Wednesday, 28 December 2005

Thursday, 29 December 2005

149: The Poetic Line in the Age of New Media

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Maryland Suite A, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century American Literature.

Presiding: Dorothy J. Wang, Northwestern University.

• “Getting Out of Line: The Visual-Spatial-Kinetic Line in Sign Language Poetry,” H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Gallaudet University
• “Coauthoring with the Computer: A Questionable Collaboration,” Merrill Cole, Temple University
• “Poetic Lines in/and Database Imaginations,” Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa
• “The Poetics of Virtual and Junk Space: A Site-Oriented Line for the Twenty-First Century,” Jennifer Scappettone, University of Chicago

Respondent: Patrick F. Durgin, College of Saint Catherine

178: Marxism and Globalization

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8216, Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Amrohini Sahay, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

• “The New Imperialism? Globalization and Capitalist Accumulation,” Kanishka Chowdhury, University of Saint Thomas, Minnesota
• “Crisis and Contradiction in Globalization,” Epifanio San Juan, Jr., Philippines Cultural Studies Center
• “Global Networks, Imperial Culture,” Robert A. Wilkie, State University of New York, Albany

Respondent: Stephen C. Tumino, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

191: Teaching Indigenous and Foreign Languages

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Dupont, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the Committee on Community Colleges.

Presiding: Deborah Jean Gill, Penn State University, DuBois.

• “Public and Private: Attitudes toward the Teaching of Foreign Languages,” Mary C. Dever, Western Connecticut State University; Aileen Dever, Quinnipiac University
• “From Face-to-Face to Cyberspace: Interweaving Technology into Foreign Languages,” Deborah Jean Gill

224: Outside in the Archival Machine: Graduate Student Scholarship and the Archive

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Delaware Suite A, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Graduate Student Caucus.

Presiding: Steven Blevins, University of California, Davis.

• “Grief as Medicine for Grief: Spencer's Emblems and the Future of the Archive,” Joanne Diaz, Northwestern University
• “Page Not Found: Archiving Hypertext at the End of History,” Annie McClanahan, University of California, Berkeley
• “Hyper-materiality and Counter-archives,” Steven Blevins

232: New Media and Literary Criticism

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Military, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the Division on Literary Criticism.

Presiding: N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles.

• “Ideality and Materiality of Digital Data,” Mark B. N. Hansen, Princeton University
• “Reading Spaces,” Rita M. Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “New Media and the Forensic Imagination,” Matthew Gary Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, College Park

262: The Language of Soundscape: “Rhythm Science” and Reading Electronic Music

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Nathan Hale, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Science.

Presiding: Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College.

• “Electronic Music and the Limits of Digital Production,” Aden Evens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• “The Uncanny Sample: From Text to Sound,” Angela AnnDora Frattarola, New York University
• “Sampling Science: Hip-Hop as Parallel Distributed Processing,” Ryan Snyder Ananat, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “Compositional Dwelling in Experimental Fiction and Software Sound Synthesis,” Martin E. Boyden, University of Rochester

269: What Video Games Teach Us about Literature

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Caucus, Washington Hilton.

A special session.

Presiding: Edward M. Wesp, Western New England College.

• “The Past as Present: Virtual Histories and Historical Fictions,” Edward M. Wesp
• “Constructions and Reconstructions of the Gothic,” Laurie Taylor, University of Florida
• “Games' Challenge to Literary Understanding,” Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology

Respondent: Eric R. J. Hayot, University of Arizona.

318: Ethnicity and Technicity: Race and Technoculture Studies

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Delaware Suite A, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Popular Culture.

Presiding: Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington, Seattle.

• “Ring, Ring, Ring: Mobile Sensation,” Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern University
• “‘Innocent by Contamination’: Queer World Making, Technological Mediation, and New Ethnicities in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand,” Thomas Foster, University of Washington, Seattle
• “Race, Digitality, and Difference: Semiotics for the New Media,” Lisa Nakamura, University of Wisconsin, Madison

319: East Asian Canon in a Multimedia World

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Map, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the Division on East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900.

