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ART 289 Art in a Democratic Society 2021
Get PDFA powerpoint describing the impact of Brandon Bauer\u27s ART 289 Art in a Democratic Society during the 2020-2021 academic year.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/sturzlcenterinfo/1042/thumbnail.jp
Alum Working in the NFL Now Mentoring SNC Student
Get PDFSNC parents learn about Dan Zegers \u2711 mentoring Matt Swanson \u2722
Prior Alcohol and Drug Education and Alcohol and Drug Use at St. Norbert College
No full textFrom slogans to new laws on both federal and state levels, the War on Drugs has been on the socio-political forefront for several decades. One nonpartisan staple of the War has been drug prevention education in primary and secondary schools across the United States. But to what extent do these initiatives shape participants’ behavior over the long term? This study examines drug prevention education and drug use among students at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. Specifically, we investigate the use of alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine. We administered a survey that included open- and closed-ended questions to 148 participants in order to gauge their experiences with drug education and their histories of drug use. We used the Pearson Chi-Square to analyze relationships between variables. Our findings show that students who had some form of prior drug and alcohol education in primary or secondary school were less likely to use marijuana and nicotine, whereas they were more likely to use alcohol. These results must be interpreted with caution, given a nonprobability sampling strategy. Still, our study suggests that drug prevention education may shape drug use behaviors for some substances more than others.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/collaborative_presentations/1035/thumbnail.jp
The War of 1812 and Its Effect Upon Indigenous People in the Old Northwest
No full textThe War of 1812 is a conflict that has received very little attention, but played a central role in shaping American Westward Expansion. Historical discussion of the War of 1812 often focuses on a relatively narrow section of the events of the War, such as the leadup to the war or a specific campaign within the war. This method of approaching the war is useful but leaves much to be desired. In this essay, I focused on the War of 1812 in the Northwest Territory, but extended the cause and effects of the war over a larger time frame, by synthesizing existing research on the subject to highlight the impact it had on U.S. relations with native tribal communities. This broadening of historical time frames has allowed us to view intricate webs of cause and effect between seemingly disparate events. I have also identified the role of the War of 1812 in creating a geo-political paradigm shift within the area around the Former Northwest Territory. The region shifted from a multi-polar power balance, with both the United States and British governments exerting influence over tribes within that region, to the United States having an almost complete monopoly on political power within the region. This shift can be seen as an overwhelmingly negative event for Native peoples in the region, who faced increasing mistreatment from the United States after the war. This method of analyzing the War of 1812 and its effects on a macro time frame thus allows us to show the conflicts’ importance and recenter the Native communities indigenous to the region that it most impacted. Specifically, we see the foundations laid for a shift towards more direct control of Indigenous populations by the United States government after the War of 1812, and the system of reservations function as an attempt to break up networks of inter-tribal solidarity by the American government.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/collaborative_presentations/1034/thumbnail.jp
Unpacking the Effect of “Heavy Metal” on Aggression: Musical Structure, Lyrics, or Both?
No full textMast and McAndrew (2011) reported that the violent lyrics in heavy metal music can increase aggressive behavior in male college students, as measured via the hot sauce allocation paradigm. We examined this effect on a more granular level by using three heavy metal songs by the same band (i.e., Disturbed): one with violent lyrics (i.e., Who Taught You How to Hate?), an instrumental version of the same song, and one of the band’s heavy metal songs with non-violent lyrics (i.e., The Light). We hypothesized that participants who listened to the lyrical version of the violent heavy metal piece would create a spicier salsa mix (ostensibly for the next participant in the study to taste) than participants in either of the two other conditions. We also extended upon Mast and McAndrew’s 2011 study by examining whether female college students would be affected by the violent lyrics in heavy metal music in a manner similar to that which had been reported for males. Twelve female and three male college students from a small private college in the Midwestern United States were randomly assigned to one of the three aforementioned music conditions. Two of our noteworthy findings were that our results approached significance with only 15 participants, F(2,12) = 3.391, p = .068, and that the students who listened to the song with non-violent lyrics added more hot sauce to a 39 gram cup of salsa (M = 5.0 g, s = 3.08) for the next participant to taste than the students who listened to the song with violent lyrics (M = 2.2 g, s = 1.30). (We used a Taylor food scale to determine how much hot sauce each participant had added to the 39 grams of salsa, after participants had been excused from the study.) We will discuss possible explanations for this seemingly counterintuitive result, including the degree of influence that each individual can have within smaller samples.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/collaborative_presentations/1005/thumbnail.jp
Why do they come?: Immigration and the Problem of Hospitality
No full textDr. De La Torre presents a lecture entitled Why Do They Come?: Immigration and the Problem of Hospitality. In debates over immigration, some advocates emphasize the Christian duty of hospitality, citing various Biblical precepts on the importance of welcoming strangers and caring for newcomers. In his lecture, Dr. De La Torre questions whether hospitality is the most appropriate virtue to employ in regards to Latin American immigration to the United States, given historical facts about how the USA has moved into and exploited the very countries from which those immigrants now come
Economic Insights on the LGBTQ+ Community
No full textDr. Jean Falconer, assistant professor of economics, and Dr. Will Wheeler, assistant professor of economics, discuss economic insights of the LGBTQ+ community
Willow Clothing Co.
Get PDFAlumna Christine Herman explains how her clothing company came to be post-graduation