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Volume 15, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Underground Barrister (DUI Advice), Get Your Asphalt off My West Side, Beer Barons Dump Workers, Police Wage War on Peace Day, Nuclear Weapon Free Chicago, The Militarization of Honduras, Counter-Intelligence Cabaret, Miscellaneous Animal Outrages

Volume 15, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Urine Trouble on the Job, Are Dictators Solely Responsible?, Greenpeace: Just Folks Protecting the Earth, New Labels Drive Women Crazy, Reaganland Off Balance, They Did the Mantra Mash

Developing The Personalized System Of Instruction For The Basic Speech Communication Course, William J. Seiler, Marilyn Fuss-Reineck

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to discuss major planning and development decisions required in order to use the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) method in the basic speech communication course. In this article we examine: (1) how major PSI components are implemented and (2) how the PSI course is managed. By documenting the decisions required to use PSI in speech communication courses which include performances, we hope to provide helpful guidelines for those interested in applying the PSI method to their basic speech communication courses.

Volume 15, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Shuttle Safety vs. P.R.: P.R. Won, Voters Say 'No' to Middle School, Parenting Prejudices Prosecute, Central America Week Activities, Lawyer Explains U.S. Violations of International Law, What's the Meaning of Jeans?, Remembering Haymarket

Two Cheers For Pornography, Steven Sanders

Bridgewater Review

The existence of pornography from the earliest times and in virtually every culture attests to a remarkable universality and persistence. Of course, popularity is no proof of legitimacy. How, if at all, can pornography be justified? This question has no easy answer. Indeed, if one may judge from the controversy, consensus is far from being reached on the question of pornography. I shall suggest some things that can be said in favor of pornography, though I am by no means giving my unqualified endorsement - hence, only two cheers for pornography. Naturally, I expect some readers to disagree with me, …

Volume 14, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Inside the PA: True Confessions, Goodbye to the Hissing of Summer Lawns, Return of Cointelpro?, Abuse Mishandled in Circus, Coroner's Juries Say Shrinks' Scripts Help Kill 2 People, A Diary of Psychiatric Drug Use, Book Review: Dr. Caligari's Psychiatric Drugs, Break Down Language Barriers, No Help from Zone, Challenger Tragedy, Rock Out for Rebels, Book Review: Keeping Up with the Joneses

Volume 14, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Normal Backs Down: Anti-Militarism Sign Can Stay, The Dream Lives On, Post Amerikan Benefit and Auction Slated, Abortion: The Right to Choose, McHeartattacks: Fast Food Fryout, Action Potential: A Stimulus for Change, Not Tit for Tat, That Hope's "Eight Dollar Hat" Sneaks Up on Listeners, Benefit Poster

Volume 14, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

WESN: The Empty Spot on Your FM Dial; Thieves Explain Crimes; Home Birth Directory Available; Swastika Decorates Republican Entryway; Normal Officials Defy Court Order; Rock Island Arsenal Besieged; Deputies Start Fight: Local Woman Gets Broken Neck, Six Months; The Post Amerikan's Recommended Chr*stm*s List; Marcos Jails Philippine Writers; NEA Under Fire for "Pornographic" Poets; "Kiss of the Spider Woman"--Biting Realism; Do What to Your Neighbor?; Poster

Volume 14, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Underground Barfly; Lehr Bites the Dust; GTE Threatens Physical, Mental Health; State Says Nix on Frisky Dicks; AIDS Is Caused by a Virus; Moss Grows on the Rolling Stone; Farm Aid--All Wet?; Rock 'n' Roll Dreams Can Come True; Embroidering Our History: Judy Chicago's Birth Project

Volume 14, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Underground Barfly, AIDS in B-N: The Stigma as Bad as the Disease, Take a Bite of the Apples, Racism Hits Local Bar, Phoebe Finds a Hero, God's Plan for Humanity--Heterosexuality, WESN Back in Business, Parents Answer for Kids' Crimes

Volume 14, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Landlord's Promises as Leaky as His Roof; State's Panty Raid Is a Bloomer; Hope, Bones, Breeders, Bits; What's New in Fast Foods?; Shut Down the Arsenal; Civil Disobedience: Protesting Contra Aid; Witness for Peace Documents Contra Tactics; U.S. Press Ignores El Salvador Air War; Vasectomy Pays Off; Abortion: A Woman's Point of View; ACLU Joins Gays in Struggle for Equality; Pantagraph "Misses" the Mark; The Underground Barfly

Volume 14, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Reagan Returns in Teen Horror Classic, The FBI Spies Again...and Again, Your Friend the Phone Company, The Rape of Richard Beck, We Scream at "Silent Scream", ISU Student Acquitted in First Beer Riot Trial, Bloomington Pays $4500 for Police Brutality, YWCA Slides by Township Board, Another Superb Gay Documentary, Onward Christian Soldiers

