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    UNLV Rebels vs University of California, Irvine

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    Team roster for both schools. UNLV Schedule List of UNLV Scholarship Donors Meet the Rebels Opponent\u27s Scouting Report Registration for the 1976 Jerry Tarkanian Basketball Camps Jerry Tarkanian Stor

    Spartan Daily, February 7, 1973

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    Volume 60, Issue 62https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/5697/thumbnail.jp

    UNLV Rebels vs San Diego State Aztecs

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    Team roster for both schools. UNLV Schedule List of UNLV Athletic Donors Meet the Rebels Opponent\u27s Scouting Report Jerry Tarkanian Story Also contains information on other sports at UNL

    v. 38, no. 17, February 9, 1973

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    This feels familiar

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    This is a book about in-betweenness. It’s an examination of how we identify people and objects, the categories we use to do so, and those that don’t fit squarely into one or the other. It considers the grey areas of identity--race, gender, species, function, living, inanimate. It slips and slides through the ambiguous and indefinite, forever moving, always simultaneously being “both,” “all,” “neither,” and “none.

    Spartan Daily, February 15, 1935

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    Volume 23, Issue 85https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/2264/thumbnail.jp

    Spartan Daily, February 25, 2008

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    Volume 130, Issue 18https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10444/thumbnail.jp

    Unspringing the Witness Memory and Demeanor Trap: What Every Judge and Juror Needs to Know about Cognitive Psychology and Witness Credibility

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    The soul of America\u27s civil and criminal justice systems is the ability of jurors and judges to accurately determine the facts of a dispute. This invariably implicates the credibility of witnesses. In making credibility determinations, jurors and judges necessarily decide the accuracy of witnesses\u27 memories and the effect of the witnesses\u27 demeanor on their credibility. Almost all jurisdictions\u27 pattern jury instructions about witness credibility explain nothing about how a witness\u27s memories for events and conversations work-and how startlingly fallible memories actually are. They simply instruct the jurors to consider the witness\u27s memory with no additional guidance. Similarly, the same pattern jury instructions on demeanor seldom do more than ask jurors to speculate about a witness\u27s demeanor by instructing them to merely observe the manner of the witness while testifying. Yet, thousands of cognitive psychological studies have provided major insights into witness memory and demeanor. The resulting cognitive psychological principles that are now widely accepted as the gold standard about witness memory and demeanor are often contrary to what jurors intuitively, but wrongly, believe. Most jurors believe that memory works like a video camera that can perfectly recall the details of past events. Rather, memory is more like a Wikipedia page where you can go in and change it, but so can everyone else. Memories are so malleable, numerous, diverse, and innocuous that post-event information alters them, at times in very dramatic ways. Memories can be distorted, contaminated, and even, with modest cues, falsely imagined. For example, an extremely small universe of people have highly superior autobiographical memory ( HSAM ). They can recall past details (like the color of the shirt they were wearing on August 1, 1995)from memory almost as well as a video camera. HSAM individuals\u27 memories are not infallible, however. In one study, HSAM participantsfa lsely remembered seeing news film clips of United Flight 93 crashing in afield in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. No such film exists. Thus, no group that is free from memory distortions has ever been discovered. In one interesting study, students on a college campus were asked to either perform or imagine certain normal and bizarre actions: (1) check the Pepsi machine for change; and (2) propose marriage to the Pepsi machine. Two weeks later, the students were tested and demonstrated substantial imagination inflation leading to false recognition of whether they performed or imagined the actions. Few legal principles are more deeply embedded in American jurisprudence than the importance of demeanor evidence in deciding witness credibility. Historically, demeanor evidence is one of the premises for the need for live testimony, the rule against hearsay, and the right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Yet, cognitive psychological studies have consistently established that the typical cultural cues that jurors rely on, including averting eye contact, a furrowed brow, a trembling hand, and stammering speech, for example, have little or nothing to do with a witness\u27s truthfulness. Also, jurors all too often wrongly assume that there is a strong correlation between a witness\u27s confidence and the accuracy of that witness\u27s testimony. Studies have determined that jurors\u27perceptions of witness confidence are more important in determining credibility than the witness\u27s consistency or inconsistency. Another series of studies indicate that, in reality, demeanor evidence predicts witness truthfulness about as accurately as a coin flip. Once the fact-finder makes credibility determinations, it is nearly impossible to overturn those decisions on post-trial motions or appeal. The secrecy with which credibility determinations are made promotes the legitimacy of factfinding, but it also shrouds its countless failings. Despite years of overwhelming consensus among cognitive psychology scholars and numerous warnings from thoughtful members of the legal academy, judges have done virtually nothing to identify or to begin trying to solve this serious problem. The one exception is eyewitness identification of suspects in criminal cases, where several state supreme courts have relied heavily on cognitive psychological research to craft better science-based specialized jury instructions. This Article examines and analyzes the often amazing and illuminating cognitive psychological research on memory and demeanor. It concludes with a Proposed Model Plain English Witness Credibility Instruction that synthesizes and incorporates much of this remarkable research

    "Baptized by Saltwater": Acts of Remembrance and Commemoration Surrounding the USS Block Islands, CVE-21 & CVE-106

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    abstract: The Second World War has been portrayed as the central event for understanding the history of America in the 20th Century. This dissertation will examine the acts of commemoration and remembrance by veterans who served on the escort carriers, USS Block Island, CVE-21 & CVE-106. Acts of remembrance and commemoration, in this case, refer to the authorship of memoirs, the donation of symbolic objects that represent military service to museums, and the formation of a veteran's organization, which also serves as a means of social support. I am interested in the way stories of the conflict that fall outside the dominant narratives of the Second World War, namely the famous battles of land, sea, and air, have been commemorated by the veterans who were part of them. Utilizing primary source material and oral histories, I examine how acts of remembrance and commemoration have changed over time. An analysis of the shifting meanings sheds light on how individual memories of the war have changed, in light of the history of the larger war that continues to ignore small ships and sea battles.Dissertation/ThesisPh.D. History 201

    The Cord Weekly (February 7, 1974)

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