42 research outputs found
Lawrence Cooper interview, 1988
No full textCooper, Lawrence - Audio Oral History interview - CSWA ❧ Interviewed by Frances Lomas Feldman on June 2, 1988. An interview with Lawrence Cooper. ❧ Lawrence Cooper. Interviewed by Frances Feldman. Date of interview: 6-2-88. Length of interview: 2 hours and 53 minutes. Transcript of interview: 36 pp. ❧ INTERVIEW SUMMARY: An interview with Lawrence Cooper, as he discusses his work with United Way of Los Angeles, the Welfare Planning Council of Los Angeles, the All Nations Foundation, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and others. ❧ INTERVIEW TOPICS: Representative of business; volunteer with boards and agencies: Blue Cross; Mental Health Development Commission; role in reorganization of United Way. ❧ ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: 1. Curriculum Vitae; 2. Business cards; 3. Program for National Alliance of Business, Los Angeles Metro, 10th Anniversary Dinner, 17 October 1978. Includes tribute to Lawrence Cooper; 4. Letter to Daniel Blain, Director of State Dept. of Mental Hygiene, from Edward Tuttle, president of Welfare Planning council. Includes mention of Lawrence Cooper. 5. LA Rotary list of members, including Lawrence Cooper
Caribbean Report 16-04-1998
No full text1. Headlines with Keith Stone Greaves (00:00-00:25)2. Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien argues for special conditions for small states as CARICOM present a united front. Jerome Sawyer reports on what was the outcome of the discussions at the 5th CARICOM-Canada Summit (00:26-05:00)3. Cuba is playing host to the largest ever Spanish business delegation to visit the country. Tom Gibb reports that the businessmen have stressed that they want more economic reforms (05:01-06:36)4. In Haiti, the Senate has rejected the nomination of Prime Minister designate Herve Denis for the second time which raises questions over the personal choice of President Rene Preval. Michael Norton reports (06:37-08:35)5. At the Annual Meeting of the World Bank and IMF, developing countries have been the talking point. James Morgan reports on the progress of people in developing countries (08:36-10:15)6. The Government of St. Lucia has chosen Louis Blom-Cooper, a respected British Queen's Counsel to head the commission of inquiry. Blom-Cooper allays fears on how he will proceed (10:16-12:10)7. In St. Lucia, one of the main labour unions has expressed its concern about what could be major job losses in various sectors in the wake of government's privatization plans. Lawrence Poyotte of Civil Service Association comments (12:11-15:10
Caribbean Report 14-02-1996
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:28)2. The Caribbean set to lose out as Britain changes its overseas aid policy. Aid agencies are concerned about the impact this will have. It is feared that projects in the Caribbean, Pacific and Latin American are particularly at risk. John McGraw of Oxfam, Harriet Lamb, London based World Development Head of Campaign and Minister of Overseas Aid Baroness Lynda Chalker are interviewed (00:29-06:44)3. In Barbados convicted murderers under eighteen years could face the hangman. Barbados lawyer Alair Shepherd is interviewed (05:06-06:45)4. According to an American financial journal more and more Cubans are using gold instead of paper money to finance trade. Leslie Goffe reports (06:46-07:52)5. The government of Trinidad and Tobago is to investigate the fate of missing children. Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (07:53-09:35)6. Millions of tourist travel to destinations in the Caribbean each year. The industry is one of prime importance to the region but what does tourism cost the Caribbean countries in terms of resources and development. The author of the Last resort: the cost of tourism in the Caribbean Polly Pattullo is interviewed by Hugh Crosskill (09:36-11:26)7. St. Valentine's Day is celebrated today with song, flowers and gifts but how does Valentine's Day in the Caribbean compare with the attention afforded other occasions in other parts of the world. Bertrand Niles and Ken Richards report (11:27-15:15
Caribbean Report 18-03-1999
