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The American Institute Of Physics Pricing Policy, Philip Barnett

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Review Of The Book Encyclopedia Of American Family Names, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Encyclopedia of American Family Names.

The Advocate, October 1995, Vol. 7, No. 4, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorials

Punitive Damages. Lee Wengraf (p. 2)

Farewell to a Radical [William Kunstler]. Ken Cunningham (p. 2)

Mistakes were Made (p. 2)

Masthead (p. 2)

Letters

Friendly Ammendments [sic]. Robert J. Wilson (p. 2)

Bulletin Board (p. 2)

Features

Operation Weasel. In the Face of Unprecedented Budget Cuts, CUNY Central Founds a New Security Force. SAFE Team Surveils Students, Bonds with NYPD. Lee Wengraf (p. 3)

Jerked Around. Robert Wallace (p. 3)

Annals of Administration: Why Floyd Fled. Robert Hollander (p. 4)

Which Side Are You On? An Affirmative Action Debate. Terrence Blackman and Francisco O. Villalobos …

Review Of The Book Migration From The Russian Empire: Lists Of Passengers Arriving At The Port Of New York, Vols. 1 And 2, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Migration From the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York, vols. 1 and 2.

The Invention Of "African Rhythm", Kofi Agawu

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"African ryhthm" was invented in the 1950s when, thanks to pioneering research by the Reverend A. M. Jones, Alan Merriam, Gilbert Rouget, Erich von Hornbostel, and John Blacking, among others, "African music" was construed as an essentially rhythmic phenomenon. Three decades and a sizable body of empirical research later, it is easy to see that an overriding ideology of difference (between "Africa" and the "West") motivated these early efforts. This essay reinvents "African rhythm" not by denying its own ideological construction but by engaging in an imaginary dialogue with earlier researchers in an effort to concretize that which was missing …

The Advocate, September 1995, Vol. 7, No. 3, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorials (p. 2)

Fight Back! Andrew Long.

Free Level 3 Deferral Revised. Andrew Long.

If Mumia Fries, Wall Street Burns. Robert Wallace.

In Memory [of Helio Belik].

Masthead (p. 2)

Letters (p. 2)

To the Editor. Rick Loftus.

Feed Media

Voice-Less? Robert Hollander (p. 2)

No Paper Town. Robert Wallace (p. 16)

Niosh Bosh. R.W. (p. 16)

Humor in the Permanent Recession. R.W. (p. 16)

Features

Pay More or Else! Andrew Long (p. 3)

Movin’ on Up? Grad Center to Move to B. Altman’s. Move will Provide More Space, But Won’t Bring the GSUC Together. Rob Hollander …

Review Of The Book Bibliography Of The Soviet Union: Its Predecessors And Successors, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Bibliography of the Soviet Union: Its Predecessors and Successors.

Advocate, May 15, 1995, Vol. 7, No. 2, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorial: Peace, Safety, Protection, and Doublespeak: Big Brother Comes to the Graduate Center (p. 2)

Letters (p. 3)

No Exit: A Play in the Park. Elizabeth Pallitto, Comp. Lit.

Opinion Forum: Replies to Steve O’Brien (p. 3)

Domestic Partnership: What’s Really at Issue. Anonymous.

Naturalized Sex. Robert Hollander, Linguistics.

Features

Placement Office Slated for Closure; Who will Handle Job Applications? Joanna Sharf (p. 4)

This City is Ours. Diana Agosta (p. 6)

GSUC Hires New Computer Director. R. Hollander (p. 13)

University Faculty Senate Holds Hearing on Research Foundation. R. Hollander (p. 13)

Doctoral Students Council Report: …

Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Poland, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Historical Dictionary of Poland.

Black Nations/Queer Nations Conference, Cathy Cohen

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Black lesbian and gay men have made significant accomplishments but continue to confront a number of urgent challenges, such as AIDS, unemployment, racism, and homophobia. Our future survival turns on our ability to break new ground toward overcoming these challenges. It is therefore necessary for us to dialogue, debate, and develop new strategies of resistance and community education that will advance the politics of lesbian and gay people of African descent, our communities, and society as a whole. To this end, we will sponsor an unprecedented three-day conference.

Review Of The Book International Vital Records Handbook, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book International Vital Records Handbook, 3rd ed.

