2007 College Authors A - F

The article ran as the cover story for Campaigns & Elections magazine. It looks at the tools political campaigns might be using to influence voters in 2028.

Berg, Temma. "Eighteenth-Century Reading Sites." Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 55.55(2006): 15-35.

Berg guest-edited this special issue of Reader which focuses on reading in groups, whether virtual or formal (for example, Oprah Winfrey's book clubs). She wrote the introduction to the journal as well as an article about the reading practices of eighteenth-century women in general and of a "real" woman named Sylvia Brathwaite in particular.

 

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The essay examines the ways community has been conceived and the many different kinds of suburban communities from the 19th century through the present day lives of "Desperate Housewives."

Birkner, Michael J. "James Buchanan." The World Book Encyclopedia. 2007. 658-668.

This article for the The World Book provides an introduction to the life and political career of Pennsylvania's only President. It pays particular attention to Buchanan's contributions to American statecraft--and his less-than-successful presidency.

Birkner, Michael J., ed. "The Eisenhowers at Twilight: A Visit to the Eisenhower Farm, 1967."s Adam County History 13 (2007): 70-76.

This article discusses Dwight Eisenhower's life in retirement on his Gettysburg farm, with special attention to his decision to deed his property to the federal government as an historic site operated by the National Park Service. The article includes a transcript of one witness's account of the deed signing in November 1967-one month before Dwight Eisenhower left the farm for the last time.

Birkner, Michael J. ‘He's My Man': Sherman Adams and the Draft Eisenhower Movement in New Hampshire, 1952. Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2007.

This is an audio version, read by a local radio announcer, of articles about the New Hampshire Primary. It is on a 3 disk CD. My article on the 1952 presidential primary that launched Dwight Eisenhower's candidacy is the lead piece for this CD.

In the field of Political Science there are countless explanations as to what the root causes of conflict are. Some have suggested that there is a correlation between the number of borders a state has and its likelihood of conflict. This paper explores this theory and posits some explanations as to why an increased number of borders could affect the potential for conflict. With the overarching goal of International Relations Theory being the study, prevention, and explanations of war, this paper looks to explore how borders affect levels of (de)militarization.

This book tells the stories of the difference freedom made to African Americans, and to the United States as a whole, during the Civil War era. It explores how the struggle to realize the ideal of freedom shaped the lives of Americans, black and white, then and now.

Written for school leaders, particularly principals, this book provides research-based and practical suggestions for working with uncooperative teachers. The book highlights the work of exemplary leaders, whom the authors interviewed.

One of Mexico's most important puppet theater groups, "Marionetas de la Esquina," was invited to perform at the Kennedy Center in D.C. This article details that performance and provides background information on the group.

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John J. Cadigan
Department of Economics

Cadigan, John J. "Two-Stage Team Rent-Seeking: Experimental Analysis." Southern Economic Journal 74.1(2007): 85-103.

Using an experimental methodology, this article examines the impact of team membership and productivity on the effort choices of individuals in a sequenced setting. The results show that subjects were not likely to ‘free-ride' on their teammates, even though doing so maximized their individual payoffs. Subjects chose higher effort levels when doing so complemented the effort choices of their teammates.

This article reports a study in which five-year-old children worked alone or with a partner to solve puzzles under varying conditions. The results indicated that the effects of peer collaboration among young children vary depending on the difficulty of the task and the presence or absence of adult evaluation.

In this paper, Campfield argues for an increase in the federal minimum wage. She first points to the difficulty of maintaining a decent standard of living at the current minimum wage, especially if one is supporting a family. Next she dispels the common belief that raising the minimum wage will cause a reduction in employment. According to this paper, statistics obtained from natural experiments give results other than what traditional models predict. This suggests that raising the minimum wage may have beneficial effects that the models do not capture. Given that the minimum wage is poised to be an important topic of debate in the political arena, Campfield recommends that policymakers rely more heavily on the data and less on theoretical models.

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Michael Cantele
Department of Athletics

Cantele, Michael. "The X's and O's of a Concussion." All-American Coach - U.S. Army Magazine for High School Football Coaches (2007): 40-42.

