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Peace in the Mountains: Northern Appalachian Students Protest the Vietnam War by Thomas Weyant

Reviewed by: Peace in the Mountains: Northern Appalachian Students Protest the Vietnam War by Thomas Weyant Robert S. Weise (bio) Peace in the Mountains: Northern Appalachian Students Protest the Vietnam War. By Thomas Weyant. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2020. Pp. xv, 252. $49.95 cloth; $49.95 ebook) Thomas Weyant brings us back to the college campus, in the tumultuous era of the 1960s–1970s. Not to Berkeley or Wisconsin or Columbia, but to the larger campuses in "northern Appalachia," to Ohio University, West Virginia University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Students at these institutions, Weyant tells us, joined in the movements that shook campuses throughout the country. Like their better-known counterparts, they protested the Vietnam War, demanded changes in curriculum, and challenged official institutional authority. The results were usually less dramatic than those seen elsewhere, and they garnered less national media attention. Still, the students followed the patterns of action and organization that prevailed on campuses nationwide. The Appalachian theme in the book is secondary and perhaps a little strained. The involvement of those three campuses in national movements, Weyant says, undermines the trope, commonly expressed in popular media in the 1960s, that Appalachia was an isolated region disconnected from national life. That's true enough, but, despite governmental regional delineations, few observers would have included these institutions or their surroundings in their mental geography of "isolated Appalachia." Beyond the geographic assertion, the author does not do much with the theme. Weyant might have identified students' regional backgrounds and assessed whether they expressed any kind of Appalachian social identity or commitment. What impact did an Appalachian background have on students' activist or political engagement? Weyant chose not to do that kind of research, and so the "northern Appalachian" angle of the book remains more a framing device than a fully developed idea. Weyant does develop very well the book's main theme—"student citizenship." With a careful demarcation of student actions, Weyant identifies three stages in the advancement of students' claims to [End Page 106] citizenship in the three universities. In the first stage, dated to the early 1960s, university administrations took on the paternalistic role of preparing students for the adult citizenship that would come after graduation. Student political activity occurred mainly as practice for later involvement, as exemplified by the mock conventions for the 1964 Republican primaries that took place on all three campuses. In the second stage, students began to claim their immediate adulthood, rather than accepting it as a future proposition. This stage dates to the middle years of the decade, in the era of War on Poverty mobilization and the civil rights movement. Here, students began direct involvement in these national actions. Over one hundred students from the three universities participated in the demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, in March of 1965. Antipoverty activism brought Pitt students into impoverished urban areas and WVU students into the southern coal fields of the state. In the third stage, students moved from participation to confrontation and opposition, claiming their power to shape practices on campus and to effect change nationally. Military escalation in Vietnam was, of course, the catalyst for this new expression of citizenship. In addition to taking to the streets in mass anti-war demonstrations, students also demanded the removal of ROTC from campus, the extension of Black Studies programs, and a more formal role for students in university decision-making processes. In detailing these stages, Weyant is adding to existing narratives rather than challenging them. He frames each step effectively within the prevailing historiography. The "citizenship" theme is more innovative and adds to narrative coherence. One book cannot cover everything. Weyant's linear exposition does not veer from its path. The source base consists mainly of student newspapers and official university documents, which, as Weyant acknowledges, allows some voices more representation than others. As such, the book has a clear, precise direction, but it also flattens the picture of what were surely diverse and multi-faceted student populations. Gendered understandings of activism, war, poverty, and [End Page 107] civil rights do not get much attention (a situation which Weyant regrets). Specifically, religious voices (say, those of Catholic students at Pitt responding to the...

