Focusing on the current policy, organization and direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this edited interview addressed such issues as BIA reorganization, delivery systems, PL 93-638, Indian Water Rights, Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, PL 95-561 and Indian Education. (RTS)

Briefly describes some major events that highlighted the Information Industry Association (IIA) conference, concentrating on industry/government interaction, policy, industrial cooperation, and technological and marketing development. (CWM)

Discusses the science councils and research and development institutions created in developing countries to promote technological and socioeconomic advancement. Examines the reasons for the ineffectiveness of these organizations. (MA)

Citizen readiness to participate in the reduction of solid waste problems was investigated, using environmental knowledge, environmental concern, and public willingness to act as possible predictors of readiness. The findings indicate a need for more satisfactory ways of determining when an individual has achieved a state of readiness. (BT)

Argues that "no one and everyone" controls Catholic schools, and that empirical investigation is needed to determine who controls any particular Catholic school. However, "the chaos of organization the obscurity of control, the general structural messiness of Catholic education doesn't seem to do much harm to anybody." (Author/JM)

Argues that to base the benefit schedule of an income-support program on an index that defines poverty in terms of money income alone is to create gross inequities across households that vary in their number of adult hours. Provides a two-dimensional poverty definition and shows how this standard can be used to define voluntary versus involuntary…

Among the purposes for schools and roles which they perform better than other educational institutions in society are the following: they teach literacy, and they develop and encourage rational enquiry and critical intelligence. (Author/AM)

Marginalization of a portion of American youth is described as a result of the structure of the major socialization agencies, the family and the school, in contemporary capitalist society. (Author)

Recommendations of committee include greater centralization of research activities; improved communication between social researchers and policy-makers; better coordination in research by the establishment of planning bodies at different levels; and increased funding. (RW)

Recent judicial treatment of tax expenditures in both state action and establishment clause cases is analyzed and it is argued that tax expenditures and direct expenditures should be treated as constitutional equivalents. (LBH)

Franco-American parish priests in Vermont no longer oppose the anglicisation of the state's French-speaking population. This shift in policy helps to explain the progressive decline of Franco-American institutions in Vermont today. (Author/AM)

Argues that the expert is partisan, inexpert, and manipulated. Concludes "that American society is not operated in a rational, technologically based way. In self-help activities, in the thrust toward consumer advocacy, in new notions of causation and cure, a more humane and comprehensive understanding of our social environment is being offered."…

Defines handicapism "as a set of assumptions and practices that promote the differential and unequal treatment of people because of apparent or assumed physical, mental, or behavioral differences.""Demonstrates how handicapism manifests itself in personal interaction, in the organizational structure of the larger society, and in human service…

This review of the literature examines the school social worker's role and the area of policy. In the area of policy the focus will be on the school social worker as a change agent, theories of change, strategies and difficulties in initiating change, and accountability. (Author)

Explores several salient technological trends with implications for student affairs practitioners. Claims that student affairs personnel must become experts at understanding how rapid changes in technology affect human development, relationships, and learning. Concludes with principles that might be used to guide the choices and decisions to be…