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Csusb Magazine (Summer 2008), Csusb

CSUSB Magazine

Features:

Update......Page 3
President John Pfau makes a $12 million gift a family affair.

Contributions......Page 19
Once grown and out of the system, former foster children often still have hills to climb.

Pack Tracks......Page 23
Area elementary and middle schoolers kick it with CSUSB athletes

Student Scapes......Page 26
In the worlds of foreign exchange students, 'free trade agreement' menas 'This time we eat at my place.'

The Disposable Blog: Using The Weblog To Facilitate Classroom Learning And Communications, Stephen Pimpare, Jonathan Fast

Business, Politics & Security Studies Faculty Scholarship

This article describes two case studies: one is from a graduate course in social work practice evaluation taught by the second author; the other is from an undergraduate political science course in media and politics taught by the first author. These cases describe the way blogs, created by students and the professors, facilitate communications within the class, reduce paperwork for the professors, and let students practice their “public voices.” While the cases are specific to two courses — Masters-level social work and undergraduate political science – the concepts are easily transferred to others. The article begins with a history and …

Pvn-Drw-Op 202-Sketch Plans-2008, Multiple Multiple

Four Valleys Archive

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2008 - Etsu Fact Book, Institutional Research, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Fact Books

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Rollins College Catalog 2008, Rollins College

College of Liberal Arts Catalogs

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First Generation College Students' Perception Of Parental Attitudes: An Exploratory Study, Orion Peter Mowbray

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Parental support among first generation college students is largely understudied. While some argue that many parents lack necessary information and knowledge to help their children succeed while in college, this work argues that parents of first generation college students contribute a large amount of emotional support towards their children while in college. There are several benefits of receiving a high degree of emotional support, one of which is constructing a potential buffer against identity threat that many first generation college students face while on campus. Through eleven case studies, this work examines the roles of parental support of first generation …

Research View, Winter 2008

Research View

Contents of this issue include:

Yellowstone's Lost Town: UM researchers unearth Cinnabar

An Icy Adventure: Scientists track Greenland meltwater

Treating Trauma: New UM center offers healing tools for Indian Country

Physical Therapy: New Directions: Combining health with research

Ua1c7 Departmental Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images showing everyday activities of university departments.

A History In Limbo: A Human Rights Perspective On Conflict-Ridden Nepal, Claire Mueller

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Nepal is at a historical junction, the recent victory of the second People’s Movement garnering a plethora of democratic reforms. Since the end of April, King Gyanendra has reinstated the House of Representatives, which then declared its supremacy and dramatically curtailed the king’s powers. Nepal has been declared a secular state; the Royal Nepal Army has been transformed the Nepali Army; a ceasefire has been created between the army and the Maoists - who are also participating in peace talks; and the seven-party alliance and the Maoists held a summit at which they agreed to frame an interim statute, form …

Community In The Theology Of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, Nicholas Coffman

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

This work began as a term paper for an Independent Learning Project with Dr. Cahoy and Ben Durheim. From our discussions, it became clear that on a literal level, Kierkegaard’s vision of Christianity is largely individualistic in emphasis. This work critiques this assertion through a wider engagement of several texts, illustrating the seminal Christian position of Kierkegaard. The analysis begins with secondary source appraisals of Kierkegaard as theologian, to clarify this endeavor as distinct from an exclusively philosophical pursuit. Next, Kierkegaard’s major psychological understandings are addressed, revealing hidden potential for the role of community in authentic faith. Finally, this work …

Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2008, Fall | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Graduate Schedule Of Classes For 2008, Spring [Graduate Online Courses] | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Graduate Schedule Of Classes For 2008, Summer | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2008, Summer | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Bridgewater State College Factbook, 2007-2008, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College

Factbook

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Bridgewater State College Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2008-2009, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State College Catalogs, 1960-2009

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Revitalization 15:2, Center For The Study Of World Christian Revitalization Movements

Revitalization

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Photograph - Indian Head Rock, 2008, Unknown.