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Previous articleNext article FreeBack CoverPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreKeynes and His Impact on Female Labor SupplyIn Part II of the History Tripos then one read one’s Special Subject, Modern History, and one or two other subjects, at choice. I read History of Political Ideas, and Economics. I attended the lectures of, and wrote essays for, ‘young Mr. Keynes’. (Dr. Keynes was the Cambridge Registrary.)Mr. Keynes explained the Law of Diminishing Returns, and illustrated it by its effects on a woman dusting a room. For the first three minutes she dusts the tops of tables and other exposed surfaces; she gets off a lot of dust in the first three minutes. Then she dusts the mantelpiece and objects like chair legs; she gets much less dust off in the second three minutes. Then she gets down and dusts under the cupboard, under bookshelves and in the finicky places. She gets very little dust, proportionately for her time.I have never spent more than three minutes in dusting a room since, because of the Law of Diminishing Returns! Young Mr. Keynes (J.M. Keynes) must have influenced a lot of Newnhamites!—M. Deanesly, 1909[Ann Phillips, ed., A Newnham Anthology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 85–86. The book is not specific about the original source of the quote except to say that it came from the Newnham College archives; it may have been drawn from the 1909 or 1911 issue of the student magazine, Thersites.](Suggested by Ailsa Röell) Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 129, Number 12December 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/718226 Views: 438Total views on this site © 2021 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

APPLICATION OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEO IN CREATIVE PROJECTS OF JOURNALISTS STUDENTS IN DISTANCE LEARNING (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE DISCIPLINE: “SPECIALIZATION: INTERNET, TELEVISION”)

The importance of effective organization of the educational process in training of competent specialists - future journalists has been accentuated in the paper. The authors outlined the role of student assessment as a way of orienting higher education towards the personality of an applicant, actively involving them in the educational process, which has an impact on the self-improvement and professionalism of a future specialist. The relevance of innovation practices in distance learning has been substantiated. A scientific review of educational research on distance learning has been implemented. The notions of “educational video”, “video accompaniment”, “video lecture”, “tutorial” and “screencast” have been defined. The main types of educational have been described alongside with the specifics of their creation. The algorithm of creation of educational video has been analyzed and proven to be effective tools. The features and technology of creating educational videos and application of YouTube channels as an interactive platform for the presentation of educational videos of student journalists have been considered. The special features of video lectures given by the fourth year of study journalists have been described. The topics and content of the lecture, specifics of video production, and use of technical programs have been outlined. The difficulties in producing, creating, and installing various types of educational videos have been accentuated. The creation of a video product for independent and individual tasks has been outlined. The introduction of new forms of organization of the educational process is intended to provide future media professionals with the necessary skills and competencies. It focuses on the advice and recommendations of higher education applicants on the advisability of introducing such forms of instruction into the educational process.

Gender and sourcing in student journalism from Australia and New Zealand

Although the proportion of female reporters has increased in almost all regions across the world in recent decades, news content continues to be dominated by male voices. Numerous studies from around the world have found that men generally comprise about 70 per cent of people quoted in news coverage. To date, these studies have focused on mainstream media coverage by established journalists. This article contributes to the existing literature by providing an analysis of student journalism from the Australian aggregated news site, The Junction. The analysis considered the gender of sources quoted, the function of the female sources and the inclusion of gender equality issues in the coverage. Overall, the student journalism was found to include a better gender balance, with females comprising about 44 per cent of overall sources and 46 per cent of expert sources. However, gender equality was the subject of very few stories, and almost all of these were all produced by female students. These findings are considered in relation to a growing body of research calling for gender education to be made compulsory for journalism students.

FERPA and disclosures of COVID‐19 data on campus: A case study

The COVID‐19 pandemic has created major compliance challenges for institutions of higher education, including in the area of student privacy. At various times during the pandemic, postsecondary institutions have been panned for their lack of transparency over COVID‐19 infection rates on campus. For example, there were reports in August 2020 that the University of Alabama instructed faculty members to keep quiet about students who tested positive for COVID‐19. That same month, the University of North Carolina was criticized for refusing to reveal rates of campus infection to its student newspaper.

Boomers and Generation Z on campus: Expectations, goals, and experiences.

Compared to the other Anglo-American democracies, when they start job searches, Canadian post-secondary graduates likely confront more competition from similarly educated youth, and experience a relatively high unemployment rate. In addition, should they find work, there is no guarantee for graduates that it will be in their area of specialization. There is an added possibility that employment will be precarious. By comparison, in the mid-sixties, labour market conditions were more accommodating to university graduates. Are these different labour market conditions consistent with students' expectations, goals, and campus experiences prior to graduation? An answer to this question was found through a comparison of those entering Glendon College, York University, in 1963, and in 2013. The examination was based on surveys students completed in 1963, 1967, 2013, and 2017. Data from these sources was. supplemented by information obtained through interviews with students, archival materials, and by analyzing the contents of the student newspaper. Overall, the expectations of Glendon students in the 1960s, and 50 years later, were in keeping with respective favourable and unfavorable labour market conditions. For students' experiences this was not the case. Despite considerable changes in the labour market, the way in which students experienced their time on campus was comparable in the two eras.

