Issues in equivalence: Information literacy and the distance student

Information Literacy is a recognised lifelong learning skill, and an expected graduate attribute. With the growth in distance provision of tertiary education it is important to acknowledge the barriers faced by distance students and the difficulties libraries face in delivering equivalent learning opportunities to students who are physically isolated from their institution. This paper outlines the importance of information literacy, the major barriers faced by distance students and makes suggestions as to how institutions and their libraries can better meet their learning needs

Paying for College: Availability of Need-Based Financial Aid for New Jersey's Working Adults

Examines barriers to low-income working adult students' access to Education Opportunity Fund and Tuition Aid Grants; challenges such as childcare needs; and lack of data for tracking the state's progress in making college affordable. Recommends reforms

Volcanic eruptions in latin poetry

Se analizan varios problemas textuales y de interpretación en el poema "Etna" de Virgilio.Several textual and interpretative problems in Virgil’s "Aetna" are analyzed

Textual problems in roman poetry

Se examinan y explican varios fragmentos de poetas latinos hasta ahora no bien entendidos por los críticos

Further studies in the texts of latin poets

Notas críticas y de interpretación acerca de las Fábulas de Aviano y las Silvae de Estacio.Some critical and interpretative notes about Avianus' Fables and Statius' Silvae

Observations on the text of Theocritus

Se analizan varios problemas textuales y de interpretación en los "Idilios" de TeócritoSeveral textual and interpretative problems in the "Idylls" of Theocritus are analyzed

How Paul Became the Straight Word: Protestant Biblicism and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Biblical Heteronormativity

This essay traces out how a seemingly ancient truth of antihomosexual condemnation came to be implanted in American Bibles and lodged—in particular—in the epistles of the apostle Paul. The Pauline texts of Romans and 1 Corinthians are the most frequently cited proof texts for biblical condemnation of homosexuality. The same-sex meanings of these passages are often not perceived as interpretations; they are imputed to the text and its historical context as the timeless, original meaning. Viewed historically, however, there are many things that are puzzlingly new about this plain biblical speech