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Ua3/9/5 South Regional Postsecondary Education Center Dedication, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the WKU Glasgow dedication.

Ua3/9/2 1997-2002 The Beginning Of A Transformation, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

A review of the first five years of the Gary Ransdell administration of Western Kentucky University. The booklet contains information regarding academic reputation, enrollment, private support, Sponsored Programs, budget, physical infrastructure, extended campus, distance education, economic development, athletics and a strategic plan for 2002-2007.

Ua3/9/5 Partnerships For Progress: Linking Higher Education & Economic Development, Wku President's Office, Gary A. Ransdell

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the National Governor's Association Center for Best Practices. In response to Governor Patton's challenges to create Programs of Distinction and enhance the state's capacity for economic development, we, at Western, have created a series of applied science centers. These centers are directing faculty talent toward creating a relevant curriculum in the sciences, toward solving environmental and material problems which limit economic development, and toward creating practice-based experiences for students. A by-product of these centers is a strengthened core curriculum which brings the applied sciences into focus for all WKU students.

Ua3/9/5 Faculty Staff Convocation, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at fall convocation. He discusses enrollment, budget, tuition, salaries, insurance, administrative reorganization, legislative priorities, construction of Mass Media & Technology Hall and Guthrie Tower, engineering, economic development, information technology and capital campaign.

Ua3/9/5 Opening Faculty & Staff Convocation, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at fall convocation. He discusses strategic planning, honors and awards, tuition, recruitment, physical plant, Mass Media & Technology Building, new buildings, capital campaign, employee benefits, student health care and University Senate. Also included are remarks regarding Jody Richards and engineering programs.

Ua3/9/5 Opening Faculty & Staff Convocation, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the fall convocation. He discusses freshman orientation, change, Challenging the Spirit strategic plan, budget and funding model, tuition, new buildings, technology, parking, curriculum, dormitories, Diddle Arena renovations, University Senate and employee benefits.

Ua3/9/5 Commencement Speech - Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wku President's Office

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Commencement speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell to the Class of 1999.

Ua3/9/5 Bowling Green Noon Rotary Club Speech, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell to the Noon Rotary Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky regarding strategic planning and change at Western Kentucky University.

Ua3/9/5 Somerset Noon Rotary Club Speech, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell to the Noon Rotary Club in Somerset, Kentucky.

Ua3/9/5 Opening Faculty/Staff Meeting, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at his first fall convocation. He discusses priorities, strategic planning, institutional peer group, programs of distinction, campus construction and improvement, traffic and parking, information technology, student compensation, athletics, employee benefits and policies, community relations, fund raising and student recruitment.

Ua3/9/5 Master Plan Speech, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell to the incoming Class of 2002.

Ua3/9/5 Hopkinsville Kiwanis Club, Wku President's Office

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Talking points used by WKU president Gary Ransdell at a meeting of the Hopkinsville Kentucky Kiwanis Club regarding Western Kentucky University.

Ua3/9/5 Address To The Duke University Talent Identification Search Program, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell to students involved in the Duke University Talent Identification Search Program.

Ua3/9/4 Inaugural Address, Gary Ransdell

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Inaugural address given by WKU President Gary Ransdell on May 8, 1998.

Ua3/9/5 Leadership For The New Millennium, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell to the Association of College Honor Societies. He was asked to speak on "what is needed to build a more vigorous and robust academic and social opportunity for our students."

Ua3/9/5 Russellville Speech, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at unidentified function in Russellville, Kentucky.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 6, No. 10, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File
• Coming Up - Calendar of Events

This issue includes articles:

• Goldie Blumenstyk. Philosophy Goes High Tech - Cassandra Pinnick
• Hughey, Aaron. Kentucky's Future Tied to Universities, Colleges
• Payne, Nikcole. Dr. Charles Smith, Music Teacher of the Year
• Payne, Nikcole. Why Clinton Defeated Dole in '96 - Larry Winn
• Adult Day Care: A Winner Again
• Forensic Team Sweeps Tournament

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 5, No. 2, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Women on Campus
• Women's Studies Gets an A
• WKU Foundation Trustees Adopt Ethics Statement
• Studying Earthquakes
• Big Red's World Famous
• Reaching for Sky-High Goals - WKU Physics & Astronomy
• Debate Endowment Honors Local Attorney
• Life Care Foundation Gives Scholarships to WKU Students

Lancaster Society Speech, Raymond Preston

Board of Regents Documents

Letter to Thomas Meredith from Raymond Preston conveying Preston's speech which he delivered to the Lancaster Society. The speech is an overview of Preston's life after leaving Western Kentucky University.

President Reagan's Rhetorical War Against Nicaraugua, 1981-1987, Donald Morton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Reagan administration launched a two term campaign to win support for the Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua. The rhetorical war began in secrecy and ended in scandal. With Reagan's reputation as a "great communicator" and the priority he assigned to the Contra cause it seemed surprising to find virtually nothing on the topic in a search of the communication journals through mid 1992.