Presiding: Lynne Kimiko Miyake, Pomona College.

• “Refracting Royal Romance: Premodern Japanese Courtly Gender and Sexuality through the Prism of Popular Culture,” Robert Khan, University of London
• “A Book in the Stream: The Vicissitudes of the Voice in The Dream of the Red Chamber and Its Mass Media Adaptations,” Ling Hon Lam, University of Chicago
• “Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku, and the Internet,” David G. Lanoue, Xavier University, Louisiana
• “Pretty Boys, Burnished Chestnuts, Buck-Toothed ‘Nasties’: The Heroes of Manga Tales of Genjis,” Lynne Kimiko Miyake

328: Teaching Bibliography in a Digital Age

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Military, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research.

Presiding: William Baker, Northern Illinois University.

Speakers: Candace R. Benefiel, Texas A&M University, College Station; Maura Carey Ives, Texas A&M University, College Station; Katherine Diane Harris, San Jose State University; Harold Henry Hellwig, Idaho State University; Kenneth Womack, Penn State University, Altoona; David J. Gorman, Northern Illinois University.

336: Literary Texts from a Linguistic Perspective: Case Studies

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Kalorama, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Presiding: Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth.

• “Code Switching in Selected Chicano Literature,” Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville
• “Attributes of the Best Knight in the World: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of the Use of Superlatives in the ‘Baladro del sabio Merlín’,” Tracy Van Bishop, New York University
• “Written Spanish-English Code Switching: Artificial or Authentic?” Laura Callahan, City College, City University of New York

344: Globalizing the Humanities

Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8216, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association.

Presiding: Douglas J. Eisner, Fullerton College.

• “The Network Reader: Writing, Reading, and Literacy in the Wake of Globalization,” Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• “Development as Freedom? ‘Alternative Modernities’ in George Eliot and John Stuart Mill,” Lauren M. E. Goodlad, University of Illinois, Urbana

Respondent: George Louis Scheper, Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland.

351: Electronic Journals 2005

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Delaware Suite A, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Committee on Information Technology.

Presiding: Irene Thompson, George Washington University.

• “Romantic Circles and Romantic Circles Praxis,” Steven E. Jones, Loyola University, Chicago; Orrin Nan Chung Wang, University of Maryland, College Park
• “The Writing Instructor,” David Blakesley, Purdue University, West Lafayette
• “Romanticism on the Net,” Bruce Edward Graver, Providence College; Michael Eberle-Sinatra, University of Montreal
• “Language Learning and Technology,” David Hiple, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
• “Heritage Language Journal,” Kathleen Dillon, University of California, Davis
• “‘Do As I Do ... and Say’: Scholarly Journals as Communities of Practice and the Case of the Digital Medievalist,” Dorothy Porter, University of Kentucky

374: Negotiation as Theory, Theorizing Negotiation

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Kennedy, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession.

Presiding: Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

• “Housewife Noir: Accidental Death, Time Binds, and Negotiation,” Lisa Jeanne Fluet, Boston College
• “The Theory behind the Theory of Gender and Negotiation,” Katie J. Hogan, Carlow University
• “Web Feminism, Theory and Practice: Negotiating the Academy through VG: Voices from the Gaps,” Lauren Curtright, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Carla Elaine Johnson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Rachel L. Mordecai, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Maria Zavialova, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Respondent: Paula Rabinowitz.

For copies of papers, visit www.voices.cla.umn.edu/vg.

381: Computer-Mediated Foreign Language Study

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Edison, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the Division on Applied Linguistics.

Presiding: Judith Elaine Liskin-Gasparro, University of Iowa.

• “Telekorp: The Telecollaborative Learner Corpus of English and German,” Julie Anne Belz, Penn State University, University Park; Emily Rine, Penn State University, University Park
• “Comparing Two Internet-Based-CALL Contexts for Writing in a Beginner, Postsecondary French as a Second Language Program: Achievement and Learner Perceptions,” Kimberly MacDonald, University of Toronto
• “Learning Activities and Corrective Feedback via Instant Messenger in NS (Native Speaker)–NNS (Nonnative Speaker) and NNS-NNS Dyads,” Susana M. Sotillo, Montclair State University

383: The World Wide Web as Metamedium

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Maryland Suite C, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Media and Literature.

