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Review Of A Time To Lose: Representing Kansas In Brown V. Board Of Education By Paul E. Wilson, Anna Shavers

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education became for many a time to reflect on the wisdom of the Court's decision and to critique its success in desegregating America's public schools. Paul E. Wilson, a law professor at the University of Kansas, has written A Time to Lose not so much to address those issues but a more personal question: why had he argued before the Supreme Court on the wrong side? In his dedication, Wilson sets forth the book's tone and goal: "For Harriet and our children, who believe I was on …

Review Of Rural Development In The United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, And Possibilities By William A. Galston And Karen J. Baehler, Don Macke

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

William Galston and Karen Baehler provide an excellent comprehensive overview of rural development policy and approaches. Their book is enriched by Galston's perspective as a Clinton White House domestic policy advisor and the Who's Who of rural development experts who reviewed and contributed to it.

Part one offers a progressive, expansive panorama of rural development in the United States in the 1990s. Particularly fine is the first chapter's review of critical trends and policy choices. The balance of the work is a textbook approach to seven fundamental sectors within the rural economy: natural resources, manufacturing, services, tourism, the elderly, high …

Niches Of Homelessness In Rural Nebraska: Bolstering Existing Understandings, Sharon Lord Gaber

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Rural homelessness, particularly in the Great Plains region, is under-researched. Most current understandings of homelessness are based on research in metropolitan regions. This paper suggests that the general structural frameworks. which have been developed to model homelessness in metropolitan areas. can serve as a useful starting point for understanding rural homelessness in Nebraska. By using a "key informant" survey of homeless service providers in Nebraska it is clear that there are several niches of homeless persons (Native Americans, migrant workers. meat-packing workers, and transients) present in Nebraska that are not discussed in the existing literature.

Review Of Politics In The Postwaramerican West Edited By Richard Lowitt, Clive S. Thomas

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This volume is a welcome addition to the sparse literature on western politics. Its approach is threefold. First, it views postwar western politics from a historical perspective as opposed to that of political science or economics; and editor Richard Lowitt has gathered together mostly historians to write the chapters. Second, instead of examining western politics comparatively by themes or by major events affecting political developments, the book unfolds state by state. There are a total of nineteen chapters coinciding with the volume's definition of the West as the nineteen states from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean, including Alaska …

Review Of Geologic Field Trips In Nebraska And Adjacent Parts Of Kansas And South Dakota Edited By Robert F. Diffendal, Jr. And Charles A. Flowerday, James E. Martin

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This guidebook was published in conjunction with the Geological Society of America's North-Central and South-Central sectional meeting held in Lincoln during the spring of 1995. As a result, the diversity of the field trips mirrors the wide geological interests represented at such a gathering. Subjects range from paleontology and stratigraphy to engineering geology. All of the articles provide important geological data often unobtainable in print elsewhere. Eleven field trips were presented during the GSA meeting; two are not included in the guidebook and are available separately, although the source of these materials is not apparent.

Field sites and road logs …

Review Of Wild Animals And Settlers On The Great Plains By Eugene D. Fleharty, Charles A. Flowerday

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Wild Animals and Settlers on the Great Plains is an informative but flawed book. As an example of environmental history written by a biologist unacquainted with the fundamentals of doing history, it fails to offer any theory (or theories) of history governing the time and place under scrutiny. What it does provide is a huge amount of information drawn from diaries, letters, and newspapers in an inadequately edited form. Lacking primary quantitative data, Eugene Fleharty, a zoologist at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, painstakingly provides a great deal of qualitative, albeit anecdotal, information about Euro-American settlement in Kansas …

Review Of Wetland And Environmental Applications Of Gis Edited By John G. Lyon And Jack Mccarthy, Scott E. Richert

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Wetlands are commonly defined as areas periodically or permanently inundated with water and typically characterized by vegetation requiring saturated soil for growth and reproduction. They have become increasingly important in environmental research as their benefits to environmental systems (wildlife habitat, flood control, for example) have become better understood. Wetland and Environmental Applications of GIS is an original contribution to the study of wetlands and other aquatic environments because it is the first book to address the inventory, monitoring, and management of wetlands and other surface waters by using geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and computer modeling.