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Debbie Ransome (00:40)2. Trinidad and Tobago will resume hangings according to a ruling by the British Privy Council throwing out the landmark appeal that inhumane conditions disqualified petitioners from being hanged. Ten people are eligible for hanging in the country. Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj discusses the Privy Council ruling (00:41 – 02:13)3. A Britain white paper which addresses the issue of homosexuality is now a major issue in several dependent territories. Britain Foreign Secretary Robin Cook presents the case for overseas territories to follow Britain lead and adopt lenient measures against homosexuality. Anguilla Chief Minister Hubert Hughes discusses the territories response to the law package (02: 14 - 06:39)4. Windward Islands leaders are working on ways to speed up the production of and quality of bananas. Prime Ministers in the Caribbean region met in Saint Vincent to discuss issuing independent certificates for Windward Islands bananas and financial restructuring of the industry. Dominica Prime Minister Edison James, the main spokesperson at the meeting, addresses safeguarding the banana industry in light of the current impasse between the US and European Union (06:40 – 10:19)5. President of the Washington based lobby group TransAFrica Randall Robinson, accused President Clinton of not telling the truth when he gave his assurance to Caribbean leaders that his administration would protect the Caribbean within the European market for bananas. Carol Orr reports on the Bridgetown Accord which was signed by the US and fifteen other nations (10:20 - 12: 47)6. The Caribbean region rum producers are warning that their product may face export and production problems in the future. Chairman of the West Indies Rum and Spirit Association Patrick Mayers provides an overview of the rum industry and the issue of decline over the next ten years ( 12: 48 - 13:36)7. West Indies captain Brian Lara retains his title as the world no. one batsman according to a Price Waterhouse/Cooper report as he single handedly won the second test match against Australia. Brian Lara scored a double century. Chelston Lee reports (12: 49 – 15:25
Caribbean Report 17-06-1991
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:36)2. Twenty-nine Haitian children illegally employed on the plantations of the Dominican Republic will be deported to Haiti tomorrow. Jean-Michel Caroit reports from Santo Domingo (00:37-06:50)3. Britain’s Minister of Overseas Development, Linda Choka, reaffirms British aid commitment to the Caribbean and adds that the region will remain the highest per capita recipients of British economic assistance. Pat Whithorne interviews Linda Choka who also notes that a green conditionality will be attached to the economic aid in the form of encouraging Caribbean governments to impose environmental taxes (02:21-06:50)4. Members of Antigua’s Parliament are currently debating a Prevention of Corruption Bill in the aftermath of the arms scandal and allegations of corruption in the government. Former Deputy Prime Minister, Vere Bird, and opposition leader, Baldwin Spencer welcome the introduction of the bill (06:51-09:47)5. Journalist and author, Lynn Geldof, recently published a book entitled “Cubans” which depicts a grave present day challenge for Fidel Castro and Cubans. Mike Jarvis interviews Lynn Geldof (09:48-12:40)6. In a warm-up match for the second test against England, West Indian cricketer Patrick Patterson suffers a leg injury. Tony Cozier reports on the impact of the injury on the West Indies. John Agnew also reports on the selection of the English team for the upcoming match and the inclusion of David Lawrence (12:41-14:55
An Investigation of Electronic Learning in Higher Education: The Egyptian Context
No full textThe current study investigated e-Learning acceptance, adoption and implementation in the Egyptian higher education. The study also explored the attitudes and perceptions towards the acceptance and readiness for e-Learning from a variety of perspectives. The degree of meeting local needs and the main factors of improvement that e-Learning could provide to the Egyptian higher education sector are also investigated. The study achieved its aim through answering the following research questions:
1. What are the various stakeholder perspectives regarding e-Learning adoption in Egypt?
2. What are the opportunities for improving Higher Education in Egypt through the adoption of e-Learning programmes?
A pragmatic research approach using mixed methods with a range of stakeholders was employed. The investigations included higher education students, employers, academics and government representatives from both public and private sectors. Investigations were conducted in two cities; Cairo and Alexandria.
A total of 398 higher education students were surveyed through structured questionnaires. Two separate questionnaire forms were designed to investigate on-campus higher education students, as well as e-Learning higher education students. Quantitative data was analysed through a range of statistical techniques: patterns of frequencies were used to allow the comparison between students groups, median calculations to determine the range of opinions towards e-Learning adoption criteria, besides correlation and regression analysis to determine the strength and shape of relations between the main variables the study intended to investigate.
