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Title: Smash ROTC! : nat'l day of solidarity with Puerto Rican students
Date: 1971/1975
Collection: Radicalism Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows photograph of a SDS protest against the ROTC. To the left of the poster is information on the event. On the right is text about Puerto Rican women burning a ROTC building down. Title is at bottom of poster.

Title: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló on hurricane relief
Creator: Trump, Donald, 1946-
Date: 2017-10-19
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló. Trump praises the federal government's hurricane response in Puerto Rico and says that that federal aid will continue to be provided to Puerto Rico but that eventually local organizations will need to step up. Rosselló says that there is still much more work to be done and that federal aid is not being abused. Held at the Oval Office.

Title: U.S. President Barack Obama describes the federal response to the destruction of Hurricane Irene
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2011-08-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Barack Obama describes the federal response to the destruction of Hurricane Irene along the east coast and in New England. Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano and FEMA Director Craig Fugate each explain what FEMA has already done in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to deal with the hurricane's damage and how the agency is responding in the continental U.S.

Title: U.S. President Bill Clinton talks about the challenges of his first six months in office
Creator: Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Date: 1993-07-20
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Bill Clinton talks about the challenges of his first six months in office. Clinton talks about relief for flooded states, the firing of FBI Director William S. Sessions and appointing Louis Freeh, the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, and the legal problems of Representative Rostenkowski (D-IL). Clinton answers questions from callers on the budget deficit, base closures, Bosnia, gays in the military, Puerto Rican statehood, healthcare, NAFTA, and Iran. On ...
Show morePresident Bill Clinton talks about the challenges of his first six months in office. Clinton talks about relief for flooded states, the firing of FBI Director William S. Sessions and appointing Louis Freeh, the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, and the legal problems of Representative Rostenkowski (D-IL). Clinton answers questions from callers on the budget deficit, base closures, Bosnia, gays in the military, Puerto Rican statehood, healthcare, NAFTA, and Iran. On "Larry King Live" broadcast from the White House Library.
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Title: Libertad ahora Oscar López Rivera t-shirt
Date: /2014
Collection: Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
Description: Short sleeve shirt; cotton; black with white and gray screen printing. Image of López Rivera and seal of the CPDHPR; adult medium

