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Mentoring Diversity And The Majority Rules: The Power Of Purpose, Paul H. Gutierrez, Cathy Martinez, Warren Santistevan

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

“Tribal Societies selected special individuals to formally guide, grain, and indoctrinate the young in the arts, crafts, and behaviors necessary to function successfully and contribute to the community.”

University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Women's Studies Program Spring 1997, Bettina Heinz, Christina E. Brantner

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

The Women's Studies Program is currently celebrating 20 years of academic excellence.

Were it not for the initiative and commitments of its founding professors and students, UNL would not have one of the strongest legacies of academic dedication to women and women's issues. These women endowed UNL and its students with an enduring vision.

Because women's history is too valuable to be lost, the Women's Studies Program wishes to honor another woman of vision.

Journal Of Telecommunications In Higher Education

ACUTA Journal

This Issue: Integrating Networks

ATM: It's All That Matters

ATM Delivers Voice, Data, Video

Cabling the Integrated Network

Interview: Robert Collet, Data Services & Network Systems

BYU: Striving for Excellence in Telecom Services

Cross-Border Ties Among Protest Movements The Great Plains Connection, Mildred A. Schwartz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This paper examines the connections among political protest movements in twentieth century western Canada and the United States. Protest movements are social movements and related organizations, including political protest parties, with the objective of deliberately changing government programs and policies. Those changes may also entail altering the composition of the government or even its form. Social movements involve collective efforts to bring about change in ways that avoid or reject established belief systems or organizations. They begin with assessments of what is wrong and propose a blueprint for action to achieve new goals by drawing on committed supporters willing to …

Review Of Creative Crusader: Edmund G. Kaufman And Mennonite Community By James C. Juhnke, Nancy Bernhardt-Holland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Juhnke's candid biography of the SwissVolhynian educator, reformer, missionary, and Bethel College president (volume eight in the Cornelius H. Wedel series on Anabaptist and Mennonite history) is an appropriate companion to his earlier volume on Wedel himself. Juhnke follows up his study of one of the founding fathers of the German-American Mennonite community with this rich examination of a second generation leader caught between the idealism and isolationism of the founders and the newer attitude of practical accommodation to American ways.

Juhnke's well-integrated material on the origins, migrations, and doctrines of the various branches of the Mennonite movement serves as …

Review Of The Ojibwa Of Western Canada, 1780-1870 By Laura Peers, Edward J. Hedican

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This innovative work is an ethno-historical study of the Ojibwa migration from the Great Lakes region to the Plains. Building on earlier studies by Harold Hickerson (The Chippewa and Their Neighbors) and Charles Bishop (The Northern Ojibwa and the Fur Trade), particularly in the use of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Peers reconstructs processes of historical change over a ninety year period. She is not content, however, simply to document the historical record, but instead takes on a much broader challenge, and herein lies the major value of her study.

The Ojibwa of western Canada are …

The Family Situation Of Street Youth In Latin America: A Cross-National Review , Marcela Raffaelli

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

One of the greatest social welfare challenges confronting Latin American nations is the growing number of children and adolescents seeking their survival on city streets. The presence of these apparently abandoned youngsters is not new (see Felsman, 1989; Peralta, 1992), but the number of street youths has been increasing steadily in recent years (Connolly, 1994; Durning, 1992). Although the exact numbers are disputed, most experts agree that millions of children and adolescents work and sometimes live on city streets in the developing countries of Latin America (UNICEF, 1989). In the face of what at times appears to be an insurmountable …

Future Horizons: Recent Literature In Sustainable Agriculture, Gabriel Hegyes, Charles A. Francis

CARI Extension and Education Materials for Sustainable Agriculture

Here is one building block in the foundation for a future agriculture. Increasing trainer literacy in sustainable agriculture can be defined on several levels. At its most literal, it is an anthology of reviews familiarizing the reader with some of the authors, topics, and titles that have composed the sustainable agriculture literature over the last decade or more. It also serves as an annotated bibliography where the dry abstracts of many such works are replaced with insightful essays. Most importantly, this primer is a language text, exposing the user to the semantics, symbols, and syntax of sustainable agriculture. This collection …

The Rural Workplace And Technology Utilization: Results From The 1997 Annual Nebraska Rural Poll, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

Quality of Life of Rural Nebraskans: Results from the 1997 Annual Nebraska Rural Poll

Quality Of Life Of Rural Nebraskans: Results From The 1997 Annual Nebraska Rural Poll, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

No abstract provided.

Rural Development Strategies For Nebraska: Results From The 1997 Annual Nebraska Rural Poll, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

No abstract provided.

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, January/February 1997

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

Contents:

Economic, Environmental and Sociological Effects of Whole-farm Production Systems in Eastern Nebraska: Classifying Producers/Production Systems

SARE Producer Grants Due May 1

RR Soybeans: Delaying the Inevitable?

