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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Wilberding, Beth. Report Recommends Reimbursement of Funds – Student Government Association
• Buckman, Josh. Downing University Center Adds a Red Zone
• Reed, Lindsey. Record-breaking Fund-raising Year Eases Budget Stress
• Maines, Ashley. Murray’s Restaurant Is Closed But Not for Good
• Wilberding, Beth. Election Generates Uncertainty – Student Government Association
• Henze, Adam. Editorial Cartoon re: Residence Halls
• Higher Education for a Higher Cost & All at Once?
• Watt, Wes. Return to School Reveals Annoying Fads
• Yenowine, Jackie. A Dorm by Any Other Name
• Padgett, Miki. Marine Bothered by …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 03, August 26, 2004

Central Florida Future

Raw fish added to campus food choices: Two new venues in Student Union give lunchtime rush more variety; Frat punishments lifted; SAE and Phi Delt are now free to recruit this fall; More passes more cars same spaces: Heavy traffic makes parking hard to come by on campus; Power use called 'wasteful' while lights are left on.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, August 25, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 1

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Wilberding, Beth. Nick Todd Cites Personal Conflicts in Resignation
• Wilberding, Beth. Student Government Association to Hold Online Election
• Reed, Lindsey. Gary Ransdell Optimistic About Budget
• Clark, Ashlee. Western to Add January Term
• Buckman, Josh. Van Meter Overlook Getting a Facelift
• Clark, Ashlee. Freshman Enrollment Down This Year
• Henze, Adam. Editorial Cartoon re: Construction
• Yee-Haw! All the Dorms Are Finally Open
• North, Amber. The Woes of Only Being 20 Years Old
• Sainlar, Lindsay. The New Opinion Editor Needs Help; Please Don’t Be Shy
• Clark, Ashlee. New …

Paul Hamm, Trevor Graham, And Others, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It seems as if at every Olympic games there comes a point when there is a meltdown of one sort or another. In these games which are designed to produce international cooperation and understanding, nationalism more often than not raises its head in anger. Designed to promote friendship and good sportsmanship there is often a moment, or several moments, in which sportsmanship seems to leave the venue entirely.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 02, August 23, 2004

Central Florida Future

Charley 'wrecks' center: Hurricane shuts down gym for fall; Money for new school: Gifts of $24 million $10 million continue to transform campus; Late fees for absent students; Undecideds gain clout: What matters more to swing voters: domestic or foreign?

The Athens Olympics Open, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

There is no doubt what I will remember most about the 2004 Olympic Games. It will not be the opening ceremonies, nor the historic setting of Athens, nor the amazing performance by Paul Hamm in the Men's Gymnastics all-around when he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and left the arena with a gold medal. Unfortunately, it will be Hurricane Charley that left myself and many of my fellow Orlandoans without power and therefore unable to see the opening ceremonies. For some it is still not possible to see the games, as they remain without power in the sweltering …

Communication Cues To Action Prompting Central Appalachian Women To Have A Mammogram., Kathryn Bond Mcneill

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Today, mammography screening is the best method of detection for breast cancer, yet many women have never been screened and underprivileged, minority and rural women have lower screening rates then other populations. The purpose of this study, through individual interviews(N=88), was to understand the cues that women perceive to have received spurring them to participate in mammogram screening. The Health Belief Model guided this research. Media influence, Health Care Practitioner recommendation, social networks, and symptoms were the cues to action explored in this research prompting compliance to mammography screening. All four of these cues were found to influence women in …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 01, August 16, 2004

Central Florida Future

Friday the 13th blows; UCF avoids serious storm damage; E-Passing you by on highways; As the athletes arrive food goes on the table.

