Southern Illinois University At Carbondale Research Articles

A New Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi at Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

This article examines a previously unknown Latin manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi (MVC) at Morris Library, Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). The MVC was a popular medieval devotional text chronicling the life of Christ and originally attributed to the medieval Franciscan theologian Bonaventure, but more recently to the Franciscan preacher John of Caulibus. The manuscript was discovered during an inventory of the Morris Library’s Special Collections in 2010 and, thus, not consulted by C. Mary Stallings-Taney for her critical edition of the MVC published in 1997. Stallings-Taney based the Latin text of her edition on eleven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Latin manuscripts housed in European libraries. In particular, she relied on a consensus of four fourteenth-century manuscripts that, in her view, contained a more original text less influenced by later Neo-Latin alterations. The SIUC MVC manuscript shares some defining characteristics with this oldest group of manuscripts and is followed by a fourteen-leaf epilogue after the final chapter. The decoration and script of the SIUC MVC suggest it should be dated to the late thirteenth or early fourteenth centuries, making it one of the earliest known copies of this text. In this paper, I provide an overview and description of the SIUC MVC manuscript, a comparison of the SIUC MVC to the 1997 critical edition, and a discussion about the implications that the SIUC MVC manuscript has for the date and authorship of the MVC.

Effect of closed circuits drip irrigation system and lateral lines length on growth, yield, quality and water use efficiency of soybean crop

Field experiment was conducted for one growing season (2012) in clay loam soil at the Experimental Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), USA on soybean crop to study the effect of: 1) the closed drip irrigation system: closed circuits with one and two a manifolds for lateral lines (CM1DIS; CM2DIS) and traditional drip irrigation system (TDIS) as a control; and 2) lateral lines length (LLL): LLL1, LLL2 and LLL3 (40, 60,80 m) on soybean growth, yield, oil, protein content and water use efficiency. Plants were drip irrigated every 4 days. N, K2O and P2O5 fertilizers were added via irrigation water. Data obtained could be outlined as follows: 1) According to the mean values of soybean crop growth (leaf area; plant height), yield (grain and straw), both oil and protein content and water use efficiency, the treatment used could be ranked in the following ascending orders: TDIS × LLL on the data obtained were significant at the 1 % level; And 4) the highest values of the obtained data and the lowest ones were achieved in the following interactions: CM2DIS × LLL1; TDIS × LLL3, respectively.

Personality Types of Student Pilots Admitted to the Aviation Flight Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a statistically significant common personality type or common combinations of type within the personality profiles among 83 students who enrolled in the Aviation Flight Department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). The Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory (MBTI) was the instrument used to determine student’s personality types. Basic information including age, sex, high school grade point average and ACT scores were also collected. Data collected were analyzed using a chi-square (÷²) distribution to determine whether there was a statistical significant difference between the MBTI types of the Aviation Flight student population and the general population. The study revealed several personality types and personality type combinations among the students to have a statistical departure from the general population implying that there are personality types or combinations of type of students interested in becoming a professional pilot.

A PERSONAL HOMENAJE TO PHIL WEIGAND

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale was “the” place to be for anyone interested in North or West Mexican studies. J. Charles Kelley, Carroll “Cal” Riley, Campbell Pennington, and Basil Hedrick constituted the cadre of scholars who specialized in the region but also served as mentors and models for what anthropological archaeology could be, even in the pre-Binfordian days. Walter Taylor also was there as an icon of theoretical archaeology. All of these scholars not only believed but also demonstrated that the subdisciplines of anthropology were intimately connected. To pursue one perspective to the exclusion of the other subdisciplines was deemed artificially limiting. Into this milieu came Lewis and Sally Binford during the summers of 1962 and 1963, working on the Carlyle Reservoir project in southern Illinois, which included excavations at Hatchery West, Toothsome, and Galley Pond. At about the same time, they began publishing archaeological theory and methodology that revolutionized the discipline. Only Lew and Sally can say how their time in Carbondale shaped their perspectives but, for me, I'd like to think that the Carbondale experience positively influenced their interdisciplinary work. I well remember discussions with Kelley regarding the new archaeology that he learned under Clyde Kluckhohn at Harvard before and during WWII, in comparison to the other “new” archaeology championed by the Binfords. Riley, Pennington, and Hedrick provided students with opportunities to integrate the archaeological perspective with the ethnographic and historical in material culture studies. The graduate students, including Weigand, Joe Mountjoy, and others, kept the discussion alive.

