15 research outputs found
Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Accountability on Budget Implementation in Ondo State Nigeria
No full textThe paper aimed at analyzing the effect of accountability on budget implementation in Nigeria using Ondo State Ministry of Finance as a case study. The paper adopts a survey design and secondary data which were obtained from statistical bulletin of Ministry of Finance. The time series data covers the period of eight (8) years from 2007-2014. The data was analyzed using ordinary least square (OLS) and Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test with the aid of E-view 7 Software Statistical package. The findings reveal that the coefficient of multiple determination is low in explaining the annual approved budget estimates, besides, the formulated model does not show a good fit of the total approved budget estimates due to some unforeseen occurrences that affects the measure of accountability during budget implementation. This was further justified by the t-test and F-test results. The paper recommended the use of accurate data which will be predicated on the performance of past budgets. Also, there is a need for strict observance of budget discipline by the executive to guide against extra-budgetary spending
PEDAGOGY AND IMPACT OF GIFMIS ADOPTION AS A TOOL FOR PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT
No full textOne major problem affecting economic growth of Nigeria is the poor management of the Nations Financial Resources. This arose from corruption, mismanagement and ill-allocation of government financial resources. The need to promote public accountability, transparency, cost effective public service delivery, judicious allocation of government scarce financial resources and economic growth gave impetuous for the introduction of Government integrated financial and management information system (GIFMIS). The study shall examine the effect of GIFMIS on government financial transactions in relation to public funds management and how it has significantly influence government policy. The paper adopts a survey design and primary data which were obtained with the use of well structured administered questionnaires. The data obtained were analyzed using an Analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings reveal that with the use of GIFMIS, there has been an appreciable reduction in corruption, financial irregularities and leakages with the attendant improvement in transparency and accountability in the management of government funds. Also, the use of GIFMIS has led to effective implementation of government policy. The paper recommends the adoption of GIFMIS at all levels of government to form part of financial management reforms practices to enhance transparency, accountability and judicious use of government financial resources
An Assessment of Impact of Financial Statement Fraud on Profit Performance of Manufacturing Firm in Nigeria: A Study of Food and Beverage Firms in Nigeria
No full textThe aim of this research study is to assess the impact of financial statement fraud on profitability of some selected Nigerian manufacturing firms covering (2002-2016). The specific objectives focused on to ascertain the effect of incorrect asset valuation on return on assets (ROA) and to ascertain the relationship between improper expense recognition and return on assets (ROA). To achieve these objectives, descriptive research design was used for the study while secondary data were collected from the financial reports of the selected firms and website of security and exchange commission. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used and STATA II econometric method was used in the analysis of the data. Altman model and operating expenses ratio was adopted in the analysis of the financial reports to create a dummy variable for the selected firms from 2002-2016 and validation of the parameters were ascertained using various statistical techniques such as t-test, co-efficient of determination (R2), F-statistics and Wald chi-square. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested using the t-statistics at 5% level of significance. The findings of the analysis revealed that there is a significant relationship between financial statement fraud and profitability in Nigerian manufacturing industry. It was revealed that incorrect assets valuation has a significant positive relationship and so also is the improper expense recognition on return on assets (ROA) which serves as a proxy for profitability. The implication of this is that distortion of asset valuation and expense recognition leads to decreasing profit in the long run in the manufacturing industry. The study therefore recommended that pragmatic policy options need to be taken in the manufacturing industry to effectively manage incorrect asset valuation and improper expense recognition in order to enhance manufacturing industry performance in the country and also stemming of financial statement fraud should be adequately inculcated into the internal control system of manufacturing firms for the effective running of the manufacturing industry in Nigeria. Keywords: Altman’s Model; Improper Expense Recognition; Incorrect Asset Valuation; Return on Asset
An Insight into the Influence of Corona Virus Surge on Nigerian Economy
No full textThe study explored the emergence of a novel virus disease called covid-19 that is ravaging, devastating both human health and global economy and dissect vis-à-vis Nigerian economy. Ordinary Least Square Regression (OLSR) was used to analyse Total Nigeria Confirmed Cases (TNCC), Total Africa Confirmed Cases (TACC) and Total Global Confirmed Cases (TGCC) as exogenous variables while the endogenous variables are market capitalisation, (mcapt), foreign exchange rate of US-Dollar to Naira (usnaira) and crude oil price per day (copd) for period of 182 days. The result revealed that covid-19 pandemic has had an adverse impact on market capitalisation, exchange rate and crude oil price and Nigerian economy as a whole. We recommend that bailout funds should be made available to stakeholders in the capital market, funds in foreign exchange reserve accounts should be used to hedge foreign exchange fluctuations and funds in excess crude oil accounts should be used to cushion the effect of fall in crude oil price. Keywords: COVID-19, Foreign exchange rate, Crude oil, Market capitalisation JEL: D 53, F 31, I 15 DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/11-18-02 Publication date:September 30th 202
Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
No full textThis thesis explores the representations of, and the relationship between. the migrant and the nation in selected works of the Bombay-born novelists Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie. I explore each writer's engagement with contemporary debates surrounding the material, political, social and imaginative consequences of the crisis in secularism in India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and consider how this engagement is informed by their
migrant positions beyond India's borders. A primary concern is the way in which Mistry's and Rushdie's representations of the nation, and of migrant and diasporic subjects, intersects with the representation of Bombay in their work.