Volume 14, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

USS: A Fishy Answer, Moving Parts Moves Into B-N Music Scene, New Right Groups Infest U.S. Politics, Remember When Dotson Was Just a Car, Why Should I See a Foreign Film?, Nicaragua Under Siege, Whoops! Did We Really Say That?, Cardinal Toes the Gay Rights Line, Phone Sex Under Attack

Volume 14, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Reading Skills Disconnected at Gen Tel, Court's Ruling Means Big Changes for Bloomington Police, Gays Convene in Madison, Music Reviews, To Be or Not to Be: Don't Lose the Right to Choose, Abortion Terrorism, Art and Music for the Rape Crisis Center, Life in the Electronic Factory, Miscellaneous Outrages, When the Falcon Flew the Fuzz Floundered, My Sister the Punk Rocker

Volume 13, Number 10, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Spies Who Lived Next Door; City Housing Inspectors Target Low-Income West-Side Neighborhoods; Another Look at Wildwood Industries; Osteoporosis: 'The Time Is Yesterday'; Patients Won in Staff-Administration Battle; Fantasy Fan Lured by Feminist Feelings; YWCA Investigated for Misappropriation of Funds; We've Come a Short Way, Baby; "Consenting Adult" Showed Gays in a New Way; Toeing the Landlord/Tenant Line

Volume 13, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

B-N Tenant Blacklist Takes Nosedive; Office Wroan Sues Waitress for "Defamation"; Police Crackdown on "Known Derelicts"; School Officials, Pantagraph Have Short Memory; GTE Insensitive to Symbolism; Hostility to Dissent Pervades Reagan's First Term; Will Mitsubishi Be Good for You?; Vasectomy: His & Hers; Patch, Don't Replace Those Mufflers; DDT Alive and Well in Your Backyard; Clean Chimneys Are Safe Chimneys; New Technology/Same Old Greed; Urinary Tract Infections: No Honeymoon

Extending Orientation: Telephone Contacts By Peer Advisers, John Ragle, Kathleen Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The telephone has been used for delivering a variety of services to college students. Because consumers typically initiate the telephone contact themselves, the effectiveness of these programs depends on the extent to which students are aware of the availability of services and of their own needs for assistance. First-semester freshmen may have the least adequate information about what constitutes a problem and where to go for help on campus. In 1982 the Dean of Students Office at the University of Texas at Austin conducted a pilot study of a telephone contact program in which peer advisers placed telephone calls to …

Volume 13, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

There's Always ... That Hope, Part Two; Equal Time May Bite the Dust; Big Mama Manpower; Yes, Virginia, This Is Another Chr*stm*s Diatribe; Babes in Consumerland; Mauled for the Holidays; Post Benefit Cancelled; Dan White: An All-Amerikan Success Story; Too Hot to Handle; Rev. Bakker and Wife Deny Financial Hijinks; Test Services Forced to Look for Bias; Boycott Coors Beer; Myth California Exposed; Pantagraph Prints Lurid Drug Lies; Unfettered Music for Farsighted Fans

Volume 13, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Christian Landlord Awaits Judgment, There's Always ... That Hope, The Dits: Air Supply They're Not (local music scene), News from El Salvador, Enjoy Your Thanksgiving Bird, Army Spends Billions on Turkey, ISU White Students Storm City Hall Over Party Issue (beer riots), The Condition That Prevails, E.T. Comes to Harlem, Falwell's 'Dirty Pictures' Seek Contributions

Volume 13, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Fear in Somotillo, The New Nicaragua, Midwifery Still at Issue, Funbusters Not That Funny, Cub Fans Run Amuck, Reagan Court Assaults Privacy, Why We Need Gay Rights, When Your Rapist Is Your Husband, Marital Rape: Foundations for Legality, Detassling New York Style, Touchy About Tones, Pornography Is a Social Disease, Innocents in Paradise II, Weird Music for Weird People

Characteristics Of Rejection Letters And Their Effects On Job Applicants, Fredric M. Jablin, Kathleen J. Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This study attempted to describe the structural and content characteristics of actual employment rejection letters (following job screening interviews). Their impact on applicants’ feelings about themselves (self-concept and self-satisfaction) and about letters (perceptions of letter clarity, “personalness” and appreciative tone) are assessed. Results provide a profile of the “typical” rejection letter and indicate that while few of the letter characteristics affected applicants’ feelings about themselves, a number of these attributes were related to applicants’ perceptions of the letters.

