoing and praises his status as literary lion, provocateur, and American mischief-maker without really addressing the charges against him. Roth also jumps in with a classic litany, in which he dispenses with the perception that his most famous alter ego Nathan Zuckerman was something of an oversexed monster by running through all the Zuckerman books and concluding that Zuckerman may never have been laid.
I was a bit surprised to see the frequent charge of Roth misogyny handled so elliptically in the film as if the presence of impressive female defenders spoke for him alone. I dropped a line to Claudia Roth Pierpont, Roth's most eloquent advocate in the film, and asked her opinion about Roth's women characters. Here's what she said:
I think Roth's work contains a tremendous variety of female characters, of every moral and emotional persuasion. It's impossible to generalize about them any more than it is about Roth's men – they're strong, vulnerable, smart, not so smart, wise or shallow: they're human beings.
She added that a book coming out later this year called "Roth Unbound" will tackle the subject more thoroughly.
What the film doesn't dwell on much is a topic of fascination among many Roth fans, critics, and two generations' stock of graduate psych students: Roth's personal life. There's passing reference to Roth's tumultuous first marriage and eery nothing about his second marriage to actress Claire Bloom who infamously dished a pu pu platter of heavy allegations against Roth in her memoir Leaving a Doll's House. As the film goes, you come to know Roth as much as he seems willing to be known, loading the future burden more on Blake Bailey.
By the end of the film, you feel as if you've just left an anodyne dinner party with Roth and some disembodied literary spirits where the mood was light and the conversation polite. You're full and happy. You might have hoped for a little more, but you probably wouldn't be a fan of Roth's if you didn't always hope for a little more out of the world.
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Archive: June, 2010
Paul A. Tufano has been elected chairman of the Kimmel Center's board, effective Jan. 1, 2011. Tufano, who has long been involved with the arts center, is senior vice president and general counsel of Independence Blue Cross. He succeeds Roland K. Bullard, II, president of FastShip, Inc.
It's two years this month since the death of Anne d'Harnoncourt - mirthful evangelist for art, deft ringleader of all good things for the city, mother figure to artists of all stripes and, for two and a half decades, all around charismatic personification of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Except perhaps for any attention it will draw to herself, she would have loved what's going on this Saturday at the museum. To honor her memory, the arthouse on Fairmount and its street-level Perelman annex are open to the public for free.
Visitors are welcome to think about anything they want, of course, as they make their way from the "Horse Armor of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg, for use in the field" to Nauman's "The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign)" - both fairly new.
Rank-and-file musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra had a chance to air opinions on the music director decision at Monday's rehearsal at the Mann Center. That, plus other reaction to the naming of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, here.
David Patrick Stearns and I discuss the choice today at 11 a.m. on WHYY's Radio Times.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin becomes the Philadelphia Orchestra's music director-designate today - as of the expected nod from the orchestra's board this morning.
And then he comes to town to meet his new public with a series of events Friday.
Details are still falling into place, but he will likely meet the orchestra board and staff, attend a public signing of his contract, and perhaps get a chance to listen to his new charges perform at a free neighborhood concert in Upper Darby. Details to come.
In a bold return to previous eras of youthful leadership, the Philadelphia Orchestra has chosen to be led by an emerging — though highly coveted — conductor.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a 35-year-old Canadian whose starry orchestra and opera career is much in the ascent of late, is set to become Philadelphia's eighth music director in 2012. At that time, chief conductor Charles Dutoit will take the title of conductor laureate. The music director appointment is expected to get the official stamp at Monday's board meeting of the orchestra.
Nézet-Séguin's contract runs through 2017, but board chairman Richard B. Worley says he expects the conductor to remain at the helm longer.
"I believe that we have attracted a rising star early in his career, and he will assume the post of music director at about the same age as Ormandy and Muti," said Worley. "And I believe that continuity is important to building audiences. It is certainly my hope that he will lead this orchestra for a very, very long period of time. I hope a decade or more."
ArtsWatch is in Montreal to talk with Nézet-Séguin, and expects to have updates later in the day.
And here are our critical takes: mine, and one from David Patrick Stearns.
It's one of ArtsWatch's favorite summer traditions: Sitting on the grassy expanse north of Independence Hall, the summer sky turning Maxfield Parrish-blue, while listening to the Philly Pops. Then walking a few blocks to the Franklin Fountain for peach ice cream and lemon sorbet.
So we felt a little empty upon learning that the concert had failed to attract funding this year, and had been scrapped.
But now we hear that Mayor Nutter has put his hands on the cash, and the concert is back on.
Tom Kaiden, who served as the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's CEO and acting director since the death of Peggy Amsterdam, has been named president of the organization, GPCA announced today.
Kaiden joined the Cultural Alliance in 200, heading Engage 2020, the alliance's four-year, $6 million civic engagement initiative "focused on doubling cultural participation in Greater Philadelphia by 2020."
Prior to joining the Alliance, Kaiden was the executive director of the Stowe (Vermont) Area Association, a tourism marketing corporation and chamber of commerce. He holds an MBA from Cornell University, and a BA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
Joseph Conyers has won an audition for the assistant principal double bass spot in the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Conyers, 29, will stand/sit not far from principal bassist Harold Robinson, his former teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music. It's the chair being vacated by Neil Courtney, who will retire at the end of the season. Conyers graduated from Curtis in 2004, where he also studied with Edgar Meyer, and is currently a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He has played with the Boston and Detroit Symphonies, Minnesota Orchestra, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Before Atlanta, was principal double bassist of the Grand Rapids Symphony.