This article is specifically for high school football coaches to help them prevent and manage mild traumatic brain injuries on their team.

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Paul Carrick
Department of Philosophy

Carrick, Paul. "The Public Funding of Health Care: A Brief Historical Overview of Principles, Practices and Motives." Distributing Health Care: Principles, Practices, and Policies. Ed. Niall Maclean. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2007. 11-40.

Carrick's lead chapter appears in the St. Andrews University Philosophy and Public Affairs Book Series (Volume 8). He argues that the history of collective medical care, from the ancient Greeks to our own high tech age, reveals a persistent quartet of motivating principles that continue to encourage both the public and private funding of medical care for the sick, poor, and homeless. These include the redemptive, utilitarian, prudential, and charitable motives. He concludes by identifying and endorsing what he calls the "philanthropic imperative" as a key to achieving a more equitable approach to distributing scarce medical resources.

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Julie Jing Chen
Department of Psychology

Chao, Melody Manchi, Julie Jing Chen, Glenn I. Roisman, and Ying-yi Hong. "Essentializing Race: Implications for Bicultural Individuals' Cognition and Physiological Reactivity." Pyschological Science 18.4(2007): 341-348. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01901.x

It is a widely held belief that racial groups have underlying essences. In this paper the authors hypothesize that bicultural individuals who hold this essentialist belief about race are oriented to perceive rigid interracial boundaries and experience difficulty passing between their native culture and the host culture. In two studies, the researchers found that the more strongly Chinese American participants endorsed an essentialist belief about race, the less effective they were in switching rapidly between Chinese and American cultural frames in a reaction time task, and the greater emotional reactivity they exhibited (reflected in heightened skin conductance) while talking about their bicultural experiences. Taken together, these findings suggest that essentialist beliefs about race set up a mind-set that influences how bicultural individuals navigate between their native and host cultures.

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Gary Ciocco
Department of Philosophy

Ciocco, Gary. "How Dead Beats Became Deadheads: From Emerson and James to Kerouac and Garcia." The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded about Love and Haight. Ed. Steven Gimbel. Chicago, IL: Open Court Press, 2007. 63-74.

Volume 28 in the Open Court series, which brings Philosophy to bear on topics in popular culture.

 

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Ronalee Ciocco
Musselman Library

Ciocco, Ronalee and Alice Huff. "Mission IM-Possible: Starting an Instant Message Reference Service Using Trillian." Computers in Libraries 27.1(2007): 26-31.

This article discusses the experience of setting up an electronic-based reference service in 2004. The service uses Trillian software and provides Gettysburg College students with reference assistance through the three major instant messaging providers (AIM, Yahoo, and MSN Messenger).

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Bret Crawford
Department of Physics

Muzichka, A. Yu., W.I. Furman, E.V. Lychagin, A.R. Krylov, G.V. Nekhaev, E.I. Sharapov, V.N. Shvetsov, A.V. Strelkov, B.G. Levakov, A.E. Lyzhin, Yu.I. Chernukhin, Ya.Z. Kandiev, C.R. Howell, G.E. Mitchell, B.E. Crawford, S.L. Stephenson, and W. Tornow. "Background Determination for the Neutron-Neutron Scattering Experiment at the Reactor YAGUAR." Nuclear Physics A 789(2007): 30-45.

This paper describes measurements of the background that will be present in the upcoming experiment of neutron-neutron scattering. These proof-of-principle measurements are the first experimental results from the recently installed apparatus in Snezhisk, Russia, and suggest successful and interesting results from the challenging neutron-neutron measurements to be done in the near future.

The article examines the historical and cultural context of capitalism in the Deadhead community.

My book is part of a series called "Cultographies," each book in which investigates the historical, aesthetic, and reception-based reasons for the cult reputations of individual films. I got lucky: I got to write about THIS IS SPINAL TAP, one of the best American comedies ever made. The book is designed to be accessible and useful for both students and fans - that was the whole idea behind this series, in fact. This is my first book.

