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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

The Informant Volume Ix, Number 2, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume IX, Number 2

Winter 1977

• Must and Müssen: A Study in Contrasts
• Faculty-Staff News
• Alumni News -- Graduate Majors
• Alumni News -- Undergraduate Majors
• Alumni News -- Undergraduate Minors
• Recent Graduates
• New Students in Linguistics Programs
• New Critical Language Minors
• New Undergraduate Minors
• New Undergraduate Majors
• New Graduate Majors
• Recent Publications
• Linguistics Department Fall 1977
• Diamond Jubilee Issue

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 4, Nos. 3 & 4 (January/March 1977)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

• Hon. George McGovern, United States Senator
• Chauncey Alexander, National Association of Social Workers

I. Introduction

• Warfare-Welfare as a Serious Social Problem for Study and Action - L. K. NORTHWOOD, Editor

II. Crisis in the Warfare/Welfare State

• Eighteen Leading Social Critics Comment: What is the Real Threat to World Peace and Social Security? - KENNETH A. KIRKPATRICK and L. K. NORTHWOOD
• A Moment of Truth in the Warfare-Welfare Debate: The Transfer Amendment - HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN
• New York City and the Economic Crisis - JOSEPH HARRIS

III. The Rise of the Warfare/Welfare State

• The Warfare-Welfare Tradeoff: Health, …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 8 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Perspectives For Moral Education In Higher Education, William P. Frost

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Much of the literature on moral education is of a psychological nature with an emphasis on the individual's responsibility to the challenges of the social environment. The valuable is perceived in terms of (1) the development of the person as (2) a member of society. These publications fail to identify perspectives according to which living and growing become meaningful. Paul Kurtz recognizes this shortcoming.

Many people in post-modern society -young and old - lack direction in their lives, a meaning or purpose. Often it is the " liberated" individuals who seem most vulnerable to a confusion of values and to …

Remediation For The Poor College Reader: Probabilities Of Success, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading is a most complex form of behavior, yet it is basic to all academic tasks. One must be able to successfully interpret the meaning of words to function in the academic environment. Unfortunately, there are thousands of freshmen annually entering our institutions of higher learning without the reading skills needed to complete college level work. This problem is most acute in two-year colleges with a student population that is relatively disadvantaged compared to students in four-year colleges. Two year colleges have more high-risk students in terms of their chances to complete degree aspirations than do four-year colleges and universities.

Innovative Adult General Education: The Detroit Experiment, David W. Hartman, Richard T. Bohan, Otto Feinstein, Sandra Loehr, Linda Michalowski, F. Richard Place

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Increasingly, universities have confronted a changing population of undergraduate students. They find themselves under considerable scrutiny, from legislators, taxpayers and potential students. Concurrently, the impetus to re-appraise the mission of undergraduate education, so as to insure its accommodation in our changing society, is in need of refocusing. The issue of who comes to the university, and for what end, stands foresquare in the face of faculties, administrators and elected guardians of higher education, now more than ever before. Again we are charged with providing curricula and format that are relevant enough to retain the attention of today's new student, that …

Improving Humanities Education: Philosophy And Design, Ronald W. Carstens

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Both the Hebrew notion of the fall and the Greek concept of hubris have taught us that human endeavors are essentially acts of pride and possibly acts of arrogance. I suppose that a paper entitled "Improving Humanities Education" would be judged to be as at least impertinent in as much as it suggests that the teaching of the humanities can or ought to be improved. But I believe it is possible to improve the way that body of human intellectual and artistic study of man as man we call the humanities is addressed and actualized in the formal process of …

The Human Experience, Dimensions Of Love: An Experiment In Interdisciplinary Studies, Patricia Ernenwein Zevin, Gene Sager, Brenda Montiel

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Dedicated to the support of interdisciplinary studies as intellectually sound and academically necessary, this paper is an expanded version of the presentation made by the authors during the 17th Annual Conference of the Association of General and Liberal Studies (October 27-29, 1977, Ogden, Utah). The subject of the conference, "General Education: Diversity by Design," seemed to the Interdisciplinary Studies team at Palomar College (including, in addition to the authors, Donna Tryon, Art, Richard Peacock, Film, and Don Piche, Philosophy) to be particularly appropriate to efforts there to establish a series of interdisciplinary courses in a thematic, team-taught design focusing on …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University 1977, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Pictures from across campus
• Pictures of students

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1977-78, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

The Warfare-Welfare Tradeoff: Health, Public Aid And Housing, Kathleen Peroff

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

It is a truism that resources devoted to defense are unavailable for nondefense purposes. Investment in defense takes place partly by reducing civilian spending on consumer and capital goods through tax rates that are higher than they would otherwise be and partly by reducing government spending on non-defense programs. The purpose of this paper is to test for the existence and magnitude of the latter tradeoff over the years 1929-1971 in the United States. In particular, the analysis concerns the tradeoff between defense and three social welfare policies: health, public aid and housing. In addition, the analysis examines whether these …

The Conservative Program For The Welfare-Warfare State: The Response To The Korean, Algerian, And Vietnamese Wars, Clarence Y.H. Lo

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper explains why the leaders of conservative political parties were so successful in the aftermith of limited wars. Conservative parties are those parties whose constituency is large and small business, managers, upper income professionals, and some white collar workers and farmers, exemplified by the Republican Party in the United States, the Gaullist Party in France, the Christian Democrats in Germany and Italy, and the Conservative Party in England. Conservative political leaders rose to power because they addressed the problems intensified by limited wars-- budget deficits, political stalemate, and inter-imperialist rivalries-- and, to some extent, enacted short term solutions--budget cuts, …

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 I960s' 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 …

Eighteen Leading Social Critics Comment: What Is The Real Threat To World Peace And Social Security?, Kenneth A. Kirkpatrick, L. K. Northwood

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

What is the real threat to world peace and social security? Is it the prevalent ideology of violence, aggressive nationalism, and militarism? Or is it the maldistribution of resources, technology, and social welfare benefits? How much of itsnational budget must the U.S. allocate to military expenditures? How can the national budget priorities be changed so there is a more realistic funding of social programs? Do we face as great a threat of nuclear annihilation in the '70's and the '80's as we did in the early '60's?

Edited by Kenneth A. Kirkpatrick and L. K. Northwood

Social Policy And War, Paul Adams

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

American writers on social policy usually treat war as a diversion or interruption of progress towards a welfare state. The progressive era was cut off by World War I, the New Deal was liquidated as a hostile Congress and indifferent President turned their attention to World War II , and the War on rove-ty gave way to the war on Vietnam. "War," Max Lerner said in 1940, ''generally puts an end to any period of social reform." British writers, however, see it differently.

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, December 9, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU Foundation Elects Officers, Western Exceeds United Way Goal, Arson Suspected in Campus Fire, Commencement Program Set, Callan to Give Readings Tuesday, Plan Christian Spirituality Series, Mortar Board Program Sunday, Women Cagers Open Season, John Friedmann Visits Here

Western News, December 2, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: University Foundation to Hold Its First Meeting Tuesday, Gerontology Has Undergrad Awards, Honors College Presents Swami, PBB Program Here Wednesday, 10 Undergraduates Win Stipends, Jazz Quartet Gives Its Debut, Body Awareness; Movement is Topic, Jazz Quartet Gives Its Debut, Auditorium Announces Act II, Watterson Given 1st Distinguished Service Award, WMU Utility Costs Linked Closely to OPEC Decisions, Fall Reading Horizons Out, Williams Reports on Conservation, Campus Efforts, Mallinson; Stine Retire as Deans; to be Distinguished Professors

A Dramaturgical Model For Analysis Of Social Control Through Conflict Management: The Case Of A University Ombudsman, Kenneth L. Stewart

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Moral Perfection: An Interpretation Of The Nicomachean Ethics, Stephen Foster

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of The Interaction Of Educational Cognitive Style, Teaching Style, And Instructional Area For Selected Community College Instructors, Francis W. Crookes

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Follow-Up Study Of The Master's Degree Graduates In The Department Of Business Education And Administrative Services At Western Michigan University, Jane Gustafson Morrison

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western News, November 18, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Holds Dad's Day, Issue Plea for Energy Conservation on Campus During Thanksgiving Recess, Food; Clothing Drive Underway, Sculpture Show Opens Friday, Zupko Tells of 'Storm', Burian Testifies on Human Service, Sex; Sexuality Series Continues, Ann Helgesen Dies Nov. 11, Stallman Presents Dramatic Readings, Western Has $78.5 Million Annual Impact on Kalamazoo, Elect Bernhard AASCU Director, WMU Co-Sponsors Metric Conference

Western News, November 11, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Look at Future of Language; Computer Talk, Former Nixon Adviser Visits, Panel Discussion on Alcohol Set, Art Auction Here Nov. 21, Assertiveness Workshop Set, Japan Seminar Here Saturday, Lofflers Report on Iran Research, Genetic Engineering Talk by Friedman, Explain Salary Progress Chart

Housing As A Process Of Community Development, Gary D. Askerooth

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In this essay, I shall outline a strategy that could lead to the initial stages of developing a society in which human needs are not dependent on residuals from the market. By using cooperative, mutual selfhelp methods to develop local community power, we may provide examples applicable to other sectors as well.

The Rank And File Movement: The Relevance Of Radical Social Work Traditions To Modern Social Work Practice, Leslie Leighninger, Robert Knickmeyer

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social work, like many fields, has sometimes suffered from an inadequate and distorted understanding of its own history. A profession's inattention to its past is an unfortunate thing. As Clark Chambers has noted, the study of social work history provides models for social work practice and yields insights into social processes (31 11-22). Works like Cloward and Piven's Regulating the Poor have demonstrated the rich potential of the social welfare case study for social analyses (4). In addition, examination of goals and motivations of specific social workers in the past have served to further our understanding of professional issues and …

Comunication Disturbances In A Welfare Bureaucracy: A Case For Self Management, Robert E. O'Conner, Larry D. Spence

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The survey data in this study of 1313 caseworkers and income-maintenance workers of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare provide some elements of a description of white-collar alienation in government bureaucracies. We interpret our findings to indicate that the hierarchical communication network of this department operates to deny implicitly the worth and intelligence of workers. As perceived by employees, the general pattern of message construction, message transmission and message acknowledgment takes no account of their needs for information and validation nor does it allow the information generated at the work place to be fed back to the administration. Thus, the …