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Russian Olympics, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

With the Winter Olympics finally underway is it possible that the American journalists, if we can use that term in these circumstances, will be able to write about something other than the failure of Russia to be the United States? Having traveled to Russia multiple times since the collapse of the Soviet Union, I have witnessed the remarkable transformation of this society. Caught in a time warp created by the failure of the Soviet Union, the standard of living of the average Russian trailed behind that of most of Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet Union was not …

The Grizzly, February 6, 2014, Dave Muoio, John Parry, Caroline Sandberg, Kristen Costello, Evan Hill, Olivia Z. Schultz, Deana Harley, Brian Thomas, Jordan Breslow, Derrick Falletta, John Carty, Dana Feigenbaum, Austin Fox

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Reimert Party Suspension Sparks USGA Meeting About Safety Risks • Career Department Clarifies Post-Grad Placement Data • Representative Will Discuss Drexel's Graduate Programs • Wismer Sanitation Revisited • Auntie Anne Shares Pretzel Wisdom with U-Innovate! • CIE Hits the Road for UC Graduates • Summer Mentors to Continue • Opinion: Ursinus Drug Policy Should Adhere to the Law; Multilingual Education Should be Considered • Blowout on Super Bowl Sunday • Krasna Chasing 1000, Succeeding in Classroom • Men's Basketball Breaks Losing Streak; Wrestling and Women's Swimming Remain Undefeated

Ramona Aranda Genemara, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

Las Fiestas Patrias, Women's Sports, the Caldera Pool, & the 1938 Flood

Eastern Orthodox Martyrs Of China: Accounts & Images (Boxer Uprising & Beyond), Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship

Orthodox in China -- Whitworth University 2014

Super Bowl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Here we are once again at the most important weekend in American sport. The Super Bowl is Sunday and that means that Americans across the land will create scenes reminiscent of Thorstein Veblen’s classic, The Theory of the Leisure Class. Veblen’s original vocabulary describing the rich of the late 19th century is as appropriate now as it was then. Such phrases as “conspicuous consumption,” “conspicuous waste” and “conspicuous leisure,” seem to have been coined for the Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Here we are once again at the most important weekend in American sport. The Super Bowl is Sunday and that means that Americans across the land will create scenes reminiscent of Thorstein Veblen’s classic, The Theory of the Leisure Class. Veblen’s original vocabulary describing the rich of the late 19th century is as appropriate now as it was then. Such phrases as “conspicuous consumption,” “conspicuous waste” and “conspicuous leisure,” seem to have been coined for the Super Bowl.

The Grizzly, January 30, 2014, Dave Muoio, Deana Harley, Kristen Costello, Larissa Coyne, Caroline Sandberg, Evan Hill, Shawn Hartigan, Pearl Steinberg, Dom Roher, Briana Keane, Austin Fox, John Carty

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Sexual Misconduct Numbers in Security Report Explained • Live Feed From Ritter Stirs Debate • Colleges Soon to Consider the Impact of MOOCs • "Non-Traditional Careers for Psychology Majors" • School Spirit on the Rise • First Salinger Read-a-Thon Brings "Holden" Back to Ursinus Campus • Culture Shock: Returning to UC • Opinion: Drug Policy's Punishments are Too Harsh; Netflix Streaming is Hogging our Resources • As Olympics Near, Controversy Grows • Super Bowl: Fierce Competition, Big Personalities • Winter Recap: Wrestling, Women's Swimming Shine

Connie Cabrera, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

La Tiendita de la Calle N

Dr. Tom Rivera interviews Connie Cabrera, a retired bilingual teacher in the Colton (California) School District. Connie shares much about her life coming from Jerome, Arizona, and about the years that her mom ran a small grocery store in South Colton. She explains that the store was a meeting place, especially for women of the neighborhood, and how it allowed them a safe space to talk over issues of the day. Connie recounts how she met her husband, Nacho Cabrera, and his journey to opening up his own barber shop. She also explains about …

I'Ve Seen The Promised Land: A Letter To Amelia Boynton Robinson, Mauricio E. Novoa

SURGE

You asked if I had any thoughts or comments at the end of our visit, and I stood and said nothing. I opened my mouth, but instead of giving you words my throat was sealed by a dam of speechlessness while my eyes wept out all the emotions and heartache that I wanted to share with you. The others in my group were able to express their admiration, so I wanted to do the same. [excerpt]

Manhood And Football, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

ESPN, the Worldwide Breeder of ludicrous sports programming, reached a new low this week. The Network that brought you the biggest non-event on the annual sports calendar, the NFL draft, and then took it down another notch by televising the announcement of the NFL schedule, outdid itself once again by having a countdown to the unveiling of Mel Kiper’s mock draft. Did anyone care? Is Mel anything more than a parody of himself? Has ESPN totally lost its way? (The correct answers are no, no, and maybe.)

