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Ua12/2/1 Back On Their Feet, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

College Heights Herald magazine about the women's basketball team. Articles include:

• Moore, Michael. Team Hopes to Win Back Fans, Fame
• Schoenbaechler, Danny. Without Star, Team Will Count on Scoring by Committee
• Farner, Keith. Conference Getting Stronger as Lady Toppers Try to Follow Suit
• Casagrande, Michael. No. 21 Louisiana Tech to Test Lady Toppers Out of Gate
• Lively, Jay. Her Vertical Takes Her a Half-inch Above the Rim – Tiffany Porter-Talbert
• Casagrande, Michael. Tiffany Diggins Expected to Step Up After Injury
• Moore, Michael. Camryn Whitaker’s Absence Leaves Team Wondering
• Eadens, Adam. Seniors Set Pace for New Season
• Buckman, Josh. Mary Cowles’ …

Naccs 29th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

The Multiple Faces of Chicanas
March 27-30, 2002
Hyatt Regency at McCormick Place

Scholar Or Baller In American Higher Education? A Visual Elicitation And Qualitative Assessment Of The Studentathlete's Mindset, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

Eminent scholar Harry Edwards (2000) has articulated three major realities of African American males in sports: a) The presumption of innate, race-linked black athletic superiority and intellectual deficiency; b) media propaganda portraying sports as a broadly accessible route to African American social and economic mobility; and c) a lack of comparably visible, high-prestige African American role models beyond the sports arena. Driven by labeling theory (Becker, 1963; Goffman, 1959), eight African American male student athletes were surveyed and interviewed. The last two points of Edwards' scholarship were investigated. "We have pretty good historical data and quantitative data about African American …

African American Racial Identity And Sport, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to synthesize and apply African American racial identity theory and related research to the development of sport and physical activity patterns and preferences in African American youth. Historically the African American over-representation in particular sports phenomena has been examined genetically, anthropocentrically, physiologically, sociologically, and psychologically. The profusion of explanations is a testimony to the complexity of this phenomena. This manuscript provides yet another compelling perspective. Cross [(1995) The psychology of Nigrescence: revising the Cross Model, in: J.G. PONTEROTTO et al. (Eds) Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage)] outlines the metamorphic …

Who Can A Baller Trust? Analyzing Public University Response To Alleged Student-Athlete Misconduct In A Commercial And Confusing Environment, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

No abstract provided.