Stanford Initiative Engages Media About Mental Health, Suicide

Stanford Initiative Engages Media About Mental Health, Suicide

Choice Architecture - How to make daunting decisions feel doable

When my niece started high school, she had a big decision to make. She was a talented soccer, softball, and basketball player, and when she wasn’t playing sports, she was busy with a fast-growing business making and selling “slime.” But she couldn’t do everything. Each activity took an increasing amount of time, and she was curious to try new activities—robotics, and maybe the school newspaper. And what about all the possibilities she didn’t know about yet?

Radical Empathy in the University Archives: Examining Archival Representations of Chinese Students from 1906 to 1920

AbstractWith the increase in Anti‐Asian hate crimes in the United States in 2020, it is essential for information institutions to reflect on how they are confronting the oppression of Asian communities. Guided by the concept of radical empathy, we conducted an analysis on how historical Chinese students at the University of Illinois were documented and described in the university's archives. Relevant archival materials, descriptive metadata, and additional archives‐generated materials were examined to identify potential representation issues. The preliminary findings include: (1) Chinese students are mostly visible in registers and yearbooks, with some well‐known alumni also appearing in newspapers and correspondence; (2) Some culturally insensitive terms occasionally appeared in historical student newspaper articles; (3) Name variations related to Chinese “courtesy names” and hyphenations can lead to challenges in creating descriptive metadata and affect the discoverability of Chinese students in the archives.

PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS DAN MENULIS TEKS BERITA (Studi pada mata pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia Kelas VIII SMPNegeri 1 Pulau Pinang)

This study aims to describe the application of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) learning models to improve students' critical thinking skills, write news texts. This research was conducted using Classroom Action Research (CAR) and quasi-experimental. The subjects of the study were students of class VIII in semester one of the 2019/2020 school year at SMPN 1 Pulau Pinang. For quasi-experimental samples of classes 8.1 and 8.3. Data collection methods in this study used observation sheets for the CIRC model and critical thinking skills, as well as tests to measure the ability to write student news texts. For data analysis the average score analysis and t-test were used. From the results of the study, it shows that the application of the CIRC learning model can improve the ability to think critically and write news texts for Grade VIII students of SMPN 1 Pulau Pinang.

Saving Face While (Not) Talking about Race: How Undergraduates Inhabit Racialized Structures at an Elite and Predominantly White College

Abstract Through a qualitative case study of an elite, predominantly White, liberal arts college, we find that the unmarked Whiteness of core organizational structures and practices socialized undergraduates to normalize segregation while commodifying diversity. Analysis of publicly available documents (webpages, student newspaper, speeches) and student interviews (n=57) revealed that individuals’ attitudes were filtered through organizational structures. When students spoke about race, they tended to use two scripts: diversity script and/or naturalization of segregation script. Yet these culturally legitimated scripts were decoupled from organizational practices. Even though most students claimed to value diversity for its learning potential, many students believed social segregation was “natural,” and either “opted out” of conversations about race or “opted in” to conversations within homogeneous friend groups to maintain respectability within tightly-knit, well-resourced campus networks. The decoupling of structures, scripts, and behaviors motivated undergraduates of all races to adopt White, elite norms for (not) talking about race, which we dub “civilized diversity discourse.” Drawing on racialized organizations theory, we argue that the unmarked Whiteness of organizational structures—as well as the college’s size and status—shaped students’ scripts and behaviors in ways that ensure the enactment and entrenchment of racial ignorance and structural White supremacy.

Student News - Fall 2021

In this issue of Student News we hear updates from three student chapters. We also present two newly chartered student chapters approved by the ECS Board of Directors.

