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Pride, October 2003, Lindenwood University

Pride

Pride was a news magazine for Lindenwood University.

October 2003 (Vol. 76, No. 5)

The Ohio Independent Baptist

No abstract provided.

Reflections - Fall 2003, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

“Posters of the Great War” Exhibit on Display at McKissick Museum..... p.1
Herbert J. Hartsook Named Director of the South Caroliniana Library..... p.1
In Memoriam: George Plimpton..... p.2
One Year Later: Dean Paul Willis Reflects on 2002–2003..... p.2
Graphic Fiction Symposium Held November 18–19..... p.3
Linda Allman Becomes Director of Campuses Library Services..... p.3
“I-Day: September 11, 1963”..... p.3
Preservation Initiative Addresses Needs of Portrait Collection..... p.4
New Endowment Fund Supports Science and Mathematics Journal Collection..... p.5
New Map Donation Enhances Darwin Collection..... p.5
Educational Films Collection Returns to the Thomas Cooper Library..... p.5
Library Endowments Benefit Students and …

An African Safari Through Children's Books: Part Ii, Dorothy N. Bowen

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship

What is like for an American family to raise their children in African country? What is it like for the children who are sometimes known as "third culture kids" because they are neither totally a part of their parents' culture nor totally a part of the adopted African culture, but rather are a combination of both?

The Image Of Libraries And Librarians In Children's Literature, Dorothy N. Bowen

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship

A new action figure of a frumpy librarian who moves her index finger to her lips with 'amazing push-button shushing action!' has librarians around the world raising their voices in protest." A public library director from Maine said in response to the bespectacled woman in a cardigan, long plain skirt and sensible shoes, "The shushing thing just put me right over the edge. It's so stereotypical, I could scream."

Arts And Sciences Newsletter, Volume 7, Issue 2, College Of Arts & Sciences

Arts and Sciences Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Best "Lied" Plans: Engaging Undergraduate Participation In Fieldwork, Andrew J. Bach

Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper describes a field project from an introductory soils course taught in spring 2001. Looking at soils in the field is a necessity, since the physical details of soils cannot be readily reproduced in a class or lab setting.Convincing students that crawling into a muddy hole will help them learn does not always work. So I conceived a plan to inspire the class about looking at soil in the field. I used geography as a starting point, by selecting an extraordinary environmental setting for the field project. Then I fully developed a research project for the class, including hypotheses …

The Planet, 2003, Fall, Jessi Loerch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Afterschool Matters Occasional Paper Fall 2003, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Afterschool Matters

Supporting the Literacy Development of Low-Income Children in Afterschool Programs: Challenges and Exemplary Practices
By Robert Halpern
Erikson Institute for Graduate Study in Child Development

While much of the current concern over the literacy development of low- and moderateincome children focuses on schools (and, to a lesser degree, on parents), many observers are arguing for a role for other institutions. In particular, funders are turning to afterschool programs to address this critical developmental task. This paper explores the roles afterschool programs can and do play in the literacy development of low-income children, drawing on surveys and observations of afterschool programs …

Mlgpa News (Fall 2003), Maggie Allen

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

On Good Authority: Naco Participation At The University Of Southern Mississippi, Kathleen L. Wells

The Southeastern Librarian

The prospect of contributing to an authority file used by libraries throughout the United States and beyond may be somewhat daunting in itself. However, participation in the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) may be within your library’s reach. Since joining the program in November 2001, catalogers at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Libraries have found that many rewards and few drawbacks come with NACO membership.

