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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 46, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 46, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Harrison, Taylor. Provost Gordon Emslie Is In Running for Same Position at University of Alabama
  • French, Jackson. Six-Year Building Wish List Calls for 75 Projects Costing More than $673 Million
  • Anderson, Anna. Up All Night – Up ‘til Dawn, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Charities
  • Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon Winter Term Snowman
  • Winter Break Isn’t to Blame for Low Retention Rates
  • People Poll: Do You Support a Shortened Winter Break?
  • Young, Kreable. Taking Care of Ginna Greer – Best Buddies, Handicapped Persons
  • Grogg, Mitchell. Groups Surrender Touches of a Real …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 45, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 45, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Matchen, Quiche. The Problem with Gas – Economy
  • Stukenborg, Sarah. New Student Government Association Officers Planning for Fall
  • Crumbie, Trey. V Is for Volley – Tennis
  • Dassow, Amy. Students Engage in Feminist Issues On & Off Campus – Abortion, Pro-Life Movement
  • Conniff, Ben. Holy Motors A Perplexing Masterwork – Movies
  • Holloway, Kaely. Community College Transfer Students Recommend Money Saving Method
  • Marnon, Christian. New Hardin Planetarium Show Explores a Rover on Mars
  • Goodan, Allison. Bad to the Bottle – Wine
  • Grogg, Mitchell. Upcoming Festival at WKU to Show French Films …


I Am Not Your Video Girl, Rashida Aluko-Roberts Apr 2013

I Am Not Your Video Girl, Rashida Aluko-Roberts

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“We need girls who are willing to be up on stage with us and who are not afraid to go HAM dancing in front of a crowd. I know at least a few of you who have the confidence/jaw-dropping dance moves to pull this off.” [excerpt]


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 44, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 44, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Aulbach, Lucas. WKU to Move to Conference USA – Athletics
  • Koch, Cameron. Decreased Spring Enrollment Puts $880,000 Hole in WKU’s Budget
  • French, Jackson. Give It All to Change A Life – St. Baldrick, Omega Phi Alpha
  • Stukenborg, Sarah. Student Government Association Vice Presidential Candidates Debate
  • Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon Spring Sports Ignored
  • Fans Have An Angsty Relationship with Spring Sports
  • Garland, Hannah. Keyana Boka Is Best Choice in Student Government Association Presidential Election
  • People Poll: What Sporting Events Do You Attend at WKU?
  • Stukenborg, Sarah. Student Government Association Works …


Tuzina, Tradition, And Therapy: A Case Study Of Dance/Movement Therapy In Post-Conflict Northern Uganda, Kateashley Clarke Apr 2013

Tuzina, Tradition, And Therapy: A Case Study Of Dance/Movement Therapy In Post-Conflict Northern Uganda, Kateashley Clarke

African & African American Studies Senior Theses

Despite great advancement in recent decades, rehabilitation resources for post-conflict communities are often lacking within the humanitarian field. Antonio Donini (2010, p. S233) argues that because humanitarianism is self-defined by those who practice it with little or no consideration for alternative approaches, reinventing a globally accepted notion of 'humanitarianism' is a difficult task. Post-conflict rehabilitation is one of the fields most affected by this 'particularistic' style of humanitarian action, with Western-influenced techniques dominating the spectrum. According to Peter Salama (2004, p. 1810), though mental health is increasingly discussed in policy and research forums as an essential component of emergency programs, …


Interview Of Mary Butler, Mary Butler, Zach Bower Apr 2013

Interview Of Mary Butler, Mary Butler, Zach Bower

All Oral Histories

Mary (King) Butler was born in 1942 in King and Queen County, Virginia. Her parents are Hayes and Blanche King. Her father’s parents were Archie King, Sr. and Rossie King. Her mother’s parents were Joshua and Peggie Whiting. Mary is the oldest of four children. Her two brothers were born in 1943 and 1951, and her sister was born in 1961. Her nuclear family lived close to her father’s parent’s farm in Plainview, VA. Her family was active in both Union Prospect Baptist Church and First Baptist Church.

Butler worked often on her grandparent’s farm as a child. Butler and …


Ninth Annual Barry D. Riccio Lecture - Satchel Paige And Black Baseball In The Rethinking Of The Civil Rights Movement, Donald Spivey Apr 2013

Ninth Annual Barry D. Riccio Lecture - Satchel Paige And Black Baseball In The Rethinking Of The Civil Rights Movement, Donald Spivey

Barry D. Riccio Lecture Series

The EIU History Department presents the Ninth Annual Barry D. Riccio Lecture.

