The editor of the NDT transcripts since 1978 confirms statistically Professor Southworth's observations about the trend of debaters toward rapid speaking rates and garbled, incomprehensive reading of large quantities of evidence; also agrees that decisions ought to be rendered promptly after the debate. (PD)

Analyzes publications produced by local businesses. Concludes that these publications are neither newspapers nor magazines and that affluent readers are their greatest asset. (FL)

Summarizes research on competition as a part of normal development that is disproportionately reinforced within American culture. Concludes that the negative effects of competition are widespread and damaging and that the members of the helping professions have a responsibility to create and protect cooperative environments. (LLL)

Hiring new colleagues is a matter that engages individual faculty members intensely, for peer control of admission to the professoriate has been a highly successful source of academic quality in American higher education. "Super Stars and Rookies of the Year" analyzes the fixation on research acclaim as a negative version of academic hiring…

This paper systematically reviews the cross-sectional research evidence on the effects of competition on educational outcomes. Competition is typically measured using either the Herfindahl Index or the enrollment rate at an alternative choice (for example, private school). Outcomes are separated into those relating to academic test scores,…

Identifies events in the competitive process that could be employed to discriminate between competition and individual, nonsocial behaviors. If a subject is working for the competitive contingency and checks his progress against another's, his behavior may be classified as competitive rather than individual, nonsocial behavior. (DP)

The authors, present and recent presidents of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), discuss that organization's endorsement of federal funding for long-term, large-scale educational research and development and its insistence that current competition for funding be both fair and open. (GC)

Presents findings of a study of Caribbean undocumented immigrants in the Flatbush-Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Focuses on employment among this group, and suggests that these illegal immigrants do, in fact, compete in the labor market with American-born, unskilled workers. (GC)

An intramural gymnastic competition, if properly organized, can foster student and community interest in gymnastics. Aspects of organization and essential preplanning include: directing, judging, scoring, and managing. (JN)

While the trampoline reached its peak of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, the frequency of accidental injuries prompted physical education departments to discontinue its use in student athletic activities. Safety guidelines are provided for reinstating the trampoline in recreational programs. (JN)

Examines the policies, services, and coverage of competing commercial databases which offer indexing of newspapers and magazines. (CWM)

Liberal arts training is valuable not because it makes one "well-rounded" but because it makes one competitive. (HOD)

Examines the book publishing industry in terms of the threats to publishing individuality posed by large-scale mergers and increasing retail concentration. (JMF)

Examines concepts of fairness potentially available to children who participate in scholastic competitive sport. Reviews meanings of fair play and fairness, examines how sports involvement may nurture or distort such meanings, and suggests techniques for improving sport's effects on children's developing concepts of fairness. Advocates Starratt's…