Hour after hour, box by box, and bag by bag, the team of students transferred the thousands of food items warehoused in a second-floor conference room at the Fletcher Library on Arizona State University's West campus. Employing techniques they had developed over the six weeks of a campus-wide food drive, they formed a chain, tossing food back from the conference room to a waiting cart, then down an elevator, to a 16-foot rental truck waiting at the library loading dock. There, another student team, most sweating profusely in the 95 degrees of a spring day in Phoenix, rolled the items into the truck and stacked them. Ultimately, the truck would sag under the weight of tens of thousands of food items beginning the first leg of a journey to a community center that serves hot lunches to children in some of the poorest shantytown neighborhoods of Nogales, Mexico.The authors would like to thank for their support and guidance in the project Barbara Tinsley, Ila Abernathy, Esther Torres, Francisco Trujillo, Jessi Pederson, Lisa Steenson, Emily Taylor, and Esmeralda Gonzalez; and for their helpful comments the anonymous referees for this journal.

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This section lists upcoming book publications across the broad field of political science. This list is fully reader-generated. If your first-edition book is scheduled for publication in the three months before publication of the next issue of PS, enter the details of publication in the box found at PS's web site: www.apsanet.org/section_223.cfm. We hope that spreading word of upcoming work will help keep our members even more attune to new scholarship within the discipline.

In memoriam.

The 104th Annual Meeting returns to Boston, Massachusetts, August 28–31. Program Chairs Jane Junn of Rutgers University and Edmond Keller of the University of California, Los Angeles, will present 47 thematic divisions that explore the meeting's theme, “Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities.” Organized around these divisions, over 700 panels and roundtable presentations will cover every major field of political science, area studies, and international relations.

APSA will host short courses on Wednesday, August 27, prior to the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston, as an added opportunity for attendees to enhance their knowledge and teaching and research skills. This is a preliminary list of proposed short courses; a complete list will be printed in the July issue of PS. For the most updated information on short courses, please consult the Online Program at www.apsanet.org/2008. For further details or to find out how your group or organization can host a short course, visit www.apsanet.org/content_4650.cfm

Here's a preview of some of the articles that will be published in the July 2008 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics.

News and notes.

A Look at the Centennial Center for Political Science & Public Affairs.

Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru is professor of American politics and international politics at Faculty of Law of Kansai University, located in Osaka, Japan. She has written on various aspects of American politics and U.S. foreign policies, as well as led several joint projects, focusing on the function of American democracy. Throughout her academic career, her interests have rested on grassroots activists, and she has tried to connect her works with the activities on the ground.

My nascent book project seeks to identify and assess the effectiveness of European state strategies since September 11, 2001, to navigate the policy contradictions raised by the securitization of immigration. Framing my research is a nearly universal dilemma for politics and policy in a post-September 11 international and domestic security environment: Is the liberal state's traditional role as the guarantor of the physical safety of its citizens reconcilable with its pursuit of expansive immigration policies and inclusive immigrant incorporation policies? While I cannot answer this question definitively, I hope to illuminate the broad parameters of states' policy making freedom under the unfavorable domestic and transnational security conditions within Europe and, by extension, other advanced industrial democracies including the United States.

In recognition of their outstanding academic and personal achievements, APSA is pleased to announce the APSA Minority Fellows for the 2008–2009 academic year. Awards are based on the students' undergraduate course work, GPA, GRE scores, extracurricular activities, and recommendations from political science faculty. A selection committee designated 15 Fellows to receive financial support from the Association. Members of the selection committee for this year's Fellows included Jessica Lavariega Monforti, University of Texas, Pan American; Angela Lewis, University of Alabama; and Janelle Wong, University of Southern California. This year's Minority Fellows are:

