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Fourth Amendment--Suspicionless Urinalysis Testing: A Constitutionally Reasonable Weapon In The Nation's War On Drugs, Kenneth C. Betts

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Intergenerational Programs: A Manual For Success, Ramona Frischman

Intergenerational

Although there are always social issues which much be faced by educators and by society, three issues in particular demand attention in the 1990s. Racism, sexism, and a third "ism" - one relatively new to our vocabulary - ageism. Referring to the discrimination against a group or an individual because of age, ageism is most often practiced against members of two distinct groups in our society: those over 60, and those under the ago of 18.

Variation Procedures In Northern Ewe Song, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

The major organizational principle of Northern Ewe song is one shared by numerous African, Oriental, and European musical traditions: a small number of models (variously described as "basic shapes," "archetypes," "background structures," "basic designs," "core patterns," "deep structures") is transformed in a wide variety of ways during performance. Variation takes place on different hierarchic levels both within and between songs and includes practically all of a song's dimensions (rhythm, interval, register, contour, harmony, and so on). This principle, although widely demonstrated in the literature on African song (see, among others, Jones 1976; Kauffman 1984; Schmidt 1984; and Erlmann 1985), is …

Gender Identity Development: A Study Of Caregivers In A Preschool Setting, Salisa Hortenstine Shook

Masters Theses

This study observed the present conditions of attitudes toward gender roles, as communicated by caregivers in eight east central Illinois preschool settings. Two research questions were formulated in order to categorize responses for the purpose of identifying prevailing gender role attitudes. Those questions were: "How do caregivers in a preschool setting affect gender role stereotypes?" and "What are key communication events that may create or perpetuate gender role stereotypes in the preschool setting?" The data was obtained from personal interviews and the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The results indicated caregivers in the preschool setting did not see gender roles and …

Transatlantic Connections: Nordic Migration To The New World After 1800, Hans Norman, Harald Runblom, George Nielsen, Reviewer

The Bridge

Transatlantic Encounters is actually two books in one. The first half of the study, written by Hans Norman, describes the conditions in Europe, while the second part, written by Harald Runblom, describes the immigrants in America. Instead of limiting the topic to Scandinavians (Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes), Norman and Runblom identify their subjects as Nordic, in order to include the Finns and Icelanders. Relying heavily on earlier research, and following the usual stages of migration history, the authors have produced a survey of the migration from these five countries to the United States.

A Gender Comparison Of Former Agricultural Students' Employment Experiences, John K. Thomas, Kathy L. Schiflett

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Deepening shortages of highly qualified scientists, managers, and technical professionals seriously threaten American agriculture. The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree to which gender differences exist in former agricultural students' acquiring employment in the agricultural industry after leaving college. Data were obtained using a 30 percent random sample (n=1,730) of students enrolled in 1977 at two major land-grant universities in the Southwest. A mail survey conducted in late 1986 resulted in 707 respondents. Male out-numbered female respondents 3 to 1, which was approximately the same enrollment ratio in 1977. Findings of the survey indicate that 9 out …

Sociology And Biotechnology: Challenges And Opportunities, Thomas J. Hoban Iv

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Sociologists have traditionally been concerned with technological change. We now find renewed research interest in the social impacts and risks of biotechnology. Many public and key opinion leaders recognize that closer attention must be paid to tradeoffs, uncertainties, and negative consequences related to biotechnology. Sociologists have a number of important roles to play in ensuring that the benefits of biotechnology outweigh the potential risks. This paper examines several important issues about agricultural biotechnology that have not yet received adequate attention from sociologists. The nature of biotechnology as an innovation and as a risky technology is examined. Particular attention is aid …

An Empirical Examination Of Hispanic-Americans In A University Setting And The Influences On Their Attitudes Towards Assimilation, Ramon Rodriguez

Masters Theses

Recent literature on Hispanic-Americans has determined that Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority in the United States. Both the high rates of immigration and a high birth rate mean it is only a matter of time before Hispanics will form an extensively large population. Hispanics, however, generally remain unassimilated. This study focuses on the influences on the attitudes towards assimilation of Hispanic-Americans in a university setting.