Twenty four semi-structured interviews were conducted with a range of stakeholders that include academics, employers and higher education government representatives. Interviews were interpretively analysed through the deriving of common themes from each group of stakeholders highlighting the differences and similarities found between investigated groups.
The contribution to knowledge presented in this research work emerged from the development of a conceptual framework that bridges the gap between societal
acceptance and the adoption of e-Learning in Egyptian universities. Although the investigation has one country in focus, but still the analytical methodological framework could be generalised.
The research identified the following:
- main factors that affect e-Learning adoption;
- potential obstacles faced by online degree holders in Egypt;
- the role of organisational culture in e-Learning adoption, as determined by the perspective of academics, employers, government authorities and students at public, private and e-Learning universitie
Equity, difference and the nature of the academic environment : an investigation into the responses of South African universities to the admission and participation of disabled students
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 312-326)
Evaluating services for patients with chronic anorexia nervosa
No full textAround 20% of patients who develop anorexia nervosa will have an illness that
takes a chronic course, and has not resolved after 10 years or more. Treatment
approaches for these individuals tends to be overlooked in the research literature,
which has focused on attempts to identify who is likely to develop chronic anorexia
nervosa, rather than how-to most appropriately work with those who do. This paper
suggests that currently used treatment approaches should be evaluated, and the
results of such evaluations used to guide the design and implementation of new
interventions, tailored to the substantial needs of this patient group. The first study
examined the utility of five hypothesised prognostic factors in differentiating
patients with a mediun and long-term course of anorexia nervosa, and found that
high age of onset, and long duration of illness before treatment appeared to
differentiate the two groups. These factors may facilitate identification of these
patients at initial presentation, such that tailored treatments could be implemented at
this point. In the second study, patients with chronic anorexia nervosa were
interviewed to explore their experiences of helpful and unhelpful treatment, and
their recommendations for treatment. A thematic analysis was conducted on the
transcribed interviews. Identified themes suggested that helpful aspects of treatment
were characterised by collaborative, and normalising approaches, supportive contact
with other patients, and experienced and understanding clinicians. Unhelpful
treatments were characterised by frightening inpatient admissions, abnormal
treatment, competitive contact with other patients, and inexperienced or
disinterested clinicians. The implications of these results for future research and
treatment in this area are discussed
Ellis E. McCune oral history interview, "Development of the Hayward Campus", 1995
No full textMcCune was the former president of California State University, East Bay (Hayward)Transcripts and cassette tapes of oral history interviews with various individuals involved in the formation of the California State University system.CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
Oral History on the Origins of the CSU System, Phase II
ELLIS E. McCUNE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE HAYWARD CAMPUS, 1967-1990
Interview Conducted by
Lawrence B. de Graaf
May 5 and 6, 1995
Processed in cooperation with CSU Fullerton Oral History Program
1995
COPYRIGHT
This is a transcription of an interview conducted for the California State
University Archives under a grant from the Office of the Chancellor, CSU.
Scholars are welcome to utilize short excerpts from any of the transcriptions
without obtaining permission as long as proper credit is given to the
interviewee, interviewer, and the institution sponsoring the project. All uses
of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between the CSU
Archives and the interviewee. Therefore, scholars must obtain permission
from California State University Archives before making more extensive use
of the transcription and related materials.
None of these materials may be duplicated or reproduced by any party except
the California State University Archives. However, because it is the goal of
this project to preserve and make accessible significant documentation relevant
to the history of the State Colleges, copies of any unrestricted transcriptions
may be obtained at cost by writing to the CSU Systemwide Archivist at
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747.
Copyright c 1996 by the Board of Trustees
of The California State University
PREFACE
The purpose of Phase II of the California State University Oral History
Project is to record and make available to researchers using the California
State University Archives the reminiscences of individuals who participated in
development of the CSU system.
