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Western News, June 21, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Temporary Budget Approval Given, Administrative Changes Announced, Hoy Will Retire July 1, Trustees Plan Building Maintenance, Settle Suit on Flood Damage, Carney Will Head Art Department, Trustees Approve Tuition/Health Fee Boosts, Memorial Services Set for Dr. William Viall

Lay Counseling: The Basis Of Prevention In Mental Health, James R. Seaberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The purpose of this paper is to increase the recognition of lay counseling as a basis of mental health prevention and to present a summary of the state of knowledge about it. Lay counseling is cast as one of several components of mental health prevention and treatment, a definition is offered which distinguishes it from paraprofessional and selp-help services, knowledge about it both direct and tangential is summarized, and future research and policy implications are discussed.

A Study Of Strategies Used In The Pursuit Of Legal Regulation Of Social Work, John T. Gandy, Frank B. Raymond

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The debate regarding legal regulation in social work has continued for a number of years. The issues are varied, including the desirability of licensing, the lack of progress in the achievement of regulation, and the discrepancy as to the form of such regulation.

The authors examined a topic area which they believe might be basic to the profession's problems with legal regulation, that being the procedure and process utilized by states in achieving such regulation. The primary purpose of the empirical research concerned the identification and description of strategies used by state chapters of the National Association of Social Workers …

When Clients Complain: Bureaucratic Responsiveness In Large Federal Agencies, Harvey A. Abrams, Peter Bidney

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

High error rates in entitlements and slow responses to client complaints by Federal agencies are analyzed from a r.arket-power frame of reference focusing on the relative powerlessness of agency clients in relation to agencies which hold monopolies of life sustaining benefits. Data from a survey of Members of Congress are presented to provide an estimate of error rates. Three alternative structural solutions to the problem of unresponsiveness are assessed, including increased congressional casework service, ombudsmen services, and use of Federal Information Centers to aid clients. Necessary quality control procedures to facilitate each solution are described.

Western News, May 31, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: N.Y. City Opera Company Baritone Concert Tonight, Allen is Seminar Speaker, Dr. Margaret Burnham Macmillan Dies, Resident Tutors Needed for Upward Bound, Argonne Lab Librarian Will Speak Here, Bookstore is Closed for Inventory, Important Information on Advance Registration, Bryna Graff Succumbs, "Images in Clay" Presentation Announced, Grant Awarded for Arctic Study, Faculty Member Invited to Oberlin Festival, Handicappers Workshop Scheduled for June 2

Western News, May 24, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Department Heads Named by Board, Faculty Promotions Announced, Schneider to Retire June 30, Faculty Member Wins Grant, Gifts and Grants Reported, Shakespearean Festival Tours Announced, Last Day to Drop Classes, Dr. Kenneth Engle Dies, Program Presenters at Conference, Article on Radio Drama Published, Bookstore Employee Completes Seminar, Honors College has Danforth Fellowship Information, Doctoral Examinations Set, Hoy Cited for NACDA Hall of Fame Membership

Western News, May 10, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMUK Wins Top Award in Broadcasting, Spring Session Enrollment is Up, Applicants Will Visit Campus, Kanley Chapel Windows are Dedicated, Summer Class Schedules Due, Funds Received for Criminal Justice Internships, String Quartet to Perform Here, Bargains Galore at Saturday's Surplus Auction, Alberta l. Brown Lectures Continue, Add Two More to List of Retiring Faculty, Student Leaders Needed, Midwest Regionals Next for Women's Softball Team, Doctoral Examination Date Listed, Intramural Department Lists Hours, CEO Services Offered during Spring Session

Requisites For The Establishment, Implementation, And Evaluation Of Social Work Treatment Programs For Anti-Social Children, John S. Wodarski

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Requisites for the establishment, implementation and evaluation of social work treatment programs for anti-social children are reviewed. Specific items discussed are: how does one ascertain the level at which change efforts should be directed, i.e., individual, group, organizational, or societal; what is the appropriate context for behavioral change; who should act as the change agent; what characteristics should the worker possess; what are the rationale for service provided; how long should the treatment continue; how does one prepare for the termination of treatment and maintenance of behavior; what organizational factors of treatment contexts are pertinent to the constructive delivery of …

Professionalism And The Control Of Knowledge, John M. Booker, Allen W. Imershein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Madness becomes mental illness through the joint project of psychiatry and the community of consensus lent to it. The psychiatrist, like the shaman (to paraphrase Leve'-Strauss), acts through the cultural plasma of his times. And the psychiatrist provides a definition for events, making mental illness of madness, while occupying a unique position within the scheme of society.

