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May 1985, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

May 1985 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 12 pages

Volume 68, Number 9

Identity And Language: Roxy In Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mary Frances Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

The literary dialect of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson goes relatively unnoticed by scholars since it does not seem as interesting as the literary dialect of his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, There seem to be only two distinct dialects in Pudd ' nhead W1.1 son (as compared to Huckleberry Finn's seven to nine); one spoken by the whites and one spoken by the blacks. Almost all of the black dialect is spoken by one character, Roxy, the slave woman who is legally black but white in appearance. A closer look at Roxy's dialect can determine language characteristics, along with important matters of …

A Portrait Of Three Elementary Music Teachers: Their Classrooms And Self-Perceptions, Mary H. Ingram

Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the self-perceptions of three elementary music teachers. The areas discussed include musical and educational backgrounds, self-perceptions of teaching, and composing and performing activities. Research providing such an in-depth look at individual elementary music teachers has not been done in the past.

The data was gathered through classroom observation and individual interviews of the three teachers to discuss the various aspects of teaching. Each teacher was observed on three separate occasions, at one week intervals, teaching the same three half-hour classes each day. The observations wore made prior to the interview session in order to provide a context …

An Exhibition Of Original Designs Created For The Premiere Performances Of Plays By Maxwell Anderson, Bee Pearce

Theses and Dissertations

This paper describes the search for and finding of designs created for the premieres of the produced plays written by Maxwell Anderson who graduated with honors from the University of North Dakota, class of 1911.

The search involved the identification of the plays premiered, the designers, and finally the location of these designs with the loan of each assured.

These confirmed loans allowed the secured premiere pieces to be displayed from October 13 through November 23, 1983, by the North Dakota Museum of Art at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, during the centennial year, February 1983 to February …

Perceptions Of Selected Elementary School Principal' Leadership Behavior By Selected Experienced, Effective Elementary School Teachers In Minnesota, Elizabeth Reimer Myers

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of selected elementary school principals' leadership behavior held by selected experienced, effective elementary school teachers in Minnesota. Understanding the views and needs of these teachers should help principals increase their leadership effectiveness and thus positively affect the performance and morale of such teachers.

Thirty-three experienced, effective teachers were asked to respond to the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire-Form XII (LBDQ-12) by rating their principals' actual leadership behavior and their perceptions of ideal leadership behavior of principals. Resulting data were statistically treated by the jt-test for repeated measures for significant differences at …

Conceptual Level, Hypothesis Formation Training And Clinical Judgment, Robert William Larsen

Theses and Dissertations

Conceptual level, hypothesis formation training, college grade point average, counselor preparation level, and age were studied to assess their relationship to clinical judgment. The sample consisted of female volunteer social work students, who were divided into training (26 subjects) and control (14 subjects) groups. The training group received hypothesis formation training, and the control group simply observed a counseling session. The subjects responded to the Paragraph Completion Method (Hunt, Butler, Noy & Rosser, 1978) and the Modified Clinical Assessment Questionnaire.

The responses were analyzed in terms of hypotheses that were designed to address: 1. The extent to which the study …

Attitudes Toward Rape And Recovery From Sexual Assault, Lynn White Eggers

Theses and Dissertations

In order to understand more fully the process of recovery from sexual assault, this study investigated the variables considered to be influential in that process, including the age of the victim, her marital status, the time elapsed since the assault, who the perpetrator was, and where the assault took place. In addition, the victim's beliefs about sexual assault were also assessed, using the Feminist Attitude Toward Rape Scale, as were her perceptions of society's beliefs. Recovery was evaluated using the Beck Depression Inventory, the Modified Fear Survey, and the Derogatis Symptom Check List.

The subjects were 30 women, ages 18 …

The Relationship Of Personality Type To Excellence In College Teaching, Eloise Ann Iverson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of The Use Of The Dial Preschool Screening Instrument In A Rural Multi-District Special Education Services Unit, Anita I. Sapp

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Feasibility Study Of The Development Of A Modified Affordable Computerized Cost Estimation System For Medium And Small Printing Operations, P. Douglas Hisey Jr

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Job Descriptions For North Dakota Elementary Principals In Various Job Situations, Dennis J. Throndset

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Marketing Management In Medical Group Practice, John Louis Weir

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

April 4, 1985, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the April 4, 1985, meeting of the University Senate. 28 pages

April 1985, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

April 1985 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 11 pages

Volume 68, Number 8

Selection And Communication Of Key Ratios For Monitoring Performance Of Small Business, Marcia L. Devault

Theses and Dissertations

The first chapter of this study introduces the study and defines the methodology used in completing the study. The purpose of this study is to provide a model whereby financial analysis can be completed which will be relevant to managers of small businesses. A literature survey was done to review ratios currently used in financial analysis and to determine availability of information for purposes of comparison of a business' information with industry averages. Then, a model was built which will provide a simple, yet informative analysis. Finally, the model was applied to a small business to illustrate its use and …