This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first two chapters concentrate on Mistry's fiction, the remaining three on Rushdie's work. Published between 1988 and 2002, the central novels examined are situated within debates regarding the founding principles of the Indian nation, and notions of Indianness, the rise of communalism in general and Hindu nationalism in particular, and the renaming of Bombay as Mumbai. My readings foreground the necessity of a
close understanding of the historical and political transformations taking place within Bombay and India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but also during the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that Mistry's and Rushdie's work is informed by a deepening anxiety over these socio-political transformations, and over how reconfigurations of Indianness increasingly position minority communities, and migrant and diasporic subjects, outside of definitions of national identity.
This anxiety extends into the negotiation of their own migrant positions. My reading of the differing representations of the migrant in Mistry's and Rushdie's work engages with ideas of accountability, political responsibility, and with notions of cosmopolitanism. In doing so, I question familiar assumptions regarding the migrant condition as one of predominantly empowering political agency. I argue that, while both authors emphasise the importance of the migrant sustaining a critical engagement with India's politics, they also foreground the anxious difficulties of doing so. This difficulty informs Mistry's and Rushdie's divergent negotiation of their own position as migrant writers, and I examine how their fiction is marked by an anxiety over the adequacy of writing as a mode of political engagement with the crisis in secularism and the parochialisation of Bombay, and as a means of negotiating the politics of migrancy
Conversion of African Americans to Islam : a sociological analysis of the Nation of Islam and associated groups
No full text'Conversion of African Americans to Islam: A Sociological Analysis of the Nation of
Islam Associated groups' is an empirical study of the religious experience of people
who had/have distinctive features in terms of race, ethnicity and historical experience.
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how African Americans' (AAs) conversion
experience in general, and the Nation of Islam associated groups' conversion in
particular, differ from the studies of recruitment and conversion in the sociology of
religion and New Religion Movements (NRMs). More specifically, their recruitment
and conversion experiences to Islam diverge from those who converted to mainstream
Islam. The study investigates how AAs' historical experience, soci-economic
difficulties and the racism they encountered shaped and influenced their religious
understanding.
Research methods involved participant observations, a survey questionnaire, interviews,
conversations, personal communications and correspondence. To collect ethnographic
data eleven months field research was conducted mainly in the Chicago area and on two
short visits to Detroit, and three years continued communications with Muslim officials
and academics in the area. During the field research and afterwards through personal
communication 181 survey questionnaire responses were received, and 23 Muslim
officials, academics and ordinary Muslims were interviewed through semi-structured,
unstructured interviews, conversation and correspondence.
The thesis begins with a brief history of Islam and Muslims in general and the African
American Muslims (AAMs) in particular. More emphasis is given on the historical
development of the Nation of Islam (NOl). Then in Chapter III, discussions of schisms
in the history of the NOT are examined from sociological perspectives of social and
religious movements. In Chapter IV I aimed to formulate my own perspective to
analyse and study the conversion experiences of AAMs to Islam. I used a multivariate
approach, considering selectively widely held conversion and recruitment theories in the
sociology of the religion. I consider in Chapter V the predisposing conditions for AAMs
that influence their decision-making to join in the NOT, for example, political and
nationalistic sentiments and socio-economic deprivations. In Chapter VI I have applied
different terms to describe their religious experiences, such as conversion, alteration and
reversion. I have analysed further their encounters with the NOT, the methods of
recruitment they used and their major motives for joining the NOT and converting to
Tslam. In the concluding chapters (Chapter VII VTTT) I describe the different responses
of AAMS to Islam following the death of Elijah Muhammad. It is found out that the
Islamic appeal has polarised. While Farakhan's NOT appeared to continue the tradition
and style of the old NOI with the emphasis on nationalistic and socio-economic factors,
Tmam W. D. Mohammed's community turned more to the religious and spiritual aspects
of Tslam. These different approaches led to a polarisation of the appeal of Tslam to
AAMS.
This thesis contributes to knowledge in four key areas; the sociology of religion and
religious movements, the sociology of social and nationalistic movements, religious and
Islamic studies
Arabic printing in Malta 1825-1845 : Its history and its place in the development of print culture in the Arab Middle East.
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Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
The Reporter, March 1993
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of Western Carolina University
March 1993 1 Cullowhee, North Carolina
Adcock 'celebration'
set for March 22
M
Adcock
embers of the university community will
gather in the Music Recital Hall on
Monday, March 22, for a "celebration of
life" musical service in memory of Dr. Eva
Adcock, professor emeritus of music, who
died March 7.
The service, set for
noon, is to include
works selected by
Adcock with Dr. James
Dooley, vice chancellor
for university services,
who will conduct music
for the program.
