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Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding Charles Keown dedication, professor accountability, special event parking, budget and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 14, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding elections, football conference, John Carpenter, Dialogue Day, provide-a-ride and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 4, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding football conferences, campus safety walk, elections and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 31, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss office hours, homecoming, budget and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 24, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss retreat, budget, campus clean up and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 17, 2006 meeting.

Fall Retreat Broadside, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Broadside promoting the SGA Fall Retreat.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding the retreat, campus clean up and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 10, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss campus safety walk, retreat, budget, Organizational Aid Board and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 3, 2006 meeting.

Facts About Lab Printing, John Bowers

Student Government Association

Report on the amount and cost of printing done in student technology computer labs.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 26, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss Organizational Aid Board, retreat, elections and nominations.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 19, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding elections, retreat, committees, Habitat for Humanity, Up 'til Dawn and budget.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 12, 2006 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding elections, office hours, committee descriptions, nominations and announcements.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 5, 2006 meeting.

Key Leadership Roles In The 9/11 Terrorist Attack, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

Personality assessment of three al-Qaida leaders in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States – Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Mohamed Atta – provides evidence for a rudimentary model of the leadership roles required for a global-reach terrorist operation: (1) a narcissistic, charismatic leader devoid of core values beyond personal self-interest, adept at exploiting others in pursuit of his grandiose ambitions (e.g., bin Laden); (2) a strategic-thinking “true believer” without constraints of conscience regarding the level of violence he is willing to employ in his single-minded pursuit of mission (e.g., al-Zawahiri); and (3) unobtrusive, disciplined operatives …

Rethinking Symbolic Racism: Evidence Of Attribution Bias, Brad T. Gomez, J. Matthew Wilson

Political Science Research

This paper demonstrates that cognitive tendencies related to political sophistication produce an attribution bias in the widely accepted symbolic racism scale. When this bias is controlled statistically, the effect of symbolic racism on racial policy attitudes is greatly diminished. Our theory posits that high sophisticates tend to make global/distal attributions, allowing them to associate racial inequality with broader sociopolitical causes. Less sophisticated individuals, conversely, tend to make local/proximal attributions, thus biasing them against ascribing responsibility systemically. Consequently, less sophisticated individuals tend to be classified as intolerant by the symbolic racism scale, even when controlling for factors such as ideology and …

Summer Retreat Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for summer retreat.

Donors, Modellers And Development Brokers: The Pork Barrel Of Water Management Research, Julie Trottier

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Donors are shaping the mainstream research agenda concerning water management around the world. As large sums are made available within applied research programmes, many actors are competing to access them. This has led to the development of a new class of actors: the water research development brokers. Development brokers have mostly been studied in the developing world. They are usually defined as local actors who master the knowledge framework of donor organizations while their social positions and local networks allow them to act as intermediaries between the local population targeted by the donor and the donor itself. Such a position …

Upward Bound's Success In Interest Group Politics, Jessica Yusaitis

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

I examine how interest groups can gain and maintain federal funding by following one successful case study – Upward Bound.

Upward Bound is a federal program, headed by the Department of Education, which assists low-income high school students with finishing high school and with entering and succeeding in higher education. In 2005, President Bush proposed to cut finding for Upward Bound in order to further fund his No Child Left Behind initiative. However, UB managed to conduct a rewarding venture into interest group politics, and the program was reauthorized.

I plan for this project to serve as a handbook for …

Handling And Preventing Journalistic Fraud: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Kenneth Munson

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Fraud is a growing concern in the news business, especially in recent years where numerous journalism scandals rock its foundation. This paper examines the most prominent cases: Stephen Glass, the reporter for The New Republic newsmagazine who completely or partially fabricated 27 stories in the late ‘90s; Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was found to have plagiarized or made up his supposedly on-thescene reporting in 2003; and Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for her Washington Post story about a child heroin addict who, in actuality, did not exist. This paper will examine flaws …

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for April 18, 2006 meeting.