Survey methods were utilized to gather data from a sample of 100 individuals at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. A survey return rate of 57% was obtained from Hispanic students questioned. The data showed that …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Bricking, Tanya. Second Athletic Report Tells Different Story – Football
• Green, Travis. Alcohol at Niteclass, in Dorms Discussed
• Parker, Phillip. Special Bowlers Battle in Olympics – Special Olympics
• Jones, Angie. Twenty Take Chance on Hunger at Banquet – Newman Center
• Students Arrested on Drug Charges
• National Service Lets Students Complain About Teachers – Accuracy in Academics
• Industrial Technology Wants Departmental Standards Lowered
• Howard, Laura. Dog’s Death Spurs Protest About Police – Joe Gerard
• Proposed Historic Preservation Board Has Too Much to Say
• Chattin, John. Editorial …

The L-Word: November 1, 1989, The L-Word

The L-Word

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hernes, Thomas. Officials Seek Gift for Recreation Center – Preston Health & Activities Center
• Lawson, Jamie. Graduate Ron Jerrell Tells 400 His Story of AIDS
• Summers, Kaye & Allison Tutt. Hilltopper Athletic Foundation Raises Support, $660,000
• Summers, Kaye & Allison Tutt. Students, School Lend Services to Athletics
• Eugene Evans to Outline Goals at Open Forum
• Potter Lot Closed Until Tomorrow
• University Logo to be Unveiled Today
• Kinslow, Gina. Central Women Get Tucked In – Minton Hall, Barnes-Campbell Hall
• Green, Travis. Associated Student Government Wants AIDS …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Weber, Rob. Flamboyant Wheelchair Racer Craig Blanchette Just Does It – Bowling Green 10K Classic
• Bricking, Tanya. Eugene Evans Will Run for Regent Seat
• Lawson, Jamie. AIDS Southern Kentucky Opens to Answer Questions About AIDS
• Date Set for Bemis Lawrence Hall Television Appearance – Good Morning America
• Minority Fellowships to be Offered
• Tsimekles, Diane. Chinese Tour Participants to be Repaid – Tiananmen Square Incident
• Hulsman, Lynne. International Day Features Cultural Events
• Football Team Shouldn’t Suffer for Actions of a Few
• Chattin, John. Editorial Cartoon, Jack …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Howard, Laura. Tutt, Allison. Police Plan More Arrests in Ruckus – Kappa Alpha Psi
• Hernes, Thomas. Amended Bar Ban Gets OK from City
• Bricking, Tanya. No Nominations Filed for Faculty Regent Yet
• Swinson, Wendi. Teacher Joseph Cangemi Meets Solidarity Head Lech Walesa, Sees The Real Man
• Steamline in Grise Hall Lot Being Replaced
• Cheerleader Stacey Travis Injured in Car Accident
• Trash Bash, Adopt-a-Spot Are Clean Fun
• Fighting Insane, Purposeless – Kappa Alpha Psi
• Chattin, John. Editorial Cartoon – Big Red Upset about Fight
• Ingling, Holly. …

Public Talk And Civic Action: Education For Participation In A Strong Democracy, Benjamin R. Barber

Civic Engagement

Civic education programs have always played a distinctive role in the American education curriculum. For the most part, however, civic education has been associated with civic knowledge and the cultivation of a cognitive faculty thought to be identical with political judgement (private judgment on public issues).

Perhaps this has been appropriate to a society which understood democracy primarily as a system of accountability in which elected representatives do most of the actual governing and "citizens" limit themselves to the passive roles of voter and watchdog.

Workplace Boundaries: Conceptions And Creations, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Publications and Research

Social analysts have long been concerned with the changing workplace and its consequences for society and for individual workers. Today as well, under conditions of global technological and organizational transformation, work and its contents and discontents pose new questions for research and social policy.

The Role Of Values In Personality Development, Joanne Peterson

Institute for the Humanities Theses

As an important element of human life, values play a distinctive role in structuring the developing personality. Considerations of this role are discussed from an objective, subjective, and situational perspective, recognized as three known value orientations incorporated into differing personality theories. Initial inquiries suggest that values are not as important as the degree to which an individual commits to a moral life and then employs this viewpoint in sorting through various alternatives to select those beliefs, attitudes and behaviors best reflecting this commitment.

To Tell The Truth: The Lesbian Herstory Archives: Chronicling A People And Fighting Invisibility Since 1974, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

A portrait of the Lesbian Herstory Archives by a volunteer, describing the archive in its original home in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side New York City apartment that she shared with Mabel Hampton. Originally published in Out/Week Magazine.

Guest Opinion: The Death Penalty And Mass Murder, Jack Levin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Ritual Talk, Philip Manning

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

The analysis of talk is important for Goffman's examination of the self in face-to-face interaction. Here I suggest that his target is best described as being our ritual talk. Goffman defined ritual in two ways: as the smooth running of everyday encounters and as the honouring of the selves who people them. He suggested that ritual talk is structured by both prevailing rules of social interaction and by the sequential organization of talk. However, on occasion he hinted that this account is too simple. I agree, and suggest ways of furthering his investigations.