Adcock's family
plans a memorial
service for 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 14, at
First Presbyterian
Church of Sylva.
A native of San Pedro, California, Adcock was
a member of Western's music faculty for twenty-two
years. She retired in 1992, but continued to
coordinate the university's Orff-Schulwerk music
training programs, through which she had brought
national and international attention to WCU.
Adcock played a major role in organizing the
traditional music activities for Mountain Heritage
Day and last year received the Mountain Heritage
Day Award for Distinguished Service.
Wanted: your ideas on
graduation rates
Bring your thoughts on graduation rates to any or
all of a series of "brown bag" lunchtime discussions
to be sponsored by the Office of Academic
Services on three Tuesdays in March and April.
Dr. Michael Malone, assistant vice chancellor
for academic affairs, will lead the discussions to
generate information for a plan he will write this
year for improving undergraduate graduation rates
at WCU. The plan will become part of a larger
document from the University of North Carolina
system on reducing the amount of time entering
freshmen require to complete their first degrees.
All members of the university community are
invited to the sessions, to be held noon-1 p.m. in
the faculty lounge of the University Center on
March 23, April 13, and April 27. For more
information, call the Office of Academic Services
at 227-7222.
Don't miss this workshop
on assertiveness
You've got every right to be there when Counseling
and Psychological Services presents a workshop
on assertiveness training on campus Tuesday,
March 30.
The two-hour workshop is open to the public,
especially to anyone interested in learning about
the "Bill of Assertive Rights," the differences
between assertion and aggression, and ways to
develop valuable assertiveness skills.
Join the group 6-8 p.m. in the Cherokee Room
of the University Center. Admission is free. For
more information, call Dr. Chris Gunn at 227-7469.
University Club will sell extra
tickets to 'Camelot'
The University Club has four extra tickets to an
upcoming performance of Camelot at the Fox
Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and will sell them
to interested members of the faculty and staff.
The price is 3 students, 6 others.
(227-7206)
Baseball, Cats vs. Furman.
Childress Field, 1 p.m.
The next issue of the
Reporterv/H\ be
published on Friday,
March 26. Items for
publication in that issue
should reach 1601
Ramsey Center by
Wednesday, March 17.
Monday
15
Video, K2 (through
March 21). Second floor, UC.
Free.
Men's and women's tennis,
Cats vs. Wofford College.
Spartanburg, SC, 2:30 p.m.
Address by artist and activist
Leon Golub. A Cullowhee
Arts Festival event. MRH,
8 p.m.
22 Video, Ford Fairlane
(though ^^h 27). Second
floor, UC. free.
Academic advising and
early registration begin.
Run through April 8.
Baseball, Cats vs Georgia
Tech. Atlanta, GA, 7:30 p.m.
Key
HFR H.F. Robinson
Administration
Building
MHC Mountain
Heritage Center
MRH Music Recital
Hall
RAC Ramsey Activity
Center
UC University
Center
Telephone numbers to call
for more information
appear after some listings.
Tuesday
16
WCUAEOP annual business
meeting. Mary Will Mitchell
Room, Brown Cafeteria, noon.
Women's tennis, Cats vs.
Furman. Reid courts, 2:30 p.m.
Demonstration of T'ai Chi
Ch'uan. RAC, 7 p.m.
Mr. Alpha Kappa Alpha
Pageant. Hoey Auditorium,
7 p.m. 1 students, 5 adults, 1 students,
1 students,
others.
Thursday
18
Project C.A.R.E. Day
Demonstration, "An Introduction
to WordPerfect Presentations."
Room B-15, Forsyth Building,
11 a.m. (227-7282)
Baseball, Cats vs. South Carolina
State. Childress Field, 3 p.m.
Noncredit program, "Reading
Improvement for Adults." Room
127, Killian Building. 6 p.m.
(227-7397)
Forum, "Unity in the Black
Community." Grandroom, UC,
7 p.m.
Jazz concert. Cherokee Room,
UC, 8 p.m. 5
others.
Concert of Civil War music by
Chestnut Brass Quintet. MRH,
8 p.m. Free.
25
Student recital. MRH, 2 p.m.
Baseball, Cats Vs: UNC-A.
Childress Field, 3 p.m.
Open Mike Night. Cherokee
Room, UC, 8 pjn, 500.
Poetry reading with Lucille
Clifton. 8 p.m.
Friday
19
Golf, Tusculum Invitational, Link
Hills Country Club. Greeneville,
TN (through March 21).
Student recital. MRH, 3 p.m.
University Club. Riverhouse
Restaurant, Cullowhee, 4:30-
6:30 p.m.
26 Graduate Council meeting.
Room 510, HFR, 11 a.m.
University Club. Riverhouse
Restaurant, Cullowhee, 4:30-
6:30 p.m.
Performance by Concert Choir
MRH, 8 p.m. Free.
