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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special magazine published by the College Heights Herald. This issue contains articles:

• Halicks, Richard. Life & Death in the County Jail – David Suddarth III
• One Night Stand – Warren County Jail
• Eblen, Tom. Spirits of Defeat
• Stinnett, Roger. Wondrous: Bowling Green Also Has Its 7 Marvels
• Halicks, Richard. Campus Buildings Offer Prehumous Honors
• Likeness, Steve. Western Runaround – WKU Monopoly Game

Kentucky Parole Officers: An Inquiry Into The Effect Of Residential Background On Their Works Styles, Virginia Cleveland

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Using the population of Kentucky state parole officers as the focus of this thesis, work styles were studied. The work styles of twenty-eight rural parole officers were compared with the work styles of twenty-two urban officers. The Fisher Exact Statistical Test was used to test differences between these groups. Rural officers were significantly more likely than urban officers to go out of their offices to meet with their parolees. Urban officers had had a significantly greater number of parolees waiting in their offices at one time, than the rural officers had. The length of the average meeting did not differ …