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Pornography, Humiliation, And Consent, Rebecca Whisnant

Philosophy Faculty Publications

This article considers the role of humiliation in contemporary pornography, arguing that it constitutes a severe form of harm to many female pornography performers. It further contends that the apparently consensual nature of much humiliating pornography exacerbates its harm to the humiliated performers.

‘How Little I Cared For Fame’: T. Sparrow And Women’S Investigative Journalism At The Fin De Siècle, Laura Vorachek

English Faculty Publications

This article analyzes the work of an overlooked female journalist, T. Sparrow, arguing that her career reveals the difficulties female journalists faced when negotiating between the expectations of middle-class gentility and the demands of investigative journalism.

Sparrow asserted her gentility rhetorically, in part because female reporters who took up investigative reporting were vulnerable to criticism for assaying beyond domestic subjects. Moreover, incognito investigative reporting often brought celebrity to its practitioners, which challenged the convention of middle-class female modesty.

Sparrow, therefore, strove for a delicate balance in her career—assuming the stance of a middle-class woman who lived among the poor, someone …

Will The Vice Presidential Candidates Matter This Year? Maybe, But Not The Way You Think, Kyle C. Kopko, Christopher J. Devine

Political Science Faculty Publications

Veepstakes speculation is rampant as we approach the national conventions for both major political parties.

Media reports have detailed the wide array of options available to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as they decide who will be their number twos for this campaign, and perhaps for four or eight years to come.

Who will Trump and Clinton pick? That depends on each candidate’s goals – both for the remainder of the presidential campaign and after Nov. 8. Political observers widely agree that the most important characteristic to look for in a running mate is the ability to serve as president …

In The News: June 22, 2016, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also see International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

Faculty In The News: June 20, 2016, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Read highlights of recent media coverage of College of Arts and Sciences faculty research, scholarship and commentary.

Righting America, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A new book by two University of Dayton faculty, Susan and William Trollinger, is attracting attention for its examination of Answers in Genesis' Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, the rise of creationism in America and the role of the museum in supporting the politics of the Christian right.

University Of Dayton Magazine. Summer 2016, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD. This issue includes articles titled "What I Learned from the Wright Brothers," "'Thy Will Be Done': Where medicine fails, faith steps in and offfers hope - and maybe a miracle.", and Revealing Ink: Her body is the only vessel she controls." Also included is short story "Spinning Success" by Anna Adami '16.

Honorslink, Issue 2016.2, University Of Dayton. Honors Program

HonorsLINK Newsletter

News & Notes from the University of Dayton Honors. Featured stories include The David Darrow Story, Published!, Student Events and Student News.

The Heart Of Mary In Light Of A Biblical Anthropology: Mother, Mystic, And Prophet, Virginia M. Kimball

Marian Studies

The biblical emphasis of Vatican II and later developments, such as the address of Pope Benedict XVI to the Marian Congress of 2012 about studying the Blessed Mother from many different perspectives, have led mariologists to a new appreciation for a determined biblical-anthropological approach. This approach has great significance for understanding the heart of the Woman who “held all these things in her heart.” Mary’s heart connects all of us to her--as woman, mother, mystic, and prophet—to her who holds the Lord in her heart, a heart completely united to the heart of her Son, Jesus the Christ.

Arts And Community Engagement, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Is someone who attends a concert or play more likely to care about the environment or follow current events? The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the University of Dayton a research grant to study whether people who attend arts events are more engaged in their communities.

Campus Report, Vol. 43, No. 8, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. This issue includes the new provost, Helix Innovation Center, UD Sinclair Academy, new campus wide procurement system, and increase in parking costs.

Congrats, Grads!, University Of Dayton. University Libraries

University Libraries Blog Archive

We asked four graduating research department student employees to share their future plans and what they liked best about working at Roesch Library.

Race Prominent Feature In Coverage Of Trayvon Martin, Erin Willis, Chad Painter

Communication Faculty Publications

This textual analysis examines news framing of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. After studying coverage from The Sanford Herald (North Carolina), The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Denver Post, the authors conclude national media perpetuated racial stereotypes, thus heightening the issue of race and making the case more emotional than factual.

Readers outside of Sanford, N.C., had few details about the physical altercation, the heart of Zimmerman’s self-defense claim.

166th Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Environmental Effectiveness Of Grassroots Environmental Stewardship Organizations In Maryland, Sarah Close, Dana R. Fisher, William Yagatich, Anya Galli Robertson

Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications

Small organizations that conduct environmental stewardship projects often lack access to the research capacity, funding, or tools needed to evaluate scientifically the environmental effectiveness of the measures they undertake. Still, evaluation of environmental effectiveness, defined here as the implementation of specific local goals, is prudent where projects are carried out with environmental stewardship goals in mind. We propose and test a process for evaluating environmental effectiveness of stewardship programs in a rigorous, yet feasible, approach through analysis of archived documents, program materials, and project inventories, as well as a survey of program participants. Using three franchises of the Watershed Stewards …

Campus Report, Vol. 43, No. 7, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. This issue includes the 2016 Stander Symposium, Kennedy Union renovations, and new apartment being added to south student neighborhood.

