Anti-Semitism on Campus
The authors present results of a study that investigates and compares Jewish and non-Jewish students’ perceptions of the anti-Semitic atmosphere at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The Impact of a University Policy on the Sexual Harassment of Female Students
Research on the sexual harassment of college and university students has been accumulating for over a decade. Surveys exploring the reported incidence of sexual harassment of students have been conducted at nearly twenty institutions of higher learning. While the majority of college and university surveys are similar in that they have been conducted by mail, comparison of results is difficult because of variations in sampling strategies, operational definitions of sexual harassment, and populations sampled [10]. Despite the incomparability of survey results, Dzeich and Weiner maintain that "again and again 20-30 percent of women students report they have been sexually harassed by male faculty during their college years" [7, p. 15]. Although the literature lacks solid statistics describing the national prevalence of sexual harassment on college and university campuses, the results of individual institutional studies affirm that sexual harassment is a problem for significant proportions of female students. Several studies found between one-quarter and one-third of women students affected by sexually harassing behaviors. Benson and Thompson's 1978 Berkeley study found that 29.7 percent of female seniors had experienced at least
Economics of General-Purpose Assembly Robots
Summary A study of the comparative economics of various automatic assembly systems using general-purpose assembly robots is described. In the study, use is made of a “typical” candidate assembly whose profile is obtained from statistical analysis of actual products submitted by interested companies. It is shown that the choice of assembly system and the various parts presentation methods depends on three main factors, namely: the annual production volume per shift, the number of parts in the product and the equipment payback period.