Characterization of an F-Class Fly Ash for Use as a Road Sub-base

An F-class fly ash was tested in the laboratory for its physical and mechanical properties for use as a road sub-base in portions of a 2.1-mi (3.4-km) truck by-pass route in east-central Illinois. The testing showed that the fly ash would perform adequately and behave predictably as a road sub-base. Construction of the by-pass route started in early June 2002 and was finished in early September 2002. No unanticipated delays were encountered, and the performance of the fly ash fill exceeded expectations. Hopefully, these positive results will promote other projects around the country to use by-products of coal combustion products, especially fly ash, as suitable fill materials. This project was a co-operative development and demonstration effort among the Office of Coal Development and Marketing (OCDM) of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (IDCEO), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), Morgan County Highway Department (MCHD), Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), AmerenCIPS, and the Morgan County Regional Planning Commission. These agencies provided both funding and matching funds to carry this project to completion. The by-pass route was designed to move truck traffic around the southern and eastern sides of the small town of Meredosia, Illinois. One problem the proposed by-pass project encountered was the source of construction materials for the sub-base fill. The project needed an additional 77,000 yd.3 (59,000 m3) of fill for the sub-base. Because of the geology in the Meredosia area, one source of material for the sub-base was sand from a borrow pit. Several other possible sources were investigated, but most were too expensive for the limited budget. The alternative chosen was to use ponded F-class fly ash from the AmerenCIPS Meredosia power plant adjacent to the truck by-pass route. The first task of the project was to determine the physical and material properties …

“We Closed Down the Damn School”: The Party Culture and Student Protest at Southern Illinois University During the Vietnam War Era

In May 1970, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), was one of hundreds of college campuses that shut down for the rest of the term in the wake of violence that followed the killing of four students by the National Guard at Kent State University. This article analyzes the makeup of the student movement at SIUC, arguing that it was composed of three strains: student rights, New Left, and what we call the “party culture.” Local issues such as the hours women had to be in their dormitories at night brought such groups together in an attempt to gain control over their own lives. The movement did not turn its full attention to the Vietnam War until it had a local symbol of university complicity with the war, the controversial Vietnamese Studies Center. In detailing the events at SIUC, we challenge the standard narrative of the sixties that treats the later part of the decade as a period of “decline.” We argue that the movement was still going strong, not only in spite of but because of the turn to a more expressive politics.

Study Abroad and African American College Students at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

For most, it was unthinkable. To others, it was just a dream. Yet for some African American students at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), traveling to Africa is now a reality. It all started in 1997, after I led a group of students to Tanzania. My travels were a part of Operation Crossroads Africa, a 42-year-old program designed to promote an understanding between Africa and the African diaspora through cultural exchanges. As word of my journey to East Africa spread throughout campus, African American students visiting the Black American Studies program asked me some probing questions. Two students who came into my office devoted much time and attention to a picture of some Crossroaders pinned to my bulletin board. “Where’s the Black students?” one said, mumbling under her breath. “Yeah,” the other student said in agreement, “Why don’t you take us? We are the ones that need to learn about Africa!” The students’ observations were indeed true.

Greeks and Athletes: Who Drinks More?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsCheryl A. PresleyPhilip W. Meilman is director of Counseling and Psychological Services, Courtesy Professor of Human Development, and associate professor of psychology in clinical psychiatry at Cornell University and codirector of the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). Jami S. Leichliter is assistant director of the Core Institute and a doctoral candidate in the applied experimental psychology program at SIUC, and Cheryl A. Presley is associate director of Student Health Programs at SIUC and executive director of the Core Institute.

Interlibrary Loan on the Web

The utilization of new technologies to enhance service to library users, combined with diminishing resources for interlibrary loan functions spurred the development of World Wide Web-based interlibrary loan services at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). By supporting inter-departmental cooperation, Library Affairs has been able to incorporate unique skills from three areas to develop a product that utilizes the functionality of the World Wide Web, works well with OCLC's interlibrary loan subsystem, and enhances the workflow in the interlibrary loan processing unit. This article describes the project to improve the interlibrary loan process for the patron and to more efficiently use staffing and technology resources in the Access Services Department at SIUC.

