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Western News, July 27, 2000, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: New indoor athletic center will be named for Don Seelye, Lansing Regional Center moves to new home next week, Diversity is focus of Aug 16-17 program.

Western News, July 13, 2000, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Pedestrian mobility focus of new blind rehabilitation research, Grants top $39 million as fiscal year nears end, Voices from WMU writing project on radio nationwide.

The Prevalence-Based Need For Adapted Physical Education Teachers In The United States, Jiabei Zhang

Human Performance and Health Education Faculty Research

The purpose was to develop a method for projecting the need for adapted physical education (APE) teachers in the public schools in the United States. This method was derived from a prevalence-based model---dividing the nurn- ber of APE students enrolled by the APE student-teacher ratio and then sub- tracting the number of APE teachers hired. This model used the findings of Kelly and Gansneder (1998) that (a) 4% of the school population required APE services and (b) the overall national APE student-teacher ratio was 104: 1. The results revealed a need for 22,116 additional APE teachers nationwide as well as …

Inquiry, July 2000, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Here to Help You!
• New Programs
• The GOLD Program
• Inquiry Newsletter
• Related Research
• Grants and Contracts Awarded
• Calendar

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Summer 2000, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• Nursing a legacy: Bernardine Lacey is back in Washington, D.C. , but she's left an indelible mark on nursing education at WMU.
• Deep down: At a time of soaring petroleum prices, geoscientist William B. Harrison uses sophisticated methods to search out Michigan crude.
• The 'Wright' stuff: A sterling family history and an unusual academic background are among the qualities Richard Wright brings to his new post as dean of the College of Aviation.
• University News
• College News
• Classnotes
• Obituaries
• Athletic News
• Alumni News

Western News, June 29, 2000, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Board OK.s naming Bud Bender vice president for development, Board approves 3.8% tuition and fee increase, BOT approves appointments of Miller director; top administrators.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting June 23, 2000, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the WMU Board of Trustees meeting include appendices:

• Remarks by the Chair
• Remarks by the President
• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Orchard Property Lease - Michigan State University
• Right of Way Easement - City of Kalamazoo
• Change in Definition of Executive Officials and Approval of Senior Administrative Officers Policy

Western News, June 15, 2000, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 737-400 flight simulator arrives at College of Aviation, Women aviators to compete in national 2000 Air Race Classic, Partnership with KCC lets students complete degree in Battle Creek, Resort research featured on History Channel show, Weber feted at reception, When time isn't on your side; you might be monochronic.

Western News, June 1, 2000, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: World's graph theory specialists to connect on campus next week, Chicago information technology event bears WMU stamp, Sky Broncos nab ninth 'top three' finish at NIFA, 'Alice in K'zooland' looks at Carroll's math, Cotton elected to board of economic development group, June 23 reception set to honor Timothy Light, MSEA labor agreement lauded, Faculty Senate's new leadership team takes over, Nearly 4,500 freshmen expected to attend summer orientation sessions starting June 5.

The Development Of A Fmea Process For Design And Maintenance, Tearesa Lynn Wegscheid

Masters Theses

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a systematic way to identify and evaluate potential product and process related failure modes, the associated causes of failures, and the necessary actions to eliminate or reduce the chance of the failure. There are a number of published manuals and books on FMEA. The materials provide a definition of the FMEA form and examples of the Design and Process FMEA. However, there are many inconsistencies throughout the literature. As a result, FMEA is not always value-added.

The thesis is twofold. First, it documents a case study that uses Design FMEA extensively. The case …

Review Of Kids Raised By The Government. Ira M. Schwartz And Gideon Fishman. Reviewed By Sherrill Clark, University Of California, Berkeley., Sherrill Clark

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Ira M. Schwartz and Gideon Fishman, Kids Raised by the Government. Westport, CT:Praeger Publishers, 1999. $49.95 hardcover.

Tanf Policy Implementation: The Invisible Barrier, Roberta Rehner Iversen

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Barriers to participation in welfare-to-work programs are generally described in terms of human and social capital. Findings from case examination of four Philadelphia-areaw elfare-to-work programs under TANF suggest that theory about policy implementation is more applicable. Faulty policy logic, organizational and personnel incompetence, and inadequate coordination between and within funding, referral, program, and employer organizations regularly resulted in delayed program start-ups and strained program operations. Generally invisible and absent from research attention, these implementation delays and strains impeded program staff efforts and harmed TANF recipients. States' 24-month time limit policies are a critical target for advocacy efforts.

