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Public Trust And Confidence In The Courts: What Public Opinion Surveys Mean To Judges, David B. Rottman, Alan Tomkins

Alan Tomkins Publications

In August 1998 a comprehensive national survey added to the growing mass of information on how the public perceives the state courts. The “Perceptions of the U.S. Justice System,” commissioned by the American Bar Association, relied on telephone interviews of 1,000 American adults selected at random. The respondents were asked for their opinions about “the justice system,” lawyers, judges, law enforcement and the courts. The findings from the ABA survey were optimistic relative to most of the previous surveys. Public confidence in the courts relative to other major institutions seemed higher, and experience with courts appeared to promote higher rather …

Using African American (Negro) Spirituals In Coping With Stress By Creative African Americans Who Perform Piano And Vocal European Classical Music In A Racist Industry And Oppressed Society, Ellen Foster-Randle

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“Clearly, this study has demonstrated that there still exist areas of African American issues and studies that have not been addressed.”

Issues Of Cultural Awareness In Curriculum Design, Catherine Yamamoto

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“Clearly, developing curriculum that encourages multicultural awareness, when educators and social scientists cannot agree on a standard criteria for multiculturalism, means challenges for everyone involved in multicultural education.”

To Our Forever Mentor, Carol Sandborn

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

In this session, the presenter discusses the concerns, successes and pitfalls of the mentoring relationship, and outlines phases or stages of developing this relationship over time.

Transforming Predominantly White Institutions: How Can People Of Color Play A Key Role?, Paula G. Gomes, Cecy Kuruvilla

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“As we move into the new millennium, it will be even more critical for people of color to reclaim their individual and collective power to facilitate the process of tru institutional transformation.”

The Minority Mentor Program: The Value Of Experiential Learning And Successful Mentoring Workshops, Trent Ball, Danielle Carter, D'Ante Ducasse

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“The session has been designed in a forum and interactive format, which will allow the participants to share knowledge, information and perspectives on developing and assessing mentoring programs.”

Rounding Up The Usual Suspects: Academia's Version Of Driving While Black (Dwb), Cecil E. Canton

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“In much the same way that law enforcement agents identify Blacks for these routine, but illegal, traffic stops, agents of predominantly white institutions identify the few faculty of color, and ‘round up these usual suspects’ to ensure that their committees will have the appropriate racial, gender or ethnic representation.”

Affirming Our Commitment To Diversity: The Oakland University Trustee Academic Success Scholarship Program, Glenn Mcintosh, Gloria Sosa

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“If today’s students are to function effectively in a global economy and society, they must develop cross-cultural understanding and communication skills as an integral part of their education.”

The Problem With “All For One And One For All” Expectations: Differential Effects Of Race And Commitment In The Workplace, James R. Jones

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“The examples cited here reinforce the need for theoreticians and practitioners alike to consider the difficulties that may arise from viewing people through a single lens.”

Multicultural Mental Health Training Program: A Comprehensive Training Program For Ethnic Diverse Students, Richard Briscoe, Aaron Smith, Lawanda Ford, Mesmin Germain

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“Focusing on the need of continued effort to bring more minority students into postgraduate standing and scholarship, implications of the present program are explored.”

Lena Wright Myers, Lena Wright Myers

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

No abstract provided.

Artificial Equations, Artificial Distinctions: Language That Poisons The Waters Of Ethnic Relations, Kenneth D. Richardson

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“It is my contention at this point that when race relations on campuses get better, it is in spite of, not because of, the proliferation of jargon-based rhetoric about diversity.”

The Shaping Of A New Identity: Continuation Of The Transformation Process Of People Of Color On White University College Campuses Into "White" People Of Color, William B. Stewart, Ida B. Stewart

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“Our study will show how the pyramidal structure as a permanent feature of every aspect of American society continues to function in the same manner at institutions of higher learning.”

Pedagogy Of The Oppressed In The Academy: Institutionalized Or Self-Fulfilling?, Leon D. Caldwell

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 4th Annual National Conference (1999)

“The issue of institutional racism is well documented but what is discussed less is how people of color actually participate in creating institutionally oppressive conditions.”

