Footnotes 1995 | American Sociological Association

January 1995 (Volume 23, Number 1)

Congressional Briefing Highlights Sexual Behavior Survey (Paula Trubisky)
Mildred Schwartz Joins National Science Foundation Sociology Program
National Endowment for the Humanities Threatened by Deep Budget Cuts or Elimination (Paula Trubisky)
Director Search for the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research: End in Sight
The Open Window: Scholarship in a World Order (Felice J. Levine)
Changes in Peer Review System at National Institutes of Health (Paula Trubisky)
ASA Achieves Insurance Coverage for Domestic Partners
Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) News: Charles Schultze Named COSSA President; William Julius Wilson, Lois DeFleur Remain on the Board
Making the “MOST” of the Summer of 1994 (Felice J. Levine, Ramon Torrecilha): Michigan State University (Maxine Baca Zinn, Katherine O’ Sullivan); Texas A&M University (Rogelio Saenz)
Mainstreaming Sociology: Strategies for the 21st Century (Executive Board of the North Carolina Sociological Association and Colleagues)
New Coalition on Public Understanding of Science (Andrew Sherman)
Spring Conference on the Role of Advocacy in the Classroom
February and March Deadlines Near: Major Funding Opportunities at National Science Foundation
ASA Participates in American Psychological Association Roundtable on Changing Demographics
March 15 Deadline: Space for Other Groups at 1995 ASA Annual Meeting
Teaching: Melvin Oliver Honored as California’s Professor of the Year; University of California-Los Angeles Program for Undergraduates Brings Urban Issues to Classroom and Community Work
A Dilemma We Face: Presentation of Self in the Classroom (Ellen Z. Berg)
The Declining Influence of Dissertations on Sociological Research (Richard A. Wright, Colette Soma)
Writing Tips: Verb Tenses (Karen Feinberg)
A Special Thank You to ASA Contributors in 1994
Deaths: Leigh Burstein, J. Russell Hale, Paul C. Kochan, Mildred Seltzer, John B. Stephenson, Harrison M. Trice, Irving Kenneth Zola
Obituaries: Calvin F. Schmid, Austin Van der Slice

February 1995 (Volume 23, Number 2)

1995 Annual Meeting: Washington DC: From Bi-Racial City to Multicultural Metropolis (Robert D. Manning)
National Science Foundation Announces Violence Research Consortium Funding
Conference Examines Implementation of Federal Education Legislation (Carla B. Howery)
The Open Window: National Endowment for the Humanities Needs You! Important Support in Peril (Felice J. Levine)
Key Figure in National Institutes of Mental Health Minority Fellowship Program Retires: Mary Harper: Sociologist Extraordinaire (Ellen Berg)
Sociologists Meet with Bill Clinton, Al Gore
National Science Foundation Solicitation for Consortium for Research on Violence
My Experience on the Staff of the Entitlement Commission (Jill Quadagno)
Call for Best Practices in Graduate Education (Carla B. Howery)
William Foote Whyte Autobiography Available
ASA Chairlink Keeps Chairs on the Cutting Edge (Janet Mancini Billson)
Closing of National Institutes of Mental Health Socio-Environmental Lab on Hold
International News and Notes: The European Sociological Association (Robert Millar)
Sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso New President of Brazil
Open Forum: “Comment on the Declining Influence of Dissertations” (Daniel J. Myers); “Concern Over Depiction of Trieste (Andrej Rus, Hajdeja Iglic); “How Useful Is the Graduate Record Examination?” (James W. Loewen)
Official Reports and Proceedings: 1993-94 Council Minutes (August 8, 1994)
Deaths: Thomas A. Bonomo, Tillman Cothran, Pietro Cardinal Pavan, Helen Philips
Obituaries: Milton L. Barnett, Philip M. Hauser, Esko Newhill, John B. Stephenson, Harrison Miller Trice, Herman Turk

March 1995 (Volume 23, Number 3)