Exploitation-The Invisible Hand Guided By A Blind Eye: Confronting A Flaw In Economic Theory, Phillip Dybicz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Economics is alone among the social science disciplines in failing to have a sound theory to explain behaviors when people do not act according to their self-interest, that is, with compassion. This has resulted in a fundamental flaw in economic thought. As economies have grown in scale and complexity, there has been a corresponding distancing between consumers and producers. This flaw has revealed itself through a lack of economic structures which bridge this distance, restore a level of intimacy within the economic interaction, and hence facilitate the expression of compassion.

Assessment Of Methylphenidate Sensitization Using A Two-Lever Drug Discrimination Procedure, Ann Marie Heidema

Masters Theses

The current study examined the effects of methylphenidate (MP) pre-exposure on the acquisition of cocaine discrimination in rats. Sixteen male Sprague-Dawley rats were administered either 10 mg/kg MP or saline for five consecutive days. Following this pre-treatment phase, animals were trained to discriminate 10 mg/kg cocaine-hydrochloride from saline using a two-lever fixed-ratio 20 (FR20) schedule of food reinforcement. Acquisition of cocaine discrimination, as indicated by the number of sessions to criterion, did not differ significantly between the two-pre-treatment groups (MP = 35.5 ± 2.4; SAL = 31.6 ± 2.3). Stimulus generalization tests were conducted with cocaine and methylphenidate using cumulative …

Racial And Gender Variations In The Process Shaping Earnings' Potential: The Consequences Of Poverty In Early Adulthood, C. Andri Mizell

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This research investigates the effects of poverty in early adulthood on future earnings. While social scientists are beginning to amass a considerable literature on the effects of poverty on outcomes for children, few have investigated the damage that impoverishment may do in early adulthood when individuals are in the midst of completing education and planning careers. The findings in this study indicate that poverty does dampen earnings' potential. However, individual characteristics (e.g., aspirations, esteem and ability) and structural location (e.g., educational attainment, occupational status and job tenure) may assuage the otherwise negative effects of poverty. Other findings reveal that the …

The Impact Of Education And Family Attributes On Attitudes And Responses To Unemployment Among Men And Women, Liat Kulik

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The study deals with differences between jobless Israeli women (n = 361) and men (n = 253) in relation to the following aspects of unemployment: Reasons for rejecting potential jobs, job search intensity, and responses to unemployment. The women mentioned more reasons for rejecting potential jobs, and their health-related responses to unemployment were more extreme than those of the men. However, the men tended to seekemployment more intensively than did the women.

Married respondents of both sexes showed the greatest tendency to reject potential employment due to conflict with family responsibilities. Married women were also more likely than their male …

Mitigating The Defects Of Pluralism: Interest Group Coalitions Before The Supreme Court, Jason Frederick Jagemann

Dissertations

This project examines interest group coalitional activity before the Supreme Court in affirmative action cases between 1971 and 1995. First, I address the characteristics and dynamics of amicus participants over time. Second, I examine the extent to which organizations with a smaller base of resources, in terms of staff and the number of years that organizations have been on the scene, engage in coalitional activity. I find that organizations with smaller staffs are more likely to participate in coalitions, and, contrary to my expectations, organizations that have been on the scene longer are more likely to engage in coalitional activity. …

A Comparison Of Beginning And Advanced Counselor Education Students On The Health Locus Of Control Scale, Christina Minger

Dissertations

Traditional counselor training incorporates a combination of didactic and experiential learning. Through this process of learning, counseling students have the opportunity to develop principles of self-learning and self-awareness leading them to counseling self-efficacy. Through this self-development, students may make choices pertaining to their health. By examining the health locus of control in beginning counselors, not only were the student counselors’ historical view of health-related issues examined, but their current perceptions of external and internal coping devices were also investigated. The Health Locus of Control Scale (HLCS) was developed to provide more sensitive predictions of the relationship between internality and health …

A Comparative Analysis Of Walking Patterns Between Genu Varum And Normal Subjects, Nerline Varda Maurisseau