On January 19, 2008, long-time APSA member and Damon Wells Professor Emeritus of political science at Yale University H. (Holt) Bradford Westerfield died from complications of Parkinson's disease in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. He was 79. Douglas Martin's obituary in the January 27 issue of The New York Times provided a full account of his illustrious career, the details of which do not need to be repeated here. The APSA archives would not, however, have included the fact that over four decades of teaching at Yale, from 1957 when he joined the faculty as an assistant professor of international relations until his retirement in 2001, Professor Westerfield's largely undergraduate classes attracted some 10,000 students. Those classes included President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Senators John Kerry and Joseph I. Lieberman, and other public officials who “… cited his influence in framing their approach to public policy. Mr. Cheney repeatedly said Dr. Westerfield helped shape his hard-line approach to foreign policy. But an article in The Nation in 2004,” noted Martin, “reported that Dr. Westerfield came to regret the hard-nosed lessons Mr. Cheney said he had learned. Dr. Westerfield explained that his own politics had become much more dovish since.”

New media historically have had difficulty obtaining access to the U. S. Congress. As technological changes have shifted the competitive balance among news organizations, the more established media have traditionally fought back by attempting to exclude the upstarts from the corridors of power. For example, Associate Senate Historian Donald Ritchie (1991) recounts the struggle by radio to gain a foothold against the opposition of entrenched newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s. The newspaper-controlled Standing Committee of Correspondents, which was responsible for granting credentials to the Capitol Hill Press Gallery, refused to credential radio reporters unless they also worked for newspapers. The dispute was finally settled in 1939 when Congress created a separate Radio Gallery, making Congress “the only national legislature to divide its galleries among different forms of media” (Ritchie 1991, 217).I thank Jeffrey Biggs and Jerry Gallegos for helpful suggestions. Generous financial support for this research was provided by the Congressional Fellowship Program of the American Political Science Association.

Congressional Fellowship Program 2007–2008 office assignments.

In 2007, PS: Political Science and Politics published myriad articles covering a vast range of topics. Symposia alone in 2007 focused on the 2006 Mexican election, the state of the editorial cartoon, the U.S. military, how to incorporate the politics of the Iberian Peninsula into your syllabus, and the future of state election reform. Upcoming symposia will focus on institutional review boards, research ethics, gender and the presidency, and French politics. And remember, these are only the symposia. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and on the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a wide array of topics, calls for an equally broad stable of expert reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and open-mindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalism and generosity of those who contribute their time to read and evaluate the work of others. The editors of PS thank the following scholars, who served as manuscript reviewers between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2007. Very special thanks go to those scholars whose names appear in bold; they reviewed for PS in both 2006 and 2007.

In a legal brief filed in federal court, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stated that by the end of March it would be releasing approximately 10,000 pages of Senator Hillary Clinton's (D-NY) daily schedule records from her time as first lady. However, the Archives told the court it would be one to two years before it could begin processing the approximately 20,000 pages of telephone logbooks that were requested by the watchdog group Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2006. The Archives says the delay is exacerbated by the fact that the Clinton Presidential Library has only six archivists on staff for processing all of its pending FOIA requests for textual and electronic records. The Archives also stated that there are currently 30 FOIA requests pending ahead of Judicial Watch's telephone logbook request and that the group has no legal basis to move ahead of others in the queue.

On the February 28, 1947, by way of royal decree, the University of Oslo (UiO) was allowed to grant a degree in political science; Norway's first department of political science was established at the same university in 1957. Today, 60 years later, political science departments can be found on each of Norway's largest university campuses; their graduates are active and evident locally, nationally, and internationally—with jobs in both the public and private sectors. While it is difficult to provide an accurate survey of the breadth and depth of contemporary Norwegian political science, this short article aims to supply a brief historical and institutional map for American political scientists interested in working in Norway or with Norwegian political scientists.I would like to thank Nils Petter Gleditsch, Torbjørn Knutsen, Ola Listhaug, Willy Martinusen, and Knut Erik Solem for their helpful advice and comments. Any errors and omissions are obviously the sole responsibility of the author.