Confederates In The Swimming Pool, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

I was swimming last night and thinking about dead Confederates. Someday, it's utterances like that which are going to see me involuntarily committed to an asylum. But it's true. I swam and thought about dead Confederates. [excerpt]

Westmoreland’S War: Reassessing American Strategy In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

An original and major reinterpretation of American strategy during the Vietnam War which totally reconsiders the generalship of William Westmoreland and offers a more balanced picture of the US Army in Vietnam. The book's thesis that US strategy was more than just 'attrition' confronts decades' worth of historical narratives which argue we lost in Vietnam due to bad leadership and an incorrect strategy

For Gods' Sake, Copy-Edit That Textbook On The Wall, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

So, my social streams flooded on Monday with an article from the Denver Business Journal, a weekly Colorado publication with a circulation rate of about 16,000 issues. The internet is an amazingly powerful force for magnification. It can make a rant from one irate museum goer with very-close-to-nil circulation seem like a meaningful and broadly held opinion. [excerpt]

Mel Salazar (Part 1), Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

"My Mom, Women's Softball Player & Hall of Famer"

Hoisan-Wa In Jest: Humor, Laughter, And The Construction Of Counter-Hegemonic Affect In Contemporary Chinese American Language Maintenance, Genevieve Leung

Rhetoric and Language Faculty Publications and Research

This research examines the language and cultural maintenance of Chinese Americans of a specific heritage: Hoisan-wa people. Hoisan-wa is one of the languages linking nearly all early Chinese immigrants in the U.S., but this language background has been pushed aside by the presence of other Chinese languages in America, such as Standard Cantonese and Mandarin. It has also been perpetually omitted from research for the last 150 years.

Drawing from 93 sociolinguistic interviews with Hoisan-wa heritage people, I explore instances of humor and laughter as these participants talk about their cultural and linguistic heritage. Home and family remain two of …

Advances In Documentation, Digital Curation, Virtual Exhibition, And A Test Of 3d Geometric Morhpometrics: A Case Study Of The Vanderpool Vessels From The Ancestral Caddo Territory, Robert Z. Selden Jr., Timothy K. Perttula, Michael J. O'Brien

CRHR: Archaeology

Three-dimensional (3D) digital scanning of archaeological materials is typically used as a tool for artifact documentation. With the permission of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, 3D documentation of Caddo funerary vessels from the Vanderpool site (41SM77) was conducted with the initial goal of ensuring that these data would be publicly available for future research long after the vessels were repatriated. A digital infrastructure was created to archive and disseminate the resultant 3D datasets, ensuring that they would be accessible by both researchers and the general public (CRHR 2014a). However, 3D imagery can be used for much more than documentation. To …

Henry Hudson, The Munsees, And The Wampum Revolution, Paul Otto

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

No abstract provided.

What's The New Deal With Marshall? Depression Relief And Higher Education, Hubert Wesley Rolling

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Employing archival research, this study examines the history of the New Deal’s influence on higher education, focusing on Marshall University, at the time Marshall College, from approximately 1932-1940. First, it analyzes the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and National Youth Administration (NYA) student part-time employment program’s impact on the college. Second, it discusses the PWA’s (Public Works Administration) and WPA’s (Works Progress Administration) building programs’ and flood relief efforts’ effect on Marshall. Finally, this study explores the political implications of the New Deal with emphasis on state politics and financial problems and their relationship to Marshall. A study of Marshall …

Law And Order In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1774-1821, With Emphasis On The South Parish/Precinct, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.

The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

Contents: You can blame an Irishman from Limerick for all the uproar on the Connecticut shoreline in 1814 -- Folksy paper portrayed Waterbury’s Irish in the 1890s: Sketches and profiles are unusual, but valuable, historical records.