The central research question of this thesis is whether President Reagan used rhetorical strategies and similar depictions to other presidents in his prowar rhetoric against Nicaragua. A common theme of war rhetoric is the dehumanizing of the …

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 18, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Eison, Sheila. Funds Can Help Research, Travel
• Regents Approve $2.4 Million Cut
• Public Radio Wins
• Enrollment if 15,767
• Overby, Carol. Dr. Carl Hall Wants Competitive Grads
• Student Organizes Non-Traditionals Group on Campus - Students Over Traditional Age, SOTA, David Fields
• Wanted: Hosts for Students

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 17, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Eison, Sheila. Postal Service Offers Tips for Moving Mail
• Faculty Art Exhibit Opens Today
• Karr, Sandra. Visiting Oxford Prof Enjoys WKU - Gerald Howat
• Overby, Carol. John Duff, Music Department Head, Sees Role as Facilitator
• Teleconference Dec. 4 to Focus on Marketing
• Coverlet is Textile of the Month - Jemima Day Gardner Smith
• Faculty Concert Series Presents Elizabeth Volkman, Soprano & Joseph Brooks, Clarinet

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 15, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• WKU Grad from National Institute of Health is 1991 Lancaster Lecturer - Gene Shearer
• Dr. Thomas Meredith Among 13 Candidates for Central Florida President
• University Places Freeze on Jobs, Purchases
• Regents Present Position Paper
• Public Radio Service Drive Nov. 2-9
• Society of Professional Journalists to Establish Moscow State Chapter
• Employee Dependent Grant Program is Success in First Semester
• Phonathon Raises Record $166,145
• Dr. Melvin Borland, Economics, Named to KERA …

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 14, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Eison, Sheila. National Science Foundation Awards WKU $121,691 for New Directions in Math
• National Higher Education Week - James Oliver
• Phonathon Update
• Karr, Sandra. Fall Theatre & Dance Lineup Features WKU Grad, Actor Becky Gelke Baker
• Next Week is Alcohol Awareness Week on Campus
• Gifts to Western Include Scholarship - Warren County Conservation District Board of Supervisors
• Faculty Development committee News
• Homecoming '91
• Overby, Carol. Agriculture Exposition Center's Director …

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 13, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Fifth Women's Studies Conference Opens
• Hardin Planetarium Show Features Sun's Children
• President Thomas Meredith Appointed to Constitutional Improvement Policy Council
• WKU to Begin Reaccreditation Process
• Students Raise $48,715 First Week of Alumni Fund Student Phonathon
• Phillips, Hugh. Russia's Coup; A Historical Perspective
• Esion, Sheila. Jim Wayne Miller's Writing Takes New Shape
• Threads of Compassion: Fabric Art Exhibit by Penny Sisto Opens Tomorrow
• Shuttle May Have Foiled, but Summer Eclipse …

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 12, Wku University Relations

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Coal Science Exchange Gets $50,000
• Researchers Gather for WKU's 2nd International Coal Conference
• President Thomas Meredith Encourages Faculty . . . Promises Affirmative Action
• WKU Gets $195,000 for First Program
• Music is Reaccredited
• Hall of Fame to Induct Inaugural Class this Friday
• Campus Child Care is Reaccredited
• Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities Program
• Helen Knight, University Archivist, is At Your Service
• Sylvia Kersenbaum in Beethoven IX this Sunday
• Development …

The Rhetoric Of Rescue, Mary Blakeman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis examines the television reporters' verbal depictions of two rescue events, the rescue of Jessica McClure in 1987 and the rescue of three whales at Pt. Barrow, Alaska in 1988, in order to discover what rhetorical techniques were used to appeal to the public interest. Analog criticism, metaphorical analysis and pentadic analysis were used to discover the dominant language reporters chose. Three main conclusions were drawn from this analysis: (1) use of the dramatistic pentad showed how reporters focused public attention away from the purpose,(2) verbal and visual depictions cannot be separated when studying television news stories and (3) …

Campaign Apologia As Process: Dan Quayle's Defense Of His National Guard Service, Paula Harrison

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis contains an analysis of apologia from the 1988 national presidential campaign which resulted from Republican vice-presidential candidate Dan Quayle's disclosure that he served in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. Quayle's revelation created a "gaffe sequence" played out in the media over a period of approximately two weeks. The rhetorical situation dictated the use of an eclectic methodology to evaluate apologia generated in response to media questions about Quayle's avoidance of active military service.

Quayle's defense included minimalizing the issue through avoidance and denial during staged and spontaneous contact with the media, and also the rhetorical support …

Ua3/8/10 Inaugural Address, Thomas Meredith

WKU Administration Documents

Speech delivered by President Thomas Meredith upon his installation as WKU president.

Ua68/3/2/1 Forensic Story, Jeff Younglove, Judith Hoover, Wku Communication

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Audiotape interview regarding the restablishment of the William Biven Forensic Society.