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A Statistical Analysis Of The Prehistoric Ceramics From The Hacklander Site, Allegan County, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Development And Evaluation Of The Programmed Text One Plus One = Three: A Teenager’S Guide To Birth Control, Deborah L. Hollander

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Review On The History And Application Of Videotape Self-Confrontation In Therapy And Human Relations Training, Gerald F. Skillings

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Aspects Of Southwest Michigan Opilionids, Wolfgang C. Schroeter

Masters Theses

Introduction

Opilionids (Arachnida: Opiliones) are arachnids that have such descriptive common names as harvestmen or daddy longlegs. In the summer and early autumn opilionids become a conspicuous component of the invertebrate fauna; however, as common as these animals are, little attention has been paid to their behavior. Most published research on opilionids deals with their taxonomy.

The intraspecific interactions of opilionids is a significant area or ethology that needs careful examination. Intraspecific interactions fall into three categories reproductive, aggressive, and cooperative behaviors. A knowledge of the reproductive behavior of opilionids is essential for a complete picture or the evolution of …

A Study To Identify The Demographic Profile Of The Public School Assistant Superintendent In The State Of Michigan, 1976-1977, Duane Scott Seastrom

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Role Of The Liberal Arts Department Chairman In Selected Michigan Universities, Michael William Nicholson

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Responses Of Male And Female High School Graduates To Indicators Of Quality Of Life And Career Satisfaction, Deanne Lee Buckendorff Byerly

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Western News, March 31, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Last Forum Next Thursday, Teacher Educators Meet Here, Engineering Seeks Women Students, Wind; Percussion Conference Friday, Ag Research Specialist Visits, Title IX Workshop April 7, Gerontology Talks Today, Warn Employees to Use Homeowner's Policy for Items, Sex; Sexuality Series Concludes, WMU Instructional Film Gets Widespread Acceptance, Chimp Talk Lecture Topic

Western News, March 24, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Chimp Talk Lecture Topic, Language Tourney Saturday, UT Stages New Play, Grant Five Emeritus Status, Trustees Approve Statement of Principles on Obscenity, Zupko Composition Premieres Monday, Offer Summer Study in England

Western News, March 17, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Black Student Group Program Here Saturday, University; AAUP Reach Agreement on Faculty Senate, List Summer Federal Jobs, Rood Memorial Services Sunday, International Week on Campus, Gerontology Has Series, Computer Scheduler Designed Here Gets Worldwide Notice, KSO Features Cellist Starker, WMU Faculty Take Active Part in Academy Program, Changing Sex Roles Talk Friday

Western News, March 3, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Homecoming Underway, MERC Sets Hearing April 12, Economist Visits March 16, Reappoint Trustees Caine; Johnson, Western Hosts MAC Swimmers, Military Service Credit Available

The Socializer, March, 1977, Department Of Sociology

The Socializer

Volume 1, Number 16 of the Socializer, published March 22,1977.

Faculty Publications 1975-76, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1975-76 is the fourteenth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.

A Disarmed World: Problems In Imaging The Future, Elise Boulding

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

One of the major handicaps to scholars, activists and would-be policy makers associated with the post-World War II peace research and peace action movements has been the inability to construct coherent and believable images of a post military industrial United States society. Even at the height of the economics of disarmament studies in the 1960s the most that economists could demonstrate was that disarmament could take place without severe economic dislocations, and that resources released from arms could be used for improving the global standard of living. The new peace research movement was also producing books in the sixties showing …

Community Control Of Urban Schools - Lessons From The Suburban Experience, David W. O'Shea

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Community control of inner-city schools first was proposed by parents in the Harlem section of New York City in 1966. The proposal aimed at improving the quality of public schools serving low income minority youngsters by providing for school accountability to parental representatives. In practice, the two cities that have tried to provide some measure of community control - New York City and Detroit - have utilized for this purpose decentralized sub-districts based upon the suburban school district model rather than upon the original school staff accountability model. It is argued here that while suburban districts do facilitate community control, …

Human Security Or National Defense: The Question Of Conversion, Bruce Birchard

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

How can we convert the enormous human, financial and technological resources currently committed to military illusions of "national security" to programs and institutions which provide real human security? That is the central question of this paper.

Anti-War Work By Discouragement Of Warriors: A Critique Of Anti-War Tactics Used Among Naval Personnel In The Vietnam War, Orabelle Connally

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

"Wars will end when men have ceased to fight" was a popular slogan of the anti-Vietnam War movement. It sounded quite practical and almost true on its face. However, we now have considerable information about wars and how people have refused to fight, and the relationship between them is not well described by this phrase. The specific military technology in use, the social organization of military authority, and the division of labor in producing war, all make a difference in the possibility of stopping a war by many refusals to fight. Campaigns emphasizing this tactic may even strengthen the organization …

Common Rooms And Functions Of The Warfare And Welfare State, David G. Gil

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Warfare and welfare are usually assumed to serve contradictory ends and to be rooted in antithetical values, institutions and dynamics. In this essay, I propose to challenge this notion and to advance, instead, the thesis that, in spite of significant differences between them, warfare and welfare serve, nevertheless, identical and complementary functions, and are both rooted in identical societal values, institutions and dynamics.

