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Virginia Stallings and CAROL TASCIONE presented "Portfolio and Student Self-Assessment" and "Using Rubrics for Evaluation" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 8-11, 1997 in San Diego, CA. ERNIE STARK and ALAN JACKSON presented "Schema, Scripts, and Leadership Training: A Case for Guidelines" at the National Conference On The Adult Learner, May 25-28, 1997 in Myrtle Beach, SC. CAROL TASCIONE prepared "Using Alternative Assessments in the Mathematics Classroom" for the Nebraska/Southeast South Dakota Section of the Mathematical Association of America, April 12, 1997 Wayne, NE. BOOK REVIEWS JOE WYDEVEN. Review of Joseph Grigely's Textualterity: Art, Theory, and Textual Criticism, in Choice, September, 1996. JOE WYDEVEN. Review of Fred Botting's Gothic; Aidan Day's Romanticism; David Hawkes' Ideology; and Philip Hobsbaum's Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, in Choice, March 1997. CONFERENCES KEVIN SCHIEUER attended the 46th Annual Conference of the Midwest Finance Association, March 20-21, 1997 in Kansas City. Highlights included a session hosted by American Century Mutual Funds (formerly Twentieth Century) at their Kansas City corporate headquarters; a session on risk management via financial futures hosted by the Chicago Board of Trade; and a mock trading session at the Kansas City Board of Trade. CINDY NYE attended the Annual Association of Government Accountants Educational Seminar, April 17, 1997 in Omaha. She was accompanied by three BU accounting students: Dana Epstein, Tina Kaan, and Bob Simpson. There were about 30 govemmental/NPO organizations represented including two other universities. Ours were the only student representatives. BARBARA CLEMENT attended the Fall Meeting of the Association of Midwestern College of Biology Teachers, September 21, 1996 in Dubuque, IA. JOSEPH WYDEVEN attended a symposium on "Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs & the Arts" at Kansas University, November 2, 1996 in Lawrence, KS. ROXANNE SULLIVAN, CLEVE EVANS, and CY LEISE attended the 4th annual Winter Retreat ...