Attitudes and Policies of the Lutheran Church Toward the Negro

We believe that when Christian congregations make a distinction among people because of race and bypass Negroes in their program of saving souls a problem of moral theology is involved. Dr. o. P. Kretzmann, president of Valparaiso University, once offered the following steps to aid in solving a problem in moral theology, namely, first, there must be a hard cool appraisal of the situation as it is; secondly, we must turn to the New Testament and look at the divine will; thirdly, we must take the situation and the divine will and bring them together. In this paper we propose to concentrate on the first step, to answer the questions: What is the real situation? What have been and what are the attitudes and policies of The Lutheran Church Toward the Negro

Schöneberger Teil des Situationsplanes von der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Berlin und Umgegend

SCHÖNEBERGER TEIL DES SITUATIONSPLANES VON DER HAUPT- UND RESIDENZSTADT BERLIN UND UMGEGEND Schöneberger Teil des Situationsplanes von der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Berlin und Umgegend / Liebenow, W. (Public Domain) ( -

Concordia String Trio

Kemp Recital Hall Februaiy 2, 2018 Saturday Evening 7:30p.m

A Toolchain for Privacy-Preserving Distributed Aggregation on Edge-Devices

Valuable insights, such as frequently visited environments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, can oftentimes only be gained by analyzing sensitive data spread across edge-devices like smartphones. To facilitate such an analysis, we present a toolchain for a distributed, privacy-preserving aggregation of local data by taking the limited resources of edge-devices into account. The distributed aggregation is based on secure summation and simultaneously satisfies the notion of differential privacy. In this way, other parties can neither learn the sensitive data of single clients nor a single client's influence on the final result. We perform an evaluation of the power consumption, the running time and the bandwidth overhead on real as well as simulated devices and demonstrate the flexibility of our toolchain by presenting an extension of the summation of histograms to distributed clustering

Bringing Automatic Scoring into the Classroom – Measuring the Impact of Automated Analytic Feedback on Student Writing Performance

While many methods for automatically scoring student writings have been proposed, few studies have inquired whether such scores constitute effective feedback improving learners’ writing quality. In this paper, we use an EFL email dataset annotated according to five analytic assessment criteria to train a classifier for each criterion, reaching human-machine agreement values (kappa) between .35 and .87. We then perform an intervention study with 112 lower secondary students in which participants in the feedback condition received stepwise automatic feedback for each criterion while students in the control group received only a description of the respective scoring criterion. We manually and automatically score the resulting revisions to measure the effect of automated feedback and find that students in the feedback condition improved more than in the control group for 2 out of 5 criteria. Our results are encouraging as they show that even imperfect automated feedback can be successfully used in the classroom

Guest Artist Recital Series: Boston Public Quartet: Betsy Hinkle, Violin; James Amos, Viola; Emmanuel Feldman, Cello; Joy Cline Phinney, Piano; Marcia Henry Liebenow, Violin; February 16, 2023

Kemp Recital HallFebruary 16, 2023Thursday Evening7:00 p.m

Examining facial masculinity as a cause of backlash against aspiring female leaders

Agency and communality are stereotypically linked with, respectively, masculinity and femininity. These gendered trait associations elicit stereotypic prescriptions for how people should behave. Whether they extend to elicit gendered stereotypic expectations for how people look and specifically how this affects women aspiring to leadership positions is understudied. In the present experiment, I analyzed backlash discrimination through job candidate evaluations. Participants evaluated one of four candidates for the leadership position of Student Policies Manager. I manipulated applicant gender (man or woman) and facial masculinity (lower or higher) between-participants by pairing a picture of the applicant’s face with the leadership role description. People looked at one of four possible faces, either higher or lower in facial masculinity, and evaluated them on list of agentic and communal traits and selected their level of job endorsement for the candidate. Counter to my hypothesis, I found that people endorsed the more masculine female face more for the leadership position than any other face. People evaluated the male and female faces as similarly agentic, but evaluated the female faces as more communal than the male faces overall. These findings show that there may be a shift in gendered expectations for leadership roles, though women are still regarded as more communal despite their agentic leadership aspirations

Expectations of women : trait inferences, nonverbal cues, and their impact on women’s underrepresentation in leadership

Women encounter a variety of obstacles when striving for leadership over the course of their careers. These obstacles can take the form of gendered trait expectations of how women and leaders “should” behave – expectations that often clash with one another. Trait inferences from facial cues (often out of women’s control) have also been shown to affect evaluations and impressions of women when striving for leadership. Appearance expectations of what a good leader “should” look like may also clash with women’s appearance and femininity in general. By identifying factors that contribute to people’s impressions and evaluations of women based on differing sexually dimorphic facial features, the current program of research adds to our understanding of how women can hopefully successfully navigate these obstacles. Indeed, work from this dissertation also reveals how nonverbal cues influence perceptions of women and highlight the factors that majorly impact job selections. The present work hopefully illuminates how women are impacted from these cues throughout their careers as they strive for positions of authority