The Effects of Negative Political Advertising on Young College-Educated Voters

This study examines the effectiveness of negative and positive political advertisements among voters in college. The study builds on past research exploring negative political advertising and demobilization and mobilization theories. Additionally, potential backlash against sponsoring candidates of negative policy-based attack ads is looked at as is whether those who regularly follow politics are affected differently by ads than those who do not. Fifty-three college students participated in an experiment in which they rated two candidates based on any prior knowledge and political party, assessing favorability and the likelihood of voting for each candidate. Students then watched a ten minute newscast with either a positive or negative ad sponsored by the same candidate embedded during the commercial break. They were asked again to assess their favorability and likelihood of voting for each candidate. No results were found in support of either mobilization or demobilization theories. Results did not show backlash after viewing the negative ad. The positive ad, however, proved more effective in increasing both the sponsoring candidate’s favorability and participants’ reported likelihood of voting for him. Additionally, these findings do not support past research claiming differences in effects between those who regularly follow politics and those who do not

`I Credit the Girls with Keeping the College Going!’: Bryant Women in World War II

With the onset of World War II, men from college campuses across the United States were drafted or volunteered for military service in support of the war effort. This left educational institutions, like Bryant College, with a predominately female population. There were only eleven men in Bryant’s 1944 graduating class of 155 and thirteen men out of a class of 154 graduated in 1945. Across the nation, the enrollment of civilian men declined by 68.7 percent between the class of 1940 and 1944, but at Bryant the enrollment of civilian men declined by 92 percent. This study examines the experiences of two wartime female students, Dottie Hines O’Connell and Mary Walsh Fournier, who graduated from the four-year teacher training program and later joined the Bryant faculty. Both women recall their time at Bryant College as being the most positive, memorable, and rewarding experience of their early life

New Distribution Records of the Tiger-Moth Genus \u3ci\u3ePhragmatobia\u3c/i\u3e in North America (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae)

New distribution records for all three Nearctic species of Phragmatobia include state records (the first records for the states indicated) of P lineata (Maryland, Wisconsin); P fuliginosa rubricosa (Ohio, South Dakota), and P assimilans (Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), all representing southern range extensions at those longitudes except for the Wisconsin records of P lineata, which are northern range extensions. Chelone glabra (Scrophulariaceae) is reported as a larval hostplant of P lineata, and descriptive notes on the larva of this species are included. Midwinter activity of a larva crawling on snow is reported for P fuliginosa rubricosa. The rare original description of Phragmatobia dallii Packard, 1870, is reproduced

The Distribution of Three Broadly Sympatric Species of \u3ci\u3eSymmerista\u3c/i\u3e Moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) in the Great Lakes and Midwest Regions of the United States.

All three superficially inseparable species of Symmerista known to occur in eastern North America are sympatric in, and reach their western limit of distribution in, the southern Great Lakes and Midwest Regions of the United States. In this region two of the species also reach their southern limit of distribution (S. canicosta reaches its southwestern limit in North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Kentucky, and North Carolina; S. leucitys reaches its southwestern limit in North Dakota, Missouri and Kentucky). The third species (S. albifrons) reaches its northwestern limit in Michigan and Wisconsin. All three species are here documented from well beyond their previously reported ranges, and distribution maps are provided for them. Diagnostic male abdominal structures are figured. Larvae of Symmerista are frequently reported as defoliators of oak (Quercus), maple (Acer), and other hardwoods

Geron Calvus (Diptera: Bombyliidae), a Parasite of Solenobia Walshella (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) in Michigan

Excerpt: Very little is known of the biology of bee-flies in the genus Geron; the few available records show that the larvae are parasitic on Lepidoptera larvae. Mik (1896) noted that Geron gibbosus Meigen had been reared from larvae of the pyralid Nephopteryx sublineatella Strg. and the psychid Fumaria crassiorella (Bruand) in Europe, while Maxwell-Lefroy and Howlett (1909) recorded the tortricid Laspeyresia jaculutrix Meyrick as a host of Geron argentifrons Bru. in India. The present paper appears to be the first report on the biology of any North American Geron

Melanderia. Vol. I. 1969. R.D. Akre, Editor; C.A. Johansen, Associate Editor. Irregualr publication of the Washington State Entomological Society, Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163, 35 pp. Free to members of WSES and major institutions.

Excerpt: The dolichopodid fly Melanderia mandibulata Aldrich was named in honor of its discoverer, A.L. Melander, who was prominent in Northwestern entomology during the first quarter of this century. In its name, this new journal also honors the memory of Dr. Melander

Insects. Ross E. Hutchins. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc., 1966. xii, 324 pp. $6.95.

Excerpt: Contemporary entomological writing usually falls into one of two categories: general picture-books designed. for youngsters, and learned monographs and specialized publications that are generally unavailable and incomprehensible to the layman. Insects fills this gap, and interprets modern findings for the advanced amateur, the adult lay public, and even offers insights into aspects of entomology that a professional entomologist, devoted as he is to a specialized field, will find to be new and interesting