The volume is …

Table Of Contents - Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1996

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

Articles

News and notes

Five-year index

Review Of Future Harvest: Pesticide-Free Farming By Jim Bender, George E. Ham

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Jim Bender provides the rationale for pursuing pesticide-free farming and a detailed model of conversion based on his experiences on his own 642 acre farm in southeast Nebraska. Reviewing such deeply ingrained characteristics of conventional agricultural systems in the Plains as separation of livestock from crop production, minimal crop diversity, and the lack of multi-year crop rotations, he recommends that conversion be undertaken gradually over several years as more experience is gained with pesticide-free systems.

In preparing for conversion from conventional to pesticide-free agriculture, one must learn to build terraces and waterways to control soil erosion, to rotate and diversify …

Fate Of Wetlands Associated With The Central Nebraska Irrigation Canal System, Jason D. Ekstein, Scott E. Hygnstrom

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Changes in wetlands in the vicinity of the Phelps and £65 canals operated by Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District in South-central Nebraska were examined using aerial photographs taken on seven occasions from 1938 to 1981. According to previous research, nearly 90% of the original wetlands within the surrounding Rainwater Basin were destroyed or altered by draining and filling between 1900 and 1980. Within a zone extending 10 kilometers on each side of the Phelps and £65 canals, however, we observed an increase in the number and total area of wetlands, which we hypothesize to have been caused by …

Five-Year Index - Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1996

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

five-year index

Leisure And Aging In Southern Saskatchewan, Ralph Nilson, David Weaver, Carlton Yoshioka

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This study examined the psychological and socio-economic dimensions of the leisure experience patterns of the expanding older adult population in the Canadian Great Plains or Prairie region. Survey data were collected from a random sample of 2,969 of persons 65 years of age and older residing in southern Saskatchewan. Results indicated that older adults have a wide range of leisure activities with involvement in numerous individual and community related pursuits. However, when differentiated by season, winter activities tended to be passive, solitary, inexpensive, and home-based activities. Moreover, important psychological dimensions in perceived health and activity of older adults did not …

Review Of Atlas Of Oklahoma Climate By Howard L. Johnson And Claude E. Duchon, John A. Harrington Jr.

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Thematic atlases depicting aspects of past weather events and climatic summaries are an important resource for researchers, educators, and the general public. The authors of the Atlas of Oklahoma Climate have produced an engaging text providing a good overview of a subject about which both are highly knowledgeable: Howard Johnson serves as an Assistant State Climatologist in the Oklahoma Climatological Survey; Claude Duchon is a Professor in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.

The atlas is divided into six major sections: an "Introduction"; "Geography and Oklahoma's Weather and Climate"; "Annual Climate"; "Seasonal Climate"; "Wind and Humidity"; and …

Review Of Anthropology, Public Policy, And Native Peoples In Canada Edited By Noel Dyck And James B. Waldram, Adrian Tanner

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In their chapter in Anthropology, Public Policy, and Natives Peoples in Canada, John O'Neil et al. state that anthropology "has affected policy development in virtually every sector of northern community life except medicine" (p. 216). Despite this observation, the book generally tends to stress Canadian anthropology's overall difficulties in aboriginal policy-making. It examines some of anthropology's most sensitive and difficult issues in this area critically, suggesting an ambivalent relationship towards the policy-making process.

The book's focus on anthropology's problems in contributing to aboriginal public policy is established in the editors' introduction, which examines several sources of these difficulties. A …

Wpa News 50 (1996), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (May 1996), number 50

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Education And Training In Psychology And Law/Criminal Justice: Historical Foundations, Present Structures, And Future Developments, James R. P. Ogloff, Alan Tomkins, Donald N. Bersoff

Alan Tomkins Publications

Although psychology had a brief—and rather dramatic—foray into the legal system early in this century, it was only after World War II that psychology started to systematically permeate the legal system. Building on the interest psychologists and other social scientists had on the law, education and training in the areas of psychology and law/criminal justice has undergone considerable growth and development over the past two decades. The authors discuss the early developments and current models of this education and training. Implications of the increased interest and training in psychology and law/ criminal justice, and directions for future developments in these …

