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Western News, November 21, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: United Way campaign tops $85,000; up 19 percent, New College of Business building; library modifications top the list of capital outlay requests for 1986-87, Student computer program aids Bronco football team, Minority program; nursing program; SPADA top list, Board approves negotiations with firm to development telecommunications network

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting November 15, 1985, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Recommendation re Capital Outlay Budget for 1986/87
• Recommendation re Telecommunications Project Consultant
• Cash Management Policy
• Montague House Lease
• Academic Personnel Report
• Recommendation re Program Revision Requests/1986/87
• Recommendation re Continuing Education Rates
• Recommendation re Departmental Name Change
• Recommendation re Approval of Appendix B (re Committee Meetings) Board of Trustees Bylaws
• Recommendation re Authorization to Confer Degrees
• Board Committee Reports
• Admissions Report
• Adjournment

Western News, November 14, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty Senate approves policy; resolution, Disappointing view of Halley's Comet expected, Microcomputer laboratory open in Maybee, Conference set on groundwater protection and management, Two named to staff in development office, Kellogg Foundation announces fellowships, Barnhart appointed coordinator in CWS

Western News, November 7, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Soviet citizens visit to conduct 'Dialogue for Peace', Videoconference focuses on arms control, Grant project targets high risk infants, Dybek wins $25,000 Whiting Writers' Award, Interest in ethics results in new center at Western, Nominations sought for faculty scholar awards, Translation expert to be Visiting Scholar

Western News, October 31, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Writer; naturalist and explorer Foundation Fellow, OPUS IV goal is $80,000, United Nations ambassador to speak on Africa, Haenicke stresses academic excellence in 'WMU: The Challenge of Our Future'

Western News, October 24, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Academic excellence theme of Haenicke presidency, Shils to speak at 'Politics and Religion' conference, Woman researcher conference set for Nov. 8, Board of Trustees recognizes 14 faculty; two staff retirements, Events scheduled to preview Matthiessen visit

Western News, October 17, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Two to receive University's highest faculty honor, Spock to speak during Peace Education Week, Student participation up 80 percent in Minority Mentor/Mentee Program, Intellectual skills conference set for Oct. 24-25, WMU; GKUW agencies work together closely, Three Visiting Scholars to speak

Western News, October 10, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Five to receive Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards, Trees to be dedicated in memory of Denenfeld, Giving to United Way has long tradition, About 2,500 expected for Brown and Gold Day, Foundation assets total $7.7 million; up 47 percent, Holland; Brown elected Foundation officers

Western News, October 3, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Whirlpool Foundation awards $100,000 grant, Paper Tech Foundation to meet here next week, Sixth annual Academic convocation to include Haenicke presentation, Maier to address WMU Foundation members, Continuing ed enrollment rises, Stufflebeam honored by evaluation society, Gatlin; Knudstrup appointed directors by Board of Trustees, Participation stressed in United Way campaign

An Instrument For The Evaluation Of Secondary Reading Programs, Robert P. Cooter Jr.

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In recent years public interest in and concern over the effectiveness of secondary reading programs has grown steadily. According to recent findings by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Micklos, 1981) high school students have failed to measure a significant gain in total reading scores in the past ten years and have actually declined in the area of inferential comprehension. With the recent review of American education by a select bipartisan commission has come a renewed interest in quality reading programs for our schools. During the 1982-83 academic year, a study (Cooter, 1983) sought to determine what the characteristics of …

Reading Horizons Vol. 26, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 26, issue 1.

A Disabled Student? In My Classroom?, Carol Ann Moore

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The Act, P.L. 94-142, The Education of All Handicapped Children, calls for education of exceptional children in the least restrictive environment, often the regular classroom. Integration of the disabled into the classroom ends the physical isolation, rejection, and segregation of the special classes era. But total integration of the non-disabled and the disabled cannot occur without increased educational attitudinal changes toward the disabled. These changes involve awareness by teachers and non-disabled peers of the unique needs and abilities of the disabled, acceptance of them, and abandonment of prejudicial ideas about the disabled.

Western News, September 26, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 'WMU Presents' to air on WKZO- TV Sunday, Board approves 1985-86 operating budget, Haenicke shares his first impressions with Board, 'Magic Kingdom' to be created during Homecoming, Center for the Study of Ethics to sponsor speakers, Officials to visit Evaluation Center

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting September 20, 1985, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Recommendation re Approval of Appendix B (re Committee Meetings, Board of Trustees Bylaws
• Recommendation re General Fund Budget for 1985-86
• Recommendation re Campus Beautification Resolution
• Franklin Wright Settlement House Proposal
• Board Committee Reports
• Translation Center Report
• Public Comments
• Executive Sessions
• Adjournment

Western News, September 19, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Merit computer node installed at GR Regional Center, President affirms commitment to cooperation, Book on nontraditional jobs published, Faculty; staff retirements recognized by Board, Reception for Haenicke scheduled for Sept. 20, Enrollment up for the first time since 1980

Western News, September 12, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Five selected as first administrative associates, Guatemala to be focus of special activities Sept. 16-20, Chinese Fulbright Scholar to teach here, Dance therapist to be first visiting scholar Sept. 19-20, Two appointed to posts in College of Education

Western News, September 5, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Haenicke means what he says about 'MBWA', Involvement in teaching and learning series to begin; activities to range from retreats to teleconferences, 'ISIS' brings common data base to Western, Hispanic Heritage Week observed, 'Zest for Life' program continues to promote wellness

Organizational Deviance: A Humanist View, David R. Simon

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The sociological paradigm proposed by C. Wright Mills is advocated as a basis (model) for the study of elite deviance of an organizational nature. The relationship between social structure and social character within organizational environments is examined utilizing central concepts regarding both social character (i.e., alienation, other-directedness, and inauthenticity) and bureaucratic structural characteristics (e.g., routinization and fragmentation of tasks, dehumanization and groupthink, the construction of guilt neutralizing ideologies, and front activities). The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this approach for a humanist study of crime.