Donald Spivey is the author of several books dealing with African-American history, sport, labor, music, and education. If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (University of Missouri Press, 2012) is his most recent book.


Representations Of The African Diaspora In Three Films, Monica C. Melton Apr 2013

Representations Of The African Diaspora In Three Films, Monica C. Melton

Global Honors Theses

This thesis will examine how the African diaspora has been depicted in filmic text, from directors representing distinctly different loci of the diaspora, in Brazil, Nigeria and the United States. Film is one of many modes of expression for a culture that is based on representations. “For many people, media representations maybe their first and often only source of information about, or reference for people outside of their social and cultural circles, “(James, etc., 354) The scope of this thesis will specifically examine diasporic representation in The Journey by Chineze Anyaene, a Nigerian director of ‘Nollywood’, Walter Salles’ “City of …


Sam Gen Ms 01 Jean Byers Sampson Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton, Susannah Clark Apr 2013

Sam Gen Ms 01 Jean Byers Sampson Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton, Susannah Clark

Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)

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Jean Byers Sampson was a 1944 graduate of Smith College. Early in her post-Smith career, she conducted and wrote the 1947, “A Study of the Negro in Military Service,” which contributed to President Harry Truman’s decision to desegregate the armed forces. Sampson moved to Maine in the early 1950s with her husband, Richard Sampson, a Bates College mathematics professor, and she played a unique and critical role in the state until her death in 1996. Over the course of her life in Maine, she served as the founder of the first chapter of the NAACP in Maine, local and …


No One Who Reads The History Of Hayti Can Doubt The Capacity Of Colored Men: Racial Formation And Atlantic Rehabilitation In New York City's Early Black Press, 1827-1841, Charlton W. Yingling Apr 2013

No One Who Reads The History Of Hayti Can Doubt The Capacity Of Colored Men: Racial Formation And Atlantic Rehabilitation In New York City's Early Black Press, 1827-1841, Charlton W. Yingling

Faculty Scholarship

From 1827 to 1841 the black newspapers Freedom’s Journal and the Colored American of New York City were venues for one of the first significant racial projects in the United States. To counter aspersions against their race, the editors of these publications renegotiated their community’s identity within the matrix of the Black Atlantic away from waning discourses of a collective African past. First, Freedom’s Journal used the Haitian Revolution to exemplify resistance, abolitionism, and autonomy. The Colored American later projected the Republic of Haiti as a model of governance, prosperity, and refinement to serve this community’s own evolving ambitions of …


What Should We Do With The Social Construct Of Race?, Jason A. Gordon Apr 2013

What Should We Do With The Social Construct Of Race?, Jason A. Gordon

Senior Theses and Projects

Today, race is something that many people still consider to be an essential component of their identities. Even though race has been proven to be nothing more than a social construct, it still is in many regards something that the people living in our society tend take for granted. In this paper, the concept of race will be critically examined and analyzed. The history of race will be closely followed and it will be discussed as to whether or not this social construct is something worth preserving.


The Merits Of Anger: "Put Out" And "Being Outdoors" In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, E. Frances Bower Apr 2013

The Merits Of Anger: "Put Out" And "Being Outdoors" In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, E. Frances Bower

Senior Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 43, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 43, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Stukenborg, Sarah. Presidential Candidates Debate Issues – Student Government Association
  • French, Jackson. Largest Fundraising Campaigns Occur During Gary Ransdell’s Presidency – College Heights Foundation
  • Marnon, Christian. WKU Men Walk a Mile to Protest Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence – Sexual Assault Awareness Month
  • Watson, Paul. Can You Duet? Talent Show Raises Money for Charity – Sigma Kappa
  • Prochazka, Tyler. Omega Phi Alpha to Host St. Baldrick’s for Fourth Year
  • Jacobs, Alex. Candidate Cain Alvey: A Man After the Student Body’s Own Heart – Student Government Association, Elections
  • Grogg, Mitchell. Radio …


Fearless: Ratco, Center For Public Service Mar 2013

Fearless: Ratco, Center For Public Service

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If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ve had some really spectacular visitors from the south with us on Gettysburg’s campus the last few days! The Random Acts of Theater Company (RATCo) is a group that emerged from the Freedom Foundation in Denver, Colorado a few years ago. Their initiative involved using theater as a means for self-expression and communication, but RATCo spread because it was so successful and ultimately reached Selma, Alabama. Selma, although a major site for the Civil Rights movement, and also the site for the last battle of the civil war, has changed very little since the 1960s. …


Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of letter (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2690. Letter, 22 March 1866, to a newspaper editor from Captain William Schenck, encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky with the 119th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry. He denies the editor’s claim that an outbreak of smallpox in the town was attributable to “careless Negro soldiers” and describes the measures taken to control the disease among his troops.