Volume 13, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Nameless Dread Faces the Police; Witness for Peace Returns from Nicaragua; Caravan Brings El Salvador to U.S.; Pollution Roundup; Tom Sanders Bashes Handcuffed Man with Flashlight; Student Ghetto Survivor Tells All; DCI Task Force: The Undercover Sex Police; The Sex Ring That Wasn't; DCI's Own Informer Brought Teens to Cooke's; Ates, Pentecosts Split Hairs Over Doctrine; New Balance or Old Blather?; Protest Rock S.F. Demo National Convention

Volume 13, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Progress (1984 Style) Comes to the Pits; The Real Sexual Abuse Problem; New Sexual Assault Law in Review; Witness for Peace--A Visit to Nicaragua; Pantagraph Blows Big Bucks on Bash; Innocents in Paradise; Man-Boy Love Not the Evil It's Made Out to Be; Methodists Snub Gays, Follow Looney and Cocke; FBI Investigating Patrolman Tom Sanders; Three Little, Two Little ... No Little Imbeciles; Fairbury Nurses Fight for Respect and Power; American State Bank Loses Interest in Small Accounts; Gen-Tel Wants Lifestyle Changes

Volume 13, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Whittling Away at The Dollmaker; Hysteria, Myths Won't Stop Sexual Abuse; The Forgotten Victims; So You Think You Obey the Law?; What Goes Up Comes Down; Uptown Rulers Release New Record; Covert U.S. Aid Behind El Salvador Death Squads; Call 1-800-BAD STUF: Report Anything; Normal Officials' Cronyism Costs Taxpayers; Sanders Shatters Woman's Windshield with Nightstick; HBO Looks at Gay America; Trapped in the Social Dis-service System

Volume 13, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Pick-Me-Ups That Calm Us Down and Keep Us Down, Pantagraph Exploits Gay-Related Story, Inside the Kremlin: The One Who Quit State Farm, You Said You Wanted Revolution, 'Reasons' for Death Penalty Are Inaccurate, Radio Station [WRBA] Ramrods Robin Plan, Bloomington Water Polluted Again, City Council Nixes Human Rights Coverage, Ex-Israel Supporter Feels Betrayed, Shut Down the Arsenal!, Ah Spring

Volume 13, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Our Father Who Art in Classrooms, The New Slavery, Workers' Rights--Where Do You Turn?, A Joy to Rent From?, Bloomington City Council Shuns Rights Debate, Patrolman Tom Sanders Sued Third Time, Rights Violations Due to Police Dept. Policies, Citizen Informant Spies for Secret Police, Water Dept. Home Invasions Halted Then Resumed

Volume 12, Number 10, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Water Department Home Invasions to Be Stopped, Live and Let Die, New City Utility Tax Proposed, Rape Myths Revived, 9 to 5 at ISU, Normal Officials Trespass at Student Party, Bloomington Human Relations Ordinance Changes Proposed, Gay Rights on the Move Again, Take the Sting Out of Xmas, Multi-Media Extravaganza Slated, Movie Reviews and Comments, Contraceptive Sponges Available, Alternative Olympics Proposed, Cutting and Pasting for Purity

Volume 12, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Police Subpoena Library Records in Hendricks Case, Dan White Is Out and Not Sorry, Liquor Commission Show Their Class, Tougher Laws for Drunk Driving, Hendricks Case Revelations Upset Dozier, Computer Predicts Dangers in Nuke Launch Policy, New Covert Narc Force Begins Local Round Ups, 1984 Theme of IWU Art Show, Holy See-Saw, Hi-Tech Babies in Bloomington-Normal, 'Something About Amelia' Opens Discussion, Protect Neighborhood Stores--Boycott Cub Foods, Troops Invade Angel Island, Water Department Enters Bloomington Homes Unasked, Locked in the Electric Sweatshop

Sex Differences, Intimacy, And Attractiveness In Reported Self-Disclosure: Same-Sex Dyads Vs Opposite-Sex Dyads, Edmund Forst Jr.

Masters Theses

This study empirically examined the effects of sex (gender), intimacy, and attractiveness on reported self-disclosure. The results were supportive of the attractiveness, intimacy, and gender of the self-disclosee variables in their relationship to self-disclosure. Results failed to support hypotheses involving the gender of the self-discloser variable.

The independent variables used in the study were: (1) Gender¹ of the self-discloser (male-female), (2) Intimacy (intimate friend, acquaintance, and stranger), (3) Gender² of the self-disclosee (male-female), and physical attractiveness (Attractive or Unattractive). The dependent variable used was the amount of perceived self-disclosure. A 2x3x2x2 analysis of variance used to test each …

Volume 12, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Glenn to Gays: Drop Dead; Billboard Guerillas Liberate Ad Game; 'The Day After'; With Enough Shovels They'll Bury Us; Sorry Lady, You Need a Penis to Fix This Zenith; Reagan Lies About Reasons for Grenada Invasion; Grenada Documents Don't Show What Reagan Claims; Quality Care Cutbacks at Fairbury Hospital; Bendectin: The Drug That Deformed; Let's Stop Fighting About Gun Control; The Whole World Is Waiting; Mom, Apple Pie, and Book Burning; Year of the Bible; Apartheid Remains in Place