Undergraduate Science Students And Electronic Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Richard Pollard, Peiling Wang, Dan Greene, Elizabeth Kline, Julia Krummen, Rachel Kirk

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Phase I of a 2‐phase project funded by the NSF‐National Science Digital Library Project used focus groups to determine how undergraduate science students perceive journal literature and how they use digital library resources. Their perceptions and use are contrasted with faculty and graduate teaching assistants in engineering, chemistry, and physics. Undergraduates have difficulties understanding journal articles. Although they consider themselves experts on the web, they rarely use online indexes or e‐journals unless required to for class. E‐Journals should be incrementally introduced to students starting at the time they declare a major. E‐Modules developed by the library and faculty could introduce …

Ua77/1 Alumni, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

WKU's alumni magazine. Contents:

• Ransdell, Gary. Fellow Alumni: Thank You!
• 3 New Regents Join WKU Board
• Forensic Team Makes Unprecedented Sweep
• Darrin Horn Returns to Alma Mater as Coach
• Campus Safety Task Force
• Victory 2003
• Endowed Faculty Positions
• Alumna Left $3.5 Million to WKU for Scholarships – Mary Hutto
• Bucks for Brains
• Hattie L. Preston Intramural Sports Complex
• WKU Dedicates Guthrie Bell Tower, Celebrates Freedom
• Campus Beautification an Important Goal for Campaign
• Campaign Timeline
• More Than $5 Million in Private Gifts Support Western’s Engineering Program
• Gifted Studies
• Other Innovative Programs at WKU
• The Legacy of the Campaign - Honor Roll …

Ua66/1/5 Applied Research & Technology Program Newsletter, Issue 2, Wku Applied Research & Technology Program

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by and about the Applied Research & Technology Program.

Frontal Recruitment During Response Inhibition In Older Adults Replicated With Fmri, Scott Aaron Langenecker, Kristy A. Nielson

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Recent research has explored age-related differences in multiple areas of cognitive functioning using fMRI, PET, and SPECT. However, because these studies used different tasks, subjects, and methods, little is known about whether the results of these studies are generalizable or repeatable. The present study replicated a previous study [Psychol. Aging 17 (2002) 56] using the same Go/No-go task with a subset of 11 of the original older adult subjects, and using the same fMRI scanner and imaging methods. A direct comparison was made between these participants at Time 1 and Time 2 for both behavioral and functional data. These participants …

Pedagogy For The Economically Privileged: “Tuning In” To The Privileged Learner, Ann Curry-Stevens

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Today’s activists are challenged by the sheer scope of losses by social movements. We have lost most significant battles and have moved into a defensive position struggling to retain earlier gains in social policy. The gap between rich and poor continues to widen, and it is clear that we need new allies in the struggles for justice. The middle class has been eyed as potential allies, with the hope that in bringing their resources, information, and power to bear, progressive social change will result. This paper draws from dissertation research on a pedagogy for the privileged: research that involves transformative …

Wto Accession: What's In It For Russia?, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Prospects for Russia’s membership in the WTO now look better than any point since accession negotiations began almost a decade ago. Good progress with economic and legal reforms within Russia has left the country’s economy better prepared for membership. Nevertheless, the economy still suffers from various weaknesses including, but not limited to, pervasive subsidies for different sectors, lack of liberalization and foreign participation especially in the service sector, inefficiency in custom administration, lack of enforcement of intellectual property rights, etc. For all their sensitivity, the negotiations on the import tariff levels and access to the service sectors are the least …

The Relationship Between Religious Affiliation, Region, Race, And Attitudes Toward Globalization, Marc Von Der Ruhr, Joseph P. Daniels

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Risk, Discounting, And The Present Value Of Future Earnings, Brian Brush

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua1b5 New Faculty 2003-2004, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

List of new WKU faculty.

Ua3/9/5 Speech To The Kentucky/Tennessee Section Of The American Water Works Association, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell regarding the WKU Center for Water Resource Studies, WKU's Technical Assistance Center for Wastewater and the Circuit Rider Program.

Ua68/8/1 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the WKU History Department regarding activities in the department, students and alumni.

Library Focus (Fall 2003), University Libraries

Library Focus

The Fall 2003 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring an interview with former associate dean of Libraries, Kay Wall; new electronic resources; faculty resources for teaching information literacy skills; changes to the University Libraries’ web site; growth of Cook Library’s media collection; and an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant awarded to University Libraries.

Library Focus (Fall 2004), University Libraries

Library Focus

The Fall 2004 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the state of the Library Materials Budget; the relocation of genealogy materials to the general collections within Cook Library; plagiarism detection software, Turnitin, microform collections; Google Scholar; and the de Grummond 18^th annual Holiday Book Fair.

