Two Competing Visions of Education during the Early History of the Medieval University

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Joni Poppitz Stimpson and Dr. Eric Dursteler, History Last December, I proposed to the ORCA scholarship committee to study the origins of the medieval university. A semester earlier I had completed a History 490 paper which had broadly dealt with the history of the early university. The conclusion of that paper identified a central conflict […]

The Samara Mormons of Russia: An Accident of History

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James W. Scott and Dr. Gary Browning, Germanic and Slavic Languages The discovery of Russian sectarians popularly known as Mormons has generated great interest among missionaries and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in recent years, and several informative articles have appeared on the subject.1 This article summarizes my findings from […]

Trieste in Literary and Cultural Imagination: A Select Bibliography

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Robert Ricks and Professor Cinzia Noble, French and Italian Trieste is a charming port city on the Adriatic Sea in the northeast corner of Italy, home to nearly 300,000 and capital of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region. Though Trieste has ancient roots as the Roman settlement Tergeste, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when it […]

The Course of Memory: Li-Young Lee and the American Tradition

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Karl Thomas Rees and Dr. Keith Lawrence, English My research, which I successfully defended as an Honors Thesis for August 2001 graduation, explored the poetry of contemporary Asian American poet, Li-Young Lee. Specifically, I was interested in how his poetry interacts with the American literary tradition. This project was an extension of a twelve-page essay […]

Four Poems, Four Voices: Fragmented Authorship in Fernando Pessoa

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James Peter Rasmussen and Dr. Steven P. Sondrup, Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature The poetry of Fernando Pessoa contributes in a highly original way to a significant twentieth-century aesthetic development: the attempt to overthrow Romantic conceptions of authorship. Through the creation of his “heteronyms”—invented poets with a large degree of independence in style, form, imagery, […]

Internet Radio, Basketball, and High School Life

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Scott Raab and Dr. Sirpa Grierson, English The high school years will always be magical because they never happen again. The new freedoms that many middle class American youth either inherit or seize have made the brief collection of academic years a type of Brigadoon. Although they live in a very different world, high school […]

Transcription of 19th Century Documents From the Archives of the British East India Company

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Ngaio Palmer and Professor Paul Kerry, History In May 2000, I traveled to England to pursue research for my honors thesis at the British Library and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. In the course of my research, I happened to come across two case files of documents relating to the dubious business relationship […]

Syrian Arabic Synonyms

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Jeremy Leland Palmer and Dr. Dil Parkinson, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Introduction In Arabic there is a fundamental schism between the formal standard language and the scores of dialects spoken throughout Middle Eastern countries. Nearly all newspapers, magazines and television programs throughout the Middle East exclusively utilize the formal standard language. In contrast, the […]

“Libelous Films”: Mormon and Gentile Efforts to Suppress Anti- Mormon Films, 1911-1912 Summary

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Jacob W. Olmstead and Dr. Brian Q. Cannon, History Late in 1911 the motion picture trade journal Moving Picture World announced that the film A Victim of the Mormons was slated for release in the United States during the first week in February 1912. Of Danish origin, this film rehearsed the fictitious travails of a […]