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Dispensable Statistics, William (Bill) H. Williams

Publications and Research

It felt like a blind-side bodycheck to read in the "The Great Gretzky," Chance, Winter 1991, that, "Thus, despite his exceptional talent, despite his leadership on and off the ice, despite what he has meant to the team, Gretzky was not indispensable to the Oilers. "

Canje De Deuda Por Conservación: ¿Demonio O Panacea?, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Psychological Determinants Of Occupational And Non-Occupational Risk-Taking Among Law Enforcement Officers, William F. Mccarthy

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The goal of this study was to identify and statistically examine the psychological determinants of risk-taking among law enforcement officers. This study was conceptualized and designed on a rather simple premise that risk-taking in one's leisure would have a dramatic and predominant influence on the grouping of subjects into definable personality trait categories. The suspicion regarding these categories was that subjects who engaged in risk-taking in their leisure time would be distinctively different from all other emerging groups, with regard to the 16 PF Cattell factors. It was also suspected that this leisure time risk-taking group's personality profile would be …

Taxi Driving: A Study Of Leasing In New York City, Allen Russell Stevens

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study uses ethnography, survey research and organizational analysis to examine the impact that taxicab leasing has had upon the occupational, social and personal lives of fleet taxicab drivers. Ethnography has been conducted at the Yellow Taxi Company (a pseudonym for a major taxicab fleet garage in New York City); 408 surveys were completed by fleet drivers, and 50 interviews were conducted (30 with lessees 10 with management at various garages and 10 with local 3036 taxi union personnel). And organizational analysis was used in the description of how the shift from the commission remuneration system to the lease remuneration …

The Dynamics Of Program Development: A Case Study In Urban Mental Health Services, John Kastan

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study describes the planning, development and implementation of the on-site school mental health program, an innovative mental health services program for schoolchildren in New York City. The program, developed jointly by the New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Alcoholism Services and the New York City Board of Education in 1982, was fully implemented in 1986. This study uses data gathered via the method of participant-observation (the author was employed by the Department of Mental Health), supplemented by the review of documents and discussions with key individuals.

The study begins by providing background on the two …

Una Siembra De Arbolitos No Es Política Ambiental, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

An introduction to the history and radical practice of New York City's Lesbian Herstory Archives with discussion of the period-specific situation of the archive housed in, but outgrowing, private quarters.

"It's Our Church, Too!": Women's Position In The Roman Catholic Church Today, Susan A. Farrell

Publications and Research

This chapter from The Social Construction of Gender (eds J. Lorber and S. Farrell) explores the ways in which gender, particular women's roles are inscribed in the bureaucracy and institutional practices of the Roman Catholic Church.

Burnout In Teachers: Is It Burnout Or Is It Depression?, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Dimensions Of Functional Social Support And Psychological Symptoms, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

In the summer following graduation a sample of 125 female college graduates (mean age = 28) completed Cohen & Wills' ISEL (1985) which includes scales measuring four social support functions: belonging (social companionship), appraisal (availability of confidants), tangible (instrumental), and self-esteem support. In the summer and fall subject status on two outcome scales was ascertained: the Psychophysiologic Symptom Scale and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Reliability of the difference scores suggested that the ISEL scales do not measure entirely different constructs and the ISEL Self-esteem Scale is operationally redundant with the Rosenberg Self-esteem scale and the CES-D. …

Pygmalion Goes To School: The Effects Of Goal Setting, The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy And Self-Efficacy On Trainee Performance, James Michael Benton

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study examined the effectiveness of motivation techniques for increasing performance in a skill training program. A PC based software program provided structured training to increase subjects' typing skills. Motivation was manipulated by the use of goal setting and the self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP), alone and in combination. The moderating effects of self-efficacy on motivation, defined as a generalized "can do" personality orientation, were also examined. Two levels of goal setting were employed: (1) "do your best"; and, (2) a difficult, specific goal. The SFP was tied to the situation, not the person. It was invoked by informing subjects that the …

The Graduate Student Advocate, October 1990, Vol. Ii, No. 2, Gc Advocate

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Slanderous Inferences: Environmental Psychology Faculty Defends Decision to Terminate Student. S. Saegert, D. Chapin, K. Christensen, R. Hart, C. Katz, J. Kubran, S. Low, L. Rivlin, G. Winkel, M. Wolfe (p. 1)

