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Economic Impact of Sports Mega-events: A Meta-analysis
Get PDFBig sporting events are big business. Cities and countries often lobby to host these events and spend large amounts of money in the process. This money is used for paying overtime to various public departments, like firefighters and police, the construction of facilities, infrastructure, and more. But is it worth it? That’s an open question, but many of these organizations hire firms to release economic impact studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis of economic impacts studies from forty-six different sporting events. The nature, size, and duration of the events vary these costs, and therefore the net economic impact varies based on where they occur, the duration of the event, and more. We estimate the average economic impact for events and use OLS regressions to examine seven different factors that influence the total and per day economic impact of various events
Kappa Delta
No full textKappa Delta sisters show off their Homecoming float.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/historic_photos/1147/thumbnail.jp
Marcellus Shale Fracking and Susquehanna River Stakeholder Attitudes: A Five-Year Update
Get PDFThe attitudes of Susquehanna River stakeholders regarding natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Marcellus Shale region reflect differing concerns on economic, social, and environmental issues based on gender, education level, and income. The focus on the U.S. State of Pennsylvania section of the Susquehanna River derives from the U.S. States of New York and Maryland, neighbors of Pennsylvania to the immediate north and south, respectively, enacting bans on fracking, while Pennsylvania has catapulted, through Marcellus fracking, to become the second largest natural gas producing state in the U.S. In this Pennsylvania survey, female and more highly educated stakeholders favor a moratorium on fracking, while males and lower income stakeholders support fracking. Of the four categories used to organize the survey, i.e. economic opportunity, health and safety, communities, and energy security, the category of health and safety ranked first in both the 2012 and 2017 survey
Looking to the East: Youth Identity in Berlin Through Sculpture Centered on Consumerism, and Music Following the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Get PDFThe Fall of the Berlin Wall was a major moment at the end of the Cold War. It saw the destruction of a communist structure and then directly followed by the dissolution of communist nations like the German Democratic Republic and the USSR. When the Wall fell down, the Germans began to unify but they had been separate for forty years and had developed separate cultures and identities. Most people saw the whole of Germany immediately being western following the Fall of the Wall. I will argue and demonstrate, however, that the youth of Berlin, both the former Easterners and Westerners, gravitated towards an Eastern identity and ushered in a movement of Eastern Nostalgia
Chaucer Meets Burke: Examining Medieval Elementary Education and Societal Conventions Through a Rhetorical Lens
Get PDFDespite the immense progress that has been made in Chaucerian studies, little research specifically studies how the Nun\u27s Priest\u27s Tale portrays elements of medieval elementary education and exploits the changes in social mobility occurring when the Tale was published. To provide a framework for discussing how pedagogical characteristics are represented in the text, this paper will examine individual characteristics of medieval elementary education. This discussion will elucidate the paper\u27s thesis - how The Nun\u27s Priest\u27s Tale challenges the traditionally hierarchical structure of 14th-century English society. The genius of Chaucer\u27s writing is rooted in the myriad interpretations his works offer his readers. To appreciate his genius, readers must heed the Nun\u27s Priest\u27s advice to Taketh the fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille (Chaucer 3443). This paper not only contributes a new interpretation of a beloved medieval work, but a new lens through which to view literature\u27s role within 14th-century English society
Lights, Camera, Action: The Production Process
Get PDFMy presentation will focus on pre-production, production and post-production. The presentation will feature videos I have created in my classes over the past four years. With each video featured, I will explain the work that went into creating the video. The examples will focus mainly on the process that took the longest or held the biggest part in the production. I will have my laptop to display the videos if viewers would like to watch them. I will explain the technical aspect of the production process as well as the process that I personally used while creating the videos. The point of my presentation is to educate others about the production process as a whole. I hope my presentation helps people understand the production process and gives them an inside look on how videos and films are made
Size Matters: Tiny Dots and Their Potential
Get PDFIn 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman wondered if the text of the Encyclopedia Britannica could be contained on the head of a pin. Today we are looking at the amazing potential of materials that are 10,000-1 million times smaller than the head of a pin. These nano and sub-micron scale “dots” have unique properties that make them candidates for applications in a wide range of fields, including medicine and defense. Susquehanna University students have been involved in research involving nanoparticles made of gold and silver, to name a few, and have also developed instrumentation to make “tiny dots” out of proteins that could potentially be used to repair damaged tissue
Radiation Fog Chemical Composition and Its Temporal Trend Over an Eight Year Period
Get PDFRadiation fog samples have been collected at a rural site in Central Pennsylvania from 2007 through 2015 in order to document chemical composition, assess concentration changes over time, and to provide insight into emission sources that influence the region. The collection of samples over multiple years makes this one of the few long duration radiation fog studies that have been completed. During the course of the campaign, 146 samples were obtained and analyzed for pH, major inorganic ions, low molecular weight organic acids, total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN). Ammonium (median concentration = 209 μN), sulfate (69 μN), calcium (51 μN), and nitrate (31 μN) were the most abundant inorganic ions, although these were present at much lower concentrations than for radiation fog studies conducted in other locations. Organic acids, of which formate (20 μM) and acetate (21 μM) were the most abundant, were closer in magnitude to measurements made during previous studies. Organic acids accounted for 15% of TOC, which had a median concentration of 6.6 mgC l-1. The median concentration of TN was 3.6 mgN l-1, 18% of which was determined to be organic nitrogen. Statistically significant decreasing trends from 2007 to 2015 were noted for sulfate, ammonium, chloride, and nitrate. For the same period, an increase in pH was observed. Seasonal trends were identified for a number of species as well. The partitioning of ammonia between the gas and aqueous phases was also investigated and found to deviate significantly from equilibrium
Life and Times in Nazi Germany
No full textFaculty-authored chapter: Playing with the Third Reich : sports, politics and free time in Nazi Germany, by David Imhoof. Part of a collection on everyday life in Nazi Germany, this essay explores the ways in which Germans used sports to make sense of Nazi ideas and the power of the Third Reich. Rather than assume that the Third Reich reshaped all free time activities, this essay shows that Germans actually used sports to help build the ideas and organizations that drove the Third Reich. Sports provided some Germans – though not Jews, leftists, or other so-called “state enemies” - a space to work with and sometimes against the Nazi regime.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1005/thumbnail.jp
Andrew Zwally
No full textThe Adams Center has provided me with the opportunity to work with the 17th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas of Snyder and Union counties. This internship was invaluable as it gave me an inside look at the daily proceedings of a President Judge for the Court of Common Pleas. This unique access gave me the chance to see the interactions of Judges, Lawyers and Court Staff. These conversations were what gave me the best insight to how the various aspects of the law were carried out. I was able to observe various court proceedings from sentencings to malpractice trials. This internship was extremely helpful in determining what areas of law I would enjoy practicing. The relationships I made through this opportunity have helped me develop professionally and personally dealing with various county employees and lawyers from around the community.
Through this opportunity with the 17th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas of Snyder and Union counties I was able to be hired as an intern for the Public Defender’s Office for both Snyder and Union county. My association with the Adams Center internship program has been one of the most beneficial experiences I have had while at Susquehanna University. I am thankful for this opportunity and both Judge Sholley and Dr. Smyth for their time and patience in offering this professional experience.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/adams_scholars/1019/thumbnail.jp