Masters Theses

The problem was to compare angular and linear kinematics, ground reaction forces (GRF), temporal changes, and electromyography (EMG) of selected muscles while walking one gait cycle to a metronome set at 100 beats per minute (bpm) between genu varum and normal men, ages 20-25 years. Results indicated: (a) the Normal Group had a lower stride time than the Genu Varum Group, although the results were not significantly different; (b) the Normal Group showed greater range of motion in the ankle, knee, hip rotation, and tibial rotation angles-however, the results were not significantly different; (c) there was no significant difference in …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 2000)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• DO INNER-CITY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES EXHIBIT "BAD ATTITUDES" TOWARD WORK? - Jill Littrell & Elizabeth Beck
• EXPLOITATION-THE INVISIBLE HAND GUIDED BY A BLIND EYE: CONFRONTING A FLAW IN ECONOMIC THEORY - Phillip Dybicz
• WORK AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES AFTER WELFARE - Thomas P. Vartanian & Justine M. McNamara
• THE SPATIAL SHIFT IN THE GROWTH OF POVERTY AMONG FAMILIES HEADED BY EMPLOYED FEMALES, 1979-89 - W. Richard Goe & Anisa Rhea
• CONFLICTING BUREAUCRACIES, CONFLICTED WORK: DILEMMAS IN CASE MANAGEMENT FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS - Linda E. Francis
• RACIAL AND GENDER VARIATIONS IN THE PROCESS SHAPING EARNINGS' POTENTIAL: THE …

Conflicting Bureaucracies, Conflicted Work: Dilemmas In Case Management For Homeless People With Mental Illness, Linda E. Francis

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This ethnographic study finds a case management agency torn between the rules of two conflicting bureaucracies. Funded by a federal grant, the agency is administered by the county, and the regulations of the two systems turn out to be incompatible. This conflict creates dilemmas in providing services to clients: meeting eligibility criteria for services from the federal grant meant the clients did not meet the eligibility criteria for many County services. Agency staff reacted to this dilemma by bending rules, finding loopholes, and investing extra time and emotional labor in each client. The role-conflict engendered by bureaucratic disjunction creates frustration, …

Review Of Social Security In Global Perspective. John Dixon. Reviewed By Paul Terrell, University Of California, Berkeley., Paul Terrell

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of John Dixon, Social Security in Global Perspective. Westport, Ct: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $69.50 hardcover, $27.95 papercover.

Review Of The Internet And Technology For The Human Services. Howard Karger And Joanne Levine. Reviewed By Sharon Pittman, Andrews University, Sharon Pittman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Howard Karger and Joanne Levine, The Internet and Technology for the Human Services, NewYork: Longman, 1999. $27.19 paperback.

Review Of Repackaging The Welfare State. Pranab Chatterjee. Reviewed By Larry Nackerud, University Of Georgia., Larry Nackerud

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Pranab Chatterjee, Repackaging the Welfare State. Washington, DC: NASW Press, 1999. $32.95 paperback.

The Generational Equity Debate. John B. Williamson, Diane M. Watts-Roy And Eric R. Kingson (Eds.).

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for John B. Williamson, Diane M. Watts-Roy and Eric R. Kingson (Eds.), The Generational Equity Debate. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. $ 49.50 hardcover, $ 25.00 papercover.

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner 2000, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner Program

May 23, 2000

Honored Guests:

• Lynwood Bartley
• Robert Betz
• Alfred Boals
• John Carney
• Lowell Crow
• Elwood Ehrle
• Howard Farris
• James Ferreira
• Francis Gross
• Maryellen Hains
• Barbara Hemphill-Pearson
• Philip Hsieh
• Joseph Kanamueller
• Donald King
• Robert Kotecki
• Robert LaDuke
• Erika Loeffler Friedl
• Garrard Macleod
• Richard McAnaw
• Edward Pawlak
• James Petersen
• John Petro
• Dale Porter
• Shirley Scott
• Carol Payne Smith
• Lyda Stillwell
• Robert Sundick
• Larry Syndergarrd
• Carol VanAuken-Haight
• Lambert VanderKooi
• Kung-Wei Yang

Western News, May 18, 2000, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Varatech's $1.92 million award brings engineering software to Kohrman, Mazzie to be honored Saturday after NYC theatre performance as 'Kate', Honors college senior is University's first Udall scholarship winner, Sky Broncos fly for NIFA title in Miss., Race relations institute named for Lew Walker, Romanian scholar focuses on cyberculture during Fulbright year on WMU campus, National report lauds University's HIV prevention education efforts.

Western News, May 4, 2000, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: New address honors WMU founding, Walker will oversee continuing education programs, Verser named Haworth college's associate dean, Gilchrist appointed associate dean of arts and sciences, Medievalists to focus on Vikings, vamps and Java script at weekend congress on campus, Johnson praised as 'star' local volunteer.

How Children And Adolescents Relate To Nature, Patricia Nevers

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, September 21,1999.

35th International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 4-7, 2000).