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Volume 18, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

X-mas Cheer, U.S. Drug Disinformation Frames Cuban Government, Community News, Gay and Lesbian News, Summing Up the 1988-89 Supreme Court Term--Bad News for Civil Liberties, Law and Justice in D.C., Fan Mail, U.S. Aid to Salvadoran Death Squad--NO!, Nestle Boycott Continues, Information and Contacts for Activists, New Reference Books, Fascism and the Arts, Helms and the NEA Gag Political Art, Dear Ms. Hippie

Volume 18, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Sterilize the Rich, Save the Planet; Reviews; Coming Out Day; Feminist Primer

Volume 18, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Dress You Can Never Part With: President Bush Sets a Pattern for the '90's, Gay Stuff, Summer Vacation, Theatre, Smoking

Volume 18, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Good Feminist Primer Lesson #2, RAF Rift: Relatively Speaking, The Results Are In: Post Amerikan Opinion Poll #2, Chapter 5 of "To Live and Die for Unicor", El Camino Cruel, Christian College Tries to Sabotage Black Voters in OKC, Central Park Rape: Moral Indignation Isn't Enough, Courthouse Under Siege by Rabid Feminists, Extradition Practices Abusive, Primary Intent: Reflections on the Chair, The Politics of Video Mania, Hope I Die Before I Get Old, Oh Abbie We Hardly Knew Ye, Roe vs. Wade, Uppers 'n' Downers, Gays of Our Lives, Lambda Hires New Staff Attorney, Guatemalan Guerrillas Punish Finca Owners …

Volume 17, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Dangerous Liaisons Review, Post Amerikan's Good Feminist Primer, Iowa Meat Packer Framed by Packing Plant, Shopping for a Better World, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Surrealism, More Revelations About Gannett News Chain, Bizzare [sic] Gyration, DXL Comic, Play the Post Amerikan Game, The Dread Scott Game and the Horrors of the VFW, Community News, Sex Respect, The High School Counselors' Project, IGLTF Applauds Dixon, Guatemalan Agricultural Works Strike, Uppers and Downers

Volume 17, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Animal Rights: How Far Do They Go?, Film Review: Mississippi Burned, Comic Book Album Documents CIA Thuggery, At Home in the Police State, Musical Reflections: Remembering the Tom Robinson Band, CD Review Readers Agree: Just Say No--to Homophobia, Bush-Whacking; Bloopers, Blunders, and Nancy, Too; In Search of the Mythical Sun, FDA Okays Mail Order Drugs, Normal Vegetarian Cuisine, 'Roseanne' Strikes a Blow for Fatness, Jim and Tammy Faye ... Come Clean, "And Now Presenting the B.(unch) O.(f) P.(ricks)!", Cool TV for Young People

Opening Lines In Classroom And Social Settings: A Study Of The Initiator's First Conversational Sequence, Julie E. Hutcheson

Masters Theses

This study examined various types of opening lines that college students use with strangers in classrooms and social settings. An opening line was defined as the initial turn of the conversational sequence. The responses received by the students, through an open-ended survey, were analyzed and categorized using content analysis. The results revealed many similarities among the two settings in eight pre-established categories and three new categories except for in one of the newest categories. The social setting in one of the newest categories received more sarcastic conversational sequences than the classroom. This study provides examples pertaining to many opening lines …

Communication And Aging: Perceptions Of Family And Friend Interaction On Self Reported Life Satisfaction Among Selected Residents Of Three Nursing Homes, Patricia J. Fetzner

Masters Theses

The study of communication and aging provides great potential for enriching the lives of the elderly. Of course this should be of great interest to each of us as we are all inevitably aging. One rapidly growing area in communication research deals with how communication affects the life satisfaction of the elderly. Of particular interest is the attitudinal effect of family and friend interaction.

Early research dealing with the elderly focused on two theories: 1. Activity theory, which is the idea that social activity is essential to an older person's sense of well being and; 2. Disengagement theory, which suggests …

Evolution/Creation Debate: A Rhetorical Analysis, James V. Miteff

Masters Theses

During the course of human history, many social issues have come and gone. One argument that caught the writer's eye is the argument about how man came to exist.

