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Bowls Everywhere But None To Match The Poulan Weed Eater Bowl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

I entered a state of deep depression recently when I learned that the folks at Poulan are no longer sponsoring the Independence Bowl. The Poulan Weed Eater Bowl is no more. The irritating, loud and stupid relative of all the bowl games is gone. The Poulan Weed Eater Bowl has whacked its last weed.

John Rocker's Si Interview, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It wasn't all that long ago that John Rocker was complaining about being stereotyped by Met fans and New Yorkers. He said that New Yorkers seemed to think that everyone from Georgia had one tooth and married their cousin. The self-styled good old boy resented this sort of sweeping generalization about Georgians and Southerners.

Notre Dame On Probation: The Cost Of Selling Your Soul And The Ncaa As Judge, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Can we say that the final blow to the concept of intercollegiate athletic integrity has now been delivered? With the announcement Friday that Notre Dame has been placed on two years probation and lost two football scholarships, seemingly the last bastion of intercollegiate athletics has been tarnished. A sense of shame walks the campus beneath the Golden Dome.

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program listing graduates.

Fay Vincent, Pete Rose, And Reinstatement, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Pete Rose just won't go away. He just doesn't seem to understand, and probably never will. His ban from baseball was not about his popularity, whatever that might have been, or is. His ban from baseball is the result of the Commissioner of Baseball concluding that there was sufficient evidence that he had been gambling on baseball. He did not contest the finding, but then he also refuses to acknowledge the finding.

Swinging Bridge - December 10, 1999, Brian Reitnour

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Gaines, Jim. Alcohol Policy Shelved Indefinitely
• Karen, Mattias. Ray Mendel Resigns, Blames Deborah Wilkins
• Lynch, Caroline. Dream Walker – Kaye Cantrell, Quadriplegics
• Bennett, Jacob. Graduation Next Saturday
• Lynch, Caroline. More Parking Coming
• Lynch, Caroline. New Shuttles Coming
• Ragan, Jason. Shop with a Fire Fighter Saturday
• Bennett, Jacob. Western Alumni Among List of Notable Kentuckians – E.A. Diddle, Sue Grafton, Jim Miller
• Lynch, Caroline. Rules for Gated Lots Change
• Corcoran, Kate. Western Looking at Film Minor
• A Wish List for Western
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon – Evil Elves
• Cunningham, Joy. …

The Cowl - V.64 - N.12 - Dec 9, 1999

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 64 - No.12 - Dec 9, 1999. 36 pages.

Ua68/13/4 Link, Vol. 2, No. 7, Wku Journalism & Broadcasting

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Newsletter created by the WKU School of Journalism & Broadcasting for students and alumni regarding departmental events and activities.

The Cowl - Dec 8, 1999 - Millennium Issue

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Millennium Issue - Dec 8, 1999. 16 pages.

Ua12/2/1 In The Spirit, Wku Student Affairs

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College Heights Herald magazine edition regarding Christmas.

• Clark, Ryan. The Gift of Love – Hines Family, Children
• Lucas, Fred. Don’t Forget First Christmas Gift – Jesus Christ
• Hutchins, Chris. Holiday Emotions Can’t be Expressed with Material Gifts
• What’s the Nicest Thing You’ve Done for Someome for Christmas?
• Walsh, Erica. 10 Ways to Help – Charities
• Heath, Mark. A Century on the Hill – Big Red
• Heath, Mark. Plaything Big Red is Creator’s Personality – Ralph Carey
• Warren, Brandy. Christmas Everywhere
• Eslinger, Justin. Christmas Fun Coming Your Way – Mammoth Cave, Riverview, Nutcracker, Living Christmas Tree