Exhibits
"A Show of Multicultural Art" (through April 14). Belk Art Gallery, 9 a.m.-noon,
1-4 p.m., Monday-Friday and by appointment at 227-7210.
"Migration of the Scotch-Irish People," a permanent exhibit; "Irons in the Fire," a
slide-tape show on mountain blacksmithing; and "A Quiltin'," an exhibit of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century quilts. MHC, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
"Sweetgrass Basketry" (through April 7). Chelsea Gallery, UC, 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-
Friday; 10 a.m.-11 p.m. weekends. (227-7206)
"To What Do We Aspire?," a sculptural installment by Steven Lockwood (through
April 16). Belk Building, 7 a.m.-midnight, Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
Saturday
20
Men's and women's outdoor
track and field, Cats at Clemson
Tiger Relays. Clemson, SC.
Baseball Weekend Extravaganza
(through March 21). RAC
and Childress Field. (227-7377)
Shopping trip to Atlanta, GA.
(227-7206)
Graduate Management
Admission Test. Natural
Sciences Auditorium, 8 a.m.
Men's tennis, Cats vs. The
Citadel. Reid courts, 9 a.m.
Mountain bike trip, Pisgah
Forest. 9 a.m. (227-7206)
Baseball, Cats vs. Furman.
Childress Field, noon.
Catamount Club auction.
Charlotte, 6-11 p.m. (227-7377)
Pub night. P.G. Katz, 8 p.m.
3 others.
27
Climbing trip to Horseshoe
Rock. 20 others.
(227-7206)
National Teacher's Exam—
Specialty Area. Natural Sciences
Auditorium, 8 a.m.
Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Natural Sciences Auditorium,
8 a.m.
Choral Clinic Concert. MRH,
3:30 p.m.
Baseball, Cats at Georgia
Southern (double-header).
Statesboro, GA, 6 p.m.
The Reporter March 12, 1993
The Reporter is published
by the Office of Pubic
Information. Mail notices
and changes of address to
the Reporter, 1601 Ramsey
Center. 1,450 copies of this
pubic document were
printed at a cost of 0.13 per copy. Western
Carolina University is an
Equal Opportunity Institution.
Nicholl directing work of
publications division
Susan Calhoun Nicholl, assistant director for
publications in the Office of Public Information,
since her appointment late last year has been
implementing measures to
assure improved publications
for the institution.
Nicholl was named
assistant director in December
by Doug Reed, director of
public information, following
the resignation of Christy M.
McCarley, who joined the
staff of the North Carolina
Center for the Advancement
of Teaching.
Final 1992-93 academic year publications
projects now are being received at the publications
division offices in the Ramsey Center.
Reed said university units expecting to complete
publications projects in the current fiscal year
should contact Nicholl now. All editorial, design,
and production services of the division are
arranged by Nicholl.
Nicholl joined the Public Information staff on
a part-time basis in 1991 and played a major role
in the development of Western, the university
magazine, of which she and Reed are the editors.
Before moving to Cullowhee, Nicholl was the
editor of two national magazines in Washington,
D. C., specializing in non-profit issues. She is a
board member of Western North Carolina Habitat
for Humanity and the Jackson County Arts
Council and is a member of the publicity and
annual meeting committees of the Community
Foundation of Western North Carolina.
Chestnut Brass Company to
perform Civil War concert
The internationally known Chestnut Brass
Company will perform music from the Civil War
period as part of the Cullowhee Arts Festival, a
monthlong celebration of the arts and entertainment
centered on the theme "Civil Strife:
Reflections Through the Arts and HumaniUes."
The concert, open to the public without
charge, will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, March
18, in the Music Recital Hall.
The Chestnut Brass Company, known for
performances of Renaissance and nineteenth-century
music on authentic period instruments,
will be in residence at WCU March 16-18. The
company is the last of three chamber music
groups participating in the 1992-93 artists-in-residence
series sponsored by WCU's music
department. For more information, call 227-7242.
Visiting philosopher will
address 'irresponsibility'
John Lachs, professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt
University, will give a public lecture entitled
"Irresponsibility" on campus on Thursday, March
18. The Hungarian-born philosopher will be on
campus as part of the Visiting Scholars Program.
His talk will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Room 346 of
Stillwell Building and is free of charge.
A member of the Vanderbilt University faculty
since 1967, Lachs is author of nine bodes and
more than 100 articles and reviews for professional
journals and publications. For more
information about his WCU visit, call 227-7262.
Grants and contracts news
This column from the Office of Res earch
and Graduate Studies focuses on initiatives.
issues, and deadlines in grants and
contracts activities.
Now in its third year of operation, the study grant
program of the National Endowment for the
Humanities provides six weeks of support for
teachers of the humanities to undertake independent,
full-time study of significant texts and topics
in the humanities. The aim is to rekindle the
teacher's engagement with the humanities.
Projects are for intensive study rather than
research intended for publication.
Preference for awards will be given to those
teachers with heavy teaching loads and limited
opportunities for professional development.
