The American Bar Association (ABA) president notes special moral (professional) responsibilities of college and university attorneys and calls attention to the ABA's Youth Education for Citizenship and its group legal service programs, and the upholding of preferential law school admission to minorities. (JT)

This paper is a rejoinder to Professor Allison's (2002) critical discussion of the body of work christened the Victorian Quartet (1978; 1983; 1991; 1996), "Hodgkinson's Paradoxical Paradigm." The rejoinder considers a few issues that might help form an agenda for research in the field of administrative axiology, focusing on values and…

Experiment I assessed 119 unmarried college women with regard to sex behavior, sex guilt, and moral reasoning. Experiment II assessed 76 unmarried college couples on the same variables. The pattern of results suggests that the male partner is more influential than the female in setting standards for the couple. (Author)

Adapted from a talk originally delivered to the Western Association of Graduate Schools (Denver, March 4, 1968) as one of a series on "Academic Disciplines and Professional Schools View the Seventies.

Values are more easily discussed than manipulated or measured. A curricular development project aimed at developing critical television viewing skills has developed a curriculum for the middle school grades. The project is based on the assumption that children can utilize certain viewing, listening, and reading skills and analytic procedures to…

A survey was conducted of advertising practitioners in advertising agencies and in corporations to determine their beliefs about their own ethics, the ethics of their peers, the ethics of their management, and their opportunities to engage in certain potentially unethical situations. It was hypothesized that no differences exist between the two…

In view of Aristotle's remarks about requiring different kinds of proof in different subjects, the critical reader must make judgments about the quality of proof offered for a position. The four realms of knowledge, in decreasing order of certitude, include mathematics, empirical science, rhetoric (values, ethics, politics), and myth, or…

The purpose of these essays is to examine what is involved in moral education and what can be expected of a program designed to implement its aims. The essays are organized into four major sections. The first section deals with the limits of moral education. Essays introduce the reader to various ways in which people think erroneously about moral…

This document presents 26 commentary articles from a series of three Academy Forums held by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975-76 in celebration of the Bicentennial. Forum topics included: (1) scientific theories and social values; (2) the citizen and the expert; and (3) the use of knowledge - frontier expansion or inward development.…

Building a strong college debate program begins in the classroom where the coach can help young people engage in comprehensive research of contemporary findings, integrate the findings into meaningful analysis, develop argumentative skills, think on their feet, and do the best job of debating possible. A coach must also communicate to debaters…

Drawn from communication journals, historical and news magazines, business and industrial magazines, political science and world affairs journals, general interest periodicals, and literary and political review magazines, the approximately 90 entries in this annotated bibliography discuss ghostwriting as practiced through the ages and reveal the…