Facilitating And Disinhibiting Prosocial Behaviors: The Nonlinear Interaction Of Trait Perspective Taking And Trait Personal Distress On Volunteering, Gustavo Carlo, James B. Allen, Dion C. Buhman

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Prior theorists and researchers have suggested that multiplicative models of prosocial behavior may account for weak and inconsistent relations between traits and prosocial behaviors. This study examined the multiplicative relations of trait personal distress, trait sympathy, and trait perspective taking on prosocial behaviors. Nonlinear, 2-way interactions were hypothesized, such that as trait personal distress decreased from moderate to low levels, and trait perspective taking or trait sympathy increased, volunteering would increase. One hundred and eighty-two undergraduate students completed a battery of trait measures that included trait perspective taking, trait sympathy, and trait personal distress. Approximately 6 weeks later, the students …

Introduction To International Perspectives On Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Alan Tomkins, David Carson

Alan Tomkins Publications

Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ), a concept first conceived by law professors David Wexler (University of Puerto Rico and University of Arizona) and Bruce Winick (University of Miami) only a little more than a decade ago, has emerged as the leading conceptual perspective in the mental health law field. Indeed, a LEXIS search reveals well over 150 articles on, or citing to, therapeutic jurisprudence in American law review publications in the past decade (terms used were “therapeutic w/5 jurisprudence w/25 Wexler or Winick”).

Although initially a notion that provided an alternative to the traditional “rights” approach to thinking about mental health law …

Theodor Lebrun And Industrial Comedy Space In Nineteenth Century Berlin, William Grange

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

The formation of the German Reich in 1871 was an occasion of unprecedented economic growth, accompanied by an equally conspicuous increase of both theatre construction and audience growth. One important aesthetic result, to paraphrase Hélène Cixous by way of Jacques Lacan, was "re-locating and un-making" the comic self in an alternative space of the Wilhelminian “Imaginary.” The victorious conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and the collection of billions in war reparations from the vanquished French allowed the German economy between 1871 and 1890 to surpass that of France and soon thereafter that of Great Britain. The erstwhile Prussian …

Value And Social Mobility In Flaubert, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

L’Education sentimentale may be construed as an historical novel at least insofar as it addresses questions of social change and enduring value as they are related to those of history and individual memory. As in Balzac and later in Proust, what is true for the individual applies to society. There is an especially Flaubertian understanding of movement in society and movement across time that remains tied more to demands of diegetic coherence than to laws of historical necessity, however. Singulative narration as it appears in the novel is a kind of smoke screen hiding a more pervasive iteration whereby the …

Taste Quality And Extinction Of A Conditioned Taste Aversion In Rats, Rick A. Bevins, Heather C. Jensen, Todd S. Hinze, Joyce Besheer

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Rats (Rattus norvegicus) that received a taste cue (saccharin, saline, quinine, or sucrose) paired with a lithium chloride (LiCl) injection displayed a robust decrease in consumption of that taste, relative to controls that had the taste unpaired with LiCl. Consumption of the paired taste increased with each nonreinforced presentation (i.e., extinction). After asymptotic extinction, rats that had had a 0.1% saccharin cue paired with LiCl consumed less of the saccharin solution than did controls. A similar data pattern was observed with a 10% sucrose solution. These results are consistent with the view that some aspect of the excitatory …

Low-Income Fathers’ And Mothers’ Perceptions Of The Father Role: A Qualitative Study In Four Early Head Start Communities, Jean Ann Summers, Helen Raikes, James Butler, Paul Spicer, Barbara Pan, Sarah Shaw, Mark Langager, Carol Mcallister, Monique K. Johnson

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

A qualitative inquiry in four Early Head Start Research sites explored the question of how low-income mothers and fathers view the role of fathers in their families. Role perceptions were gathered from a total of 56 parents of infants and toddlers across the four sites, using multiple data collection methods that included focus groups, open-ended interviews, and one case study. The data were analyzed to identify common themes across sites. The participants identified roles that included: providing financial support, “being there,” care giving, outings and play, teaching and discipline, providing love, and protection. Implications of these qualitative findings are discussed …

Double Discounting: The Effects Of Comparative Negligence On Mock Juror Decision Making, Douglas J. Zickafoosel, Brian H. Bornstein

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Two experiments were conducted to ascertain the effects of comparative negligence on damage awards. Participants awarded damages for a mock medical malpractice case in which the level of the plaintiff’s negligence was varied. Both experiments showed that damage awards were doubly discounted for partially negligent plaintiffs. Experiment 1 also found that the responses of college students did not differ from those of people who had been called for jury duty. Experiment 2 examined four components of the damage award and showed that the reduction due to the level of the plaintiff’s negligence occurred only in damages for bodily harm. Implications …

Providing Library Services To Distance Students And Faculty In The College Of Human Resources And Family Sciences, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Library resources and services are an essential component of any educational experience. Guidelines written by the Association of College and Research Libraries serve as a framework for providing library support to distance students and faculty. This article provides a case study of services and resources offered to students and faculty involved in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Human Resources and Family Sciences Interdepartmental Master's Program. Included are results of research studies related to meeting the library and information needs of distance learners and faculty in the college.

Communication Characteristics Of Children With Developmental Apraxia Of Speech, Laura Jean Ball

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Speech-language pathology researchers have pursued a strategy to identify children with distinct DAS characteristics in an effort to study the characteristics, possible cause(s), and interventions for this disorder. Increasingly, reports indicate that children with suspected DAS experience a range of speech, language, social interaction, behavioral, and academic disabilities. Investigators in DAS continue to recommend intervention strategies that focus primarily on motor speech impairments, although it is clear that few children with a distinct version of DAS exist.

