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Striving To Teach "Justice, Fairness, And Morality", Jane Harris Aiken

Clinical Law Review

By far the most challenging value is the injunction to strive to promote justice, fairness, and morality. Arguably, the first value, the provision of competent representation, can be fostered by effective skills training. The third value, striving to improve the profession, can be fostered through active participation in the Bar. The fourth value, professional self-development, appears to be mainly concerned with effective Continuing Legal Education programs that enhance lawyers' ability to learn through experience. Yet methods of promoting the second value are not only less obvious than they are for the other three values, but also more difficult. The MacCrate …

Northwestern News, Winter 1996-1997, Public Relations

Northwestern News

College completes capital campaign; Will you pour your heart into me?; From Heemstra to "heavenly"'; Beernink serves as advocate for disabled; Three join NWC Athletic Hall of Fame; Kraais furnish NWC with gift of time; Kincaid campaigns from classroom; Vander Zwaag's travels begin in NWC; Godeke develops broadcasting talent at Olympics; Football team sets pace for fall season; Rozeboom receives N-Club coaching award; Two gain All-American farm mention; Alumni News; Alumni Corner; Endowment - "life blood" of a college; Alum publishes book about Dutch Immigrant experience; Van Eck dies; Charter places second on state CPA exam; New Human Performance Lab …

Practice And Fit In The Allocation Of The Resource Of Faculty Time: A Study Of Current And Preferred Scholarly Practice Of The Faculties Of Ten Theological Schools Affiliated With The Presbyterian Church (Usa), Roger Allen Nicholson

Theses and Dissertations

Faculties, deans, and trustees of theological schools affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) were surveyed to determine current faculty practice; the practice preferred by faculty, deans. and trustees; the fit between current and preferred practice; and faculty practice and faculty preference difference according to categorical variables such as gender, race, and rank.

Seven variables defined faculty practice: workweek in hours, instruction, scholarship, service, advising, governance, and other. Scholarship was subdivided into three categories adapting Ernest Boyer’s multi-dimensional definition of scholarship: orginitive, applied, and teaching. Fit was defined in two ways: statistical fit and practical fit.

The reported workweek was comparable …

Real Revolution, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

No abstract provided.

Law And Phrenology, Pierre Schlag

Publications

As the intellectual credentials of American law become increasingly dubious, the question arises: how has this discipline been intellectually organized to sustain belief among its academic practitioners? This Commentary explores the nineteenth-century pseudo-science of phrenology as a way of gaining insight into the intellectual organization of American law. Although there are, obviously, significant differences, the parallels are at once striking and edifying. Both phrenology and law emerged as disciplinary knowledges through attempts to cast them in the form of sciences. In both cases, the "sciences" were aesthetically organized around a fundamental ontology of reifications and animisms -- "faculties" in the …

Utilitarianism Left And Right: A Response To Professor Armour, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

No abstract provided.

Law As The Continuation Of God By Other Means, Pierre Schlag

Publications

No abstract provided.

Playing Defense, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

Noting that the Romer opinion condemns the motives behind Amendment 2 without pausing even briefly to examine the social context in which it was enacted, Professor Nagel describes the decision as a model of the intolerant impulse in action. He traces this impulse to the Justices' unwillingness to examine their own role--and that of the rest of the constitutional law establishment--in creating the underlying conditions that produced Amendment 2.

In order to identify those conditions, Professor Nagel analyzes the primary document used by Colorado for Family Values during its campaign on behalf of the initiative. He argues that this document …

The Empty Circles Of Liberal Justification, Pierre Schlag

Publications

No abstract provided.

Setting Standards For Parenting - By What Right?, James G. Dwyer

Faculty Publications

Mental health professionals, like other professionals involved in family
matters, feel constrained when advocating for the interests of children by the belief
that parents are entitled to custody and control of their children's lives, regardless of
what others may think of their parenting behavior, absent severe harm to the children.
This belief is morally untenable, and the legal doctrine of parental rights that is its
concrete embodiment is inconsistent with other well-established legal principles and
should be abandoned. Children alone should have legal rights in connection with their
upbringing, and those rights should include an entitlement to much higher standards …

The Interactive Constitution: An Essay On Clothing Emperors And Searching For Constitutional Truth, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Good Of Marriage And The Morality Of Sexual Relations, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

This article examines the morality of sexual relations, referencing the views of many other scholars on the subject including Aquinas, Grisez, Noonan, and Koppelman.

Relations Of Burnout To Elementary School Teachers, Special Education Beliefs, And Referral Expectations, Nichole A. Ledermann

Masters Theses

The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI; Maslach, Jackson, & Schwab, 1996), a teacher survey of expectations and preferences concerning case study evaluation referral, and demographic questions were completed by regular education elementary school teachers (n=88) in a midwestern city suburb. Results suggested that symptoms of burnout were not evident among this sample of professionals according to Maslach et al. (1996) criteria. Spearman Rho correlations between the MBI subscales and expectations or preferences to have students referred, tested and placed into special education services were not significant. Significant correlations were replicated among the subscales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Results suggested that …

Young Children's Talk At Play: Orientation To Self And Orientation To The Joint Exigencies Of Conversation, Paige K. Parker

Masters Theses

This study employed a conversation analytic approach to determine how children in naturally constructed play episodes use language as an object of play and how children in their naturally occurring talk display orientation to their own individual activities and others' social actions. The participants were thirty-nine kindergarten and first grade students at South Elementary School in Marshall, Illinois. The study is based upon fifteen hours of conversation collected during recess periods. Relevant segments from the corpus were transcribed according to an adapted version of Jefferson's Transcript Notation System (1984). The findings suggested that (1) the groups of children used language …

A Resource Document For The Development Of An Alternative Education Program For Disruptive Youth, Deborah Claunch

Masters Theses

This qualitative study developed a model for an alternative education program for disruptive students in grades 6 through 8 in Franklin and Williamson Counties in Southern Illinois. It was facilitated by the issuance of grant funds to the Regional Offices of Education by the Illinois State Board of Education under the Safe Schools Act of 1995.

The desire of the researcher was to develop a program that would lead to changes in behaviors, promote academic achievement, and return students to the regular school environment with fewer incidents of misbehavior. The outcomes of this qualitative study resulted in a comprehensive resource …

Youth Mentoring: Investigation Of Relationship Characteristics And Perceived Benefits, David L. Dubois, Helen A. Neville

Service Learning, General

This research examined associations among characteristics of relationships formed in two community-based mentoring programs and their linkages with ratings of perceived benefits for youth.

The Limits Of Law In Accomplishing Racial Change: School Segregation In The Pre-Brown North, Davison M. Douglas

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Hong Kong: The Journey To A Bilingual Legal System, Yuhong Zhao

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Granite, 1997, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

The Indian Child Welfare Act In The Face Of Extinction, Sloan Phillips

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Lost Indians Of The Lost Colony: A Critical Legal Study Of The Lumbee Indians Of North Carolina, Cindy D. Padget

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

Tribal Court General Civil Jurisdiction Over Actions Between Non-Indian Plaintiffs And Defendants: Strate V. A-1 Contractors, Jamelle King

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review: "Kali's Child: The Mystical And The Erotic In The Life And Teachings Of Ramakrishna", Pravrajika Vrajaprana

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Jeffrey J. Kripal's Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna.

Vendanta And Modern Science: Some Demarcation Criteria And Commonalities, Varadaraja V. Raman

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In the past centuries, Western scholars who studied the complexities of Indian thought had at least two motivations. First, there was a need to understand the alien mind-set which they were eager to ameloriate (convert), for they worked on the conviction that they were bringing truth, light, and salvation to a misguided lot. They felt that it was their evangelical responsibility to redeem lost souls. Some of them, whether overtly or subtly, wanted to give moral ammunition to the colonial governments which were summarily imposing Western values and worldview on the subject peoples.

From Vedic Science To Vedanta, Subhash C. Kak

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Vedanta has often been studied without relating it to the Vedic system of knowledge. The reason behind this situation is the fashionable but wrong view that Vedic thought is "pre-scientific" and at best it represents "archaic modes of thought". But recent scholarship has shown that astronomy was one of the bases of the design of Vedic fire altars and an astronomical code has been discovered in the organization of the Rgveda. It is now being accepted that the Vedic people knew considerable astronomy that included the knowledge of planet periods. Knowledge of astronomy and the concomitant sciences provides the backdrop …

How Should Religion And Science Be Creatively Related? A Christian Perspective, Robert John Russell

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Each of us, Hindu and Christian alike, must seek each other's wisdom on one of the fundamental issues of our time: how should we relate religion and science? On the one hand, each of us has been formed and shaped by, and has inherited the wisdom and blessing of one of the world's great religions, and we should be committed to the dialogue between, and the mutual enrichment of, these religions. Through these religions, we are invited to practise compassion, to seek justice, to obtain enlightenment, to live in harmony with the natural world, and to find healing, forgiveness, and …

Book Review: "India's Agony Over Religion", Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Gerald Larson's India's Agony Over Religion.

Book Review: "Shabda Shakti Sangam", Anand Amaladass

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Shabda Shakti Sangam edited by Vandana Mataji.

Book Review: "Meditation", Anand Nayak

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Meditation by Klaus Engle.

Book Review: "Zeit Und Geschichte Im Visnupurana", Anand Nayak

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Zeit und Geschichte im Visnupurana by Heinz Werner Wessler.