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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

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

Volume 12, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Phoebe Gets a Phone, Normal Police Plan to Attend Parties, Landlord No Friend of Mine, More Poop on Employment Tests, Getting Fired for Peanuts, ISU Students Confront Racism in South Carolina, AIDS and the CIA Connection?, Learn to Hate Commies in Florida, St. Joseph's Dumps Nurses Aides, ISU Nearly Loses Student Legal Services, NBC 1 Female Athletes 0, The Undermining of Robin Plan

Volume 12, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Blacks Outraged Over Liquor License Denial, AIDS Hysteria--The Second Epidemic, Shady Character Works at Tarvin's Mobile Homes, More Razzle-Dazzle About Unemployment, The Death of Religious Freedom, Small Changes Closes--But the Spirit Lingers On, Praise the Lord and Shoot the Blacks, Suits Charge Racism in Bloomington Police Department, Coming Out Strong Coming Out Proud in 'Frisco, The Only Good Injun Is a Dead Injun, Myths About Welfare Exploded, Natural Healing Worked for Endometriosis, The Sad Demise of Fink's, City State Help ISSCS Developer Get Rich

Volume 12, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

On the Local Music Scene, Detective Gets Wrists Slapped, Openness Best Defense Against Sexual Abuse, Vacuuming Vietnam, Lincoln Oil 'Flunks' Applicant, Praise the Lord and Pass the Nukes, Real Profs Don't Love Students, AIDS: What It Is and What to Do, Glad to Have the Right to Choose

Volume 12, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Whose Irresponsible Journalism?, Why Waste Your Time on Ag Census '82?, Local Banks Sting Senior Citizens, Wonder of Wonders, R.I.P. 4th Amendment, Just Another Commie Plot, Prof Fakes Credentials, Chicago Election Shatters Ideals, Lems' New Album Will Stir Your Spirit

Volume 12, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Farce Is with Us, City Liquor Commission Hassles Bar Owners, Jeff Sanders Threatened Man at Gunpoint, Big Brother U.S. Pretends Isn't There, Miscellaneous Outrages, Amerikan Almanak, Proposed Rape Legislation Has Problems, Measles on the Rise in Ill., Don't Fall Under the Spell of Medical Voodoo, U.S. Troops in Africa, 'Stop Shock' Demonstrators Arrested, Nuke Freeze Won't Go Away, Defense Cuts Urged, Evacuation Plans for Zion Won't Work, When the Phone Rings Hang Up--Or Buy It, New Right News Griefs, Anne Frank Banned, The Way Has 'Queer' Hysteria, Athletic Support, Levi's--It's in the Jeans, Cable Comix, Art and Music for …

Volume 11, Number 10, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Animal Experimentation, Sanders' Victim Seeks Compensation, Charges Thrown Out, Letters from Your Draft Board, Immune Deficiency Hits New Groups, $11.3 Million for AIDS, Rightwing Renews Attacks on Gays, Community News, Nuke Freeze, Fall of Mere Humanity (Book review), Toilet Paper in Bondage, Know Your Fascists, Alternative Law School Has Conscience, No More Pain Relievers for Public Aid, Scott Commission Ignores Need, 1984 Budget, Infant Mortality Increase, "Tootsie"--What's the Big Deal?, Support Grows for Gay Film, "Lianna"--Sensitive Film about Lesbians, Chemical Additives in Books, Amerikan Almanak, Premenstrual Syndrome: Why a Woman Can't Be More Like a Man, My Sister the Punk …

Volume 11, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

One-WAY Ticket to Hell, What Reagan Has Done to Amerika, Reagan Hoods Rob Poor, America the Poisoned, Letters, Community News, Outrages Revisited, Amerikan Almanak, Not Sorry to See LaGrow Go, Pictorial History of Lost Houses, Sanders Roughs Up Suspect, No Progress in Sanders Investigation, Miscellaneous Outrages, Live Music in B-N, My Sister the Punk Rocker, Vaginal Self Help, Fasting--What to Expect, Top Gay Stories of '82, The Scandals That Weren't, The New Populism, Nuke Freeze Actions, No Gay in This Play