Presiding: Susan Schreibman, University of Maryland, College Park.

• “Real Virtuality and the Resistance of the Interface,” Aden Evens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• “Technological Insufficiency and the Blake Model,” Adam Komisaruk, West Virginia University, Morgantown
• “Web Noise,” Joseph A. Milutis, University of South Carolina, Columbia

400: Editing Whitman

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Hoover, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Documentary Editing.

Presiding: Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Speakers: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa; Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Susan M. Belasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Ted Genoways, University of Virginia; Matt Cohen, Duke University.

443: New Technologies of Literary Investigation: Digital Demonstrations

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Delaware Suite A, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Committee on Information Technology.

Presiding: Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario.

• “The Stolen Time Archive,” Alice Gambrell, University of Southern California
• “Turning the Pages: Displaying Manuscripts Digitally,” Clive Izard, British Library
• “The Litgloss Collaboratory,” Maureen Jameson, State University of New York, Buffalo
• “Doing Things with the William Blake Archive,” Kari M. Kraus, University of Rochester
• “Mark Twain Digital Project,” Sharon K. Goetz, University of California, Berkeley
• “Tamarind: Scholarly Text Analysis,” Stephen J. Ramsay, University of Georgia
• “TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research),” Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster University

447: Pop Culture and the War on Terror

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Coolidge, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Popular Culture.

Presiding: Cynthia J. Fuchs, George Mason University.

• “Apocalyptic Democracy and Iraq War Culture,” Joe Lockard, Arizona State University, Tempe
• “‘America, Fuck Yeah!’: Patriotic Puppetry in Team America: World Police,” Anna Froula, University of Kentucky
• “Virtual(ly) Torture: Video Games, Artificial Intelligence, and the War on Terror,” Mark L. Sample, George Mason University
• “A Very Disturbed Place: Terror, Trauma, and TV,” Cynthia J. Fuchs

466: The Ethics of Cyberpedagogy: Intellectual Property

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Harding, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities.

Presiding: Lisa Justine Hernandez, Saint Edward's University.

• “Web Serfing? Toward Ethical Internet Pedagogies,” Olin Bjork, University of Texas, Austin
• “Can Antiplagiarism Databases Be Compatible with Student Intellectual Property Rights?” Cory Lock, Saint Edward's University
• “Is There a Review Board for This Web Site? The Ethical Use of Human Subjects,” Jeanne Marie Rose, Penn State University, Berks

470: Electronic Media in Nineteenth-Century American Studies

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Roosevelt, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Presiding: Sharon M. Harris, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

• “Scholarship in the Digital World: Preparing for the Future,” Scott Ellis, Southern Connecticut State University
• “Real Life Experiences with Virtual Publishing: Publishing Henry James's Correspondence Online,” Pierre A. Walker, Salem State College
• “The Collective: Electronic Scholarship on Early and Antebellum Women Writers,” Sharon M. Harris

493: Digital Scholarly Publishing: Beyond the Crisis

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Maryland Suite C, Marriott.

Program arranged by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Presiding: Kristine Blair, Bowling Green State University.

• “Carnival in the Commons: New Directions and Old Challenges for Online Scholarly Publishing,” Clancy A. Ratliff, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• “From Print to Nodes to Nets: The Writing Instructor's Third Wave,” David Blakesley, Purdue University, West Lafayette
• “Digital Rhetorical Practices and Academic Labor in Emerging Multimedia Scholarship,” Mary Hocks, Georgia State University

Respondent: Kristine Blair.

496: Literary Theory and the Electronic Text

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Caucus, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature.

Presiding: Susan Schreibman, University of Maryland, College Park.