New Sustainable Agriculture Information Retrieval Service on the Internet

Integrated Farm Update: Windbreaks Increase Pepper Yields

Southern Region Meets to Discuss Sustainable Agriculture Education

Study Associates Nitrate in Drinking Water with Greater Cancer Risk

Community Life In Rural Nebraska: Results From The 1997 Annual Nebraska Rural Poll, Rebecca J. Vogt

Nebraska Rural Poll

No abstract provided.

Ec97-276 Management Strategies For Pen-Mating Female Pigs, Donald G. Levis

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The master control switch of a pork production enterprise is weaning day. Pork production managers have little or no control concerning when a weaned female will cycle or how long she will be in estrus after weaning. When females are pen-mated, the producer needs to use management procedures to prevent an excessive number of estrous females from expressing the standing response at the same time, try to manage estrous females so that they are bred at the proper time, try to manage boars so they maintain an adequate level of fertility, evaluate boars for level of sexual behavior before and …

Defining And Classifying Pilgrimages, Robert Stoddard

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

To make comparisons among the many forms of religious journeys, scholars need both an acceptable definition of the phenomenon called pilgrimages and a workable classification scheme that reveals significant differences. Following a discussion about the elements that should be incorporated into a definition of pilgrimages, a formal statement is presented. This provides a basis for separating those traveling activities that should be studied as pilgrimages from all other forms of human movement. Further differentiation among pilgrimages can be achieved by categorizing them into a few distinct classes. Several criteria that logically could be utilized for dividing pilgrimages into various types …

1997 Platte River Basin Ecosystem Symposium Proceedings

Water Current Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 18 (1997), Includes Cumulative Author Index, Volumes 1-17, Virginia Gunn, Sara Reimer Farley, Nancy Hornback, Barbara Carow, Lorre M. Weidlich, Catherine A. Cerny, Ruth Rhoades, Loretta B. Hammonds Woodward, Jill Hemming, Gayle R. Davis

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

The Quilting Records of Rachel Adella Jewett and Lucyle Jewett by Sara Reimer Farley and Nancy Hornback

Art Quilt Makers and Their Critique Groups by Barbara Carow

The Sunday Friends: The Group and Their Quilts by Lorre M. Weidlich

Quilt Ownership and Sentimental Attachments: The Structure of Memory by Catherine A. Cerny

Feed Sacks in Georgia: Their Manufacture, Marketing, and Consumer Use by Ruth Rhoades

Hawaiian Outline-Embroidered Quilts by Loretta B. Hammonds Woodard

Waccamaw-Siouan Quilts: A Model for Studying Native American Quilting by Jill Hemming

Seminar Keynote Address

Women's Quilts and Diaries: Creative Expression …

Cheyenne Autumn, By Mari Sandoz, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Cheyenne Autumn is an unflinching historical portrait of a people confronting physical extermination and cultural annihilation at the hands of duplicitous government forces. This work is structurally a chapter-by-chapter chronicle of a Cheyenne outbreak starting in Oklahoma and ending in the surrender of Little Wolf and his followers hundreds of miles and six months later in Montana. The northern Cheyennes of the Yellowstone region are promised land, food, and protection in treaties signed by the U.S. Government. These agreements, however, are repeatedly and brutally broken by the government.

Hundreds of northern Cheyennes agree, under government coercion, to removal to Oklahoma …

Salesforce Automation And The Adoption Of Technological Innovations By Salespeople: Theory And Implications, Madhavan Parthasarathy, Ravipreet S. Sohi

Department of Marketing: Faculty Publications

Focuses on factors that can influence the adoption and implementation of salesforce automation systems (SFA). Automatization of a salesforce; Information on the dual adoption concept; Discussion of the adoption of SFA systems by individual salespeople; Why the adoption of technological innovations is likely to be in industries operating in an oligopolistic environment; Concluding remarks on managerial implications.

This paper is concerned with the adoption of salesforce automation (SFA) systems by organizations and their salesforces. SFA systems consist of centralized database systems that can be accessed through a modem by remote laptop computers using special SFA software (which is often company …

“Here?” Strategies For Teaching About Cultural Diversity In Non-Diverse Settings, Anneliese Harper, Carol Cumber, Charles Braithwaite, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

How can educators motivate people in ethnically non-diverse areas to learn about multiculturalism? The roadblocks people may encounter in this process are explored and ways instructors may address multiculturalism in the classroom are presented.

Truth Or Consequences: The Dilemma Of Asserting The Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination In Bankruptcy Proceedings, Craig Peyton Gaumer, Charles L. Nail Jr.