Nursing News: August 2004, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Monitoring Strip Placement in Charts

Discharge Prescriptions

Medication Administration Records

Addressing Immediate Safety Needs for Victims of Domestic Violence

Educational and Professional Development Programs

Wsu Research News, Fall 2004, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A twelve page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

'Neither Cold Nor Hot': An Analysis Of Christian World Wide Web Sites That Address Glbt Publics, Douglas J. Swanson

Journalism

This research analyzes Christian Web sites addressing gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered public. The study involved content analysis of visual, operational, and informational enhancements and a frame analysis to assess issues of intent, consistency, accuracy, and validity. Web sites emphasized information dissemination rather than evangelization or proselytization; were overwhelmingly framed as collections of linked resources, rather than as online destinations for users seeking spiritual comfort; were almost completely devoid of traditional Christian symbols, scripture, and testimony; and failed to acknowledge in depth the complex debate over same-sex relationships.

A Comparison Of Western And Chinese Propaganda Tactics As Revealed In Pre-War Rhetoric Of Bushs' Presidencies, Pei-Ling Lee

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the differences in the propaganda tactics employed by Western and Chinese cultures, as informed by ancient Chinese philosophies and Western propaganda research. Specifically, this thesis focuses on developing 14 Chinese strategic propaganda tactics by using creative transformation approach. Thereafter, using textual criticism, these tactics are applied to the pre-war rhetoric of the immediate former President of the U.S., George H. W. Bush and the current President of the U.S., George W. Bush in order to test the validity of the rhetorical taxonomy. The results of this thesis demonstrate that George H. W. Bush preferred positive rather than …

An African American Cultural Critique Of Weight, Race, Gender And Class Using A Semiotic Analysis Of Queen Latifah’ S Film Roles, Angela Denise Prater

Masters Theses

This project examined the interconnectedness of race, gender, class and the physical body as interrelated marginalization factors in media representations. Using the feminist body image literature, critical/cultural theory and Black feminist thought this study examined the significance of weight as a marginalization variable interdependent with race, gender and class. The motion picture character portrayals of the iconic figure Queen Latifah are subjected to a semiotics analysis, a traditional method in critical cultural studies to examine media representations. This analysis is informed by the cultural standpoint of the author as an overweight African American female. This study revealed that Queen Latifah's …

Mexico As Seen Through American Eyes: The Evolution Of U.S. News Media Coverage, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Sociology Faculty Publication Series

The traditional Mexican view of the U.S. news media's treatment of Mexico and Mexicans is that those media have been mired in prejudice, owing to what Octavia Paz has called "the twin sisters ignorance and arrogance." Mexicans of all social levels have held to this view for many decades, denouncing the obsession of American journalists with drug trafficking, illegal migration, and governmental corruption, and for forming or reinforcing in generations of Americans a vague, exotic, touristy, sometimes downright surreal vision of Mexico.

This view, however, began to shift very markedly during the administration of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994). Especially …

Political Contributions By Asian Americans: An Analysis Of The 2002 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Campaign, Paul Watanabe, Gregory Kim-Ju

Institute for Asian American Studies Publications

The Institute for Asian American Studies has analyzed and chronicled, often for the first time, the involvement of Asian Americans in the daily life of the Commonwealth. Over the last few decades Massachusetts has experienced a remarkably rapid growth in its Asian American population. Between 1990 and 2000, for example, this population grew by 67.5% to 238,124. Asian Americans now constitute just under 4% of the state’s population

Scapegoating As An Organizational Escape From Crisis: A Case Study Of Merrill Lynch, Jennifer D. Brown

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the use of scapegoating as a communication strategy by Merrill Lynch during the 2000's. Using a rhetorical method, it explores the nature of crises and the image restoration attempt by corporations. Finally, it draws a number of conclusions about how organizations should respond to crises communicatively and ethically.

Dialectics In Mother-Child Relationships Among First-Generation Asian Indian Women In The United States, Chitra Akkoor

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of Asian Indian immigrant women raising children in the U.S. as value contradictions between Asian Indian culture and U.S. culture. Relational dialectics in parent-child relationships among Asian Indian immigrant women and their children was also explored using the dialectcial perspective. Participants for the study were 20 Asian Indian women chosen randomly from the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek (MI) AI community who participated in one-one-interviews. Results of the study showed that participants experienced value contradictions in child-rearing. All four contradictions addressed in research on relational dialectics were also discovered in the context of …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 Orientation 2004

Central Florida Future

Welcome home! What's inside: Find out who you need to know. where to go and how to have fun in Orlando; From flags to 'fros: Last year's top stories; A whole different ballgame: Football team headlines conference farewell tour.