Indian Head Rock Project

Photograph of Indian Head Rock circa 2008.

Washington University School Of Medicine Bulletin, 2008

Washington University School of Medicine Bulletins

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Irrational Exuberance For Babies: The Taste For Heterosexuality And Its Conspicuous Reproduction, Jose M. Gabilondo

Faculty Publications

This article targets a flying buttress of normative heterosexuality: its physical reproduction via procreation and its symbolic propagation through parents' pre-natal preferences for heterosexuality in future children. While the parental "taste for heterosexuality" is often asserted for the sake of future children themselves, this justification overlooks the role of parental self-interest, including anticipated social gains to parents from heterosexuality in children. Hence the taste sets the stage both for sexual orientation-based abuse of future children and the devaluation of sexual minority adults. Courts too have a taste for heterosexuality, shown here in two state court cases denying gays and lesbians …

Believing And The Practice Of Religion, Catherine Bell

Religious Studies

Annotated draft manuscript of Believing and the Practice of Religion in which the author sought to spur a discussion about belief, a phenomenon that few religious scholars had addressed but that Bell held was central to the study of religion. This is a digital copy of the original manuscript located in the Catherine Bell Papers held by Archives & Special Collections at Santa Clara University.

Eastern Illinois University Undergraduate Catalog 2008 - 2009, Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois Catalog Bulletins

This Catalog lists available courses for the 2008 - 2009 term.

Island Culture: The Role Of The Blasket Autobiographies In The Preservation Of A Traditional Way Of Life, Eamon Maher

Articles

The Blasket Islands, located off the west coast of Kerry, are remarkable for having inspired a flourishing literature, mainly autobiographical in nature, which is generally acknowledged as being of great anthropological value, as well as of significant literary merit. When one considers that the islands never had a population of more than around 160 persons (with an average of closer to half that number) during the years covered by the autobiographies, the existence of such an important chronicle of the simple and at times perilous life on these Atlantic outposts is all the more noteworthy. The language spoken on the …

Buddhism, Apophasis, Truth, Mario D'Amato

Faculty Publications

In this paper I will offer some reflections on one instance of apophasis in a specific Mahāyāna Buddhist doctrinal treatise, known as the Madhyāntavibhāga (“Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes,” ca. fourth century CE). I will attempt to formally distinguish such apophatic doctrines from doctrines of ineffability, and consider what apophatic doctrines might contribute to the impasse regarding “truth” which characterizes certain approaches to the comparative philosophy of religion. Since this paper is intended as a contribution to the comparative philosophy of religion, I will begin with a few remarks on the nature of that enterprise.

Narrative Cartographies: Mapping The Sacred In Gothic Stained Glass, Gerry Guest

Art History

No abstract provided.

The Book Of Mormon And Dna Research: Essays From The Farms Review And The Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies, Daniel C. Peterson

Maxwell Institute Publications

In the last few years, the topic of how DNA research fits in with the text of the Book of Mormon has become increasingly divisive. Now, for the first time in one volume, respected DNA scientists, geneticists, and Book of Mormon scholars provide their views on DNA and the Book of Mormon.

Why “Good Welfare” Isn’T “Good Enough”: Minding Animals And Increasing Our Compassionate Footprint, Marc Bekoff

Animal Welfare Collection

In this brief essay I take a broad perspective on the notion of unraveling welfare and consider animals living in different conditions ranging from caged individuals in laboratories and zoos to free-living or almost free-living wildlife. I’ll step outside of the laboratory because billions of animals are slaughtered for food in an industry that tortures them on the way to their reprehensible deaths and at the places at which they are slaughtered. Furthermore, government agencies around the world kill millions of free-living and wild animals because they’re supposedly “pests”. This is a different sort of essay but I hope it …

Pvn-Cat-202-Ks-031-001-Plcn, Zachary Lee

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Ks-031-002-Plcn, Zachary Lee

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Ne-017-006-Scnl, Zachary Lee

Four Valleys Archive

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