9/12/2009 Gary Weiss
"Backgammon for Blood"
Job Title: Professor of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati
Gary is a highly experienced, competitive backgammon player.
The ancient game of backgammon is a basic, simplified metaphor for life, business strategy and government policy formation.
Sometimes the obvious decision is the wrong decision, and the proof of this will be explained.
The first half hour Gary will explain the basic rules and movement and betting. The rest of the time will involve playing games and discussing moves. Gary will dissect games in real-time projected on a screen. All opinions will be entertained and briefly analyzed.
If you have ever wondered about the wedges printed on the under side of the checker board, don�t miss our first meeting of the year!
10/10/2009 Larry Schweikert, University of Dayton
"Bad History Textbooks"
This talk will be "48 Liberal Lies About American History", based on his book. He looks at the top 20 U.S. history textbooks, how they cover different events and people, and the bias that is present in almost all. From notions that Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, ended the Cold War to the view that the transcontinental railroads couldn't have been built without government funding, to famous trials (Sacco and Vanzetti or the Rosenbergs) the bias is consistent and often fairly blatant.
11/14/2009 Steve Driehaus
Healthcare
12/12/2009 Shirley Maul
"An Exploration of the Creative Process"
A presentation of selected sections of performances followed by an attempt to answer the questions "How do you think of these things?" and "What makes one performance Art, and another performance not Art?"
Shirley Maul, a former recipient of an Ohio Arts Fellowship, has been creating performances and collaborating in group performance pieces for 20 years. Shirley has performed in several venues in the Cincinnati area, as well as in Columbus, Cleveland and Yellow Springs.
1/9/2009 ART Members
"Ten Minute Free-for-all"
2/13/2010 Howard Tolley Jr.
"Strange Bedmates: Conservative and Liberal Advocates for Judicial Activism"
New Deal liberals condemned the conservative activists who invalidated progressive economic regulations, and 21st Century conservatives denounce liberal activist judges for legislating from the bench on abortion, gay rights, criminal procedure, and religious liberty. Progressives on the left and libertarians on the right have recently joined forces in suits asking judges to find unconstitutional overbroad criminal laws, bans on gay marriage, and limits on gun ownership. Are there any principled legal boundaries or legitimate political checks on the abuse of Judicial Review by justices who substitute personal policy preferences for the choices made by popularly elected legislators?
UC Professor of Political Science and adjunct Professor of Law Howard Tolley Jr. earned a PhD at Columbia and a JD as a human rights fellow at the UC College of Law. He served as President of the Cincinnati ACLU and member of the state board, clerked for a judge on the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and does fact finding/mediation in public sector labor disputes for the State Employment Relations Board. He teaches undergraduate public law courses on the U.S. legal system and Constitution as well as international law and human rights. His publications include three sole authored books and nine interactive Teaching Human Rights Online cases http://homepages.uc.edu/thro/
The first half hour Gary will explain the basic rules and movement and betting. The rest of the time will involve playing games and discussing moves. Gary will dissect games in real-time projected on a screen. All opinions will be entertained and briefly analyzed.
If you have ever wondered about the wedges printed on the under side of the checker board, don�t miss our first meeting of the year!
This talk will be "48 Liberal Lies About American History", based on his book. He looks at the top 20 U.S. history textbooks, how they cover different events and people, and the bias that is present in almost all. From notions that Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, ended the Cold War to the view that the transcontinental railroads couldn't have been built without government funding, to famous trials (Sacco and Vanzetti or the Rosenbergs) the bias is consistent and often fairly blatant.
Shirley Maul, a former recipient of an Ohio Arts Fellowship, has been creating performances and collaborating in group performance pieces for 20 years. Shirley has performed in several venues in the Cincinnati area, as well as in Columbus, Cleveland and Yellow Springs.
UC Professor of Political Science and adjunct Professor of Law Howard Tolley Jr. earned a PhD at Columbia and a JD as a human rights fellow at the UC College of Law. He served as President of the Cincinnati ACLU and member of the state board, clerked for a judge on the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and does fact finding/mediation in public sector labor disputes for the State Employment Relations Board. He teaches undergraduate public law courses on the U.S. legal system and Constitution as well as international law and human rights. His publications include three sole authored books and nine interactive Teaching Human Rights Online cases http://homepages.uc.edu/thro/