Reporting On Changing Prices, Jo Anne Vaughn

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

March 1985, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

March 1985 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 11 pages

Volume 68, Number 7

Is The Imposition Of Fee-Based Library Services Necessary For The Future Development Of Public Libraries?, Don Holland

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

February 7, 1985, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the February 7, 1985, meeting of the University Senate. 27 pages

Fortis/Lenis Consonants In Guichicovi Mixe: A Preliminary Acoustic Study, J. Albert Bickford

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "This paper focuses on the fortis/lenis contrast in consonants in the Guichicovi dialect of Mixe (Mixe-Zoquean; Oaxaca, Mexico), and uses instrumental data to support a proposed phonological analysis of this contrast. In the remainder of Sect. 1, I briefly survey prior work on this contrast, especially as it impacts on the claim that Mixe has three contrastive vowel lengths. I summarize the phonetic and phonological facts that were determined by ordinary techniques of phonetic transcription, and describe the phonological hypothesis for which I wanted confirmation from instrumental data. In Sect. 2, I describe the instrumental study, including …

Referential Distance And Discourse Structure In Yagua, Thomas E. Payne

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "This paper concerns Yagua, a lowland language of Peru. It also concerns the choices speakers make as to how they will refer to or "code" participants in discourse. The body of this paper will be organized into two broad parts corresponding to these two most general concerns. In the first part, consisting of Sect. 2, I will describe the major formal devices used to code participants in Yagua. In the second part, Sect. 3 and 4, I will look at the use of those devices in a body of folkloric narrative texts. I will take as a …

Red Lake Falls, Minnesota: A Sociolinguistic Survey, James Kapper

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "Despite the varied ancestry of the area's population, and a time span of more than a century for the mechanism of the American "melting pot" to have done its work, a relatively large number of people in the area still use the French language in their homes and describe themselves and their communities as "French."

"The background of the community and the survival of the language pose sociolinguistic questions concerning the status of the language in the community, the users of the language, and the situations in which it is used. The center of this study is …

A Study Of The Use Of Microcomputer As An Administrative Tool In Selected Minnesota Elementary Schools, Lyle R. Clausen

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Summaries Of Various Testimonies By Outside Experts, The Arc Of North Dakota

The Arc of North Dakota v. State of North Dakota Lawsuit Collection

This undated document is a summary of testimonies from several qualified individuals in related fields. These individuals visited the institutions and provided their summaries along with recommendations based on their expertise. The document includes testimony from eleven people, each with varied qualifications and areas of specialization. Additionally, there is a full page dedicated to a statement from one of the testifiers.

Family Law Bibliography, Donald A. Hughes Jr.

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Patterns Of Legal Research In North Dakota: A Survey, Rita T. Reusch

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mediation And Other Creative Alternatives To Litigating Family Law Issues, Gary A. Weissman

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Metamorphism And Migmatization Of Metasediments In The Precambrian English River Subprovince, Western Ontario, Rodney M. Baumann

Theses and Dissertations

Metasediments of the Precambrian English River subprovince, a subdivision of the Superior province, are conspicuously migmatized by 'bands of light-colored, igneous-appearing material. The metasediments themselves consist of alternating layers of pelite and wacke lithologies, which represent original mudstones and graywackes respectively. Their deposition is thought to represent subaqueous turbidity flows.

For the metasediments of the study area, a 250 square kilometer portion of the English River subprovince, metamorphic grade increases southward from the English River subprovince's northern border. Two isograds have been mapped: the disappearance of muscovite and the disappearance of stable sillimanite. Geothermometry studies are consistent with the trend …

Middle And Late Wisconsinan (Pleistocene) Insect Assemblages From Illinois, Kristine D. Carter

Theses and Dissertations

Two highly organic sediment sequences from central and western Illinois (the Athens North Quarry and Biggsville sites, respectively) of Middle and Late Wisconsinan age were studied to gain knowledge about the environment and climate of this area during the time immediately prior to the maximum extent of the last glaciation. Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic inferences are based principally upon knowledge of the habitat preferences and geographic distributions of extant species of beetles that are represented as fossils. These data are supplemented by information from sedimentological and taphonomic studies and from previously published palynological and plant-macrofossil studies.

The Athens North Quarry site …

Metamorphism In The Eastern Lac Seul Region Of The English River Subprovince, Ontario, Steve J. Chipera

Theses and Dissertations

The English River subprovince of the Superior Province, Canada, is a linear, east-west trending high-grade metamorphic belt which extends from Lake Winnipeg in the west, to the James Bay lowlands in the east. It is composed of two prominent lithologic domains: a northern sedimentary gneiss-migmatite domain, and a southern plutonic domain. The northern domain consists primarily of alternating migmatized layers of garnet-biotite "wacke" and garnet-cordierite-biotite "pelitic" metasediments. The southern domain is composed mainly of intermediate granitic to trondhjemitic plutons. Bordering to the north and south are the lower grade Uchi and Wabigoon greenstone belts. Metamorphism and migmatization occurred during the …