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Volume 13, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

There's Always ... That Hope, Part Two; Equal Time May Bite the Dust; Big Mama Manpower; Yes, Virginia, This Is Another Chr*stm*s Diatribe; Babes in Consumerland; Mauled for the Holidays; Post Benefit Cancelled; Dan White: An All-Amerikan Success Story; Too Hot to Handle; Rev. Bakker and Wife Deny Financial Hijinks; Test Services Forced to Look for Bias; Boycott Coors Beer; Myth California Exposed; Pantagraph Prints Lurid Drug Lies; Unfettered Music for Farsighted Fans

Volume 13, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Christian Landlord Awaits Judgment, There's Always ... That Hope, The Dits: Air Supply They're Not (local music scene), News from El Salvador, Enjoy Your Thanksgiving Bird, Army Spends Billions on Turkey, ISU White Students Storm City Hall Over Party Issue (beer riots), The Condition That Prevails, E.T. Comes to Harlem, Falwell's 'Dirty Pictures' Seek Contributions

Volume 13, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Fear in Somotillo, The New Nicaragua, Midwifery Still at Issue, Funbusters Not That Funny, Cub Fans Run Amuck, Reagan Court Assaults Privacy, Why We Need Gay Rights, When Your Rapist Is Your Husband, Marital Rape: Foundations for Legality, Detassling New York Style, Touchy About Tones, Pornography Is a Social Disease, Innocents in Paradise II, Weird Music for Weird People

Volume 13, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Nameless Dread Faces the Police; Witness for Peace Returns from Nicaragua; Caravan Brings El Salvador to U.S.; Pollution Roundup; Tom Sanders Bashes Handcuffed Man with Flashlight; Student Ghetto Survivor Tells All; DCI Task Force: The Undercover Sex Police; The Sex Ring That Wasn't; DCI's Own Informer Brought Teens to Cooke's; Ates, Pentecosts Split Hairs Over Doctrine; New Balance or Old Blather?; Protest Rock S.F. Demo National Convention

Volume 13, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Progress (1984 Style) Comes to the Pits; The Real Sexual Abuse Problem; New Sexual Assault Law in Review; Witness for Peace--A Visit to Nicaragua; Pantagraph Blows Big Bucks on Bash; Innocents in Paradise; Man-Boy Love Not the Evil It's Made Out to Be; Methodists Snub Gays, Follow Looney and Cocke; FBI Investigating Patrolman Tom Sanders; Three Little, Two Little ... No Little Imbeciles; Fairbury Nurses Fight for Respect and Power; American State Bank Loses Interest in Small Accounts; Gen-Tel Wants Lifestyle Changes

Volume 13, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Whittling Away at The Dollmaker; Hysteria, Myths Won't Stop Sexual Abuse; The Forgotten Victims; So You Think You Obey the Law?; What Goes Up Comes Down; Uptown Rulers Release New Record; Covert U.S. Aid Behind El Salvador Death Squads; Call 1-800-BAD STUF: Report Anything; Normal Officials' Cronyism Costs Taxpayers; Sanders Shatters Woman's Windshield with Nightstick; HBO Looks at Gay America; Trapped in the Social Dis-service System

Volume 13, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Pick-Me-Ups That Calm Us Down and Keep Us Down, Pantagraph Exploits Gay-Related Story, Inside the Kremlin: The One Who Quit State Farm, You Said You Wanted Revolution, 'Reasons' for Death Penalty Are Inaccurate, Radio Station [WRBA] Ramrods Robin Plan, Bloomington Water Polluted Again, City Council Nixes Human Rights Coverage, Ex-Israel Supporter Feels Betrayed, Shut Down the Arsenal!, Ah Spring

Volume 13, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Our Father Who Art in Classrooms, The New Slavery, Workers' Rights--Where Do You Turn?, A Joy to Rent From?, Bloomington City Council Shuns Rights Debate, Patrolman Tom Sanders Sued Third Time, Rights Violations Due to Police Dept. Policies, Citizen Informant Spies for Secret Police, Water Dept. Home Invasions Halted Then Resumed

Volume 12, Number 10, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Water Department Home Invasions to Be Stopped, Live and Let Die, New City Utility Tax Proposed, Rape Myths Revived, 9 to 5 at ISU, Normal Officials Trespass at Student Party, Bloomington Human Relations Ordinance Changes Proposed, Gay Rights on the Move Again, Take the Sting Out of Xmas, Multi-Media Extravaganza Slated, Movie Reviews and Comments, Contraceptive Sponges Available, Alternative Olympics Proposed, Cutting and Pasting for Purity

Similarity/Dissimilarity Of Couples Communication Competence In Relationship To Their Marital Satisfaction, Thomas Kenne Worthen

Masters Theses

Research has shown that similar communicator styles leads to effective communication, and effective communication leads to relationship satisfaction. Using an extension of balance theory, this study analyzed the relationship between spouses similar/dissimilar communication competence ratings and their marital satisfaction.

Subjects consisted of 44 married couples from a midwestern university and the surrounding area. The Communication Adaptability Scale was used to measure communication competence. The Marital Adjustment Test was used to measure marital satisfaction. Using a t-test no significance was found.

The overall competence score of each spouse was broken down into six separate factors (appropriate disclosure, articulation, social experience, social …

The Effects Of Dogmatism, Rhetorical Sensitivity, And Attitude Valence On Selected Speech Ratings, Chris B. Geyerman

Masters Theses

This study empirically examined the demand characteristic construct and the information processing construct of the rating error paradigm. The findings of this study indicated that the position advocated by the speaker with respect to the attitude valence of the raters significantly influenced the speech evaluation process. This study provides support for the demand characteristic construct and the information processing construct of rating error theory. Implications in terms of pedagogy, theory, and future research are discussed.

Volume 12, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Police Subpoena Library Records in Hendricks Case, Dan White Is Out and Not Sorry, Liquor Commission Show Their Class, Tougher Laws for Drunk Driving, Hendricks Case Revelations Upset Dozier, Computer Predicts Dangers in Nuke Launch Policy, New Covert Narc Force Begins Local Round Ups, 1984 Theme of IWU Art Show, Holy See-Saw, Hi-Tech Babies in Bloomington-Normal, 'Something About Amelia' Opens Discussion, Protect Neighborhood Stores--Boycott Cub Foods, Troops Invade Angel Island, Water Department Enters Bloomington Homes Unasked, Locked in the Electric Sweatshop

Sex Differences, Intimacy, And Attractiveness In Reported Self-Disclosure: Same-Sex Dyads Vs Opposite-Sex Dyads, Edmund Forst Jr.

Masters Theses

This study empirically examined the effects of sex (gender), intimacy, and attractiveness on reported self-disclosure. The results were supportive of the attractiveness, intimacy, and gender of the self-disclosee variables in their relationship to self-disclosure. Results failed to support hypotheses involving the gender of the self-discloser variable.

The independent variables used in the study were: (1) Gender¹ of the self-discloser (male-female), (2) Intimacy (intimate friend, acquaintance, and stranger), (3) Gender² of the self-disclosee (male-female), and physical attractiveness (Attractive or Unattractive). The dependent variable used was the amount of perceived self-disclosure. A 2x3x2x2 analysis of variance used to test each …