Purpose of Study

The purpose of this study is to analyze an evolution/creation debate that took place at Columbus College, Georgia, on May 6, 1981. Evolutionary theory was supported by Dr. Schwinner, a paleontologist from Columbus College. His partner was Dr. Frazier, a professor of geology at Columbus College. Creation theory was supported by Dr. Henry Morris, President of the Institute for Creation Research, San Diego, and Dr. Slusher, an astronomer …

Volume 17, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

One Day in the Lives of American Children, Reflections on National Coming Out Day, The New York City Gay Men's Chorus, The Straight Cruise, Hate Crimes Act Dies in Senate, Gannett Newspaper Chain and Honest Journalism Clash, Junk Food Junkies, Open Letter from Convicted Peace Activists, The Student Movement in Guatemala: Fighting for Its Life, Boycott Nestle, Post Predictions for 1989, Let's All Shop By Mail, Community News, Black Kiss Comics Reviewed, Dear Ms. Hippie, For the Love of Animals, The Myth of Equality, Musings of an Ex-Xian

Volume 17, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Post Writers Review 4 Quick Lunch Joints in Downtown Normal, Universities Host Blanditude and Disease, Ugly American Trappers Convene, Symbolic Actions at Missile Sites Net Busts, Flaming Atheist Explains Her Point of View, Gays Take Over...At Least on These Pages, Miscellany, Ms. Hippie Gives Invaluable Advice on Boys and Sex, Bad Kids vs. Redneck Pigs, AIDS Awareness Week

Volume 17, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Funny Novel, Serialized; Double Nickel Reviewed; Advertising Ridiculed; Local Digitized Temperatures Confused; Who Gets Hurt When Too Many Animals Co-Exist?; God's Existence Debated; Community News and Letters; Trial of Protesters Detailed; Lotsa Pictures!; Visitor to Nicaragua Gives Account; Ways to Save the Environment; Don't Poke at That Fetus; Ms. Hippie's Advice to Yuppies; Dissatisfactions with Our Culture: Skinny Chauvinism and Loose Usage; Jackson Victory Reviewed; Film Stuff Mourned; Journalism Review: What They Don't Say About a Strike; Gay Stuff: Record Review with Enticing Quotations; Men Turn Monsters at Whiff of Spring

Volume 17, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Look at the Ideal Future of Birthing, OSHA Works Against Safety and Health, Brutal and Dangerous Rabbit Factory Approved, Community News Breakthroughs, Underground Artist Remembered, Movie Review in Alternative Form, The Controversial Ask Ms. Hippie, Is God Dead? You Tell Us, Nancy Reagan Ridiculed and Berated, Praiseful and Vitriolic Letters, Presidential Candidates' Stands on Gay Rights, The Underground Barfly Hits Mugsy's and Pub II

Volume 16, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Vidette Story Exposed; Ask Ms. Hippie, Our New Advice Column; Will El Salvador Explode? Well, Probably; Ecuador Story Covered in Two Very Different Ways; Robertson Deep-Sixes Own Past; Near Side Cartoon; Post Mail; The Return of Our Animal Lovin' Correspondent; Community News; Pig Course Boondoggled Through ISU; District 87 Turns to Competency-Based Learning; Homebirth and Midwifery--A Hopeful New Alternative; Outrageous Opinions About Reproduction; Comix Galore; A Review of Lambda's Latest AIDS Publication; State AIDS Testing Ridiculed; Stupid Anti-Drug Ad Ridiculed; GPA Calendar; Gay Comic Reviewed; Campaign Posters Ridiculed; Tummy Tucks, No Thanks! and Gays Can Be Cannon Fodder Too; Sexism …

Volume 16, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Visit to Electric Coffee; Changing and Unchanged; The Watkins Resignation--A Personal View; Constitution Loses Ground; There's No Place Like Home and You Can't Go Back; Your HIV Status--Do You Want to Know?; Miscellaneous AIDS Outrages; Principal Victim of Police State Tactics; The Underground Panelologist; Balrog's Best; Captain America--In Step with the Times; North, Poindexter Win Double-Speak Awards; God Changes Mind, Backs Robertson; The Underground Barfly

Communication Through Athletic History At Eastern Illinois University: 1899-1988, Michael H. Chron

Masters Theses

This study is divided into 14 chapters, with an introduction, the 12 different sports categories and the year-by-year results, and a conclusion. The sports are arranged into chapters in accordance with the scheduling of the academic year.

The method of research involved collecting and classifying source materials, and interpreting and presenting these facts and findings. This method is critical in synthesizing the development and history of intercollegiate athletics at Eastern Illinois University.

This documented data will serve as a public relations project for the athletic department as a recruiting tool for prospective athletes and coaches who contemplate coming to Eastern …

Viewers' Reactions To Ordinary People In Television News Events, Janice R. Kidd

Masters Theses

Viewers' Reactions to Ordinary People in Television News Events examines two hypotheses relating to respondents' reactions to viewing violent events or the likelihood of violent death as portrayed on the major news networks. Research centers on reactions of viewers to ordinary people caught in extraordinary news events. Results of two free-flow written exercises are discussed.