Student Voice under Fire: A Look at Student Press Freedoms and the Challenges They’re Facing

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Determinants of Attitudes toward Ethical Dilemmas in News: A Survey of Student Journalists

ABSTRACT In this research, we surveyed 214 college journalists to assess their attitudes toward a series of ethical dilemmas. Significant predictors of a nine-item index included years enrolled in college, completion of an ethics course, ethics training as a part of student media, informal discussions about ethics in student media, number of situations calling for an ethics-related decision, familiarity with the ethics code of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and use of that code. Of these determinants, familiarity with the SPJ code showed the strongest association with the response measure. Findings suggest that formal instruction of ethics and professional journalistic norms should continue and that students should be encouraged to gain practical experience during their college years. Additionally, data suggest the SPJ code can prove useful as a pedagogical tool and should be incorporated into both classrooms and newsrooms.

Training political reporters during a federal election: The UniPollWatch student journalism project

UniPollWatch was the largest student journalism project ever undertaken in Australia. Approximately 1000 students from 28 universities worked to cover the 2016 federal election. The project aimed to provide effective training on political reporting in a work-integrated learning environment. Utilising a combination of analysis and descriptions of the project and a survey research methodology, the results of this project suggest that by placing student reporters in the midst of a fluid and highly contested election environment they learn by observing and doing. The project demonstrated that students’ attitudes to, and aptitude for, covering politics varied greatly, but that the skills needed for political reporting can be improved through projects such as UniPollWatch.

We Are Nobody’s Fools: The Radicalization of the Hampton Script from 1930–1959 to Advance Black Activism

At Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Virginia, student journalists continued the tradition of publishing the Hampton Script. During this time, the Script covered race, politics, and community building during decades of economic and racial turmoil. Despite publishing on the campus of one of the country’s oldest historically Black universities, the Script departed from the conservative leanings of Hampton and embraced an aggressive tone to advocate for racial uplift and equality. Furthermore, the student editors and writers adopted a mission to actively engage the paper’s audience by delivering news about race, politics, and community solidarity. In doing so, the Script embraced the traditional role of the Black press—that of being the champion for the race and forum for protest.

The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation

The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation

READING BEYOND THE STROKES: A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF EDITORIAL CARTOONS ON A CAMPUS NEWSPAPER OF A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES

Editorial cartoons have an unchallenged history as a unique and important artefact in both political and cultural discourses. In journalism, they offer varied insights and may eventually alter beliefs and opinions, influence politics, trigger discussions, and give life to ideas. This paper investigates the signs and meanings of editorial cartoons published in a campus newspaper of a tertiary school in the Philippines. It anchors on Chandler’s semiotic concepts in analyzing the editorial cartoons that incorporate both the Saussurean dyadic concept of signs, signifier and signified, and the Peircean triadic concept of signs as symbolic indexical, and iconic. It also considers Leymore’s idea of the figure and ground, which identifies the primary, secondary, and tertiary signifiers based on their importance or impact on editorial cartoons. Analysis shows that editorial cartoons contain all types of signifiers, primary, secondary, and tertiary, which work together to effectively convey the intended meanings to its target readers. These signifiers also possess certain characteristics as being symbolic, indexical, and iconic and they blend together to enrich the editorial cartoons’ intended meanings. Furthermore, these editorial cartoons illustrate the newspaper’s perceptions as well as its stand on various issues and concerns relating or affecting the students and the whole academic community. Although these editorial cartoons are only published in the campus newspaper, they do not only deal with important local issues and concerns but in the national and global spheres as well.

Analisis Penerapan Prinsip Layout, Tipografi, Warna, dan Gambar Pada Sampul Majalah “Dinamika

This study aims to analyze and describe how the cover of the student press magazine "Dinamika" State Islamic University of North Sumatra applies magazine cover design based on the principles of layout, typography, and color selection and images. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. The subject of this research is the student press magazine "Dinamika" UIN SU edition 29 to edition 50 with a total of 15 magazine covers using purposive sampling technique. The results of this study explain the number of magazine covers that apply the very good category layout principle as many as 5 covers (33%), 5 good (33%), 3 good enough (20%), and 2 cover (14%) less good. The application of the principles of typography in very good categories was 4 covers (27%), 6 good (40%), 1 (6%) good enough, and 4 covers (27%) not good enough. Color selection for very good categories was 7 covers (47%), good 3 (20%), good enough 4 (27%), and less good as many as 1 cover (6%). In the selection of images, there were 3 covers (20%), 6 (40%), 2 (14%) good enough, and 4 (27%) not good. Overall, the results of this study concluded that the quality of the application of the principles of layout, typography, colors, and images on the cover design of the UIN SU student press magazine "Dinamika" was categorized as quite good.