Nebraska Law Review

This article discusses both the manner in which issues regarding the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination may arise in bankruptcy cases and the many potential consequences of asserting the privilege. Parts II and III provide a general overview of the bankruptcy process and the Fifth Amendment, respectively. Part IV examines whether and to what extent the privilege against self-incrimination protects corporations and their directors, officers, and shareholders. Part V offers a similar examination of the extent to which the Fifth Amendment protects against the compelled production of documents. Parts VI and VII address the closely related topics of invocation and …

Psychological Distress And Help Seeking In Rural America, Dan R. Hoyt, Rand D. Conger, Jill Gaffney Valde, Karen Weihs

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The implications of exposure to acute and chronic stressors, and seeking mental health care, for increased psychological distress are examined. Research on eco¬nomic stress, psychological distress, and rural agrarian values each point to in¬creasing variability within rural areas. Using data from a panel study of 1,487 adults, a model predicting changes in depressive symptoms was specified and tested. Results show effects by size of place for men but not for women. Men living in rural villages of under 2,500 or in small towns of 2,500 to 9,999 people had significantly greater increases in depressive symptoms than men living in the …

Creating A Culturally Relevant Environment For The African American Learner In The Foreign Language Classroom, Aleidine Kramer Moeller, Mary Ashcraft

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Several developments have transformed the way the foreign language classroom looks, the role the teacher and the learner assume, and the approaches and strategies we use to teach and learn second languages. These changes stem from fundamental gains in the knowledge base of how second languages are acquired and learned as well as experimental inquiry into a variety of educational innovations such as cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, and the integration of technology into the classroom. Qualitative, quantitative, and action research have provided the foreign language profession evidence upon which to make informed decisions to build a classroom environment designed to …

Use Of Folk Healing Practices By Hiv-Infected Hispanics Living In The United States, Mariana Suarez, Marcela Raffaelli, Ann O'Leary

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

In the absence of a medical cure for AIDS, HIV-infected individuals may seek alternative treatments that are consistent with cultural and social beliefs. This paper examines beliefs about, and use of, folk healing practices by HIV-infected Hispanics receiving care at an HIV/AIDS clinic in inner-city New Jersey. Anonymous individual interviews were conducted with 58 male and 18 female HIV-infected Hispanics aged 23-55, primarily of Puerto Rican origin (61%) or descent (29%). The majority of respondents believed in good and evil spirits (73.7%); among the 56 believers, 48% stated that the spirits had a causal role in their infection, either alone …

Table Of Contents – Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 1996

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

Articles

Book Reviews

News and Notes

Annual Index

Review Of Rethinking Restructuring: Gender And Change In Canada Edited By Isabella Bakker, Barbara L. Marshall

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Any observer of the recent politics and economics of Western democratic states will be familiar with the starting point of this collection: that there has been a significant shift in governing practices related to global economic restructuring, informed by a "neo-liberal consensus" that favors shrinking government and deregulating economies. This book tackles the implications of this trend in Canada, but with the specific aim of demonstrating the simultaneous "gender erosion and intensification" integral to restructuring. Isabella Bakker has assembled some of Canada's finest feminist scholars to explore the often contradictory effects of current political-economic strategies on the Canadian (and global) …

Review Of Planting The Future: Developing An Agriculture That Sustains Land And Community Edited By Elizabeth A. R. Bird, Gordon L. Bultena, And John C. Gardner, Charles A. Francis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Why should you care about agriculture? Planting the Future provides an eloquent description of the current state of this' most basic human endeavor so critical to survival. Based on a series of surveys and on-farm studies in the North Central and Western states, the book recognizes the bounty of our conventional agricultural industry. More importantly for the future, it details a series of critical problems in the environment, the distribution of economic benefits, and the social dislocation resulting from the consolidation of lands and heavy reliance on fossil fuels. Today's productivity and cheap food in the market have hidden expenses …

Occupational Segmentation In Kansas And Nebraska, 1890-1900, Lisa M. Frehill

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Population growth in the states of Kansas and Nebraska between 1870-1900 was largely due to the influx of migrants from other parts of the United States and from Europe in search of fertile land to own and till. However, not all migrants were equally successful in attaining this goal. This paper discusses differences in occupational positions of African-American, Native-Born White and Foreign-Born White migrants in Kansas and Nebraska. Evidence from the US. censuses from 1890 and 1900 indicates that African Americans occupied positions of relative disadvantage in the occupational structures of Nebraska and Kansas, being more likely to be relegated …

Interest Domination As A Framework For Exploring Channel Changes In Transitional Economies, Debra Dahab, James W. Gentry, Ravipreet S. Sohi

Department of Marketing: Faculty Publications

Changes in political and economic power can affect channel structures and decisions. Western channel models may not be useful for understanding the process of change in Central and East European transforming economies. This discussion suggests that channels in transforming economies may be controlled by groups or networks of people with mutual interests, a phenomenon the authors call interest domination. The article examines interest domination by managers, Communist cadres, and other party elite in two transforming economies and describes how structural and behavioral components of command economies might be conducive to interest domination of marketing channels. Propositions for explaining the political, …

The Poverty Of Political Culture, Robert W. Jackman, Ross A. Miller

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

The analyses reported by Granato, Inglehart, and Leblang (1996; hereafter GIL) are a major improvement over the studies that we examined in our paper. Especially notable is their explicit evaluation of the cultural explanation against a major rival, as represented by endogenous growth models of scholars like Barro (1991), Levine and Renelt (1992), and Helliwell (1994). These models regress economic growth rates over a given period on a set of initial economic, human capital, and other variables. It is in the context of such models that GIL report a significant, independent effect of culture on growth.

GIL's attention to the …