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Response To Critique Of The Claim Of Cannibalism At Cowboy Wash, Patricia M. Lambert, Banks L. Leonard, Brian R. Billman, Richard A. Marlar, Margaret E. Newman, Karl J. Reinhard

Karl Reinhard Publications

The original authors of Billman et af. (2000) are joined by three other analysts from the Cowboy Wash research team to respond to the critique of this article by Dongoske et af. (2000). Dongoske and his coauthors state that Billman et af. (2000) failed to test alternative hypotheses or to consider alternative explanations for the findings at 5MTJOOJO and similar sites. The original authors point out that alternative hypotheses were examined and rejected, leaving a violent episode of cannibalism as the most plausible explanation for the remains found at 5MTJOOJO. Dongoske et af. also question many aspects of the osteological, …

Birth Order, Sibling Investment, And Fertility Among Ju/’Hoansi (!Kung), Patricia Draper, Raymond Hames

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Birth order has been examined over a wide variety of dimensions in the context of modern populations. A consistent message has been that it is better to be born first. The analysis of birth order in this paper is different in several ways from other investigations into birth order effects. First, we examine the effect of birth order in an egalitarian, small-scale, kin-based society, which has not been done before. Second, we use a different outcome measure, fertility, rather than outcome measures of social, psychological, or economic success. We find, third, that being born late in an egalitarian, technologically simple …

Retailing In Rural Nebraska: Buying Locally And Electronically, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

Quality of Life of Rural Nebraskans: 1996 - 2000

Quality Of Life Of Rural Nebraskans: 1996 - 2000, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

Rural Nebraska Tomorrow: The Gap Between the Preferred and Expected Future

Nebraska’S Rural Communities: Current Views And Strategies For The Future, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

The Charm and Challenges of Living in Nebraska’s Rural Communities

Agriculture In Nebraska: Perceptions On Policy Alternatives, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

Educational Quality and County Government Services: Rural Nebraskans' Perceived Impacts of Recent and Proposed Legislation

Modeling Environmental Condition With Indices: A Case Study Of Sustainability And Soil Resources, Jennie Hughes Popp, D. Eric Hyatt, Dana Hoag

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

The authors present a framework that illustrates how a resource quality index can be used to examine policy relevant questions regarding environmental condition, the management of a resource as a production output, and sustainability. The framework demonstrates that heterogeneous endowments of a resource can change over time in different ways. By evaluating these changes using substitution, reversibility and uncertainty criteria, we can suggest four general guidelines for managing an environmental resource in a single production process. This framework was applied in a case study to three soil types (stable, neutral and susceptible) used in agricultural production in the Midwestern United …

Creating An Inclusive Learning Environment, Terrie Nolinske

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Students bring differences relating to life experiences, attitudes, age, religion, discipline, and learning styles into the classroom. This essay offers strategies to promote diversity awareness and an inclusive learning environment.

Living Up To Expectations, Steven M. Richardson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

“Poor preparation” is often a symptom of mismatched expectations. By communicating expectations early and with a plan for offering help as needed, we can minimize these problems.

A Faculty / Staff Discussion Seminar On Textiles, Deborah A. Brothers

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Williams College is a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, with about 300 faculty and 2000 undergraduates. Here at the college, there is a Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, whose purpose is to foster inter-discipline research and discussion for the faculty. The Oakley Center has allowed interested faculty the opportunity to present ideas in various types of seminars, so that new topics of scholarship can be researched,. with the participation of faculty in unrelated fields.

In the fall of 1999, a Faculty and Staff Discussion Seminar on Weaving and Textiles was offered at the Oakley Center. Meredith Hoppin, a …

Reinventing A Cultural Self: Textile Design And Native American Youth, Wendy Weiss, Mary Lee Johns

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This presentation shows how the University Textiles, Clothing and Design department and the Indian Center of Lincoln, Inc., are collaborating to provide creative textile design programs for a group of 12 at-risk Native American youth, 12-18 years old. Family therapist, Dr. Gloria Gonzalez-Kruger, is conducting a research component which assesses the project's impact on youth development, cultural identity development, and intercultural relationships. The data will provide information on how to develop and implement culturally competent programs for youth.