Title: Retórica de la imitación : identidad sexual y raza en la producción cultural dominicana y puertorriqueña contemporánea
Creator: Montalvo, Jonathan
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Esta tesis examina cómo las producciones culturales de la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, particularmente la literatura y el cine, establecen una conexión entre género, sexualidad, raza y los discursos políticos e intelectuales represivos en ambos países. Exploraré desde una perspectiva queer cómo estas producciones (de)centralizan los discursos hegemónicos y paternalistas que perpetúan identidades raciales, sexuales y de género fijas en la región. En este proceso de cuestionamiento, se...
Show moreEsta tesis examina cómo las producciones culturales de la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, particularmente la literatura y el cine, establecen una conexión entre género, sexualidad, raza y los discursos políticos e intelectuales represivos en ambos países. Exploraré desde una perspectiva queer cómo estas producciones (de)centralizan los discursos hegemónicos y paternalistas que perpetúan identidades raciales, sexuales y de género fijas en la región. En este proceso de cuestionamiento, se pueden identificar dos tendencias que guían este estudio. Por un lado, las producciones puertorriqueñas queer reproducen y a la vez cuestionan los discursos de los intelectuales de la Generación del 30. Por otro lado, los escritores dominicanos denuncian las luchas de la comunidad diverso-sexual y sus estrategias para sobrevivir en una sociedad caótica a consecuencia de los disturbios políticos durante los regímenes de Rafael L. Trujillo y Joaquín Balaguer. Los autores dominicanos y puertorriqueños analizados en este estudio utilizan una nueva retórica caribeña, la cual llamo la retórica de la imitación. Los personajes de las obras analizadas imitan algunos elementos de modelos sexo-genéricos y raciales hegemónicos. De este modo, los escritores contemporáneos utilizan esta nueva retórica para idear estrategias (a través de la imitación de esos modelos) con las cuales puedan cuestionar los discursos dominantes históricamente perpetuados por la clase política e intelectual de ambos países caribeños.
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Title: A cross-cultural comparison of adults' perceptions of infant sex and physical attractiveness
Creator: Hernández, Olga Nita
Date: 1981
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A comparison of the perceptions first year teachers, practice teachers, and seniors without teaching experience hold of the problems facing beginning teachers in Puerto Rico
Creator: Rodriguez, Nicolas Antolin
Date: 1964
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Susceptibility of the fall armyworm, spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera : noctuidae) to bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) proteins and synthetic insecticides from different corn production systems in Mexico and Puerto Rico
Creator: Gutierrez-Moreno, Rebeca Adriana
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The strength of the factors favoring the evolution of resistance to insecticides in agriculture may vary in different production regions. The assumption that lower susceptibility to insecticides is to be observed in populations from areas with higher deployment of insecticides cannot be assumed. The main goal of this dissertation is to provide relevant information to better understand the impact that different pest management strategies have in the development of insecticide resistance in...
Show moreThe strength of the factors favoring the evolution of resistance to insecticides in agriculture may vary in different production regions. The assumption that lower susceptibility to insecticides is to be observed in populations from areas with higher deployment of insecticides cannot be assumed. The main goal of this dissertation is to provide relevant information to better understand the impact that different pest management strategies have in the development of insecticide resistance in fall armyworm, specifically the use of synthetic insecticides alone or in combination with Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crop technology. Also, the potential capacity of fall armyworm to recover and complete development after long-term exposure to Bt proteins was addressed in laboratory experiments.Mexico and Puerto Rico have contrasting corn production systems, but fall armyworm is the number one pest in both territories. Mexico has a high diversity of corn production systems, varying from self-subsistence to commercial fields, where the amount of insecticides sprays against fall armyworm varies. Puerto Rico has a very intense corn production system, dominated by hybrid and seed research development, where there is virtually zero tolerance for pest damage. Therefore, fall armyworm is subjected to different levels of selection pressure by insecticides used in these two territories. While in Mexico, synthetic insecticides are the main control tool, in Puerto Rico, fall armyworm populations are managed with both synthetic insecticides and Bt corn. To determine the baseline susceptibility to synthetic insecticides and Bt proteins in field-collected fall armyworm populations from Mexico and Puerto Rico, bioassays were performed with insecticides of different modes of action. In general, fall armyworm from Mexico showed low resistance ratio values in comparison with a susceptible reference population. Only three Mexican populations displayed resistance ratios above 10-fold of the LC50 of the susceptible population: Sonora to chlorpyrifos, Sinaloa to flubendiamide and Oaxaca to permethrin. Fall armyworm from Puerto Rico showed the highest resistance ratios to flubendiamide, chlorantraniliprole, chlorpyrifos, thiodicarb, methomyl, triflumuron, spinetoram, permethrin, deltamethrin and zeta-cypermethrin. Only spinosad, abamectin and emamectin benzoate insecticides resulted in resistance ratios below 10-fold. Diet overlay bioassays were carried out with the Bt proteins Cry1F, Cry1A.105, Cry2Ab2 and Cry1Ac. All of the fall armyworm populations from Mexico were susceptible to Bt proteins. However, fall armyworm from Puerto Rico showed high resistance to Cry1F and Cry1Ac. Bioassays were performed with Cry1F and Cry1Ac on the susceptible reference strain and the population from Puerto Rico. Cry1F exposure in the fall armyworm susceptible population showed reduced survival with the highest concentration (31%). Both Cry1F and Cry1Ac caused asynchrony in development and adult emergence between the control and treatments in the susceptible population, but not in the Puerto Rico population. These results have serious implications for Bt resistance management because fall armyworm shows high capacity to recover after long Bt protein exposure.
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