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City Of Bellingham: 1995 Fairhaven Neighborhood Survey, Western Washington University. Office Of Survey Research, Bellingham (Wash.). Planning And Community Development Department

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A survey of residents in the Fairhaven neighborhood on their opinions about the neighborhood.

City Of Bellingham: 1995 Birchwood Neighborhood Survey, Western Washington University. Office Of Survey Research

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

survey of residents in the Birchwood neighborhood on their opinions about the neighborhood.

Klipsun Magazine, 1995, Volume 26, Issue 01 - December, Heather Kimbrough

Klipsun Magazine

Several Bellingham residents and Western students were among 30,000 delegates who traveled to China this summer for a parallel forum in Huairou. As the feature by David Lynch on page 26 discovers, the forum served as an energy booster and supportive ven­ture. And although the conference ended two months ago, these women remain enthusiastic. They’ve continued the struggle for change. Here is a look at the outcome — the fledgling results. This is what Lynch, who lived in China for six years, tried to focus on.

A global networking took place in China, with women exchanging ad­ dresses and phone …

Local Magnetic Properties Of Antiferromagnetic Febr2, J. Peloth, R. A. Brand, Takele Seda, M. M. Pereira De Azevedo, W. Kleeman, Ch. Binek, J. Kushauer, D. Bertrand

Physics & Astronomy

The antiferromagnet FeBr₂ has been studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy in external fields both in the metamagnetic region below the multicritical temperature T_MCP and in the second-order transition region above. The local magnetization shows that the metamagnetic transition occurs by spin flips, as in simple models. However, in the second-order transition region, the local magnetization of the sublattice oriented antiparallel to the external field varies continuously but remains parallel to the c axis. This can only be understood if the external magnetic field induces strong transversal spin precession of the moments on the antiparallel sublattice. This shows that the …

Window On Western, 1995, Volume 02, Issue 02, Kerry Tessaro, Alumni And Public Information Offices, Western Washington University

Window on Western

No abstract provided.

Wwu Faculty Survey Concerning Semester Versus Quarter Schedules, Fall 1995, Western Washington University. Office Of Survey Research

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A survey done at the request of the Faculty Senate, this question, among many others, was asked of Western faculty in the Faculty Survey Concerning Semester versus Quarter Schedules, administered by the Office of Survey Research and analyzed in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Assessment and Testing.

Legacy And Testament: The Story Of Columbia River Gillnetters – Book Review, Chris Friday

History Faculty and Staff Publications

Who controls the commons and with what end in mind? Irene Martin proposes that Columbia River gillnetters have rights to fish for salmon that are "rooted in custom and community" (p. 109). Since the 1920s, canning companies on the Columbia began to buy fish from independent boat owners rather than running fleets of their own. As a result, small groups of those fishermen established "drift rights" by clearing snags and debris from the stretches of the river bottom. Competition among fishermen, complicated by the sale and inheritance of drift rights, led to court battles that confirmed the legality of drift …

1994 Follow-Up Of 1985 Western Washington University Freshmen, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Executive Summary: In 1994, first-time in-coming frosh who entered Western Washington University in 1985 were resurveyed. Survey administered were able to contact and receive completed survey forms from 85 of the original1180 frosh who filled out a CIRP (frosh) survey at Western in 1985. Though the number of participants nine years later was small compared to the original sample, it was also fairly representative. The gender ratio between the two years was nearly identical, as was ethnicity. Most of the class of 1985 had partners in 1994 (74.1%), though only half reported being married (50.2%). A majority had not had …

Huxley Hotline, 1995, October 17, Traci Edge, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Window On Western, 1995, Volume 02, Issue 01, Lori Mcgriff Boroughs, Alumni And Public Information Offices, Western Washington University

Window on Western

No abstract provided.

The Planet, 1995, Fall, Deanna Woolston, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Making Progress Toward The Degree, Carl Simpson, Scott Matson, Linda D. (Linda Darlene) Clark

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Introduction Students' ability to complete degrees in a timely manner has become one of the key new issues in higher education. Enrollment increases along with resource cuts have created increasing problems for student progress, which Western has been confronting through curricular changes, enrollment management policy changes, and higher workload for faculty and staff. At the same time, increases in tuition have highlighted students' felt need for efficient progress. Two recent findings illustrate the impact of these pressures on the university. First, nearly half (44.9%) of students who entered Western in Fall, 1994, said at least one course they wanted to …

