UA95/1 Glasgow Normal School

Reprint history of Glasgow Normal School excerpted from James Cornette\u27s A History of Western Kentucky State Teachers College

UA12/2/1/2 J.R. Alexander

Tribute to J.R. Alexander, WKU professor of mathematics 1907-1943, by James Cornette which appeared in The College Heights Herald after Alexander\u27s death. A brief bibliography is included

Today’s Dissection in English Lab: Analytical Discoveries Through Classical Rhetoric

This article describes a single class session in Fall Semester 2020 with my undergraduate freshmen, featuring a “lab” discussion of a poem by Sun Yung Shin. The “dissection” of her poem proceeds by means of an application of classical rhetorical tools -- particularly the appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos -- the “lenses” by means of which a process of critical analysis takes place. The intention of my article is to demonstrate how productively students can apply such rhetorical tools when they have been carefully trained in their use for several weeks in a semester. To shift the metaphor slightly, the dissection becomes an exercise in reverse engineering, one that produces original insights, or “inventions” that can lead directly to improvements in student writing

Operational Characteristics of Lane Drops

Traffic behavior studies were conducted at seven lane-drop locations, representing three lane-drop classes. These studies consisted of conflict observations (that is, erratic movements and brakelight applications), spot-speed observations, and lane volume counts. Such a study was made before and after each different traffic control device installation in an attempt to determine which device was the most effective in minimizing conflicts at existing lane drops. A study of conflict deviations indicates that no single type of traffic control device studied was significantly effective in reducing erratic movement and brakelight rates at all seven lane-drop locations. Rather, it appears that different traffic control devices are generally most effective at each of the locations. The single-lane exit without taper constituted the lane-drop classification with the lowest conflict rates. Those lane drops with poorer sight geometries were observed to have higher conflict rates. No definitive relationship between traffic conflict rates and either volumes or accident rates was found for the lane drops studied. Certain data limitations were discovered