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Item Administrators and Academic Values(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Garfinkle, David; Folland, Sherman T.What... is a professor at Oakland University to do in the face of an administration with weak academic values? The best advice seems to be that of Voltaire: “one must cultivate one’s own garden.” We must do our teaching and research regardless of the qualities of the administrators who claim to lead us.Item Ask the Professor: Especially One Who Knows the Answer(Oakland University, 2001-10-01) Garfinkle, David; Brieger, GottfriedIsaac Newton’s stunning success, the theory of gravity, seemed disturbing to many contemporaries; it required one to accept that heavenly bodies could act on one another at a distance with nothing intervening. To some, Newton’s “gravity” was a step backwards to a time when conceptual inventions like “instincts” and “humours” were invoked as explanations of scientific phenomena—explanations that explained nothing. Newton replied, “I feign no hypotheses,” hypotheses non fingo. But many of us never got beyond this stumper in physics and we would like know how action at a distance is possible. So we asked an Oakland expert.Item Bar Scene(Oakland University, 2015-01-01) Murphy, Brian; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidItem Book Review: Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter(Oakland University, 2015-01-01) Lindemann, Charles B.; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidReview of book Three Steps to the Universe by brothers David and Richard GarfinkleItem Book Review: University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Quinn, James; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidAssessment of the culture and practices of the whole of university life from the perspective of ethics.Item The Books I Wanted to Write(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Brieger, Gottfried; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidAuthor lists book titles he would have liked to have written and humorous descriptions of them.Item A Bridge Too Far(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Byrne, Bill; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidHigh school senior narrates his experience of arranging and supervising his English class at a play in New York.Item A Computational Analysis of Black Hole InteriorsHaehn, Maxx; Garfinkle, DavidThis project will explore the interiors of black holes using computer simulations. Currently, photographs are being released of black holes, but because of their powerful singularities where even light cannot escape, the interiors of these black holes cannot be seen. As a result, the project takes an approach of computational analysis to determine if the smoothing of the current universe compares to the smoothing of a black hole interior. If the cyclic universe theories are correct, does the interior of a black hole smooth with the same mechanism that controls the smoothing of the current universe? The research will use the programming language of Fortran 95 and supporting visualizer programs to observe the smoothing mechanism over time. With enough time evolution for the simulation, the research predicts that near the singularity of the black hole, the smoothing results in a Robertson-Walker metric (isotropy and homogeneity). Possible benefits of this research include a better understanding of the origins of this universe and a deeper explanation of how black holes smooth and collapse (Garfinkle, Lim, Pretorius, & Steinhardt, 2008). Because the inflationary model does not completely explain the collapse, the cyclical model is an alternative explanation of the current universe.Item Contributors(Oakland University, 2015-01-01) Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidOakland Journal Issue 25 contributors listItem Contributors(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidOakland Journal Issue 26 contributors listItem Cosmology, Doom, and Gloom: Some Copernican, Anthropic, and Malthusian Musings(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V.If population growth is unchecked, or not sufficiently checked, there are any number of things that could cause a catastrophic collapse and extinction of the human species. These include (but are not limited to) worldwide famine, pandemic disease, global warming, all out nuclear war, and mass extinction of species leading to large scale collapse of ecosystems. Human history would thus consist of three periods, a long period of very low population, followed by a short period of exponential growth, followed by extinction.Item Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents(Oakland University, 2015-01-01) Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidItem Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidItem A Fifty Year Remembrance of Jack Barnard(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Thomas, S. Bernard; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidPersonal remembrance of Oakland University faculty member Jack Barnard.Item I Am Not My Hair(Oakland University, 2015-01-01) Turner, Feliece; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidPeople in society often base their identity on the way they look, modeling themselves after images seen in the media. Constructed through cultural ideals, image as identity has be come the basis for determining societal norms. In this research I use Black feminist theory to show how hair in the Black community has become a contributing factor when determining standards of identity through image, as well as through cultural acceptance of what it means to be Black. Through autoethnography I analyze the ways in which societal, cultural, gendered and media norms control race representations based on hair.Item The Impact of Short Message Services on Writing(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Gabrion, Laura; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidHow texting is changing college students writing skills.Item Individual Decision for a Science Education: Path for Growth(Oakland University, 2015-01-01) Sanches, Fabio Iunes; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidMicroeconomics role in college students career decisions.Item An Intellectual Revolution(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Wynne, Steven; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidClassical teachings of Aristotle instigated an academic revolution against the Catholic Church and the established Christian doctrine. Between 1210 and 1277, the Bishops of Paris ordered three official condemnations of the University of Paris. They declared notable scholars heretics and besmirched the university’s newfound thoughts on the nature, form, and existence of God. Considering this discourse, this paper shall make known that the years between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, the so called “Dark Ages”, were not devoid of philosophical conversation. These condemnations were, in fact, a response to a larger intellectual revival in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Twelfth Century Renaissance.Item Matthew Stanley’s Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington: Valence Values and the Late Victorian Science-Religion Interface/Divide- A Review Essay(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V.; Nixon, Jude V.The relationship of science to religion and literature continues to be an issue of vexation, especially here in the U.S. A logical way, perhaps, to begin this review essay on a late Victorian, early-modern work integrating science and religion is by observing that in this period the walls between science and other epistemics were quite porous.Item Multiple Paths to Full Professor: Challenges to the Academy in the 21st Century(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Moore, Kathleen; Cunningham, Joi M.; Guessous, Laila; Reger, Jo; Roth, Brad; Walters, Julie; DeVreugd, Leanne; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidArticle first explains the dominant form of faculty promotion used in U.S. colleges and universities. Second, key economic, political, and social factors are discussed in the context of an institutional mission linked with promotion in light of the 21st century university. Lastly, considerations regarding the movement toward multiple models of promotion are explored in the context of Oakland University.