Psi: An Attractive Alternative For The Basic Speech Communication Course, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), often referred to as the Keller Plan after its founder Fred Keller, was developed to teach introductory psychology courses. Since it was first used, however, PSI has seen widespread use in many disciplines. Sherman estimates that six thousand PSI courses have been taught at all levels of education by virtually all disciplines. Boylan reports that more than thirteen hundred individuals presently use the PSI method on the university and college level; that 80.5% of the individuals surveyed represent four-year institutions, with the remainder representing two-year institutions; that 66% of the colleges and universities are …

Variables That Affect Success In Debate, Karen S. Shelton

Masters Theses

This study examines the effect of the six traditional categories of debate evaluation on the A.F.A. Form C and Form W ballots upon win/loss and gender. It also examines the effect of nonperformance variables, such as proximity, gender of the debaters, and gender of the judge, upon the outcome of intercollegiate debates. The data were gathered from the Owen L. Coon Memorial Debate Tournament hosted by Northwestern University in February, 1983. In all, the data pool consisted of 42 debates. The data were submitted to analysis to the SAS computer program at Eastern Illinois University.

The results of the discriminant …

Volume 11, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Local Ob/Gyn Likes 'Em Scared, Reality Check at Unemployment Office, Fortification Award, Plastification, Keeping Warm, Godfrey Plays Politics with Freeze, MEG Agent Confesses, More Snitches, NARCS Turn New Trick, Letters, Community News, Officer Sanders ... etc, My Sister the Punk Rocker, Voices of the Steam Era, Pigeon Trappers Cruel, Hospital Birth, Brokaw Mangles Employee, Hets to Be Polled, Fasting, Your Urine or Your Life, NAACP Demo, God Moves in Mysterious Ways, Power Politics and Religious Tyranny, Falwell Flipflops, Gay v. Gay, Socialized Football Threatens

An Investigation Of The Instructional Communicator Style Expectations Of Nontraditional And Traditional Male And Female Undergraduate Students, Chryl Irvine Snyder

Masters Theses

Increasing numbers of nontraditional students, many of them women, are enrolling in college and university classes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the instructional communicator style expectations of nontraditional and traditional male and female undergraduate students. Students were asked to rate their own preferences on a variety of items designed to reflect instructional communicator styles. The researcher looked for differences in student expectations of their "ideal teachers" based on age and sex.

Nontraditional students rated the precise style of instructional communication higher than the traditional students who gave higher ratings to the friendly, open, dominant, and contentious styles. …

Volume 11, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

My Sister the Punk Rocker, Reagan Hides from Protest, Don't Burn Those Leaves, Unemployment Rises, Did Vidette Kowtow to Pressure?, Non-Driver Resents ID Hassles, City Man Confronted by MEG, White Rich Kids Score High on SATs, Council Tables Freeze Resolution, Reviews: One in Seven, Escape from the 80s, Straight Press Discovers Gays, Chicago Women Picket Bulls, Upstaging the New Right, Addictions and Health, Prisoners Sue System Officials, Cutting Down the Bible

Volume 11, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Movie Trivia Quiz, Cops Quack Down, Our Millionth Subscriber, Plastification Award, Book Review, Ronnie the Rat, GI Joe, Gay Diseases, Briggs Lawsuit, Texas & Philly Gay Laws, Falwell, South Africa, Revolution in the Streets, Phony Heroin, Draft, Naturopathy, Birth, My Sister the Punk Rocker, Drastic Plastic, Robin Plan, Miscellaneous Outrages, Culture Fest

Volume 11, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Bomb Follies, Brokaw Boycott, Endometriosis, S. Africa, TV

Volume 11, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Lawyers Eat Legion's Lunch

Volume 11, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Narc Fashion, MEG Money, Nukes, Garden Pests, ERA, Rush