Evaluations of communication skills were obtained from 36 children identified with suspected DAS for this research project. Hierarchical cluster analysis was completed on …

Interparental Conflict And Child And Adolescent Aggression: An Examination Of Overt And Relational Aggression, Stacey T. Mizokawa

Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The relationship between interparentaI conflict and overt aggression has been a consistent finding for males, but not for females. As a result. females have been thought to be less affected by parental disputes. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether parental conflict could predict aggression in males and females if aggression is operationalized to include both the overt type that is common among males and the relational type that is more common in females. Participants were 102 fifth- (37 males; 65 females). 137 eighth- (54 males; 83 females). and 110 eleventh-graders (37 males; 73 females) and their parents. …

A Statewide Survey Of Special Education Administrators And School Psychologists Regarding Functional Behavioral Assessment, J. Ron Nelson, Maura L. Roberts, Robert B. Rutherford Jr., Sarup R. Mathur, Lisa A. Aaroe

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

The 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandate that schools evaluate, through the process of a functional behavioral assessment, those students with disabilities who are exhibiting significant behavior problems which may lead to suspension and expulsion. We conducted a statewide survey of special education administrators and school psychologists to examine their views of the relative effectiveness, usability, suitability, and practicability of functional behavioral assessment procedures for two types of problem behaviors (i.e., low-level chronic or low frequency unique problem behaviors). The results suggest that special education administrators and school psychologists are generally supportive of the use …

Meaning And Measurement: Reconceptualizing Measures Of The Division Of Household Labor, Joan E. Twiggs, Julia Mcquillan, Myra Marx Feree

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This article argues that task-specific measures of the division of household labor form a gender hierarchy that reflects dimensions of meaning in the organization of household work. We contrast these measures to the commonly used time-share and Likert scale measures, which assume all tasks are interchangeable. Using Guttman scaling, we test the unidimensionality of this task hierarchy. Using odds ratios, we measure relationships between specific tasks, and using logistic regression, we see differences in correlates of husbands’ participation by task and interrelationships among tasks that persist, controlling for gender ideology and socioeconomic factors. This work should encourage development of measures …

Against Arbitrariness: Architectural Signification In The Age Of Globalization, Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

The theory of arbitrary signification, predominant during the last half century, considers architecture’s intrinsic properties as having little to do with its meaning. Consequently, architecture’s significance is not based on itself but assigned externally. In the age of globalization, such an assignment is often ineffective. This paper will: (1) examine the post-WWII debates between the theories of arbitrary and natural signification; (2) relate these theories to more philosophical, historicist vs. normative positions; (3) discuss the implications concerning conservation of culture, legitimacy of interpretation, and fake authenticity in construction; (4) and examine some architectural works that have brought forth natural signification …

Review Of M. Jones & R. Miller, Eds., The Cambridge Companion To The Classsic Russian Novel, Radha Balasubramanian

Russian Language and Literature Papers

This collection of thirteen essays by eminent scholars is devoted to such diverse topics as the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology and society, philosophy in the nineteenth-century novel, the romantic tradition, the realist tradition, the modernist tradition, novelistic technique, gender, and theory, and is classified under four subheadings-setting, culture, literary tradition, and structures and reading. These are not encyclopedic articles, but they offer insights into the subjects by refemng briefly when relevant to important nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels. Each article is accommodated in about twenty pages. This book is a “real companion” to Slavic scholars, a boon to …

Mabel Lee And Louise Pound: The University Of Nebraska's Battle Over Women's Intercollegiate Athletics, Kristi Lowenthal

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Mirroring a cultural shift that brought the American middle class from the Victorian era into the modern era, women's intercollegiate sports encountered stiff resistance from the two overlapping social groups. Mabel Lee, a woman physical educator, brought firmly held Victorian beliefs about feminine propriety and moderation to the University of Nebraska when she was hired as the head of the women's physical education department in 1924. Louise Pound, an English professor at the University, had for years excelled in highly competitive athletics as a member of the new modern middle class. Pound flouted Victorian restraints and refused to enter the …

A Town Of The Mind" Margaret Laurence's Mythical Microcosm Ofmanawaka, Nora Foster Stovel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This passage introduces "Where the World Began," the concluding piece in Margaret Laurence's 1976 collection of travel essays, Heart of a Stranger, which functions as an autobiography, charting her life journey. Laurence wrote a preface to this collection that exists in manuscript at McMaster University, but which was never published-unfortunately, because it illuminates the autobiographical import of the essays-perhaps because the pattern of her life was clear to her by the time she wrote it in 1976: "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean …