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The Columns, 1981 June

The Columns

Cover Story, "Memphis State Calling" by Hayes Smith

"How did we do on the Phon- A-Thons this year?" questioned a friend who had volunteered her time for an evening during our Shelby County Annual Fund Phon-A-Thons. I enthusiastically replied with a barrage of statistics, demonstrating a 166 percent increase in pledges over the previous year and an 82 percent increase in dollars pledged.

Also featured, "'Salute' Planned Aug. 16"

In recognition of the importance of Memphis and Mid-South music, MSU will hold its third annual "Salute to Memphis Music" on Aug. 16 in memory of the late Elvis Presley. One …

The Columns, 1979 December

The Columns

Cover Story, "Non-verbal communication: Your body has a language all its own" by Dr. Bobby G. Greer and Joyce E. Greer

We have come to place a great deal of emphasis on the printed and spoken word. Yet, we are all aware, if we think about it, that there is much more to human interaction than the mere linguistic symbols (words) exchanged between two individuals. We unconsciously place more emphasis than we think on other aspects of behavior—appearance, gestures, tone of voice, etc. Until the past few years, you could find very little in popular literature on this, subject, yet …

The Columns, 1968 May-June

The Columns

In this issue:

"New University Center Opened on May 6"

MSU's gleaming new University Center opened in early May and promises to be a center of activity for alumni and community groups as well as for student activities. Plans are already being made for several Alumni Association activities to be held in the University Center.

"'Emmy' Winner to Return for Homecoming"

Television star Barbara Anderson, who played a variety of stage roles while a student at MSU, then went on to Hollywood to win an Emmy this year for her role in NBC-TV's "Ironside", will return to the Memphis State …

The Columns, 1983 Summer

The Columns

Cover Story, "Distinguished Alumni"

Too often alumni feel they've all been forgotten by their alma mater except when it's time to ask for money. And while it's nice when alumni remember to support their university, it's also nice when the university remembers the alumni.

Also featured, "White House Hears The Sound of Music From MSU Alumnus"

From rock music to "Hail to the Chief' is the path MSU alumnus Michael Cunningham's ('75) musical career took after his graduation from the University. Cunningham, who played with Memphis' own Boxtops before he enrolled as a music student at Memphis State, played double …

The Columns, 1984 April

The Columns

Cover Photograph shows flowers on the mall in front of the Administration building trumpet the start of spring.

Also featured, "Ken Swartz Earns Coveted TV News Photographer Award" by Dianne Dolan

Over the past 30 years, only two persons have achieved the distinction of winning the award twice. Ken Swartz is now the third.

Memphis State Magazine, 11:04, 1993 Winter

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "Days of Anguish, Days of Hope"

For three-and-a-half years, this Memphis State alumnus suffered the horrors of Japanese prison camps. What his captors did not know was that the American prisoner was keeping a secret diary. Scrawled in pencil, the journal is a testament to courage and the will to survive.

Also featured, "Ain't Got Tears to Cry With"

Originally songs of a people one generation removed from slavery, blues has become the music of the working class, farmers, and people forced to live by their wits. At MSU, High Water Records preserves the music of these rare …

Memphis State Magazine, 02:03a, 1983 Summer

Memphis State University Magazine

On the Cover: Back-to-school is the place each fall for students and professors to meet in the classroom - that place where it really all begins at the University. Our fall issue "covers" students, teachers, research, community service, and that fall favorite: football.

Also featured, "What To Be Or Not To Be"

. . .is a decision each must make when choosing among some 40 academic departments at the University, and over a decade those choices have changed

Memphis State Magazine, 02:02a, 1983 Spring

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "The Headbone's Connected To The Hexidecimal Keypad" by Laverne Daley

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Not many heroes, though, are two feet tall, with squared-off heads, only one arm, and bearing a striking resemblance to R2D2 of Star Wars fame. HERO I, the new robot-in-residence in the Engineering Technology Department of Herff College of Engineering at Memphis State, does fit that description.

Also featured, "This Center is 'Nucleus' of New Careers"

Reacting to a new industry's need for well-educated workers. The purpose of the Nuclear Manpower Program at Memphis State is to recruit, train, and place …

Memphis State Magazine, 02:04a, 1983 Fall

Memphis State University Magazine

1982-83 Annual Report of Donors.

Memphis State Magazine, 03:02, 1984 Spring

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "Electrify!"

Tiger basketball: all the thrills, chills and spills. It was truly the Year of the Tiger.

Also featured, "Progress + patience = Project Memphis" by Laverne Daley

Education professors and students work in an innovative program to lead the handicapped child to develop himself to the highest level possible.

Memphis State Magazine, 05:01, 1986 Winter

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "Bigger and Better Catfish" by Ed Webb

Biology professors seek ways to satisfy a fish-hungry public by producing fatter but healthier fish for the food industry.

Also featured, "A Movie-Ble Feast" by Ed Webb

A look at Steve Ross, theatre professor, whose film on social mores in the South, "The Old Forest," has drawn critical raves at film festivals across the U.S. and in Europe.

Memphis State Magazine, 05:04, 1986

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "Miss America: MSU's Own Kellye Cash" by Henry Bailey

Here she is, carrying on MSU's most beautiful tradition. A pageant novice wins the "big one" and returns a title to MSU. MSU student Kellye Cash was crowned the 1987 Miss America, proving that dreams and fairy tales do come true.

Also featured, "Of Insects and Forensics" by Laurie Finn

Entomologist Dr. Omar Smith uses his insect expertise to provide crime scene detectives with grim particulars.

Memphis State Magazine, 03:04, 1984 Fall

Memphis State University Magazine

Annual Report of the President.

Memphis State Magazine, 05:03, 1986 Fall

Memphis State University Magazine

Annual Report of The President.

Memphis State Magazine, 04:04, 1985 Fall

Memphis State University Magazine

Annual Report of the President 1984-1985.

Memphis State Magazine, 08:03, 1989 Fall

Memphis State University Magazine

Annual Report of the President.

Cover Story, "An Apple for the Student"

MSU's School of Accountancy — the only college program in the United States to teach both IBM and Apple Macintosh technologies — is giving its students the competitive edge needed to excel in today's fast-paced business environment.

Memphis State Magazine, 08:02, 1989 Summer

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "The Flight of the Eagle... Preservation through Public Education"

Symbolizing power, courage and freedom, the noble eagle has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. MSU graduate Jane Gulley tirelessly works to protect the survival of these endangered birds of prey. In the morning light, photographer Richard Gardner captures bald eagles gathering around a favorite tree at Reelfoot Lake.

Also featured, "Women in Leadership"

Slowly...ever so slowly...the number of women in academia is growing. While their ranks are small, women in leadership positions at Memphis State are serving as role models for future leaders.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 1997 Fall

University of Memphis Magazine

Annual Report of the President.

Resistance Is Not Futile: Challenging Aapi Hate, Peter H. Huang

Publications

This Article analyzes how to challenge AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) hate—defined as explicit negative bias in racial beliefs towards AAPIs. In economics, beliefs are subjective probabilities over possible outcomes. Traditional neoclassical economics view beliefs as inputs to making decisions with more accurate beliefs having indirect, instrumental value by improving decision-making. This Article utilizes novel economic theories about belief-based utility, which economically captures the intuitive notion that people can derive pleasure and pain directly from their and other people's beliefs. Even false beliefs can offer comfort and reassurance to people. This Article also draws on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary theories about …

Authoring Prior Art, Joseph P. Fishman, Kristelia A. García

Publications

Patent law and copyright law are widely understood to diverge in how they approach prior art, the universe of information that already existed before a particular innovation’s development. For patents, prior art is paramount. An invention can’t be patented unless it is both novel and nonobvious when viewed against the backdrop of all the earlier inventions that paved the way. But for copyrights, prior art is supposed to be virtually irrelevant. Black-letter copyright doctrine doesn’t care if a creative work happens to resemble its predecessors, only that it isn’t actually copied from them. In principle, then, outside of the narrow …

Moments In Performance: Developing An Aid For Articulation And Reflection, Shelby R. Mckenzie

Theses : Honours

Embodiment is an innately human experience. Why then, is it so difficult for society to come to a shared understanding of what it is to be embodied? This problem is particularly relevant in a theatrical context. Critical thinking across the disciplines of Philosophy, Science and History have impacted an actor's theoretical understanding of embodiment. However, this has not affected their corporeal understanding. As an actor I realised that this gap led to my inability to articulate the embodied experience in my practice. This inability to explain the experience meant I was unable to experience it consistently. This thesis examines how …

Broadening Ontological And Epistemological Possibilities Within Early Childhood Teacher Education For Sustainability, Kassahun Weldemariam

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The dominant sustainability ethos and discourse within early childhood education pursue a normative ontological and epistemological direction aimed at empowering children’s agency and thus, building certain predefined moral values, knowledge, and skills. Likewise, mainstream early childhood teacher education programmes strive to build early childhood pre-service teachers’ sustainability knowledge and skills, especially to enhance their capacity to be transformative agents and motivators for change to engage children with sustainability challenges. In this conceptual article, drawing on posthuman concepts, I highlight the limits of such orthodox assumptions in early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) teacher education and invite broader ontological and epistemic …

The Practice And Purpose Of Adaptation Of Classical Texts, Cassandra J.S. Gutterman-Johns

Honors Papers

This paper focuses on two adaptations of classical texts: Off the Rails, Reinholz’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, and AtGN, Howard’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, and examines the ways in which these plays both replicate the cycles created by the original texts and seek to break from them. Taking theater as an inherently repetitive practice, this paper pulls from many sources to develop a vocabulary for discussing theatrical adaptations, then applies it to these two case studies to demonstrate that each uses a variety of strategies to create a new narrative. Whether a theater-maker is building new meaning into …

The Right To Privacy And Data Protection In Times Of Armed Conflict, Asaf Lubin, Russell Buchan

Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty

Contemporary warfare yields a profound impact on the rights to privacy and data protection. Technological advances in the fields of electronic surveillance, predictive algorithms, big data analytics, user-generated evidence, artificial intelligence, cloud storage, facial recognition, and cryptography are redefining the scope, nature, and contours of military operations. Yet, international humanitarian law offers very few, if any, lex specialis rules for the lawful processing, analysis, dissemination, and retention of personal information. This edited anthology offers a pioneering account of the current and potential future application of digital rights in armed conflict.

In Part I Mary Ellen O’Connell, Tal Mimran and Yuval …

Opening Night: A Feature Length Miniseries, Conner Lawrence Johnson

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Vision 2022

Vision

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2022-2023 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

(2022) ​​Philosophy For Children As A Form Of Spiritual Education, Olivier Michaud

Collected Papers of Maughn Rollins Gregory

In the last two decades, some authors in the philosophy for children movement have theorized that the community of philosophical inquiry can be a form of spiritual practice, of the care of the self, or a wisdom practice (De Marzio, 2009; Gregory, 2009, 2013, 2014;Gregory & Laverty, 2009). Yet, it is unclear if philosophy for children is, by itself, a form of spiritual education, or if it requires some sorts of modification to be one. And, if it is or can be a form of spiritual education, we can interrogate in what ways and to what extent is it one. …

Graduating Greener: Analysis Of A Non-Price Intervention To Encourage Pro-Environmental Behavior Among College Students, Jillie Santos

Honors Theses

According to the Yale Program on Climate Communication, a majority of Americans report worrying about climate change, yet the proportion of Americans who discuss climate change often with friends and family is around half of the worried percentage. This discrepancy illustrates a habit of climate avoidance and climate inaction. Drawing upon psychology and human-centered design, I assisted Dr. Michael A. Smyer in developing Graduating Greener, a workshop aimed at disrupting climate avoidance and promoting pro-environmental behavior through a sequence of social, environmentally-based activities. In this thesis, I investigate concepts from the field of behavioral economics which inform and align with …

The Lure Of Musical Comfort: An Analysis Of How Consumer Preferences In Popular Music Change Depending On The State Of The U.S. Economy Using Billboard Hot 100, Spotify Api, & Economic Data, Lindsey A. Larson

CMC Senior Theses

This paper examines data from Spotify’s Web API for all songs that have been on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from the first chart’s release in August 1958 to May 2021 to determine the relationship between music misery and economic misery. Twelve dependent variables– duration, danceability, energy, key, acousticness, speechiness, mode, loudness, instrumentalness, liveness, valence, and tempo– are used to measure the impact of Arthur Okun’s U.S. economic misery index on each characteristic. Using 12 individual linear regressions– one for each dependent variable– I find that during times of increased economic hardship, consumers are likely to choose to listen to …