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North American Librarians Delegation To The People's Republic Of China, Committee On East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

Mr. Chou Hung-li, President of the China National Publishing Industry Trading Corporation (Chung-kuo ch'u-pan tui-wai mao-i sung kung-ssu) (CNPITC), invited representatives from various libraries across the United States to take part in the North American Librarians Delegation to China for ten days in October 1994. The participants included Mr. Wen-kai Kung (Associate Curator, East Asian Collection, Yale University), Mr. Kevin Lin (East Asian Librarian, University of Texas at Austin), Ms. Chung-ming Lung (East Asian Bibliographer, Alderman Library, University of Virginia), Ms. Beatrice Ohta (Chinese Team Leader, Library of Congress), Ms. Karen T. Wei (Head, Asian Library, University of Illinois), Ms. …

Edwards V. Aguillard: Court History And Implications For Legislation, Wendy Call

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

An affirmative chorus rose in the 1981 Louisiana Legislature to enact the "Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public School Instruction" Act. This statute, which required public school teachers to give equal time to creation- and evolution-science, set in motion a chain of litigation with the momentum to reach the Supreme Court of the United States as Edwards v. Aguillard. Rooted in more than a century of religious controversy surrounding Darwin's The Origin of Species, the threat of religious-educational enmeshment brought Edwards to the threshold of First Amendment interpretation. Although Louisiana's Balanced Treatment Act was not upheld as constitutional …

Impediments To The Cultivation Of The Folk School Spirit In A North American Context: The Case Of Grand View College, Dennis Bielfeldt

The Bridge

In the 1995-96 academic year Grand View College will

celebrate its first hundred years of life. In anticipation of

this milestone, suggestions have been made to designate

1994-95 the "Year of Grundtvig," and to formally observe

with the entire Grand View community the influence of

the great Dane upon the college and its educational philosophy.

What, after all, could be more fitting for a college

whose most recent Academic Mission Statement proudly

declares its founding "by Danish immigrants who sought

to give the educational vision and ideals of N.F.S.

Grundtvig an institutional presence?"