Collegiate Chapter Research Articles

Establishing and promoting the CPNP Collegiate Chapter at Purdue University

The Purdue collegiate chapter of CPNP, established in the fall of 2010, was one of four pilot chapters launched across the nation. This article will discuss the development, implementation, of the chapter. Chapter involvement in the community and fundraising events will also be discussed.

Student Affairs Professionals, Black 'Greek' Hazing, and University Civil Liability

Violent hazing within black Greek-letter organizations (BGLOs) has cost lives and millions of dollars in civil damages to BGLO members, BGLOs, and host institutions. To date, little scholarship has focused on the role of the law as it relates to BGLO hazing. This article explores the role student affairs professionals play in BGLO collegiate chapter advising and how their advising may place their academic institutions at risk for hazing liability. Prophylactic measures are recommended.

Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16.), Tomus VII Fontes Archivi terrae Moraviae Brunae , and: Řeholní kanovníci sv. Augustina v Lanškrouně. Dějiny a diplomatář kláštera / The Canons Regular of St Augustine in Lanškroun: History and Diplomatarium of the Monastery (review)

Reviewed by: Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16.), Tomus VII Fontes Archivi terrae Moraviae Brunae, and: Řeholní kanovníci sv. Augustina v Lanškrouně. Dějiny a diplomatář kláštera / The Canons Regular of St Augustine in Lanškroun: History and Diplomatarium of the Monastery Robert Curry Krafl, Pavel, ed., Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16.), Tomus VII Fontes Archivi terrae Moraviae Brunae, Prague, Institutum historicum Academiae scientiarum Rei publicae Bohemicae, 2010; cloth; pp. 495; ISBN 9788072861729. Krafl, Pavel, Petra Mutlová, and Dana Stehlíková, eds, Řeholní kanovníci sv. Augustina v Lanškrouně. Dějiny a diplomatář kláštera / The Canons Regular of St Augustine in Lanškroun: History and Diplomatarium of the Monastery (Opera Instituti historici Pragae, B/7), Prague, Historický ústav, 2010; cloth; pp. 399; 16 b/w illustrations, 38 colour plates; ISBN 9788072861767. ‘A useless, dilatory, ill-esteemed dissolver and unworthy disposer of the Holy Roman Empire’ – the verdict of history has been damning on Václav IV (Wenceslaus) and his reign, the period covered by these two handsome volumes. But no matter how tumultuous the world outside, the work of notaries employed in the great bureaucracies of church and state rarely slackened; quite the contrary. Putting in order and making available the wealth of archival documents that survive from the four decades of Václav’s reign has kept Czech scholars busy for more years than the documents themselves cover. Through most of the past century the history of the Czech Church and its institutions has not been a particularly lively area of research (the Hussite revolution excepted), unlike that of Poland and Hungary, countries whose history, religious history especially, was closely intertwined with that of Bohemia–Moravia. Scholars of Czech ecclesiastical history had to rely largely on information gleaned from monumental registers of archival documents pertaining to diplomatic history, undertakings commenced in the mid-nineteenth century: the Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Regni Bohemie, the Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae, and the Regesta diplomatica nec non epistolaria Bohemiae et Moraviae (RBM). The RBM commenced in 1855; by 1892 it had produced four volumes covering the period 600–1346. Thereafter the pace slowed. Two fascicles of Volume VI (1355–57) appeared in the late 1920s while the remaining ten fascicles of Volumes V–VII, covering less than two decades (1346–63) of the reign of Václav’s father, Charles IV, appeared at irregular intervals from 1958 to 2004. For the period 1378–1419, Václav IV’s reign, the RBM adopted a different taxonomy (and modified title): Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16). The RBMV assigns a volume to each archival institution or to a group of archives all of a similar type; within [End Page 227] each volume entries are ordered chronologically. To date, volumes have been devoted to the archives of the Prague Metropolitan Chapter (seven fascicles, published 1967–81), to the Vyšehrad Collegiate Chapter (1969), to the State Regional Archive in Třeboň (1977), to the Provincial Archive in Opava comprising the Olomouc bishopric and cathedral chapter (1989), and to the National Archives (2006–07). The volume to hand, the seventh in the series (hereafter RBMV-7), is devoted to material from the Moravian Archive in Brno. As the editor Pavel Krafl makes clear, only instruments and letters extant as original and medieval copies are included; similarly, only documents pertaining directly to matters concerned with Czech history and affairs are gathered into RBMV-7. The Moravian Archive yields 701 instruments and letters from a total of thirty-nine funds and collections. In view of the above tight restrictions on what can be included, all the more valuable are the summary outlines of the character of each fund and collection, and the location of repositories of material which falls outside the criteria for inclusion. RBMV-7 is equipped with a preface in Czech and an extended version in English together with an invaluable ten-page bibliography. The register itself maintains the high standard in diplomatics seen in Krafl’s earlier volume on the synods and statutes of the diocese of Olomouc. Heading each entry...

Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools (review)

Max Harris. Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 322. $49.95. In Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools Max Harris sweeps away the generally held view of the Feast of Fools as one of misrule, burlesque, and excess. This misunderstanding based on faulty nineteenth-century French scholarship has held sway in large part because of the influence of E. K. Chambers. While granting that The Medieval Stage as a collection of data has yet to be replaced, Harris rejects Chambers's stereotype of the Feast of Fools, rightly critical of linguistic howlers (ullulando translated as howling instead of wailing) and of his penchant for generalizing from inadequate evidence. For misrule Harris substitutes order. He does so by focusing on the liturgy of the Circumcision, introducing readers to the scripted additions (23) to the canonical hours in cathedrals and collegiate chapels for New Year's Day. Harris begins by defining the word fool scripturally, explicating the deposuit clause of the Magnificat sung daily at Vespers: Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles (He has put down the powerful from their seat and raised up the lowly). A literal interpretation of this clause underlay the liturgical innovations for the Circumcision, the special feast of the subdeacons, as it did for the choirboys on their feast of the Holy Innocents. At First Vespers subdeacons assumed roles normally filled by the cantor or a deacon in the recitation of the Hours, relinquishing these at Second Vespers, followed by a festive New Year's Day collation in their honor. Such role reversal was sacred folly, not misrule. Point by point Harris deconstructs the old history by meticulously analyzing the documentary evidence. The sources fall into three categories: liturgical texts for the Office of the Circumcision; denunciations, ranging from those of Innocent the III and his legates to the Council of Basel, and the theological faculty of the University of Paris, as well as rebuttals from cathedral and collegiate chapters stoutly defending their feast; and inventories citing paraphernalia for the feast, the rod of office and copes for the subdeacons, which were already in poor condition when cited in the 1225 inventory at St. Patti's London. Documentary evidence for the Feast of Fools begins in northern France in the second half of the twelfth century, the phrase festum stultorum first used by the Parisian liturgist John Beleth (1160-64). The earliest recorded innovations are preserved in an ordinal from Chalons-en-Champagne (1151) and in the decree from the bishop of Paris (1198), but they pale in comparison with the elaborate office composed for Sens by Peter of Corbeil (1200-1222). Harris summarizes these rites in detail. His conclusions cannot be gainsaid: these were well-ordered liturgical rites enriched with complex musical compositions. (Presumably, Harris selected the image from the Tres riches heures for the dust jacket because the expressions on the faces of the choir members illustrate how challenging the music was.) As for denunciations, Harris demonstrates that the Feast of Fools was used as a whipping boy for a number of clerical infractions. Early official complaints relied on generalization rather than specific accusation, but in the first half of the fifteenth century attacks intensified, beginning with Jean Gerson and culminating in rabid denunciations in 1445 emanating from the theological faculty at the University of Paris. In a chapter devoted to the Paris letter, Harris concludes that the letter was a rant based on error and secondhand complaints about riotous behavior in the city streets on New Year's Day rumored to have taken place in church. Harris sounds very much like a well-briefed debater demolishing the arguments of the opposition. Like the best historians, however, he is also a very good storyteller with an eye for fascinating facts and a knack for fleshing out character in the acrimonious disputes between bishops and their cathedral and collegiate chapters defending their long-accustomed rites for New Year's Day. …

Creating International Community Service Learning Experiences in a Capstone Marketing-Projects Course

This article outlines the development of a project-based capstone marketing course, specifically designed to provide marketing students with an international community service learning experience. It differs significantly from previous studies, which focus on integrating service learning into existing marketing courses and on helping local nonprofit organizations. The focus of the course outlined in this article is on strengthening marketing-related competencies acquired through earlier coursework; developing broader work-related competencies, such as cross-functional thinking, teamwork, communication, and cultural sensitivity; and operating a collegiate chapter of a nonprofit engaged in international community service. The course described is well aligned with other significant trends in undergraduate business education: it is multidisciplinary, it emphasizes collaborative learning, it is founded on carefully articulated learning outcomes, and learning success is assessed. It provides a transformational experience and prepares students for a global and diverse workplace. A framework for course design is presented, and a set of pedagogical materials is provided that other marketing educators can use to develop and launch a significant international, multidisciplinary community service learning course.

Collegiate Chapters and Faculty Advisors

Collegiate Chapters and Faculty Advisors

Collegiate Chapters and Faculty Advisors

Collegiate Chapters and Faculty Advisors