Research excludes reactions to viewing those in the news, such as police personnel, soldiers etc., whose lives might be expected to be involved in violent or dangerous events.

Volume 16, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

Volume 16, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Domestic Violence Victims to Have a Place to Turn; Kaleidoscope Bashing in Bloomington-Normal; 67 Arrested in Suburban Protest Rally; Police Pester Posters; Draft Resister Imprisoned for Non-Registration, Activism; Everybody Needs Some Body, Sometime; Michigan Womyns Music Festival; Keep Your Hands to Yourself; Iran-Scam Explained; Pope Go Home; Reagan's AIDS Commission; AIDS Needs Aid; Community News, Classified Ads and Book Review, Sexual Diversity: A Better Answer, For the Love of Animals; The Underground Vegetarian

Volume 16, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Anti-Bashing Laws: Breeders Run Amuck, Talkin' Sandinistan Revolution Blues, Nerve Gas, For the Love of Animals, AIDS, Happy Birthday!, Settlement Lets Peace Groups in High Schools, Letters, Community News, Hanford Chemical Plant, Classy Fried Ads, Cable Comix, The New Sobriety, Perverse Ideas, Coors Banned in Boston, ERA, GM, Mantra Mash '87 Artluck, Passed Normal Review, Post-Amerikan: Solid Past, Shaky Punctuation

Volume 16, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Trash Moving In Next Door?, Nazis and Fallout Shelters, Human and Animal Rights, Yellow Alert, International Beat, Letters, Classy Fried Ads, Community News, Reach Out and Kill Someone, Hidden Homeless and Comics Shop Bust, Grim Nuclear History

Volume 15, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Mayor Sells West Side for $2.50, Panelogical Pinheads, Comic Book Heroine Saves Central America, Censorship More Dangerous Than Porn, Is That My Phone or Their Cash Register?, National Guard in Central America, Polite Dialog with Madigan Ends in Horror, Army Wants Peace Groups out of High Schools, Civil Rights March Invades All-White Town, Platoon: Insight Through Murder, Miscellaneous Animal Victories (for Once), Attitude Problems, California Dreamin' 'Bout Leavin', The Underground Glutton

Volume 15, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Dying for Dollars, Women's Music Musings, Welcome in 1987--50s Style, Special Comic Pull-out Section, Miscellaneous Animal Outrages, Scandal Scorecard, U.S. Student Delegation Visits El Salvador, Be All That You Can Be: Anywhere but the Military, What's in a Name?

Volume 15, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Vacuum Cleaner That Really Sucks, PVC Plastic Pollutes Environment, Animal Outrages, Stone Soup Really Cooks, Pope Declares Open Season on Gays, The Rebirth of Wonder Woman, AIDS Testing in the Military: A New Witchhunt?, Have a Roly-Poly-Holy X-mas, You'd Better Watch Out, 'Tis the Season, Enforcing Draft Registration, Public Access Comes to Bloomington-Normal, Ex-CIA Agent Confirms Our Deepest Fears

Volume 15, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Owen's Ex-Employee Tells All, Some Tips for Coping with Your Utility Companies This Winter, Letters and Community News, Ex-Cop Talks About Officer Sanders, Draft Prosecutions Taper Off, Drug Testing and So On, The Desert Heart Lacks Soul, Good News Is No News, Vets Fast for Life, Midwest Delegation of Witness for Peace and CIA Caught, Stop the Lies and "Peasant of El Salvador", Underground Vegetarian, Tom Hayden: Friend or Big Brother?, Underground Barfly

Volume 15, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

When the Long Arm of the Law...; Alexander Lumber; Kaleidocoverage: What Hath Scott Wrote?; Beauty School Can Be Ugly; Indian People of Big Mountain; How They Learned to Love the Bomb in Amarillo; Modern Music, Ancient Memories; Mural Tells of Workers' Struggles; My Sister the Iconoclast; Religious Oppression in Chicago; After-Dinner Chicken Musings; Take a Stand Against Trapping; Comedy of Errors at Capen; Here Comes the Clampdown; Wheat Crackers; Men's Magazines; How to Write a Post Amerikan Story

Volume 15, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Madigan Gets Casket After Contra Vote, Big Court Says: "Stick It in Your Ear", Bloomington Police Target Small Users, Women's Music: Ready for Change?, Born for Change, Officer Sanders Pulled Gun During '84 I.S.U. Beer Riot, They Killed My Sister, City Closes West Side Country Club, Mural Celebrates Local Labor History, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Skateboarding, How You Can Avoid Searches of Your Car, All Quiet on the Western Front

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

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