American Gold Digger: Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith

This study of gold diggers is illuminating and original. Donovan defines gold digger as a woman who pursues romantic relationships primarily for economic gain. In five chapters organized chronologically and thematically, he examines the evolution of this stereotype from its emergence before World War I through Anna Nicole Smith’s marriage to an elderly billionaire in 1994. One chapter explores a moral panic about alimony in the 1920s; another investigates a 1930s crusade to end heart balm laws (prohibiting seduction, breach of promise, and alienation of affection); and a third analyzes a furor over “Allotment Annies” who married multiple servicemen apiece during World War II to pocket their military allowances. Another covers the Lee Marvin–Michelle Triola palimony case of the 1970s.According to Donovan, the trope originated in the early 1910s from the urban-amusement culture of dance halls and popular theater. In this setting, on the boundary between prostitution and dating, the custom of “treating” arose—women exchanging sex and companionship for money and gifts from men. Women who participated in these exchanges were young, good looking, sexually charged, deceptive, and manipulative; most of them appear to have been white and to have come from working-class backgrounds. Although few were actual sex workers, they nonetheless offended genteel sensibilities and, perhaps as a legacy of the recent Klondike gold rush, became known as “gold diggers.”A playwright named Avery Hopwood, who overheard dancers in the Ziegfeld Follies call each other gold diggers, borrowed the term to entitle his 1919 play about the travails of New York City chorus girls. The phenomenal success of The Gold Diggers and its remake as a silent film in 1923 and as a musical in 1929 turned what had been a slang phrase into a powerful, enduring stereotype. From the outset, the stereotype was pejorative and gendered, with class and racial overtones. Notwithstanding that the chorus girls who inspired Hopwood embraced the slang term and applied it to themselves knowingly and even affectionately, Donovan says that the stereotype has always been wielded against women, often when established systems of marriage and courtship break down. Gold diggers are vilified for being childlike, frivolous, and unsophisticated, as well as scheming and sexually adventurous. The stereotype has persisted because it allows Americans to concentrate their wrath on supposed individual misbehavior, diverting attention from larger cultural transformations and social inequities.Much of American Gold Digger comprises an analysis of popular culture, particularly the understandings spawned by movies, television shows, and celebrities. He correctly suggests that the messages promulgated by popular culture are essential to this kind of history. For example, Anita Loos’ development of her Lorelei Lee character played an outsize role in fixing the gold digger in the American imagination, first through the publication of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a book in 1925 and later as a film that starred Marilyn Monroe. Loos also wrote the screenplay for Red-Headed Woman (1932), the archetypal portrait of a femme fatale, played by Jean Harlow, who uses sex to improve her social position.As enlightening as this perspective is, however, it hides a flaw in its methodology. As his study moves beyond the 1920s, Donovan becomes so narrowly focused on popular and celebrity cultures that he cannot say how the stereotype waxed and waned on the ground or how ordinary people received it, revised it, and used it in their daily lives. It is not clear how or whether some women could mount a defense of their materialism. Nor do we learn whether women ever applied a variant of the stereotype against men, as fortune hunters. In this book, the gold-digger stereotype floats freely through popular culture, its direction unalterable by regular people.A historical study that Donovan cites in his text and that navigated similar terrain, Beth L. Bailey’s From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore,1988), employs a better methodology. In addition to consulting sources like advice and etiquette manuals that prescribed dating rules, Bailey incorporated the voices of young women by conducting research in college newspapers and in letters to the editors of popular magazines. In Bailey’s telling, women were not just victims of popular culture; they both interacted with it and acted of their own volition. American Gold Digger is insightful, but Bailey’s approach would have strengthened it.