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In August 1972, Newsweek proclaimed that “the person in Washington who has done the most for the women’s movement may be Richard Nixon.” Today, opinions of the Nixon administration are strongly colored by foreign policy successes and the Watergate debacle. Its accomplishments in advancing the role of women in government have been largely forgotten. Based on the “A Few Good Women” oral history project at the Penn State University Libraries, A Matter of Simple Justice illuminates the administration’s groundbreaking efforts to expand the role of women—and the long-term consequences for women in the American workplace. At the forefront of these efforts was Barbara Hackman Franklin, a staff assistant to the president who was hired to recruit more women into the upper levels of the federal government. Franklin, at the direction of President Nixon, White House counselor Robert Finch, and personnel director Fred Malek, became the administration’s de facto spokesperson on women’s issues. She helped bring more than one hundred women into executive positions in the government and created a talent bank of more than a thousand names of qualified women. The Nixon administration expanded the numbers of women on presidential commissions and boards, changed civil service rules to open thousands more federal jobs to women, and expanded enforcement of antidiscrimination laws to include gender discrimination. Also during this time, Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment and Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments into law. The story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and those “few good women” shows how the advances that were made in this time by a Republican presidency both reflected the national debate over the role of women in society and took major steps toward equality in the workplace for women.

Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home game—from the crowds and tailgates to the spectacle of the game itself—has changed significantly over the years. This richly illustrated and researched book tells the story of the structure that has evolved along with the university’s celebrated football program: the iconic Beaver Stadium. Historian Lee Stout and engineering professor Harry H. West show how Beaver Stadium came to be, including a look at its predecessors, “Old” Beaver Field, built in 1893 on a site centrally located northeast of Old Main, and “New” Beaver Field, built on the northwest corner of campus in 1909. Stout and West explore the engineering and construction challenges of the stadium and athletic fields and reveal the importance of these facilities to the history of Penn State and its cherished traditions. Packed with archival photos and fascinating stories, Lair of the Lion is a celebration of the ways in which Penn State fans, students, and athletes have experienced home games from the 1880s to the present day, and of the monumental structure that the Lions now call home.

This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium on Complex Analysis, held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in June 1991 on the occasion of the retirement of Walter Rudin. During the week of the conference, a group of about two hundred mathematicians from many nations gathered to discuss recent developments in complex analysis and to celebrate Rudin's long and productive career. Among the main subjects covered are applications of complex analysis to operator theory, polynomial convexity, holomorphic mappings, boundary behaviour of holomorphic functions, function theory on the unit disk and ball, and some aspects of the theory of partial differential equations related to complex analysis. Containing papers by some of the world's leading experts in these subjects, this book reports on current directions in complex analysis and presents an excellent mixture of the analytic and geometric aspects of the theory.

This comprehensive monograph details polynomially convex sets. It presents the general properties of polynomially convex sets with particular attention to the theory of the hulls of one-dimensional sets. Coverage examines in considerable detail questions of uniform approximation for the most part on compact sets but with some attention to questions of global approximation on noncompact sets. The book also discusses important applications and motivates the reader with numerous examples and counterexamples, which serve to illustrate the general theory and to delineate its boundaries.

This work is intended for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in functional analysis, several complex variables, analytic spaces, and differential equations.

From the outside, seventeen year old Cassandra Mackenzie seems to live a charmed, pampered life, but an unexpected pregnancy turns her world upside down. Desolate, she clings to the hope that Jack Roberts, the man she loves, will help heal the shame she feels inside. But the journey he is about to take her on is full of lies and despair. When she finds out that Jack has made plans to take her away from her life in California and move her to the rugged Canadian prairies she is devastated by his betrayal. Jack becomes cold and vicious, and she finds out that his twisted scheme is all about accumulating her families' wealth. But Jack's dreams would die in a watery grave along with his vengeance and bitter hatred. Always protected by her family, Cassandra now finds herself alone, afraid and on a fishing boat heading to Canada. Left helpless after such a devastating blow, Cassandra sinks into despair and her only hope to reclaim her life rests in trusting the kindness of strangers. Cassandra must find the courage to fight the biggest battle of her life. She is about to discover her true strength with the help of deeply caring people such as sweet forthright Aunt Mary, and Cole Turner, a man who takes her on an unforgettable, moving journey. Now, caught between her past and present, Cassandra must face the hardest decision of all, should she return to the home she deeply misses or stay in a place she has grown to love?

Being a mama has a plethora of challenges on its own, and it can be exhausting on the best of days. When it comes time to transition and grow through motherhood, what might a woman consciously do? How can she handle uncharted territory with her family, child(ren), partner, caregiver, colleagues, and the rest of the world? What sort of learning curves may she face mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually? How does she adapt to various changes, shift gears in her lifestyle, pivot in pandemic times, and embrace new normals? Let's get real and start the conversation, because Mama's Gotta Grow! We as mothers are here to support one another, and lift each other up by sharing our personal experiences. It's time for mamas all over the world to feel a sense of unity, positive reinforcement, community belonging, and to have access to information from those who have walked the path before them. The goal of this book is to uplift as many mamas as possible, from all walks of life, and to better prepare them for what's to come as they embark on their own journey through personal growth. This book provides an abundance of hope and inspiration to mamas--you can do this!