Campus commons: Alternative break service trips

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie DuPre
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Break

scholarly journals Heifer International Alternative Break: Sustainable Dietary Impacts

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 122-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Byker ◽  
Susan Clark ◽  
J. Rex Enoch ◽  
Todd Montgomery ◽  
Elena Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Break

GIMME A BREAK! IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS IN THE UNITED STATES

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1613-1651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Bacchiocchi ◽  
Efrem Castelnuovo ◽  
Luca Fanelli
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Break Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recursive Identification ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Identification Scheme ◽  
Identification Schemes ◽  
Alternative Break ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Monetary Policy Shock

We employ a non-recursive identification scheme to identify the effects of a monetary policy shock in a Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model for the US post-WWII quarterly data. The identification of the shock is achieved via heteroskedasticity, and different on-impact macroeconomic responses are allowed for (but not imposed) in each volatility regime. We show that the impulse responses obtained with the suggested non-recursive identification scheme are quite similar to those conditional on a recursive VAR estimated with pre-1984 data. In contrast, recursive vs. non-recursive identification schemes return different short-run responses of output and investment during the Great Moderation. Robustness checks dealing with a different definition of investment, an alternative break-point, and federal funds futures rates as an indicator of the monetary policy stance are documented and discussed.

Digital Disconnection as Othering

Disentangling ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Neriko Musha Doerr
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Alternative Break ◽  
Nature Experience

Digital disconnection is often considered a necessary condition for “authentic” experience of difference. However, this discourse others not only those whose lives are “authentically” experienced, but also those who thrive on digital connection. Three cases illustrate this effect. First, the discourse of immersion prevalent in study abroad encourages students to “live like the locals”—“authentically”—by forgoing cell phones and the Internet. Second, educational farms provided college students on alternative break trips with simulations of life in poverty through digital disconnection to cultivate empathy toward them. Although meant to eliminate distraction, the digital disconnection in both cases also linked the life of Cultural Others and people in poverty with digital disconnection, othering them. Third, frictions on another alternative break trip pitted mainstream “outdoorsy” students seeking digital disconnection for “authentic” nature experience against “non-outdoorsy” students who enjoyed nature while digitally connected. This chapter investigates the othering effects of the discourse of digital disconnection and suggests ways to learn about difference with digital connectivity.

Combating Speciesism

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 456-474
Author(s):  
Marion C. Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Immersion Experience ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Alternative Break ◽  
Depth Interviews

Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with six students prior to an alternative break trip to a companion and farmed animal sanctuary, along with participant observation of all student trip participants (n = 44) during the trip and at all pre- and post-trip events. Participants were overwhelmingly Anglo and female, and were enrolled at a Midwestern university. Results indicate that prior to the trip, the participants possessed minimal information about overpopulation of companion animals, vegetarianism, and factory farming, and were hesitant to embrace any lifestyle changes that would benefit animals. Additionally, enthusiasm for the volunteer work and interest in nonhuman animal well-being dropped precipitously over the course of the immersion experience. Results are discussed within the framework of Mezirow’s (1997, 2000) theory of transformative learning and Parks Daloz’s (2000) application of this theory to encouraging social activism. Recommendations are provided concerning how immersion experiences with animals may more effectively combat speciesism.

Alternative crops for duplex soils: growth and water use of some cereal, legume, and oilseed crops, and pastures

1998 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Water Use ◽  
Indian Mustard ◽  
Grain Legumes ◽  
Rooting Depth ◽  
Potential Yield ◽  
Alternative Crops ◽  
Alternative Break ◽  
Major Break ◽  
Below Ground ◽  
Shoot Mass

Lupin is the major break crop used by farmers in Western Australia but neither lupin nor wheat uses much water from the B horizon of the widespread duplex soils. This study investigated the productivity and water use of a range of crops and pastures during 2 seasons on a shallow duplex soil, with a sandy layer 30-40 cm deep, at East Beverley, WA. The aims of the work were to evaluate the crops as alternative break crops to lupin on these soils, and to establish whether roots could proliferate in the clay layer, promoting both water extraction from the subsoil by that crop and improving yields of subsequent wheat crops. During the winter of the first season, a perched watertable developed for almost 3 months and some crops (especially lentil) grew poorly. Yields in the second season were generally good (lupin was close to the calculated potential yield and canola and Indian mustard were >2 t/ha), establishing that successful crops of oilseeds and grain legumes can be grown on this soil provided that there is adequate water without topsoil waterlogging. Yields of subsequent wheat crops were largest when following legume crops (40% in one season and 135% in the second compared with wheat following wheat or barley) but were also significantly greater following oilseeds (22% and 102%). Roots of cereals and pastures reached 80 cm in both seasons, whereas those of the oilseeds reached 60-80 cm depending on crop and season. Rooting depth of legumes varied from 70-80 cm for field pea to 30-50 cm for chickpea and faba bean, with lupin extending to 60 cm in both seasons. As with shoot mass, root mass differed between seasons, although on average, in mid September cereals and oilseeds had a smaller proportion (0·12 and 0·14) of total mass below ground than the legumes (0·24) and pasture species (0·18). Only a few millimetres of water was extracted from the subsoil by any crop in either season and there was no evidence that tap-rooted legumes or oilseeds were better able than other crops either to exploit subsoil water for their own use or to create pores that subsequent wheat crops might exploit.

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