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Faculty Forum : Blue Sky Strategic Plan Pathway 1, Jake Ward, University Of Maine Office Of Academic Affairs Oct 2017

Faculty Forum : Blue Sky Strategic Plan Pathway 1, Jake Ward, University Of Maine Office Of Academic Affairs

General University of Maine Publications

The Blue Sky Strategic Plan’s Pathway 1 is entitled “Serving Our State: Catalyzing Maine’s Revitalization”. As the Pathway 1 Chair, Jake Ward, Vice President for Innovation & Economic Development, presented to the University community a review of initiatives and accomplishments related to Pathway 1. He led a discussion and gathered feedback. UMaine community members were encouraged to attend. For those unable to attend, a video of the Forum and an opportunity to provide feedback were available through the webpage after the Forum.


The Call To End Conscription, Commission For Justice And Peace Oct 2017

The Call To End Conscription, Commission For Justice And Peace

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet with the statement by the South African Catholic Bishops Conference explaining its call to end conscription.


Fast For A Just Peace, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Fast For A Just Peace, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s “Troops out of the Townships” campaign and three week fast. Includes biographies of conscientious objectors, Ivan Toms, Harold Winkler, and Richard Steele.


Deciding About The Army? Conscription Counselling Service, Conscription Counselling Service Oct 2017

Deciding About The Army? Conscription Counselling Service, Conscription Counselling Service

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet from the Conscription Counselling Service explaining the options for citizens in South Africa who are called to report for national service in the South Africa Defence Force.


Don't Give A War Toy This Christmas, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Don't Give A War Toy This Christmas, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer from the End Conscription Campaign advocating against the purchase of children’s toys that resemble weapons for Christmas.


Count The Cost Of War, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Count The Cost Of War, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer from the End Conscription Campaign addressing the monetary and emotional costs of the South African Defence Force’s efforts.


Rock Against The War, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Rock Against The War, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer promoting an event sponsored by the End Conscription Campaign.


What Has The Cost Of The War To Do With The Price Of Eggs?, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

What Has The Cost Of The War To Do With The Price Of Eggs?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer from the End Conscription Campaign advocating against military spending and a reallocation of those funds to agricultural efforts due to malnutrition and hunger for South African children.


End Conscription Campaign, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

End Conscription Campaign, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer explaining the beliefs and positions of the End Conscription Campaign.


Stop The Call Up, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Stop The Call Up, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A booklet explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s work and its positions regarding migrant labor, racial classification, detention and security legislation, farming, purchasing power, forced removals, pass arrests, migrant workers, and the South African Defence Force’s involvement with South African townships.


Working For A Just Peace, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Working For A Just Peace, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s lobbying efforts.


Conscripts!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup Oct 2017

Conscripts!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet explaining why the End Conscription Campaign is fasting and praying for conscripts due to the association of the South African Defence Force with apartheid.


Back To School Blues?, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Back To School Blues?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet promoting the End Conscription Campaign’s event to show the movie “Hair” (1979) to open a conversation about war and military service.


Township Residents!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup Oct 2017

Township Residents!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet explaining why the End Conscription Campaign is fasting and praying for South African Township residents as the South African Defence Force maintains a presence in the townships.


Namibians!, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Namibians!, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet explaining why the End Conscription Campaign is fasting and praying for Namibia due to the South Africa Defence Army’s illegal occupation.


War Is Not Compulsory: Let's Choose Peace, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

War Is Not Compulsory: Let's Choose Peace, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet calling for people to join the efforts of the End Conscription Campaign.


War Is Not Compulsory, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

War Is Not Compulsory, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure calling for people to join the efforts of the End Conscription Campaign.


The Problem With This General Election..., End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

The Problem With This General Election..., End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet calling South African voters to join the efforts of the End Conscription Campaign and contact their election candidates and the press to advocate against conscription.


Conscripts Need Alternatives: Support Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Conscripts Need Alternatives: Support Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure in English and Afrikaans advocating for support of Ivan Toms, a founding member of the End Conscription Campaign who had formerly been drafted into national service with the South African Defence Force (SADF) as a non-combatant doctor. In 1983, Toms vowed to never serve the SADF again.


What's Your Choice?, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

What's Your Choice?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s position against compulsory military service and proffering alternative non-military services to the country.


We Demand The Right To Speak, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

We Demand The Right To Speak, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure documenting the End Conscription Campaign’s “Declaration for the Right to Speak” and information about the declaration.


Conscription Crisis: The Role Of The Church, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup Oct 2017

Conscription Crisis: The Role Of The Church, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure issued by the End Conscription Campaign’s Churches Group, explaining the scope of religious pacifism against compulsory military service in South Africa.


Ecc Churches Group, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup Oct 2017

Ecc Churches Group, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure providing information about the End Conscription Campaign’ Churches Group.


What Is The End Conscription Campaign?, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

What Is The End Conscription Campaign?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure explaining the scope of the End Conscription Campaign, its history, and its efforts in South Africa.


Keep The Townships Clean, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Keep The Townships Clean, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A promotional sticker created by the End Conscription Campaign.


Weeping And Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering Of Early Christian Hell As A Threat To Masculinity, Meghan Henning Oct 2017

Weeping And Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering Of Early Christian Hell As A Threat To Masculinity, Meghan Henning

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter draws upon the conceptions of gendered bodily suffering found in the ancient medical corpus (Hippocrates, Galen and inscriptions), martyrdom literature, and the Roman judicial rhetoric of punitive suffering to read apocalyptic depictions of bodily suffering as “effeminizing” punishments, which in turn utilized masculinity and bodily normativity to police behavior, and equated early Christian ethical norms with masculinity and bodily “health.” By highlighting the different types of bodies found in these texts, as well as the ways in which Christian norms interacted with Greek and Roman notions of the body, the chapter shows how masculinity and ancient notions of …


Momo, Momo, Tsos Oct 2017

Momo, Momo, Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

When Momo was only nine years old, he returned home to find his parents and his six sisters and four brothers had been killed in their own home. Sometime after that, he and his uncle left Somalia together to live in Yemen. He stayed in Yemen until he was sixteen, but when things became unsafe there, he moved to Libya. He had hoped to get on a boat in Libya to go somewhere for a new life, but he was thrown in prison instead. He was harassed and told to ask his family to send money so that he could …


Left Bank Of The Hudson: Jersey City And The Artists Of 111 1st Street [Table Of Contents & Introduction], David Goodwin Oct 2017

Left Bank Of The Hudson: Jersey City And The Artists Of 111 1st Street [Table Of Contents & Introduction], David Goodwin

History

In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and writers dreamt and toiled within the building’s labyrinthine halls. The local arts scene flourished, igniting hope that Jersey City would emerge as the next grassroots center of the art world. However, a rising real estate market coupled with a provincial political establishment threatened the community at 111 1st Street. The artists found themselves entangled in a …


Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2017

Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 619. Administrative papers and programming material from the Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society which was headquartered in Warren County, Kentucky, although some members came from adjoining counties. The group formed for educational, recreational, and conservation purposes in 1980 and disbanded sometime around 2009.


Strategic Plan Assessment Pathway 1 Serving Our State: Catalyzing Maine’S Revitalization, University Of Maine Oct 2017

Strategic Plan Assessment Pathway 1 Serving Our State: Catalyzing Maine’S Revitalization, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine's strategic plan assessment (Pathway 1 Serving Our State: Catalyzing Maine’s Revitalization) of the Blue Sky Plan.