Over Seas

Short story about preparations of a young Indian writer for a visit to Australia, narrated by the Australian friend he will be visiting. Includes poetry and memoir

Welcome to the Sunken Place

People of Color entering into the field of Student Affairs continue to face discrimination, racism, systematic oppression and microaggressions. The authors in this article aim to 1. highlight personal experiences, 2. relay some approaches that have paved way for folks within their positions to educate others who hold the power to make conscious decisions and changes for student affairs professionals, specifically People of Color. The article also references scenes from the movie, Get Out (Blum & Peele, 2017) which portrays Chris, a Black man, who is the protagonist and relate to the exploitation and isolation of many People of Color in the field today

Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54

Households are fundamental units of society that possess powerful explanatory potential; however, few studies have approached household organization during the critical contact period within the Mid-Fraser Canyon. The 2012 excavation of Bridge River’s Housepit 54 (HP 54) offers a rare opportunity to investigate such socioeconomic relationships and their spatial manifestations. Hypotheses structured with a household archaeology theoretical framework emphasize household socioeconomic strategies. The first hypothesis outlines a network strategy characterized by greater centralization of power, hierarchical complexity, and material-wealth that is reflected in residential units with individual features and disparate accumulations of prestige goods and high utility resources. Such floor plans have been ethnographically observed among the Thompson and Lower Lillooet. The second hypothesis proposes a corporate household strategy that lacks the centralization of power seen within the household in the network strategy. Such a strategy could be reflected by two spatial arrangements: 1) a collectivist approach with multiple residential units that lack significant wealth-based differences and 2) a communalist approach with a central hearth and shared activity areas. Housepits divided by activity areas or “rooms” predicted by the communalist approach have been described in ethnographies of the Shuswap and the Upper Lillooet as well archaeological reports of the Keatley Creek site. To identify HP 54’s floor plan, this analysis employs GIS mapping techniques to reveal different distributions and clusters of lithic, historic, and faunal data in relation to features. This thesis will examine the relationship between ethnographic and archaeological records as well as indigenous life during the Fur Trade Era, while also contributing to an enhanced understanding of household relationships

The relationship between social engagement and academic engagement in a group of 3rd, 5th, and 7th grade students

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate if there is a relationship between the social engagement and academic engagement of 3rd, 5th, and 7th grade students. The secondary purpose of this study is to examine whether a student\u27s grade level contributes to the strength of this relationship. Sixty-one (31 males and 30 females) 3rd, 5th, and 7th grade students, between the ages of 8 and 13, participated in this study. They were recruited from both elementary and middle schools in a suburban New Jersey school district. Each student was observed for 15 minutes and the student\u27s adaptive and maladaptive behaviors were recorded during this period to generate an academic engagement percentile score for the student. Then, the students completed The Friendship Features Scale to in order to establish a social engagement score for each student. The scores from each of these measures were analyzed using both Pearson correlations and tests of significance (One-way ANOVA). The results suggest that the positive correlation between academic and social engagement is stronger for males than it is for females. The researcher also found that 7th grade students are significantly less engaged in academic activities than 3rd or 5th grade students