2007 College Authors O - Z

David F. Petrie

Department of Health Sciences

Stuempfle, Kristin J., Daniel G. Drury, David F. Petrie, Frank I. Katch. "Ponderal Somatograms Assess Changes in Anthropometric Measurements Over an Academic Year in Division III Collegiate Football Players." Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 21.3(2007): 689-696.

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

The second author, Lauren Rapoza, was an Environmental Studies major and graduated in the class of 2006.

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Jonelle E. Pool

The article explores the design and application of parallel reading apprenticeship models at the college and secondary school levels.

Drawing on her experience teaching Literary Foundations of Western Culture, Literature of the Vietnam War, and Literature of Anger and Hope, the article recommends the teaching of war literature as a central part of a peace education curriculum.

Proselytization will mean no peace in the world" says Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's critical response to religious conversion and violence today illuminates many complex questions: What are the spiritual justifications for conversion? How does negative conversion differ from positive conversion? Does changing one's religion change one's way of life and identity? Are there any forms of positive conversion that create peace? This paper addresses these critical questions from a Gandhian point of view and argues that any religion that has a mission of negative means of conversion not only misleads its converts, but exposes them and their communities to violence. The paper concludes that an alternative form of conversion is a nonviolent conversion in which peaceful communities can be sustained and nurtured.

Paul Redfern

Redfern, Paul. "Get Out and Communicate." Campus Technology (March 2007): 58.

This article provides advice to those taking charge of web communications at their institutions.

This book is to serve as a study guide of twenty-five works for the dramatic soprano voice with orchestra. Criteria used for inclusion include range, tessitura, orchestral scoring, dramatic intensity, and cultural diversity. There are examples of works dating from 1787 through 2004, and include song cycles, monoperas, monodramas, scena and arias, symphonic rhapsodies, cantatas, symphonic cycles, and lyric tragedies. Adhering to the basic requirement of the piece being suitable for the dramatic soprano voice, the chosen works are eclectic in language, style, ethnic origin, and musical period. A cursory definition of the dramatic soprano voice and its rise in operatic history is included. Information is provided for each listing, including a brief biographical sketch of the composer and the work's history and lyrics. This book is addressed to all professionals in the performing arts as well as specifically to dramatic sopranos, conductors, composers, and lovers of extraordinary and compelling vocal/orchestral works. It is also directed toward professors and educators in music, voice, orchestra, theatre, and their students.

Thomas Scilipoti

Class of 2007, Philosophy Major

Scilipoti, Thomas. Up All Night. Baltimore: Publish America, 2007.

Up All Night is an auto-biographically inspired coming of age novel. Catcher in the Rye-like in spirit, but with hope and faith in place of cynicism, Up All Night is a forty day odyssey through the mind of a deeply religious yet funny late teen struggling to make sense of a world that is growing ever nonsensical-Post-911 America. Baptized Catholic, but lost in a culture driven by sex, drugs, and superficiality, Chris Castile starts to try to find his way back to his religious roots. His best friend's minister father passed away one year earlier and his hungry soul is finally ready for the challenge of seeking God. This all sounds ideal, if only it were that simple. Manic/Depression runs in the Castile family and as Chris sobers up, his mental health ironically declines. As a result, he no longer can sleep nor stop racing after answers to his big questions. The results make for a story that surely will not put you to sleep.

Daniel Christian Scotto

Class of 2008, History Major

Scotto, Daniel Christian. "Pope John Paul II, The Assassination Attempt, and the Soviet Union." The Gettysburg Historical Journal 6(2007): 63-71.

This paper examines the circumstances surrounding the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II of 1981, and determines that there is substantial evidence pointing to Soviet complicity in the attempt.

Stephanie A. Sellers

Departments of English and Women's Studies

Sellers, Stephanie A. Native American Autobiography Redefined: A Handbook. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.

This work addresses both the literary and cultural problems present in the ethnographic "as-told-to" story genre given by Native Americans (for example, Black Elk Speaks), notes the history and purposes of writing and oral literature of indigenous peoples, and particularly focuses on issues of gender.

This is the second edition of a U.S. History textbook that Shannon co-authored with Victoria Bissell Brown of Grinnell College. It is designed to introduce students to the sources and methodologies used by American historians.

