The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between selected individual factors and student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College. In the study, consideration was given to whether or not:1. The personal factors (sex, age, marital status and military status) are related to the student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.2. The academic factors (student classification, cumulative grade point average, major area of concentration in school, method of financing education and employment while attending college) are related to the student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.3. The socio-economic factors (size of high school graduating class, participation in varsity athletics, father's occupation, and hometown population) are related to the student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College. The major source for obtaining data was the "Administrator's Survey Instrument" which was in the form of a questionnaire administered to 500 full-time undergraduate students at Winona State College. The first section was concerned with the selected factors regarding each respondent and was designed to obtain information relative to the subject's personal, academic and socioeconomic background. The second section was designed to obtain data regarding student philosophy and opinions toward intercollegiate athletics and their source of funding at Winona State College.The chi-square test of independence was used to statistically examine the four hypotheses of the study to determine the statistically significant relationships between selected individual factors and student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.One primary and three subordinate null hypothesesPrimary HypothesisThere are no significant relationships between selected individual factors and student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.Subordinate Hypothesis AThere are no significant relationships between selected personal factors and student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.Subordinate Hypothesis BThere are no significant relationships between selected academic factors and student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.Subordinate Hypothesis CThere are no significant relationships between selected socio-economic factors and student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.Analysis of the data revealed that the three subordinate hypotheses could be rejected at the .05 level. In other words, there appears to be a relationship between selected personal, academic and socio-economic characteristics of the students and the opinions these students expressed about the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College. Twenty percent (20%) reached statistical significance in Subordinate Hypothesis A, nineteen percent (19%) reached statistical significance in Subordinate Hypothesis B, and eleven percent (11%) reached statistical significance in Subordinate Hypothesis C. Sixteen percent (16%) reached statistical significance in the Primary Hypothesis. On this basis, the Primary Hypothesis was rejected and it was concluded that there were statistically significant relationships between selected individual factors and student opinions regarding the funding of intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College.Results obtained from the study indicate the following recommendations relative to funding intercollegiate athletics at Winona State College: (1) continue support ofthe intercollegiate athletic program through the primary source of student fees, (2) continue aid to athletes based on need and for a four year period, (3) continue funding of intercollegiate athletics through student organizations, (4) recommend no increase of monies for additional recruiting of outstanding athletes, (5) recommend no increase of varsity athletic program, (6) provide additional money for national tournament participation, (7) continue to stabilize current team expenses for food, lodging and travel, (8) continue the conventional mode of travel (bus and car) and do not increase monies for air travel except when circumstances demand, (9) when curtailment of a sport is necessary within the athletic program, consider the elimination of the sports in the following order: golf, cross country, hockey, tennis, football, track, wrestling, swimming, baseball and basketball, (10) when teams qualify for national competition, continue to fund them for participation nationally, (11) coaches salaries not to be funded from student fees, (12) permit students to have an option relative to purchasing the student activity ticket for extra-curricular events, (13) when a reduction of the yearly allocation comes about, consider such actions as requiring student admission fees to each home athletic event, limit the size of traveling squads for all sports, eliminate spring football, reduce food and lodging allowances and reduce the travel distances for all teams.

Book Summary: The Gulf War, dot-coms, impeachment, grunge. The latest edition of Salem's critically acclaimed Decades series, The Nineties in America discusses these important topics (and others) as it chronicles the events, people, movements, and trends in popular culture in the U.S and Canada during the years of 1990-1999.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998. / Includes prospectus. Abstract. This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #049-0283. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-105).

Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1928. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-167).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998. / Includes prospectus. Abstract. This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #049-0283. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-105).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1993. / Abstract. Includes Appendix 1: Grace Theological Seminary curriculum changes. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-143).

Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Eric A. Bernard / The sub-rural Kansas community of Winona stands at a critical crossroad. The dilemma of rural population decline, fueled largely by technological advances in communication, transportation, and agriculture is devastating rural economies and the centers of community social life – namely the local school(s) and main street(s). The physical infrastructure, spatial character and unique identity of rural places is slowly diminished in the process. While great potential exists for the landscape architecture and planning professions to address the patterns of rural decline, the limited market for such services and the lack of regulations requiring those services precludes their effective implementation within rural communities. Within Winona, a long-standing stormwater problem provides an opportunity to address both the stormwater problem and the larger dilemma in a holistic landscape architecture approach. How can contemporary landscape architecture engage rural communities in planning and design solutions aimed at mitigating stormwater issues while addressing community identity loss resulting from population and economic decline? The Place, Space, Community (PSC) Framework developed can determine distinctive qualities and characteristics and illuminate community identity which serves as the creative genesis for stormwater mitigation, and more importantly, the development of social capital critical to economic and population stability and growth. Successful development of social capital and enhanced community identity is dependent on design solutions anchored in the sense of place inherent in the residents of Winona. Landscape architects are uniquely qualified to provide solutions to the stormwater problem which respond to place in ways influencing the identity and social capital of Winona’s residents in dramatically positive ways. This initial focus on a holistic, place-based approach to increased social capital provides a strong foundation for future economic, social and environmental stability and growth into the future. Winona can indeed enjoy a bright and prosperous future with a Place, Space, Community approach.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-105).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.