Priestcraft. Anatomising the Anti-Clericalism of Early Modern Europe.

This paper aims to take the measure of the strand of early modern anti-clericalism that was conveyed by the term “priestcraft.” Priestcraft amounted to the claim that priests had illegitimately usurped civil power and accumulated material wealth by systematically deceiving the laity and its secular rulers. Religion as it was practised and avowed by believers in early modern Europe was left tainted by this charge since manifold aspects of religious practice and belief fell under the pall of the suspicion that they were merely part of the ruse perpetrated through the centuries by greedy and power-hungry priests. While the English language was particularly effective in condensing this claim into the term in question, mistrust of the clergy informed numerous discourses unfolding in the diverse confessional and intellectual contexts of early modern Europe. The present article seeks to draw attention to the thematic richness of priestcraft as an object of historical inquiry by identifying the multiple ways in which this trope made its presence felt in the early modern world

The Role Of The Campus Professional As A Moral Mentor

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Standing At The Intersection: Reconsidering The Balance In Administration

Student life administrators everywhere recognize the scenario: sitting in conference with a student, expounding institutional policies, explaining a particular action because policy “requires” it. They can also recall pursuing action against a student who, while clearly violating the letter of a policy, seems more a confused adolescent than an intentional offender. Student development professionals “theoretically” deal with these issues by addressing the needs of students in the context of a developmentally appropriate educational environment. In that small, remote region that administrators identify as their “gut,” they also know that tomorrow morning their attempts at development may be featured in the local paper’s headline story about unregulated behavior on college campuses. They face media attention, government regulations, professional organization ethical standards, local policy, and their own, sometimes conflicting, values. They are constantly challenged by the questions What should we do?What will we do? How will we decide

Beyond Law And Policy: Reaffirming The Role Of Student Affairs.

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Developing assessment procedures and assessing two models of escalation behavior among community college administrators

Escalation behavior occurs when individual decision-makersrepeatedly investtime, money, and other resources into a failing project. Aconceptual model of escalationbehavior based on project, organizational, social and psychological forces was developed,and a 75item measurement instrument was constructedto assess the various dimensions. Themodel was tested using data collected from a random sample of North Carolina CommunityCollegeadministrators. A LISREL measurement model analysis provided support for thefour escalation forces. Two structural modelswere tested, leading to support for amediational model for escalation behavior. The most important contributor to Escalation wasthe Psychological force

Conduct Systems Designed To Promote Moral Learning

Historically, those responsible for administration of student conduct resolution in U.S. higher education have sought some manner of moral development for students, whether labeled as such or not. It is clear that contemporary conduct officers are more deeply concerned with such student development as an extension of their practice. Many such professionals may frame the question as “What am I trying to accomplish with this student, and why?” In this chapter, I explore the history of student conduct systems; discuss the evolution of learning, development, and conduct; and consider the conduct professional as moral mentor

A comparison of statewide public higher education agencies

This study examined the relation of statewide coordination agencies' control functions to the outputs of state systems of higher education in Virginia and North Carolina. The Council of Higher Education for Virginia, a coordinating agency with regulatory authority, and the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina system, a governing board authority, represented the two most frequently chosen agency forms of statewide coordination for higher education. Data were collected for the years 1967 through 1982, inclusive of the period between 1972 and 1974 when these agencies were established in the two states. Data were based on inputs and outputs theorized from institutional operations under the supervision of the statewide agencies. Major findings included the unreliability of quantitative historical data from institutions of higher learning in the two states due to variations in measurement and collection techniques. Statistical summaries of these data which could be provided suggested that differences in the outputs of the institutions, were reflective of intended outcomes of the statewide agency decision making process

Double Diffraction Dissociation at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

We present results from a measurement of double diffraction dissociation in $\bar pp$ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The production cross section for events with a central pseudorapidity gap of width $\Delta\eta^0>3$ (overlapping $\eta=0$) is found to be $4.43\pm 0.02{(stat)}{\pm 1.18}{(syst) mb}$ [$3.42\pm 0.01{(stat)}{\pm 1.09}{(syst) mb}$] at $\sqrt{s}=1800$ [630] GeV. Our results are compared with previous measurements and with predictions based on Regge theory and factorization.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, using RevTeX. Submitted to Physical Review Letter

Search for Gluinos and Scalar Quarks in ppˉp\bar{p} Collisions at s=1.8\sqrt{s}=1.8 TeV using the Missing Energy plus Multijets Signature

We have performed a search for gluinos (\gls) and squarks (\sq) in a data sample of 84 pb$^{-1}$ of \ppb collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.8 TeV, recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, by investigating the final state of large missing transverse energy and 3 or more jets, a characteristic signature in R-parity-conserving supersymmetric models. The analysis has been performed `blind', in that the inspection of the signal region is made only after the predictions from Standard Model backgrounds have been calculated. Comparing the data with predictions of constrained supersymmetric models, we exclude gluino masses below 195 \gev (95% C.L.), independent of the squark mass. For the case \msq \approx \mgls, gluino masses below 300 \gev are excluded.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure

Search for a Technicolor omega_T Particle in Events with a Photon and a b-quark Jet at CDF

If the Technicolor omega_T particle exists, a likely decay mode is omega_T -> gamma pi_T, followed by pi_T -> bb-bar, yielding the signature gamma bb-bar. We have searched 85 pb^-1 of data collected by the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron for events with a photon and two jets, where one of the jets must contain a secondary vertex implying the presence of a b quark. We find no excess of events above standard model expectations. We express the result of an exclusion region in the M_omega_T - M_pi_T mass plane.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures. Available from the CDF server (PS with figs): http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/pub98/cdf4674_omega_t_prl_4.ps FERMILAB-PUB-98/321-