Url Resource class Title Creator Subject Description Date Type Identifier Language Rights Alternative Title Abstract Volume Supported by Note History note https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/119 Full Issue (Volume 4, Issue 1) PURE Insights 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/8 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Full Issue The full contents of PURE Insights, Volume 4, Issue 1. 4 Camila Gabaldon Camila Gabaldon https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/118 Monmouth, Independence, WOU: A Warm Community in Cool Oregon Zicheng Song Graphic Design | Monmouth | Independence | WOU | Western Oregon University | design | tourism 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/1 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Monmouth, Independence, WOU Along with the cover of this issue, we have included the brochure from which it was derived. The brochure was created as part of an identity project that WOU students worked on for local communities during fall 2014. About the brochure: This brochure can be seen as a very important media and tool which introduces this community to everyone who may be interested, including students, business people, families, and travelers. The most important purpose of this brochure is to attract more people to the community and give them as much information about this community as as possible. Thus, the images are the key parts rather than the text information itself. This brochure uses many high quality pictures on almost every page. People will be attracted by beautiful pictures, then start reading the text beside those pictures. This brochure also uses a lot of blank spaces rather than placing all the information in a very crowded way. Therefore, readers will not feel so tired of reading, and of course, they will have more time to enjoin each beautiful pictures. Above all, the unity and variety is used in a comfortable balance in this brochure, which will make readers have more fun and interest while reading. 4 Jen Bracy Jen Bracy https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/117 Dmanisi: A Taxonomic Revolution Joshua L Henderson Archaeological Anthropology | Biological and Physical Anthropology | Dmanisi | Paleoanthropology | Archaeology | Biological Anthropology | Homo erectus | physical anthropology 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/4 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Dmanisi Over the past two decades, five different skulls have been found in the Dmanisi site located in the Republic of Georgia. These skulls are all very different in cranial features, but they are also some of the most complete and well preserved hominin skulls ever discovered. There is a major concern with these skulls, and with concern also comes controversy. We know that Homo erectus migrated from Africa into Eurasia. That is why some paleoanthropologists believe that, despite the cranial differences, the skulls found at the Dmanisi site all belong to Homo erectus. They claim that skeletal variations are common in a single species in multiple geographical locations. The opposing theory is that the remains seem to have both characteristics of Homo habilis and Homo erectus. They propose a new species called Homo georgicus, that fits between Homo habilis and Homo erectus. Using comparative analysis, I will demonstrate that the remains found at Dmanisi are in fact Homo erectus, and that the species as a whole contained many variable skeletal features throughout various populations, challenging current taxonomy and placing many species of Homo in the new Homo erectus spectrum. 4 Robin Smith Robin Smith https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/116 Upper Paleolithic Venus Figurines and Interpretations of Prehistoric Gender Representations Kaylea R Vandewettering Archaeological Anthropology | Other Feminist | Gender | and Sexuality Studies | Upper Paleolithic | Venus figurines | gender | feminist archeology | Goddess movement 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/7 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Upper Paleolithic Venus Figurines: Interpreting Gender Interpretations of Upper Paleolithic Venus figurines pose an interesting challenge for archaeologists. Scholars who have studied these prehistoric representations of the female form have reached a variety of conclusions that may be better seen as a reflection of modern sociocultural values and ideals than being representative of the peoples who made the Venuses. I argue that by transposing our own ideals onto the Venus figurines, we act as colonizers and appropriators of the past. Reviewing archaeological literature regarding the Venuses, we gain a sense of the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches to interpreting representations of gender. These lessons serve as a starting point for constructing archaeological methods of interpreting representations of gender and gender relations in a way that more accurately reflects the ancient peoples who crafted these figurines. 4 Robin Smith Robin Smith https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/115 The Potential of Sexual Consent Interventions on College Campuses: A Literature Review on the Barriers to Establishing Affirmative Sexual Consent Annika Johnson | Stephanie Hoover Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence | Higher Education | Psychology | Social Psychology and Interaction | sexual consent | rape myths | sexual scripts | sexual assault prevention | sexual assault policy The authors acknowledge the contribution of M. Candace Christiansen and her comments on an earlier version of this article. 