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Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 84, October 1, 2008

Central Florida Future

IRAQ day & night; Middle East discussed at Lou Frey symposium; NBC News correspondent highlights evening session; SGA voting ends today; UCF nearing deal for empty houses; This is sports knight.

Sweet Ideas: Alternative Biofuels, Lucas Jameson

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Scientists and farmers alike promote research of alternative energy crops, but without necessary funds the search to find a cost-effective method continues.

Corn Monoculture: No Friend Of Biodiversity, Aaron E. Price

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Federal mandates for corn ethanol, which encourage farmers to plant more corn, may threaten the biodiversity of grasslands.

Contributors To Ethanol: Salvation Or Damnation?

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Reporters, Photographers, Graphics, Documentary, Editors, Designers, Faculty

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 82, September 26, 2008

Central Florida Future

Senate hopefuls get chance to chat; Voter alternative; Patents growing quickly at UCF; AT&T donates $30,000 to UCF; Gay, lesbian, bi group protests Amendment 2.

Spartan Daily, September 24, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 15

Spartan Daily, September 23, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 14

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 79, September 19, 2008

Central Florida Future

The life story of being transgender; UCF donors favor Obama; Kickin' it old school - with COOKIES!; More schools using checks; Junior Achievement wins $25K award.

Spartan Daily, September 18, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 12

Spartan Daily, September 17, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 11

The Guardian, September 17, 2008, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Sixteen page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 78, September 17, 2008

Central Florida Future

Student health becomes priority; McCain rallies in Tampa; Med school a large draw; Comm. colleges growing in size; SGA adopts 541st Precinct;

Communiqué, September 15, 2008, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 76, September 12, 2008

Central Florida Future

UCF groups remember 9/11 victims; Rush Job; Progressive organizations get active at Memory Mall; High times associate publisher Cusick praises activism at UCF; Loser contestants stand out; Slain student's parents to file suit.

Spartan Daily, September 11, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 8

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 75, September 10, 2008

Central Florida Future

Suspicious letter causes evacuation; Changing minds; Some debate 4-day week; Students get connected and raise their GPAs.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 74, September 8, 2008

Central Florida Future

UCF student's funeral held today; Student count reaches 50,000; One final leap; SGA's Derek Harris resigns; Successful student-athletes get decal.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 73, September 5, 2008

Central Florida Future

UCF and Valencia split $23 mil. facility; Valencia community college/UCF joint use building; Legacy policy alive at UCF; Radical Rush kicks off Monday; CodePink student arrested; Venue serves UCF-USF tickets.

Prospectus, September 3, 2008, Briana Stodden, Lindsay Mcgivern, Ken Smith, Sean Hermann, Chuck Shepherd, Jonas Dees, Cassandra Cunningham, Nada Youssef

Prospectus 2008

No abstract provided.

Free Winona: Back To School, Free Winona

Free Winona Newspaper

Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes:

• Corporatization of Universities;
• Beehive Collective/GrassRoutes Bike Caravan Presents at Free Market;
• 12 Things Students Can Do To Help;
• Unschooling at the Winona Farm;
• Backmatter: Resistance to the Republican National Convention

“I Hope You Never See Another Day Like This”: Pedagogy & Allegory In “Post 9/11” Video Games, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

Although critics and scholars have considered the extent to which the terror attacks of 11 Sept. 2001 influenced subsequent media productions, video games comprise a largely unexamined form. This oversight also applies to related forms of media production and among those who study video games is in part attributable to the ongoing debate regarding the relationship(s) between narrative and play. Even so, as early as 1997, JC Herz was investigating the role of video games in the military-entertainment complex. That said, the focus of this paper will not be the obvious games which draw settings and plots directly from the …

Audience, Sentimental Postmodernism, And Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Kimberly Chabot Davis

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Audience, Sentimental Postmodernism, and Kiss of the Spider Woman" Kimberly Chabot Davis analyzes the three media forms of Kiss of the Spider Woman -- novel, film, and musical -- and their reception by gay, bisexual, and heterosexual fans: Davis reads Kiss as a key example of a hybrid contemporary genre she designates as "sentimental postmodernism." Chabot Davis positions the text's dialogic negotiation between the popular and the postmodern in relation to the critical discourse of camp, as a form of sentimentality-cum-irony. Manuel Puig's novel offers a powerful rebuttal to the Frankfurt School's dismissal of sentimental mass culture …

Challenges Of Creating A Knowledge-Based Society: Education & Research For India & Gujarat, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 71, August 29, 2008

Central Florida Future

Record railroad; Treasure chest; Sentinel now off campus; Timeline to the vote; UCF will spend $6 million on staff.

Liberal Arts 2.0, Bridget B. Baird

Convocation Addresses

The title, Liberal Arts 2.0., "stems from the term Web 2.0, which refers to the recent evolution of the Web as interactive, participatory, collaborative and collective. Web 2.0 includes blogs, wikis, user-generated media, social networking: like much of what it describes, the definition is amorphous and inexact." Baird believes that Web 2.0 and all that it implies will necessitate a revision of the way we do liberal arts and thus the title “Liberal Arts 2.0.”

Her premise: that a liberal arts college is a place where teaching and research are improved by digital tools, where students are taught to negotiate …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 70, August 27, 2008

Central Florida Future

Senator's fate to be decided by vote; Another NORML day at UCF; Grades please parents, not kids; New merchandise store sells UCF spirit.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 69, August 25, 2008

Central Florida Future

Alcohol policy revamped over break; Regulations roundup; Moving with a burst of Knightro; UCF facing a possible lawsuit; Pegasus Palooza; Tropical storm Fay disrupts first week; UCF to modify stadium for sway.

Exploring Expression-Based Apprehension In Online And Traditional Sections Of A General Education, Introductory Communication Course., Tabitha Leah Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Apprehension negatively impacts student learning. As online and hybrid communication courses continue to be offered it is important to expand and update research regarding the following constructs: communication apprehension, receiver apprehension, writing apprehension, and computer apprehension. This study examines correlations between and among these constructs, differences by gender and course format, and changes between pre- and posttest results. Students enrolled in traditional and online sections of a basic communication course completed pre- and posttests consisting of a demographic survey, the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, the Receiver Apprehension Test, the Writing Apprehension Test, and the Computer and Web Attitude Scale. …

The Role Of Teachers In School Safety, Leslie Lee Brown

Dissertations

This study examined teachers' perceptions of their abilities to effectively respond to crises on their school campuses. Teachers were surveyed in numerous southeastern states in contrasting demographic areas. Much of the literature addressed acts of violence, natural disasters, and threats of terrorism in schools. Past literature designates urban areas as places where violence has been a more prevalent element of everyday life. Current evidence shows that school shootings and natural disasters can occur anywhere. This shows that planning, practicing, and preparing for crises events are imperative no matter the demographic area in which a school is located. However, there is …

Tcruzikb: Enabling Complex Queries For Genomic Data Exploration, Pablo N. Mendes, Bobby Mcknight, Amit P. Sheth, Jessica C. Kissinger

Kno.e.sis Publications

We developed a novel analytical environment to aid in the examination of the extensive amount of interconnected data available for genome projects. Our focus is to enable flexibility and abstraction from implementation details, while retaining the expressivity required for post-genomic research. To achieve this goal, we associated genomics data to ontologies and implemented a query formulation and execution environment with added visualization capabilities. We use ontology schemas to guide the user through the process of building complex queries in a flexible Web interface. Queries are serialized in SPARQL and sent to servers via Ajax. A component for visualization of the …