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Issue of The Governance, the newsletter of the University of Scranton's student government, clubs, and organizations.

GEORGE F. FLAHERTY: Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the '68 Movement. University of California Press, 2016

Data documenting the long-term trend of "environmental concern" in Germany is scarce. Referring to a survey question in the German socioeconomic panel, which measures worries about protecting the environment, the article looks at the development of environmental worries in Germany for the timespan 1984–2018. Basically, the analyses have a descriptive character. We explore several expectations and assumptions discussed in historical accounts of the environmental movement in Germany and in empirical studies on environmental attitudes and their determinants. Results show that overall development can be divided into a period of rising environmental worries in the 1980s, a considerable decline in the 1990s, and a relative stability since 2000. Environmental worries are associated negatively with the unemployment rate and economic worries over time. In the 1980s, younger were more worried than older people, but, in the meanwhile, it is rather the other way around. Education and (less so) income yielded significant differences in the 1980s and 1990s, but these differences have faded away since 2000. Data tend to confirm that environmental worries are shared more broadly in the population and that previously important group differences are increasingly leveling out.

This article presents the tumultuous story of the Romanian Department at the Pázmány Péter University (later Eötvös Loránd University) in Budapest in the aftermath of the Second World War. For this purpose, it follows the intricate connections between political regime changes, and personal feuds, ideologies, as well as the impact of trends and vogues in historical and philological research on the institutional and research agenda of this department. The study focuses particularly on major personalities connected to the department and the Hungarian-Romanian Association, such as Lajos Tamás and László Gáldi.

Among topics discussed: Youth in Augusta; Camp Dixie for Boys; military career; University of Georgia football; law school; law practice; Cracker Party; Independent Party; election to Georgia House of Representatives; law firm of Sanders, Thurmond and Hester; Talmadge and Griffin factionalism; school desegregation; nullification; 1962 governor's race; administrative emphasis on education; Bowdoin Commission; failure to adopt new state constitution; reapportionment; personal views on segregation; black appointees; Hosea Williams; Julian Bond; Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign in Georgia; shift in power from governor to general assembly; Peter Zack Geer; relationship with media; 1970 governor's race; assessment of governorship; tension between Atlanta and rural Georgia. ; Carl Sanders (b. 1925) served in the Georgia House of Representatives from Richmond County from 1955‑1963, and as governor of Georgia from 1963 to 1967.