Creation of the California State Colleges in 1961 united fifteen formerly
independent colleges into a single identifiable system, with its own Board of
Trustees and a Chancellor to serve as chief executive officer. Using a formula
that stressed systemwide planning in the allocation of resources and programs,
the California State Colleges sought to offer Californians quality higher
education at reasonable cost. Key to the success of the State Colleges was the
decision to implement a Master Plan adopted in 1960 that divided higher
education into three distinctly separate segments. The State Colleges were
mandated to emphasize undergraduate and master's level programs, while the
University of California campuses were to emphasize graduate education, and
the Community Colleges vocational training and college preparation.
The present California State University, starting from a base of fifteen
campuses and 95,000 students in 1961, has grown to where it provides a wide
variety of innovative programs to more than 320,000 students on 22 campuses.
It is the largest system of higher education in the United States and is known
as one of the strongest institutions of higher education in the country.
In September 1979, the Board of Trustees created the California State
University Historical Archives, to be housed on the Dominguez Hills campus.
Since its establishment, the Archives, as a systemwide project, has been
supported by the Chancellor's Office through the funding of a professional
archivist.
The Archives currently houses a collection of materials from a variety of
sources. These include the Chancellor's Office, the CSU Academic Senate,
and private individuals such as former Chancellor Glenn Dumke and former
Trustee Paul Spencer. Consequently, the Archives holds some personal
papers as well as official systemwide documents. As part of its collection
policy, the Archives also has a responsibility to gather individual recollections
and oral histories of the system.
Phase I of the CSU Oral History Project, conducted from 1986 to 1989, and
funded by the Chancellor's Office, covered the formation and early years of
CSU through 32 interviews with participants within and without the system.
These interviews, housed at the CSU Archives, have proven useful to research
in
into higher education in the 1950s and '60s. A major quality is their
standardized format, developed at the Oral History Program at CSU
Fullerton.
Phase II is an ongoing oral history project that is decentralized but
administered by the CSU Archives. Its intent is to assure that the
reminiscences of retiring chancellors, principal staff members, Academic
Senate chairs, Student Association presidents, trustees, and local campus
presidents be recorded as closely as possible to their retirement date and that
this be done routinely as a regularized process. Phase II also seeks
information on the growth of the CSU during two mid-decades, 1964-85.
The project has three long-range purposes. First, it will help to increase
interest in the history and accomplishments of the California State University.
Next, it will be a tool in aiding the acquisition of additional materials
concerning the System now in private hands. Finally, it will create needed
documentation for understanding the System's historical role in state and
national education; many issues it has confronted have become matters of
national concern, such as meeting the needs of a multicultural student body
and finding adequate resources in a time of scarcity. Oral history can provide
background information on these developments that is not available in
bulletins, brochures, and minutes.
Funding for the project is provided by the Office of the Chancellor, Dr. Barry
Munitz. We thank the interviewee for generously giving of his time. We also
acknowledge the pioneering work of the CSU Fullerton Oral History Program
in providing a model. Transcribing was performed by Garnette Long, who in
the process contributed many wise editorial suggestions.
Lawrence B. de Graaf Tim Gregory
Judson A. Grenier Acting CSU Archivist
Project Co-directors
MEMBERS, CSU ARCHIVES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Betty J. Blackman
William D. Campbell
Lawrence B. de Graaf
Robert C. Detweiler
Donald R. Gerth
Harold Goldwhite
Tim Gregory
Judson A. Grenier
David E. Leveille
Gloria Lothrop
Barry Munitz
Lyn Olsson
John Pfau
Teena Stem
Helene Whitson
Samuel Wiley
IV
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ON THE
ORIGINS OF THE CSU SYSTEM
This is an interview of Dr. Ellis McCune, former president of Cal State
Hayward and interim Chancellor. It is occurring on May 5, 1995. The
interviewer is Lawrence de Graaf.
LD: Ellis, we usually begin these with a background. You were bom in
Texas?
EM: Yes, through no fault of my own, I was bom in Houston, Texas. Do
you want the date?
LD: Yes.