This paper shows that a selfing species exhibits a positive genetic correlation between allocation to male and female functions, contrary to theoretical expectations.

This paper presents data from a longitudinal study of body composition in college students.

Stuempfle, Kristin J., Daniel G. Drury. "The Physiological Consequences of Bed Rest." Journal of Exercise Physiologyonline. 10.3(2007): 32-41.

This paper focuses on the deconditioning that occurs in the cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal systems following bed rest.

Focusing on one of Poe's more obscure tales, this article explores how numbers are manipulated throughout "The Business Man" to satirize accepted standards for the creation of cultural value in nineteenth-century America.

Dworkin, Ira, ed. Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2007.

Dworkin, Ira. Introduction. Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2007.

Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) came to prominence in the early years of the twentieth century as an outspoken writer, editor, and critic. Frequently recognized for her first novel, Contending Forces, she emerged as one of the most prolific African American women writers of fiction prior to 1930 and is currently one of the most widely read and studied African American novelists from that period.
While nearly all of Hopkins's fiction remains in print, there is very little of her nonfiction available. This reader brings together dozens of her hard-to-find essays. Also included are longer nonfiction works including Famous Men of the Negro Race, Famous Women of the Negro Race, The Dark Races of the Twentieth Century, and A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Early Greatness of the African Race and the Possibility of Restoration by Its Descendents, some of which are published here for the first time in their entirety. Through these works, along with two juvenile essays from the 1870s, a personal letter, and two speeches, readers encounter a voice that is committed to constructing an international discourse on race, recovering the militant abolitionist tradition to combat Jim Crow, celebrating black political participation during and after the Reconstruction era, articulating the connections between race and labor, and insisting on equal rights for women. Hopkins's writing will challenge contemporary scholars to rethink their understanding of black activism and modernity in the early twentieth century.

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Shannon Egan
Department of Art

Egan, Shannon. "Bright Lights on Quiet Streets: Tom Keough's Nocturnes." The Gettysburg Review 20.4(2007): 583-584.

The essay examines paintings by New York-based artist Tom Keough.

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Kay Etheridge
Department of Biology

Etheridge, Kay. "Loathsome Beasts: Images of Reptiles and Amphibians in Art and Science." Origins of Scientific Learning: Essays on Culture and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Eds. Sara French and Kay Etheridge. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. 63-88.

A collection of essays from a 2004 conference titled "Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World," explores the interdisciplinary nature of scientific learning. In the chapter, "Loathsome Beasts: Reptiles and Amphians in Art and Science," Etheridge analyzes a specific type of scientific imagery to illustrate the dynamic interplay between art and science.

 

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Marc Fialkoff
Class of 2010, Political Science Major

Fialkoff, Marc. "Roe Revisited: Looking at Roe's Impact and Future in Constitutional Law." The Political Science Journal (Gettysburg College) 1(2007): 34-42.

In 1973, the Supreme Court made a decision in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. The Roe Court looked at sociological factors as well as International law to see what information they could provide on the issue. Although the Court decided in favor of a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion, the Court has had to tailor the interpretation written by Justice Blackmun to new challenges presented by Pro-Life Advocate groups, State Government and Federal Law. The Court has tackled issues such as Partial-Birth Abortions, parental consent, and the role of the Court in overriding parental consent for abortions. With every decision, the Court has modified Blackmun's original opinion, causing uncertainty for Pro-Choice advocates. This paper discusses the legal justification for the Roe decision and where the issue has gone since 1973.

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Suzzane J. Flynn
Department of English

Flynn, Suzanne J. "The Well-Beloved in Context: Undermining the Past." The Hardy Review 9(2007): 81-91.

This essay examines Thomas Hardy's last published novel, a strangely nonrealistic work which undermines many of the literary conventions for which he had become famous.

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Karen Frey
Department of Management

Frey, Karen. "When Petty Cash Isn't Petty." Fraud Casebook: Lessons from the Bad Side of Business. Ed. Joseph T. Wells. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007. 195-202.

The book is an international collection of case studies in fraud. This chapter in particular describes a case of asset misappropriation from a local business.