Humanistic Criminology: Future Prospects, Erdwin H. Pfuhl

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The present paper focuses on several prominent organizational and ideological aspects of academic criminology and the criminal justice system in an effort to assess the prospects of developing a criminology that is informed by humanistic concerns. The conclusion is that, for the immediate future, the prospects are minimal.

Western News, August 22, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Thompson named associate dean, Offices to be closed Labor Day, Program for adult learners scheduled, Business; art appointments approved, Western selected for pilot project, Dates set for fall registration

Western News, August 8, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Blanchard signs bill giving Western $64.8 million, North Dormitory Road opened to two-way traffic Aug. 2, Institutes conducted for Japanese students this summer, Krawutschke receives Fulbright, TV series wins national award from cable programmers group

The Survival Of Mesophilic And Thermophilic Bacteria Subjected To Uv Irradiation, Sajida A. Shaikh

Masters Theses

Survival curves were determined for the mesophile, Bacillus licheniformis and the thermophile, Bacillus stearothermophilus after subjecting the cells to ultraviolet irradiation. Cells were grown at 37°C for the mesophile and at 55°C for the thermophile.

At low UV exposure times, the thermophile was more resistant to UV irradiation (had a better survival rate) than was the case for the mesophile. At higher exposure times, the situation was reversed, the mesophile having a greater survival rate than the thermophile.

The effect of changes in the temperature during irradiation was also determined. Thermophiles were greatly affected by changes in temperature while the …

A Cinematographical Analysis Of The Execution Of Three Types Of Pitches Using The Windmill Style Softball Delivery, Bonni L. Kinne

Masters Theses

The purpose of the study was to identify the specific kinematic and kinetic variables associated with a successful fast ball, drop ball, and rise ball using the windmill style softball delivery. The subjects chosen for the investigation were female pitchers who participated in the Women's National Fast-Pitch Softball Tournament held in Buffalo, New York from August 17, 1984 to August 24, 1984.

After analyzing the data obtained from these subjects, the investigator concluded that: (a) there is a great deal of variability between the fast ball pitching mechanics of elite windmill style softball pitchers; (b) the success of a drop …

The Westerner Vol. 6 No. 1, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Life was good for prehistoric Michigan's inhabitants • Recipients of Distinguished Alumni Awards named • Following the academic road to Western • Haenicke's stance on important educational topics • ‘Gandhi' screenwriter has fond memories of Western • New scholarships announced • Printing center to be named for Sen. Robert Welborn • Board honors Bernhard for his service to Western • Program gives students valuable work experience • Homecoming constituency activities scheduled • Sports • Strong volleyball team ready for 1985 season • Healy signs contract with the NHL's Los Angeles Kings • Football squad has forty returning lettermen • …

Scientific-Technological Dependency And Uneven Development: The Case Of Iran, Abdullah Mehdipour

Dissertations

With the decline of various forms of military and economic power of the more industrialized countries (MICs) as the primary control structure for maintaining the dominance/dependence relationships with the less industrialized countries (LICs) in the international political and economic system, science and technology has emerged as a significant means for sustaining international status quo.

The problem of the study was stated in two questions. First, why and how Iran (an LIC) became dependent on more industrialized countries' science and technology. Second, what effect(s) did Iran's scientific-technological dependency have on its social structure, and what is the more appropriate strategy for …

Robbery: Toward A Multidimensional Approach, Dick Taver'shima Andzenge

Masters Theses

This study identifies some major factors related to robbery, categorizes them, and attempts to assess their interrelatedness. The major purpose of the study is to explore how these factors can be studied more effectively in an attempt to explain the crime. Data on randomly selected convicted robbery cases in the Kalamazoo County during 1979-1983 were compiled and analyzed.

The study shows that factors related to robbery fall into four categories. These are: (a) social factors, (b) Individual offender characteristics, (c) situational factors, and (d) push factors (or motivational factors). The results of the analyses showed that these factors are closely …

Factors Related To Perceptions Of Ethicalness In Behavior Modification, John C. Guthman

Masters Theses

This study examined perceptions of behavior modification held by undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory psychology course and editorial board members for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and for the journal Behavior Modification.

Editor reactions to several terms suggest that ambiguity with respect to the questionable behavior status of several techniques exists within the field. The results show that a large proportion of students, as compared with editors, are unclear as to which techniques constitute behavior modification. In this study, the accuracy of student identification of behavior modification techniques did not significantly relate to perceptions of ethicalness of behavior …

Western News, July 25, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Board to open committee meetings, Ground broken for addition to McCracken, Engineering programs accredited, Western signs contract with Apple, Western celebrates Flowerfest, Academic Convocation date set

Western News, July 11, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Board approves budget that eliminates deficit, Denenfeld named acting president, Board honors Bernhard with resolution, Two attend summer workshop, Board approves 'moderate' increase, Tuition subsidy deadline set

Reading Horizons Vol. 25, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 25, issue 4.