Student and Instructor Perceptions of Effective Instructional Methods in a University Aviation Human Factors Course

Aviation human factors instructors employed by University Aviation Association (UAA) member institutions and aviation flight students from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) were asked to rank nine teaching methods according to perceived effectiveness in each of four subject areas: flight physiology, flight psychology, aeronautical decision-making (ADM), and crew resource management (CRM). Responses were compiled into two categories, students and instructors. Analysis using the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient indicated that students and instructors generally agreed on teaching methods they considered appropriate to the four subject areas.

The NASW Teach-In: Contextualizing Social Work Reform

In recent years social work scholars have argued that emphasis on teaching clinical social work skills is overshadowing and in some cases replacing course content on how social workers can become agents for social change (Figueira-McDonough, 1993; Specht & Courtney, 1994; Sullivan, 1993). Strategies to promote community practice abound (Cox, Erlich, Rothman, & Tropman, 1987; Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 1993; Rubin & Rubin, 1992), but the transformation of social workers from clinicians to agents for peace and social justice has yet to take place. Are there ways for champions of community practice to transmit knowledge and help social workers embrace peace and justice? What will it take to diffuse a reformist vision into the agencies and organizations of today's social workers? Knowledge Diffusion Model Well-established processes for disseminating knowledge may offer new insights for champions of reform. In a recent issue of Work, Martinez-Brawley (1995) examined the basic premises of diffusing innovative knowledge into the human services. An innovation is any way of looking at an issue that differs from the current routine. If the routine is teaching clinical interventions, how can social work reframe education and training to focus on the skills needed by community activists and social reformers? work reformers who wish to diffuse innovative knowledge can improve their chances for success by using established guidelines: * transmit key themes and ideas through enthusiastic champions * establish a dialogue to let local differences and resistance shape and transform new knowledge to fit local contexts * facilitate continuous information exchange among leader-innovators and local knowledge implementers * emphasize broad concepts of new knowledge, encouraging locally negotiated differences within the framework of key themes * use locally generated knowledge to reshape original concepts and themes (Martinez-Brawley, 1995). NASW has been engaged in a multiyear project designed to disseminate knowledge about violence and development throughout the social work community. The teach-in and videoconferences entitled Social Workers and the Challenge of Violence Worldwide were held from February 5 to February 9, 1996, and reached over 300 sites across the United States, including schools of social work and human services agencies. Moderated by noted broadcast journalist Charles Kuralt, the teach-in focused attention on the ubiquitous problem of violence in human society and the role social work can play in promoting peace and justice. Although social workers typically seek to transform other social institutions, the NASW teach-in was an attempt to change social work beliefs about the profession's role in abating violence. workers turned reform efforts on social workers. Did the NASW teach-in use established guidelines for innovative knowledge diffusion? Did the teach-in fit the Martinez-Brawley (1995) diffusion of knowledge model? Conceptualization of Knowledge Knowledge as conceptualized for the teach-in was the exploration of worldwide violence and the role of social work in local and global solutions. Two nationally produced live satellite videoconferences; printed guidelines and resource information; and the interactive use of e-mail, fax, and television were the vehicles used to transmit the knowledge. The innovator - leaders were the teach-in cosponsors: NASW, the Council on Work Education (CSWE), the Benton Foundation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The innovator - implementers were more than 300 host sites, including college and university schools of social work, Veterans Affairs medical centers, and other human services agencies. Case Example At Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), a rural state university with a student enrollment of 23,000, 26 full-time and part-time faculty in the School of Work teach 318 bachelor's- and 79 master's-level students. …

Freedom of the Press

As the Internet becomes more accessible to a wider cross-section of the population, libraries, computer scientists, and the publishing industry are becoming more involved with the development of Internet services. The university community is in a unique position to combine professionals from these three departments in a collaborative effort to look at trends in the use of the Internet, and to work together to create resources for those users. In creating a partnership between the areas of Library Affairs, Information Technology and the University Press, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) brought together the varying views and expertise of each constituency to create a model for partnership in the development of scholarly resources using the World Wide Web as an access tool.