Slavery And Freedom In Theory And Practice, David Watkins

Political Science Faculty Publications

Slavery has long stood as a mirror image to the conception of a free person in republican theory. This essay contends that slavery deserves this central status in a theory of freedom, but a more thorough examination of slavery in theory and in practice will reveal additional insights about freedom previously unacknowledged by republicans. Slavery combines imperium (state domination) and dominium (private domination) in a way that both destroys freedom today and diminishes opportunities to achieve freedom tomorrow. Dominium and imperium working together are a greater affront to freedom than either working alone. However, an examination of slavery in practice, …

Flyer News, Vol. 63, No. 15 (April 6, 2016), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Faculty Views Of “Nontraditional” Students: Aligning Perspectives For Student Success, Desiree D. Zerquera, Mary Ziskin, Vasti Torres

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Faculty serve as a primary point of contact for students in college, playing vital roles in students’ retention and attainment. The perceptions and beliefs held by these institutional actors are important for understanding the context that shapes students’ experiences while they are in college and potentially, long after they leave. The purpose of this work is to examine faculty members’ perceptions of nontraditional student experiences. Findings highlight faculty members’ awareness of students’ multiple roles and obligations; perceptions of student academic success, including barriers to succeeding; and the ways faculty connect with students and the types of connections they forge. The …

A Pluralistic Universe In Twenty Years, Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Placed side by side, James' A Pluralistic Universe and Addams’s Twenty Years at Hull-House seem to have little in common. James’s critique of absolute idealism is written for intellectuals comfortable with philosophical abstractions. Twenty Years is full of stories about the lives of poor people and immigrants. Yet, sometime after April 1909, when A Pluralistic Universe appeared, and before November 1910, when Twenty Years was published, Addams inserted a few telling quotations into her manuscript. I will give a reading of Twenty Years as a presentation in real time of James’s pluralistic universe, with both form and contents conveying the …

Preachers, Politics And The Pulpit: The Influence Of Church Structure On How Clergy Approach Political Topics And How Congregations Receive Their Messages, Michael Bender

Honors Theses

Inspired by the Catholic Church’s nationwide resistance to President Obama’s contraceptive mandate in the summer of 2012, this honors thesis paper attempts to discover a link between church polity (or church structure) and whether political messages are more or less likely to be preached by clergy from the pulpit and accepted by their congregants. Given that churches are places where attendees are exposed to political messages, this paper hypothesizes that structurally centralized Christian denominations are more likely to have preached on the contraceptive mandate than decentralized denominations. Accordingly, it is assumed that Catholics are more likely to have heard about …

Negotiating A Culture Of Encounter And Disruptive Discourse In Catholic Higher Education, Laura Leming

Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications

Any brief attention to global, national, and local news underlines the urgency for education that leads to knowledge about and action for the common good. Catholic institutions of higher learning have a dual history of encouraging students to speak and act on behalf of the common good while also pursuing the good life. As those who can readily access a Catholic education have increasingly come from the upper middle class, how are we introducing our students into the culture of encounter that Pope Francis called the U.S. Bishops to promote in September 2015? This essay explores ideas and examples related …

Orpheus, Spring 2016, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

No abstract provided.

2016 Program: Honors Student Symposium, University Of Dayton. University Honors Program

Honors Student Symposium

No abstract provided.

Faith's Reasons

Faith’s Reasons

A newsletter published by the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today at the University of Dayton. The newsletter contains faculty and campus news, and reviews of books and other resources that discuss the intellectual tradition. Dr. Anthony B. Smith wrote of the UD presence at the symposium, "Passing on the Faith, Passing on the Church," hosted by the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University in 2005. Another article announced the 2005 Marianist Award winner, David J. O'Brien.

Faith's Reasons

Faith’s Reasons

A newsletter published by the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today at the University of Dayton. The newsletter contains faculty and campus news, and reviews of books and other resources that discuss the intellectual tradition. Articles include introductions of new UD faculty Sr. Laura Leming, F.M.I.; Bro. Tom Wendorf, S.M.; and Dr. Anthony Smith. It also mentions the creation of the Department of Religious Studies' Ph.D. program in the Theology of the U.S. Catholic Experience; and a letter written by UD administration and faculty to the U.S. bishops on the subject of Ex corde ecclesiae.

Faith's Reasons

Faith’s Reasons

A newsletter published by the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today at the University of Dayton. The newsletter contains faculty and campus news, and reviews of books and other resources that discuss the intellectual tradition. Articles describe a summer faculty seminar on the Catholic intellectual tradition; an online bibliography of the works of Walter Ong, created by the UD English department; the first Technology, Ethics, and Spirituality Symposium hosted by UD; and Schola Cantorum Daytoniensis.

Faith's Reasons

Faith’s Reasons

A newsletter published by the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today at the University of Dayton. The newsletter contains faculty and campus news, and reviews of books and other resources that discuss the intellectual tradition. Articles describe the School of Business Administration's promotion of the theme "Business as a Vocation"; and Fr. Jim Heft, S.M.,'s plans to establish the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California.

Faith's Reasons

Faith’s Reasons

A newsletter published by the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today at the University of Dayton. The newsletter contains faculty and campus news, and reviews of books and other resources that discuss the intellectual tradition. This issue described the lectures and events organized for UD's sesquicentennial anniversary. Brian Conniff also wrote of his experience in Rome at the beatification of Father William Chaminade. The issue also included excerpts from the remarks given by Fr. Johann Roten, S.M., at the opening of the exhibit From Barlach to Baselitz in Roesch Library, the Marian Library, and Keller Hall.

Public Corruption: Causes, Consequences & Countermeasures, Victor Hartman, Sridhar Ramamoorti

Accounting Faculty Publications

The article discusses the cause and consequences of public corruption in the U.S. It mentions several countermeasures against public corruption which include strengtening the organizational commitment, behaviour, and emphasizing code of ethics. The article also mentions the conflict of interests, challenges on law enforcement, and asset misappropriation.