Sociologists Square Off on The Bell Curve
Effort Backed by ASA: House Okays Crime Research
The Open Window: Committee on Professional Ethics—Working for You! (Felice J. Levine)
ASA Convenes Meeting on Christian Right
Public Affairs Update
ASA Council Adopts Standards for High School Sociology (Carla B. Howery)
Council Briefs
At ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting in Washington: Doing DC with Children! (Carla B. Howery)
Council Okays Modest Hike for Child Care
Housing Details Still in the Works
Candidates for ASA President and Vice President
MOST Program Tackles Transformation Agenda (Carla B. Howery)
ASA Develops Directory of Sociologists
Judy Auerbach Gets Key National Institutes of Health Job
ASA Co-Sponsors Conference on “Role of Advocacy in the Classroom”
ASA Council and Committee Chairs, Members for 1995
Deaths: Ralph Miliband, Edward Shils
Obituaries: Josephine Wtulich Garland, Richard Kolm, Irving Kenneth Zola
Official Reports and Proceedings: 1994-95 Council Minutes (August 9, 1994)

April 1995 (Volume 23, Number 4)

Sociologist Says Overhaul Unnecessary: ASA Sponsors Congressional Briefing on Social Security
House Limits Notification Options for Federally-Funded Researchers
Major ASA Award Winners 1995: Leo Goodman, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Jessie Bernard Career Award; Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis for Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Jessie Bernard Book Award; Albert D. Biderman, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Dean S. Dorn, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Nancy A. Denton and Douglas S. Massey for American Apartheid; James B. McKee for Sociology and the Race Problem, Distinguished Publication Award; To be announced, Dissertation Award
The Open Window: New Links Between ASA and Rural Sociological Society: “We’re Going to Make Our Garden Grow!” (Felice J. Levine)
For Women in Science: Glass Ceiling Remains
Sociologists Join White House Salute to Women Scientists
Public Affairs Update
Rose Series Seeks Editor, Input on New Format
Proposition 187 and Post-Secondary Education
Plenary Sessions Announced
ASA to Participate in National Conference on Teaching Assistant Training
At ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting: Sociology and Communities Lie Outside the Beltway
Proposals Sought: June 15 Deadline: ASA/National Science Foundation Fund for Advencement of the Discipline Program
New Section in Formation: Race, Class, and Gender
M.R.C. Greenwood to Leave Office of Science and Technology Policy
1994 Annual Meeting Survey Analysis Report (Michael Schuchert)
Deaths: James Coleman, Carol Juth-Gavasso, Jesse A. Pavis, Charles Westie
Obituaries: Jean Leonard Elliot, Kathy A. London, James Walter Ramey, Mildred Murstein Seltzer, Edward Shils
Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ reports

May/June 1995 (Volume 23, Number 5)

Jim Coleman Leaves Legacy of Excellence
Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching Mandate Shifts (William Gamson)
At ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting, Historic Chinatown Awaits (Esther Ngan-Ling Chow)
The Open Window: Social and Behavioral Sciences Gain New Presence at National Institutes of Health (Felice J. Levine)
Graham Spanier Tapped as New Pennsylvania State University President
Public Affairs Update
1995 Annual Meeting Highlights
1996 Preview Session at 1995 Annual Meeting (Maureen Hallinan)
Jim Coleman: Colleagues Remember (Kathryn M. Borman)
Committee on Freedom in Research and Teaching: Revision and Renewal in a Changing Society (Marlynn L, May, Peter Meiksens)
Eight Receive ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Awards
Kenneth Prewitt to Serve as President of Social Science Research Council
Deaths: Virginia Wicks Vidich
Obituaries: Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Joseph Elliot Seldin, Charles M. Unkovic

July/August 1995 (Volume 23, Number 6)

Neil J. Smelser Elected President, Charles V. Willie is Vice President
1995 Annual Meeting: It May Be Remembered as “The Great Meeting of 95”!
The Open Window: National Science Foundation and Behavioral Science Attacked: Meeting Our Biggest Challenge to Date (Felice J. Levine)
Confessions of a Candidate: A Sociologist Runs for Congress (Stephen Crawford)
Havidan Rodriguez to Lead ASA Minority Affairs Program
Public Affairs Update
Community Action Fellowships Given
For One Official Observer: Aging Conference Provides Lifetime Memories (Phyllis Moen)
1995 Annual Meeting: A Letter from ASA President Amitai Etzinoi
ASA Council Seeks Member Views
Washington’s New Memorials Worth a Visit (Carla B. Howery)
Public Forum: “A Critique of Professional Sociologists Based on Sound Scholarship?” (Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg); “Horowitz Responds” (Irving Louis Horowitz)
Richard J. Gelles Named ASA Fellow
Edward L. Kain New ASA Field Coordinator
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grants Awarded
Deaths: Irving Weber, Rodney E. White
Obituaries: Clifford C. Clogg, Guy E. Swanson, Odell Uzzell
Official Reports and Proceedings: 1994-95 Council Minutes (January 28, 1995)

