The Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) has a strong focus on the ethical aspects of sports. In September, 2012, ISLE presented its third annual symposium, “The Role of Sports in Higher Education” (see http://law.scu.edu/sportslaw/). Widely divergent views on this controversial subject were voiced at the Symposium, from op-ed columnist Joe Nocera of the New York Times (a vociferous critic...

We examine the potential value of Internet text to understand education policy related to teacher evaluation. We discuss the use of sentiment analysis and topic modeling using articles from the New York Times and Time Magazine, to explore media portrayal of these policies. Findings indicate that sentiment analysis and topic modeling are promising methods for analyzing Internet data in ways that...

NEW YORK (UPI) The New York Times released a presidential election survey yesterday which showed Richard M. Nixon in a commanding lead over both his rivals and George C. Wallace slightly ahead of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. The survey, made by Times correspondents o f political leaders in all 50 states, showed that as the campaign entered its final month Nixon was leading in 34 states wi...

Through a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles that have appeared in the New York Times over the last one hundred and fifty years (1855-2005), this study recounts historical trends in the coverage of absence by politicians. By focusing on this occupational group, the study demonstrates the special social expectations that politicians are subject to concerning attendance, the impor...

This study explores how the organizational culture represented by conventional market orientation practices influences B2B relationship outcomes and financial returns for production-centered supplier firms. The market orientation practices of 187 large-sized production-centered supplier firms in the U.S. Midwest region are empirically studied using both combined approach and component-wise appr...

Value-added models in education are used to attempt to measure the contributions to student achievement of individual teachers. Test scores for a particular teacher’s students are compared to those of the same students in the previous year, as well as to those of students with other teachers in the same grade, in an effort to isolate the contribution of the given teacher. Advocates of these met...

In his book, Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story, Randall Rothenberg, a former advertising columnist for the New York Times, describes how Subaru of America selected a new agency in 1991. This behind-the-scenes account is made possible by his sitting in on the meetings that led to the selection of Wieden and Kennedy to handle Subaru’s $75 million account. The book is thus a first-hand ...

Here, focusing on the experience of Newcastle, Chatterton and Hollands continue debates around culture, capital and the ‘creative’ city already initiated in this journal (see Chatterton, ‘Will the real creative city please stand up?’ in City 4(3) (2000), and Harcup in City 4(2) (2000), for example). Research on the form, origins, regulation and ownership of the city’s nightlife lead to an image...

More and more user-generated content is complementing conventional journalism. While we don't think that CNN or New York Times and its professional journalists will disappear anytime soon, formidable competition is emerging through humble Wikipedia editors. In earlier work (Becker 2012), we found that entertainment and sports news appeared on average about two hours earlier on Wikipedia than on...

If a monopoly supplies a perishable good, such as tickets to a performance, and is unable to price discriminate within a period, the monopoly may benefit from the potential entry of resellers. If the monopoly attempts to intertemporally price discriminate, the equilibrium in the game among buyers is indeterminate when the resellers are not allowed to enter, and the monopoly’s problem is not wel...