Rallying Against U.S. Aggression in the Middle East. Mohamed Aly and Kim Ives (p. 1)

Where Have All The Books Gone? Faculty Abuse of Library Borrowing Privileges. Andrew Long (p. 1)

Inside (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Part-Timers United: New Adjunct Group Forming. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Proposed Destruction of Cree and Inuit Homelands. Julia Scalcione (p. 2)

Doctoral Students’ Council Report. Michael …

The Graduate Student Advocate, May-September 1990, Vol. 1, No. 7, Advocate

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Wither the PTU? Vincent Tirelli (p. 1)

Victim of Protest? (p. 1)

CUNY Students Strike; Police Brutality Alleged. Andrew Long & Christine Hutchins (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

An Open Letter to all Cultural Anthropology Students and Faculty (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Intensive and Beyond: The Foreign Language Institute & The Latin/Greek Institute. Caroline Pari (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

Responding to the Mystery Homophobe (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 4)

Editorials & Letters

Whose Rhetoric? (p. 4)

Sexual Politics (p. 4)

A Professorial Sampler (p. 4)

Michael …

The Graduate Student Advocate, April 23, 1990, Vol. 1, No. 6, Advocate

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Behind the Bookshelves: CUNY Libraries & the Budget Crisis. Caroline Pari (p. 1)

CUNY Professor’s Opinions Denounced: Graduate School Philosopher Accused of Racism. Christine Hutchins (p. 1)

Photograph: Students on Strike at John Jay College, Spring 1989 (p. 1)

Heaviest Element Discovered. Department of Biology, University of Utah (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

An Open Letter from Art History Students (p. 2)

Distinguished Professor Linda Nochlin Bids Adieu. Linda Nochlin (p. 2)

C.C.S. $ (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Women in War and Peace: The Space of Female Heroism. Margaret …

The Graduate Student Advocate, March 21, 1990, Vol. I, No. 5, Advocate

The Advocate

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English Program Moves to Change Requirements (p. 1)

Art History Students Protest Plans to Expand Program. George McClintock III (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Poetry New York: Readings at the Gas Station (p. 2)

Wanted: Volunteers for Census (p. 2)

Oyez! Oyez! Carina Yervasi (p. 2)

Mystery Homophobe in West Hall (p. 2)

Committee for Cultural Studies Redefines the First Person Pronoun Plural (p. 2)

Cartoon: I cannot comment on the canon, it would jeopardize my neutrality. Joel [illegible] (p. 2)

Students Influence Promotion Decision (p. 3)

CUNY Budget Proposal …

The Graduate Student Advocate, Feburary 1990, Vol. I, No. 4, Advocate

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DSC Restructures Student Newspaper. Jeanne A. Marre (p. 1)

CUNY Audits 1987-1988 Doctoral Students’ Council: “Serious Shortcomings” or Gross Mismanagement? Al Cofribas (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

The Doctoral Students’ Council: A Report (p. 2)

Photograph: Hallway to Heaven (p. 2)

Illustration: Wishful Thinking (p. 2)

What’s in a Name, anyway? Carina Yervasi (p. 2)

Dining With Inka: The Croissant Craze (p. 3)

MLA Memories: Student Talk Out of School. Cheryl Fish, ed. (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

International Woman’s Day (p. 3)

Presidential Search Committee Announced (p. …

La Sociedad Civil Y La Defensa Del Ambiente, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Economía Y Ambiente: El Reto De La Década De Los 90, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

La Venezuela Posible En Materia Ambiental, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Ecologismo: Presente Y Futuro De Una Nueva Ideología Política, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Infusion Of Teachers From Eastern Indonesia Into West Kalimantan, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

A Developmental Perspective And Antisocial Behavior: Cognitive Functioning, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

G. R. Patterson et al (see record 1989-26278-001) failed to sufficiently address the idea that cognitive functioning is a factor which is related to both school failure and antisocial conduct. Findings consistent with the acculturation learning view are noted.

