Covers the regular, special, and extra sessions of the Legislative Assembly; some special sessions have separately issued vols. ; Imprint varies. ; Issued in multiple vols. ; The first extra session of the Legislative Assembly was held in 1859; the first regular session was held in 1860. ; Covers the regular, special, and extra sessions of the Legislative Assembly; some special sessions have separately issued vols. ; Kept current by updating supplement: Advance sheets. Oregon laws. ; Mode of access: Internet.
For a state whose Negro population has always been tiny, Oregon has devoted a surprising amount of political energy to the question of what the status of Negroes in the state and nation should be. The actions and arguments of its legislative bodies have more or less followed the national patterns, reflecting the ebb and flow of the United States' concern as a whole with Negroes' place in this society. Before the Civil War, and again during Reconstruction, whites in Oregon were preoccupied with the "Negro Problem," as was the rest of the country. During the establishment of the system of segregation in the South, between 1890 and 1920, the matter came up again in the state. More recently, legislative action has mirrored the Civil Rights movement. One of the ways in which white Oregonians attempted to deal with the question of Negro status prior to the Civil War was by avoiding Negroes. This was the idea behind a series of proposals in the 1840's and 1850's to exclude Negroes from the region. The movement culminated in the establishment, by popular vote, of a clause in the state constitution prohibiting free Negroes from residing in Oregon, owning property there, or making contracts or maintaining legal actions in the state. Such enactments were peculiar to Oregon; several states in the Mississippi Valley and the Old Northwest tried similar measures.1 Oregon's situation was unusual, though, in that there were so few Negroes in the territory and no large number of either free Negroes or slaves within 2,000 miles. Since most of Oregon's white settlers lived in the Mississippi Valley before migrating to Oregon, it has been assumed that they were expressing attitudes formed before migration. Local situations, however, also played an important part in the development of the territory's black laws. This study proposes to trace the history of Oregon's legislation concerning Negroes, with particular reference to the exclusion laws, from the first such proposal in 1843 to the final repeal of the anti-Negro provisions of the state constitution in 1926-27.2 The causes, development, nature, and effects of such legislation will be examined and compared with Oregon's expressions of opinion on national matters such as the Reconstruction amendments and the development of Jim Crow laws in the South. From this investigation some conclusions will be drawn about the nature of white Oregonians' attitudes toward Negroes.
This study examined team processes and outcomes among 12 multi-university distributed project teams from 11 universities during its early and late development stages over a 14-month project period. A longitudinal model of team interaction is presented and tested at the individual level to consider the extent to which both formal and informal network connections—measured as degree centrality—relate to changes in team members' individual perceptions of cohesion and conflict in their teams, and their individual performance as a team member over time. The study showed a negative network centrality-cohesion relationship with significant temporal patterns, indicating that as team members perceive less degree centrality in distributed project teams, they report more team cohesion during the last four months of the project. We also found that changes in team cohesion from the first three months (i.e., early development stage) to the last four months (i.e., late development stage) of the project relate positively to changes in team member performance. Although degree centrality did not relate significantly to changes in team conflict over time, a strong inverse relationship was found between changes in team conflict and cohesion, suggesting that team conflict emphasizes a different but related aspect of how individuals view their experience with the team process. Changes in team conflict, however, did not relate to changes in team member performance. Ultimately, we showed that individuals, who are less central in the network and report higher levels of team cohesion, performed better in distributed teams over time.
The 109th Congress 2d Session S. Res 523 states its purpose was "Commending the Oregon State University baseball team for winning the 2006 College World Series." "IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESJUNE 27, 2006 Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. SMITH) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Commending the Oregon State University baseball team for winning the 2006 College World Series."
The establishment of the system of direct government in Oregon—the initiative and referendum, the direct primary, and the recall of officers—has been followed by several important movements for the reorganization of representative government in all three departments.The centralization of the state administration is involved in one of the earliest, as it is in the latest, of these movements. In 1909 and 1911 W. S. U'Ren and others of the People's Power League published a proposal for the "concentration of responsibility and power for the enforcement of the laws as nearly as practicable in one public servant," as it was expressed, by reducing the number of elective officers to two—the governor and the auditor (besides the three proposed "people's inspectors"), and making most of the other state officers as well as the sheriffs and district attorneys both the appointees and the actual subordinates of the governor. The plan was advocated as the means of securing responsibility for the enforcement of the law, economy in administration, and relief from the burden of the ballot. But the proposal was generally condemned by the press as creating "a monster political machine," a "monarchical" form of government. In view of this opposition and of the fact that the League was at the same time urging radical changes in the legislative department of the state government, the proposal was not submitted to the people.
AbstractIdentifying research teams constitutes a fundamental step in team science research, and universities harbor diverse types of such teams. This study introduces a method and proposes algorithms for team identification, encompassing the project-based research team (Pbrt), the individual-based research team (Ibrt), the backbone-based research group (Bbrg), and the representative research group (Rrg), scrutinizing aspects such as project, contribution, collaboration, and similarity. Drawing on two top universities in Materials Science and Engineering as case studies, this research reveals that university research teams predominantly manifest as backbone-based research groups. The distribution of members within these groups adheres to Price's Law, indicating a concentration of research funding among a minority of research groups. Furthermore, the representative research groups in universities exhibit interdisciplinary characteristics. Notably, significant differences exist in collaboration mode and member structures among high-level backbone-based research groups across diverse cultural backgrounds.
Reconstructing human societies with ancient molecules / Anne C. Stone -- mtDNA variation in native Americans and Siberians and its implications for the peopling of the New World / Theodore G. Schurr and Douglas C. Wallace -- Databases for Paleo-American skeletal biology research / Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz -- Peopling of the Americas / D. Gentry Steele and Joseph F. Powell -- From Jamestown to Kennewick / Douglas W. Owsley -- The native American graves Protection and Repatriation Act and first Americans research / Francis P. McManamon