Teachers who have taught without the opportunities
for study and reflection (e.g. sabbaticals,
grants) will benefit more from these awards than
those teachers with more opportunities.
In designing the proposals, the study plan
should define the specific aims of the inquiry,
may deepen knowledge in the scholar's chosen
field to add depth to classroom discussions,
should include readings of primary text, but may
not include plans that investigate teaching
methods and approaches.
Awards are usually made for summer study
and carry a 3,000 stipend. Call the Office for
Research and Graduate Studies for additional
information. Application deadline is August 16,
1993. Decisions will be announced by March 1,
1994, and projects will be undertaken in the
summer of 1994.
Nicholl
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Our networking world
The exchange of information grows more
dependent on interconnected computers each
year. As our campus network grows, WCU users
will encounter established systems like these:
MicroNet - an electronic "partnership" based at
WCU, linking grade school and high school
teachers and students with education resources
across the state, nation, and world.
CONCERT - the fastest, most sophisticated
network in North Carolina. CONCERT
connects universities, research institutions, and
graduate centers for interactive video and highspeed
data transmission.
LINCNET - a statewide network operated by the
University of North Carolina. It connects the
campuses of constituent UNC institutions, the
state's community colleges, some private
colleges, and the state library.
Internet - currently the premier national
communications network for the academic
community, offering interactive access to data
sources and communication services, including
BITNET.
BUNET - a worldwide higher-education network
that links libraries, universities, and companies.
BITNET provides access to a variety of
research tools and information.
Planning WCU's
electronic network
foster the use of technology in higher
education, develop an effective campus-wide
network as quickly as possible.
That was the first recommendation on a
list published last October by the national
Higher Education Information Resources Alliance
and sent to college presidents around the country.
Western Carolina University was already two
years ahead of that thinking. Since March 1990,
university personnel appointed by Chancellor
Myron L. Coulter had
been meeting to determine
how best to create
a network that would
link buildings across
campus for sharing data
and video.
Now the University
Technology Board has a
plan for the campus
network. Board members
are Robert Anders,
Tom Connelly, Russell
Crisp, James Culp,
Clarence DelForge, Jill
Ellern, Paul Gold, Tony
Hickey, Tim Jacobs,
Mike Malone, Jim
Manring, Chris Martin,
John McFadden, Allen
Moore, Bill Perry, Doug
Reed, Linda Reida, A1
Wiggins, and Ken
Wood.
'There will actually
be two separate portions
of the network for a
period of time. We plan
to install a fiber optics
portion for data transmission.
For a time,
we'll keep video
transmissions on broadband coaxial cable already in
the ground on campus," said Dr. C.J. Carter, vice-chancellor
for business affairs. His office recently
named the firm of Hayes, Seay, Mattern, and
Mattern to design the network's fiber-optics data
portion, which will serve as the primary "highway"
linking computers on campus.
Fiber optics is a system of thin glass filaments
that moves electronic information by converting it
to light energy. Coaxial cable, on the other hand,
like that used by cable television companies,
transmits electronic signals through copper wire.
The network would transmit video on the university's
coaxial cable lines, which were specially
run to academic buildings in the mid-1980s.
Possible uses of video capabilities include
teleconferences, videotaped exam reviews, and
broadcasts of reserved videos from Hunter Library,
according to Chris Martin, director of the University
Media Center and chairman of the video
applications committee of the University Technology
Board. He said the network may also carry a
video "information board" for campus events, much
like commercial cable information channels.
"Academics or information—the video applications
of our network will fall into one of these
categories," Martin said.
Campus networks are becoming as essential as
libraries in academic infrastructure, according to a
1992 General Administration report on networking
and telecommunications. Individual universities
will lose ground in coming years if they are unable
to connect to major state, national, and international
networks for research, instruction, continuing
education, and administration. (See sidebar.)
"Aside from on-campus applications, our
network will put the campus in touch with a
number of data sources we can use, particularly
databases our students need," said Dr. John H.
Wakeley, vice-chancellor for academic affairs.
"It's primarily for the benefit of undergraduate
instruction, but it will also benefit graduate
studies, scholarly development, and research
activities."
Other questions? See back page.
Western in transition
Recent personnel
changes at WCU
Joining us
These people have begun working
at WCU since mid-February:
• Benny Dees, head basketball
coach, University Athletics
• Rosalyn K. Galloway,
administrative manager,
University Advancement
• Phillip D. Hopkins, assistant
basketball coach, University
Athletics
• Michael Thomas, staff development
specialist, Center for
Improving Mountain Living
Leaving us
These people left university
employment in February or
March:
• Thomas W. Adkins, Physical Plant
• Bruce Boggs, Center for
Improving Mountain Living
• Sunday Buck, North Carolina
Center for the Advancment of
Teaching
• Jonathan Ehrlich, Business Affairs
• Renee M. Jones, Dietary Services
• Shirley Kool, Student
Financial Aid
• Rufus H. Ray, Maintenance and
Organization
• Barry Seiple, North Carolina
Center for the Advancment of
Teaching
Transferring
• Merry S. Woodard, from Education
and Psychology to Reading
Center
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Sunday
28
Baseball, Cats at Georgia
Southern. Statesboro, GA,
1 p.m.
