This thesis has explored the opinions of pay-cable television subscribers in Muncie, Indiana relative to the claims of pro- and anti-deregulation forces. These claims include charges that an unregulated cable industry will drive theater owners bankrupt, deprive over-the-air television of revenue base, price low-income groups out of the television entertainment market, and proclaimed pay-cable as an open, willing market for performing arts and other cultural programming. This study disproved all the claims except:(1) that pay-cable is depriving theater owners of significant numbers of patrons, and (2) that there was a significant decrease in the watching of regular network programming as a result of HBO subscription.A secondary purpose of this research was to establish criteria and concepts for an in-depth study of the cable television industry and its relationship and effects on commercial over-the-air television.

The field of landscape architecture has been increasing opportunities to assist small- town communities in connecting their important natural and historic cultural resources to nationally and regionally identified "green" heritage corridors, such as rail-to-trails, river corridors and other projects. In Indiana, steps have been slow in developing and restoring natural and cultural resources unique to these small-town communities in relation to larger recreational corridor initiatives. Facts showed that the Mid-North region of Indiana were drastically short of publicly accessible regional parks and recreational open space. Incorporating community landscape preferences and values and private property rights in the overall approval of a project - particularly those planned from a regional scope - has often been excluded from the design processes to meet these needs. New sensibilities and sensitivities in landscape architecture must evolve to include identifying local visual and behavioral attachments to the landscapes in the design process, especially those projects concerning recreation and open space, since these proposals tend to be one of the flashpoints of public funding concerns in land development.Adjacent to the small town of Williamsport, Indiana, is the tallest waterfall in the state. Williamsport is also located on the Wabash River, which has recently been promoted as a strategic national and regional heritage corridor potential by various state agencies and the National Park Service. This study chose to explore a planning and design process to incorporate local aesthetic and cultural values for the Wabash Heritage Corridor system. a now nationally recognized network of nodes and linkages along one of America's most famous historic waterways. The Williamsport Falls site represents one of the few remaining Hoosier natural resources overlooked for protection due to its proximity to urban environments.Assisting the community in identifying visual and landscape values, and including these assessments as a design process modifier, along with strong local contact and project interaction by the designer / researcher. further the landscape architect in developing a more thorough site program and design.This study demonstrates community input in the programming and design guideline development for the recreational and natural systems resources of a site, and to a lesser degree, assessing relative cultural and historic factors. Local citizens were given a visual preference and landscape characteristics values questionnaire, from which site preference and visual conservation zones were determined. The resultant data was used as a design modifier for the park's visual regime - physically and legally defined protection areas for viewsheds and natural character areas within and adjacent to the site, as well as for the overall recreation and preservation goals of the project. By generating mappable visual attributes of the site that were identified as important by the community members, the site design process was modified to insure that the community's collective visual and landscape preference values and concerns were honored in the site Master Plan.Hopefully, the scholarly contribution of this work was not just be the inclusion of visual assessment and landscape preference methodology in analyzing a unique landform (though this is critical), but also a deeper level of documentation showing the importance of recognizing and preserving significant local and regional natural resource character areas of small-town communities along the Wabash Heritage Corridor. / Department of Landscape Architecture

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the eligibility, selection, assignment, and evaluation of high school students as cadet teachers in selected secondary schools in Indiana.More specific Interrelated purposes of the research were: (1) to provide knowledge about current practices and programs of cadet teachers; (2) to gain insights into the mechanics of the processes of eligibility, selection, assignment, and evaluation of cadet teachers; (3) to discover new methods for improvement of the existing cadet teacher program at the writer's school of employment; and, (4) to contribute significant data as to assist other secondary administrative personnel in implementing a cadet teacher program in their respective school.This study was delimited only to twelve secondary schools in Indiana which were selected as being representative of all public schools within the state.Instruments employed to collect the data included : (1) self-administered questionnaires which were completed by the principal or his delegated representative; and, (2) focus interviews which were held by the writer with the school principal or his delegatedrepresentative..The findings of this comparative study were based on data collected from questionnaires completed by secondary school principals and from focus interviews with selected school principals. Selected administrative and instructional factors included: scholastic requirements, scholastic grade level, experience or membership, application procedure, selection guidelines, selection responsibility, assignment procedure, evaluation procedure, and elimination process.The writer discovered essential differences in the organization and administration of the twelve secondary schools' cadet teacher programs. The organizational structure of the program of cadet teaching was recognized as beneficial and justifiable yet designed, for the most part, by the number of participants involved instead of overall philosophy.Respondents in all cases were in basic agreement that the cadet teacher program is only a relatively young idea and definitely undeveloped. The interviewed secondary school principals also agreed that they welcomed any recent investigations into the organization and administration of cadet teachers; most literature available relates not to the student as a cadet teacher but to the application of "teacher aides" and "paraprofessionals."The cadet teacher programs studied revealed the support of the use of senior level students as cadet teachers. Most agreed to the application of some form of scholastic eligibility. The principals encouraged the related background experiences or membership in a related organization as necessary for appropriate consideration as a cadet teacher. The utilization of official application procedure was also advocated in various formats.The findings of this study supported the selection of all eligible cadet teacher candidates for classroom assignment. The selection and assignment process was strongly evidenced in most cases to be the responsibility of an assigned cadet teacher sponsor. Acceptance was recognized but not encouraged for the classroom teacher to take an active role in selecting a specific cadet teacher. Also, similiar acknowledgement was provided the cadet teacher role in selecting a specific classroom teacher for assignment.The respondants provided support for a permanent assignment in cadet teaching. Also, they favored the program of assigning a cadet teacher to a classroom teacher for only a specific single period per school day. However, it was possible for the classroom teacher to be assigned more than one cadet teacher during the same period of instruction. Evidence was discovered that some type of course background or prerequisite for assignment was strongly encouraged.Evaluation of the cadet teacher was found to be of an individual procedure; lacking administrative guidelines or policies. It was strongly evidenced that the cadet teacher receive both a letter grade and credit for his experience. A procedure for elimination of an inadequate or incompetent cadet teacher was strongly spelled out and supported.

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The study was conducted to determine the ways in which representatives of school corporations and teacher organizations prepared for collective bargaining in 1974. The participants in the study were spokesmen for employer and employee negotiating teams who responded to a questionnaire sent to administrators and teachers in a random sample to fifty school corporations and teacher organizations in Indiana.Findings of the study were:1. A majority of teacher organizations polled the teachers to ascertain what they wanted in a contract.2. Almost three-fourths of the administrative teams attended workshops, conferences, or seminars on collective bargaining to prepare for the collective bargaining process.No other preparations were considered to be among the three most important preparations for collective bargaining by a majority of either school administrators or spokesmen for teacher organizations.State teacher organizations and school boards associations exerted limited influence upon the local participants in the collective bargaining process.

The purposes of the study were to describe the status of curricular offerings and educational facilities at each Indiana correctional institution and to develop curricular models for juvenile and adult offenders in Indiana correctional institutions. No attempt was made to compare or contrast the various institutions.

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