A Phenomenological Exploration Of Black Male Law Enforcement Officers' Perspectives Of Racial Profiling And Their Law Enforcement Career Exploration And Commitment, Gregory A. Salters Mar 2013

A Phenomenological Exploration Of Black Male Law Enforcement Officers' Perspectives Of Racial Profiling And Their Law Enforcement Career Exploration And Commitment, Gregory A. Salters

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This phenomenological study explored Black male law enforcement officers’ perspectives of how racial profiling shaped their decisions to explore and commit to a law enforcement career. Criterion and snow ball sampling was used to obtain the 17 participants for this study. Super’s (1990) archway model was used as the theoretical framework. The archway model “is designed to bring out the segmented but unified and developmental nature of career development, to highlight the segments, and to make their origin clear” (Super, 1990, p. 201).

Interview data were analyzed using inductive, deductive, and comparative analyses. Three themes emerged from the inductive analysis …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Harrison, Taylor. Gary Ransdell to Push WKU’s Need for Tuition Increase with Council on Postsecondary Education
  • Aulbach, Lucas. Seeing Double – Basketball
  • Grogg, Mitchell. Shamrock Shootout Raises Money for Family & Children’s Charities – Kappa Delta
  • Stukenborg, Sarah. Student Government Association Prepares for Upcoming Election Debate
  • Matchen, Quiche. International Justice Mission Stands for 27 Hours Against Sex Trafficking – Human Trafficking
  • Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon Voting
  • Students Should Vote for Those Who Represent Them – Student Government Association, Elections
  • People Poll: Do You Think the Student Government Association Makes …


A Christian Understanding Of Aesthetic Agency: A Theological Framework Of Resistance To Cultural Imperialism, Elise Edwards Mar 2013

A Christian Understanding Of Aesthetic Agency: A Theological Framework Of Resistance To Cultural Imperialism, Elise Edwards

LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University

Aesthetic agency refers to conditions, capacities, and states that inform artistic forms of acting and exerting power on social structures. In resistance to the marginalization of women of color, aesthetic agency is exercised through creative acts of culture-making and critique of such practices to challenge domination and representation of the oppressed other. To support this work as a feminist Christian ethicist, I construct a theological framework for aesthetic agency. This paper proposes a theological understanding of transformative aesthetics and then describes the exercise of aesthetic agency for Christian communities by using a television special, Black Girls Rock! as an example.


Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 972. Paper titled “African American Education in Kentucky: An Overview,” presented at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in observance of Black History Month by history professor John Hardin.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 41, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 41, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Aulbach, Lucas. Former WKU Players Take Part in Pro Day – Football
  • Grogg, Mitchell. Gary Ransdell: Budget Challenges Face WU Next Year
  • French, Jackson. Newly Proposed South Campus Food Court May Be Student Run – Dining Services
  • Koch, Cameron. Theatre & Dance and Sociology Students Work with Juvenile Delinquents
  • Burnside, Ella. Students Speak Out Through The Vagina Monologues – Sexual Assault Awareness Month
  • Crumbie, Trey. T Is for Tuba – Pep Band, Matt McCay, Music
  • Parker, Jacob. Student Creates Peace Mural with 60 Elementary Schoolers – Megan McDonald, Hartstern …


Racial Profiling, Security, And Human Rights, Faye V. Harrison Mar 2013

Racial Profiling, Security, And Human Rights, Faye V. Harrison

Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations: Lectures and Events

Neighborhood Watch coordinator George Zimmerman’s February 2012 fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, 17-year old African American in a gated community in Sanford, Florida has raised serious questions concerning racial profiling. Although a violation of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ample evidence attests to racial profiling’s pervasiveness as a law enforcement tactic in contexts of street-level crime, counterterrorism, and immigration control. Since September 11, 2001, the longstanding problem of racial profiling has both deepened and expanded in terms of the populations targeted. Incentives to profile have been built into laws and policies that sacrifice civil liberties and …


Racism In A Black White Binary: On The Reaction To Trayvon Martin’S Death, Peter Westmoreland Mar 2013

Racism In A Black White Binary: On The Reaction To Trayvon Martin’S Death, Peter Westmoreland

Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations: Lectures and Events

Some philosophers have contended that racism necessarily involves a binary structure. In the United States, the binary is coded in terms of Blacks and Whites and functions in part in this way: it describes violence as racist only if committed by whites against blacks and prescribes that all such violence is potentially racist. This concept operated during the immediate aftermath of Trayvon Martin’s death in both allegations of racism without strong evidence and assertions against George Zimmerman’s being white that were intended to protect him. While perhaps no racism was involved in Martin’s death, we do well to remember that …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 40, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 40, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Harrison, Taylor. Students Present Their Research During Second Full REACH Week – Research Experiences & Creative Heights
  • French, Jackson. School of Nursing Relocating to the Medical Center in the Fall
  • WKU Schedules Events for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
  • Stukenborg, Sarah. Student Government Association Passes Resolution to Oppose Study Abroad Fee
  • Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon Big Red Learning About Sexual Assault
  • Students May Not Be As Educated on Sexual Assault As They Think
  • People Poll: Do You Think Sexual Assault Is A Problem on This Campus?
  • Bratcher, Nick. Study Abroad …


Ukhamba: The Implications Of Amateur Domestic Genealogical Research For African Socio-Historical Analysis, Nikitah O. Imani Mar 2013

Ukhamba: The Implications Of Amateur Domestic Genealogical Research For African Socio-Historical Analysis, Nikitah O. Imani

Black Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Presented at the 37th annual conference of the National Council of Black Studies Indianapolis, Indiana March 14, 2013


A Culture Of Stigma: Black Women And Mental Health, Alexandria U. Okeke Mar 2013

A Culture Of Stigma: Black Women And Mental Health, Alexandria U. Okeke

Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


A Moderate Jim Crow?: The Myth Of Atlanta In The Civil Rights Era, Nathan Helfrick Mar 2013

A Moderate Jim Crow?: The Myth Of Atlanta In The Civil Rights Era, Nathan Helfrick

Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Style Watch: Blackface Edition, Rashida Aluko-Roberts Mar 2013

Style Watch: Blackface Edition, Rashida Aluko-Roberts

SURGE

The above quote is from a statement/apology offered by Sebastian Kim, a photographer, whose recent editorial, “African Queen,” which featured a 16-year-old white female made to appear black, was marred with controversy. According to the photographer, dousing a young white female in deep bronze, accessorizing her in elaborate head wraps and heavy jewels (symbols that are often associated with Africa), was in no way an attempt to depict what an “African queen” looks like. Rather, his spread was attempting to showcase “the beauty aesthetic of his shoot” by using a “tanned or golden skin” model. [excerpt]


Introduction To We All Got History: The Memory Books Of Amos Webber, Nick Salvatore Mar 2013

Introduction To We All Got History: The Memory Books Of Amos Webber, Nick Salvatore

Nick Salvatore

[Excerpt] Who was this Amos Webber who assumed such a prominent role in this public, regional celebration of the black presence in American life? That he was a veteran was clear, but that alone did not account for his prominent position in that day's events. Certainly James Monroe Trotter, the eminent musician, author, and politician, William H. Carney, and William Dupree were all more widely known in the black North. How did a man such as Amos Webber, unknown beyond his own circle, the recipient of no awards or editorials in the local or national press, achieve such prominence in …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 39, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2013

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 39, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Harrison, Taylor. Former WKU President Donald Zacharias Remembered for His Legacy
  • Grogg, Mitchell & Christian Marnon. Fight Night – Sigma Chi, Kyle Dahl
  • Matchen, Quiche. International Justice Mission Making Plans for the Semester – Human Trafficking
  • Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon Big Red Self Esteem
  • Body Language: Low Self-Esteem Does More Than Bum You Out
  • People Poll: Do You Think Body Image Is an Important Issue on Campus?
  • Grogg, Mitchell. Student Government Association & University Senate Pose Opposition for Study Abroad Fee
  • Lanter, Austin. WKU Wins First Road Game at …


That Awkward Moment When I Accidentally Internalized Racism, Rashida Aluko-Roberts Mar 2013

That Awkward Moment When I Accidentally Internalized Racism, Rashida Aluko-Roberts

SURGE

I recently attended a conference about the importance of Africana Studies (AFS) and it had a panel of visiting professors that consisted of mostly black men and women. I was beyond impressed by their achievements and found myself engaged and excited by their discussions. My admiration for these scholars only grew exponentially when I learned that one of the female professors was from Sierra Leone, just like me! [excerpt]