F03RS SGB No. 9 (Model UN)

A BILL TO APPROPRIATE ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS EIGHTY-EIGHT CENTS ( $1,328.88) TO THE MODEL UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION AT LSU TO HELP DEFRAY THE TRAVEL, LODGING, AND REGISTRATION COSTS TO ATTEND THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS (SRMUN) XIV CONFERENCE IN ATLANTA, GA FROM NOVEMBER 20-23, 2003

Letter to Hazel Johnson, December 13, 1989

A letter from Karla Bowlin to Hazel Johnson sharing information on the Louisiana Association of School Librarians and the Louisiana Library Association

The American phantasmagoria: The rise of spiritualism in nineteenth-century America

Spiritualism, or the belief in spirit communications through mediums, was a movement in the nineteenth century which gained popularity within America. This thesis aims to widen the scope of spiritualism’s historiography by exploring spiritualists’ lives to reveal a more complex answer to why this movement gained a large following in antebellum America. The stories of spiritualists show that spiritualism rose in nineteenth century America because the culture placed death in the periphery, leaving certain Americans unresolved and therefore looking to the Victorian death culture for closure from a lost relationship. Additionally, spiritualists saw the muddled religious system as proof of its subjectivity and thus looked to the spirits for empirical evidences of its claims. Furthermore, spiritualism is explored through a gendered lens to show that women were drawn to spiritualism to soothe their grief from a lost loved one, whereas men sought to prove spiritualism’s claims through a scientific method

What You Should Be Feeling: An Interview with Bill Plympton

pages 74-7

The Journey of a Virtuous Procrastinator: A Master\u27s Portfolio

This portfolio explores several major areas of English and how they can best be taught within English classes. “Reading and Writing with Images: A Guide to Integrating Images into the ELA Classroom” is a major research essay which explores the available avenues of visual rhetoric. A teaching unit plan “Gender and Grammar: A Lesson Plan in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening” integrates grammar instruction into a reading and writing class, while exploring gender as a literary approach. “Textspeak in the English Classroom: Beneficial in Isolated Assignments” contains the findings and analysis of a personal teacher research project conducted with the purpose to gain understanding of where textspeak may fit into a writing classroom. “Research Writing is Not Only for the ELA Teacher: Process and Product Across the Curriculum” is a research essay that also includes resources to guide instructors outside the English department who assign research writing. Overall, these pieces tell the journey of a virtuous procrastinator

Cyberspace Off-Campus Student RightsA Legal Frontier For School Administrators

Schools and, more specifically, school administrators, have been charged with balancing the expressive rights of students while maintaining a safe school environment. Recently, student created websites have become the chosen method in which students have voiced their opinions about schools, teachers and school administrators. Many school administrators have been quick to discipline students for off-campus Internet speech because they feel the content may be socially inappropriate. Quite simply, the shootings at Columbine gave school administrators all the reasons they needed to trounce the First Amendment rights of public school students in the name of preventing violence. Absent, however, of any "true" threat or substantial disruption to the educational environment, student off-campus Internet speech is protected under the First Amendment. In some of the litigated cases, there were out of court settlements as well as summary judgments that included significant costs to the school district. There is a great need for descriptive guidelines to assist school administrators when dealing with off-campus First Amendment Internet speech issues. This dissertation analyzes Lower Court case law pertaining to student off-campus Internet free speech. A Reasonable Forecast Tool, developed from historical U.S. Supreme Court First Amendment case law, is used to analyze the Lower Court cases and to help create the descriptive guidelines. These guidelines enable the administrator to conduct a comprehensive investigation which includes the application of the substantial disruption standard used by most Lower Courts as proscribed by Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969). The guidelines provide the administrator with the ability to make a well informed decision ensuring the protection of student expressive rights while being able to maintain a safe learning environment

So Damn Liberating An Interview with Jesse Goolsby

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Non-classroom involvement among rural community college students: An application of Tinto and Astin’s models

Participation in non-classroom activities has been documented to extend the intellectual, social, and psychosocial outcomes of the college experience. However, the benefits of non-classroom activities are often difficult to quantify due their voluntary nature, with findings mostly related to students within four-year institutions. The purpose of this study was to determine whether rural community college full-time freshman students who participate in non-classroom activities differ from nonparticipants with regard to self-identified values of academic integration, social integration, degree commitment, collegiate stress, and institutional commitment. These five factors have been demonstrated to influence student persistence and were adopted from Davidson et al.’s (2015) College Persistence Questionnaire, Version 2 (CPQ-V2). CPQ-V2 data were collected using an electronic survey distributed during the Fall 2021 semester. Survey participants offered details about their personal background and involvement in non-classroom activities, followed by responses to a series of questions from an adapted form of the CPQ-V2. The chi-square test of independence and one-way ANOVA were used to identify significant associations or relationships between variables. Data were analyzed through the lens of Astin’s theory of student involvement and Tinto’s theory of student departure. The results of analysis detected statistically significant associations between students’ level of involvement and their program of study, residency, employment, parental education, and volume of online classes. Their type of involvement was found to have a significant association with student residency. The level of involvement among students was also found to be significantly associated with their self-reported sense of social integration and degree commitment, a finding that was accompanied by the types of involvement and their statistical significance to their sense of social integration. Results from the survey instrument can vary across institutions and student populations; still, the results further demonstrate the differences among student groups in their non-classroom involvement. Accordingly, practitioners should continuously monitor their institution’s effectiveness in providing non-classroom opportunities that meet community college students’ needs and support their persistence efforts

A study of the boron - curcumin system

The discovery of the usefulness of curcumin for detecting boron was made over 100 years ago. Since that time a great deal of work has been done in developing new methods based on this compound and in modifying and improving existing methods. However, very little has been done to determine the mechanism of the reactions involved or the structures of the compounds formed. The purpose of this work was to gather evidence in support of the mechanism proposed in 1956 by Powell, Hardcastle and Poindexter for the formation of the boron - oxalic acid - curcumin complex (Rubrocuraumin) in the Naftel procedure for boron determination. This was done by investigation of the structures of rubrocurcumin and roscoyanin (the product of the reaction between borio acid and curcumin in the absence of oxalic acid) through the determination of their molecular weights and by investigation 0£ the molar ratios of the components of the complexes. A Mechrolab Model 301 Vapor Pressure Osmometer was used tor the work reported in this paper