Conyers and the orchestra haven't hammered out a contract yet (no reason to think they won't), but with a signed contract he will be the first African American member of the orchestra to be hired since 1974.


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3 Church Street is a beautifully decorated and furnished self catering cottage. It sleeps four people, making it perfect for families, couples or friends, you can even bring your dog. It has bags of character and country charm and is the ideal location to unwind after a day exploring the nearby moors and coastline. You can make yourself at home in the living room with its open fire, then rest in one of the two comfortable bedrooms. The well-equipped kitchen has everything you need to prepare meals which you can enjoy with family and friends in the cosy dining area in front of the open fire.
The village of Timberscombe located in the National Park has one pub called the Lion Inn. The historic village of Dunster is about 4 miles away and boasts its own castle (National Trust), Watermill, ancient yarn market and a number of pubs, restaurants, tea rooms and gift shops.
The seaside town of Minehead is only 8 miles away where further amenities, a 24 hour supermarket, banks with ATM's, Doctors and Vets, can be found. Porlock, Lynton and Lynmouth and the beautiful Doone valley are all in easy reach and make ideal days out with some beautiful scenery on the way. During the long summer evenings, you can take in the fresh air and the sounds of the countryside in the delightful courtyard garden. Plus, there's a kennel for your dog if required.
3 Church Street is a great base for Exploring Exmoor, West Somerset and North Devon. Ideal for country pursuits including walking, hiking, shooting, fishing and horse riding.
|Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Minehead 12 km
|Car advised
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Exeter 45 km, Nearest railway: Taunton 33 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|Pets welcome, Yes, smoking allowed
Features and Facilities
|Log fire, DVD player
|TV, CD player, Satellite TV
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 En suites and 1 Shower rooms
|Double beds (1), Single beds (2), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Private garden
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Sky TV
Storage heaters
Wooden and Tiled flooring downstairs
|Further details outdoors
Parking is available outside the property in the village of Timberscombe. There is usually a place in one of the three parking bays opposite the cottage.
Outdoor table, chairs and umbrella.
The Somerset region
The West Country is renowned for a mix of beautiful beaches and countryside. A great base for walking and surfing, with Cornwall and Devon having some of the best surfing beaches in the country.
Exmoor and Dartmoor national park are designated areas of outstanding beauty with hills and waterfalls to explore. There are castles, watermills, National Trust places to visit, along many family theme parks, water parks, zoos and other places to explore.
3 Church Street is situated in the village of Timberscombe located in Exmoor National Park and has one pub, The Lion Inn. The historic village of Dunster is four miles away and boasts it's own castle, water mill, ancient yarn market, pubs, restaurants, tea rooms and gift shops.
The seaside town of Minehead is 8 miles away with futher local amenities, Butlins, Marina and sandy beach. Porlock, Lynton and Lynmouth and the beautiful Doone valley are all in easy reach and make ideal days out with some beautiful scenery on the way.
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6 Jan 2015
We stayed in this delightful cottage over Christmas. We wanted a traditional dog-friendly property with a log fire and a pub close by, and we could not have picked a more perfect property! The cottage… More
3 Dec 2014
"Wish we had more time!"
The cottage was lovely, clean, spacious, comfortable and well equipped (with unexpected niceties such as loo roll, bin liners, coffee and washing up liquid), and in a lovely village. The booklets with… More
2 Sep 2014
"Spacious cottage in a lovely village setting."
It is a very nice sized cottage, especially for a family.Located in an excellent location for exploring exmoor and north devon. And minehead is just couple of miles away, so very convinient for shoppi… More
17 Aug 2014
"Great location, fantastic holiday"
The cottage was larger than it looks, plenty of room for family of 4 and a dog. Good location to explore Somerset and Devon. Locals friendly, local pub has nice food, but not every night and some nigh… More
25 Jul 2014
"Lovely cottage, a real tardis"
Great cottage, such a good price in school holidays too. After initial hiccup with getting the key to the cottage had a lovely welcome from Sharon with a bottle of wine and ice lollies. Worth calling … More
26 Jun 2014
"Great place to stay, comfortable and spacious cottage"
Lovely, spacious cottage,- bit like the tardis! We loved the log fire burners although we didn't need to use them. There is a secluded back garden - great to eat outside as it catches the sun. … More
28 Aug 2013
"Great when we got in."
The cottage is in a quiet location and has a very nice back garden with table and chairs. The kitchen and dining room were fine. There was a problem collecting the key because it was not where we were… More
31 Mar 2013
"a very enjoyable stay"
A very comfortable, well equiped cottage within easy reach of many places .We would stay again Lovely walks and a good pub next door but one
23 Sep 2012
"A lovely character cottage in a friendly village"
My husband, myself and my sister had a relaxing week in this cottage. It was cosy but open spaced with good light, and had flexible space. Wood was available for an open fire if needed, and satellite TV provided evening entertainment, and there were some toys and books for children in the wardrobe. There were 2 bathroom, one next to a twin and one ensuite in the master bedroom. The kitchen was modern with good facilities, and there was a washing machine outside. We enjoyed our breakfasts on the patio. Minehead and Dunster were within easy driving distance, though the buses looked good too. The village had a good pub with excellent food, though you needed to book as the pub closes if it isn't busy. The countryside around is spectacular. We spent the time visiting National Trust properties and the journey was as interesting as the properties. I would definitely visit again.
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