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Everyday Relating Or “The Grout Around The Tile”: Studying The Ordinary Aspects Of Personal Relationships, Dawn Braithwaite, Kathryn Dindia, Valerian Derlega, Mark Fine, Mark Leary, Rowland Miller, Julie Yingling

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

In answering the call to explore everyday aspects of personal relationships, we planned a thematic symposium for the 1997 INPR [International Network on Personal Relationships] conference in Oxford, Ohio, titled, “‘Everyday Relating’: Studying the Ordinary Aspects of Personal Relationships.” We brought leading scholars together to facilitate discussion groups to explore how this diverse group would respond to the call to focus research attention on everyday relating. We asked the participants to consider: “How should we approach and study everyday relating in personal relationships?” We gathered panelists representing diverse disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and research methods. Panelists shared their perspectives and led …

Envisioning A Capstone Course In Communication: The View From A Departmental Armchair, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

For many departments, the need to develop an assessment package has been the driving force in the consideration of adding a capstone course to their communication curricula. But there are other reasons to justify the creation of such a course. In general, the capstone course has been described by some as a course in which students are required to integrate diverse bodies of knowledge to solve a problem or formulate a policy of societal importance. The dictionary describes a capstone as the “final or crowning part.” That may be a bit presumptuous, but it illustrates the notion of what most …

Ua19/16/1 Hilltopper Soccer, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Archives Records

Media guide for 1998 soccer season.

Interestingness Of Discovered Association Rules In Terms Of Neighborhood-Based Unexpectedness, Guozhu Dong, Jinyan Li

Kno.e.sis Publications

One of the central problems in knowledge discovery is the development of good measures of interestingness of discovered patterns. With such measures, a user needs to manually examine only the more interesting rules, instead of each of a large number of mined rules. Previous proposals of such measures include rule templates, minimal rule cover, actionability, and unexpectedness in the statistical sense or against user beliefs.

In this paper we will introduce neighborhood-based interestingness by considering unexpectedness in terms of neighborhood-based parameters. We first present some novel notions of distance between rules and of neighborhood of rules. The neighborhood-based interestingness of …

Ua3/9/6/1 Programs Of Distinction, Gary Ransdell, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Gary Ransdell interview regarding programs of distinction by unidentified reporter.

Lee Kuan Yew And His Use Of Spatial-Orientational Metaphors, Siow Heng Ong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The Prime Minister's message to the nation after Singapore separated from Malaysia was one of consolidation and moving ahead. This was not an easy task for the speaker as the year before Singapore separated from Malaysia, the race riots had claimed 34 lives.1 These riots were even more prolonged than the Hertogh riots of 1950. Maintaining racial harmony and social integration was an uphill task. The hope for consolidation and a united sense of nationhood seemed distant.

On Their Own: Female Correspondents In Vietnam, Joyce Hoffmann

English Faculty Publications

Women went to Vietnam as war correspondents in unprecedented numbers in the 1960s and early 1970s. A combination of intellectual curiosity, professional longings to be at the center of a big story and a simple lust for adventure drew women to the jungles of Southeast Asia, just as those same urges had long drawn men to the spectacle of war. For a decade and a half, women begged, cajoled or simply paid their own way to Vietnam. Together they transformed the role of women as war correspondents from an aberration to a norm. But very few of them were acknowledged …

Ua19/16/1 1998-99 Hilltopper Basketball, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Archives Records

1998-99 men's basketball media guide produced by WKU Athletic Media Relations, includes athletic records and statistics, photographs, schedule and information regarding opponents.

Ua3/9/5 Russellville Speech, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at unidentified function in Russellville, Kentucky.

Ua68/13/1 Self-Study Report 1998 Part 1, Wku Journalism

WKU Archives Records

Department of Journalism Self-Study Report for re-accreditation in Journalism and Mass Communication submitted to the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Part I includes three sections:

I. How Self-Study was Conducted

II. General Information - Data Summary

III. Overview of Department

Ua68/13/1 Journalism Self-Study Report Part Ii, Section 1, Wku Journalism

WKU Archives Records

Self-Study Report for Re-accreditation in Journalism and Mass Communication submitted to the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, part II. Includes Supplemental Information and Section 1 Governance & Administration.

Ua68/13/1 Journalism Self-Study Report Part 2 Sections 5-6, Wku Journalism

WKU Archives Records

Sections 5 and 6 regarding instruction, evaluation and faculty of the 1998 Journalism self-study. Faculty members included in this section are: Robert Adams, Jo-Ann Huff Albers, Harry Allen, John Barnum, Robert Blann, Tim Broekema, Corban Goble, James Highland, Augustine Ihator, James Kenney, Wilma King-Jones, Dave LaBelle, Linda Lumsden, Mike Morse, Paula Quinn, Clif Shaluta, Carolyn Stringer, Chad Day, Alan Jolly, Sandy Merkle-Finley, Clayton Scott, Bob Skipper, Richard Sowers and Joel Wilson.

Ua68/13/1 Journalism Self-Study Report Part 2 Sections 7-12, Wku Journalism

WKU Archives Records

Sections 7-12 of the 1998 Journalism self-study:

Section 7 Internships / Work Experience

Section 8 Equipment / Facilities

Section 9 Faculty Scholarship

Section 10 Public Service

Section 11 Graduates / Alumni

Section 12 Minority / Female Representation

Local Tv News And The Death Penalty: Social Construction Of A Nebraska Execution, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt

Communication Faculty Publications

This paper focused on the September 2, 1994 execution of Harold Lamont "Walkin' Willie" Otey. Coverage of the execution by the four Omaha, Nebraska television stations was examined. The Otey execution is seen from a social construction of reality perspective. The television portrayal of a confrontation on the night of the execution between supporters and Opponents of capital punishment is seen as a mediated view of what happened that night. The public image of the death penalty as appropriate justice is seen as influenced by media coverage.

Ua12/8 Scrapbook, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook of public safety related clippings.

Getting Men Involved In Family Planning: Experiences From An Innovative Program, Directorate Of Family Planning, National Institute Of Population Research And Training, Population Council

Reproductive Health

This study was designed to determine the effect of interventions on accelerated proactive male involvement in family planning (FP) and factors influencing acceptance of male contraceptive methods. It was observed that a program can be successful if management cadres can be motivated and involved in the process. Other findings suggest the importance of education and communication materials, supply of information, orientation of fieldworkers, and mobilization of resources including hands-on refresher training. Misconceptions about male contraception (particularly vasectomy) are rampant in traditional Bangladeshi society, thus ideas should be positively expressed through visual aids. Among the various communications materials, at least one …

Dissemination Strategy, July 1995–January 1998, Population Council

Reproductive Health

During the first phase of the ANE OR/TA project (1990–95), 55 studies and 23 workshops were conducted in 9 countries. In support of this effort, a dissemination strategy was produced that guided the communications activities of the first phase. Regional communications officers were hired in New Delhi and Cairo, and the project began to systematically address its objectives of communicating the findings of all studies to a diverse array of audiences within each country, subregion, and internationally. Several activities were undertaken to create a coherent and unified framework for disseminating the results of studies and informing audiences of recent project …

An Activist's Guide To Lesbian History: A Companion To The Video Not Just Passing Through, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

This guide, designed to accompany the video Not Just Passing Through, contains guidelines for conducting oral history, forms for donating material to mainstream and community based archives, and lessons for engaging lesbian history with activism.