• “Dressing Dada, Loving Dada, Living Dada ... Again: Reproducing Performance in the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Digital Archive,” Tanya Clement, University of Maryland, College Park
• “The End of the Irrelevant Text: Electronic Texts, Linguistics, and Literary Theory,” David L. Hoover, New York University
• “Open-Ended: Critical Theory and the New Textuality,” Jon A. Saklofske, Acadia University; Struan Sinclair, University of Manitoba

511: Editing New Media

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Maryland Suite C, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research.

Presiding: Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, College Park.

• “Toward Scholarly, Critical, and Variorum Editions of Computer Programs,” Nick Montfort, University of Pennsylvania
• “Film and Textual Scholarship,” Stephen Mamber, University of California, Los Angeles
• “Video Games and Textual Studies,” Steven E. Jones, Loyola University, Chicago

516: Taking It Digital: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Caucus, Washington Hilton.

A special session.

Presiding: Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University.

• “Using New Media to Study Literature: The Tempest Multimedia Project,” Olin Bjork, University of Texas, Austin
• “Liter@ry Semin@rs : The Interactive Contemporary French Novel,” Alain-Philippe Durand, University of Rhode Island
• “The (Short) Stories We Tell: Connecting Communities through Literature on the World Wide Web,” Mary Michele Bendel-Simso, McDaniel College; Julianne Jasken, McDaniel College

For copies of abstracts, visit www2.mcdaniel.edu/English/mlaproposal.htm.

519: Scale and Scholarship in the Digital Humanities

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Eisenhower, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Presiding: Andrea Laue, University of Virginia.

• “A Million for One,” Erika Linke, Carnegie Mellon University
• “Looking Back and Looking Forward: Converted Text at the Library of Congress,” Michael Neubert, Library of Congress
• “A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of Creating an Online Jonathan Edwards,” Caleb J. D. Maskell, Yale University
• “Flexible Encoding for Search, Comparison, and Analysis,” Andrea Laue

For copies of abstracts, visit www.ach.org/mla/mla05/.

569: Making Texts Available: Translations, Editions, and Electronic Media

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Thoroughbred, Washington Hilton.

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature.

Presiding: Jeanette Mary Scott Beer, Purdue University, West Lafayette.

Speakers: Christopher C. Baswell, University of California, Los Angeles; Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona; Hoyt N. Duggan, University of Virginia; Robert M. Stein, State University of New York, Purchase.

597: Teaching Advanced Courses in Technical Communication

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Eisenhower, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.

Presiding: Sam A. Dragga, Jr., Texas Tech University.

• “Technology and Technical Writing: It's Not What We Teach but How We Teach It,” Rebecca Worley, University of Delaware, Newark
• “Texts, Technê, and Technology: Identifying the Goals of Advanced Technical Communication Courses,” Susan E. Thomas, University of Sydney
• “Cross-Global and Cross-Disciplinary Challenges in the Global Classroom Project,” TyAnna K. Herrington, Georgia Institute of Technology

For copies of abstracts, write to denise.tillery@ccmail.nevada.edu.

599: Writing Program Administration and (Multi)Media

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Hoover, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

Presiding: Shirley Rose, Purdue University, West Lafayette.

• “The More Things Change,” Deborah H. Holdstein, Northern Illinois University
• “Breaking (the) News: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers through the WPA Network for Media Action,” Linda Adler-Kassner, Eastern Michigan University
• “Coming Soon to a Writing Program near You,” Todd W. Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• “Multimedia Archives and the Documentation of the WPA's Intellectual Work,” Shirley Rose

600: The State of American Writing: Perspectives Popular and Professional

Thursday, 29 December 2005, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Kennedy, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Presiding: Douglas Dean Hesse, Illinois State University.

• “Meet the Press: Reading News Coverage of Research on Writing,” Peter Leslie Mortensen, University of Illinois, Urbana
• “Well Beyond the Basics: The Rise of the Writing Major,” Susan H. McLeod, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “‘... to Create, Analyze, and Transform Information and to Interact Effectively with Others’: Digital Compositions and/against Expectations of the Twenty-First-Century Worker,” Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University

665: Textual Analysis: What's Data Got to Do with It?