Asses And Wits: The Homoerotics Of Mastery In Satiric Comedy, Mario Digangi

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This essay explores master-servant homoeroticism in three seventeenth-century satiric comedies: Ben Jonson's Epicoene and Volpone and George Chapman's The Gentleman Usher. Whereas "sodomy" always signifies social disorder, "homoerotic" useful for describing same-sex relations that are socially normative or orderly. Thus homoerotic master-servant relations become "sodomitical" only when they are perceived to threaten social order. In Epicoene, the character associated with the disorder of "sodomy" is neither Dauphine or Epicoene, but the "unnatural" Morose, even though he has not literally had sex with the boy he marries. The erotic master-servant relationship in Volpone is sodomitical because it transgresses against …

Methodological Issues In Occupational-Stress Research: Research In One Occupational Group And Its Wider Applications, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, Jaesoon Rhee, Fang Xia

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The chapter addresses a number of important methodologic issues that are relevant to occupational-stress researchers. The issues addressed have arisen in the context of an ongoing research program involving cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of stress in teachers; the issues, however, apply to occupational research in general. The first issue involves measurement strategies required in operationalizing the stress process. The focal concern is the reduction of confounding in measures of the work environment. The second issue encompasses the question of whether to sample new or veteran workers. The third issue applies to types of job stressors. The chapter describes a …

The Lesbian And Gay Past: An Interpretive Battleground, Polly Thistlethwaite

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The lesbian and gay past is an interpretive battleground that mainstream archives have refused to enter, assuming few risks in collecting, naming, or identifying archival collections. At the same time, libraries offer up worlds to those who work to unearth the secrets there.

The New York Public Library's 1994 "Becoming Visible" exhibit trumpeted The Arrival of lesbian and gay history to New York's cultural mainstream. The NYPL exhibit denies the library's role in secreting lesbian and gay history, and diminished the contributions of community-based archives to the exhibit.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

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The proliferation of publications in the lesbian, Gay, bisexual, and transgender press has allowed the weaving of a well-informed network of previously isolated individuals and communities, empowering and unifying lesbian, gay, and other sexual minorities," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender' section of Katzes' 1995 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and …

Holocaust-Denial Literature In Public Libraries: An Investigation Of Public Librarians' Attitudes Regarding Acquisition And Access, John A. Drobnicki, Carol R. Goldman, Trina R. Knight, Johanna V. Thomas

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This study was undertaken to learn about public librarians' attitudes and opinions concerning the sometimes conflicting issues of intellectual freedom, collection balance, and controversial materials. The investigation focused on Holocaust-denial literature, a body of work which tries to dispute or deny outright the historical reality of the Holocaust. The results, while ambiguous in some areas, indicate that librarians are more open to Holocaust-revisionist literature than had been predicted and, regardless of outside pressures, would acquire and provide ready access to this material in their libraries.

Licuala Palms In Brunei Dusun Ethnobotany, Jay H. Bernstein, Roy F. Ellen

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Several species of Licuala occur in the Merimbun area of Tutong district, Brunei Darussalam. One kind of Licuala, called benjiru by the local Dusun population, is often collected for sale as a vegetable. While Licuala is not generally considered an important economic plant, overharvesting in the Merimbun area suggests that conservation measures may be needed to protect it from local extinction. Besides benjiru, other kinds of Licuala recognized by the Dusun are called silad and ukang. The three kinds of Licuala do not have one overall name in the Dusun language, but constitute a covert category at the "intermediate" ethnobotanical …

Including Migration In The Development Calculus: The Dominican Republic And Other Caribbean Countries, Sherrie Baver

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Study of development in the Caribbean Basin is incomplete with- out considering the socioeconomic impact of international labor migration on this region, which is defined here as including Mexico, the Carib- bean archipelago, Central America, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Most of the seven books under review deal with the specific case of the Dominican Republic and in doing so bring new theoretical sophistication and depth to examining the link between migration and development. In this way, they expand understanding of the present-day Dominican reality, which involves massive migration by Dominicans to the United States-mainly to New York but also …

Child Sexual Abuse, Moral Panic, And The Mass Media: A Case Study In The Social Construction Of Deviance, Steven M. Gorelick

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This is a case study of newswork in a moral panic. Specifically, Stanley Cohen's concept of "moral panic" is used to examine the practices of a group of reporters who covered a widely publicized case of alleged child sexual abuse in a day-care center. Moral panics occur when a perceived threat to the social order emerges with such force, and with such little overt warning, that routine discourse about right and wrong gives way to a flood of indignation about an extraordinary breach of normal moral boundaries. Suspending normal rules governing social control, officials rush to crack down on the …

Social Consequences Of Delayed Childbearing And Infertility, Joan Liebmann-Smith

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This is a qualitative longitudinal study of delayed childbearing and infertility. The initial sample consisted of 35 women. Although they knew they might never have biological children, most did not regret postponing parenthood.

Because infertility is a socially defined illness, the doctor-patient relationship was fraught with conflict. It tended to follow a set pattern: from dependency to disappointment to discord to dissociation. The optimal doctor-patient relationship was mutual participation.

Infertility adversely affected marriages. The "medicalization of masturbation" and intercourse caused many marital problems. Couples also argued over how often and with whom to discuss infertility, when to stop treatment and …