Gender, Paid Work, And Symptoms Of Emotional Distress In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients, Judith Fifield, Susan Reisine, T. Joseph Sheehan, Julia Mcquillan

Bureau of Sociological Research: Faculty Publications

Objective. To evaluate the relative contribution of gender-related work conditions, gender-related socialization practices, and disease characteristics to the explanation of emotional distress in men and women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. Three hundred sixty-nine RA patients who were employed outside the home were recruited from a national randomized sample of rheumatology practices. Data on paid work and disease characteristics were obtained by telephone interview. Emotional distress was measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. Hierarchical ordinary least-squares regression was used to assess the relationship of sex, class, work characteristics, and disease characteristics to both the CES-D summary …

Introduction To "Persons With Disabilities": Special Issue Of Behavioral Sciences And The Law, Alan Tomkins

Alan Tomkins Publications

In 1990, the United States Congress enacted legislation protecting the civil rights of persons with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (1990) has been termed the most significant civil rights legislation since the 1960s (Rothstein, 1992/1994; see also Drimmer, 1993; Gostin & Beyer, 1993). The intent of the ADA is to provide “not only equal treatment [for persons with disabilities], but also equal opportunity” (Rothstein, 1992, p. 19, emphasis in original). The purpose of the ADA is not only to eliminate intentional discrimination, but also to change “policies and practices that have a discriminatory impact” on persons with disabilities …

The Ethics Of Implementation: Institutional Remedies And The Lawyer's Role, Susan Poser

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The issue addressed in this article is whether and to what extent a lawyer has an ethical responsibility to pursue implementation of the remedy in institutional reform litigation. Institutional reform litigation refers to cases in which an individual or class of individuals sues a large organization in order to vindicate constitutional or statutory rights. The types of cases with which this article is concerned are the "public law" type, such as school desegregation, prisoners' rights and patients' rights cases, although included under the rubric of institutional reform can be, inter alia, antitrust, reapportionment and bankruptcy cases. The implementation stage of …

The Law Of Directed Trustees Under Erisa: A Proposed Blueprint For The Federal Courts, Colleen E. Medill

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Situations where the direction to the trustee is made by a plan participant must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, bearing in mind ERISA's underlying purposes and the safeguards created through the statute and its implementing regulations. The analytical approach adopted in the FirsTier Bank court decision, a literal incorporation of the common law of trusts rules into the context of ERISA, is inappropriate because in some situations more protection is needed for the plan participants than was afforded by the common law of trusts. When the direction to the trustee is made by a non-participant plan fiduciary, however, ERISA …

Transaction Exemptions In The Securities Act Of 1933: An Economic Analysis, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The Securities Act of 1933 is an important restriction on capital markets in the United States. Unless an exemption is available, the Act requires companies selling securities to the public first to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a registration statement containing detailed information about the company, its business, its finances, and the contemplated offering. Offers cannot be made (except to underwriters) until the registration statement is filed, and the securities can be sold only after the registration statement survives the sometimes lengthy SEC review process and becomes effective. In addition, the securities seller must at some point …

Verdicts Of Conscience: Nullification And Necessity As Jury Responses To Crimes Of Conscience, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Consider three types of atypical criminal defendants. The first trespasses at a nuclear weapons plant (or a segregated bus station or women's health clinic) in order to publicly protest a law or public policy represented by that facility or by the activity that occurs there. The second operates an underground railroad in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act (or smuggles South American residents into the United States or breaks into a women's health clinic in order to disable equipment and prevent scheduled abortions). The third causes the death of a loved one by disconnecting that person from life sustaining medical …

Homosexual Marriage And The Myth Of Tolerance: Is Cardinal O'Connor A "Homophobe"?, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Duncan explains why he believes the heterosexual norm should be defended in what well may be the decisive moment of the sexual revolution--the battle over the meaning of marriage in human community. In particular, Duncan will focus on an aspect of this controversy that he notes often goes unnoticed--the impact of a paradigm shift on the "old order," on those who continue to affirm the conventional understanding of sexual morality and marriage.