EM: July 17, 1921, which means I'm seventy-four this year. We left Texas
when I was a baby, I guess about a year and a half old, and went
through Iowa, a visit that I obviously don't remember, where my
father's parents lived, and then to Tacoma, Washington, where my
mother's parents lived. So my sister, who is two years and three
months younger than I, was bom in Tacoma, Washington, although I
had been bom in Houston, Texas. We then, when I was very small,
moved first to Glendale, and then to Culver City, both in Southern
California, and lived there until 1930,1 think it was, and at that time
the Depression had really set in. My father was a carpenter doing
contracting, and he was completely unable to find work. He became
convinced that if he went back to Houston, which in those days was
relatively well-off, he would do better. So the family sold the house
that we had and set off to Houston. My father left and went directly
to Houston.
My mother, my sister, and I took a coastal steamer, one of those old
coastal steamers that ran up and down California— I remember being
very seasick— up to Tacoma to pay what I guess was supposed to be
sort of a last visit to my grandparents. It turned out that my
grandparents and one uncle, my mother's youngest brother, decided to
go to Texas with us. So we got into two old cars, a 1927 or '28 Dodge,
and I forget what the other one was, and drove from Tacoma,
Washington, to Houston, Texas. And this was in December, as I recall,
December or January. That was quite a trip. I have very vivid
memories of that, the torrential rains in Arizona, slipping off the road
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and so forth, the car breaking down on Mount Shasta with a broken
crankshaft, (chuckling) It was quite a trip.
Then we finally got back to Texas, and we lived in Houston. Well, let's
see, we got there, I guess, in— I don't remember now whether it was
1930 or 1931 that we got there. I think it may have been January or
February of 1931 when we actually arrived, and we lived in Houston
until 1942, at which time my parents came out to California and I
entered college in Texas.
LD: At Sam Houston?
EM: At what was then Sam Houston State Teachers College. It's now Sam
Houston State University, quite a different school. No, I'm sorry, that
was in 1940. In 1940 that happened, because in 1942 I enlisted in the
United States Air Force and I was in an Air Force band. (It was the
United States Army Air Force then.) I spent the war playing Sousa
marches, (laughter)
LD: Oh, my heavens! What instrument did you play?
EM: Well, I really played the bassoon but, you know, bassoons aren't very
good in marching bands. A marching band marched much of the time,
so I usually was . . . because I was tall, and I guess had a good sense
of rhythm, I got to play the bass drum or the cymbals or something like
that. I also took up the baritone sax and did some of that, not very
much. But I spent the war years in Texas, for the most part mostly in
Waco, two different air fields in Waco: Waco Army Air Field and
Blackland Army Air Field.
LD: Out of curiosity, what were the functions of a band during the war?
EM: Mostly the entertaining of troops and to play for formal ceremonies.
We played, as I remember, a retreat ceremony every day, lowering the
flag, and sometimes a morning ceremony. We had occasional formal
. . . what do they call, parades? Some visiting somebody or other
would show up and everybody would be out. We did a lot of just
incidental music for this, that, and the other thing. We'd load a jazz
band into the back of a truck and go up on the line where the aircraft
mechanics were slaving away, you know, and try to cheer them up.
Mostly morale boosting, that kind of thing. Played for some social
functions. It was not a difficult life, I'll tell you that, (laughter)
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LD: Were you in for the duration of the war?
EM: I was in and I got out in 1946. I left Waco and went to Perrin Field,
which was up between Sherman and Dennison, Texas, for a period of
time in 1945, and then I went to work in an Army recruiting station in
Akron, Ohio, for six or eight months, I guess— well, I guess maybe a
little longer than that. I got there sometime in the fall of 1945 and was
there until May or June of 1946. I was discharged a t . . . what's the
old camp that was up near Marysville, Camp Beale in California, in
1946. I was sort of a first sergeant in the Army recruiting station.
That was an interesting set of experiences.
LD: It sounds like it.
EM: We were mostly trying to talk recent veterans into enlisting in the
reserves, which, in retrospect, was not a good thing to do because most
of the people who enlisted in the reserves wound up being called to
war in Korea. I imagine there were a few people who cursed us.
(laughter) I don't know what I left out along the way, but that will give
you sort of a thumbnail account.
LD: Well, that's very interesting, yes.
EM: And amongst other things, in high school I worked for my father in the
summertime when he had work and did everything from rough framing
to running cement mixers. I worked for a grocery company for a long
time. My father became very ill, and my sister was still in high school,
so I really supported my family for a couple of years working in the
grocery store. I remember my elation at being promoted to be first
checker and I made the astounding salary of 15 a month.
