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Cal Jillson, Political Science, flooding no threat to proposed Trinity Parkway

WFAA Originally Posted: May 29, 2015 DALLAS – There’s a lot of water in the Trinity River running through Dallas, but not enough water to reach where the proposed Trinity Parkway toll road would be. The Army Corps of Engineers crunched the numbers Tuesday, saying the river crested Sunday at 40.18 feet — that’s a […]

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Joseph F. Kobylka, Political Science, “The Law, the Constitution, and Obergefell v. Hodges.”

7 p.m. June 4, 2015 Dedman Life Sciences Building Harold Jeskey Lecture Hall, Room 131 SMU Joseph F. Kobylka, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies will discuss the impact of the pending case and imminent decision being made by the Supreme Court for same sex couples in Texas and around the […]

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Cal Jillson, Political Science, Deadline Looms for Texas Senate

KTRK News Radio Originally Posted: May 18, 2015 The Texas Senate faces a Friday deadline much like the House did last week which killed many top-priority bills for both parties, such as raising the criminal age of responsibility, direct sales for Tesla and expanding gay rights. No measure is completely dead, they can still be […]

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia: Why the Saudi King Snubbed President Obama

Time Originally Posted: MAy 15, 2015 By Robert W. Jordan King Salman of Saudi Arabia has declined an invitation to participate in President Barack Obama’s Gulf summit meeting in Camp David this week. Both the United States and Saudi Arabia are working to minimize the fallout from this decision, but from the Saudi standpoint, this […]

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Seven Dedman College professors receive emeritus status in 2014-15

Congratulations to the following professors who received emeritus status in 2014-2015. The professors, and their dates of service:   Christine Buchanan, Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1977-2015     Bradley Kent Carter, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1970-2015     Anthony Cortese, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, […]

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Call Jillson, Political Science, in Bloomberg Politics

Bloomberg America’s Gay Corporate Warrior Wants to Bring Full Equality to Red States Excerpt from article: “Conservative Republican control has allowed them to dilute that urban strength,” says Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University …   In 1992, Tim Gill was living a Rocky Mountain version of the familiar tech dream. […]