Shannon, Timothy J. "War, Diplomacy, and Culture: The Iroquois Experience in the Seven Years' War." Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America. Ed. Warren R. Hofstra. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. 79-103.

The book is a collection of essays examining the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War) from the different perspectives of its Native American, colonial American and European participants. Shannon's essay measures the impact that war had on the material and military culture of the Iroquois people.

"Shade" is an essay about the cutting of trees on the Gettysburg Battlefield, first-year students at Gettysburg College, and many other things.

Smith, Dustin Beall. "One Draft at a Time: The Rewards of Process." Writing on the Edge 17.2(2007): 77-84.

This essay describes the process by which a student in a creative writing class at Gettysburg College gets to the nitty gritty of what she's trying to say.

Snively, Carolyn S. "Thessaloniki Versus Justiniana Prima: A Rare Mention of the Conflict in the Life of Osios David of Thessaloniki." Niš and Byzantium Symposium V. Niš, 2007. 55-61.

This life of a 6th century holy man was probably written several centuries after his death and is full of historical inaccuracies that include confusion between the cities of Justiniana Prima and Sirumium. Yet it provides the only known reference to the intended or actual transfer of the seat of the Prefect of Easter Illyricum from Thessaloniki to the emperor Justinian's new city further north in the Balkan Peninsula.

Snively, Carolyn S. "Late Antique Nicopolis: An Essay on City Walls and Their Implications for Urbanism." Nicopolis B: Proceedings of the Second International Nicopolis Symposium. Vol. 1. Preveza, Greece, 2007. 739-749.

Nicopolis, in northwest Greece, is one of numerous cities whose urban intramural space shrank dramatically as a result of the construction of new fortification walls in Late Antiquity. This article emphasizes the importance of accurate dating of the new city wall for the history not only of Nicopolis itself but also of the surrounding region.

In colonial Brazil, the Portuguese crown used clothing and accessories to promote political, social, legal, and religious status. Clothing covered bodies, but on a more fundamental level it represented civilization, Christianization, and submission to the king. Native peoples in turn manipulated dress and undress to reconfigure their social and political identities. By wearing skirts and blouses to mass, shoes on urban streets, or wigs to diplomatic meetings, residents demonstrated their ability to interpret and express the evolving language of dress.

Articles in these two volumes are the proceedings of the bilingual conference 歷 史 真 相 和 集 體 記 憶 ： 文 化 大 革 命 四 十 周 年 國 際 研 討 會 / Historical Truth and Collective Memory: International Conference for the 40th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution held at the College of Staten Island and the City University of New York in May of 2006. This article explores the visual culture of violence depicted in the propaganda art of the Anti-Confucius Campaign in the 1970s during the Cultural Revolution.

Sommer, Deborah. "早 期 儒 家 的 儀 式 和 犧 牲 : 與 精 神 世 界 的 關 系 [Ritual
and Sacrifice in Early Confucianism: Contacts with the Spirit World]." 多 元 [Pluris] (2006): 188-202.

This is a translation of the article "Ritual and Sacrifice in Early Confucianism: Contacts with the Spirit World," which was originally published in English in Confucian Spirituality, Volume 1, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Tu Weiming (Crossroad, 2003). This Chinese version was translated by Cheng Gongrang, Li Shumin, and Liu Junhua of Capital Normal University, Beijing. Duoyuan/Pluris is an annual journal produced by the Philosophy Department of Capital Normal University.

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Divonna M. Stebick
Department of Education

Stebick, Divonna M. and Joy M. Dain. Comprehension Strategies for Your K-6 Literacy Classroom: Thinking Before, During, and After Reading. Corwin Press, 2007.

Written for educators, this research-based handbook illustrates how teachers can effectively use six critical strategies to enhance students' reading comprehension, using a unique instructional framework that includes explicit instruction, guided practice, and practical application.

Stebick, Divonna M., Jonelle E. Pool, and Diana Pool. "A Reading Apprenticeship Model for Improving Literacy: A Pre-service Teacher Case Study." Pennsylvania Reads 7(2007): 41-52.

This article explores the design and application of parallel reading apprenticeship models at the college and secondary school levels.

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.

This article argues that Western preconceptions of African exceptionalism distorted scientific and policy discourse on AIDS in Africa. Policy makers failed to understand the AIDS epidemic in Africa because they ignored abundant evidence that HIV transmission is facilitated by widespread infectious and parasitic diseases in poor populations.