Key
HFR H.F. Robinson
Administration
Building
MHC Mountain
Heritage Center
MRH Music Recital
Hall
RAC Ramsey Activity
Center
UC University
Center
Telephone numbers to
call for more information
appear after some
listings.
4 Video, The Last Boy Scout.
Second floor lobby, UC.
Free.
Baseball, Cats vs.
Marshall. Childress Field,
1 p.m.
John O. Thompson
came to WCU this month as new
director of auxiliary serevices. Previously
he directed auxiliary services at
the Florida Institute of Technology in
Melbourne, Florida. He also has
worked in the same position at Ashland
(Ohio) University and as director of
dining operations at Case Western
Reserve University and Slippery Rock
University.
Monday
29
Video, The Last Boy Scout.
Second floor lobby, UC.
Free.
Women's tennis, Cats vs.
Appalachian State. Reid
Courts, 2:30 p.m.
Presentation, "Uncle Tom
Minstrel Shows," with
visiting scholar John
Laughton. MRH, 8 p.m.
Free.
5 Video, House Sitter.
Second floor lobby, UC.
Free.
Visiting artist, Linda
Hogan, native American
poet. MRH, 8 p.m.
5 adults, $3 youth and
WCU students with ID.
The next issue of the
Reporter will be
published on Friday, April
9. Items for publication in
that issue should reach
1601 Ramsey Center by
Wednesday, March 31.
Tuesday
30
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Professoi Woodward
Writes Law
Treatise
Rev. Roy H.
at
Campbell based his
the Congregational
•dren" received a very vivid imprvs-; Church Sunday night on the text
al on of the Inadequate and often! "Escept y« become as little chll
Improper provision'made for the f *■•-'••'■ Te shall la no-wise enter the
care of our dependent chUdrsn.iklo*dom of heaven."
While the proponed mothers' pen- H« ***** * distinction between
slon bill will remedy many of these remaining as little children and be-
evals, so far as half orphans are romln-c as little children. The dli-
concerned. there still remains al PoslUon Jesus referrs to Is pos-
large body of full orphans that|»«,**d ** full-blooded nun and wo-
must be cared for by the state. How! **** wbo sre able to enjoy life
mar their, condlttoa be Improved? *nil tb* heartiness and faith, of
I have been greatly Interested in. children.- although the bnrdena and
Oklahoma'* efforts to solve this *-'*,refl ■*nd responsibilities msy press
problem. When the state eonstltu-! **** upon tbslr splrlU day by day.
tlon was adopted four years ago Mr* C*»Pb«» thought there was
Oklahoma provided for a commls-i* message or similar Import
■doner or charities snd correction*. Maeterlinck's drama of "The Blue
with ample power*. The first In- Hlrd." Tbe children wbo set out In
cumbent Is Hiss Kate Barnard. Ml** <JU****- at happiness found that they
Barnard brought to her work an un- b*d not been appreciating tha spirit
usual amount ot enthusiasm, ener- ot common thing* that gave then
ST and clear vision, together with s pleasure day bv day. After seskteg
truly femlolge Indifference to pollt- "■ *** P*st, "- **• future and ln the
leal re-! tape and precedent. As a kingdom of night for the bird that
' result she isoniedlately began to so, represented happiness, ther re
compllsh things. She early decidedJ turned to find It lo their own home,
that the herding of children In Isrge.T*9*' ****** » -*•» appreciation of
asylums stifled tnlatlve self-reliance common things st home and cared
and Individuality, Instead of these! lass tor the distant pleasures and
human' brooders, so powerless to po*jsesslons of others. There Is
develop normal children, she lnst> comforting childlike view or death
tuied the cottage system, where the presented lu Maeterlinck's fairy-
children live in comparatively small tale. The picture of the unborn
groups, with a house mother aud a babes bringing with them Into the
home life. world tbe crimes tbey are to commit
The state home nas a targe farm abould inspire us wllh mercy for the
where the children are taught agrl- erlmleale who may not be responsl-
eulture and dairying, extensive- ma- hie for their crimes,
chine shops where others learn Mr. Campbell's Sunday evening
trades, while ample provision Is <»*ks pointing out tbe religious bear-
made for leaching the girls all the •■** or great
domestic sciences. A eertaln
DEAN OP PROFESSIONAL
SCHOOL EDITS
BOOK.
Professor F. C. Woodward, dean
oj, the Stanford Law School, Is the
author of a treatise on the "Law of
.Quasi Contracts," which has but recently oome off tbe presses of S. J.
Parkhill * Co. ot Boston. Tho
copyright of the book belongs
Little. Brown ft Co. or the same
city, ft Is dedicated by Ita author
to John Henry Wit-mure, aud the
memory of Ernest W. HufTcutt.
Quasi contracta Is a subject
much importance In the legal world,
and tbe legal profession has long
felt tbe need of thorough systematic treatment of tbe subject, which
the book will meet.