Psychiatry has been attacked from many directions in recent years. Despite these varied challenges, however, its power appears to have abated little if at all. How can we account for this fact? On the surface one might assume that the scientific basis or …

Integrating Child Care Services: Overcoming Structural Obstacles To Collaboration Of Institutional And Community Agency Staffs, Arthur K. Berliner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social Work practice settings are so diversified that different perspectives inevitably develop among practitioners. These may undermine collaborative efforts between agencies. Child care services afford an example of a field requiring diversified agency settings and therefore vulnerable to development of contrasting perspectives. Some of the sources of an "institutional perspective" and of a "community perspective" are identified, as well as problems originating in lack of a shared perspective. Proposals for overcoming these problems and promoting integration of services comprises the final section of the paper.

Fourteenth International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 14th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 3-6, 1979).

Three Mile Island - A Personal Report, James R. Hudson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

March 29, 1979 was the first day of the spring term at The Pennsylvania State University--Capitol Campus. I had joined a car pool and as we drove from Lancaster to Middletown the conversation centered on the news from Three Mile Island. We were clearly unaware of the severity of the problem, but two of the riders were active in anti-nuclear energy organizations. They were grim and intense. Their central concern at the moment was how to mobilize the campus in some way to respond to the potential hazard. There was a certain deja vu in the themes of the conversation. …

The Social Policy Of Denial: Unemployment In Israel, Harris Chaiklin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

When reality does not match the dream nations tend to suffer. In Israel unemployment compromises social democratic ideals. The country oscillates between bombast and despair. Official data is not trusted. Those who leave Russia on Israeli visas and do not come are "dropouts." Those who leave Israel for other countries are "yordim." Those who go to work every day when there is nothing to do are draining the nation with "hidden unemployment." These are terms of derision. Some of the difficulty with unemployment data and understanding Israeli response to the problem may be for security reasons. Israelis have lived in …

Loneliness And Deprivation: The Case Of Roman Catholic Priests, John F. Schnabel, John P. Koval

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Using Roman Catholic Priests as a test in order to control for deprivation in relationships of intimacy while maximizing the need for social network relationships, an examination was made of their differential experience of loneliness.

The evidence suggested repeatedly that priests were more likely to experience loneliness as a serious problem when they perceived that the social network which they regarded as most significant in their lives (the Church) placed some kind of structural limitation on the extent of their involvement in it. Factors, for example, which help determine the individual priest's place in the structure of the Church are: …

Western News, April 18, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Nearly 1,800 Will Be Graduated Saturday in Read Fieldhouse, Last Meeting In Retirement Series Will Be May 1, SW Michigan Mortar Board Alumni Meet May 8, Art; Music Depts. Receive Gifts of Over $100,000, Criminal Justice Internships; Spring; Fall; Winter Terms

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Pressure, Packing And Nip Area On The Results Of The Igt Pick Test, Barbara S. Wilson

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The object of this thesis was to determine whether the pick scatter found in the IGT pick test was a result of the different packings or the different pressures used in the paper industry. The results showed that these two factors are not the significant ones which cause the inconsistency so often found in industry. There are other factors, such as contact angle and sector velocity, which may play a far more important role in the forces prevailing in this test. It is recommended that further study be made on these factors, but also standardization of the packing is required …

The Separate Refining Of A Fractionated Recycled Pulp, Dana K. Marks

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

This is a study of the effects of fractionation on total refining energy and final sheet strength. A selectifier screen was used to fractionate an.input recycled pulp into long and short fiber lengths. Each of the three pulps were refined in a PFI mill then the long and short fiber groups were recombined in the same proportion as they split and formed into handsheets. The handsheets made via fractionation were found to be no stronger, per unit energy into the refiners, than the handsheets of the unfractionated input fibers. Two interesting points, one, that each pulp consumed different energy amounts …

A Study Of Froth Flotation For Deinking Of Uv-Cured Inks, Prasit Pornpaitoonsakul

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Deinkability of UV-cured inks becomes increasingly important as more printers turn to this faster and easier printing method. Unfortunately, according to Ortner, Wood and Gartermann all known deinking process and formulations failed to deink these printing inks. Therefore it was the objective of this study to determine the feasibility of deinking paper printed with this new solventless ink. A critical review of the literature on flotation deinking was made. Zeta potential of the UV-cured ink was measured. The results were used to explain the effect of the kind and quantity of chemicals used in the flotation operation were investigated. It …

The Effect Of Sizing And Wet-Strength Agents On The Ease Of Ink Removal In Reclaiming Of Ink Printed Waste Paper, Ebere Onwuneme

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Introduction

The new call for conservation of resources inherent in ecological movement has put a spotlight on the recycling of materials. Not the least of these materials are paper and paperboard on which some 58 million tons were used in the United States in the year 1969. About 40 million tons of this was discarded which resulted in a severe trash removal problem. Paper accounts for 35% of the total solid waste collected and disposed of in most municipalities.