September/October 1995 (Volume 23, Number 7)

The 1995 Annual Meeting . . . Sociology with a Bang
ASA President Maureen Hallinan: She’s in a Class by Herself (Barbara Schneider)
1996 Annual Meeting: New York, New York: It’s a Helluva Town
The Open Window: Connecting Sociology to Public Policy (Felice J. Levine)
At ASA Council: Anne C. Petersen Affirms National Science Foundation Support for Social and Behavioral Research
Council Urges Greater Exchange in House Immigration Legislation
Public Affairs Update
High-Level Government Positions Available: National Science Foundation Seeks Applicants for Sociology Program Director; National Institutes of Health Seeks Director for Division of Research Grants
Suggestions Solicited for 1997 ASA Annual Meeting Program
Council Adopts New Site Selection Policy
1997 Annual Meeting Theme: Bridges for Sociology: International and Interdisciplinary
1995 Annual Meeting: Major ASA Awards Presented to Ovations (see April 1995)
1995 Annual Meeting: 1995 Section Awards Presented in Washington
Public Forum: “The Trouble with Horowitz” (Mohammed A Bamyeh); “Rejoinder to Horowitz” (Jerry A. Jacobs); “Response to Myers on the Declining Influence of Dissertations” (Richard A. Wright); “Setting the Record Straight” (Kai T. Erikson); “Concern with Pseudo-Surveys” (David C. Barrows)
1994 Audit: ASA’s Stable Financial Picture
Obituaries: Harold Benenson, Muriel Goldsman Cantor, A. Lee Coleman, Duane L. Gibson, Charles P. Loomis, Haridas T. Mazumdar, James C. McCann, Donald E. Muir, Edward N. Muller, Marco Orru

November 1995 (Volume 23, Number 8)

New Report Explodes Myths on Nonmarital Pregnancy
President Fernando Cardoso Reflects on Brazil and Sociology (Ted Goertzel)
National Research Council Report Issued on Departmental Rankings
The Open Window: Promoting Ethical Research on Children (Felice J. Levine)
National Science Foundation Announces Grants: Sociologists Awarded $2 Million from Human Capital Initiative
Public Affairs Update
Commission on Applied and Clinical Sociology Off the Ground
ASA Committee on Graduate Education Explores New Topics (Carla B. Howery)
1996 Annual Meeting: Interaction and Participation Means Livelier Annual Meeting
Report on Nonmarital Childbearing: Footnotes Interviews Kristin Moore on the Sociological Perspective
Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing . . . Some Things You May Not Know
More Section Awards from ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting!
Sociologists Urged to Monitor Federal Statistics (Suzanne Bianchi, Nancy Moss)
Deaths: William H. Harlan, Henry W. Herzog
Obituaries: John Biesanz, Charles G. Gomillion, J. Henry Korson

December 1995 (Volume 23, Number 9)

Candidates Announced for ASA Positions
ASA Testifies House Bill Harmful to Nation, Research
1996 Annual Meeting: For the Discerning Sociologist It’s More Than a Helluva Town
The Open Window: The Meanings of Membership (Felice J. Levine)
ASA Testifies Before Federal AIDS Panel
Public Affairs Update
Sociology Plays Central Role at Graduate Teaching Conference (Carla B. Howery)
National Science Foundation’s Law and Social Science Program Searches for a New Program Director
Nominations Sought for Major ASA Awards
Sections Seek Nominations for 1996 Awards
Through ASA’s Academic and Professsional Affairs, Consultants Can Help Build Departments and Provide Teaching Workshops
Minority Fellowship Program Continues to Prosper
More Section Awards from ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting
Sociologists for Women in Society Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary (Kathryn P. Meadows Orlans)
Public Forum: “Concern About ASA’s Call for Papers” (R. Stephen Warner); “ASA Program Committee Responds” (Jeylan Mortimer, Maureen Hallinan, Felice J. Levine)
The Conundrums of Ethnic-Based Awards (Richard Tomasson)
Visiting Fulbright Scholars Available to Lecture
Deaths: Clyde W. Franklin II, Morris S. Schwartz
Obituaries: Gerald Breese, Larry W. DeBord
Official Reports and Proceedings: 1994-95 Council Minutes (August 22, 1995)

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