Regress in South African Education After Apartheid

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Brett Peterson and Dr. John Hawkins, Anthropology In South Africa, despite positive changes in school structure and potential educational attainment, revolutionary changes to South African society interact with the current state of South African education to produce a negative educational effect. The following information is based upon a three month field-study experience in South Africa. […]

Effect of Fraud Risk Assessments on Auditors’ Evidence Evaluation

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Jace Garrett and Dr. Doug Prawitt, Accounting My original project idea was to research how supervisors’ views affect subordinates’ judgments in an audit setting. While this was a good idea, my mentor and I came up with another research idea that seemed even more interesting. Since fraud has been a hot topic in accounting research, […]

The Effect of Internal Control and Framing on Employee Process Improvement Suggestions

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Scott Emett and Dr. David Wood, Accountancy After a few months of developing my original ORCA proposal topic entitled “The Effect of Internal Control and Framing on Employee Process Improvement Suggestions”, I learned an invaluable lesson about academic research: many promising research ideas do not turn out to be as promising from a research perspective […]

Audit Quality and Subsidiary Audits

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Jeremiah Bentley and Dr. Steven Glover, Accounting International and national accounting standard setters have spent significant amounts of time discussing and making rules about the consolidation of company’s financial statements (ASB 2009; PCAOB 2008, 2010; IAASB 2007; FASB 2010). One of the focuses of these discussions is how auditors should respond to the consolidation process […]

Clifford Cole: Was He One of Them or Was He Them?

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Mitchell McClellan and Dr. Keith Wilson, Religious Education Change is inevitable. Yet the direction of the change is influenced by who is steering. The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints experienced major doctrinal changes throughout its institutional history, especially during the 1960s and 19070s. The types of changes intrigued Dr. Keith Wilson […]

Voices Rising from the Dust: An Osteological (Bone) Analysis of Early Christians

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Courtney Innes and Dr. Wilfred Griggs, Ancient Scripture Introduction Brief Introduction: Over the course of two days, February 17 and 18, the cluster burials 18, 19, 20, and 22 in the north-west area were uncovered from the square by the Egyptian workers and taken to the in-the-field lab station for analyses. Due to limited space, […]

Muslims in a Mormon World: A Look at the Assimilation of Utah’s Muslim Population

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Philip Sonntag Hurst In the summer of 1847, Latter-day Saint pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley. Escaping persecution, these pioneers came by wagon and foot leaving possessions, homes and even family in pursuit of a new life. The desire to live and worship freely drove thousands of pioneers through the Rocky Mountains to what is […]

Effective Domestication on Phytolith Morphometrics

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Robert Ehlers and Dr. Terry Ball, Religious Education Abstract Phytoliths are silica deposits in plants that remain long-term in the soil after a plant dies. Phytoliths have unique characteristics that can be used to identify the phytolith’s original species. Phytolith morphometrics is a tool in archaeobotany that is used to identify ancient environments and landscapes. […]