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/5 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Affirmative Sexual Consent In light of the new California legal mandate for affirmative sexual consent in higher education institutions, the current sexual consent literature merits review. This review examines perceived peer norms, traditional sexual scripts, and rape myths specific to consent. In particular, we describe findings about indirect, nonverbal communication and token resistance among young adults; we also connect sexual consent to rape myths about accidental or unintentional sexual behavior, perceived miscommunication, and preexisting sexual relationships. Based on these findings, we assert that additional research and interventions are needed to address barriers that hinder young adults from establishing affirmative sexual consent. We refer to the body of literature on sexual assault prevention. This literature sheds light on potential avenues for developing affirmative sexual consent interventions and evaluating their effectiveness. 4 Stephanie Hoover Stephanie Hoover https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/114 Graph Nim Breeann Flesch | Akaanchya Pradhan Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics | Graph Nim | Impartial Combinatorial Game | Two-player game 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/3 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Graph Nim Nim is a well-known two-player impartial combinatorial game. Various versions of playing Nim on graphs have been investigated. We investigate a new version of Nim called Graph Nim. Given a graph with n vertices and multiple edges, players take turns removing edges until there are no edges left. Players have to choose a vertex and remove at least one edge incident to the chosen vertex. The player that removes the last edge or edges wins the game. In this paper, we give the solution for certain game boards of Graph Nim, compare the game of Graph Nim to another impartial combinatorial game, and discuss open problems. 4 Breeann Flesch Breeann Flesch https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/113 The Potential Conflict between Forensic Ethnic Identification and Societal Interpretation in America Jerielle Cartales Other Anthropology | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Forensic | Ethnicity | Ethnic | Society | Identification | ID | Anthropology | Forensic Anthropology | Caucasoid | Mongoloid | Negroid | Societal Conflict | Forensic Conflict 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/2 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The Conflict between Forensic Ethnic ID and Societal Interpretation Forensic anthropology is the application of the history, structure, and development of mankind in a forensic setting and serves as a bridge between societal and anthropological views on race. Forensic anthropology is a relatively new field and yet it, like all sciences, is impacted by the works of those who came before. While forensic anthropology is aided by the classification groups created in the past, it is hindered by the mantel of racism that covers any study into human differences. This study was intended to determine how the general educated public, as portrayed by members of Western Oregon University, viewed forensic anthropological terminology and to establish whether or not this opinion was influenced by age, position at WOU, or ethnicity. Age appeared to be the most significant factor when studying a participant’s reaction to and understanding of the selected forensic anthropological terminology. Although a wide variety of participant definitions was given for each term, relatively few respondents connected the terms with the scientific use: racial classifications based on biological accumulation of traits seen in the skeleton. The wide variety of definitions indicates that the field of forensic anthropology in general, and at Western Oregon University specifically, has not satisfactorily educated the general public as to the use, and reason behind the use, of the terms Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid in their appropriate scientific setting. However, the forensic anthropology program at WOU has begun only recently. As the program expands and more members of the campus community, particularly students, understand the terms Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid in their proper forensic anthropological setting, perhaps we will see a trend towards unity in definitions in the coming years. 4 Kristin Latham Kristin Latham https://wou.omeka.net/s/pure-insights/item/112 Ellen DeGeneres' Tulane Commencement Speech: Is She Getting Through to Anybody? Ashley V. Sigl Gender | Race | Sexuality | and Ethnicity in Communication | Rhetoric | Ellen DeGeneres | Commencement speech | epideictic rhetoric | commencement genre | humor | tragedy | constraints | identification | ethos 5/29/2015 Text pure/vol4/iss1/6 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Ellen DeGeneres' Tulane Commencement Speech: Is She Getting Through to Anybody? In this paper, I analyze the commencement speech given by Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane University in 2009. I argue that through identifying with her audience and employing a rhetorical style consisting of a careful balance between humor and tragedy as an additional factor to her use of the commencement genre style presented in Margaret LaWare’s essay, "Redefining The 'Good Life': Life Lessons And Virtues In Commencement Speeches By Women,” DeGeneres is able to establish enough ethos to be seen as a highly credible source on the subject of life, and is able to resonate with her audience and make a point they perceive to be widely reasonable and sound. 4 Emily Plec Emily Plec