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We describe how an unusual facultative scavenger, the black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia (Sabine)), took advantage of the compromised nature of burnt skin to scavenge porcine remains with extensive...

Legacy advocacy organizations face growing competition from digitally native organizations. Interviews with leaders and staff of both types of organizations reveal that legacy NGOs with professiona...

This paper describes how a computer may be used to provide repetitive data on a year-by-year basis on three sets of variables. First is input into the educational process (student characteristics); second is the throughput or students’ reactions to the educational process (grades, motivation, class participation, quality and quantity of work, etc.); third is output (the reactions of graduates to content taught, the kinds of jobs they have and success at these). In addition the computer can indicate what relations exist between various pairs of variables with implications for student selection and curriculum development.

An employee fitness program helped reduce some coronary risk factors, but this is only one measure of success. The author says that long-term changes in diet and exercise habits are the real challenge.

Good lectures are an important part of the learning process. Lectures could be improved by viewing them as oral communication and by applying sound communication theory to their development.

This article argues that current contest competition in extemporaneous speaking and oratory contradicts classroom instruction and should be modified to coincide with it.

The writer contends that the traditional, popular approaches to the required first course in speech are limited in their contribution to the general education program. He argues that the first course as a part of general education should be approached as a course in oral communication in which certain features of the traditional approaches are combined with communication theory.

In order to make the kinds of oral criticism which improve students' oral communication ability the speech teacher should be guided by a supportable philosophy of the oral communication process and pedagogically sound principles of criticism.

Teachers of speech should he uniquely aware of the importance of teaching effective delivery as an integral part of the process of communicating ideas. The research emphasis on problems of content, however, has tended to mask our need for more definitive research in this area.