Friday, 30 December 2005, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Roosevelt, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Committee on Information Technology.

Presiding: Maureen Jameson, State University of New York, Buffalo.

• “Lies, Damn Lies, and Good Literary Criticism,” Stephen J. Ramsay, University of Georgia
• “The Semantic Engine and the Literary Analysis Tool Kit,” Aaron Coburn, Middlebury College
• “Forensic Stylistics and Statement Analysis,” James R. Fitzgerald, Federal Bureau of Investigation

For copies of abstracts, visit rll.buffalo.edu/rll/MLA2005/.

719: Professional Communication II: Looking into the Future

Friday, 30 December 2005, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Roosevelt, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Business Communication.

Presiding: Katherine V. Wills, Indiana University–Purdue University, Columbus.

• “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of Technical Communication,” Kellie Rae Carter, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• “The Business of Blogging: How Web Logs Are Changing the Face of Corporate Communications,” Quinn Warnick, Iowa State University
• “Mapping Our Field for Worldwide Audiences,” Geoffrey Sauer, Iowa State University
• “Pedagogical Hybrids for Professional Communication: Merging Client-Based Models with Service Learning,” Jeanne Marie Rose, Penn State University, Berks

For copies of abstracts, visit www.businesscommunication.org.

736: Computer Literacy: Assessing the Impact of IT on English Literature Teaching and Research

Friday, 30 December 2005, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8209, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Presiding: Paul Vetch, King's College London.

• “E Is for English: Pedagogy and New Technology in the Classroom,” Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University College
• “What eLearning Has Taught Us: Scoping the Use and Effectiveness of Learning Technologies in the Teaching of Literature,” Brett Lucas, Higher Education Academy
• “The Changing (Inter)Face of Literary Research,” Paul Vetch

For copies of abstracts, visit www.ach.org/mla/mla05/.

757: Morris and Modern Theories

Friday, 30 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Eisenhower, Marriott.

Program arranged by the William Morris Society.

Presiding: Florence S. Boos, University of Iowa.

• “Toward a Postmodern Theory of Production: Baudrillard, Marx, and Morris,” Martin Alan Danahay, Brock University
• “Morris's Poetry: (Hyper)Text and Desire,” Rosie Miles, University of Wolverhampton
• “William Morris, F. Holland Day, and the Invention of an Aestheticist-Decadent American Publishing Tradition,” Richard Allen Kaye, Hunter College, City University of New York

For copies of abstracts, write florence-boos@uiowa.edu.

785: Archival and Electronic Irish Studies

Friday, 30 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Hoover, Marriott.

Program arranged by the American Conference for Irish Studies.

Presiding: Margaret Kelleher, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

• “Rethinking Irish National Literary History: The Cambridge History of Irish Literature,” Margaret Kelleher; Philip Thomas O'Leary, Boston College
• “Exploring the Edith Oenone Somerville Archive at Drishane,” Claire Denelle Cowart, Southeastern Louisiana University
• “Off the Record with Louis Stewart: Panning the 'net for Serious Gold,” Thomas O'Grady, University of Massachusetts, Boston

793: Technical Communication Research beyond the Classroom: Methods for Making Knowledge in the World

Friday, 30 December 2005, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8209, Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.

Presiding: Stephen Bernhardt, University of Delaware, Newark.

• “The Practice of Usability: Researching Student-Community Collaboration on User Involvement,” J. Blake Scott, University of Central Florida
• “Investigations into Computer Program Source Code: A New Area for Technical Communications Study,” Clinton Lanier, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
• “Internet-Mediated Research Using Surveys and Content Analyses,” John Killoran, University of Colorado, Denver
• “Embedded Choices: Cultural Mediators and the Making of Knowledge in Professional Writing Narratives of Technology,” Richard C. Hay, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

For copies of abstracts, write to denise.tillery@ccmail.nevada.edu.