Religion, Idealism, And African American Autobiography In The Northern Plains: Era Bell Thompson’S American Daughter, Kevin L. Cole, Leah Weins

Great Plains Quarterly

In her introduction to American Women’s Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory, Margo Culley writes, “It would be hard to point to a field of contemporary literary studies more vibrant than autobiography studies. Where else does one find a wealth of primary material still mostly unread and unranked?” “Unread and unranked” aptly describes Era Bell Thompson’s American Daughter, an autobiographical account of an African American woman who comes of age on the plains of North Dakota in the early twentieth century. It is one of those almost forgotten autobiographies that deserves to be read, ranked, and reconsidered, especially in the …

Ancient Way In A New Land: Benedictine Education In The Great Plains, Marielle Frigge O.S.B.

Great Plains Quarterly

In the first half of the sixth century, an Italian monk, Benedict of Nursia, provided a framework for Christian monastic life. In the last half of the nineteenth century, his descendants arrived in the Great Plains, part of the westward movement of Christian missionaries in North America. What could this ancient way of life offer to a new land of Native tribes and immigrant farmers, traders, and soldiers? And what might this new land contribute to the shaping of a uniquely American form of monastic life?

These Benedictine men and women brought with them centuries of experience as learners and …

Fairy Castle Or Steamer Trunk? Creating Place In O. E. Rølvaag’S Giants In The Earth, Diane D. Quantic

Great Plains Quarterly

What happens when humans move beyond the boundaries of civilization? Does the very act transform them? How do they define themselves in apparently empty space? Throughout the nineteenth century, thousands of Americans headed west to the frontier, the borderland between civilization and wilderness. Most went willingly, confident or desperately hopeful that they would have the freedom to create a place of their own and, in the process, recreate themselves. Before they set out for the frontier, they imagined it a garden, based on the myths of plenty and entitlement that were described in boosters’ letters, newspaper accounts, railroad brochures, and …

Title And Contents- Fall 2003

Great Plains Quarterly

Great Plains Quarterly

Volume 23/ Number 4/ Fall 2003

Contents

RELIGION, IDEALISM, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS: ERA BELL THOMPSON'S AMERICAN DAUGHTER Kevin L. Cole and Leah Weins

ANCIENT WAY IN A NEW LAND:BENEDICTINE EDUCATION IN THE GREAT PLAINS Marielle Frigge

FAIRY CASTLE OR STEAMER TRUNK?:

CREATING PLACE IN O. E. R0LVAAG'S GIANTS IN THE EARTH Diane Quantic

Book Reviews

Victor P. Lytwyn Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land By PETER GELLER

R. Douglas Hurt The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 By VICTORIA SMITH

Ruth Spack America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of …

Review Of The Snow Geese: A Story Of Home By William Hennes, Bruce D.J. Batt

Great Plains Quarterly

William Hennes is an Englishman who was struck by a serious illness in his twenty-fifth year. Following multiple surgeries, he required several months of convalescence, most of it occurring at his parents' home, from his earliest memories the stable touch point to his life. The remainder of this true story is built around themes of home, nostalgia for familiar surroundings, homesickness, and the quest that many organisms have to go home at critical junctures of their lives. The subtitle is more descriptive of the fascinating narrative that follows than is The Snow Geese.

During his extended recovery period Hennes …

Review Of Geometry In Architecture: Texas Buildings Yesterday And Today By Clovis Heimsath, Robert Duncan

Great Plains Quarterly

Geometry in Architecture is really two books in one. The subtitle, Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today, provides the context for the theme of a book that is fundamentally a pictorial essay covering selected architectural elements of early Texas buildings. The original book, written in 1968 and titled Pioneer Texas Buildings: A Geometry Lesson, was an essay in two parts. The written section provided Heimsath's personal observations on the state of architecture as he perceived it in 1968. As a critique of architectural design, his views, though caustic, had some degree of validity. His major criticism was his concern …