Kalamazoo College Guilds: Justice and Peace SIPs
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This collection includes Senior Individualized Projects (SIPs) that deal with issues of justice and peace. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff.
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Urban Renewal in Kalamazoo, Michigan: A Case Study
(1968)In 1957, a comprehensive plan was drawn up for the rede velopment of downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. Kalamazoo 19801, as it was called, was a remarkably progressive program which entailed the creation of pedestrian areas ... -
The Inside Story of Battering
(1987)My senior thesis is on abused women. What I will be writing and discussing pertains not only to married women but also to unmarried women. My project involves any woman who has lived with or shared a life with a mate. -
France in Crisis: The "May Revolution" and its Aftermath
(1969)The impetus for a lengthy study of the French situation developed from two visits to France, one in 1964 and the other in 1967-68, and an introduction study of the French governmental system in Political Science. In ... -
The Student-Youth Community in Kalamazoo, Michigan Winter 1971: An Examination of Policies and Actions of the Major Political Groups
(1971)This paper is, first of all, neither the beginning nor the end of the study of the changing culture and political philosophy of some of the present generation. It is an attempt to try and record some of the people, ... -
British Incomes Policy: 1964-1967
(1970)The paper is divided into three major sections plus a conclusion. In the first section, the nature of Britain's problem is defined and two alternative solutions--an incomes policy approach and a margin of unemployment ... -
The Study of the Decision-Making Process of a Large Urban School System: Chicago
(1969)This study of the decision-making process of the Chicago Public Schools is one part of a project covering four large urban school systems. The other three, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Boston were studied by Ron Williams, Tom ... -
Black United Front Three-Year Program
(1969)Understanding the cause of black misery is required for its alleviation. The founders of the Black United Front as well as the authors of the Three-Year Program realize that black people in the United States are colonized ... -
Measuring Support For the Political System: A Study of Student Disaffection
(1970)The image of the college student as a radical and militant ready to man the barricades against the established order, has almost become as accepted part of the American mind. Countless protests and demonstrations viewed ... -
Decision-Making in a Large Urban School System: Pittsburgh
(1969)In the following paper, I attempt to give a brief description of politics in the Pittsburgh school system. The paper itself is divided into three major sections. In the first section, I trace the development of the ... -
Secondary Level Education Course Concerning Local Law Enforcement
(1969)"Violence is a reality in America today. In the light of events in recent years, it has become the most serious domestic problem confronting the United States. " What are the causes of this violence, this increasing ... -
Minority Party Staff Assistance on Congressional Committees
(1967)If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this SIP. -
The Kalamazoo Mall: Ten Years Later
(1967-09)A dynamic change was needed in Kalamazoo, and this change came about in 1958 with the construction of two blocks of a pedestrian mall in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo. Since the completion of the Mall, only one study ... -
Summary of a Legal Internship S.I.P.
(1978)When I made the decision to forego a typical S.I.P. in favor of a one unit credit legal internship, I did so for two reasons. First, and also my primary reason, since I had transferred to Kalamazoo College at the beginning ... -
A Comparison of the Editorial Attitudes of Selected Newspapers of the United States and Mexico for the Year 1967
(1968)The United States and Mexico are neighbors and sometimes partners in a world of conflict, opportunity, misery, productivity, starvation, well-being, and unrest. However, they also have many different and separate problems ... -
A Study of Voters' Responses to the Campaign Methods Used in the Todd-Brown Congressional Race of Fall, 1966: Advice to a Candidate
(1967)During the course of the Congressional campaign last fall, many people questioned the influential validity of various campaign methods. Does traditional campaigning have any affect on the voter? Do voters read the mail ... -
The Development of the Post-Independent Political System of Kenya
(1969)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the completed subject material already assembled on the development of the political system of post-Independent Kenya. There have been numerous works on the general subject ... -
Comparative Systems Analysis of the 1968 and 1969 Kalamazoo County Political Systems
(1969)The objective of this thesis is to test a hypothesis: that a change in the membership of the Kalamazoo County Board of Supervisors will effect the functioning of the Kalamazoo County Political system. In this test, I ... -
The Kennedy Administration Decision-Making in Economic Policy: The Tax Cut of 1964
(1970)There has been much talk about the institution of models and theory building in the field of political science. But the question arises as to the usefulness of all this theory if it cannot be applied to practical pro ... -
Origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
(1969)The goal was to view the society and its members' general conception of the civil rights issue, as well as the specific demands being presented by those groups actively engaged in promoting the cause of racial equality. ... -
A Biological Approach to Political Science
(1970)The past decade has witnessed a tremendous rise in the popularity of ethology, the biological study of animal behavior. This has largely been caused by several books dealing with the biological nature of man. These ...