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Can Americans Put Rancor Of Presidential Election Behind Them? Professors Call For Healing And Renewed Care For U.S. Democracy

News Releases

News release announces the comments of professors in response to whether or not Americans can put anger and divisiveness aside and rally around their president.

Flyer News, Vol. 52, No. 13 (Oct. 22, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 52, No. 10 (Oct. 8, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Voices Raised, Issue 05, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Included in this issue: Our Common Ground; Team works to stop discrimination; Mentoring program; Expanding the Conversation; Research earns student accolades; Allies more than just a “safe space”; How risky is getting pierced?; What I wish we would have known; UD Women Conquer; Women’s Suffrage; Which comes first, race or sex.

The Obstacles To A Constitutional Partial Birth Abortion Ban: How State Legislatures Have Failed And The Shortcomings Of President George W. Bush's Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Of 2003, Betsy West Suver

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Zero Room For Zero Tolerance: Rethinking Federal Funding For Zero Tolerance Policies, Jill Richards

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 52, No. 6 (Sept. 24, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Sept. 14, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Recommender Systems Research: A Connection-Centric Survey, Saverio Perugini, Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems grew out of information retrieval and filtering, the topic has steadily advanced into a legitimate and challenging research area of its own. Recommender systems have traditionally been studied from a content-based filtering vs. collaborative design perspective. Recommendations, however, are not delivered within a vacuum, but rather cast within an informal community of users and social context. Therefore, ultimately all recommender systems make connections among people and thus should be surveyed from …

2004-2005 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

After 2003 the University of Dayton Bulletin went exclusively online. This copy was printed from the web and scanned by the Registrar’s Office.

The City As Refuge: Constructing Urban Blackness In Paul Laurence Dunbar’S 'The Sport Of The Gods' And James Weldon Johnson’S 'Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man.', Thomas Lewis Morgan

English Faculty Publications

This essay analyzes the narrative strategies that Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson used to represent black characters in The Sport of the Gods and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as a means of examining the authors' construction of the city as an alternative space for depicting African Americans. In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, the majority of African American images in popular fiction were confined to Southern-based pastoral depictions that restricted black identity to stereotypically limited and historically regressive ideas, exemplified in such characters as Zip Coon, Sambo, Uncle Tom, Jim Crow, and Mammy Jane. The …

Street Outreach: College Graduate Lands Unusual First Job Helping The Homeless

News Releases

News release announces that Alice Hoenigman will pair up with another case manager to search for the homeless under bridges or in "tent cities" in the woods.

154th Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Academic Program: Programs In Marian Studies, 2004-2005 And Fall 2005, International Marian Research Institute

IMRI Course Listings, Program Guides, and Assorted Academic Materials

No abstract provided.

Service: Some Graduates To Volunteer For A Year, Others Join The Army

News Releases

News release announces that a number of graduating seniors at the University of Dayton are hearing a call to serve -- and answering it.

Flyer News, Vol. 51, No. 40 (April 20, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 51, No. 39 (April 16, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Review: 'Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood And The Future Of The Catholic Church', William L. Portier

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Voices Raised, Issue 04, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Included in this issue: 3rd annual Women’s Leadership Conference; 2004 Miryam Award; Mentoring program begins planning for year two; Women’s Studies Then and Now; Women in Juarez inspire students; Walking for a cause and a cure; Making smart – and tough – health care decisions; Is there anything as a healthy tan?; Picturing Faith; Tips for Internet security from UD Public Safety; Is sexual assault a problem at UD?

Flyer News, Vol. 51, No. 31 (Feb. 20, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 51, No. 25 (Jan. 27, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 51, No. 24 (Jan. 23, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

University Of Dayton Launches South Asia Film And Lecture Series

News Releases

News release announces a free film and lecture series highlighting issues and concerns of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora in the United States premieres at the University of Dayton.

The Faith Of A Theologian, Avery Dulles

Marianist Award Lectures

Cardinal Dulles speaks on the interdependence of faith and theology from his own life experiences. He reflects on the necessity for orthodoxy to remain as the irreformable and infallible truth while pushing for a renewed call for its importance.

Having Church: Clarence Rivers' Contribution Of Black Sacred Song To Catholic Liturgy And The Future Of The Liturgical Movement, Emily K. Strand

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Beat Behind The Movement: The Motives And Contributions Of Women In The Beat Generation As Described In The Memoirs Of Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, And Diane Di Prima, Kristin E. Mcgee

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Female Performances: Melodramatic Music Conventions And 'The Woman In White', Laura Vorachek

English Faculty Publications

While the similarities between melodrama and sensation fiction are often noted, the similar use of music in each has been overlooked. Melodrama is characterized by excessive emotion, flat character types, a focus on plot at the expense of characterization and exaggerated expressions of right and wrong. As its name implies, it also relied heavily on musical accompaniment. For much of the first half of rhe nineteenth century, only the patent theatres were allowed to present drama with spoken dialogue due to grants from Charles II in 1660 giving to two royal favourites, Killigrew and Davenant, exclusive rights, which came to …

Review: 'Women In Catholic Higher Education: Border Work, Living Experiences, And Social Justice', Carolyn Ridenour

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Twelve writers challenge the structures and priorities of traditional Catholic colleges and universities: contemporary “reality TV” for anyone who values social justice in Catholic education. Throughout the book the writers confront the status quo of Catholic universities, questioning even those who have embraced feminist theology. The editors divided the book into three parts with subheadings that overstate their contents: “Feminist Border Work: Tensions and Contradictions” (3 chapters), “Living Experiences: Identity, Empowerment, and Action” (4 chapters), and “Social Justice: The Ideal, the Reality, and the Quest” (3 chapters). Like bookends, the editors have constructed two additional chapters: one at the beginning …

An Investigation Of Meaning In Clinical Music Improvisation With Troubled Adolescents, Susan Gardstrom

Department of Music Faculty Publications

The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate meaning-making in clinical music improvisation with troubled adolescents. Participants were six youth from two partial hospitalization programs. These individuals, ranging in age from 12 to 17, had severe behavioral and emotional disturbances. Each participant was involved in approximately five improvisation sessions with the researcher. The adolescents were asked to create nonreferential and referential instrumental improvisations, both alone and with the researcher. After each improvisation, the participants and the researcher listened to and/or talked about the piece. Selected improvisations were then analyzed using Bruscia’s (1987) Improvisation Assessment Profiles (IAPs), in order to …

Special Forum On The Philosophy Of Teaching: A Synthesis And Response, Jo Sprague

Basic Communication Course Annual

The ways that an individual professor, a department, or a campus talks about the basic communication course can be arrayed along a broad spectrum of attitudes. At one end of a continuum are those who look at the course with a blend of intellectual contempt and embarrassment (Burgoon, 1989) or who believe that an assignment to teach such a course counts as penance or banishment. For many or most of our colleagues the characterizations fall in a more positive central zone, construing the course as a rich source of student enrollment or a fertile recruiting ground for majors.

The authors …