Professor Woodward Is well qualified from his study and teaching to
write auch a book, as he Is now
teaching quasi contracts In tbe lew
school snd taught the subject In
Northwestern Law School before
coming to Stanford.
The author received his I.I. n. de
gree from Cornell In ISO*., and one
year later waa granted the degnv
or LL. M. trom the same Institution. He holds an honorary A. M
degree from Dickinson, conferred
upon him in 1902. He has lustmct-
ed In the legal profession st Dickinson College snd Northwestern before coming to Stanford, where he
has been since 1907. While In llll-
nols he was editor In chler of the
Illinois Law Review, and Is s frequent contributor to other law mag
aslnes. He belongs to the Callfor-
la Bar Association and Is a member or the Delta Chl,-Friten.lty.
Play Worth Seeing
at Alcazar Theater
books have made a
irons appeal to hla audiences, Neil
week he will discuss the tight
against ignorance, based on Booker
T. Washington's experience, and st
a later sermon lhe fight against
emptiness, based on Dell R. Mun*
"The Wind Before tbe
amount of common sebool education
goes with this technical training.
Compared with the California
treatment of dependent children
this condition seems almost Ideal,
but Miss Barnard has done much *"'* bj00*1
more. Her one aim is. not to'take ■--**»•-•"
good care of the children but
make good cltliens or them, devel- value or this Idea, and In Its recent-
op them physically, m,-n tally, . and ly adopted county charter has pro-
morally. She starts with the tcon- **lded tor a rounty public dr-tender
oclastlc theory thst ibe children 1 first saw an account of this work
must be taught to despise public In a little legal magsslne, "Case and (would naturally take an Interest In
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy
in said to be the only sovereign In
the world who Is now entitled to
vote.. At his own request his name
was Included In thr- list of voters,
hlrh waa recently Increased owing
to the new electoral reform.
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to suggest some line ot advanced
legislation which they would attempt ln tho ease they were Invest-
ed with suffrage, but they had. no
Idea, and only made the .vague
promise tlfssa they, bing women,
pertaining to women n*jd
II thing
child
enough for me. iind, I could not give
my support to a movement which
would i-ntranchlso and make cltliens out or two hundred thousand
women who had been schooled In
the habit or buying h.irga In-sales
goods that were notoriously made
In sweatshop! and who had absolutely no sympath) with the labor
movement or any movement looking
tor better wag»H and better hours
■ j ror men and women, and whose
' Ideas or institutions consisted In
j providing Inmates with kind treatment, good food and clothing. I
charity; and this doctrine li actually Comment." and waa so Impressed
Instilled into (he dOPSgdent children, with It that 1 wrote, to Mlsa Barnard
and so their self-respect Is preserved (taking for a copy of her annua! re-
mid cultivated. The work which port. Thla ahe kindly sent, and I
they do on the farm or in the shop found It the most fascinating and
may be considered as paying ror. Inspiring public document I ever
their ' board In tbe long vun. sod read. 1 then asked lo have our 11-
tbej are not paupers. Still more, brary put on her mailing list. Her
Miss Barnard does to prepare them answer Is so characteristic that . I
for cltlsensblp. A plot of ground is glw? It In lull. Her opening sen-
assigned to each embroyo farmer, tenc** refer-- to my • statement that
This plot he "cultivate* out ot hours, the women or Calirornla are trying
as he chooses, under advice rrom the to Improve the condition jif our de-
head farmer. The crop Is his own; pendent children by working for a
he must market it himself. Tho mothers' pension bill.
money he thuB earns Is his own: he JULIA It. OILBERT.
may spend tt as he chooses, but be ___—
must keep books and render a strict Oklahoma City, Dec. 21. I<*t2. :im flrrnly against the Institutional
account.of every cent, and in so do- Mra. J. R. Oilbeit, 433 Melville j tilng of tbe child, ' because thb
Ing he'is -taught to spend wisely, avenue, Palo Alto, Cal.—Dear means helplessness nnd pauperism.
similarly arrangements are made In Madam: I hare your esteemed let-j j made a canvass or some -three
the shops and domestic departments, ter ot December l"-th and I am wll- ihounnii mother* or our puplli
When a child leaves the Oklshoma Hug to take my bat off to Callfor-! -,Ur schools, and. woman tike, every
state home b** goes out from a home nla. Your state has certainly been mother was possessed with the Idea
equipped with both knowledge and forging ahead since the bridle/wa*
eiperlence for the fight before him. taken off by the triumph of the penned the state draws good Interest on pie over the awful ring thst hss
Its Investment. In the shr*pe of thrif- ruled your stale for years.
*ty self-respecting cltlsens. We are facing a reactionary leg-
Miss Biirmird has carried this tslature this year, and It I hold my
same splAt Into other departments, own I will esteem myself fortunate.