Testing The Robustness Of A Risk Information Processing Model, Robert J. Griffin, Maria Powell, Sharon Dunwoody, Kurt Neuwirth, Vladimir Novotny

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Two survey data sets test a model of Risk Information Seeking and Processing, informed by Eagly and Chaiken’s (1993) Heuristic-Systematic model, that describes characteristics of individuals that predispose them to seek and process information about health and environmental risks in different ways. Results indicate that information insufficiency relates positively with active seeking and systematic processing of risk information and negatively with avoidance and heuristic processing of it. Individuals are more likely to process systematically if they believe that media channels contain essential validity cues.

Conflicted Interests, Contested Terrain: Journalism Ethics Codes Then And Now, Lee Wilkins, Bonnie Brennen

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this struggle over values than the insights of psychology might suggest.

Stepchildren’S Perceptions Of The Contradictions In Communication With Stepparents, Leslie A. Baxter, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Leah E. Bryant, Amy Wagner

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This interpretive study, framed in relational dialectics theory, sought to identify stepchildren’s perceptions of the contradictions that animate communication with the stepparent in their household of primary residence. In-depth interviews were conducted, producing 802 pages of double-spaced interview transcripts, which were analyzed inductively for commonly experienced contradictions of stepchild-stepparent communication. Three underlying contradictions were identified. First, stepchild-stepparent communication was perceived to be characterized by a dialectic of integration, characterized by both closeness and distance. Second, stepchild-stepparent communication was perceived to be characterized by a dialectic of parental status, in which the stepparent was, and was not, granted legitimacy in a …

Testing The Robustness Of A Risk Information Processing Model, Robert J. Griffin, Maria Powell, Sharon Dunwoody, Kurt Neuwirth, David E. Clark, Vladimir Novotny

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Two survey data sets test a model of Risk Information Seeking and Processing, informed by Eagly and Chaiken’s (1993) Heuristic-Systematic model, that describes characteristics of individuals that predispose them to seek and process information about health and environmental risks in different ways. Results indicate that information insufficiency relates positively with active seeking and systematic processing of risk information and negatively with avoidance and heuristic processing of it. Individuals are more likely to process systematically if they believe that media channels contain essential validity cues.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 72, July 28, 2004

Central Florida Future

SmartCard now good for pizza so much more; Grads to hear Miss America; Marketplace jumps on diet trend; Plan for new visual and performing arts school sketchy at best.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 71, July 21, 2004

Central Florida Future

Not a SunTrust customer? Think again; Cartoons aren't just for kids. Witness students with an affinity for talking sponges shakes and yellow men; Protection for gays still stalled; Software upgrade to cause online shutdown.

Prospectus, July 22, 2004, Jon Volkman, Chris Cunningham, Larry V. Gilbert

Prospectus 2004

No abstract provided.

The Million-Dollar Question: Why Pre-Adolescents Watch Television, Emily A. Smurthwaite

Theses and Dissertations

This study presents qualitative research examining the relationship youth have with television. Information for this study was collected through media journals, personal essays, in-depth interviews, and focus groups held with eighteen sixth-graders who attended a charter elementary school in Lindon, Utah.

The question posed to the students multiple times during the data collection was: “Would you give up television for $1 million?” Through the students’ answers and ensuing dialogue, the researcher examined the social value the pre-adolescents attributed to watching television. The findings identify three main categories the students said were reasons they were attached to television, which also corresponded …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 70, July 14, 2004

Central Florida Future

Orientations all summer long; Signing a deal with the devil: Inking an agreement may be scary if the right plan isn't found; Athens or bust for UCF graduates; EU's largest addition struggles to forget horrific past.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 69, July 7, 2004

Central Florida Future

From dictator to democracy: Professors ponder whether Iraq can make the transition from terror; Loggerhead turtles give global warning; Laser-blocking material could help military troops protect their eyes.