Fall 1998, the youth began a series of short programs working at the university design studios. They worked with graduate students in …

Conrad Bakker: Art And Objecthood, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is pleased to present Conrad Bakker: Art and Objecthood, an installation that engages many of the most important aesthetic and cultural issues in the contemporary artworld. This exhibition is part of a semesterlong focus at the Sheldon Art Gallery on the significance and influence of Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. In addition to this exhibition, the permanent collection galleries of the Sheldon Art Gallery include Duchamp's famous Boite-en-Valise, an etching of his infamous Fountain, and the work of other artists, both historical and contemporary, who …

Exposing The "Pretty Woman" Myth: A Qualitative Examination Of The Lives Of Female Streetwalking Prostitutes, Rochelle L. Dalla

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

Intensive interviews were conducted with 43 women involved in streetwalking prostitution. Data were analyzed according to Phenomenological Descriptive Analysis, results of which are presented in two parts. Detailed accounts of the lives of a subgroup of 5 participants are described first, followed by a broader discussion of results including the entire sample of 43. Themes common across the larger group are presented in three segments, including (a) early development, (b) life in "the game,” and (c) leaving the streets. Implications for advocacy and further research are presented.

Oxidative Stress Resistance: A Robust Correlated Response To Selection In Extended Longevity Lines Of Drosophila Melanogaster?, Lawrence G. Harshman, Beth A. Haberer

Lawrence G. Harshman Publications

Stress resistance is associated with longevity in Drosophila melanogaster and other model organisms used for genetic research. The present study tests for oxidative stress resistance in one set of lines selected for late-life reproduction and extended longevity. Both females and males from the selected lines were appreciably more resistant to oxidative stress than were flies from the control lines. A relative increase in oxidative stress resistance is a correlated response to selection in this laboratory selection experiment. Increased oxidative stress resistance appears to be a relatively robust correlated response to laboratory selection for late-life reproduction and extended longevity.

The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning: A National Initiative, Barbara L. Cambridge

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

As part ofthe scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty members study the ways in which they teach and students learn in their disciplines, and campuses foster this scholarship at the institutional level. A national initiative called the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Leaming constitutes three programs to engage and support individuals, campuses, and disciplinary associations in this form of scholarly work. This article describes the Pew Scholars Fellowship Program, the Campus Program, and the Work with Scholarly Societies and invites participation of campuses in this exciting initiative.

Accountability Solutions In The Consent Search And Seizure Wasteland, José Felipé Anderson

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Right without Remedy: The Accountability Problem and the Forgotten Legacy of Wolf v. Colorado

III. Structural Accountability and the Undervalued Doctrine of Miranda v. Arizona

IV. The Accountability Vacuum and the Flawed Constitutional Consent Jurisprudence

V. Perception Accountability: Of Race and Men

VI. Accountability Solutions

VII. Conclusion

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 21 (2000), Virginia Gunn, Laurel Horton, Xenia E. Cord, Phyllis S. Herda, Ethel Ewert Abrahams, Rachel K. Pannabecker, Susan Price Miller, Lisa Gabbert, Marsha Macdowell

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

An "Old-Fashioned Quilting" in 1910 by Laurel Horton

Textiles and Cooperative Commerce in Colonial America: The Example of William McCormick by Xenia E. Cord

Creating a New Tradition: Quilting in Tonga by Phyllis S. Herda

"Better Choose Me": Addictions to Tobacco, Collecting, and Quilting, 1880-1920 by Ethel Ewert Abrahams and Rachel K. Pannabecker

Hubert Ver Mehren and Home Art Studios by Susan Price Miller

"Petting the Fabric": Medium and the Creative Process by Lisa Gabbert

Quilts and Their Stories: Revealing a Hidden History by Marsha MacDowell

Authors and editor

In memoriam: Bill Charles Garoutte …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, January/February 2000

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletter (1993–2000)

Contents:

Small Businesses Are Backbone of Communities

Nebraska's Future Agriculture: Multiple Functions of Rural Landscapes

Conference to Promote Sustainable Food Systems

2000 NSAS Meeting Features Salatin

UNL Centers Offer Entrepreneurial Assistance

NCR SARE Announces Availability of Producer Grants

USDA Invests $180 Million in Rural America, Agricultural Research

New Wallace Center Created at Winrock International

Farmland Loss Accelerates

Glickman Appoints Committee on Small Farms

Costing Child Protective Services Staff Turnover, Michelle Graef, Erick L. Hill

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

This article details the process used in one state to determine the financial costs to the child welfare agency accrued over the course of one year that were directly attributable to CPS staff turnover. The formulas and process for calculating specific cost elements due to separation, replacement and training are provided. The practical considerations inherent in this type of analysis are highlighted, as well as the use of this type of data to inform agency human resource strategies.

The Virtue Of Ordered Conflict: A Defense Of The Adversary System, David Barnhizer

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Idea of Ordered Conflict

III. Imperfections in the Adversary System

IV. The Role of Law in Coping With Conflict and Social Change

V. The Adversary System in a Complex American Democracy

VI. A Period of Intensifying Social Conflict and Search for Identity

VII. Social Despair and Acquiring Meaning through Joining a Micro-Community

VIII. How Doctrine Helps Shape and Balance our Political System

IX. Doctrine as a System and Structure

X. Conclusion: Democracy, Change, and Conflict

Place As Text: Approaches To Active Learning, Bernice Braid, Ada Long

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

INTRODUCTION, Bernice Braid
HONORS SEMESTERS: ANATOMY OF ACTIVE LEARNING, William Daniel
HONORS SEMESTERS: AN ARCHITECTURE OF ACTIVE LEARNING, Bernice Braid

OTHER STRUCTURAL MODELS OF ACTIVE LEARNING City as Text©, Bernice Braid
Faculty Development Institutes, William Daniel
Summer High School Field Experience, Bernice Braid
College Recruitment Exercise, Bernadette Low
Orientation Exercise, Bernadette Low
Professional Development Exercise, Bernadette Low
Other Courses, Bernadette Low

AN EXAMPLE OF ACTIVE LEARNING IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM, Shirley Forbes Thomas

ACTIVE LEARNING: ASSESSMENT OF HONORS SEMESTERS Internal Assessment, Ann Raia
External Assessment, Ada Long

ACTIVE LEARNING: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON HONORS SEMESTERS, Elizabeth Beck

ACTIVE LEARNING IN A …

Ancient Traditions, New Interpretations: Compression Resist Textiles In North And Mesoamerica, Virginia Davis

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Anasazi pieces from the Southwest USA, circa 1100 - 1300 AD, are known having compression resist patterning by tieing or stitching. These may possibly show influence from further south. In Mexico, tie and stitch resist is seen in pre-Hispanic indigo dyed brown cotton fragments recovered in the region of Tehuacan, Puebla. The codices are rich in depiction suggesting tie-dye, in particular, the cloak of Nezahualpilli, Lord of Texcoco, Codex Ixtlilxochitl, analyzed by Dr. Patricia Anawalt. Nezahualpilli, means in Nahuatl "blue knot," linguistically reflecting the design in the legitimizing cloak. Codex Mendoza shows tribute to the Aztecs with tie design from …

Cloth In Contemporary West Africa: A Symbiosis Of Factory-Made And Hand-Made Cloth, Heather Marie Akou

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The concepts of "tradition" and "fashion" both center on the idea of change. Fashion implies change, while tradition implies a lack of change. Many scholars have attempted to draw a line between the two, often with contradictory results. In a 1981 article titled, "Awareness: Requisite to Fashion," Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins argued that,

If people in a society are generally not aware of change in form of dress during their lifetimes, fashion does not exist in that society. Awareness of change is a necessary condition for fashion to exist; the retrospective view of the historian does not produce fashion.¹

Although …

The "Invasion" Of Zapotec Textiles: Indian Art "Made In Mexico" And The Indian Arts And Crafts Act, W. Warner Wood