Serial cuts and interlibrary loan: filling the gaps

The Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) Library, which is a member of the Association of Research Libraries with holdings exceeding 2,000,000 volumes and current serial subscriptions numbering more than 14,000, intended to serve a constituency of 25,000 graduate and undergraduate students and 5,000 faculty and staff. Documents how in fiscal year 1990, financial exigency resulted in the cancellation of 1,241 serial titles at the library for a saving of US$233,322.80. Describes how a review of the titles cancelled revealed a high percentage of international subscriptions; thus a major concern of librarians and local scholars was the potential impact that these cancellations might have on the availability of these materials for research. Shows how the SIUC interlibrary loan (ILL) staff has attempted to make the cuts reasonably transparent to the user by tapping traditional and non‐traditional sources to fill the requests produced by these cuts; such that in 1993 ILL made a commitment to integrate document delivery (UnCover, British Library Document Supply Centre, UMI and others) into its standard routines. Assesses the full impact of the cuts four years after the cancellation project. Examines the impact of the 1990 serials cancellations on ILL and the ILL response. Analyses ILL serial requests for the cancelled titles generated during a six‐month period in 1994, looking at availability through document delivery suppliers, cost of acquiring the articles, turnaround times and impact of ILL workload.

THE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND THERAPY PROGRAM AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE

THE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND THERAPY PROGRAM AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE

Sandhill Crane Roost Site Characteristics in the North Platte River Valley

We documented sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) roost site characteristics in the North Platte River Valley (NPRV) of Nebraska in riverine and semipermanent palustrine wetlands from late February through mid-April in 1988 and 1989. Crane roost sites in the river were located closer to visual obstructions, in narrower channels, and in a wider range of water depths than determined previously in the Platte River. Cranes roosted in semipermanent wetlands where widths were _12 m, water depths were 5.0-24.4 cm, and distance to shore was _1 m. Based on the estimated peak number of sandhill cranes and roosting capacity estimates, availability of roosting habitat was not limiting use of the NPRV by cranes. North Platte river flows should be maintained to provide channel widths _48 m and water depths 521 cm for roosting cranes. Temporary (wet meadow) and semipermanent palustrine wetlands adjacent to the river should be preserved to provide important diurnal and nocturnal crane habitat. J. WILDL. MANAGE. 54(3):480-486 The North Platte and Platte River valleys of Nebraska are the primary spring staging areas for the midcontinental population of sandhill cranes (Benning and Johnson 1987). Cranes are dependent upon these valleys to provide high energy foods (especially corn) necessary to accumulate lipid reserves for use in nesting areas (Krapu et al. 1985, Tacha et al. 1987). Loss of grasslands and wetlands to agricultural and commercial development has altered staging habitat of sandhill cranes (Lewis et al. 1977, Currier and Ziewitz 1987). Flow reductions in the rivers allowed encroachment of woody vegetation on sandbars used by cranes for roosting. Current management of crane roosting habitat includes maintenance of water flows and costly mechanical removal of woody vegetation (Lingle 1982). Iverson et al. (1987) found up to 67,500 (45% of total) cranes using off-river temporary and semipermanent wetland roost sites in the North Platte River Valley (NPRV) and recommended the preservation of existing sites and development of additional off-river roost sites. However, no studies of roost site selection have been conducted in the NPRV. Our objectives were to determine factors associated with crane use and selection of river and adjacent wetland roosts and to estimate the roosting capacity of the NPRV. We thank G. A. Wingfield of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and P. McDonald of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for providing valuable assistance in Nebraska. Landowners in the NPRV granted access to their property. P. A. Vohs and A. Woolf reviewed the manuscript. This study was funded by USFWS Purchase Orders 64412-00302-88 and 64412-8900026 and the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). Additional support was obtained from the Department of Zoology and the Graduate School at SIUC.

The emergency dental service at Southern Illinois University/Carbondale.

Abstract The Student Emergency Dental Service (SEDS), a program of Allied Health and Public Services, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), began treating patients in January 1978. The purpose of the program is twofold. The main emphasis of SEDS is to treat patients with dental-related disorders of an emergency nature. The other purpose of SEDS is to help raise the level of dental knowledge among the student population so as to prevent the emergency situations from occurring. The Student Emergency Dental Service is essentially an “emergency only” service, even though prevention is highlighted. Such an emergency service cannot compete with a comprehensive service in terms of providing total patient dental care. Hence, the SEDS program has some innate limitations a comprehensive service does not. It must work from certain guidelines. It cannot treat everyone, and the mode of treatment must be altered to aid the emergency patient. This creates dilemmas that will be addressed in this paper. The organization, accomplishments, and advantages and disadvantages of the SEDS program at Southern Illinois University are also discussed.