Study of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) analyzed the chapter emphasis, levels of satisfaction and relationship to national office on several measures. Surveying 212 chapters, MADD leadership provided profile of independent, autonomous activists in the drunk driving countermeasure movement. (Author)

Describes the author's experience with the Vietnam War as a deferred civilian. Traces his movement from general knowledge of the war to active opposition to it. Discusses his involvement in the peace movement and his experiences in teaching a course on the war. (GEA)

Examines the personal life of Oscar Zeta Acosta as revealed in his work "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo," tracing Acosta's involvement in the Chicano social movement in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and his development of cultural identity and political consciousness. (DMM)

Describes how George Washington Jonson attempted to persuade people in the streets of the importance of abolitionism and of the Liberal party devoted to that cause. Argues that Jonson's activities illustrate a nonschool type of education in nineteenth century Buffalo that was as socially significant as the development of public schools. (CMG)

Describes social, political, economic, and interpersonal elements of the Polish crisis and reactions of the Polish people to these stressors. Individual patterns of coping with stress are categorized in terms of people's beliefs about the causes of stress and beliefs about personal control over the causes of stress. (JAC)

This publication was developed to assist concerned citizens faced with the loss of their neighborhood schools. It recounts a brief history of school reform in Ohio, leading to the current crisis, and suggests strategies advocates for the preservation of their neighborhood schools can use to save their neighborhood assets. Broad issues addressed…

The radical feminists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as their online counterparts today, offer provocative examples of networked textuality, a discourse dependent on the constant and visible contextualization of self and writing within the discourses of hegemony. Given its potential use for liberatory writing pedagogies, it seems…

Contrasted with the troubled National University of Mexico and several Mexican provincial universities in turmoil, the Colegio de Mexico recruits, educates, and places elite social scientists in top jobs. (Editor)

Paulo Freire is a man of complex thought. His main concern is with and for man. He is a humanist searching for man's salvation and his thinking aspires toward universals. The article critically evaluate Freire's philosophy and its relation to Chicanos. (FF)

Simple guidelines for administrators, faculty and students can prevent a university from having a communications breakdown. (Editor)

Student dissent of the late 1960's was buried by high school faculties and lay populations served by them. In this article the authors look at change and dissent prior to the funeral and suggest that counselors, at least, might do well to consider exhuming the body. (Author)