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In May 2000, in Capitol Hill hearing testimony Andy Abeita described the "threat"," largely coming from South of the border as an "onslaught" creating "significant losses" because of ''unfair competition." He further described the situation as a "takeover" causing "economic harm" against which those in the U.S. should be "protect[ed]." Abeita's choice of vocabulary was not out of the ordinary.¹ As a number of authors have pointed out, Mexican workers are often described as an invasionary force.² megal and legal Mexican migration and work in the U.S. or in the maquiladora manufacturing plants that have sprung up along …

The University Of Nebraska Sociology Centennial: An Archival And Documentary Souvenir, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This documentary souvenir is published in conjunction with the centennial celebration of the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 3-4,2000. Copies for distribution during the centennial festivities are provided, in part, courtesy of the George Elliott Howard Institute for Advanced Sociological Research. The archival and documentary items selected for inclusion in this special supplement to Sociological Origins are, of necessity, culled from a much larger pool of potential items, many of which could easily be included in such a compilation with equal justification. All materials reproduced herein posses unique historic value, and it is hoped too that …

S C O R P State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan Nebraska Action Program

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Publications

Over a third of nonresidents who visit Nebraska in the summer months go to attractions and events. For each attraction or event visited, they spend an average of a halfday longer stay in Nebraska and spend an additional $64, according to data from Nebraska's OED. Outdoor recreation will likely continue to increase with active families, climbing incomes, and shorter work weeks. However, Nebraskans may spend more on long weekends and vacations closer to home in coming years if fuel prices keep climbing. If Nebraska is to meet existing and expected recreation and tourism demands, the long-range statewide forecasts to meet …

Review Of Le Play, Engineer And Social Scientist, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This monograph, a biographical sketch of the early French sociologist, Pierre Guillaume Frederic Le Play, is not a new book. Despite the crisp and attractive appearance of this handsome volume now offered by Transaction Publishers, it is a reprint of a work originally published in England in 1970 by Longmans (a fact noted only in the fore matter on the copyright page). A book of this vintage deserves a new introduction and a bibliographic update. Further, unsettling my sensibilities as an academically trained geographer, Transaction did not reprint the fold-out, multicolor exemplar of Le Play's cartography, located between pages 8 …

Loren Eiseley And Sociology At The University Of Nebraska, 1926-1936: The Sociological Training Of A Noted Anthropologist, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

LOREN COREY EISELEY [1907-1977] rose from modest beginnings to become one of the nation’s foremost essayists, naturalists, and anthropologists (Carlisle 1983; Christianson 1990; Carrithers 1991; Gerber 1983; Heidtmann 1991; Pitts 1995), and his work was built on a solid interdisciplinary foundation that included intensive undergraduate and graduate study in sociology at the University of Nebraska.1 Eiseley, the writer, is best known today for The Immense Journey (1957), The Firmament of Time (1960), and The Unexpected Universe (1969), his most popular books. As a mature scholar tenured at the University of Pennsylvania, Eiseley served as Provost; Professor and Chair of the …

A Symposium On Lucile Eaves: Lucile Eaves And Nebraska Sociology, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

THE MAJOR published, first-person accounts of early sociology and sociologists at the University of Nebraska include perspectives by George Elliott Howard (1908, 1927), Olivia Pound (1916), Hattie Plum Williams (1919, 1920, 1929), Edward Alsworth Ross (1935), Hutton Webster (1952), and Joyce O. Hertzler (1929). To this instructive and growing list we are pleased to add Lucile Eaves’ sociological autobiography, written in 1928, as well as an example, drawn from Nebraska’s University Journal, of her contemporary observations on social life (Eaves 1914a, b, 1915a, b, c).

Epistemological Realities: Archival Data And Disciplinary Knowledge In The History Of Sociology—Or, When Did George Elliott Howard Study In Paris?, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This supplement is published in conjunction with the Interim Meeting of the International Sociological Association, Research Committee on the History of Sociology (RCHS) in Torun, Poland, June 1-4, 2000. As many of my colleagues from the United States travel to Europe this summer for the interim meeting in the historic city of Torun, it seems especially appropriate to recall the trans-Atlantic educational adventures of one of our American sociological pioneers.

George Elliott Howard (1849-1928), president of the American Sociological Society in 1917, was one of those American scholars who recognized the value of European training at a time when opportunities …