Deciding On A Major At Western, Carl Simpson, Linda D. (Linda Darlene) Clark

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

DECIDING ON A MAJOR AT WESTERN Introduction Choosing a major has always been one of the major hurdles college students face. Currently, it may be even more problematic than usual. The decision retains its career and life planning implications, and there is some evidence that this is a time of relative indecision in this regard. Students report wanting more advising than they are getting; many report being at college without a definite idea why; there is less popular push to any one type of major than previously no 1980's panic to get into business, no 1970's stampede into professional schools, …

A Profile Of Selected Characteristics Of The 1994 Western Washington University Graduating Class, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Executive Summary: Information for this report was obtained from the Student Tracking System. Findings are intended to provide insight into various characteristics of the 2100 graduates who matriculated during the 1993-94 academic year. Generally, Western's 1994 graduates were mostly female (57.8% versus 42.2% male); mostly transfers (53.5% versus 42.1% natives, or students who began at Western as first-time fresh); and overwhelmingly current Washington residents (97.5%). Some 1994 graduates chose not to disclose their ethnicity (5.4%). Of the rest, the majority were Euro-Americans (85.4%). Ethnic-minorities made up 8.4% of 1994 graduates, up from 7.0% in 1993. Time-to-degree analysis for yearly cohorts …

Bellingham School Bond Survey 1995-Revised 9/13/95, Western Washington University. Office Of Survey Research

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A survey asking for opinions about Bellingham school bonds.

Klipsun Magazine, 1995, Volume 25, Issue 06 - September, Mara Applebaum

Klipsun Magazine

Money. We worry about it constantly, wonder how we'll pay our next bill, struggle to make ends meet. Strangely enough, though, we usually manage to find a way to buy the latest Soundgarden CD or a gorgeous new shirt from the Gap. Wolfish manufacturers often latch on to the Red-Riding-Hood innocence of college students, guiding us down a well-disguised path to poverty. In our special consumerism section, writers address the woes of credit, junk mail, the infamous lure of Columbia House and choosing cheap products over their "greener" competitors.

Though we can identify with such concerns, they pale in comparison …

The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (Cirp) Survey Of Western Washington University Freshmen For The 1994 In-Coming Class, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Executive Summary: This report provides summaries, in the form of text, tables, and graphs, of student responses to the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Student Information Survey for Western Washington University's 1994 in-coming frosh class. The CIRP has been used since 1966 to gather nationwide normative data on the characteristics, attitudes, values, educational achievements, and future goals of in-coming frosh, and has been used at Western since 1971. The two main sections of the report are as follows: 1) general trends, with national findings compared to those at Western; 2) an in-depth study of issues related to college financing. Nationally, …

Functional Significance Of Varicies In The Muricid Gastropod Ceratostoma Foliatum, Thomas H. Carefoot, Deborah A. Donovan

Biology Faculty and Staff Publications

Functional significance of varices in the mur­icid gastropod Ceratostoma foliatum was investigated from the standpoints of (1) frequency of landing in the two upside-down orientations after short vertical falls of less than five body lengths through seawater and energy costs of righting from these upside-down positions, and (2) scaling relationships of varix areas with other body dimensions. Field manipulations showed that C.foliatum occupied habitats that mostly permit short falls of less than five body lengths upon dislodgment, as might occur during predation by fish. After short vertical falls in the laboratory, animals landed 48% of the time on their ap­erture …

Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender And The Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 – Book Review, Chris Friday

History Faculty and Staff Publications

Dana Frank argues that Seattle's working people rode an unprecedented wave of power and control from the World War I boom economy to the early 1920s. During that era, not only did Seattle trade unions give some grudging limited support to unionization among women, African Americans, and Japanese Americans, they also sought to create a political economy controlled by and for the working class. Leaders of the Seattle Central Labor Council attempted to wield the "purchasing power" of union members to carry out consumer boycotts against "unfair" retailers in the city, to establish worker "owned" cooperative enterprises such as grocery …

An Introduction To Using Modflow The Usgs Modular Finite-Difference Ground-Water Computer Modeling System, Jessica N. Pfundt

Geology Graduate and Undergraduate Student Scholarship

MODFLOW is the U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) Modular Finite-Difference Ground-Water computer modeling system. This program incorporates basic concepts derived from previous computer groundwater modeling programs. MODFLOW improves upon these programs because it is easy to modify, simple to use and maintain, can be executed on a variety of computers with minimal changes, and is relatively efficient with respect to computer memory and execution time (McDonald and Harbaugh, 1988).