Public Schools And The Inevitability Of Religious Inequality, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

This article discusses the political and social implications of current attempts to amend the Constitution to ensure "religious equality." Two specific proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution will be analyzed--the Istook Amendment and the Hyde-Hatch Amendment. This article concludes that although the Hyde-Hatch Amendment is the more acceptable of the two, neither amendment achieves the elusive goal of ensuring religious equality.

Grouse News 11-20 (1996-2000), World Pheasant Association International, Diana Lovel

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Issue 11 (June 1996)

Editorial, Diana Lovel

Diary of David and Margaret's visit to the Pyrenees June 19-28, 1995

Adaptability of gamebirds, David Jenkins

Pheasants and grouse, Matt Ridley

Letter to the editor, Tim Lovel

Grouse Group founded, Rudi Suchant

Hybrids between capercaillie and black grouse and their characteristics, Jan Porkert

Does the occurrence of capercaillie-black grouse hybrids in Øvre Landvik, southern Norway signalize the coming extinction of capercaillies, as it did in Ostsudeten in the Czech Republic? Jan Porkert in cooperation with Arne Flor

Review of Naturschutz report

The effect of matrix on the occurrence of hazel grouse in …

Western Meadowlark Impaled On Barbed-Wire Fence, Lawrence D. Igl

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Recently, Allen and Ramirez (1990, Wilson Bull. 102:553-558) summarized known observations of bird mortality associated with barbed-wire fences. Most reported cases of bird mortality from barbed-wire fences were of non-passerine birds. On 16 June 1993 in Slope County in western North Dakota (NW 1/4, Sec. 10 T134N R103W), I found a dead western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) with its right wing impaled by a barb on the middle strand of a three-strand barbed-wire fence. Barbs on the wire were spaced about 12-15 cm apart. The bird was adult-sized, but plumage characteristics indicated that it was a young-of-the-year with well-developed …

Second Record Of White Ibis In North Dakota, Jennifer W. Marlow, Lawrence D. Igl, Melody R. Hartman

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The breeding range of the white ibis (Eudocimus albus) in the United States is generally restricted to coastal regions along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean north to Virginia (Frederick et al. 1996, Conserv. BioI. 10:203-216). During the breeding season, the white ibis is nomadic and highly opportunistic in its use of unpredictable food resources (Frederick et al. 1996; Bildstein 1993, White ibis: wetland wanderer. Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.). There is one previous record of a white ibis in North Dakota on 4 August 1954 (Gammell and Huenecke 1955, Audubon Field Notes 9:34-36; Lokemoen 1979, …

A Binding Tie: Supportive Communication Of Family Kinkeepers, Margaret S. Leach, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Families are an important source of social support, and little scholarship exists regarding how family members stay in touch and provide support for one another. Kinkeepers are said to provide support and keep family members informed about one another, yet there has been little research on who family kinkeepers are and how they communicate and enact this role. Two studies were undertaken. The first study used surveys to provide demographic data on kinkeepers and to ascertain information on their activities. The second study used diaries and interviews to document the activities of a set of kinkeepers and to describe outcomes …

Quality Of Life Of Rural Nebraskans: How Are They Doing And What Is In The Future?, John C. Allen, Sam Cordes, Amy M. Smith, Matt Spilker, Amber Hamilton

Rural Futures Institute: Publications

Includes

Executive Summary

Introduction

Methodology and Respondent Profile

Findings

Global Well-Being

Change in the Modern World

Personal Well-Being

Availability of Services and Amenities

Dissatisfaction with Services and Amenities

Dissatisfaction with Services/Amenities by Region

Dissatisfaction with Services/Amenities by Community Size

Dissatisfaction with Services/Amenities by Income Level

Conclusions

Environmental Issues And Perceptions Of Rural Nebraskans, John C. Allen, Sam Cordes, Amy M. Smith, Mike Spilker, Amber Hamilton

Rural Futures Institute: Publications

Includes

Executive summary

Introduction

Methodology

Respondent profile

Findings

The State's Role in Groundwater Protection

Regulation and Compliance Costs

Agriculture and the Environment

Conjunctive Use

Conclusions