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Gaines, Jim. Expensive Furniture Still in Storage – Huda Melkey
• Brown, Abbey. Former Regent Leaving Legacy – Raymond Preston
• Moore, Brian. Alleged Harasser Nabbed – Sean Francis
• Bennett, Jacob. Henry Cherry Tops Century List
• Lucas, Fred. It Was Time Well Spent, But Now it’s Time to Go –
• Warren, Brandy. Date Rape Drug Scare an Email Hoax
• Moore, Brian. ABC Cites Good Tymes, Pepe’s, Norma Jean’s – Restaurants
• Privatizing Eliminates Campus Input – Student Health Services
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon – Mars Probe
• Harper, Molly. Running Into High School …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Karen, Mattias. President Gary Ransdell Pushing for Greek Village – Fraternities and Sororities
• Moore, Brian. Pearce-Ford Tower Fires Deserved Reporting – Housing & Residence Life
• Brown, Abbey. Schedule Finally Final – Registrar
• Gaines, Jim. Collegiate Health Service Cans Student Health Services Director – Charles Lott
• Ragan, Jason. Professor Honored – Charles Smith, Music
• Moore, Brian. Campus Safety is Moderate
• Ragan, Jason. Student Selected for Leadership Program – Anna Woodring
• Ragan, Jason. Program to Improve Water – Technical Assistance Center for Water Quality
• Ragan, Jason. Book of Western Wisdom Published …

University Reporter - Vol. 04, No. 04 - December 1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

December 1999 (Vol. 72, No. 6)

The Ohio Independent Baptist

No abstract provided.

Characterizations Of Classes Of Programs By Three-Valued Operators, Anthony K. Seda, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Several important classes of normal logic programs, including the classes of acyclic, acceptable, and locally hierarchical programs, have the property that every program in the class has a unique two-valued supported model. In this paper, we call such classes unique supported model classes. We analyse and characterize these classes by means of operators on three-valued logics. Our studies will motivate the definition of a larger unique supported model class which we call the class of Phi-accessible programs. Finally, we show that the class of Phi -accessible programs is computationally adequate in that every partial recursive function can be implemented by …

On-Line Bayesian Tree-Structured Transformation Of Hidden Markov Models For Speaker Adaptation, Shaojun Wang, Yunxin Zhao

Kno.e.sis Publications

This paper presents a new recursive Bayesian learning approach for transformation parameter estimation in speaker adaptation. Our goal is to incrementally transform (or adapt) the entire set of HMM parameters for a new speaker or new acoustic enviroment from a small amount of adaptation data. By establishing a clustering tree of HMM Gaussian mixture components, the finest affine transformation parameters for individual HMM Gaussian mixture components can be dynamically searched. The on-line Bayesian learning technique proposed in our recent work is used for recursive maximum a posteriori estimation of affine transformation parameters. Speaker adaptation experiments using a 26-letter English alphabet …

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 9, No. 8, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File
• Coming Up - Calendar of Events

This issue includes articles:

• From the Editor - Y2K
• Slavey, Carla. What the Millennium Means
• Ransdell, Gary. Update from President Gary A. Ransdell
• Regent Among Recipients of Governor's Award - Cornelius Martin
• Winter Commencement
• Parsley, Kimberly. Building a Community of Learners - Carol Graham
• Newton, Tommy. WKU Takes Leadership Role in Early Childhood Education
• Top Cop - Robert Deane
• Obtain Wisdom
• Newton, Tommy. Tutors Pour Tout
• Newton, …

Violence Prevention: Reaching Adolescents With The Message, James B. Tucker, James E. Barone, Julie G. Stewart, Robert J. Hogan, James A. Sarnelle, Michele M. Blackwood

Nursing Faculty Publications

To identify an effective medium for communicating with adolescents in a large-scale, cost-effective violence prevention program.