As with other phenomena which are considered to be "social problems," such as poverty, crime, unemployment, inflation, mental illness, etc., but which are merely by-products of the "normal" workings of certain social systems, warfare and welfare can …

Influencing Welfare/Warfare Priorities Through The New Budgetary Process, Ann Blalock

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In the previous article, Weinert challenged social workers, and other professionals in the area of social welfare, to commit themselves to greater collective political action in the interest of substantial social change. He suggested that there are many options for movement in that direction. This article briefly discusses one incremental option within the established political system, intervention within the new Congressional budgetary process. This is not an insignificant strategy. Its purpose is to influence the way the national budget is constructed. The budget incorporates to an important degree the society's prevailing definition of its priorities. Furthermore, future policy alternatives are …

Problems Of Advocacy, Robert J. S. Ross

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The recent past has seen the erosion, and among some, the rejection, of social science neutrality and professional detachment. Among the typical expressions of a new professionalism is the underdog advocate, who wishes to lend his or her skills to the cause of less-than-equal groups in the society. The paper analyzes the problems confronting such advocates. The first is the discrepancy between career routes and success behavior on one hand, and the needs of poor people on the other. The second is the difficulty encountered by middle strata professionals in cross-class and cross-cultural communication, including their own ignorance of the …

The Welfare State Within The Military, Charles Maynard, Ann Blalock

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Much has been written concerning the extent to which contemporary industrialized societies meet the accepted criteria of a "welfare state". By contrast, the literature on the welfare aspects of the military as an institution within societies is comparatively sparse. Yet internally, military establishments often exhibit many welfare state attributes. Within the military's organizational territory and authority, members are provided with a wide spectrum of comprehensive universal entitlements--social, economic, occupational, educational, and medical. The formal parameters of the U.S. military establishment's welfare entitlements give the undeniable appearance of a bonafide welfare state whose provision is significantly more benevolent and equitable than …

Social Welfare And Some Implications Of Non-Violence, Mulford Q. Sibley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A new journal has made its appearance. It is called Soldier of Fortune and is devoted to the concerns of "professional adventurers"--that is, to those who would like to become hired violent fighters in various parts of the world. The journal opens its columns to their advertisements: "Ex-marine seeks employment as mercenary, full-time or job contract, prefers South or Central America but all offers considered." "Experienced mature fighter/seeks assignment anywhere.... " In defending his journal from the charge of encouraging brutality, the founder says: "After all, booze is brutal, cars are brutal, sex is brutal. There's a need for guns …

Western News, February 24, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Student-Faculty 'Target Ratio' is 18.0-1, Western Students Receive $11.5 Million in Financial Aid During 1975-76, Plan Underwater Archaeological Excavations Off African Coast, 41st Counseling; Guidance Conference Here Saturday, Spring Registration Begins Tuesday, Appoint Counseling Chairman, Western Invades Central Saturday

Western News, February 10, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Observe Black History Month, Woman Economic Adviser to Lecture Here Feb. 17, Hunt Writes New Philippine Book, Leningrad Symphony Here Feb. 12, Women's Center Displays Sculpture, Name Chartrand, White to Key Journal Posts, Visiting Artist Here Next Week, WMU Study Finds Great Lakes Area Weather Has Gotten Cooler, KSO Presents Robert Merrill

Western News, February 3, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Whitney Young Program Feb. 9, Can You Afford to Leave Campus this Weekend?, Sex; Sexuality Series Continues, Viking Scientist Visits Western, All-Star Alumni to Return for Diamond Jubilee Theatre, Faculty Layoffs Under Review, Track; Gymnastic; Swim Squads Have Home Meets, Pep Band Seeks Help

Computers As Aids To Linguistic Studies, Kathy J. Scheiern

Honors Theses

The main bulk of my senior honors project consists of a computer program. Therefore, I will attempt, in this paper, to give a brief general description of this program in regards to its development, its uses, and its possible classroom applications.

Western News, January 27, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Governor Seeks $3.9 Million Increase for WMU in 1977-78, MAWDAC Elects Norton President, Implement Efficiency Recommendations, Bouma Defines Poverty, Engelke Authors National Report, Computer Center 'Publishes Handbook, Secretarial Seminar Jan. 29; Trustees Re-elect Officers; Appoint Board Committees, ALA Cites Librarianship School Here, OT King Visits Western, Install TAPPI Chapter Tonight, Crime Prevention Bureau Opens Here on Campus

Western News, January 20, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Move Parking Violation Bureau, Trustees Meet Here Friday, Special Diamond Jubilee Funds May Be Available on Campus, Plan Special Weekend to Combat Doldrums, KSO Features Piano Soloist, Kinsey To Direct Western's Paper Fiber Recycling Unit, Pianist Sandor Here Next Week, McKee 'W' Club Man of the Year

Western News, January 13, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Economic Adviser Duesenberry to Lecture Here on Campus, Future of Health; Human Services Talk Wednesday, Holmes Receives International Post, Release Special Info to Vets; Student Loan & Aid Recipients, Ballet Division Classes Begin, Plan Fair, Mini-Workshops for Student Volunteers

Western News, January 6, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 'La Traviata' Here Friday, State Sen. Otterbacher to Speak at New College's 1^st Convocation, Academic Forum, Series Resumes, Alcohol Studies Institute Here, Johnson Gives National Talk, Western Faculty Produce Film, Siebert Gets Villanova Chair, Accredit Social Work Program, Helen York Retires After 29 Years of Cashiering at WMU