LD: Fifteen a month? (chuckling)
EM: And the reason I was able to go was that I was able to live in a
cooperative house at the college, where the room and board was
miraculously $15 a month, (chuckling) So, by doing some extra work,
working in the local theater and things like that to pick up change, I
managed to make enough money to stay in school. We lived pretty
simply in those days. Nobody had cars, of course. At any rate, that
was the first government program. The NYA job made it possible for
me to go to college to begin with— that and considerable sacrifice by
my mother and family. And then the GI Bill made it possible for me
to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees later. I'm a great
believer in government programs, (chuckling)
LD: Yes, I can see that. Now, at UCLA you went straight through a B.A.
and then right into a Ph.D.?
EM: That's right. I was going to get an M.A., but the department adopted
the policy that you didn't have to take an M.A., so I was well through
the M.A. process and decided that because I was getting older and
time was getting short, and by then I had a child, that I would skip the
M.A. and go directly on to the Ph.D.
LD: Any prominent scholars that you studied under at UCLA?
EM: Well, I don't know; UCLA did not have as distinguished a faculty then,
I think, as it probably had subsequent to that. The major influence on
me at UCLA was J. A. C. Grant, James Allen Clifford Grant, who was
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a professor of public law, and it was through Grant that I took
constitutional law and legal history. He was an inspiring teacher and
a man of great vision. He was a pretty good scholar, too. He did a lot
of work, articles in legal journals and that kind of thing, on
constitutional issues. Tom Jenkins, the political theorist (now
deceased) who subsequently became an administrator, I think at Irvine,
UC Irvine, he was vice chancellor at Irvine, I believe, when Jack
Peltason was chancellor, the man who has gone on these days to be
President of UC. There were some new people who had come who
were pretty good, b u t . . . Oh, and Winston Crouch, the co-author of
the text on California government. Probably Grant, Crouch, and
Jenkins, and Russell Fitzgibbon, who was the Latin American person.
Politics was under the aegis of Charles Titus, who was an eccentric,
odd individual. I took a course in politics from him in which we read
Machiavelli's Prince and Discourses, and Gratian's Manual o f Worldly
Wisdom, and listened to a lot of opinions from Titus, but we didn't
learn much about politics, (chuckling) or at least not partisan politics
in the United States. There was another political theorist, Nixon,
Charles Nixon. I can't remember who else. Oh, Ivan Hinderaker
(later chancellor at UC Riverside) was there in those days. I was a
teaching assistant for Ivan, and also a teaching assistant for David
Farrelly. No, I was a reader for Farrelly. I was mostly a teaching
assistant for Hinderaker and for a strange fellow . . . Englebert? Yeah,
Ernest Englebert, who was in Public Administration. He wore a hat.
He was the only faculty member at UCLA with a hat. (chuckling)
That was a long time ago, Larry. I don't remember all those people
now, but the man who made the greatest impression on me— the
two— were Grant and Crouch. I think they most affected me.
LD: Did you have a particular field of specialty within poli sci?
EM: Yes, pub
Researching British university sport initiations
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The study of sport initiations is in its infancy. So far, the North American-centric research has focussed on ‘exposing and condemning’ morally unacceptable initiation activities, which are referred to as hazing. Hazing moral panics in North America has resulted in universities utilising sport initiation empirical research to construct anti-hazing policies; policies proven to be ineffective in banning sport initiations. The purpose of this research is to address some of the gaps in the knowledge of sport initiations. A two stage ethnographic research approach was utilised to collect information on British university sport initiations. An international student embedded himself as a student-athlete within a British university to learn the cultural meanings of a foreign sport culture and to possess an emic perspective. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted with key policy actors possessing differing organisational cultural perspectives (differentiational and fragmentational), specifically university staff and sport - rugby union, football, and track and field - club members from multiple higher education institutions. The researcher’s ethnographic confessional tale of his experience as a self-funded international student is combined with the data from interviewee participants to construct British university sport initiations as a resistance research topic.This study is part-funded by The National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA)