Ua66/6/2 Bionews From The Hill, Wku Biology

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Biology highlighting the activities of faculty, students and alumni.

Ua77/1 Western, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

WKU alumni newsletter.

• Thomas C. Meredith Inaugurated as Eighth President of Western
• Governor Wallace Wilkinson Announces WKU Institute for Economic Development
• President Thomas C. Meredith Awarded Honorary Degree – Kentucky Wesleyan College
• Western to Host State Marching Band Championships
• Spring Enrollment is 13,333
• Regents Approve 1989-90 Operating Budget
• Alliance Corporation Establishes Scholarship
• Drackett Company of Franklin Gives $10,000 Scholarship
• Greenwood Optimists Contribute to College Heights Foundation
• Potter College Honors Published Faculty
• WKU Announces 1989 Faculty Award Winners
• Journalism School Wins Top Honors
• Western Grad Awarded $6,000 Fellowship for Graduate Study
• Graduate Chasing Bachelor’s at Elizabethtown Community College – Mary Todd …

Legal Education As Political Consciousness-Raising Or Paving The Road To Hell, Richard F. Devlin

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Children Raised By Homosexual Parents: Sexual Orientation, Mental & Sexual Health, Theresa Gramlich

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Sex and morals have often been factors in custody disputes. Courts have felt that giving custody of children to homosexual parents would create an environment not in the best interest of the child. Many mental health professionals argue that these decisions have been based on prejudice and homophobia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate research on the sexual orientation of children raised by homosexual parents and review data on the mental/psychosexual health of these children. These studies revealed no difference between children raised by gay/lesbian parents versus those raised by heterosexual parents on IQ scores, gender identity, or …

An Investigation Of Stability, Change, And Observed Associations During Infant-Mother Face-To-Face Interaction, Sarah Elizabeth Gable

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Researchers of social development during infancy have long viewed social competence as a reflection of the infant's experiences during early social interactions. In this context of social interaction, the infant's earliest developmental task involves the ability to regulate arousal; with continued development and the accumulation of interactional experiences, the infant takes a more active role as an initiator/elicitor of interaction. A particularly salient type of social exchange during infancy occurs when mother and infant engage in face-to-face interaction. Consequently, it was the goal of this study to examine maternal and infant behavior in the context of face-to-face interaction in order …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 64, No. 52, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hernes, Tom. Banshee Results in Several Stories, One Injury – Rugby
• Carter, Darla. Pool Proposal on Hold After Rumors Over Money Spread – President’s Home
• Turner, Karla. Peace, Brother – Cumberland Regional Rainbow Gathering
• Schlagenhauf, Ann. Thomas Meredith Hopes to Buck Trend
• Wall, Dresden. Measles Scare Still Haunts Poland Hall
• Green, Travis. New Sorority May Get Bid Week – Alpha Gamma Delta
• Pool Idea Doesn’t Hold Water
• Chattin, John. Editorial Cartoon Swimming Pool at President’s Home
• Rugby Revelry Too Far Out of Bounds – Banshee …

Herders, Gatherers And Foragers: The Emerging Botanies Of Children In Rural Sudan, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

The range of children's knowledge of plants and their uses in an agricultural village in Sudan is presented in a context of ecological and economic change. Children participated in procurement of vegetation for food, fodder and fuel needs. In some areas, knowledge of plants was gender and task-specific. Participant-observation and ethnosemantic interview techniques were used to elicit knowledge and construct a children's taxonomy of plant material

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 64, No. 44, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Carter, Darla. Black Hiring Plan Needs Teeth In It
• Poore, Chris. NCAA Won’t Study Basketball Program
• Hernes, Tom. William Nichols Suspected in About 30 Car Break-Ins Arrested
• Schlagenhauf, Ann. Formula Funding Could Change
• Hall, David. John Osborne Wants Residence Hall Association Input for $3 Million Renovations
• Tutt, Allison. Senior Darla Risley Offering $30 for Cat’s Return
• Thomas Meredith Talking to Faculty Senate Today
• Speeches on USSR Today, Tomorrow
• Marching Band Tournament to be Here
• Western Shot at Wrong Goal in Investigation – NCAA Allegations
• Chattin, …

The Early Development Of Housekeeping And Imports In Fiji, Nancy J. Pollock

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

“A Gulf Of Style”: Experiences In The Practice Of Oral History With The Enga, Roderic Lacey

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Renate Von Gizycki's Review Of John Charlot's The Kamapua‘A Literature: The Classical Traditions Of The Hawaiian Pig God As A Body Of Literature, Renate Von Gizycki

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.