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Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Communication Barriers Between White Social Work Students and Black and Chicano Clients, Robert Hight, Joyce B. Smith, Evelyn F. Maxwell, and Carol G. White
Parental attitudes toward, and knowledge of open-space schools, Brian Hines
Predicting and Detecting First Grade School Adjustment, Julie D. Holmes and Janice L. Bartlett
A reexamination of the effects of prismatic displacement on pointing straight ahead, Anastasia Houndoumadi
Group experience with parents of preschool children with seizure disorders, George R. Jacobsen, Grant R. Kane, and Joan Sacia
A Study of the Problems of Translation, Rhetorical Analysis, and Translation of a Speech of Mohammed Mossedeq, Gholamhosain Janati-Ataie
A program of school social work, Phyllis Marie Jaszkowiak
Seven Pairs, Anne Griffin Johnson
Increasing Visual Sensitivity in Urban School Students: a Strategy for Involving Students in Aesthetic Concerns, Harold Louis Johnson
Transactional Analysis Jargon in Time Limited Groups, Diane Jones, Earl Eyre, and Joan Logan
The Random Sequence Closing Control System, Henri Bernard Joyaux
Selected Attitudes and Values of Young Adults in Northern Sierra Leone, Fatu Y. Kamara
The Siletz Indian Reservation, 1855-1900, William Eugene Kent
Diaries and Reminiscences of Women on the Oregon Trail: A Study in Consciousness, Amy Kesselman
A study of a token economy program initiated at Oregon State Hospital, Helenjane R. Kudelko
Evaluating "Peer Mobilization" Films as a Tool in Altering Self Concept, Leslie Larson and Mary Morton
An Investigation of Vocational Rehabilitation Among Northwest Laryngectomees, Susan L. Leonti
The rights of students in public high schools, Keith James Lindahl
The Bedrock Geology of the Southwest Part of the Kachess Lake Quadrangle, Washington, David Carl Lofgren
A Preliminary Investigation of the Land Use Limitations of the Major Landforms Along a Portion of the Lincoln County Coast, Oregon, Richard Kent Mathiot
A theory of the creativity-intelligence interaction: an environmental suppressor variable, Lynda L. McDonald
Differences Between Supervisor and High and Low-Rated Employees' Perceptions of Job Performance Ratings and Importance of Job Factors, Harvey Edward McGowan
Changing Western Images of Russia During the Reign of Catherine II, 1762-1796, Janet L. Menze
Personality correlates of interpersonal perception in a residential treatment center for adolescent girls, Raymond Paul Micciche and Terrell Lynn Eheler
Select Problems with Recreation, Tourist, and Vacation Oriented Businesses as Rural Economic Stabilizers: a Case Study of the Mid-Columbia Economic Development District, Morton I. Michelson