The Child's Understanding Of Correspondence Relations, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

A number of quantitative comparison tasks were designed to tap knowledge of injective and suijective correspondences, one-directiona] compositions (greater + greater yields greater), countervailing compositions (greater + lesser yields ?), and length-density relations in 4- to 7-year-olds. The results indicated that performance on the comparison tasks was related to performance on a number conservation test as well as to age. Nonconservers performed at better than chance levels on tasks that tapped an elementary knowledge of injective and surjective correspondences; concrete-operational children, however, tended perform better on all tasks. Uncorrected and disattenuated correlation coefficients revealed considerable consistency across measures. Factor analyses, …

Libraries Of New York: The Bronx Institute Archives Of Lehman College Library, Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

The Bronx Institute Archives is a unique collection of primary and secondary sources assembled to document the history and development of the Bronx.

Visual-Spatial And Set-Shifting Functions In Patients With Parkinson's Disease, Sarah A. Raskin

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) (N=20) were compared to age and education-matched normal control subjects (N=20) on 18 paper-and-pencil neuropsychological measures. These tests were chosen to measure two specific functions. The first set of tests was chosen to measure spatial orientation, and these tests were divided into those that measure personal orientation, extrapersonal orientation, mental rotation, and right/left orientation. The second set of tests was chosen to measure the ability to shift mental set. Hotelling's multivariate T² tests revealed a significant difference between the PD patients and the normal control subjects on the tests chosen to measure set-shifting ability …

Representation, Liberation, And The Queer Press, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

Lesbian and gay people lay special claim to the power of the printed word. It is through the printed word, consumed privately and anonymously, that we often first call ourselves queer. Coming out stories are thick with accounts of self-discovery through reading and exploration in libraries.

Prostitution And Hiv Infection: Women, Aids, & Activism, Polly Thistlethwaite, Zoe Leonard

Publications and Research

This "Prostitution and HIV Infection" chapter of the ACT UP/NY Women & AIDS Book Group's Women, AIDS & Activism reflects the scientific, feminist, gay, lesbian, HIV-community work that informed ACT UP/NY's activism and analysis on women and HIV infection up to 1990. Book Group members: Marion Banzhaf, Cynthia Chris, Kim Christensen, Alexis Danzig, Risa Denenberg, Zoe Leonard, Deb Levine, Samuel Lurie, Monica Pearl, Catherine Gund, Polly Thistlethwaite, Judith Walker, and Brigitte Weil. Additional members of the original Women and AIDS Handbook Group included Jamie Bauer, Heidi Dorow, Maria Maggenti, Ellen Neipris, Ann Northrop, Sydney Pokorney, Karen Ramspacher, Maxine Wolfe, and …

Variation Procedures In Northern Ewe Song, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

The major organizational principle of Northern Ewe song is one shared by numerous African, Oriental, and European musical traditions: a small number of models (variously described as "basic shapes," "archetypes," "background structures," "basic designs," "core patterns," "deep structures") is transformed in a wide variety of ways during performance. Variation takes place on different hierarchic levels both within and between songs and includes practically all of a song's dimensions (rhythm, interval, register, contour, harmony, and so on). This principle, although widely demonstrated in the literature on African song (see, among others, Jones 1976; Kauffman 1984; Schmidt 1984; and Erlmann 1985), is …

The Graduate Student Advocate, December 15, 1989, Vol. 1, No. 3, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CUNY Chancellor Will Resign (p. 1)

Committee for Cultural Studies Plans Doctoral Program: Student Involvement Encouraged (p. 1)

A Veiled Affair. Binita Mehta (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around and About The Center

The Doctoral Students’ Council: A Report (p. 2)

Illustration: Post-Modernism (p. 2)

Enhancement Funds for Students with Disabilities (p. 2)

Photograph: International Students Association (p. 2)

In Search of the Missing Rib. Ed Marx (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

More Rooms Available in West Hall (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 4)

Editorials & Letters

Voted In or Out of Business? (p. …

Workplace Boundaries: Conceptions And Creations, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Publications and Research

Social analysts have long been concerned with the changing workplace and its consequences for society and for individual workers. Today as well, under conditions of global technological and organizational transformation, work and its contents and discontents pose new questions for research and social policy.