Academic Integrity Survey, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Bradley Plemons, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Executive Summary: During the 1962-63 academic year, Western participated in a nationwide survey on cheating. In 1993, that survey was recreated and readministered, nationally and at Western, through the auspices of The Center for Academic Integrity--located in the Graduate School of Management at Rutgers University. For the 1993 administration, 302 valid survey forms were obtained from Western students, compared to 54 responses from students in 1962. In both years survey respondents were mostly female (53.7% in 1962 and 63.8% in 1993), and mostly white, non-Hispanic (100% in 1962 and 92.1% in 1993). Most other demographic comparisons of the 1962 and …

Foreigners, Immigrants, Elections And Violence: Contextual Effects In Switzerland, California And Germany, Molly C. (Molly Cervinia) Laster

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Throughout history the relationship between immigrants and native inhabitants in various parts of the world has proven to be complex and often difficult. In different places at different times immigrants have been accepted, scorned, despised, welcomed, or misunderstood.

There are two main streams of thought on how majority groups interact with and feel about minority groups. Conflicting theories on this topic have been proposed; a theory based on racial animosity and the contextual theory, which states that majority groups will be more supportive of minority groups with more contact. The theory of increased animosity with increased contact was laid out …

Klipsun Magazine, 1995, Volume 25, Issue 05 - June, Mara Applebaum

Klipsun Magazine

On the cool spring afternoon when my editorial staff and I sat down to choose from the stories submitted for this issue, we couldn't help but notice the unusual amount of articles focusing on women. Granted, most of our writers were female, but I was worried we might be deemed radical journalists who were using the magazine to promote a personal agenda.

Some editors were overjoyed with the idea. ''What's wrong with having one issue of Klipsun take a feminist slant? It's about time!" Others were not so enthusiastic. They envisioned the magazine becoming one of alternative media's men-bashers, intent …

Ethnic-Minority Student Opinion Survey, Theodore W. Pratt Jr., Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Note: This report was scanned in 2013 for OSR's archives and the scanning is poor. The subject population for this study was Western's undergraduate ethnic-minority students. Besides all being students of color, respondents were primarily female (62.1% vs. 37.9% male), and mostly between 18 and 25 years of age (83.7%). Most were upper-division undergraduates (juniors/seniors 69.0% vs. 26.7% frosh/sophomores). The survey asked students if they had used any of a list of college services. If respondents had used the service, they were asked to describe their level of satisfaction with it, using a five-point scale ranging from very satisfied to …

Spatial Variation Of Naticid Gastropod Predation In The Eocene Of North-America, Thor A. Hansen, Patricia H. Kelley

Geology Faculty Publications

Although, the fossil record of naticid gastropod drilling has played an important role in the controversy over predator-prey evolution, little is known about variation of drilling frequencies within single horizons or how predation patterns are influenced by environmental variables. Without an understanding of spatial variation in drilling, temporal patterns in drilling are difficult to interpret. We surveyed 27,554 specimens of molluscs from the Cook Mountain interval (upper middle Eocene) and Jackson Group (late Eocene) of the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain to document spatial variation in naticid drilling frequencies. The Jackson Group assemblages from the Moodys Branch and Yazoo …

1994-95 Sch & Fte Faculty Reports, Ernest Sams

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Student Credit Hours; GUR Courses; Sections; FTE Faculty Allocated and Used; Compare with 1 year ago; Measures per FTE Faculty

Portfolio Analysis And Cognitive Development At Fairhaven College, Marie Eaton, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Executive Summary: This study was undertaken to establish a technique for quantifying nontraditional assessment outcomes data, to ascertain the effectiveness of the Fairhaven methodology of education, and to provide feedback about that methodology to Fairhaven instructors and administrators. Two assessment tools were utilized: the Perry scheme and the Measure of Intellectual Development (MID). The Perry scheme is a stratified model of cognitive development; the MID is a rating system that allows researchers to assign scores to Perry scheme positions. For both, student writing samples are the most commonly used form of input data. In lieu of letter grades, Fairhaven students …

Klipsun Magazine, 1995, Volume 25, Issue 04 - April, Ryan Mcmenamin

Klipsun Magazine

Male, female, black, white, brown, yellow, red, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, rich and poor.

These traits, along with many others, are used to separate people into groups within our culture. Because someone was inherently given these traits, they could be considered by others as more or less of a person. This was true during the era of slavery and internment, and is unfortunately still true today.

Three years ago, I attended Florida State University, where the student body was much more representative of the national ethnic makeup than Western. Since I didn’t have a car, I was dependent …

The Operator (Sgn X) D²/Dx² Is Similar To A Selfadjoint Operator In L² (R), Branko Ćurgus, Branko Najman

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Krein space operator-theoretic methods are used to prove that the operator (sgn x) d²/dx² is similar to a selfadjoint operator in the Hilbert space L²(R).

The Planet, 1995, Spring, Darren Nienaber, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.