Dr. Jeff Noonan teaches musicology, history of music, and guitar at Southeast Missouri State University. In “The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age,” Noonan states that the guitar originally came to the Western Hemisphere as a classical instrument. The guitar gradually evolved into a folk instrument after it began associating with other "lesser" instruments such as the mandolin and banjo.

Legislatures in New Jersey and Maryland passed laws which would grant those states' electoral votes in Presidential elections to the winner of the national popular vote instead of the winner of those state’s majority votes. The same legislation is now sitting on Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich’s desk, waiting to be signed. Dr. Jeremy Walling, a political science professor at Southeast Missouri State University, discusses this method of reforming the Electoral College, and why the old institution still serves a purpose.

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