The Effects Of Basis Weight And Beater Deposited Latex On Fold Endurance, Mark G. Smith

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of a beater deposited latex on the relationship of basis weight versus fold endurance. An exhaustive survey of past and current literature regarding nearly all aspects of fold endurance as related to basis weight was completed. Two areas of fold endurance were investigated. These were basis weight versus fold endurance for virgin handsheets and basis weight versus fold endurance for sheets containing various levels of beater deposited latex.

The virgin handsheet work served to corroborate past work by others in this area. Fold endurance appeared to become less dependent on basis weight …

The Socializer, April 1979, Department Of Sociology

The Socializer

Volume 1, Number 18 of the Socializer, published April 1979.

A Reading Lesson Checklist For The Principal, Sandra Mccormick

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The checklist presented below is a follow-up to the article in the last issue of Reading Horizons entitled "Assistance for the School Principal: Evaluate Classroom Reading Programs." The checklist is designed to provide additional assistance to the elementary school principal.

Implications From Psycholinguistics For Secondary Reading, W. John Harker

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Over the past decade, increasing interest has been shown in the implications of psycholinguistics for understanding the reading process. Mainly through the work of Goodman (1969; 1970) and Smith (1971; 1975), linguistic and psychological knowledge have been combined to describe the reading process of mature readers and the process through which children learn to read. The educational implications of this psycholinguistic model have been largely concerned with the learning-to-read process of elementary school children. But significant implications for secondary developmental reading instruction arc suggested as well. It is the purpose of this paper to identify and explore some of these …

Reading Horizons Vol. 19, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 19, issue 3.

The Effects Of Increased Recycled Fiber On Tensile And Burst, Ronald P. Rohrbach

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The objective of this study was to determine the effect secondary fiber has on the burst and tensile of the paper sheet. There are many different physical aspects to burst and tensile and these aspects are discussed in some detail. Previous work has been performed in similar areas. The data and conclusions from that work was extremely helpful to this study. The literature search revealed several theories of the relationship between burst and tensile. The theory which this study investigates is the Carson linear relationship model.

The handsheets which were produced had varying amounts of secondary fiber. They also contained …

The Effects Of Carbon Particle Size On Deinking, Brian D. Smith

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Different carbons deink to different brightness values. Deinking paper printed with inks composed of constant vehicles and different carbon pigments yielded a brightness range of 13.5 points.

General trends indicate that deinkability improves as carbon particle size increases and as structure level decreases. These trends are not conclusive, however, and significant variations from these trends were detected. It . appears that the product of carbon particle size and structure level is more closely related to the final brightness than either particle size or structure level alone.

Deinking Of Xerographic Wastepaper, Dennis D. Zink

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

This study was made to determine a method that would deink xerographic wastepaper effectively. The study was done in two parts, the first being a preliminary feasibility study of the deinking methods found in a literature search. The second part involved a further study of the temperature variable of the most feasible method found in the first part. The results indicated that the flotation method would deink xerographic wastepaper very effectively. Temperatures between 130^oF and 190^oF were used during the pretreatment stage of the flotation method but no significant change was found in deinkability.

Reading--Do We Need To Know What It Is Before We Try To Teach It?, Dorothy Garman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

If, for a brief moment, we could look into a child's mind while he or she were reading, would we find the child's approach to reading compatible with the teacher's approach to teaching? The answer would probably depend upon how the teacher views the reading process. If the teacher believes that reading is a process of identifying individual letters or individual words, then the teacher will probably not be inclined to teach in the way that the child is inclined to read.

Beginning Reading Without Readiness: Structured Language Experience, Patricia Cunningham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The language experience approach has for generations been one of the tricks in the bags of versatile reading teachers. Allen (1964) emphasizes the link between speaking. writing and reading inherent in the language experience approach. Hall (1972) supplies seven statements supporting the linguistic soundness of the language experience approach.

Cloze Encounters Of A Different Kind, Robert F. Carey

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The cloze test usually consists of a graded reading passage from which words have been deleted according to some methodical strategy. such as every fifth word. every tenth word. every pronoun. etc. The deleted words are replaced with blanks of a uniform size. and the student is asked to fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.