A set of youth violence prevention programs was established at The Stamford Hospital, a level II trauma center. The traveling version of the program was presented to middle school students in four parts: 1) a rap music video created by our violence prevention staff, 2) a facilitated discussion about dealing with anger, 3) a video of a trauma resuscitation in our emergency department, and 4) a commercial video of a teenage boy paralyzed after a gunshot wound. A written questionnaire with a five-point rating …

Thanksgiving, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The History of Thanksgiving and of Football both go back into the Middle Ages, and so it may not be so strange that the two would become intertwined in modern America.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Moore, Brian. Suspicious Fires Plague Pearce-Ford Tower – Housing & Residence Life
• Gaines, Jim. Transpark Proposed for City
• Brown, Abbey. Few Join Protest to Save Vice President Position – Student Affairs, Demonstrations
• Karen, Mattias. Baker Street Café Closed
• Ragan, Jason. Kentucky State Police Supports Safety Programs for Holidays
• Batcheldor, Matt. Stop Treating Us Like Babies – Housing & Residence Life
• Gaines, Jim. Computer Information Systems Minor in Suspense – Curriculum
• Banner 2000 Waffling Dumb, Just Dumb – Registrar
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon Smoking
• Bennett, Jacob. The Word Is Out, …

Ex-Athletes As Politicians, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

In recent days and weeks there has been considerable discussion in the national press of Bill Bradley's presidential run and its relationship to his professional basketball career. Such questions as: Should he exploit his NBA fame for political purposes? Should he be using this fame to raise money as he did in the big fund-raiser in Madison Square Garden last week? Why after years of disconnecting himself from his basketball career does he now seek to reconnect? Does this negate his claims that he much more than a basketball player?

Swinging Bridge - November 19, 1999, Brian Reitnour

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Karen, Mattias. New Rules Forcing Program Reviews – Curriculum
• Brown, Abbey. Students to Protest for Vice President – Student Affairs, Demonstrations
• Lynch, Caroline. McLean Hall Gets a Makeover
• Warren, Brandy. Mice Continue Their Stay at Dorm – Bemis Lawrence Hall, Housing & Residence Life
• Hammock, Michelle. Article Shows How Precious Life Is – W.C. Fowler aka Tra
• Rexroat, Scott. Brain Cancer Article
• Murphy, Ben. Commission Listened to Constituents – Bowling Green City Commission
• Nichter, Kevin. Ordinance Anything But Fair – Fairness Ordinance, Bowling Green City Commission
• Bedo, Leslie. Professors …

The Cowl - V.64 - N.12 - Nov 18, 1999

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 64 - No.12 - Nov 18, 1999. 28 pages.

Ua68/13/4 Link, Vol. 2, No. 6, Wku Journalism & Broadcasting

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Newsletter created by the WKU School of Journalism & Broadcasting for students and alumni regarding departmental events and activities.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Gaines, Jim. Staff Paying Steep Price for Parking Tags – Parking & Transportation Services
• Brown, Abbey. Schedule Change Rethought – Registrar
• Warren, Brandy. Studies Show College-Age Smoking on Rise
• Batcheldor, Matt. Banner 2000 Presentation
• Ragan, Jason. County Reinstates Ban on Open Fires – Drought
• Ragan, Jason. Gary Ransdell Will Speak – Delta Sigma Pi
• Ragan, Jason. Senior Wins Drawing – Janet Thompson
• Ragan, Jason. Council on Postsecondary Education Approves Joint Program – Bowling Green Technical College
• Ragan, Jason. Regents Chair Receives Leadership Award – Cornelius Martin
• Welcome to Western, …

Swinging Bridge - November 12, 1999, Brian Reitnour

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 Fountain Of Youth, Wku Student Affairs

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Special basketball edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Mayo, Travis. Hilltoppers Take the Court This Year with Eight Youngsters
• Clark, Ryan. Hilltoppers Predicted to Finish Fourth in Sun Belt Conference
• Mayo, Travis. Western Hopeful After Last Season’s Success
• Sisco, Scott. An Invitation to Dennis Felton
• Meet the Hilltoppers – Team Roster
• Williams, Travis. Big Men Could Be Answer to Toppers Low-Post Problems
• Mayo, Travis. Questions Loom as Toppers Begin Season
• Mayo, Travis. Cincinnati Leading Men’s Top 25
• Yeo, Chris. Managers Key to Team’s Success

Sport And The Denial Of Death, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

References to death are frequent in the language of sport. "Sudden death," ends the overtime period. Winning teams often "kill," "wipe out," or "bury" their opponents. In baseball you are a "dead duck" when thrown out at the plate.