Goffman Demonstrated the Best Teaching Skills of Any Professor I Had Ever Had!

Dr. Jane Prather, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Northridge, wrote this memoir at the request of Dmitri Shalin and gave her permission to post it in the Erving Goffman Archives

It's Just as Easy to Marry a Rich Man as a Poor One! Students' Accounts of Parental Messages About Marital Partners

What's happening in the 1980s concerning marital choices? Parents of today's college students were themselves seeking marital partners in the 1960s when traditional sexual norms were challenged including "living together" and innovative weddings. How are these parents responding to the dating choices and practices of their children? This paper presents some exploratory research on the mate selection socialization process as recalled by college students

Book Review: Men and Gender Relations

Review of Men and Gender Relations by Bob Peas

From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston

This biography discusses the life of Joshua Houston starting at around twelve years of age until his death in 1902. The text includes commentary on the historical context of his life and anecdotal accounts. Index starts on page 259

HISTORY OF MEDICINE ASSOCIATES LECTURE

service in the Navy Medical Corps, he returned to Arkansas. He served a residency and a traineeship at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, and in 1961 was appointed an Instructor in Medicine at that institution. He taught, published, and served in other capacities until his retirement and acquisition of Emeritus status in 2000. He has received awards for excellence as a physician, and a teacher. He is an Inaugural Member of the UAMS College of Medicine Hall of Fame. His topic is in keeping with his deep and continuing interest in the written word and the practice of medicine

A Stratospheric Chemical Instability

The equations which determine partitioning of Clx in steady state have multiple (three) solutions under conditions which might arise in the high-latitude winter stratosphere. Two of these solutions are stable, one is unstable, to infinitesimal perturbations. The relative stability of solutions is examined by subjecting the system to finite perturbations. The more stable solution is found to eliminate the less stable when semi-infinite volumes of the two solutions are placed in contact. The high-ClO, low-NO2 solution is more stable under most conditions. Transitions from less to more stable states are slow in winter but may occur more rapidly when the seasonal variation of insolation is taken into account