She has her own methods of prison A series of three bad crops, high
reform, beginning before the offend- taxation and other things have made
er becomes a prisoner. She Investl- our people money conscious, and as
gated the state penitentiaries and all reforms cost money our gov-
rotind thai about half the Inmates ernor has publicly elated that he
had been ,/om mil ted on a plea of will veto any but the most necessary
guilty, yet when she Interviewed appropriations, and I do not think
these men many or tsjem claimed In- our legislature will be able to pass
nocenee. Further investigation de- measures over his veto. However,
vetoped the ta-ct that ,n Oklahoma. I an,'.going to introduce, my-penal'girts,
as'ln other s'atcs, when an accused hill and the bill tor the care andj i j-0 M, ur as to believe In corn-
man is too poor to pay a lawyer the treatment or the Insane, the e*tab-j pnlaory trade education, and oven
state SFs'sns one to defend him. llshment of a girls' training school tor the sons and daughters ofV!u-
Itut as the uttual pay ror such ser- on modern line* aud the completion j rkh. 1 believe every boy and girl
vice is only 720 to 110,000 contract.
E. A: Hettinger of this city, who
had the contract for the carpenter
and mill work, painting, tile roofing, plain and ornamental plastering, tnarble work, ornamental Iron
work and cork tile flooring, started
work soon after the McGllri-ay Com-
psny completed Its co&trsct. Het
tlnger Is doing sll of bis work him*
seU, except the heating, electrical
wiring, plumbing and painting. The
plumbing contract waa sublet to
Casbel Brothers, snd the painting
to the Palo Alto Paint Company.
Cashel Drothers also were awarded
the original rContract for the sheet
metal work.
Hettinger's contract amounts approximately to $82,000. Alrendy
the rough roof Is In place, the
tongue*aod*groore sheathing has
been put on. aud the roofers may
begin the work' of laying ths ma!-
thold paper, wblch Is cemented and
nailed together. After the paper
comes a tile roof, similar to those
which cover all the university buildings around the quad.
A feature of the new church will
be the cork-tile flooring, which will
cost about li3.1'.ft.
Tho mOHSlcs which will be placed
on the frontal exterior of the building sre made up ln Italy. Tbe de-
nlgns for the mosaics are first drawn
on Isrgft sheets of thin paper" and
colored properly: then the little bits
of alone are laid on the paper and
fastened to it with a cement preparation. The largo designs are
brought to this country, fixed to the
building with their backs against
the wall and the paper Is washed
nwnv. leaving lhe pretty designs ex-
itoflptl to view.
Smith's wooden leg came st last.
from a mall-order bouse lu the east.
It Is one of the ready-to-wear, brass-
heeled, rubber-shinned variety, with
otscuf-s.' at the Joints, absolutely
nonsqueakable. It took six men
and a block and tackle to get It la
position.
While rolling a cigarette down on
Main street yesterdsy Jim Psabody
slipped and fractured his arm Just
below the knee.
Weakly blot—To get on a new
stIS hat use soapstooe apd a shoe-
NUTS ALL CRACKED.
•Why -is an egg like a coin Because It Is of no use until It Is
broken.
) Why .Is a defeated army like
wool? Because It is worsted.
What money Is best liked by ministers? Matrimony.
Why should Benjamin marry Annie? Because he would be Bennle-
fltted and she Annie-mated. **
What Is the t difference between
shooting at a man and kilting a
hog? one Is assaut with Intent to
kill, and tbe other la killing with
Intent to salt.
When Is a largo hall clock at tbe
head of the stairs dangerous? When
It runs down and strikes.
When Is a soldier not a half soldier? \Vhcn he Is in quarters.
When is s lady's velvet dresa, not
velvet dress? When It ts eat-In.
THIRTY-FIRST COURSfe
OP MEDICAL LECTURES
Child Labor.
(By the Humsine Education
Committee. 1
Only thc human father*. .
A man with power to think.
Wll) take trom little children*
price of food and drink.
Only tho human muther—
Degraded, helplt*fsV"thing!
Will make her little children work
And live on what tbey bring!
No fledgling feeds tbe father bird!
No chicken feeds the hen!
No kitten mouses tor the est—
This glory Is for men.
We, are tho wisest, strangest race—
I-npd may our prslso be sung!
The only snlmal alive
That lives upon Ita young!
—Charlotte Perkins Oilman.
Trie humane cslendar of the
American Humane Education Boel-
cty says on the first leaf of 1913.
"The last Sunday lo January Is
dhlld 1-ar.or day. It Is necessary to
educate men and women regarding
child tabor, what It really Is, aud
how dearly It Is costing the human
race."
It Is our national disgrace thst
hundreds of thousands of boys snd
girls, under sixteen, In this country
are working while, ether children
play or go to school.
Boys of nine and ten years are
! employed In the coalmines and
Dr. It. U Wilbur, hoad or the department or medlelne_at Stanford.
has announcod that Ihe thirty-first
course ot popular medical lectures
will commence Ft-bruary 7th with a
discussion ot "Eugenics" by Doctor
Jordan. The Iceturee will be held
In l
