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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

Trying To Publish An Article On American Painter Thomas Eakins, Elise Hempel

Masters Theses

Freelance writing for magazines is an uncertain business; that is, one cannot specifically school oneself to guarantee even a modicum of success in this career. A writer may, of course, learn the "proper" procedures for preparing and submitting an article by reading any of several reference books written by those who have "made it" in the business. These procedures vary, however, with each author; also, they say little or nothing about the actual business of writing well. Ultimately, then, a writer must test the waters of freelance magazine writing by trying and failing and trying again.

This paper details the …

What's On Tv? A Demonstration Of The Utility Of Contextualism And Content Analysis In Mass Media Research, Craig P. Gaumer

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis has been to develop, test and utilize a reliable method to quantify the prevalence of pro- and anti-social behavior on children's television as assessed from a contextualist perspective. Many previous studies in the area of television have arbitrarily assigned either pro- or anti-social labels to television programs without the benefit of analyzing the content of these programs

The few studies that have attempted to analyze the pro- and anti-social content of children's television have used only physical parameters to define pro- or anti-social behavior. Through the development of a reliable method of analyzing the contextually …

Facial Nonverbal Communication And Deception Detection, Teresa Y. Collard

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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

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

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

Similarity/Dissimilarity Of Couples Communication Competence In Relationship To Their Marital Satisfaction, Thomas Kenne Worthen

Masters Theses

Research has shown that similar communicator styles leads to effective communication, and effective communication leads to relationship satisfaction. Using an extension of balance theory, this study analyzed the relationship between spouses similar/dissimilar communication competence ratings and their marital satisfaction.

Subjects consisted of 44 married couples from a midwestern university and the surrounding area. The Communication Adaptability Scale was used to measure communication competence. The Marital Adjustment Test was used to measure marital satisfaction. Using a t-test no significance was found.

The overall competence score of each spouse was broken down into six separate factors (appropriate disclosure, articulation, social experience, social …

The Effects Of Dogmatism, Rhetorical Sensitivity, And Attitude Valence On Selected Speech Ratings, Chris B. Geyerman

Masters Theses

This study empirically examined the demand characteristic construct and the information processing construct of the rating error paradigm. The findings of this study indicated that the position advocated by the speaker with respect to the attitude valence of the raters significantly influenced the speech evaluation process. This study provides support for the demand characteristic construct and the information processing construct of rating error theory. Implications in terms of pedagogy, theory, and future research are discussed.

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

Volume 12, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Crab Alert, Sugar Creek Packing Locks Out Employees, Workfare--An Alternative to Starvation, 'Big Chill': Big Thrill or Big Nil?, Public TV Presents Vietnam War History, Ronnie's Cavalry Invades Grenada, Sandinistas of the Poor, for the Poor, Requiem for a 20-Watt Bulb, What's a Legal Search?, Whistle a Happy Tune, Boy Scouts Have to, Catholics Don't, Who's Killing Religion?, Undecipherable Signs

Volume 12, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

'Give Peace a Chance' Exhibit Opens in Chicago; Sandinistas Defended at ISU; Lynn Webster Show Stuns IWU; The Rich Get Richer; Vet Fleeces Animals, People; Gay Fathers Shatter Stereotypes in Bloomington; Storm Troopers on Highway 51; AIDS, God and the Fear of Death; Making the Most of Leper-hood; McApartheid: Activists Score Victory; Japan: Industrial Utopia or Sweatshop?; When the Right Calls, Answer