Sawers, Larry, and Eileen Stillwaggon. "An Agenda Without Data: Comment on Talbott." PLoS One 2(2007). http://www.plosone.org

Stillwaggon and co-author Larry Sawers criticize the invalid use of small-scale, local surveys in cross-national regression analysis.

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.

This is a Chinese version of the Gender and Chinese Archaeology book published by AltaMira Press in 2004.

This chapter relates the disappearance of the father in Subiela's films to an eradication of the paternal signifier.

This chapter explores an unsettling change in the films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the Taiwanese director, starting in 1995. It explores how a single aesthetic trait, the mobile camera versus a formally pronounced static camera, carries numerous extra-aesthetic implications, including cultural and political ones. In the end this chapter argues that we should not be surprised of this change, since Hou is a film director from Taiwan, a place where continual change is the norm.

This article is a literary analysis of the novel Brand New Memory by the Cuban-American writer Elías Miguel Muñoz. The analysis centers on the role of technological devices such as the computer, the video camera, and the recorder as thematic and narrative tools. The young Cuban American protagonist, Gina Domingo, uses these devices to construct her own identity in response to her parents' silence about Cuba and her Cuban family.

This article examines the way in which eyeglasses, worn or abandoned by the fifteen-year-old protagonist, schematize the ups and downs that the teenager experiences in her effort to be noticed and found attractive by boys. Anne quickly learns that she must take off her spectacles in order to make a spectacle of herself.

Viti, Elizabeth Richardson. "La Femme sur la Femme: Making Simone de Beauvoir Relevant in Today's Classroom." Simone de Beauvoir Studies 23(2007): 125-131.

This article demonstrates how the celebrated feminist, so essential to the women's studies classroom, can be appropriately inserted into a French literature classroom as well, most notably one devoted to women writers.

This paper describes a simple macroeconomic model for use in undergraduate macroeconomics courses. The model is intended as an alternative to the models that appear in standard textbooks. Its main advantages are that it is consistent with the analysis of macroeconomic policy that students might read in the financial press, while at the same time it captures the most important features of state-of-the-art macroeconomic theory.

This paper discusses how the introduction of Christian beliefs into political philosophy by St. Augustine resulted in a unification of the Bible and classical political philosophy. By observing different aspects of Augustine's political thought such as his teachings on the use of reason, the disclosure of truth, the notion of virtue, monotheism, and the dichotomy between religion and politics. Weldon cites several different ways that Augustine adheres to and deviates from ancient pagan tradition. Augustine's chief objection to his ancient pagan predecessors is that they have been unable, through all their philosophizing, to bring about a just society. Their failure is due to a false conception of the divinity, rooted in the polytheism of classical political philosophy. Augustine asserts that salvation in God, accompanied by an understanding of the distinct difference between eternal and temporal law, is man's true source of happiness.

For nearly 120 years, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific has served the professional astronomy community and in the last two decades it has increasingly turned its attention to matters of science and science education in the United States and abroad. Mercury magazine, which is the face and voice of the Society, has existed since 1972, although the magazine began with a different title in the 1920s. White, a former executive director of the San Francisco-based organization, was the editor of Mercury for the better part of a decade, from 1997 through 2007.

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Randall K. Wilson
Department of Environmental Studies

Wilson, Randall K. "Public Land Management." The Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. Paul Robbins. Vol. 4. Los Angeles: Sage Publications Inc., 2007. 1444-1447.

 

Wilson, Randall K. "Forest Service (U.S.)." The Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. Paul Robbins. Vol. 2. Los Angeles: Sage Publications Inc., 2007. 701-702.

 

Wilson, Randall K. "Forest Organic Act." The Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. Paul Robbins. Vol. 2. Los Angeles: Sage Publications Inc., 2007. 695-696.

These articles provide issues, concepts, theories, examples, problems, and policies with the goal of explicating an emerging way of thinking about people and nature.

Leo Shingchi Yip
Department of Asian Studies

Yip, Leo Shingchi. "Nō as Sociopolitical Commentary: Staging Chinese Literati in Medieval Nō Theatre." Asian Theatre Journal 24.2 (2007): 505-517.

The article examines how medieval Japanese Nō playwrights used Chinese motifs as a device to comment on social and political issues and to express their views of Chinese culture.