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1990

Utah State University

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Aids: Implications To Society And Approaches To Control, Robert W. Sidwell Nov 1990

Aids: Implications To Society And Approaches To Control, Robert W. Sidwell

Faculty Honor Lectures

It is perhaps a measure of today's society that a new disease of potentially world-wide implication does not gain national or international attention until a famous person contracts it. This was particularly seen with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) when it became known that Rock Hudson of movie and TV acclaim was dying of it. By the time the celebrated pianist and entertainer Liberace died of AIDS, the various public health agencies around the world had begun to focus on the problem, and enormous sums of money were being committed toward its control. Today, more U.s. dollars are budgeted for AIDS …

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Still On The Beat (Or Would Be): J Educators Value Professional Experience, Want More, Ted Pease Oct 1990

Still On The Beat (Or Would Be): J Educators Value Professional Experience, Want More, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

Journalism and Mass Communication educators have some impressive professional credentials. This survey shows many itch for a chance to get back to the newsroom part-time to keep their skills and knowledge sharp and maintain industry contacts. Many say such professional activity improves both their teaching and research.

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A Ranking Of Critical Issues Facing American Families, Glen O. Jenson Ph.D, Ted W. Warstadt Sep 1990

A Ranking Of Critical Issues Facing American Families, Glen O. Jenson Ph.D, Ted W. Warstadt

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In April 1990 a documented list of 33 Critical Issues Facing American Families was sent to a nationwide sample of 1,23 I persons. This list identified and briefly overviewed various social concerns which effect the family as an institution. The sample was selected by State Extension Specialists serving the needs of families. Each specialist was asked to identify 20 people from their state. The sample included persons who were professional staff working for Extension, University teachers/researchers in a family-related discipline, public school educators, and other persons who had and had not used Extension Services in the recent past.

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Surviving To The Top: Views Of Minoritynewspaper Executives, Ted Pease, Guido H. Stempel Iii Jul 1990

Surviving To The Top: Views Of Minoritynewspaper Executives, Ted Pease, Guido H. Stempel Iii

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

There are painfully few nonwhites among the ranks of top newspaper executives. Those who have survived in the business long enough to become assistant managing editors or higher frankly discuss the barriers they encountered on the way up, and the blows that knocked some minority colleagues off the ladder.

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Ducking The Diversity Issue: Newspapers’ Real Failure Is Performance, Ted Pease Jul 1990

Ducking The Diversity Issue: Newspapers’ Real Failure Is Performance, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

Perhaps we've paid too much attention to issues of hiring minorities and diversifying newsrooms, avoiding the tougher questions of content, coverage and newspapers' role in a pluralistic society. After each annual newsroom nose-count is completed, where do newspapers stand on issues of performance?

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On The Horns Of A Dilemma, The Uneasy Partnership Between Advocacy And Social Science, Karl R. White Apr 1990

On The Horns Of A Dilemma, The Uneasy Partnership Between Advocacy And Social Science, Karl R. White

Faculty Honor Lectures

Most of us living in the United States enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world. Taken together, the technological, cultural, recreational, medical, and educational opportunities of our society are unsurpassed. But we also face an abundance of critical social problems. Widely quoted and seemingly accurate statistics which describe such problems include, but are not limited to the following.

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A Documented List Of Critical Issues Facing American Families, Glen O. Jenson Ph.D, Ted W. Warstadt Mar 1990

A Documented List Of Critical Issues Facing American Families, Glen O. Jenson Ph.D, Ted W. Warstadt

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Many individual problems are known to be related to dysfunctional families such as substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, family violence, childhood and adolescent depression, runaways, early teen sexual acting out, civil disobedience, and other family and social problems. Attitudes expressed by people in the 1980s have shown an increased emphasis for meaningful, fulfilling, interpersonal relationships. This focus will likely continue in the following decade. This type of fulfillment is sought more within the family than in other societal institutions.

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Nrj Index, 1984-1989., Ted Pease Jan 1990

Nrj Index, 1984-1989., Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

Educating the newsroom. Most of us who teach like to think we already do that. And we do, giving our students skills, experiences, perspectives, insights they use as starting points when they begin their newspaper careers. But the contributors to this issue's special section, titled" SPECIAL REPORT: Educating the Newsroom," suggest that our job as educators may not be finished when our students leave the campus. In newsrooms all over the country, training directors, coaches and consultants are in demand to help reporters and editors keep up with new technology and information, as well as to refresh those former students …

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Facts And Feelings Series For Teens, Unknown Unknown Jan 1990

Facts And Feelings Series For Teens, Unknown Unknown

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Series developed for teens on how to deal with common issues that they face.

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No Place To Call Home: Discarded Children In America, U.S. House Select Committee On Children, Youth, And Families Jan 1990

No Place To Call Home: Discarded Children In America, U.S. House Select Committee On Children, Youth, And Families

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This congressional hearing investigates the condition of children in troubled families, and evaluates the efficacy of state and federal programs charged with serving the needs of these children.

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Facts And Feelings Series For Parents, Unknown Unknown Jan 1990

Facts And Feelings Series For Parents, Unknown Unknown

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Packet that gives instructions to parents about talking to teens about common issues they face.

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