From the Editors - Diverse People, Diverse Approaches

We are proud to announce Praxis’ second volume as a peer-reviewed journal. Our call for articles addressing diversity in the writing center fielded a record number of submissions. We thank all of the authors who submitted careful, insightful, creative and challenging work. We also want to thank our external review board and our editorial team as well as the administrative staff at the Undergraduate Writing Center. Andrea Saathoff, who led Praxis into peerreview status last year and continues to work behind the scenes, deserves a special “Thank you.” This journal, like the writing-center scholarship and pedagogy it supports, exists because of the committed, collaborative work of a broad community of writers and educators. To our authors, reviewers, editors, readers and supporters—Thank you.University Writing Cente

Archivos tridimensionales: Los modelos Augier para el Museo de Arqueología de Marseilles, Francia

In 1863 the Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology opened its doors in Marseilles, France. From 1863 to 1889 one of its employees, Hippolyte Augier, conceived of and constructed 79 scale models representing ancient monuments and archaeological sites. This collection was exhibited in the museum with didactical and educational purposes. During the early 20th century these models were removed from the showcases and put into storage. In the last twenty years archaeologists have rediscovered Augier’s works, and his models have become archaeological archives. These documents constitute a very relevant source of information for the history of archaeology. The series of 79 models that he made can be considered as a coherent set. Studied in connection with other documents such as archives, collections and publications, the series expresses a particular conception of archaeology at the end of the 19th century.En 1863, el Museo de Arqueología Mediterránea abrió sus puertas en Marseilles (Francia). Entre 1863 y 1889, uno de los sus empleados, Hippolyte Augier, concibió y construyó 79 maquetas representando monumentos clásicos y yacimientos emblemáticos. Su colección fue exhibida en el museo con fines didácticos y educacionales. A lo largo del siglo XX, las maquetas fueron retiradas del museo y olvidadas. Sin embargo, durante los últimos veinte años, los arqueólogos han redescubierto el trabajo de Augier y sus maquetas se han convertido en verdaderos archivos arqueológicos. Dichos documentos constituyen una valiosa fuente de información para la historia de la arqueología. Las 79 maquetas que Augier construyó pueden considerarse como un todo coherente. Analizadas en conexión con otras fuentes como archivos, colecciones y publicaciones, las maquetas de Augier expresan una particular concepción de la arqueología a finales del siglo XIX

Morphologically structured vocalizations in female Diana monkeys

Research was funded by the French Ministry of Research, Institut Universitaire de France, ANR ‘Orilang’ and the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/European Research Council grant agreement n° 283871.Social complexity is often thought of as a driving force in the evolution of communication and cognition, but this is at odds with the fact that nonhuman primates generally display only very limited flexibility in vocal production. Some primates partially overcome their limited vocal flexibility by combining two or more acoustically inflexible calls into complex sequences. Equally relevant is that some primate calls consist of separable morphological elements whose combinations create different meanings. Here, we focus on the vocal system of wild female Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana, which produce three call units (R, L, A) either singly or merged as RA or LA call combinations. Previous work has shown that R and L convey information about external events, while A conveys information about caller identity. We tested this hypothesis experimentally, by broadcasting artificially combined utterances to eight adult females. To test the significance of the R and L ‘event’ units, we merged them with the A ‘identity’ unit of a group member. To test the significance of the ‘identity’ unit, we merged an R ‘event’ unit with an ‘identity’ unit from a group member or a neighbouring individual. Subjects responded in ways that suggested that both event and identity units were relevant, suggesting that Diana monkeys’ social calls possess morphosemantic features. We discuss this finding in relation to the coevolution of communication and social complexity in primates.PostprintPeer reviewe

Third-Party Effects

Most theories about effects of social embeddedness on trust define mechanisms that assume someone’s decision to trust is based on the reputation of the person to be trusted or on other available information. However, there is little empirical evidence about how subjects use the information that is available to them. In this chapter, we derive hypotheses about the effects of reputation and other information on trust from a range of theories and we devise an experiment that allows for testing these hypotheses simultaneously. We focus on the following mechanisms: learning, imitation, social comparison, and control. The results show that actors learn particularly from their own past experiences. Considering third-party information, imitation seems to be especially important

Ernest Boyer and the New American College: Connecting the Disconnects

About three ago, a new word cropped up in the lexicon of educators: the disconnect . Some neologisms vanish as suddenly as they appear, but this one proved especially hardy and useful, providing an easy way to describe lost connections or areas where linkages ought to exist but do not

The Restricted Unrestricted Line Officer: The Status of the Navy\u27s Woman Line Officer

The following article analyzes both the roles women line officers theoretically play in today\u27s Navy and the actual positions they now hold down

An Evaluation of U.S. Naval Presence in the Indian Ocean

The British Government announced in 1960 that it would withdraw all military forces from East of Suez by the end of 1971 except for a small garrison in Hong Kong (a policy which ie under review by the recently elected Heath government). Thereafter, units would return only for exercise purposes

Is There Room For Women in Navy Management an Attitudinal Survey

Women college graduates have the aptitudes and/or experience to perform effectively as line officers in the Navy. Agree? Disagree?* Within industry, business, and the Federal Government our society has begun to recognize women as competi­tive members at the managerial level. Surveys have been conducted, seminars convened, college courses developed-all aimed at promoting women as more productive members of our society